Higher ticket prices. Less innovative concert experiences. Those are just two of the things facing live music fans as we get closer to the pending decision on the Live Nation-Ticketmaster merger. Last week, The National Association of Ticket Brokers & The National Consumers League along with a legion of 50 U.S. representatives announced the [...]
Did the Concert Industry Survive 2009?
December 15, 2009 By Leave a Comment
I’m not a big numbers guy but when I read the year-end numbers issued by Live Nation, AEG Live and other promoters, I thought it’d be a good idea for us to take a stroll through them just to make sure that the live music industry didn’t die and everyone made it through 2009 alive. We’ll also lay to rest a [...]
