Operations
Every piece we have published on the live music business.
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It Takes a Village to Put on a Show. The Village Has No Town Square.
Every person working a live event is pointed at the same outcome - they just have no shared place to operate from.
Apr 17, 2026·6 min read
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Bands Run the Show. Nobody Built Anything for Them.
Artists are the reason any of this exists, but almost no tool in live music was built with them in mind.
Apr 3, 2026·5 min read
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What If We Actually Ran Live Music Like a Business?
A realistic picture of what live music could look like with the infrastructure it has always deserved.
Mar 30, 2026·4 min read
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The Show Is Happening. Nobody Is on the Same Page.
Six people running the same live event from six separate playbooks - and nobody checked if they matched.
Mar 27, 2026·4 min read
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Both Sides of the Stage Are Losing
Independent venues are not winning either. The financial friction in live music hurts both artists and the rooms they play.
Mar 20, 2026·5 min read
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We Love Live Music. We Just Never Learned How to Run It.
The people who run live music are not unsophisticated. They are operating inside a system that was never designed to be a system at all.
Mar 16, 2026·5 min read
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