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AEG's Mission Ballroom Launches Fair Ticketing to Create More Equitable Experience For Fans
March 19, 2019 11:45 AM EDT 0 0 0 Lumineers, Trey Anastasio Band and co-headliners Ben Harper and Trombone Shorty will offer fans equal shot at tickets when they open Denver's Mission Ballroom in August. If the Lumineers were to put their Aug. 7 concert opening the new Missio ...
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Fleetwood Mac's North American Tour On Track to Sell 1 Million Tickets
March 18, 2019 3:27 PM EDT 0 0 0 The absence of Lindsey Buckingham has not hurt the band's latest tour, which has at least 10 shows with grosses over $2 million. Fleetwood Mac is on track to gross more than $100 million on the North American leg of their 2018/2019 tour with ve ...
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Black Keys Announce Extensive 2019 North American Tour
March 14, 2019 9:00 AM EDT 0 0 0 Special guest Modest Mouse will support the band on all dates. The Black Keys are returning to the road with a 31-date 2019 North American tour. The Let’s Rock outing will kick off at Pepsi Center in Denver following the band’s headlining spot at La ...
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The Bowery Presents to Build New 3,500-Capacity Venue at Boston Landing
March 13, 2019 12:17 PM EDT 0 0 0 The Northeast promoter will break ground on the new venue April 1. The Bowery Presents announced today (March 13) plans to construct a new 3,500-capacity concert venue at the mixed-use development Boston Landing in Massachusetts. The general admissi ...
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Non-Profit Calling All Crows Teams Up With Live Music Industry to Fight Sexual Harassment
March 12, 2019 1:40 PM EDT 0 0 0 The org will be present at this year’s Bonnaroo and Music Tastes Good festivals. To honor 10 years of championing women’s issues, non-profit organization Calling All Crows has teamed up with artists, venues and festivals in the music industry to com ...
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Paul McCartney Adds Second Las Vegas Show Due to Demand
March 12, 2019 11:46 AM EDT 0 0 0 The Freshen Up tour follows McCartney's first No. 1 debut in 36 years. Due to demand, Paul McCartney has added a second Las Vegas show to his North American tour. McCartney will now play the T-Mobile Arena in Las Vegas on June 28 in addition to ...
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Hozier Adds Fall Dates to North American Tour
March 11, 2019 1:20 PM EDT 0 0 0 On the heels of his sophomore album Wasteland, Baby debuting at No. 1 on the Billboard 200 chart, Hozier has announced an additional ten North American tour dates. The new shows will kick off on Oct. 17 at Rose Garden Theater of the Clouds in Portla ...
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Jim James & The Claypool Lennon Delirium Team Up for Joint Summer Tour
March 06, 2019 2:01 PM EST 0 0 0 The summer tour will hit nine cities across North America. Jim James and The Claypool Lennon Delirium will co-headline a 2019 summer tour. The joint tour will kick off on June 21 in Salt Lake City at Eccles Theater and make eight more stops, closing ...
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Ali Wong Announces Two California Residencies on Milk & Money Tour
March 05, 2019 1:45 PM EST 0 0 0 Stand-up comedian Ali Wong has announced two California residencies for her Milk & Money tour. Adding 18 shows to her already stacked 2019 tour, Wong will perform from between Sept. 7 through Oct. 6 at the Wiltern in Los Angeles and from Dec. 21 ...
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Baja Beach Fest Announces Cardi B, Ozuna and J Balvin for Second Year
March 05, 2019 1:33 PM EST 0 0 0 Festival organizers talk expanding in year two and Bad Bunny requesting to return. Baja Beach Festival in Rosarito Beach, Baja California has announced Cardi B , Ozuna , J Balvin and the return of Bad Bunny for its second annual year. For its sophom ...
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Willie Nelson Announces Lineup for 2019 Outlaw Music Festival
March 05, 2019 12:41 PM EST 0 0 0 Willie Nelson ’s Outlaw Music Festival tour has announced Phil Lesh & Friends, The Avett Brothers , Alison Krauss , The Revivalists and more for the summer leg of the tour. Produced by Blackbird Presents, the touring festival will kick off in Ba ...
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Live and Bush Team Up for Alt-imate Tour to Celebrate 25 Years of 'Throwing Copper,' 'Sixteen Stone'
March 05, 2019 12:06 PM EST 0 0 0 The tour will feature fellow 90s rockers Our Lady Peace, whose album 'Naveed' was also released in 1994. Alternative rock bands Bush and Live are teaming up this summer for a co-headlining North American tour. Dubbed the Alt-imate tour, th ...
