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Ten bands who have covered CSNY’s Ohio face off in this week’s Cover Wars.

This special Halloween edition of Cover Wars looks at Spooky by Classics IV.

The latest installment of Cover Wars looks at covers of Willie Nelson’s I Gotta Get Drunk.

DaveO has some fun with our fifth anniversary for this week’s Mix Tape.

To celebrate the fifth anniversary of Hidden Track, we have a listen to five covers of Five Years by David Bowie.

Beware, non-setlist geeks may not want to enter this Wilco piece. We got numbers.

I’ll admit it, until about two weeks ago, I thought this was a Elvis Costello original. Often times a cover can be so well known that people often mistake if for the original, but in the case of Nick Lowe’s (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding, there is an extra wrinkle in the mix – Elvis Costello actually recorded his cover under the name of Nick Lowe & His Sound. Talk about confusing. Anyways, it’s a frequently covered song and we’ve narrowed it down to six must-hear covers this week. Have a listen and place your vote for the best at the bottom of the piece.

The Contestants:

Artist: A Perfect Circle
Album: Emotive
The Skinny: If you’re familiar with the band A Perfect Cirlce then this cover is going to sound exactly how you think it would – which is really quite a unique reading of the song.

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READ ON for more covers of (What’s So Funny ‘Bout) Peace, Love, and Understanding by Nick Lowe.

As an enthusiast of all things live music and social media, a number of people pointed me in the direction of stories on Fast Company and Mashable regarding Ticketmaster’s new integration with Facebook. The gist of it is that ticket purchasers can opt-in to a new feature allowing your Facebook friends to see the exact seat location of your purchases for sporting events and concerts. This is available for the 300+ venues utilizing the pick-your-own-seat interactive seat map.

The immediate uproar in the comments section of the major blogs was that this is a stalker’s dream and typical concerns of privacy. These kneejerk reflexes are completely unfounded as the customer opts-in to this feature. Plus, you shouldn’t be Facebook friends with your stalkers anyway.

But here’s how I think it got it wrong and conversely how Ticketmaster could take a major bite out of how scalpers get all of the best tickets, something the company claims it tries to battle to the best of its abilities, despite ticket buyers having their doubts.

• Previously: Ticketmaster Announces Full Disclosure Pricing, Ticketmaster / Live Nation Merger Approved, HT Exclusive Interview – Ticketmaster President David Hubbard and Ticketmaster Story – A Festicles Miracle

What if instead of having the social integration take place after the purchase occured, it happened before tickets went on sale? READ ON…