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Slumping concert attendance and ticket sales pushed Live Nation Entertainment, a concert promoter that also owns Ticketmaster, into a fourth-quarter loss from a slight profit a year ago. The quarterly loss also exceeds the company's combined losses from the first nine months of 2010.

In a move as shocking as the New Kids On the Block reunion tour, Ticketmaster announced today that it will start showing the full cost of a ticket, including all venue and convenience fees, up front. The company will also begin offering three-day refunds on LiveNation concerts. The move is a...

The bare light bulbs flicker like battered bug-lamps. The beer is bath-water flat on draft. And heaven forbid you ate Tex-Mex for dinner, because the one yellowing toilet in this godforsaken place doesn't even sport a stall door. But then the band you've been blasting for the past six weeks takes...

TMZ reports that bartering isn't just for budget conscious ballers anymore.During a late night run for food, Snoop Dogg and Stephen Marley traded concert tickets, T-shirts and hats for 6 pounds of ribs, hot wings and several pizzas. It's rumored that as they pulled away a worker heard an impromptu...

Ticketmaster is facing a $50,000 fine and a change in how it does business after an Illinois Attorney General investigation found that the company had not clearly told customers they were paying marked up ticket prices. As part of the agreement, TicketsNow, owned by Ticketmaster, will also close...

Fees are the scourge of many a concertgoer's experience -- these little additions can quickly turn a no brainer ticket purchase into one that requires an investigation of your checking account. Ticket sellers aren't' oblivious to the fact that this nickel and dime attitude ticks off their...

I was so excited when Live Nation, the concert promoter behemoth, recently announced "No Service Fee Wednesdays," dropping the service fees on lawn tickets at hundreds of concerts. Could it be that I could actually get to see Wilco, one of my favorite bands, this summer for a decent price without...

At least one concert this summer will be playing to the reduced budgets of concertgoers as Staind kicks off its summer "Stimulate This!" tour in July with Chevelle, Shinedown and Halestorm. Billed as the "Rock's Ultimate Stimulus Package" the tour brings seats under $40 to most venues and features...

Last week when I covered how much money college students need for personal items and entertainment, I alluded to the countless options for having fun in college while avoiding credit card debt and frivolous spending. Money Smart Life has pulled together a broad list of five ways to have fun in...