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Stop worrying about ticket scalping bots. Make an even better show.

June 7, 2016 Joe Taylor Jr.

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Nathan Hubbard, former CEO of Ticketmaster, dropped a scorch-the-earth essay on the state of concert ticketing on The Ringer. Lin-Manuel Miranda, who’s about to haul away a whole bucket of Tony Awards for Hamilton, penned an op-ed piece for the New York Times about how scalper bots swoop in on Ticketmaster every time a new […]

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Surviving the squeaky-clean NACA convention

August 11, 2015 Joe Taylor Jr.

I caught a little bit of the dust-up on Twitter today about this article in the Atlantic that targets the—shall we say—sanitized nature of the National Association of Campus Activities conventions. Today’s college students can’t seem to take a joke — .@CaitlinPacific http://t.co/AbKcNSvwZQ pic.twitter.com/rkqeCfsaz0 — TheAtlanticEducation (@TheAtlanticEDU) August 11, 2015 On one hand, we’ve got […]

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Find cheap crash pads for your next tour.

March 22, 2011 Joe Taylor Jr. Leave a Comment

I’m usually the only voice in a room full of musicians and music managers telling folks to slow down touring until you’ve saturated all of the zones in your region. (Understand the Zone Booking Strategy I’m talking about by checking out More Gigs Now.) One of the biggest reasons I ask bands to wait for […]

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A Coffeehouse Changes Hands

June 30, 2010 Joe Taylor Jr.

UPDATE 6/23/2016: Sad news. After a few changes of ownership and management, Steel City’s going to shut down for good. Sad club closing news to report: Steel City Coffeehouse in Phoenixville to close .https://t.co/AACSqQRGLM — wxpnfm (@wxpnfm) May 23, 2016 It’s a refrain I’m hearing more and more. We thought that things were bad during […]

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NACA Schools Block-Booking Live Music

June 1, 2010 Joe Taylor Jr. Leave a Comment

Every time I write about booking shows on college campuses, I get two kinds of e-mail. One burst of e-mail comes from artists who are so frustrated about how difficult it is to nail down dates through college activities boards, especially at schools who belong to the National Association for Campus Activities (NACA). The other […]

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