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Slipknot Announces North American Tour & Reveals New Album Date
March 04, 2019 1:33 PM EST 0 0 0 Slipknot will make their live return this summer with the North American Knotfest Roadshow headlining tour. The tour will coincide with the Aug. 9 release of their new studio album. The 29-city tour will kick off on July 26 at Shoreline Amphitheatre ...
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Smashing Pumpkins and Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds Join Forces for Tour
March 04, 2019 12:57 PM EST 0 0 0 AFI will join the tour as a special guest. The Smashing Pumpkins and Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds are hitting the road together this summer. The joint headlining tour will also feature special guest AFI . Beginning on Aug. 8 at BB&T Pavili ...
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Alice Cooper & Halestorm Announce Co-Headlining North American Tour
March 04, 2019 12:27 PM EST 0 0 0 The joint tour will also make a special stop at The Opry House in Nashville. Rock icon Alice Cooper and Grammy-winning band Halestorm announced a co-headlining tour across North America this summer. Produced by Live Nation, the 19-city trek will kic ...
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Jessie J, Walk the Moon & More Announced for Hilton Honors Concert Series
February 27, 2019 1:12 PM EST 0 0 0 The series of six intimate concerts is set to launch on March 1. Hilton Honors and Live Nation have revealed the lineup for the 2019 Hilton Honors Concert Series. Beginning with a private performance from Walk the Moon on March 1 at the Waldorf Asto ...
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Korn and Alice in Chains Announce Summer Co-Headlining Tour
February 25, 2019 1:19 PM EST 0 0 0 The headliners will also be joined by special guest Underoath. Hard rock heavyweights Korn and Alice in Chains will co-headline a 2019 summer tour. The North American amphitheater tour will also feature special guest Underoath on all dates. In addit ...
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Zac Brown Band Adds Second Fenway Show Due to Demand
February 25, 2019 12:43 PM EST 0 0 0 The group broke the record for consecutive sold-out shows at the Boston ballpark in 2018. Zac Brown Band has announced a second date at Boston’s Fenway Park due to demand. The Grammy-winning group will now play Aug. 31 and Sept. 1 at the historic ba ...
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Webster Hall Returning With First Shows Since Closing for Renovations in Summer 2017
February 21, 2019 11:56 AM EST 0 0 0 Legendary NYC rock and dance venue Webster Hall has announced its first slate of shows since closing for renovations in August 2017. BSE Global and The Bowery Presents, AEG Presents’ regional partner, will officially re-open the venue in late April ...
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Live Nation's Ron Bension Talks Fillmore NOLA & Expanding In Eight New Markets Through 2020
February 19, 2019 2:42 PM EST 0 0 0 The clubs and theatres division expects between 5-7 new buildings by next year. Coheed and Cambria played the grand opening of Live Nation’s latest Fillmore venue in New Orleans Monday night (Feb. 18) after the Foo Fighters postponed their christeni ...
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Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson Add North American Dates to Twins of Evil Tour
February 19, 2019 2:05 PM EST 0 0 0 The Hell Never Dies tour kicks off in July. Rob Zombie and Marilyn Manson have announced 2019 dates for their Twins of Evil joint tour. Produced by Live Nation, the co-headlining ‘Hell Never Dies Tour 2019’ North American summer tour kicks off in Ba ...
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MNEK & Olly Alexander Murder a Giant Teddy Bear in Years & Years' 'Valentino' Video: Watch
February 14, 2019 11:55 AM EST 0 0 0 Just in time for Valentine's Day, British musicians Years & Years and MNEK have released a video for their Latin-hued breakup track “Valentino,” which appeared on Years & Years' second album, Palo Santo . Directed by Jordan Rossi, ...
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KISS Rocks the Whisky A Go Go in First Club Appearance in 20 Years
February 12, 2019 1:18 PM EST 0 0 0 The legendary band played the Sunset Strip venue as part of SiriusXM's 'Party Continues' series. Between arena stops on their End of the World Tour, KISS stopped by the 500-capacity Whisky A Go Go on the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles on ...
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Aerosmith Adds 17 Dates to Las Vegas Residency
February 12, 2019 12:42 PM EST 0 0 0 Previously announced dates kick off in April. Aerosmith has announced 17 additional dates for their Las Vegas residency at Park Theater at the new Park MGM resort. The Aerosmith: Deuces Are Wild show will launch on April 6 with several of their prev ...
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Cage the Elephant and Beck Join Forces for 2019 Tour
February 11, 2019 12:51 PM EST 0 0 0 The co-headliners will be joined by special guest Spoon. Beck and Cage the Elephant have announced a joint North American tour for summer 2019. The chart-topping alternative acts will co-headline The Night Running Tour across amphitheaters for 28 st ...
