India’s Sunburn Festival has been postponed due to COVID-19. Originally scheduled for December 2020, organizers were planning on hosting a “small, safe, and socially distant” event. After consulting with local authorities and monitoring the number of COVID cases in India, they decided to pull the plug on this year’s outing. The decision came after backlash from …
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Diplo to Compete in Livestreamed Virtual DJ Battles On Fuser
Diplo is set to take on Fuser‘s top talent in a series of DJ battles that will be going down live on Twitch. For those getting up to speed, Fuser is a forthcoming rhythm-based video game title by Harmonix, makers of the smash hit franchise RockBand. The game takes players from bedroom DJ to virtual festival …
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Live Nation Sees Path to Resuming Live Shows at Scale By Summer 2021
With persisting restrictions on large gatherings and events worldwide, concert giant Live Nation reported another quarter of earnings that didn’t exactly excite investors. The top line number included a 95% drop in year-over-year revenue compared to Q3 2019, leading to an operating loss of $504 million for the quarter. Despite the unsightly financial results, Live Nation’s …
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Beatport and When The Music Stops Announce #YouAreNotAlone Virtual Music Festival
With its patented “ReConnect” series, Beatport has arguably been the leading destination for dance music livestreams during the COVID-19 era. The vets behind the music marketplace are now taking their expertise in the field and branching into educational content for their millions of viewers. To do so, they’ve partnered with When The Music Stops and Silentmode to …
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India’s Sunburn Festival Faces Backlash for Planned 2020 Event
Sunburn Festival, India’s largest electronic music event, has faced its fair share of controversies since its inception in 2007. Last year, the hashtag #BanSunburn trended after religious groups called for its cancellation due to its perceived negative impact. These detractors cited “drug mafias, addiction, and vulgarity” (among other concerns) as reasons for the need to ban …
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Tomorrowland Shares Cryptic Countdown to NYE Virtual Festival
After its historic debut earlier this summer, Tomorrowland Around The World is making a comeback. This time around, Tomorrowland’s virtual music festival will say au revoir to 2020 with a massive New Year’s Eve streaming event. Tomorrowland has now shared a cryptic countdown for the event, which will sputter out at 12AM on January 1st, …
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W&W’s Rave Culture Music Festival Planned for December in Thailand
This past June, ALDA hosted one of the few successful COVID-safe physical electronic shows with the debut of Rave Culture at the Lanxess Arena in Cologne. They plan to ride that success into their next event, which will take place at the beautiful Nong Nooch Gardens in Pattaya, Thailand on December 12th, 2020. This will be …
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Germany’s COVID-19 Concert Study Finds Safe Events Are Possible Under Very Strict Guidelines
The results from Germany’s coronavirus (COVID-19) concert study, RESTART-19, are in. The good news: safe shows are theoretically possible during the pandemic under strictly enforced guidelines. The bad news: safe conditions for concert goers are extremely difficult to replicate in real-life scenarios. A couple of months ago, the University Medical Center of Halle (Saale) held an experimental …
Ticketmaster repurposes anti-scalping tech to track social distancing at events
COVID-19 has been the bane of 2020, but an interesting effect of the global pandemic has been how it’s forced a reevaluation of how we can put existing technology to use. Case in point is Ticketmaster, who is looking to repurpose its suite of technologies that were originally meant to fight scalping, into tools to …
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Insomiac Events acquires Club Glow, assumes ownership of Echostage and Soundcheck
by: Rachel Narozniak Nov 1, 2020 In a deal that foreshadows future development of the East Coast electronic event circuit, Insomniac Events has acquired Club Glow and two of Washington, DC’s famed dance venues, Echostage and Soundcheck. Founded in 1999, Club Glow has reigned as one of DC’s most impactful electronic music event promotion entities …
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