Rather than creating overnight stars, today’s programs focus on long-term goals such as fundraising and audience development.

Megan (@spinningaroundconfetti on Instagram) has caught the eyes of stan Twitter with her pumpkin carvings of musicians like Shawn Mendes, Camila Cabello, Taylor Swift and Why Don't We.

As the Laker Girls twirled to a thumping dance remix of AC/DC’s “Thunderstruck,” indie rocker Stephen Malkmus leaned back in his seat at Staples Center and explained a counterintuitive idea: Not enough classic-rock legends have died over the last few years. “More of them need to go,” said Malkmus,...

When 18-year-old Nathaniel Rateliff moved with a missionary group from his rural hometown of Hermann, Mo., to Denver, the journey was more difficult than he anticipated. "We actually were caught in a pretty gnarly blizzard. Interstate 70 closed behind us as we were going west. And there was just...