In late July, Willie Nelson was onstage during his set on the Outlaw Music Festival tour in Raleigh, North Carolina, when tour manager John Selman noticed an abrupt shift in the weather. During his 20-plus years working with Nelson, Selman has dealt with the elements, but nothing like what he …
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Off a residential street deep in the south of Austin, behind a light-up sign that says “South Austin: Still Weird,” sits a cozy, rambler-style watering hole called the Far Out Lounge. An on-and-off spot for live music starting in the early 1900s, the bar got a new life five years …
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Music advocacy groups are worried after Congress‘ newly unveiled legislation to keep the government funded through next March includes language they say allows ticket scalpers to mislead fans. The frustration stems from a bill called the Ticket Act, which was introduced in Congress in May. The act was one of …
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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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The National Independent Venue Association (NIVA) is calling out Yelp over claims that the review site is putting misleading or fake concert ticket listings on venues’ Yelp pages, with NIVA sending a letter to the company’s CEO Jeremy Stoppelman late Tuesday demanding the listings get taken down. In the letter, …
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Struggling music venues across the country received an added lifeline after the Senate and House of Representatives passed a $1.9 trillion stimulus package known as the American Rescue Plan on Wednesday. President Joe Biden signed the legislation Thursday, March 11th. The new aid package includes an additional $1.25 billion in …
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