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IQIndustryFestival news: Download artists revealed and State Fayre’s ‘historic’ all-female headline bill Leading the latest festival news, Blink-182, Bring Me The Horizon, and Evanescence will headline Download 2027 as the stalwart festival returns to Donnington Park in England from 9-13 June.

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IQIndustryGermany’s LiveKomm elects new board to tackle ‘enormous challenges’ German trade body LiveKomm has elected a new board during its general meeting in Leipzig this week. LiveMusikKommission e.V., the national association of venues and festivals, represents more than…

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IQIndustryOVG to purchase California’s Oakland Arena for $100m Oak View Group (OVG) is set to purchase and take over operations of California’s music-forward Oakland Arena next year, the company confirms to IQ.

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IQIndustryTour timing leads to Q3 live entertainment contraction for CTS Eventim German live entertainment player CTS Eventim’s overall revenue dropped 5.3% year-on-year for the third quarter, largely driven by an 11.7% contraction in its live entertainment division in the…

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IQIndustry‘World’s most remote festival’ sells out final edition in record time The world’s “most remote music festival”, Australia’s Birdsville Big Red Bash, sold out its final edition in record time as fans and organisers prepare to say goodbye after a dozen editions.

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IQIndustryTouring without compromise: India’s ‘tremendous’ supply chain growth The top level of international artists can now tour India without compromising on equipment, sector figures say, as they tell IQ supply chains are catching up to leaps made in the market with…

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IQIndustryFall Out Boy’s biggest-ever global run among latest tour announcements Among the latest tours announced across the industry, Fall Out Boy will embark on their biggest-ever global headline tour in 2027, with the 36-date Twilight of the Punks run spanning Europe, the UK…

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IQIndustryTVG Hospitality reveals ‘world-class’ club Domino in Brooklyn New York City will gain a 750-capacity club with an “independent spirit” next year, with TVG Hospitality announcing the opening of Domino in April today.

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IQIndustryConcert-led social network HearHear launches worldwide HearHear, dubbed “the world’s collective concert diary”, is rolling out worldwide today as it steps up its mission to connect the live music experience in one digital home.

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Three pins, and nearly every signal in this business passes through them.

The magazine is named after the cable: the microphone in the booth, the line to the desk, the DMX run that fires the lights. Studio, stage and rig share the same cable. Most magazines pick one of the three. This one covers all of it, because the people we read do too — the engineer mixing a record on Tuesday is on front of house by Saturday.

More than three hundred sources, in sixteen languages: makers and their release notes, reviewers who put a hand on the thing, studios and touring crews, the producers and collectives surfacing this month and the scenes they came out of. Synths and modular, plugins and DAWs, guitars and drums, microphones, monitors, PA and lighting. What the trade is talking about is counted and plotted. The editor's letter has just started; it will find its rhythm.

For each story: a headline, a short excerpt, one picture and the link out. We never reprint the article, and the picture belongs to the maker or the photographer. A German review appears in German and a Japanese one in Japanese, as the writer published it; the link goes to the original.

Nothing is sold on this site. When a link leads to a shop, it is the maker's shop, not ours.