Calling all small to mid-sized towns and cities across the country: America’s largest free outdoor concert series is, once again, putting the spotlight on you! The Levitt AMP [Your City] Grant Awards is an exciting matching grant opportunity, created by Levitt Pavilions, serving small to mid-sized towns and cities with populations up to 400,000. 10 […]
About 100 miles south of Atlanta, next to a field just outside the town of Byron, there stands a plaque erected by the Georgia Historical Society marking the location of the Second Atlanta International Pop Festival, where from July 3-5, 1970, “Over thirty musical acts performed, including rock icon Jimi Hendrix playing to the largest […]
BackStage360 is proud to announce that they have signed an agreement with Ticket Master to provide its readers with unparalleled access to purchase tickets to events throughout the US and Canada. This partnership will allow BackStage360 readers to purchase tickets to Concerts, Sports and Arts and Theater directly on its site. Ticketmaster is the world’s […]
When Sunday, August 16 arrives this year, Elvis Presley fans around the world will pause to mark the 38 years that have passed since the King died. As you know, singer-songwriter Ronnie McDowell is one of the biggest Elvis fans of all time. He can trace much of his success to his 1977 blockbuster, “The […]
Leading digital music distribution and publishing administration service provider, TuneCore, announced today that TuneCore artists have earned more than $35 million in Q2 of 2015, a 6 percent increase versus the same time in 2014. Since 2006, TuneCore Artists have earned more than $576 million from over 18.7 billion downloads and streams. International discovery is […]
In honor of a career spanning more than 60 years, rock-and-soul great Sam Moore will be inducted into the Georgia Music Hall of Fame. The voice behind such hits as “I Thank You” and “Hold On I’m Coming” joins singer/songwriter Gregg Allman, composer John Barbe and his wife, Jane, producer John Huie, and numerous others […]
VAN HALEN As it turns out, the rumors of Van Halen’s demise have been greatly exaggerated. Was it only just several weeks ago that naysayers were populating what passes for the modern-day town square — Twitter, Facebook and the comments sections of popular rock websites — pronouncing all kinds of gloom and doom about Van […]
Legacy Recordings, the catalog division of Sony Music Entertainment, will commemorate five decades of Simon & Garfunkel’s extraordinary sound with two special career-defining collections to be released on August 7, 2015. Simon & Garfunkel – The Complete Columbia Albums Collection features six 12″ LPs, newly remastered and struck on 180gram audiophile vinyl, with a 20-page […]
Los Lobos, the Grammy winning East L.A. legends comprised of David Hidalgo, Louie Perez, Cesar Rosas, Conrad Lozano and Steve Berlin, are back with an all new full length studio album, “Gates of Gold,” which will be released September 25(th) on 429 Records. Their first collection of new songs since 2010, the album was produced […]