Archive for the 'Live Shows' Category


Springsteen Tickets

They’re going for bupkes. People keep e-mailing me about this. Like this gent: “From: Russell Altman Bob I’d like you to post this. Most of Bruce’s shows are dead on arrival. He is big on the eastern seaboard Denver and Southern California. No one gives a f**k about him. I doubt you will put this […]

Larkin Poe At The Fonda

They were fantastic! Unfortunately (or fortunately!), the entire one and a half hour show was eclipsed by the star-studded encore. Close your eyes and it’s 1973. Only instead of this blues-based band being fronted by guys, it’s two women! Rebecca Lovell absolutely slays on the guitar, and her sister Megan plays standup slide. And there’s […]

Re-Jack Antonoff/Mailbag

You can’t get a ticket, it must be somebody’s fault. You didn’t get into Harvard, even though your grades were poor. You can’t buy a Mercedes-Benz, even though you don’t have the cash. Why is it only with tickets that the public is irrational? Well, unfortunately, it’s not only tickets. If people are so misinformed […]

Jack Antonoff On Touring

“Jack Antonoff talks concert ticketing issues: ‘it’s not ’cause of artists’”: https://bit.ly/3Yfgpmf _________________________ From: Harvey Goldsmith Subject: Jack Antonoff’s comment at The Grammys I read Jack Antonoff’s comment about ticketing issues, made at The Grammys over the weekend “it’s not ‘cause of Artists” he says. How wrong he is. The Artists, through their representatives, totally […]