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According to Mashable, last week Live Nation and iTunes beat EMI to the digital download punch and unveiled their new live concert recordings service “Live Nation Presents.” From a fan standpoint being able to download your favorite concerts seems like a good option to have, that is, of course, once Live Nation starts filling up their iTunes catalogue. Because, currently, the pickings are pretty [...]
Are you a hungry live music fan? I hope so. Because I have 3 succulent and satifying live music news stories that’ll get you primed for the big feast later this week. You can start the face-stuffing early as I dish out a meaty live music meal that’s simmering with stories that made my mouth water over the last couple [...]
Have you ever had an idea that you knew was crazy, but you still wanted to share it? And did you ever try to communicate your crazy idea with an image or photo-shopped picture, but were afraid to share your “idea art” because it look like a 3rd grader made it instead of a brilliant and mature adult mind? [...]
Dear Live Music Citizens, It goes without saying that I love live music. So it’s only natural that I’ve been feeding you a regular stream of updates on the Live Nation Ticketmaster merger. And though I’ve used that above image in a few of the posts, as other bloggers have, I continue to post about [...]
Will you trust the U.S. Department of Justice to govern your live concert experiences? Things have been fairly quite recently on the congressional front regarding the LiveNation Ticketmaster merger. But yesterday I saw this news story come across my Twitter update feed. It came curtosity of @concertinfo who was Retweeting Alfred Branch Jr’s Ticketnews [...]
I like asking questions like that. That’s why I’m a little surprised that this bit of important info evaded most reports about the Live Nation-Ticketmaster merger. But I’m glad I eventually came across Bill Wyman’s Hitsville post citing this Billboard article about the connections between the Obama administration and the heads at Live Nation and Ticketmaster. It’s interesting, but not completely surprising news [...]
It was a busy week for live music and our nation’s political process. From live blogging Senate hearings, to RollingStone.com getting called out, music writers and fans were treated to a week full of potential merger C-SPAN craziness. I don’t remember the political process being this engaging growing up. Of course, when you’re in high [...]
A couple of weeks ago I dropped comment on Entertainment Weekly’s article about the possible merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation. Here’s what I said when the article asked if I even cared about the merger: “ Yes, I do care about this possible merger. And I hope it doesn’t happen. I don’t think any [...]
