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Maryland signed a new ticketing bill on Thursday that’s set to outlaw some of the live music industry’s most common deceptive ticketing practices: Hidden fees and speculative ticket listings.
Maryland governor Wes Moore signed the legislation on Thursday afternoon, weeks after it first passed through the state’s senate. Fees tacked onto ticket prices are one of the most oft-bemoaned aspects of the buying process for customers; while the fees themselves still stand with Maryland’s new law, requiring an all-in pricing system means that fans see the...
Maryland governor Wes Moore signed the legislation on Thursday afternoon, weeks after it first passed through the state’s senate. Fees tacked onto ticket prices are one of the most oft-bemoaned aspects of the buying process for customers; while the fees themselves still stand with Maryland’s new law, requiring an all-in pricing system means that fans see the...
- 5/9/2024
- by Ethan Millman
- Rollingstone.com
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Things were supposed to be looking up. It was the fall of 2021, and live music was finally coming back after 18 months of a pandemic death spiral. Indie venues had banded together to secure a historic federal funding package. Musicians were racing to schedule shows and fans were once again buying tickets.
Then came omicron. “People were absolutely afraid,” remembers Hal Real, the founder and CEO of World Cafe Live in Philadelphia. “Even if you had a vax requirement and a mask mandate, people were not ready to come out and be in small spaces again,...
Then came omicron. “People were absolutely afraid,” remembers Hal Real, the founder and CEO of World Cafe Live in Philadelphia. “Even if you had a vax requirement and a mask mandate, people were not ready to come out and be in small spaces again,...
- 6/28/2023
- by Jeff Gage
- Rollingstone.com
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From Broadway stages to small clubs, concerts in New York City are being postponed or called off as Covid-19 case numbers continue to rise.
On Friday, Dec. 17, New York reported 21,027 new positive Covid-19 cases, while the number of hospitalizations in the state jumped to 3,839. While that was the highest new case rate since last January, the hospitalization numbers remain significantly low compared to the over 15,000 people hospitalized when the virus hit its verst peak in April 2020.
Nevertheless, several venues, Broadway shows and even the Rockettes have decided not to take...
On Friday, Dec. 17, New York reported 21,027 new positive Covid-19 cases, while the number of hospitalizations in the state jumped to 3,839. While that was the highest new case rate since last January, the hospitalization numbers remain significantly low compared to the over 15,000 people hospitalized when the virus hit its verst peak in April 2020.
Nevertheless, several venues, Broadway shows and even the Rockettes have decided not to take...
- 12/17/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
The Small Business Association has opened the Shuttered Venue Operators grant application process and aims to start sending checks in May After an anxious four-month wait, indie cinemas and other entertainment venues financially wrecked by Covid-19 were finally able to apply for the Shuttered Venue Operators (Svo) grant this week, providing hope that federal aid may finally be on the way for thousands of businesses on the edge of bankruptcy. “The sense of relief is palpable,” Audrey Fix Schaefer of the National Independent Venue Association told TheWrap. “We have heard from many venue operators who have been preparing for weeks to send in this application that the process was smooth and straightforward when it opened on Monday. We hope that they will be processed quickly and that we can start seeing those funds come sometime in the next month.” In the first 24 hours of open applications, a spokesperson for the...
- 4/29/2021
- by Jeremy Fuster
- The Wrap
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The Small Business Administration will reopen the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant application portal Monday, April 26th, after a 17-day delay as the agency tried to fix an array of technical problems that spoiled the initial launch. The portal is set to open at 12 p.m. Et.
The Sba is recommending that eligible applicants register on the portal ahead of the launch, review the Svog’s Faq page and Applicant User Guide, and prepare all the required documentation as listed on the Application Checklist.
“We recognize the urgency and need to...
The Sba is recommending that eligible applicants register on the portal ahead of the launch, review the Svog’s Faq page and Applicant User Guide, and prepare all the required documentation as listed on the Application Checklist.
“We recognize the urgency and need to...
- 4/23/2021
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
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All across the U.S., independent concert venues are revamping their marquees to include fun facts about artists that have played there in the past: Lady Gaga at Tampa’s Ritz Ybor, Childish Gambino at Portland’s Aladdin.
The concept may sound simple — but it took a national deal with Spotify to make it happen, and it represents a substantial win for the indie industry.
While the concert business as a whole continues to struggle in the absence of touring, indie venues — concert spaces that aren’t owned by multimillion-dollar...
The concept may sound simple — but it took a national deal with Spotify to make it happen, and it represents a substantial win for the indie industry.
While the concert business as a whole continues to struggle in the absence of touring, indie venues — concert spaces that aren’t owned by multimillion-dollar...
- 12/1/2020
- by Samantha Hissong
- Rollingstone.com
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The Heroes Act — one of several Covid-19 relief bills being debated in Congress — was updated in the House of Representatives Monday, September 28th, with provisions from the Save Our Stages Act.
If passed, the updated Heroes Act would authorize $10 billion in grants for independent venues, producers, promoters and talent representatives. Crucially, venues would be allowed to use that money to cover rent, mortgages, utilities, insurance and other expenses they’re continuing to accrue despite being closed because of the pandemic.
Without funding in the coming weeks, an array of independent...
If passed, the updated Heroes Act would authorize $10 billion in grants for independent venues, producers, promoters and talent representatives. Crucially, venues would be allowed to use that money to cover rent, mortgages, utilities, insurance and other expenses they’re continuing to accrue despite being closed because of the pandemic.
Without funding in the coming weeks, an array of independent...
- 9/29/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
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With both chambers of Congress back in Washington, D.C., music-industry organizations such as the National Independent Venue Association (Niva) are continuing their fight to secure federal funding for clubs and venues teetering on the edge of closing.
The political situation remains fairly similar to when the House and Senate left last month without passing a second Covid-19 relief bill. Though with four additional weeks of mounting bills, the stakes for venues have only gotten higher. The loss of independent venues not only threatens a key segment of the live-music ecosystem,...
The political situation remains fairly similar to when the House and Senate left last month without passing a second Covid-19 relief bill. Though with four additional weeks of mounting bills, the stakes for venues have only gotten higher. The loss of independent venues not only threatens a key segment of the live-music ecosystem,...
- 9/18/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
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The fate of the live-music industry — along with that of millions of other small businesses and unemployed Americans — remains up in the air now that both chambers of Congress have left Washington for their August recess without passing a new Covid-19 relief bill.
After weeks of fruitless negotiations between Democratic congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell adjourned the Senate on Thursday. That chamber is not expected to return until September 8th, while the House of Representatives,...
After weeks of fruitless negotiations between Democratic congressional leaders Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer and Treasury Secretary Steve Mnuchin and White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, Majority Leader Mitch McConnell adjourned the Senate on Thursday. That chamber is not expected to return until September 8th, while the House of Representatives,...
- 8/14/2020
- by Jon Blistein
- Rollingstone.com
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Washington, D.C.’s famed 9:30 Club was supposed to be celebrating its 40th anniversary this year — instead, it shut down in early March due to Covid-19 with no opening date in sight. Now, amid anti-police brutality protests in our nation’s capital and beyond, it’s become a haven for protesters looking for a break, a bathroom or some milk to dull the sting of pepper spray.
Last Saturday, the 9:30 Club opened its doors for five hours to protesters, offering them charging facilities, hand sanitizer, water, restrooms and basic first-aid.
Last Saturday, the 9:30 Club opened its doors for five hours to protesters, offering them charging facilities, hand sanitizer, water, restrooms and basic first-aid.
- 6/12/2020
- by Brenna Ehrlich
- Rollingstone.com
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