Live Nation will have a hold on Hollywood Park in Inglewood, California for the foreseeable future, according to Billboard and Pollster. The venue is located near the Los Angeles Rams stadium, with Rams Owner Stan Kroenke in charge of developing the venue and its construction with the goal to have it ready this summer. Live […]

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Live Nation Entertainment has announced the return of Lawn Pass! For just $199, music fans get to choose their local venue (if participating) and get unlimited lawn access to concerts, including sold out shows, all summer long. T-Mobile customers will get the first chance at the passes on Tuesday, December 10th starting at 5am ET, […]

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You may have heard about this last week but today’s the day that some of the world’s biggest and dreamiest music fans imagine their lives are about to get better: Live Nation’s Festival Passport goes on sale soon. For $799, you can basically buy passes to every single festival in the world that sorta matters, […]

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C3 Presents and Live Nation have announced that they’re bringing their flagship Austin City Limits Music Festival to… Auckland, New Zealand!? The Auckland City Limits Music Festival is set for Saturday, March 19th, 2016 at Western Springs Stadium, they’re going to be shooting to deliver the Austin experience to the blokes down under. The announcement […]

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Word on the street is that Live Nation is gearing up to buy a controlling stake in C3 Presents. From Billboard.com… Live Nation is in negotiations to purchase 51 percent of the concerts and festival business of Austin-based independent promoter C3 Presents for about $125 million, Billboard has learned. Both C3 and Live Nation declined […]

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Well, this is an interesting move. Fresh off of their acquisitions of BigChampagne and Setlist.fm, Live Nation Labs has now established the “LN Labs fund” to invest in promising startups in the live music tech space. They’re officially describing the fund as “a vehicle for strategic investment, partnership and mentoring of the world’s most innovative […]

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  We’ve now got another interesting Live Nation acquisition The concert industry behemoth has just acquired the setlist wiki site Setlist.fm. Although most fans in the jam world have grown accustomed to being able to easily search and find a setlist for most of their favorite bands’ shows, for other bands with less concert-centric fanatics, […]

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When I first heard the news today that Apple was unveiling a social network today called Ping, a new addition and feature set that’s part of iTunes 10, I was immediately wondering what partners the company was bringing on to support the tour dates part of their new Artist Pages. Among other things like showing […]

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Ticketmaster launched a new blog called Ticketology, and today’s first post details out a change in policy on how service fees will now be disclosed up-front when you’re purchasing tickets from the company. We get it – you don’t like service fees. You don’t like them mostly because you don’t understand what the heck they […]

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Six Ways Live Nation Could Become More Fan Friendly [villagevoice.com] It’s time to admit that the policy of the endless upgrade chain isn’t working – especially given the high prices that people are already paying for tickets, not to mention the fees added on for things like the “convenience” of printing said tickets using their […]

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