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After spending their year touring the UK, Europe and beyond, Scottish rockers The Fratellis will be coming across the pond for a fall headlining tour. The U.S. dates kick off September 1 in Columbus, OH, and are scheduled to close on October 4 in Hartford, CT. Indie rockers Electric Touch will open for The Fratellis on all U.S. dates, including performances at the Monolith and Austin City Limits festivals.

The Fratellis are currently touring in support of their sophomore album "Here We Stand," released in June 2008. The band debuted in 2006 with "Costello Music," an album that achieved moderate success in the U.S. after the catchy single "Flathead" was featured in an Apple iPod/iTunes commercial. The album only reached No. 48 on the U.S. charts, but is certified Triple Platinum in the UK.

The one-day Ozzfest on three stages at the Pizza Hut Park in Dallas, TX, on August 9 was deemed a success by its promoter AEG Live. With close to 30,000 metal bashers in attendance and a gross of nearly $3.5 million, plans are underway to bring the festival, which started as a roving multi-city tour in 1996, back to Dallas for two days next summer. Last year's tour's unique feature was that it was a free event.

The 13-hour spectacle featured Metallica and Ozzy Osbourne, the latter's only U.S. concert appearance this year. Before the sun went down, the day had an emotional moment when Hell Yeah’s set transitioned into a one-time only all-star tribute to fallen Pantera guitarist and Texas native “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott.

Live Nation has been awarded a long-term contract to operate, manage and exclusively book Miami's 6,000 capacity Bayfront Park Amphitheater by the City of Miami and the Bayfront Park Management Trust. Located within Bayfront Park in the heart of downtown Miami, the venue overlooks the city skyline, as well as Biscayne Bay.

"With its location right on Biscayne Bay, the Bayfront Park Amphitheater is a beautiful and unique place to see concerts," said Neil Jacobsen, president of Live Nation Miami, in a statement. "The amphitheater perfectly complements our Florida venue portfolio which now enables us to nurture bands at all stages of their career as they grow from the 2,700 capacity Fillmore at Jackie Gleason to the 2,800 capacity Pompano Beach Amphitheatre and our 3,400 capacity Mizner Park Amphitheater in Boca Raton, through to Bayfront Park and finally to our 19,000 capacity Cruzan Amphitheatre in West Palm Beach and 20,000 capacity Ford Amphitheatre in Tampa."

Now in the twelfth week of the season, the gap between box office ticket sales this year and last year continues to close with there now being less than a one percent difference. Overall, there was $18,623,072 in ticket sales for the week compared to $18,701,222 for the previous reporting period. This continues the rosy outlook over the same week last season of only $17,865,229, all this with Young Frankenstein at the Hilton Theatre still not reporting its figures.

Once again we see familiar names as the leaders of the pack among the 27 productions on Broadway with Wicked at the Gershwin Theatre, The Lion King at the Minskoff, The Little Mermaid at the Lunt-Fontanne, Jersey Boys at the August Wilson, Mamma Mia! at the Winter Garden, and In the Heights at the Richard Rodgers Theatre all pulling in more than $1 million in sales. August: Osage County at the Music Box and Boeing-Boeing at the Longacre continued to post the best returns of the four plays. In their closing week, the musical "A Chorus Line" saw a ten percent drop in attendance, the largest of any production, while the play "Thurgood" saw the second largest increase in dollars at more than $325,000 for the week. Rent at the Nederlander posted the biggest increase of sales at $76,522 for a week's return of more than $640,000.

Entrepreneurial and small business magazine Inc. has named Ticket Software LLC, parent company of TicketNetwork, to its prestigious "Inc. 5000" list of innovative and fast-growing companies for 2008. Ticket Software was ranked 27th overall based on Gross Dollars of Growth, and third of leading software companies.

The company, founded in 2002, sells Point-of-Sale 8.0 software, one of the leading software products for ticket brokers, operates a marketplace exchange with an inventory of more than 5 million tickets worth more than $1 billion, and operates more than 3,000 Web sites that sell tickets. It has grown at a staggering rate of 4,737.3 percent to generate annual revenues of $83.8 million. In six years, the company has grown from a handful of employees to more than 160, and it occupies a 40-acre campus in upstate Connecticut.