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Heart Announce Summer Tour With Joan Jett, Sheryl Crow and Brandi Carlile
February 11, 2019 11:58 AM EST 0 0 0 Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Heart are headed back on the road in 2019 with their Love Alive tour. Produced by Live Nation, the 39-city summer tour will kick off on July 9 at Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre in St. Louis, Mo. Love Alive will hit Chicag ...
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The Rolling Stones Add Huge Canada Show to Band's Upcoming 'No Filter' Tour
February 11, 2019 10:39 AM EST 0 0 0 The Rolling Stones are going big for their only stop in Canada on the band's No Filter Tour, announcing a Canada Day weekend show an hour north of Toronto that organizers hope will attract nearly 70,000 fans. Produced by Republic Live, 'Ca ...
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Pink Brings Stadium Show to Hollywood Palladium, Kicks Off Citi Sound Vault: Recap
February 08, 2019 2:41 PM EST 0 0 0 On Thursday night, P!nk roared through “Get the Party Started” -- a fitting way to kick off Grammy weekend, as well as her Citi Sound Vault show at Hollywood Palladium. The Grammy-winning pop star brought her stadium tour to the 5,000-capacity venue ...
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Live Nation and Graystone Quarry Events Team Up for New Amphitheater in Tennessee
February 07, 2019 3:07 PM EST 0 0 0 The 7,500-seat facility will open in 2020. Live Nation has teamed up with Graystone Quarry Events for a brand-new Tennessee amphitheater expected to open in 2020. The new 7,500-seat facility will be located at the historic Graystone Quarry southeast ...
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'A Merger of Complimentary Assets': Bob Newman Announces AEG Facilities Merger With SMG
February 07, 2019 2:20 PM EST 0 0 0 New company ASM Global will manage more than 300 venues including NFL stadiums like Soldier Field Two of the largest facility operators in the world are merging, creating a joint-owned facility company with 310 venues under management including NFL ...
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Goldenvoice Partners With Stanford University for Frost Amphitheater
February 05, 2019 1:45 PM EST 0 0 0 Stanford University in Palo Alto, Calif. is expanding its live entertainment offerings with two partners who will help program the university's Frost Amphitheater. Stanford Live, the university’s performing arts organization, will co-present a ...
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Lynyrd Skynyrd Add Dates to the Last of the Street Survivors Farewell Tour
February 04, 2019 1:28 PM EST 0 0 0 Cody Jinks, Bad Company and Hank Williams Jr. will join the band for select dates. Rock and Roll Hall of Famers Lynyrd Skynyrd have announced the second year of dates for their Last of the Street Survivors farewell tour. After more than 50 stops by ...
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Foo Fighters Reschedule Fillmore New Orleans Grand Opening Performances Due to Injury
February 04, 2019 12:29 PM EST 0 0 0 The band has moved its February dates to May. Foo Fighters announced today that they are rescheduling their Feb. 15-16 opening performances at the Fillmore New Orleans. The rock band was set to christen the brand-new venue for its grand opening week ...
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Indie Live Venues Continue to Battle $6 Billion Chicago Development After Live Nation Exclusive Dropped
January 30, 2019 3:21 PM EST 0 0 0 The proposed development will now include open green spaces for possible festival use. Chicago Independent Venue League (CIVL) is continuing to protest a major $6 billion development in the city after the Chicago Plan Commission approved a revised p ...
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King Princess Performs New Music Off Upcoming Album at Sold-Out Brooklyn Show
January 24, 2019 10:47 AM EST 0 0 0 King Princess (born Mikaela Straus) took to the stage at her native Brooklyn’s Warsaw venue on Wednesday night (Jan. 23) with a loose familiarity. The 20-year-old performed so comfortably, intermittently taking puffs of her e-cig and talking about s ...
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Phish Ring in 2019 With 60th Madison Square Garden Concert: Recap
January 02, 2019 3:15 PM EST 0 0 0 Beginning Dec. 28th, Phish fans gathered in Manhattan's Midtown to see the legendary jam band perform at Madison Square Garden. All the while, comparing personal Garden show tallies (who attended all 13 Bakers Dozen shows in summer of 2017?), s ...
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Lady Gaga's 2-Part Residency Could Be Game-Changer for Las Vegas Residency Model
December 27, 2018 2:55 PM EST 0 0 0 The "Star Is Born" singer's show opens tomorrow at the Park MGM in Las Vegas “We’re always trying to do the unexpected,” says Lady Gaga ’s manager, Bobby Campbell , weeks out from launching the most hotly-anticipated show on the Las V ...
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B2K to Reunite in 2019 for The Millennium Tour: Exclusive
December 21, 2018 8:09 AM EST 0 0 0 The chart-topping boy band will hit the road with Mario, Ying Yang Twins, Chingy and more. The nostalgia train will keep on chugging along strong in 2019 thanks to a major reunion and tour coming from one of the early '00s most beloved boy band ...
