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By: Ryan Borba Dave Vann Disco BiscuitsnullIt’s easy to take for granted what seems to have always been. Dating back to the 1960s, the combination of improvisational rock music, communal environment and mind-altering substances now known simply as "jam" has created a built-in core audience that craves the live experience, filling venues and festival sites as predictably as clockwork. For the better part of the last quarter century, too, it’s been ...

Indie agents react to SBA SVOG grant process: “We were all swinging from a rope…” While the program to funnel $16B in desperately needed federal funds to the independent live music community is finally taking applications, its debut was not without drama. On April 8th the SBA opened the application process for the Shuttered Venue Operators Grant (SVOG) program and just 4 hours later, the portal closed due to insurmountable technical difficulties. Then on April 22nd, the SBA announced that...