Brooklyn, NY-based indie rock group MGMT, the duo of Ben Goldwasser and Andrew Van Wyngarden, have been logging lots of time on the road lately, and will be touring Australia for the first time ever this December. The two will perform headline shows in Perth, Sydney, Brisbane and Melbourne, December 6-11.

The two have been playing together since their days at Wesleyan University in Connecticut back in 2001. After graduating in 2005, they toured extensively in support of their "Time to Pretend" EP.

The biggest names in the Cyrus household might still be Billy Ray and Miley, but the Disney starlet's half-brother wants to change all that. After touring this summer with Good Charlotte and Boys Like Girls, Trace Cyrus's band Metro Station will launch a 33-date headlining tour of the U.S. this fall.

Metro Station's headlining gigs kick off October 15 in Nashville, TN, and wrap November 29 in Anaheim, CA. The LA-based quartet is touring behind their 2007 self-titled debut, which has experienced a recent boom in sales coinciding with the release of their 2008 single "Shake It." The song was recently RIAA-certified Platinum on July 29.

Tickets for upcoming shows from pop superstar Justin Timberlake and tickets for the upcoming 2008 NFL season are on sale throughout the week ending August 22 as compiled by TicketNews.

The onsales for this week have a variety of hot musical acts. Starting off the list is a chance to see Justin Timberlake live in concert with tickets for his upcoming Las Vegas concert going on sale Wednesday morning. Also on sale this week are tickets to see Timberlake's most recent collaborator Madonna in concert in her home state of Michigan. Tickets for the Material Girl's return to Detroit will be on sale Saturday morning.

The closing ceremony for the 2008 Olympic Games are just around the corner on Sunday, August 24, and some travelers are still trying to nab last-minute tickets for the competitions. But with recent crackdowns on ticket reselling, potential buyers may have trouble tracking down legitimate tickets and safe options for buying them.

Days before the games began, scam sites like beijingticketing.com and beijing-tickets2008.com were charged with making more than $50 million in fraudulent ticket sales. According to published reports, Chinese officials arrested 276 scalping suspects and confiscated more than 600 tickets within the last five days. Convicted scalpers could face upwards of 10 days in a Chinese detention facility -- a penalty that many brokers are avoiding by staying out of Beijing.

LeRoi Moore, founding member and saxophonist for the Dave Matthews Band, died unexpectedly on the afternoon of Tuesday, August 19, from complications stemming from an all-terrain vehicle accident in June. Moore would have been 47 on September 7.

According to a statement on the band's Web site, Moore died at the Hollywood Presbyterian Medical Center in Los Angeles. He had returned to Los Angeles in July to begin an intensive physical rehabilitation program. The band expressed their shock and deep regrets at Moore's sudden passing.

The upcoming North American trek of The Academy Is… (TAI), Bill & Trav's Bogus Journey Tour, is a multi-artist bill featuring We The Kings, Carolina Liar and Hey Monday. It kicks off on October 1 in Charlotte, NC, and after 41 club and ballroom shows wraps on November 23 in Buffalo, NY.

Presale tickets were offered first to TAI fan club members on August 19; additional presale tickets will be available via the band's Web site. All remaining tickets will then go on sale to the general public on August 23.

Milwaukee's Riverside Theater, in keeping with their anti-scalping pledge, canceled more than 100 tickets for the August 19 Eddie Vedder solo concert and are reselling them to "real fans."

According to an email sent out to theater mailing list members (See Below), the venue confiscated the tickets because some people, who they identified as scalpers, were reselling tickets for upwards of $2,000 each.

Illness has sidelined G. Love & Special Sauce on two shows of their summer tour: August 20-21.

The group will not perform at their August 20 show at the House of Blues in Myrtle Beach, SC. Supporting acts John Butler Trio and Tristan Prettyman will still perform. However, the August 21 at Koka Booth Amphitheater in Cary, NC, is completely cancelled. Refunds are available for both shows at the original point of purchase.

