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The article shares ideas from festival organizers to make live spaces more sustainable. These include the Roo Works cafe and Rooduce, Roouse and Roocycle volunteer program by Bonnaroo Works, washable, reusable cups by r.Cup, solar panels and battery packs by Massive Attack, planting of trees and creating forest reserves by the European Festival Forest, water reuse applications by DGTL festival in Amsterdam, Netherlands, and switch to bamboo-based toilet paper at Lollapalooza and Outside Lands.

An interview with singer-songwriter Billie Eilish and her mother Maggie Baird is presented. Eilish explains the importance of sustainability to her family and talks about having no blueprints for making sustainable music career when she was starting out. Baird suggests the nonprofit organization REVERB to artists looking for sustainability solutions. They discuss the sustainability efforts of record labels and the response of the music industry and fans to their sustainability efforts.

An interview withTy Baisden, artist manager and co-founder of COLTURE, is presented. Baisden talks about the partnership of COLTURE with singer Brent Faiyaz and record label Lost Kids, as well as Lost Kids' sponsorship of annual initiatives on behalf of female executives and entrepreneurs, and the clients and businesses under the COLTURE umbrella. He shares COLTURE's plan to launch a media department and the development of its sports division.

The article reports that South Korean pop girl group Twice has achieved its first No. 1 on the Billboard 200 as its album "With YOU-th" debuted with 95,000 equivalent album units earned in the U.S. in the week ending February 29, 2024.

The article presents the top lawyers in the music industry in 2024. These include Christine Lepera of Mitchell Silberberg & Knupp, Jeff Harleston, Saheli Datta and Steve Gawley of Universal Music Group, Eve Konstan, Kevan Choset and Darren Schmidt of Spotify, Michael Rowles of Live Nation, Christos Badavas of Sesac Music Group, Danielle Aguirre of the National Music Publishers' Association, and Kenneth J. Abdo, Paul N. Bowles III and Cynthia L. Katz of Fox Rothschild.

The article reports on the elimination of Jessica Hoy's show "Mornings With Bo and Jess" on music station CKCE-FM in Calgary, Alberta. Topics discussed include the warning by Hoy's co-host, Bobby May that he had planned to quit the station in March 2024, Hoy's reaction when she was fired and replaced with a podcast duo, and her comment on her replacement crew.

The article takes a look at how record manufacturer Good Neighbor is changing the music recording industry with a sustainable approach to record processing and production. An overview is provided on the environmentally friendly alternative to record manufacturing, which uses injection molding polyethylene terephthalate, developed by Green Vinyl Records that will be used by Good Neighbors for record manufacturing.

The article explores the life and career of American rapper BigXthaPlug whose song "Mmhmm" peaked No. 16 on the Billboard Hot Rap Songs record chart.

LONG BEFORE BILLIE EILISH became a global superstar, she says she was 'notorious' among her friends for something else entirely. 'When I would get a present, I would carefully undo [...]