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The Business of Coachella: High-Stakes Booking, Ticketing and Festival Economics | On the Record 0 (0)

Coachella has become the biggest festival in America — and it rewrote the live music playbook in the process. Katie Bain, Billboard’s senior music correspondent, director of Billboard Dance, joins Billboard On The Record to break down how a scrappy desert show founded by then-local promoter Goldenvoice turned into a global cultural force, from the early Pearl Jam experiment to era-defining performances by Beyoncé, Daft Punk and Frank Ocean. She dives into the high-stakes gamble of booking a lineup, the business behind ticketing, sponsorships and livestreams and how moments like Radiohead’s 2006 set and Beyoncé’s Homecoming shifted the festival’s identity [See More…]

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Inside Sabrina Carpenter’s home for a Perfect Night In | British Vogue 0 (0)

Singer, actress and Broadway star Sabrina Carpenter invites British Vogue into her LA fun house, complete with a basketball court that doubles as an outdoor cinema, a rope swing and a year-round Christmas tree. The Mean Girls musical lead gives us a tour of her game room, where she hosts get-togethers with friends and indulges in Shirley Temples, before taking the party outside to the ping-pong table and giant trampoline. After impromptu recording sessions in her walk-in wardrobe, the 21-year-old triple threat, who has been performing covers on her YouTube channel for more than a decade, likes to unwind in [See More…]