#Music #LiveShows #Ticketmaster #Scalping: "The steps The Cure has taken to prevent ticket scalping to its highly anticipated tour is seemingly inspiring elaborate workarounds for ticket brokers and hackers. “Aged” Ticketmaster accounts, which are accounts that are years old rather than freshly created and which are more likely to win presale codes from Ticketmaster, are being sold on hacking forums. And a popular and secretive paid forum for ticket brokers is requiring brokers to sell entire Ticketmaster accounts (with The Cure tickets in them) to each other to circumvent the band's ban on reselling tickets above face value.

The news shows how even when artists try to actively address ticket scalping, scalpers find new and inventive methods to keep profiting on the secondary market, making concerts more expensive for regular fans."

https://www.vice.com/en/article/wxjqz4/the-cure-tried-to-stop-scalpers-brokers-are-selling-entire-ticketmaster-accounts-instead

#Music #LiveShows #Ticketmaster #Monopoly: Thousands of concert promoters, radio stations, record labels, talent agencies, and other music industry gatekeepers were swallowed by a small clique of deep-pocketed financiers in the years following the closure of the Pearl Jam case. As the speed of music file transfers onto ever-tinier devices threatened to depose the entire industry, moguls jockeyed bitterly over their slices of a shrinking, shape-shifting pie.

And yet the strange and awesome power of Ticketmaster, a company built around the novelty of a printer that could instantaneously produce a cardboard entry pass into thousands of concerts from the convenience of the nearest Sam Goody, grew as every other part of the business seemed to shrivel. Ticketmaster’s parent company is projected to gross $16 billion in 2022, more than the entire U.S. record industry grossed in 2021. Despite sponsoring almost no live events in the year following the outbreak of the pandemic, its stock price went up.

The debacle surrounding the “verified fan presale” for Taylor Swift’s 2023 concert tour highlighted Ticketmaster’s vexing combination of apparent incompetence and totalitarian control. Ticketmaster has portrayed its systems as the victims of an “unprecedented” (if wholly predictable) mismatch of supply and demand; the Department of Justice and numerous state attorneys general are investigating. But while Swift herself has professed empathy for fans stymied in their quest to see her live, she has resisted publicly shaming the ticketing monopoly, as she has other foes. Virtually no pop star has even attempted to blow the whistle on the concert cartel in the years since Vedder tried, and failed."

https://prospect.org/power/ticketmasters-dark-history/

So it's been announced that #Metallica is releasing a new album in April of next year. Fuck yeah, right?

NGL, I fucking love Metallica, so I went fishing, came up with this wonderful dose of metal loudness from 2017.

Metallica: Live in Paris, France - September 8, 2017:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85oEUVqgefU

Check the thread for more concerts, I regularly add more shows. Come on let's get this thing going!

#Fedi #LiveShows #Concerts #LiveMusic