Ticketmaster

Last year, it was revealed that Ticketmaster was giving away millions of free tickets to compensate customers, after a $400 million class-action lawsuit that dates back to 1999 was settled. Now another huge batch of free tickets are being given away.

Not only did Eventbrite buy Ticketfly from Pandora, SiriusXM has bought a $480 million stake in Pandora. This gives Sirius XM around 16% ownership of Pandora...

Liberty Media-backed SiriusXM is once again in talks to buy Pandora, according to sources at various media outlets

Live Nation is selling $20 tickets to several shows for one week only, including Kings of Leon/Deerhunter, Future/Young Thug/A$AP Ferg, Dead & Company, Jean-Michel Jarre, Maxwell, Primus/Clutch, Yes, Deftones and more.

NYC shows you can use those vouchers for include Soul Asylum/English Beat, D Generation, Marduk, The Proclaimers, Mac Sabbath, Tiffany, Midge Ure and more

No voucher-accepted shows in NYC, but lots of NJ amphitheater shows for acts like Steely Dan, Hall & Oats, and more.

If you've thought Ticketmaster's wide array of service fees and handling charges have been exorbitant over the years, you are not alone. A $400 million class-action lawsuit that dates back to 1999 was settled last month, and Ticketmaster is compensating its customers in the form of free tickets.

Bowery Presents' venues switched from Ticketweb to its owner Ticketmaster a long time ago, but two of their venues, Bowery Ballroom and Mercury Lounge, will soon switch to Ticketfly, reports Billboard. Ticketfly, which was bought by Pandora last year, is also the ticket seller for SummerStage, Baby's All Right, The Bell House, Port Chester's Capitol Theatre, and other venues in the NYC area... Rea

Like many of you, we spend an inordinate amount of time on Ticketmaster here at BV, getting ticket links and trying to figure out whether or not a show is sold out...

The world's largest online ticket retailer is to stop requiring users to enter hard-to-read words in order to prove they are human. Captcha - which asks users to type in words to prove they are not robots trying to cheat the system - is used on many sites...