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Q&A: Ben Folds On The Ben Folds Five Reunion And Taking A John Lennon-Like Approach To Life

The last Ben Folds Five record, The Unauthorized Biography of Reinhold Messner, released 13 years ago. To give some perspective, that same year—1999—the Euro debuted, Bill Clinton sat in the Oval Office, and Monica and Chandler had just fallen in love on Friends. Our world might be a b ... More >>

Dear John Mayer: Thank You For Doing Away With Presales For Your Upcoming Tour

I'm going to open this post with a disclaimer: I get a lot of tickets to concerts for free. But I also know that the hotter the ticket, the tighter the guest list, and if I don't want to get shut out (or if I want to attend with a friend) of a particular concert, buying tickets is in my best interes ... More >>

Showclix CEO To Frustrated Kraftwerk Ticket Buyers: "Ultimately, We Failed Many Of You"

The CEO of Showclix—the ticketing company that handled yesterday's ticketing process for the Museum of Modern Art's eight-night series of Kraftwerk shows, during which quite a few people got stuck in waiting rooms and took to Twitter to describe their sell-out-rage in detail—has posted a ... More >>

Madonna Coming To Yankee Stadium In September

Fresh off her Super Bowl halftime performance, and its attendant digit-borne controversy, Madonna has announced a world tour in support of her forthcoming album MDNA. Its New York stop is set for September 6 at Yankee Stadium, which has a big wide-open schedule surrounding that date, just FYI. (Mado ... More >>

Kenny Chesney and Beyonce Pull Their Audiences Close

Beyoncé To Play Four Shows At Roseland Later This Month; Tickets Go On Sale Wednesday

Ellen von Unwerth​This morning Beyoncé's people announced that the singer would headline four nights at the Roseland Ballroom later this month—August 14, 16, 18, and 19—for a miniseries entitled "4 Intimate Nights With Beyoncé." During each show she'll apparently perform her stel ... More >>

Portishead Is Playing Two Shows At The Hammerstein Ballroom This October

They'll be in the States for the I'll Be Your Mirror festival in Asbury Park this fall, so the doomy British trio Portishead has decided to play a slew of shows around the country in October—and New York City gets them first, with a pair of shows at the Hammerstein Ballroom on October 4 and 5 ... More >>

The Great LCD Soundsystem Ticket Fiasco

James Murphy and StubHub face off as the band's MSG farewell sells out instantly

Jeff Mangum Tickets For Town Hall Are On Sale At 11 A.M.

​Update: This is already sold out. Let the weeping begin. Just a friendly reminder that tickets for Neutral Milk Hotel guru Jeff Mangum's feverishly awaited solo show at Town Hall (happening October 29, which is an impossibly far-away date to conceive of right now, but those Pavement shows hap ... More >>

The Rageful Tweets of A Nation of LCD Soundsystem Fans Defeated By Ticketmaster

It's official: LCD Soundsystem will say farewell on April 2, 2011, at Madison Square Garden, to an audience comprised entirely of ticket scalpers and StubHub captcha bots. It was a grim scene this morning on Ticketmaster and Twitter, where LCD fans went first to one and then the other, crying out ... More >>

Better Get Your LCD Soundsystem Tickets Today

Don't get pissed at us if you miss this. Pic by Puja Patel.​As your favorite music-news outlet has probably already informed you, the indomitable LCD Soundsystem have announced their final show: April 2nd at Madison Square Garden, a venue unthinkable nearly a decade ago when the band started a ... More >>

Here's What The LCD Soundsystem Ticket Line Looked Like

Pics by Francesca Stabile, who hopefully wore layers. ​So presale tickets for LCD Soundsystem's gala Madison Square Garden show went on sale at 10, in both the "frantically refresh Ticketmaster.com" and "wait in the blistering cold outside Mercury Lounge" varieties; folks who opted for the for ... More >>

LCD Soundsystem Madison Square Garden Farewell Presale Set For Wednesday Morning

​We find ourselves ever more upset by the news that LCD Soundsystem will be calling it quits on April 2nd at Madison Square Garden. Consider this recently recirculating interview Murphy did with Fresh Air's Terry Gross last year: "I've been on a quest for almost the length of this band to just ... More >>

