By Peter Jamison
We reported this week on the ungainly turf war that has erupted among bureaucrats and entrepreneurs over the future of Outside Lands,
the popular three-day music festival whose inaugural run was overseen
in August by Berkeley-based Another Planet Entertainment. Despite the
event's success, the city has now asked Another Planet to compete
against other interested promoters to host Outside Lands next year,
submitting qualifications for the consideration of Recreation and Park
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The thing about irony is that its timing is always impeccable. Last night I got the new issue of Rolling Stone, which had a front of the book article on "Inside Michael Jackson's Troubled London Comeback" about the performances scheduled to happen next month. Before the singer's unexpected death yesterday, though, there was already concern over whether the King of Pop would make his dates. According to writer Fred Goodman, concert promoter AEG Live (which locally books the Warfield and Regency B
Pissed Off: Bruce Springsteen​
The proposed merger between concert venue conglomerate Live Nation and ticket hub mecca Ticketmaster (announced last February) has already resulted in catcalls from The Boss, Bruce Springsteen, who wrote an open letter to his fans after Ticket Master upsold tickets for his "Workin' On a Dream" tour , basically accusing the nation's largest concert vendor of scalping. Now lawmakers are joining in the refrain.
As reported today by Rolling Stone, Reuters, and Bil
