If a venue skims 20% of that, that’s $2,000 a night that the artist is losing. On a 50-date tour this could be $100,000 that the artist missed out on. And we’re not talking superstars here.

“Dang, might be a smaller venue but I’d say it more an upgrade than going to Hollywood,” posted one commenter while another added: “The Wiltern is cooler tbh. More secret spaces in there!!” ...

Spirit World opened but, sorry guys, we didn’t make it to the Wiltern venue Downtown in time to see them. We’ll start with the headliners and work backwards.

“We’re playing the Wiltern in L.A. and it’s a venue I played many, many times,” Sting says. “The scale of the theater allows you to be more intimate than an arena or a stadium.

We can’t say how surprised he was at the Wiltern Theatre on Wednesday, Nov. 13, the second of five nights at the venue, but there was definitely a frisson of excitement in the audience as Sting ...

The backstory: The Mayan was built in 1927. Audiences flocked to see musical theater, movies, plays and concerts. It’s a designated L.A. Historic Cultural Landmark, which ensures a process for ...

Ginger Root is the indie-soul project of Cameron Lew who released the album SHINBANGUMI last month. Venue downgrades usually happen with a lot less noise: emails to ticketholders, a change on the ...

The company that runs the Mayan in downtown Los Angeles has announced that it will close at the end of September after ...