Prince Just Added Another Madison Square Garden Show

Could be you up there this time.​Not that you need someone to tell you to go see a Prince concert, but you really oughta go see a Prince concert if you get a chance -- and now you have another one. His bizarrely staggered but absolutely stupendous run of shows here, split between Madison Squar ... More >>

Tickets For The Last Prince Show At Madison Square Garden Are On Sale At Noon

​A brief public service announcement: Prince's NYC-and-surrounding-environs run may begin next week at New Jersey's Izod Center (on December 15th, not 14th, as you recall), but it's stretching on for awhile, and if you've been shut out for tickets thus far, today's perhaps your last chance to ... More >>

BONNIE ‘PRINCE’ BILLY IS PRICELESS

Wait . . . we meant ‘too pricey’

Meet The One Man In New York Who Successfully Bought Tickets To Kanye West's Show at the Bowery Ballroom

Many tried but few succeeded when, at 11:58 a.m. or 11:59 a.m., we all started frantically hitting our refresh buttons, typing Captchas in as fast as we could, and generally doing everything in our power to get into tonight's "private" Kanye West show at the Bowery Ballroom. None of it worked, so ... More >>

SLAM DUNK

College hoops for a good cause

Tonight's Belle & Sebastian Show on the Williamsburg Waterfront Is Still Happening (For Now, Anyway)

​Right now, there is not just a flood watch but also a high surf advisory and a high wind warning in effect for Brooklyn this evening, where Belle & Sebastian are scheduled to perform on the Williamsburg Waterfront. Their set starts at 8:15 p.m 8 p.m.; it is virtually a guarantee that it will ... More >>

Dismemberment Plan Tickets For Webster Hall Are On Sale Right Now (UPDATE: Second Show Added)

​Right about now you oughta be getting emails from Ticketmaster reminding you that you bought Pavement tickets, like, a solid year ago, and you better find them, because those shows are finally happening next week. So who'll fill the "eagerly anticipated yet dauntingly far away indie-rock reun ... More >>

Live: Tom Petty Looks Like an Anorexic Monkey, Sounds Like a Champ at Madison Square Garden

Another time at MSG Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers Buddy Guy Madison Square Garden July 28, 2010 Tom Petty looks like an anorexic monkey, and his voice is so nasal it makes Bob Dylan sound like a death-metal grunter. But he's a hell of a songwriter, and the Heartbreakers are one of the two or thre ... More >>

Irving Plaza Is Officially Irving Plaza Again

The old marquee, before the new marquee, which is now the old marquee again. Pic via Joe Madonna's photostream​Goodbye, "Fillmore New York at Irving Plaza"--your many syllables and unwieldy national branding associations will not be missed. The Times reports today that Live Nation is backing a ... More >>

How Live Nation Can Avoid the Ticket Price Raise They're Considering.

​Isn't it just the worst when you have to pay more for something you already pay too much for? Ticketing and promotions monopoly Ticketmaster/Live Nation is, via the LA Times - who headlined their piece "The marriage of Ticketmaster and Live Nation: Say hello to the $400 ticket?" - considering ... More >>

LCD Soundsystem Announce Last Minute "Secret Show" at Music Hall of Williamsburg; Tickets Immediately Sell Out

​So yeah: OMG, and also, sorry! The Ticketmaster link for Thursday's show is here, if you want to hit refresh a bunch of times and see what you can turn up. They're back at Terminal 5 in May, just off after This Is Happening comes out on the 18th. So maybe not this week, but it'll happen, have ... More >>

So Is Terminal 5 Really the Third Best Club in the World?

