The proposals to merge Ticketmaster and LiveNation into a single focus of hatred and disgust have come before the wise lawmakers on Capitol Hill, with attempts to save the entire US economy taking back seat to hearings on the plan: The subcommittee on antitrust, competition policy and consumer right...

  Motley Crue signed a huge deal with Livenation last week that binds them to three more albums and 3 (or 4) more tours for Livenation Entertainment.  The huge deal is rumored to be worth about 100 Million. No word whether the 3 albums will all have to be studio recordings or if there will...

Ticketmaster CEO Irving Azoff can't contain his excitement at the new, merged Live Nation-Ticketmaster hybrid: "This merger will create a pipeline for all rights holders to reach their consumers, whether it is our team, an artist or a record company. It is time that our business delivered forward th...

Aware of its position low on the pecking order of UK festivals, Download organisers are responding to audience demands for this year's festival. Yes, sadly, this is actual news: festival organisers listening to the people who pay their ticket prices and giving them what they want. And even that woul...

LiveNation has signed an only slightly bemusing deal to allow Blockbuster stores in the US to sell gig tickets alongside hiring out videos and DVDs: "Our research definitively shows that the vast majority of music fans who prefer to buy their concert tickets at a retail location find Blockbuster to ...

As James points out in the comments on the Shakira piece, LiveNation have also signed a 360 deal with Nickelback. Which is enough excuse to mention the hilarious - but not in the way they think - sofa store advert currently churning out on ITV right now, which isn't even a parody of the Rock Star vi...

Clear Channel spin-off Live Nation - concert promotion company trying to turn full-service music business - is suffering from a management bitch-fight over its 360 deals. The signing of Madonna as a recording artist as well as a live star didn't entirely make Wall Street sing like they were expectin...

Damn, LiveNation! Would you ban the birds for singing? In a rather belated response to two alcohol-related deaths and 83 arrests at the PNC Bank Arts Center in Holmdel last August, LiveNation is banning tailgating from at least five shows at the venue this summer. These gigs will include ones by Joh...

If all of these rumors are to be believed, then tomorrow, Jay-Z will stop getting the milk for free. Ha! It's time to buy the cow, bitch! It's now being speculated that the couple is planning on getting married tomorrow, five days after applying for a New York state marriage license. A witness descr...

So, all those predictions about Jay-Z joining Apple to launch a record label: Not true. It seems that he's instead going to join LiveNation instead, in what NME.com describe as: a deal similar to those already signed by Madonna and U2. Although since the U2 and Madonna deals are quite different - on...