The Federal Trade Commission announced a new rule on Tuesday to ban hidden fees for concert tickets in a move seeking to address one of the myriad complaints music fans have toward the concert business. The new ruling — which also affects other businesses like hotels and Airbnb — doesn’t …
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Connecticut Senator Richard Blumenthal sent a letter to Federal Trade Commission chair Lina Khan on Friday, requesting that the consumer protection agency more consistently enforce the nearly decade-old legislation that was passed to try and stop scalpers from using bots to corner the market on concert tickets. The Better Online …
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Robert Smith opened up about the notorious stance he took against predatory ticketing practices for the Cure‘s North America Tour last year, recalling his goals to keep tickets cheap as well as his viral Twitter threads calling out the ticketing business from Ticketmaster to scalpers to other artists. “It was …
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Oasis are sticking to their promise to crack down on resale tickets for their reunion shows, with the band preparing to invalidate about 50,000 tickets sold on the secondary market, according to the BBC. The reunion tour’s promoters, Live Nation and SJM, said they would start canceling the offending tickets …
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A Michigan appeals court has upheld a decision finding Live Nation not liable for the deaths of three people from carbon monoxide poisoning while camping at the Faster Horses country festival. Dawson Brown (20 years old), William “Richie” Mays Jr. (20), and Kole Nova (19) died while sleeping in a …
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J onathan Kanter is standing in the basement recording studio of his Bethesda, Maryland, home, surrounded by an enviable collection of dozens of vintage and limited-edition guitars. It’s a warm June evening and the place feels like the Platinum Room at Guitar Center, with the walls covered in blond wood …
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Live Nation is aggressively pushing to prevent a deposition of its chief executive officer Michael Rapino over the deadly Astroworld Festival crowd rush, and the live music giant hopes Texas’s Supreme Court will support their efforts. While all of the wrongful death suits have been settled earlier this year, the …
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Ten more states have joined the Department of Justice‘s antitrust lawsuit against Live Nation, according to an amended complaint the DOJ filed Monday morning, marking a total of 39 states as well as the District of Columbia to have sued the concert and ticketing giant over the DOJ’s monopoly claims. …
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The federal judge overseeing the DOJ’s monopoly lawsuit against Live Nation established a protective order this week to restrict the concert and ticketing giant’s in-house legal team from accessing particularly sensitive documents from their competitors, with the decision coming days after several competing companies voiced retaliation concerns. The protective order, …
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The Weeknd will perform a one-night-only show in São Paulo, Brazil, on Sept. 7. The announcement marks the artist’s return to the concert stage since the conclusion of his global After Hours Til Dawn tour last fall. The Live Nation-produced show, which will take place at Brazil’s Estádio MorumBIS stadium, …
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