NYT has an article about the difficulty of scoring good tickets by virtue of the general on sale. GA tickets to a small to mid sized venue can be relatively easy to come by, if you have quick fingers and are properly logged into your account. Amphitheaters and arenas….fuggedaboutit. I have grown past the naive days of trying, and on to the land of Ticketmaster auctions and eBay. The good tickets not only go to scalpers, but they go to corporate sponsors, media, residents of the locale, etc. Will lawyers fix the problem? Probably not.
“Rock ‘n’ roll is an attitude, it’s not a musical form of a strict sort. It’s a way of doing…
Humble beginnings. Family hardships. The kid that got picked on in class. Doubts. Music as a savior. Amazing luck. Front…
In my first post on HardRockChick.com, I told the story about how ‘I Love Rock ‘n’ Roll’ was the first…
I received this headscratcher of a press release…really really bad. Just awful. This is not a promotion of these books-…
It was nice to read that Acrassicauda, the band featured in the documentary Heavy Metal in Baghdad, is living their…
Wow, what an interesting story. Asher Roth, who has been named one of MTV’s MCs to Watch in 2009, will…
Stooges Reunion 2007 Warfield Poster Yesterday morning brought sad news to the rock community, as Ron Asheton, guitarist and bassist…
The New York Times recently featured an article discussing music licensing, and its potential effects on the creative process of…
This is messed up on so many levels. Is this seriously some laid off music exec’s job- to pick out…
from blabbermouth: Several rock and metal musicians were quick to hail Barack Obama’s election victory as a boost for the…