Live Nation’s Festival Sponsorship Deal With Smirnoff, Iggy Azalea Reschedules Tour, and more in This Week’s Touring Digest

TOP STORIES Live Nation Inks 26-Festival Sponsorship Deal With Smirnoff For EDM  Nearly two years after acquiring a 50% stake in promoter Insomniac Events, Live Nation continues to expand its electronic dance-music business on both the touring and festival circuits worldwide. Kevin Hart Is On Track for the Biggest Comedy Tour of All Time  Kevin Hart's upcoming What Now? tour is on track to become the highest grossing comedy tour ever reported to Billboard Boxscore, selling more than 600,000 tickets and grossing $35 million to date -- and it's only March. Will the Grateful Dead's Fare Thee Well Three-Night Stand Go Down in Rock History?  Fare Thee Well's three-night Solider Field sellout will go down in rock history. Global Entertainment Announces Key Hires  Global Entertainment, the U.S. content creation and multirights division of U.K.-based Global, The Media and Entertainment Group, today revealed the appointment of several key executives under Global Entertainment CEO Randy Phillips. Organizers Cancel Future Music Festival Asia 2015  The 2015 Future Music Festival Asia, which was scheduled for March 13-14 at Singapore’s Changi Exhibition Centre, has been canceled, organizers announced Sunday (March 8). Greek Theatre Unveils 2015 Lineup: Robert Plant, Wilco, 'Weird Al'  As the drama over who will run The Greek Theatre continues to play out, the shows must go on, and so the iconic L.A. venue this morning unveiled its lineup and subscription program for its 2015 season. Liberty Media CEO Wants SiriusXM & Live Nation to Play Together  "Using Live Nation to differentiate Sirius and using Sirius to promote Live Nation is very logical," said Gregory Maffei on Monday. Waka Flocka Cancels University of Oklahoma Show After Racist S.A.E. Fraternity Video  After catching the news that the University of Oklahoma's Sigma Alpha Epsilon fraternity had chanted disturbing racist slurs, Waka Flocka has canceled his upcoming performance at the school. Sonar Heads South to Buenos Aires, Bogota, Santiago  Organizers of Barcelona’s pioneering electronic music festival have announced that all three new festivals are set to take place in early December.