Julian Casablancas at Terminal 5 a few weeks back. Photo by Araceli Cruz.​The concert-promotion and ticket-sales aggregator website Pollstar recently compiled a list of the "Top 100 Worldwide Club Venues" on which Terminal 5 ranked a shocking #3. The result surprised even Pollstar--"When a New ... More >>

Prepare to Be Extorted: Ticketmaster-Live Nation Merger Gets Department of Justice Approval

​Hard to see how this could have an upside for concertgoers. Today, the U.S. Department of Justice reportedly signed off on a long in the works merger between Ticketmaster and Live Nation, clearing aside the biggest obstacle to a proposed Live Nation Ticketmaster entertainment conglomerate. Th ... More >>

News Roundup: New Yorker Festival, Brooklyn Country Festival, Phil Spector's Prison Papers

​--Tickets for the October 16-18 New Yorker Festival, which will feature plenty of musicians--Neko Case, Bon Iver, Loudon Wainwright III, Ian Hunter, Jace Clayton, and Melvin Gibbs, to name a few----and a really ace concert at the Bell House with Liturgy and Dirty Projectors, are on sale now. ... More >>

TAKE ME OUT . . .

. . . To one last ball game at Citi Field

PLAY BALL!

The Yankees host the Tampa Bay Rays

SERVE IT UP

See Federer and Williams right here

News Roundup: Aerosmith Cancels Tour, Sujfan Nearly On Sale, Sonic Youth on Gossip Girl

​--The rapidly decaying corpse of Aerosmith called the whole thing off today, canceling the rest of the band's AeroForceOne summer tour. Frontman Steven Tyler danced his way right off the stage at a motorcycle rally in Sturgis, SD last week, shattering his shoulder and amusing the entire inter ... More >>

News Roundup: Leonard Cohen, The Decemberists, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Guitar Hero

​--Tickets for Leonard Cohen's October 23rd gig at Madison Square Garden are now available via Fan Club Pre-Sale: the password is CENTRALPARK. Regular seats for the Garden show go on sale August 10th at 10 a.m. through Ticketmaster for all the general public schmucks. The 74-year-old legend re ... More >>

News Roundup: The Pixies, Bruce Springsteen, Ticketmaster/Live Nation, Michael Jackson

​--The Pixies have announced the dates for their Doolittle 20th anniversary tour, where the alt-rock legends will play the album in its entirety. The band will play nine cities, including three New York gigs: November 23, 24, and 25 at the 3,000-capacity Hammerstein Ballroom. We recently talke ... More >>

News Roundup: The Feelies, Nine Inch Nails, Positive Jam Festival, Michael Jackson

 --Postpunk pioneers the Feelies, whom this paper once called "The best underground band in New York," will reissue their 1980 debut, Crazy Rhythms and the 1986 Peter Buck-produced follow-up The Good Earth, on September 8. The reissued albums will be released on CD and vinyl in their original ... More >>

WSJ Catches Neil Diamond Reselling Tickets to His Own Show

Having little entree to the world of high-end showmanship, we did not know it was a Thing for music stars to put some tickets for their own shows up for resale at higher-than-face value and pocket the profits. Nonetheless that's what the Wall Street Journal reports, but the only star they really nai ... More >>

David Byrne Remains in the Light

A Talking Head indulges old neuroses and gorgeous new hymns at Radio City

SERVE IT UP

Serena and Venus play the Garden

Tom cries 'Uncle'! Daschle's exit an embarrassing end to Obama's embarrassing decision to pick him

Obama tells a surprisingly blunt Katie Couric, "I messed up." Tom Daschle's quick exit from the health-care Cabinet job is just proof that he was a poor choice for the job. If the guy can't get it together enough to wipe his nose clean after rubbing it against the rear of society schmuckettes li ... More >>

THIN ICE

The Rangers take on their ultimate rivals

SLAM DUNK

Where to see the Knicks if you don’t want to go to Jersey

Pearl Jam Ted Leo Tonight at Madison Square Garden

LIVING WITH THE LIVING

Pearl Jam, meet Ted Leo

Modest Mouse Tix On Sale Tomorrow

Lollapalost

Where to catch your favorite bands now that the big show is canceled

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Sports

Big Doings at the Big Ballyard

The World Series Has Yankee Stadium Rocking — Even on an Off Day

Don't Touch That Redial

Ever Wondered How the Scalpers Always Get Tickets?

No Sleep Till Retrial