Traversing the Tumultuous Terrain of Ticketing

All Of It with Alison Stewart | Aug 9, 2022

In the last year, many of us have celebrated getting to go to concerts again... but that also means having to brave the experience of ticketing again. Exorbitantly-priced tickets to Bruce Springsteen's latest tour were recently in the headlines, but that's just the tip of the iceberg, with further issues like bots and resellers making the ticket-buying process all the more stressful. A new New York state law attempting to address issues with the ticket industry, which, among other changes, requires ticket vendors to show prices including fees upfront and resellers to display a ticket's original price, goes into effect at the end of the month. But will that make ticketing any less dreaded for lovers of live music? Ethan Millman, a staff writer covering the music industry for Rolling Stone, joins us to discuss.

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