IQ’s Indie edition out now
The November issue marks the second-annual Indie edition, celebrating creativity and resilience from companies and individuals in the sector
News By IQ | 24 November 2025
IQ 140, the latest issue of the international live music industry’s leading magazine, is available to read online now.
After the successful launch of the Indie edition last year, IQ returns to celebrate creativity and resilience in the indie sector and the visionary companies and individuals carving their own paths.
In it, Gordon Masson unpacks the growing challenges faced by companies operating in live entertainment in The State of Independents, revealing the problem-solving prowess of some despite myriad obstacles.
For the second year, IQ salutes 20 accomplished independent operators – the Indie Champions – across 13 nations rocking the sector on a global level.
Plus, Lisa Henderson celebrates Natasha Gregory’s 20 years in music, plus the fifth anniversary of Mother Artists, as Gregory looks back on her remarkable career to date.
Sam Law puts English metalcore band Architects under the spotlight as their The Sky, The Earth & All Between world tour takes them up to arena level in Europe.
Luxembourg’s iconic venue Rockhal honours its 20-year history, and the UK’s Motorpoint Arena Nottingham looks back on a quarter of a century in operation.
We go inside Arrival Artists and ATC Live’s merger, as ROAM carves an alternative path to the big four global agency conglomerates.
Elsewhere, Portugal is put under the microscope by Adam Woods as IQ discovers a land growing in confidence with an eager audience to back it up.
And we look ahead to ILMC 38, highlighting the various strands and satellite events that comprise the global conference’s ever-growing sports-day programme.
For comments and columns, EB Producciones CEO Eduardo Basagaña outlines his company’s ascent as a small independent outfit, and Rush Ent. senior promoter Johanna Beckman describes how the newly-formed Swedish outfit is doing things differently.
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