Mick Jagger is jumping on the NFT train for a good cause. The Rolling Stones frontman has announced that an art piece built around his new track “Eazy Sleazy,” featuring Foo Fighters frontman Dave Grohl on guitar, bass, and drums, will be sold as a non-fungible token (NFT) to raise …
Read More »Jesse Malin Covers Lou Reed's 'Sally Can't Dance' for Save Our Stages
Jesse Malin‘s regular livestream series The Fine Art of Self Distancing has been a high-motion standout in a sea of mostly cement-shoed virtual concerts. While there’s no actual fans present, the gigs find the New York songwriter playing with his full band in a real live rock club — the …
Read More »As Venues Vie for Government Financial Relief, Time Is Running Out
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 …
Read More »Why One Music Venue Is Taking Their Insurance Company to Court
This is the ninth installment of Rolling Stone’sMusic in Crisisseries, which looks at how people all across the music industry are coping with thecoronaviruspandemic. Legal battles are brewing between music venues and insurance companies — and Ivy Room is ready to fight. “We’re fighting, fighting, fighting every day to hang …
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