U.S. concert business slumps despite reunion tours
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High-priced reunion tours by the  Police, Van Halen and Genesis failed to prevent the North  American concert industry from posting its worst year since  2004, according to a music industry trade publication.
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Tickets will soon hit the box office for many of the stops on Motley Crue (bio | tickets | music | rarities)&#39;s 2005 reunion tour, an outing that supports the group&#39;s forthcoming, two-disc best-of set, &quot;Red, White &amp; Crue.
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Arts & entertainment: Promoter claims 20 million fans have tried to register online for tickets to reunion show.
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Barbra Streisand's European tour has created a mild economic boom for the pool of musicians left behind in New York.
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Music sales as we know them take another step toward obsolescence.
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In the last month, two very  different West Coast live music venues have met two very  different fates.
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Rock music's biggest freak show is taking its show on the road. And the bigger question for Motley Crue is whether the band known for its excesses (sex, drugs and fighting) can keep it together for a year on tour.
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PARK CITY, Utah  - Death threats, loud catcalls and walkouts didn't stop rock legends Crosby Stills Nash & Young from completing their fiercely anti-Bush reunion tour in 2006.
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U.S. tourism sales declined in the  third quarter, the first slowdown in four years, on the back of  new security restrictions for air travel announced in August,  the Commerce Department said on Thursday.
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At a time when much of the mainstream music business is desperately trying to connect with consumers and sell albums, the bluegrass music community has seen its fortunes rise.
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A swing to growth in U.S. album sales  and surging consumption of music on DVD helped slow the decline  in first-half global sales of recorded music, the trade body  for the world's largest record companies said on Thursday.
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NASHVILLE (Billboard) - The festival market is arguably the healthiest part of the U.S. concert business, a trend that has held forth in Europe for years.
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This year is shaping up to be a dud for amusement parks and other hangouts.
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Hopes of a Led Zeppelin reunion tour faded on Friday when singer Robert Plant said he would tour with U.S. country singer Alison Krauss in May.
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Moviegoers are not following the  script written for them by the Hollywood studios. In a sign  that big-budget sequels may be losing their allure, North  American ticket sales for the first three big films of the  lucrative summer season have not kept pace with their  respective predecessors.
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NASHVILLE  - Media consolidation doesn't play well here in Music City, USA as a roomful of singers and songwriters, from the famous to the unknown, gathered Monday to criticize government policy easing the rules that say who can own what media outlet where.
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NEW YORK (Billboard) - Like most bands on the road this  summer, Incubus witnessed first-hand the downturn in the  concert market via sluggish ticket sales and the occasional  apathetic audience.