Concerts

Ticketmaster Ditches Annoying CAPTCHA Verification Process

If you’ve bought concert tickets in the last decade, you’ve probably strained your eyes and asked yourself something along the lines of, “is that an ‘i’ or an ‘r’?” Ticketmaster’s dreaded CAPTCHA security check can […]

2013/02/01

Widespread Panic Annouces Return To Chicago

That didn’t last long. The self-proclaimed hiatus stemming from the Widespread Panic camp lasted all of ten months before the band announced that they were hitting the road again. When a band tours with the vigor that Widespread Panic does, going ten months without a show can feel like years to a fan. Even though the band had an all acoustic tour throughout January/February of 2012, Widespread Panic had not performed an electric show since New Years Eve of 2012.

2013/01/08

Cage The Elephant at Lollapalooza (photo: Will Byington)

Too Old For Concerts? [Lin's Bin]

Are you ever too old to go to attend a rock concert? Lin weighs the pros and cons of concert-going when you’re the, ahem, wisest, most experienced, person there. The generation that grew up going […]

2012/11/30

New Beatles Concert Film Needs Fan Footage

Beatles fans from around the world have a chance to relive Beatlemania all over again in a new Apple Corps-approved project to collect rare media directly from those who experienced it firsthand.

2012/11/15

Coldplay’s Chris Martin “Most Of The Money We’re Earning On The Tour Is Put Into Wristbands”

After creating the gorgeous, innovative albeit expensive wristband technology and premiering it at a Madrid show last October, Coldplay is enjoying the way their audience looks all lit up. However, they’re finding dramatic holes in […]

2012/05/30

The Beatles: The Lost Concert [Watch]

Two days after their historic performance on The Ed Sullivan Show, The Beatles performed their first U.S. concert at the Washington Coliseum. Cheap seats went for $2, with the better ones commanding $4. Over 8,000 […]

2012/04/25

U2 To Surpass Rolling Stones For Highest-Grossing Concert Tour

[photogallerylink id=58018 align=left]The [lastfm]Rolling Stones[/lastfm] have laid claim to the highest grossing tour of all time award, but it looks like the [lastfm]U2[/lastfm] 360 Tour will eclipse that as of last night.Once the receipts have been fully […]

2011/04/11

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