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Weekly survey: What’s your prediction on the price of concert tickets post-COVID-19?

July 6, 2020July 6, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Concert Tickets

We’re still a long, long way of seeing concerts return to the way things were, although thanks to drive-in shows

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Ticketmaster’s latest offer: Get a refund now or credit for shows later

April 21, 2020April 21, 2020 Amber Healy 3 Comments AEG, Concert Tickets, Concerts, COVID-19, Refunds, Ticketmaster

Days after announcing a way for music fans and sports enthusiasts to get refunded if an event is postponed and

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Ticketmaster, AEG will start offering refund options next month

April 18, 2020April 18, 2020 Amber Healy 0 Comments AEG, concert cancellations, Concert Tickets, Concerts, Coronavirus, COVID-19, Live Nation, StubHub, Ticketmaster, Tickets, Vivid Seats

Goliath blinked.   All this week, concertgoers have been up in arms about Ticketmaster’s seeming change in policy, which sounded a

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VividSeats weighs in on refunds, cancellations and helping musicians

April 16, 2020April 16, 2020 Amber Healy 2 Comments cancellations, Concert Tickets, Coronavirus, Covid, COVID-19, Eventbrite, MusiCounts, Refunds, StubHub, Ticketmaster, Tickets, Vivid Seats

Another ticket seller is speaking out about how it intends to address canceled and indefinitely postponed events during the coronavirus

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Random music news for Monday, April 6, 2020

April 6, 2020April 6, 2020 Alan Cross 0 Comments Beatles, Concert Tickets, Fall Out Boy, Marianne Faithfull, Megadeth, My Chemical Romance, Noel Gallagher, Pink Floyd, YoungBoy NBA

If you’re working from home, have you noticed that the weeks fly by but then the weekends drag? Maybe you

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Rage the Machine is going after scalpers with their new world tour

February 13, 2020February 13, 2020 Alan Cross 2 Comments Concert Tickets, Rage Against the Machine, Resellers, Scalpers

On the heels of Pearl Jam teaming up with Ticketmaster to keep tickets for their Gigaton tour out of the

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Ticketmaster’s statement on those trying to re-sell tickets for Pearl Jam’s Gigaton tour

February 5, 2020February 5, 2020 Alan Cross 12 Comments Concert Tickets, Gigaton, Pearl Jam, Resellers, Ticketmaster

If you sniff around the sites of secondary ticket sellers, you’ll find all manner of tickets (allegedly) available for Pearl

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Music Industry 

Yes, concert tickets were more expensive than ever in 2019. Here’s why.

December 28, 2019December 28, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Concert Tickets

You don’t need to be told that the cost of going to a concert is higher than ever. But why?

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If you buy concert tickets on the secondary market, you’ll be happy about this. (Why hasn’t this received more attention?)

December 9, 2019December 18, 2019 Alan Cross 1 Comment Concert Tickets, Ontario

Ever buy tickets for a hot show from a secondary ticket seller only to later realize (too late!) that the

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Random music news for Saturday, November 23, 2019

November 23, 2019November 22, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Concert Tickets, Facebook, Foo Fighters, Grammys, Neil Young, Nick Cave, Radio, Scooter Braun, Taylor Swift

Bell had problem with a cable near my house. I haven’t had a land line since Thursday. Funny how it

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Random music news for Saturday, November 16, 2019

November 16, 2019November 15, 2019 Alan Cross 0 Comments Britney Spears, Concert Tickets, Disney, Gowan, Jay Z, KISS, Michael Jackson, Neil Young, Osbournes, Simpsons, Styx, Twenty One Pilots, Vladimir Putin

Home from Asia after a 27 hour trip. Let the jetlag begin–but not before we tackle music news for November

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