Bandsintown have launched a brand new livestream live performance subscription service, Bandsintown PLUS.
The brand new collection will enable subscribers to view over 25 stay exhibits a month and boasts a star-studded line-up for its first month in motion.
For $9.99 (£7.32) a month, music followers can get entry to livestream exhibits from a spread of artists, from rising expertise like Claud and Omar Apollo, to established acts like Waxahatchee and Rodrigo y Gabriela.
Booked to look on the platform in its first month are artists together with Phoebe Bridgers, Soccer Mommy, Big Thief’s Adrienne Lenker, Fleet Foxes’ Robin Pecknold, Little Dragon, Empress Of, Chromeo and extra.
In a press launch, Bandsintown mentioned the brand new subscription service “democratises and revolutionises the stay music expertise, instantly supporting artists within the course of”.
Followers can get a free seven-day trial to the service now, or can enter Bandinstown’s competition to win a one-year subscription value $99 (£73).
Late final yr, artists and managers protested a proposed tariff on livestreams in the UK. The Music Managers Discussion board (MMF) and Featured Artists Coalition (FAC) wrote to PRS for Music, calling the plans to introduce a tariff to digital concert events “unworkable” and punitive to artists.
It was proposed {that a} charge of as much as 17 p.c of gross ticket gross sales can be levied on livestreamed gigs, in addition to being utilized retrospectively to occasions which have already occurred.
“The bigger, most-successful occasions contain important manufacturing prices, and have supplied a lifeline to crew and different business staff,” MMF’s Annabella Coldrick and FAC’s David Martin wrote.
“On the different finish of the dimensions, livestreaming has been more and more essential for rising artists and people working in area of interest genres. For the sake of all artists, songwriters and the broader business, it’s essential that this new format is allowed to develop and thrive.”
