January 16, 2009

Friday’s Leftovers: Macca + Stern = BFF

SIRIUS XM Radio will broadcast a Howard Stern-Paul McCartney special this weekend on SIRIUS XM’s Howard 101 channel, featuring their joint interview from earlier this week plus highlights of Stern’s

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Pullin’ ‘Tubes: We Love You Miss Hannigan

Anyone that has been a fan of Irish singer/songwriter Damien Rice will undoubtedly be familiar with the name Lisa Hannigan – who provided the gorgeously sexy vocal accompaniment on his

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Editorial: Brain Dead, And Made Of Money?

To the best of my knowledge Phish has never once engaged in a tiered ticketing pricing structure. For every Phish concert, the price of a ticket in the front row is the same as the price for one in the nosebleeds or lawn.

When the Dave Matthews Band plays the Superpages.com Center in Dallas, pavilion tickets will be $70 and lawn tickets $40. When The Dead cruise into the Greensboro Coliseum, tickets will be $89 and $49.50. When Metallica plays the TD Banknorth Garden, tickets will be $79.50 and $59.50.

Phish

Phish now has thirteen dates on the books, and the ticket price for all of them is $49.50. I’d love to know how this all went down. Was having a single ticket price a requirement set forth by the band before joining Red Light? (Side note: redlight.com is a porn site, redlightmanagement.com is the correct link, might as well spare you that inconvenience).

When tickets go on sale through Live Nation, Ticketmaster and Metrotix the weekend of January 30, I predict that seven out of their ten shows will sell out within the first hour. Perhaps they won’t immediately sell 80,000 tickets to their two shows at Alpine Valley. Maybe they can’t immediately sell 22,000 in Burgettstown, PA on a Thursday night. But most fans believe that Jones Beach (2 shows), Great Woods, Camden, Asheville, St. Louis and Noblesville will sell out the day tickets are available for purchase.

READ ON for more of DaveO’s editorial on Phish ticket prices…

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Friday Mix Tape: The Fun Bus

“Happiness is nothing more than good health and a bad memory” – Albert Schweitzer This week’s mix tape features just some straight forward feel good music. This time of year

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Televised Tune: On The Tube This Weekend

While most eyes are focused on Fleet Foxes’ Saturday Night Live debut, let’s not forget that the Foo Fighters appear on Austin City Limits for the first time this weekend.

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