A little over a year ago, the recording industry was surprised to learn that Madonna wasn’t signing a new record label contract, but instead was signing a deal with Live Nation, a big concert promoter, to handle pretty much everything having to do with her business, including releasing new CDs. The WSJ Magazine is running [...]

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Live Nation, the world’s largest concert promoter, is on the case of paper tickets. The firm has been trialling smart-chip wristbands in an attempt to cut down on ticket fraud, and it is expected that the promoter will roll out the scheme at British festivals this summer. Although this can only be good [...]

As the summer festival season is beginning, music lovers of all ages are traveling thousands of miles across the country to see their favorite bands play for quick, hot, and steamy 30-minute outdoor sets. But amidst the hundreds of bands that play over a 3-day festival how will you know when [...]

Ever since the Internet made ticket scalping a business to enjoy in the comfort of your own home, we have seen a parade of legit businesses get involved, from startups like StubHub to mainstays such as Ticketmaster. Live Nation, which is implementing its own ticketing system in 2009 to replace its Ticketmaster agreements, is [...]