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Daily iPhone App: SeatGeek is your mobile ticketing agent for concerts and sporting events

by Kelly Hodgkins (Feb 25th, 2013)

Sports fans and concert goers looking for tickets to that upcoming event can search and purchase tickets using their iPhone. The app that makes this find and buy so easy is SeatGeek, an iOS ticketing app that pulls ticket listings from 120 resellers. Included in this list are big names like ...

Watch Fink & The Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra in HD on your iPad

by Matt Tinsley (May 11th, 2012)

Just last night I discovered a real musical treat for the iPad. On April 29th 2012, the fantastic British singer/songwriter, Fink, performed a set with the incredible Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra at the prestigious Concertgebouw in Amsterdam. Conducted by Ivan Meylemans and arranged by Jules ...

Apple announces dates for iTunes Festival London 2011

by Michael Grothaus (Jan 10th, 2011)

Apple has announced dates for this year's iTunes Festival London. Like last year, the festival will run every night in July. Sixty artists will be performing over thirty-one days at Camden's Roundhouse in London. Three of the confirmed bands are Linkin Park, Duran Duran and Rumer. As in years ...

Live Nation releases free app

by Mike Schramm (Dec 3rd, 2010)

Ticket seller Live Nation has released its very own iOS app on the App Store -- you can download it for free there right now. Not only can you browse upcoming events and buy tickets to shows directly from within the app (as well as get news about presales and upcoming deals on tickets), but once you ...

TUAW Giveaway: Win a subscription to Slacker Radio Plus for Austin City Limits Music Festival

by Mike Schramm (Oct 1st, 2010)

The Austin City Limits Music Festival is going on next week in Austin, TX (as is GDC Online, which I'll be covering for TUAW). The festival has teamed up with Slacker Internet Radio and Seed Labs to spread the word and share some of the music from the artists performing there. They've produced a ...

Found Footage: Flight of the Bumblebee in concert on an iPad

by David Winograd (Apr 22nd, 2010)

Chinese pianist Lang Lang headlined a concert at San Francisco's Davies Symphony Hall on April 19th. For the first of three encores, he played The Flight of the Bumblebee on an iPad. To accomplish this, he used the Magic Piano iPad app. This is just one example of how amazing apps can allow ...

Apple launches Music Movies on iTunes

by John Burke (Nov 4th, 2009)

In an attempt to increase movie sales, Apple is pushing out more alternative content on the iTunes Store. Today, they've spruced up their "Music Movies" library and added a landing page to promote upcoming releases. Music Movies are music-themed movies, concerts and documentaries that generally ...

iConcertCal updates with iCal exporting, better listings and more

by David Chartier (May 9th, 2007)

This must have slipped under our radar back in March, but iConcertCal, the both clever and useful iTunes plug-in that scans your artists to find local concert dates, has updated to v1.2. In addition to "greatly improved" concert listings in both the US and UK, iConcertCal can now export calendars ...

iTunes to partner with the Palms

by Erica Sadun (Mar 16th, 2007)

Playlist magazine reports that iTunes and the Palms Casino will team up to sell recordings of live concert events from the Palms' new $80 million concert theater, the Pearl. The concert series will be sold exclusively through iTunes. The series, which is to be called "Live from Las Vegas", will ...

"Bridge School" concerts on iTunes

by Erica Sadun (Dec 4th, 2006)

Founded over 20 years ago, the Bridge School Concerts are to be released as digital downloads for the first time. The concerts, which consist of 80 tracks, will be released in 6 volumes. Highlights include "Thom Yorke performing a solo rendition of Radiohead's Street Spirit (Fade Out) and a cover of ...

Widget Watch: OnTour - know when your favorite iTunes artists are in town

by David Chartier (Oct 8th, 2006)

OnTour is a Dashboard widget that scans your iTunes library and offers concert notifications when the artists you actually listen to are coming to a venue near you. The widget uses OnTour.net to collaborate all this information, and links are provided to buy tickets, as well as to the iTS in case ...