Amazon Music Live is gearing up for its second season of live streamed concerts following Thursday Night Football games. Similar to last year, the shows will take place at a venue in Los Angeles and tickets will be distributed through the ticketing platform DICE on an invitation-only basis.
Each concert is scheduled to run from 9pm Pacific Time. An hour before each performance begins, Amazon Music's Twitch channel will air a pre-show featuring interviews, special guests, and surprises. The concerts this season will include live American Sign Language interpretation to make the performances accessible to deaf and hard-of-hearing fans.
Ryan Redington, a 15-year veteran of Amazon, reflected on the vision for Amazon Music Live season two. He stated that the goal is to bring together sports and music enthusiasts on Thursday nights. By streaming live performances after the most-watched football games each week globally on Prime Video and Twitch, they aim to create a major stage for artists to debut new music. Redington vowed they will make the concerts even bigger this year.
In other music and football news, ESPN tapped Justin Timberlake and Timbaland to curate songs for Monday Night Football programming. Additionally, Roc Nation and the NFL revealed the 12 "songs of the season" that will feature across the league's platforms all year, as their long-standing partnership continues.