Broccoli City Festival had already partnered with the concert promoter, which puts on other festivals around the U.S.
The Fillmore Silver Spring finally has an opening date. The Live Nation-owned venue on Colesville Road, which was announced way back in 2007 and hit a long series of speed bumps during development, will officially open on September 15 with a Mary J. Blige concert.
Bad news, Eagles fans. Live Nation just announced that the June 15 concert at Nationals Stadium featuring the Eagles, with guests Dixie Chicks and Keith Urban, has been canceled due to scheduling conflicts. If you purchased through Tickets.com, your ticket and parking will be automatically refunded the week of May 3; otherwise, contact your point of sale for a refund. Those of you dying for a little Hotel California live can still get tickets for…
On Friday, DCist reported that the 25,000-seat Nissan Pavilion had been renamed Jiffy Lube Live. Other media outlets then followed our lead, but phone calls and emails to Live Nation for comment went universally un-returned. Then this morning, the company finally emailed out a press release officially announcing the name change. The release makes it seem like the new name may have have been posted to Live Nation’s web site before they had planned…
Looks like Live Nation’s partnership with Nissan for the naming rights to its flagship concert venue in Bristow, Va. has come to an end, as the Nissan Pavilion name is no more. In its place, Jiffy Lube Live has risen. We’ve got a call in to Live Nation to find out more about when and how this went down, but in the meantime, we’re curious: does the thought of fast, no-appointment oil changes make you…
A New Year’s Eve concert to be hosted in D.C. by 30 Rock and SNL veteran comedian Tracy Morgan has been canceled, Live Nation spokesperson Robert Muller confirmed today. Tickets went on sale in October for the event, billed as the “New Year’s Eve Countdown with Tracy Morgan,” which was to have been held at the Warner Theatre. Live Nation promised more details on the cancellation later today, so we’ll be sure to update with…
As an addendum to our earlier post looking at how today’s Live Nation “no service fee” promotion actually played out, check out the screencap below, provided by DCist reader Damon. As you can see, tickets to the June 13 George Strait concert also include a $4.75 per ticket “venue fee” in addition to a parking fee. We were not charged the “venue fee” for tickets to the July 28 Depeche Mode concert (though our parking…
CNN.com is already busting Live Nation’s chops for still charging some kinds of fees during today’s “No Service Fee Wednesday” promotion we told you about earlier this week, so we thought we’d try out going through the ticket buying process to see for ourselves. Looking through the list of Nissan Pavilion shows available through LiveNation.com, we went with the Depeche Mode concert set for July 28. Today’s “no service fee” promotion only includes lawn seats,…
Every concertgoer, no matter their musical preferences, can agree on one thing: service charges are way the eff out of control. Say, for example, you wanted to buy a pair of tickets to see Tori Amos at DAR Constitution Hall on Aug. 1. You have no real choice but to go to Ticketmaster.com and cough up $45 for each ticket, plus an $11.15 “convenience” charge per ticket, plus another $1.50 each for something called…
U2 perform at Fordham University in the Bronx on Friday morning. Photo courtesy Gothamist. We know: You hate U2! Hate them. Bono, especially. For all the celebrity charity campaigners in the world, he’s one who has actually gotten results, persuading even ultra-right-wingers like Rick Santorum and Jesse Helms to get on board with debt forgiveness and HIV-treatment-and-prevention efforts in the world’s most impoverished countries. Held his band together, sans lineup changes, since 1977. Married…
