Random music news for Monday, May 8, 2023
Do you have high blood pressure? Do you spend more than 30 minutes a week on a cell phone? There may be a connection. Off to cover music news for May 8, 2023.
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U2 admits MSG Sphere ticketing screw-up, promises to do…something.
If you were one of the thousands and thousands of fans who did everything right and still were unable to get a shot at buying tickets for U2’s MSG Sphere residency in Las
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Ticket sales for U2’s MSG Sphere gig aren’t going well. There are complaints. And now, no General Onsale. Here’s what I think happened.
U2 is set to play a dozen gigs at the brand new MSG Sphere next to The Venetian Hotel in Las Vegas starting in September (UPDATE: Dates have been extended into November). Tickets
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Random music news for Friday, April 28, 2023
Meanwhile in Florida, the Killer Clown Case is over after 33 years. Digest that and then move on to music news for April 28, 2023. More music news? Look here. BONUS: Chatty parrots
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There’s a new US bill designed to increase competition when it comes to tickets for live events. Here’s why it may not work.
If you watched the farcical political grandstanding of the US Government’s hearings into the Taylor Swift/Ticketmaster fiasco back in January, you’ll remember Minnesota Senator Amy Klobuchar sending verbal daggers toward the ticket-seller and
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Will this company be able to make buying concert tickets easier?
Ticketmaster is by far and away the biggest seller of tickets to events. And while people have issues with the company (sometimes ill-informed opinions, too), Ticketmaster still has the best infrastructure, software, and
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The music industry is being reshaped by tech companies. This doc seeks to find out of this is good or bad.
I’ve always been fascinated by the intersection of music and technology. The CBC has this look at how Spotify, Ticketmaster, LiveNation, and TikTok are changing music as we know it. (Full disclosure: I’m
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Random music news for Friday, March 31
Hey, I love my two English bull terriers, but I’d never buy them one of these. Let’s focus on music news for March 31, 2023 instead. More music news? Check here. BONUS: Obsessive,
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There were a couple of goodies in yesterday’s federal budget for music fans
Budget reveals can be dry affairs with a lot of announcements designed to score political points. Yesterday’s federal budget–the first since 2020 without any pandemic measures–contained a bunch of those but also a
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Let’s examine this new class action lawsuit against Ticketmaster involving Drake tickets.
LPC Avocat Inc., a Montreal law firm. has launched a class action lawsuit against Ticketmaster, saying that the ticket seller “intentionally misleads consumers for their own financial gain.” Here’s the argument. A Montreal
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Random music news for Thursday, March 23, 2023
Gross. Just gross. But then they’ll tell you that they were just exercising their right to free speech. Try to get those images out of your mind with some music news for March
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