Executive Overview The global ticketing ecosystem is facing an unprecedented crisis. As consumer demand for live music surges to historic post-pandemic heights, the infrastructure governing primary and secondary ticket sales is buckling under the weight of predatory commercial behavior. From the sprawling stadiums of South America to the historic music halls of London and the … Read more
Executive Overview In an era of British indie music frequently dominated by detached, stoic post-punk and highly polished solo pop, Manchester-and-London-based septet The Slow Country represents a striking, joyful anomaly. Emerging from the emotional wreckage of simultaneous personal breakups and a defunct university punk project, the seven-piece alt-folk collective has quietly built a reputation as … Read more
Executive Overview The global K-pop landscape has a new focal point. TUIDE—a seven-member powerhouse operating under ABD, a newly minted girl-group-focused label housed within HYBE—has officially arrived with their debut album, TUNE & PLAY. Comprising members Seohee, Seoyeon, Elena, Jia, Saki, Seah, and Yi Hani, the ensemble enters the market not merely as another fresh … Read more
Executive Overview Against the sun-scorched, drought-yellowed turf of a municipal park in Portsmouth, England, five interconnected silhouettes move with slow, unsettling deliberation. Draped in layered, hessian-coloured fabrics and crowned with wild, overgrown fiber-dreadlocks that blur individual identities into a single collective organism, the figures process toward a deflated, five-armed star shape lying inert on the … Read more
Executive Overview The global music community today marks the arrival of Watching The Tide, the final, posthumous studio record from soul icon, songwriter, and Stax Records architect Steve Cropper. Released as a monument to a career that fundamentally reshaped 20th-century American popular music, the dozen-track collection features an unprecedented gathering of rock and blues royalty … Read more