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The Price Is Right: Touring Sector Sees Growth by Finding What Fans Are Willing to Pay
December 18, 2018 8:01 AM EST 0 0 0 The year's top 10 tours are up 25 percent year-over-year, with nearly all of them breaking the $100 million mark. The biggest mistake that StubHub made in recent memory was putting out a year-end list in 2015 saying Taylor Swift ’s 1989 Tour wa ...
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Live Nation Appoints Two Presidents of Concerts in Major Florida Markets
December 17, 2018 12:24 PM EST 0 0 0 Brittany Flores and Neil Jacobsen will both be promoted within Live Nation’s U.S. Concerts division Live Nation Entertainment has named Brittany Flores as president of Miami- U.S. Concerts. In her new position, Flores will oversee the booking, marke ...
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Banc of California Stadium Announces Brian Smith as Event Director
December 17, 2018 12:00 PM EST 0 0 0 Smith joins BOCS from SMG Worldwide. Banc of California Stadium Entertainment has named Brian Smith the new event director. President of Banc of California Stadium Entertainment and evp of Los Angeles Football Club Sports Adam Friedman announced to ...
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Live Nation to Exclusively Book Observatory Venues in Southern California
December 14, 2018 1:14 PM EST 0 0 0 The news follows Live Nation's exclusive booking deal with the Majestic Ventura Theater Live Nation has announced that it will exclusively book the Observatory clubs in Santa Ana, Calif. and San Diego. The Observatory in Santa Ana features a ro ...
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Need Tickets? Get in Line, as Emails Reveal How Brokers Get First Crack at Tix for Big Arena Shows
December 14, 2018 11:39 AM EST 0 0 0 Country star Eric Church and his management team are known for pushing back against ticket scalping; on his 2017 tour, they canceled the tickets of brokers and those they suspected were professional resellers. But this October, a little over a week ...
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Amber Liu Creates a 'Be Yourself Zone' During Candid Gone Rogue Solo Tour: Review
December 12, 2018 5:45 PM EST 0 0 0 "I don't care what your skin color is, how tall you are, who you love...I just want you to have fun." With nearly a decade under herl belt as a top K-pop star, Amber Liu' s first-ever solo tour could have fallen into many of the ...
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SMG-Run Stadiums to Host a Third of the Rolling Stones' Spring U.S. Tour Dates
December 12, 2018 1:06 PM EST 0 0 0 To book stadiums for one-third of the shows announced by the Rolling Stones for the band’s U.S. No Filter Tour 2019, promoters Concerts West/AEG Presents needed to call only one venue operator—SMG. Among the 15 shows now on sale for the tour, five p ...
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Knitting Factory Signs Criterion in OKC and New Virginia Beach Nightclub
December 07, 2018 2:58 PM EST 0 0 0 Former Norva and National co-owner joins KFE booking team Knitting Factory Entertainment has signed two new talent-buying deals for the 3,300-cap Criterion in Oklahoma City and the soon to opened 600-cap Elevation 27 nightclub in Virginia Beach. KFE ...
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Singing for Change: Global Citizen Tribute to Mandela Resulted in $7 Billion Pledged
December 06, 2018 2:00 PM EST 0 0 0 For the past several years, philanthropic organization Global Citizen has been battling poverty by using music as a draw to spur fans to action. Since 2012, the anti-poverty organization Global Citizen has presented benefit concerts with a twist: Fa ...
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Aretha Franklin and Dee Dee Bridgewater Saluted at Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Piano Competition & All-Star Concert Gala
December 04, 2018 2:15 AM EST 0 0 0 Tom Oren won the 30th Thelonious Monk Institute International Jazz Piano Competition on Monday night (Dec. 3) at the organization’s annual All-Star Concert Gala, held at Washington, D.C.’s Kennedy Center. The 24-year old from Tel Aviv received a $25 ...
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Tash Sultana Closes Out Largest U.S. Tour with Sold-Out Show in Los Angeles
December 03, 2018 1:52 PM EST 0 0 0 The Shrine Expo Hall marked the Australian musician’s biggest U.S. stop on the Flow State tour. Australian musician Tash Sultana bid a two-hour farewell to North American audiences on Saturday (Dec. 1) night at the Shrine Expo Hall in Los Angeles. S ...
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AEG Accuses Danny Wimmer of 'Stealing' Rock on the Range and Carolina Rebellion in Lawsuit
November 30, 2018 2:07 PM EST 0 0 0 Promoter says Wimmer's new events are illegal copies of the festivals the two had co-owned and co-promoted together. Is it possible to steal a rock festival? That’s the charge being made by AEG in court documents filed in LA Superior Court yest ...
