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By Main Street Tickets on 9 July, 2013
Quick post here from a few days ago: Gist of the story is that online music streaming like Pandora and Spotify are not exactly cash cows for the artists who wrote the music on there.
The AV Club writes:
‘Cracker’s lead singer and songwriter, David Lowery, has posted his most recent statements from various media on The Trichordist, reporting a mere $16.89 profit from more than 1 million Pandora plays. He said that amount is less than he makes from selling a T-shirt.
Lowery went on to specify that the $16.89 was his 40 percent cut as a songwriter, and he actually made a little more (but not much) in performer royalties. The artist also encouraged other songwriters to post their royalty statements in order to “show the world just how terrible webcasting rates are for songwriters.”‘
Ouch. Whether the ease of access to loads of music via online streaming has helped bands gain more fans and more people at their shows or whether it’s done the opposite, the bottom line seems to be that it’s not a valid source of income for many of them.
Which is where live shows come in! If you’d like to support the band in person (or any other band, for that matter), we have tickets! Cracker is/are playing The Crescent Ballroom in Phoenix, AZ on July 21.
Posted in Bands, Music | Tagged business, music, online, royalties, streaming
By Main Street Tickets on 8 July, 2013
As we all know, Andy Murray won Wimbledon yesterday, setting off joyful celebrations all over England because, for the first time since Fred Perry in 1936, a British man had won Wimbledon.
This is, of course, a wee bit disingenuous, insofar as Murray is Scottish and Wimbledon is English. They are, however, both British.
So what’s the big difference?
Well, you remember Braveheart: the English have a long, sordid history of disdain for and savagery toward the Scots. Relations have cooled and heated over the years and that kind of heating and cooling has probably caused cracks that can never be fully repaired. But the bottom line is: the English have generally looked upon the Scots as savages and Scotland has sometimes been a free country and sometimes not and if you were to call a Scotsman “English” to his face, you’d need to at least duck out of the way of a flying pint glass and possibly run for your life.
So, Andy Murray is not “English” and to call him so would be an insult. And for the English, having a true, proper Englishman win Wimbledon is what they really, really want.
However, the term “Great Britain” is a broader term which encompasses the island as well as the concept of the countries of England, Scotland, and Wales. Thus, this is the expanded term which the English are using to celebrate a “British” man having just won Wimbledon.
It’s not an exact analogy, but it’s very slightly like Americans cheering for a Canadian to win the U.S. Open and boasting of a “North American” champion.
Or picture a Northern Irishman winning Wimbledon and the English boasting about someone from the United Kingdom having won. Check with the IRA and tell me how they’d react to that.
Whatever the case, if you’re familiar with the relations between the countries of England and Scotland, you can see the silliness behind the English co-opting Murray as one of their own . . . as long as he’s winning.
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By Main Street Tickets on 22 June, 2013
Wimbledon begins on Monday. (Technically, “The Championships, Wimbledon”, but, ahem.)
And there’s been some minor hoopla (on the men’s side, that is; we’re ignoring the catfight going on in the women’s game).
You’ll see some minor headlines floating around that Rafael Nadal, having just won the French Open, has been grievously insulted with the #5 seed. “He just won the French Open for a record 8th time and he’s not a top seed at Wimbledon?” goes the line of conventional wisdom.
The response, generally, is that 1) tennis rankings are weird, and 2) the French Open is played on clay, Nadal’s best surface, and Wimbledon is on grass.
And while this is true, the difference between these surfaces is not nearly as great as it once was.
Frankly, the current grass courts of Wimbledon are probably closer to the clay courts of Roland Garros than to the slick surfaces of the halcyon days of Laver and McEnroe and Becker. You see, Wimbledon changed its grass mixture 12 years ago in a noble attempt at durability and an ignoble attempt to slow things down. That’s right, they took the greatest asset of the surface, its signature attribute, and deliberately eliminated it. It was a concession to the modern game, which features little of the creativity and shot-making of previous decades, and more of the two-handed backhands and frying pan grips and baseline snoozefests–er, rallies. There are likely many hard courts out there that play faster than Wimbledon’s Centre Court these days.
That’s a shame for those of us who long for the glorious days of serve-and-volley tennis, which is fast becoming a lost art.
But, of course, if you’ve got plane tickets to Heathrow and a hankering for some 50-shot rallies and gobs of topspin, well, we’ve got tickets available for men’s and women’s matches from the second round all the way through the finals.
Posted in Sports, Tennis, Wimbledon | Tagged rafael nadal, sports, tennis, tradition, wimbledon
By Main Street Tickets on 13 June, 2013
The U.S. Open got off to a soggy start today with weather stoppages already. But the weirdest thing out there so far has been the red wicker baskets instead of flags on top of the pins.
What’s the deal with them? They’re sort of a signature thing at Merion, where they even appear in the club’s logo.
The exact origins of them are shrouded in mystery, however.