Emerging UK rock ensemble Glasvegas, named "The Best New Band in Britain" by NME, will launch its first-ever U.S. tour this fall with a string of headlining club shows. The tour kicks off September 29 and runs through October 4.

Formed in Glasgow, Scotland, in early 2006, Glasvegas has been personally selected by Ian McCulloch to support his band Echo & The Bunnymen when they play New York's Radio City Music Hall on October 1.

The indie rock bands Drive-By Truckers and The Hold Steady are teaming up for a co-headlining tour across the U.S. this fall. The 23-date trek, labeled the Rock and Roll Means Well Tour, kicks off October 30 in Louisville, KY, and wraps November 25 in Los Angeles, CA.

Ticket presales for the Rock and Roll Means Well Tour begin today (August 19); sales will open to the public on August 22. The tour features two-night stands in New York, NY; Minneapolis, MN; Seattle, WA; and San Francisco, CA. Both bands will share lead billing over the course of the tour by alternating which group closes each night of the show.

Welsh metal-core rockers Bullet for My Valentine are returning to the U.S. for a second leg of shows from September 2-28. The tour's first leg ran July 14 through August 16.

The quartet continues on its nearly two-year world tour supporting their sophomore release, “Scream Aim Fire,” which debuted in the U.S. at No. 4, and is up for Best Album in the Kerrang! Awards, scheduled to be handed out August 21 in London. The band is up for three other awards -- Best British Band, Best Single (“Waking The Demon”), and Best Video (“Waking The Demon”). The album debuted in the U.S. at No. 4.

A California woman who ordered two tickets to a Jersey Boys performance from an online broker late last year not only never received her tickets but has yet to receive a refund. But her persistence is a lesson in how fans should handle customer service lapses, as she told TicketNews this week.

Tracy Taylor of Ventura ordered two tickets to the popular show in November, 2007, from Chicago, IL-based ticket broker TicketSpecialists.com, paying a total of $544 for them. The purchase was a Christmas gift for her parents, and the costs broke down as $230 a piece for the tickets, $69 in obtaining fees and $15 in two-day delivery charges. The show was scheduled for August 5, 2008, at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, and the seats were located in the Mezzanine in Row L.

Following a successful three-month tour of Europe, Neil Young is preparing for his eight-week North American tour with Death Cab for Cutie, Wilco and Everest. The Live Nation-produced performances kick off October 14 in St. Paul, MN, and culminate on December 15 at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY.

Eight of the 19 shows scheduled for Young will take place in the Canadian provinces. The tour rounds out with stops in major cities across the U.S., including Los Angeles, CA; Omaha, NE; Detroit, MI; Chicago, IL; and Philadelphia, PA. The backing band from Young's European gigs will reprise its role for the singer/songwriter's North American adventure.

Seldom do you hear good news about a story of a ticket buyer who was scammed out of tickets and money. Most of the time, that buyer usually contacts his state legislator or calls an attorney. For a consumer who went by the name of "J.B.", all he wanted was his tickets.

"We ordered tickets for two home New York Yankees games Aug. 15 and 16 from StubHub (an online ticket broker) and sent out our payment," he said in a letter written to the 'Action Line' at the South Bend Tribune. "And it turns out it was all fraud."

He went on to explain that he was scammed out of tickets by someone posing as StubHub, using their copyrighted information. The Tribune contacted the secondary ticket company, to see what could be done to help.

Due to overwhelming demand, alternative/progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria have extended their Neverender Tour after all 15,000 tickets went clean in three hours for eight shows in New York and Los Angeles, October 22-25 and November 5-8, respectively. They are now bringing their Neverender shows to the Riviera Theater in Chicago from October 28-31 as well as to London with dates to be announced later.

Neverender is an event created by the band, who will perform over four nights all four of their concept records in their entirety for the first time -- “The Second Stage Turbine Blade," "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3," "From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness," and "No World For Tomorrow.” Each night's production will be specifically catered to the record being performed.