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Instagram partners with Eventbrite for in-app ticket purchasing

Instagram has come a long way from just being a place to share cell phone pictures. They’ve recently partnered with Eventbrite to allow users to purchase tickets to shows and festivals directly from the app.

Ticketmaster & Live Nation investigating replacing tickets with facial recognition

It was already reported earlier this year that Madison Square Garden has begun using facial recognition technology for security reasons. Now, it appears that Ticketmaster and Live Nation may want to use the tech for ticketing too…

Purevolume shutting down

Even if you haven’t visited the site in a while, this is — like last year’s AIM shutdown — another end of an era for a once-beloved online destination.

CMJ owner ordered by Judge to pay former employees over $500k

Adam Klein, the owner of the now defunct CMJ trade journal and CMJ music festival, has been ordered to pay more than half a million dollars to the ex-employees who collectively sued him in 2016 for unpaid wages, by U.S. District Court Judge Katherine Forrest.

SXSW panels & film fest highlights: Bernie Sanders, Steve Albini & Kim Deal, 'The Last OG' & more

Plus: Ethan Hawke, Darren Aronofsky, VR, Superchunk, Todd Rundgren, ’This is Us,’ free beer koozies, and more.

SXSW panels & film fest highlights: Bernie Sanders, Steve Albini & Kim Deal, 'The Last OG' & more

Plus: Ethan Hawke, Darren Aronofsky, VR, Superchunk, Todd Rundgren, ’This is Us,’ free beer koozies, and more.

NME to stop publishing print edition

After 66 years, this Friday’s edition will be the music weekly’s last.

Fyre Festival organizer, who spent $150K on a yacht for Blink-182, pleads guilty to wire fraud

Billy McFarland, the organizer behind the disaster that was last year’s supposedly luxe, beachside Fyre Festival, has plead guilty to two counts of wire fraud charges in federal court in Manhattan on Tuesday (3/6). Maybe if he hadn’t spent $150K on a yacht for Blink-182 (and nearly $20K on towels) things might have gone differently.

Grizzly Bear's Ed Droste says more about touring ("I seem like a whiny punk")

After taking to his Instagram over the weekend to vent about the “fucked” music industry, Grizzly Bear’s Ed Droste clarified some of his remarks. “Explaining logistics to people asking is not complaining. I’m just outspoken.”
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