Concert Promoting, the Voodoo Art
Here’s a story I just wrote for NPR about how Live Nation, the word’s biggest promoter, books artists it manages (via Front Line) into venues it owns, and how the company’s devotion to synergy might actually prevent it from making money, despite the fact that it now also owns Ticketmaster, which means it gets all those fees you pay for the convenience of printing your own tickets, plus parking (per person, even when you carpool).