The club’s website says:
“The wicker baskets’ origin is a mystery to this day. There was a great deal written in 1912, and for three years thereafter, locally and nationally about this new course in Philadelphia. However, there was no mention of the soon-to-be famous wicker baskets. It could be assumed they were not there. By the summer of 1915, William Flynn, Merion’s Superintendent, received patent approval for his wicker basket design. Merion had baskets that fall and from then-to-today.”
But they’re more than just an unusual quirk of the course–they’ll have a direct affect on play, according to The Daily Mail:
“The baskets, featured in the club logo, can be clearly seen no matter which way the wind is blowing but they give no indication of the strength and direction it is blowing by the green.”
Oh, and we do still have tickets available for the weekend, of course!
Posted in Sports | Tagged available tickets, basket, flag, golf, Merion, pin, sports, U.S. Open
By Main Street Tickets on 18 April, 2013
You want storylines? Tickets for 2013 NFL season games come with storylines galore, no extra charge.
(Ed. note: That’s not entirely true, considering great storylines make for more in-demand tickets, but you get the idea.)
The least surprising news about the schedule is that the defending Super Bowl Champion Baltimore Ravens will open in Denver against the Broncos, where they won a double-overtime playoff classic. Peyton Manning now has Wes Welker catching passes, which ought to put Baltimore’s newly remade defense to the test. Of course, Baltimore’s newly remade defense has a shiny new centerpiece in pass-rusher Elvis Dumervil, who left Denver for Baltimore.
That’s not the only tasty Week One matchup, though. Green Bay travels to the Bay Area in a matchup versus the 49ers on the season-opening Monday Night Football doubleheader, and the NFC East takes center stage on Sunday Night Football when the New York Giants head to the Dallas Cowboys.
And that’s just the first week. Whew!
Other highlights on the schedule include:
Posted in Football, NFL, Sports | Tagged Andrew Luck, Atlanta Falcons, available tickets, Baltimore Ravens, Dallas Cowboys, Denver Broncos, Ed Reed, Elvis Dumervil, football, Green Bay Packers, Miami Dolphins, New England Patriots, New York Giants, NFL, Peyton Manning, Pittsburgh Steelers, rematch, RGIII, San Francisco 49ers, sports, Wes Welker
By Main Street Tickets on 12 April, 2013
In case you missed it, the benches cleared in last night’s L.A. Dodgers – San Diego Padres game when Carlos Quentin got plunked and charged the mound.
He’s probably looking at a decent suspension, but that doesn’t mean their upcoming matchup, starting Monday in L.A., will be without some nice juicy tension. (Yahoo! Sports called it a “blood feud”.)
Needless to say, we’ve got tickets!
Posted in Sports | Tagged baseball, Dodgers, fight, injury, Padres, rematch
By Main Street Tickets on 9 April, 2013
We’re less than 48 hours from the start of the 2013 Masters golf tournament in Augusta, Georgia.
And if you happened to come looking for tickets, you might have done a spit-take when you saw the prices for Masters badges.
No, they weren’t a mistake.
The Masters really is that expensive this year.
From a recent piece in the Atlanta Journal-Constitution:
“Compounding the effect of Woods’ resurgence on Masters ticket prices is the fact that Augusta National is golf’s most storied course, and The Masters golf’s most storied event. This year, a single-day pass for any of the four days of tournament play will run no less than $1,215, and that would be for a pass to Friday’s round. Comparatively, the average single-day passes for this year’s U.S. Open range from $182 to $295, depending on the day. The PGA Championship checks in between $203 and $234. All other days of Masters play run over $1,000.”
We’re not convinced that Woods moves the needle for ticket buyers as much as the media likes to claim, but there’s no denying the draw of the tournament.
Read the rest of the AJC piece here.
Posted in Sports | Tagged expensive, Georgia, golf, Masters, sports
By Main Street Tickets on 31 March, 2013
How’s your bracket looking?
If it’s anything like ours, it’s in shambles.
Of course, that doesn’t mean we’re not in the midst of an incredibly entertaining NCAA Men’s Basketball National Championship Tournament.
March Madness, indeed.
With two Elite Eight games left to determine the final two spots in the Final Four, we’ve already got our requisite Cinderella with the Wichita State Shockers, as well as our under-the-radar historically solid team with Syracuse and coach Jim Boeheim.
No matter how the Final Four shapes up, it’s bound to be a fantastic spectacle with plenty of starpower.
Which is why we’re happy to remind you that we still have tickets available to the Final Four games as well as the championship, plus hospitality packages, too. (Oh, and don’t forget parking passes.)
Posted in Sports | Tagged atlanta, available tickets, basketball, final four, march madness, sports, syracuse, wichita state
By Main Street Tickets on 22 March, 2013
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And, of course, we offer a fantastic selection of events through our online ticket network, which sources tickets from all over the world. (That’s right, if you’re a soccer fan, we’ve got everything from English Premier League tickets to Spain’s La Liga to Italy’s Serie A, and many, many more. We also offer tickets to popular concerts in Europe, not to mention other continents, at some of the world’s greatest venues.)
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