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No Taylor? No peace! A gaggle of Taylor Swift fans are suing Ticketmaster over its botched November 15 ticket sale for her Eras Tour. The fans collective are suing the company for “fraud, price-fixing, and antitrust violations,” accusing it of “intentional deception” that allowed scalpers to buy…

UPDATE: Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-Minn.) is following through on plans to hold a U.S. Senate antitrust panel hearing into the lack of competition in the ticketing industry. Public outrcry over the issue has reached a crescendo in recent days after the fiasco of Ticketmaster’s chaotic handling of the upcoming T…

Live Nation Entertainment, the parent company of Ticketmaster, is the focus of an antitrust investigation that predates the Taylor Swift ticket snafu this week, according to a report. The investigation, according to The New York Times, is focusing on whether the company has abused its market power in…

UPDATE: Ticketmaster canceled plans for a public sale of Taylor Swift tickets. Read the full story here. PREVIOUSLY, 12:02 PM PT: Sen. Amy Klobuchar (D-MN), the chair of the Senate antitrust subcommittee, fired off a letter to Ticketmaster on Thursday amid concerns that the outages on its site for…

John Malone's Liberty Media is splitting off 2021 World Series champions the Atlanta Braves Baseball Club and related assets into a separate public company "to better highlight its strong value." As part of a rejiggering of the Liberty universe, it is also creating a new tracking stock called Liberty…

There’s no show on Saturday for the planned “When We Were Young” music festival in Las Vegas. A high winds advisory was blamed for the last-minute cancellation, which was announced just an hour before the show’s gates were to open at the Las Vegas Festival Grounds. Presented by Live Nation…

UPDATE: A day after Lizzo pledged to donate tour proceeds to Planned Parenthood (a sum matched by producer Live Nation), Rage Against the Machine has made similar plans. The group said Friday night at a tour date and later on Instagram that it will donate nearly a half-million dollars to reproductive rights…

Tickets for the North American leg of Harry Styles 2022 tour will have a higher purpose than entertainment. Styles has teamed with the nonprofit Everytown for Gun Safety, founded by Michael Bloomberg, to educate and lobby for gun violence prevention. As part of that, $1 million in proceeds from the tour will be…

Miami Dade Fire Rescue is reporting that Live Nation executive Theresa Velasquez was heard in the rubble of the 2021 Surfside Condo Collapse in Miami. Velasquez was heard calling out after the initial collapse of the Champlain Towers on June 24, 2021. But she could not be reached before succumbing to injuries…

Music fans looking for the streaming outlet for some of their favorite music festivals no longer have to ask, “Who do?” The answer is Hulu. Following a turn as the official streaming destination of Lollapalooza in 2021, Hulu announced today that it is extending its collaboration with Live Nation to serve as the…

Rapper Travis Scott has quietly set his return to the festival stage for the first time since eight people were killed and dozens injured in a stampede at his Astroworld Festival in 2021. Scott was announced as a headliner for the Primavera Sound festival, a massive, multi-destination event that begins in Barcelona…

Concert promoter Live Nation and streaming service Spotify are the two latest entertainment companies pulling out of further business with Russia. They join music acts, film studios, sports leagues and numerous other businesses in expressing their displeasure with the Russian invasion of Ukraine. "Live Nation joins…