music fans

Music venues and fans are at the center of this new COVID-19 experiment

As music venues in parts of the world begin to reopen, the spread of coronavirus is at the forefront of many people’s minds. Now, it looks like German scientists are conducting an experiment to better understand how COVID-19 can spread in venues. On Aug. 22, the scientists will collect data at a 4000 capacity performance […]

Rachael Dowd

The 9 biggest fears of all diehard music fans

There’s almost nothing worse than receiving bad news about your favorite band. They fight, break up, get arrested and do all sorts of crazy (or annoying) things that induce nail-biting anxiety in fans. It’s not that we’re paranoid; we just value the music above all else and can’t stand to see anything put it in […]

The 9 biggest fears of all diehard music fans

11 things only extreme concert line-waiters understand

We’re the barricade kids–the ones who will stop at nothing to be at the front of the crowd when our favorite bands take the stage. You take the bar and the moshpit and just try to fight your way up here. We dare you, because after waiting in line for twelve hours, we’ve earned this […]

8 things older fans need to remember about being a younger fan (and vice versa)

Last week, I found myself perched at the front of the line for a Taking Back Sunday show (a ritual my best friend and I have shared since we were in high school.) The next people to arrive on the scene were two teenage girls whose youthful antics gave me that all-around “teenagers-scare-the-living-shit-outta-me” feeling. My […]

9 Things Women In Music Are Sick Of Experiencing

In a recent AP Poll, we asked if you’ve ever experienced sexism at a show. You’ll have to wait for your copy of issue 304 (revealed today!) to see the final results, but some of the discourse opened through the question was a bit unsettling. It seems many young people turn a blind eye to […]

Bandsintown app research reveals concert-goer behavior

Bandsintown recently commissioned research of U.S. concert-goers. From a study of 1800 music fans, they created the behavior segments detailed in the above graphic. They found that concert-related keywords in Google have been declining over the past few years and that more people expect to find concerts via push notifications such as those that they […]