Hypebot is the essential resource for artists and live music pros. We share relevant news, actionable insights, and real-world advice they need to build sustainable careers, while fostering conversations about music tech, live music, artist marketing, and event promotion. Our coverage spotlights the innovators, ideas, and emerging trends redefining how music is created, promoted, and experienced.
We cover the business, communities, & trends pushing live music culture forward.
Hypebot’s mission is to inform, spotlight, and empower the people shaping live and independent music — artists, organizers, venues, and fans — through authentic editorial perspectives and real-time industry insights and news. We cover the topics that matter most to working artists and professionals, and not just the industry noise dominating news cycles.
We pledge to share objective information and first-hand experience that benefits artists and pros, and cut through the talking points propped up by gatekeepers driven by profit.
Although our editorial purview covers much more than live music, we share the perspective of our parent company, Bandsintown, that the live environment exists as the most resonant point of connection between artists and their fans. Live music has the power to unite people around communal, expressive, and ultimately human moments. Besides offering one of the most surefire routes to sustainability in an artist’s career — more dependable than streaming or licensing over the long term — touring is also the most truthful space of interaction shared between artists and their fans.
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About Hypebot
Hypebot was founded in 2004 and edited by Bruce Houghton through 2025, in order to chronicle the new music industry trends and technologies that are changing how music is discovered, consumed, marketed and monetized. The publication was acquired by Bandsintown in 2023. Jeremy Young is the current Editor-in-Chief.
Hypebot is a music industry publishing platform read daily by more than 30,000 music industry professionals including executives and senior staff of music related tech firm internet based music sites, every major label group and most indies as well as many managers, artists and members of the live music community.
“I swear by Hypebot every morning over breakfast.”
Derek Sivers | Founder, CD Baby
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