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”WE HATE SCALPING AS MUCH AS YOU DO and will continue to try to find ways to combat it,” Rage Against the Machine say.

The lineup includes Four Tet (live), Father John Misty, Sharon Van Etten, IDLES, Broken Social Scene, Stereolab, Big Thief, Richard Thompson, and much more.

“These unscrupulous speculators and their underhanded tactics have manipulated the marketplace and often leave New Yorkers and visitors alike with little choice but to buy tickets on the secondary market at an exorbitant mark-up,” Governor Cuomo said.

Yesterday (4/24), tickets for the American Football reunion show at NYC's Webster Hall (10/11) went on a BrooklynVegan presale, and as you may know they sold out insta...

Kate Bush's looooong-awaited return to the live stage happens with 22 London shows later this year. They went on sale today, and as you might expect for a legendary artist who hasn't played live in 35 years, they sold out instantly (less than 15 minutes, to be exact)...

Arcade Fire posted the above picture with the message: "Brooklyn Friday and Saturday! Dress up and come party with us!"

Who exactly are they talking to though...

"Shameless scalpers are making big bucks by marking up tickets to a star-studded benefit concert for victims of Hurricane Sandy.

Tickets for the "12-12-12 Concert for Sandy Relief" at Madison Square Garden -- with face values between $150 and $2,500 -- are being resold online for as mu…

Jonathan Coulton and past collaborator/tourmate John Roderick (of The Long Winters) released a Christmas album, One Christmas At A Time, together with ten original Christmas songs by the two musicians ("actually one of them is a Chanukah song, so OK, nine...

As you may have heard, tickets to Louis CK's upcoming tour -- including the October 24th - 28th dates at the New York City Center -- are being sold exclusively through his website, sidestepping big ticketing agencies to keep prices lower and stamp out scalping...

"The new version of his bill targets two areas of the secondary ticket market. First, it makes it a crime to use computer programs that circumvent online security procedures to allow brokers to snap up the best seats before ordinary fans have a chance...