Governors Ball Music Festival continued on Saturday, June 11th, outside of Flushing Meadows in Queens. Saturday featured a triumphant headlining set from Edison, New Jersey native Halsey who is still running strong off her fourth LP If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power released in 2021.
Halsey had a setback earlier this week when her show on June 8th at Merriweather Post Pavillion had to be abruptly cancelled due to severe flooding at the venue. Unfazed by the heartbreak, Halsey delivered a powerful performance for the Flushing crowd. Governors Ball will always be a special occasion for Halsey; she attended the festival in 2014 (the day she signed her record deal), played an early evening set in 2018, and headlined on Saturday.
Halsey, Governors Ball, 6/11/22. Photo by Buscar Photo
During Halsey’s set, she admitted she “couldn’t resist” playing a cover of Kate Bush’s timeless classic “Running Up That Hill (A Deal With God)” and also treated fans to the live debut of her just-released new single, “So Good.” Other performers included Flume, Denzel Curry, DJ Diesel (Shaq), Tove Lo, and Dehd. Photos from day two of Governors Ball by David Reichmann and Joseph Buscarello are below.
Denzel Curry, Governors Ball, 6/11/22. Photo by Buscar Photo
Day two was not without it’s hiccups. With a packed main stage waiting for Roddy Rich, the festival announced halfway through his set-time that Roddy Rich would not be performing. The disappointed crowd flooded over to the other stages and packed in for Joji and Denzel Curry.
Flume, Governors Ball, 6/11/22. Photo by Buscar Photo
The third and final day of the festival is today and features a headline performance from J. Cole. Other bands NYS Music are excited to see include Kaytranada, Japanese Breakfast, 100 Gecs, Soccer Mommy, and J.I.D.. Check back tomorrow for photos from the Governors Ball finale.
Fans of musical icon and New York’s own, the great, late Lou Reed, will soon be able to hear some new and previously unreleased material as part of a new archival release series. In partnership with Reed’s widow, Laurie Anderson, acclaimed label Light in the Attic will release the first album of the series, Words & Music, May 1965, later this summer on Aug. 26. It features some of the some earlier takes on Velvet Underground classics like “Heroin,” “I’m Waiting for the Man,” and “Pale Blue Eyes” that Reed helped craft along with fellow VU co-founder John Cale.
This newly unearthed material is the result of a five-inch reel of recordings that Reed mailed to himself in the form of a “poor man’s copyright” back in 1965. It went untouched for nearly 50 years, only discovered after the artist’s death in 2013. The raw, grainy material gives an early inside look at the genius of Reed and, per music journalist Greil Marcus in the liner notes, “They make a darkness, and Reed and Cale try to feel their way through it. In ‘Heroin,’ there’s just a hint of the hurricane it will become and the enormous authority it will carry two years later. … ‘Pale Blue Eyes’ says go farther, there’s no end to this, and you know that they will go farther — they’re almost there.”
Words & Music, May 1965 will be available in several formats, including LP, cassette, 8-track, digital and CD, and can be preordered here. The deluxe two-LP edition, is being limited to 7,500 copies and also includes an additional 7″ record that features six other early songs and a cover of Bob Dylan’s “Don’t Think Twice, It’s Alright.” The full track listings for both albums can be seen below.
In addition to this, the five-inch reel itself will be physically on display this week, along with other Reed-related artifacts, at Lou Reed: Caught Between the Twisted Stars. The exhibition opens on June 9 at the New York Public Library for the Performing Arts.
“This collection is to inspire people,” Anderson said in a recent NY Times interview. “It’s not necessarily to say, ‘Here’s the real Lou Reed.’ That’s never what it was meant to be. Here’s a lot of his music and how he did it. Be inspired by it. But it’s not and can’t be a real picture of the man.”
Lou Reed, ‘Words & Music, May 1965’ Track Listing 2xLP 1. “I’m Waiting for the Man” (May 1965 Demo) 2. “Men of Good Fortune” (May 1965 Demo) * 3. “Heroin” (May 1965 Demo) 4. “Too Late” (May 1965 Demo) * 5. “Buttercup Song” (May 1965 Demo) 6. “Walk Alone” (May 1965 Demo) 7. “Buzz Buzz Buzz (May 1965 Demo) 8. “Pale Blue Eyes” (May 1965 Demo) 9. “Stockpile” (May 1965 Demo) * 10. “Wrap Your Troubles in Dreams” (May 1965 Demo) 11. “I’m Waiting for the Man” (May 1965 Alternate Version) 7-inch 1. “Gee Whiz” – (1958 Rehearsal) * 2. “Baby, Let Me Follow You Down” (1963/64 Home Recording) 3. “Michael, Row The Boat Ashore” (1963/64 Home Recording) 4. “Don’t Think Twice, It’s All Right” (Partial) (1963/64 Home Recording) 5. “W & X, Y, Z Blues” (1963/64 Home Recording) * 6. “Lou’s 12-Bar Instrumental” (1963/64 Home Recording) *
On Thursday, June 9th, 2022, Albany’s first Alive at 5 show of the year opened with Alternative/Indie rock band Young Culture and closed out with Pop-punk band State Champs. The show was moved to the rain location at Corning Perserve Boat Launch after rain was in the forecast. The sun was shining bright, however, for a high energy performance with crowd surfers just as high.
Both bands are originally from the Capital Region whose music might bring out feelings that a typical high schooler would have from their crush. Both bands share an alternative rock style that a teenager going through a break up could bop their head to. After many years of success, they decided to come back home to open the Alive at 5 series.
Young Culture started in Albany in 2016, and quickly blew up after the release of their EP “(This is) Heaven.” Young Culture performed at Empire Live back in November of 2021 for Grayscale’s Umbra Tour. Young Culture is gearing up for a summer tour titled, Into the Raging Sea with Broadside. State Champs also performed at Empire Live as the head liners for Frozen Fest. This was the release show for State Champs’ new album, Kings of a New Age.
Alive at 5 could not chose two better bands to open the series. Young Culture’s lead vocalist, Alex Magan connected with the young crowd with “Kinda Over You,” a song he said was about his ex-girlfriend in high school. That song, along with “Laylo,” helped the young crowd to mellow out for a short bit and connect with the band on a more personal level. Both songs where about a love that did not last, a theme that resonated well with the audience.
They left on a high note with “Party Girl” and “Holiday in Vegas.” Alex stood on equipment boxes in the pit to grab the hands of those crowd surfing. There was a long of head banging from other members of the band along with the crowd. They thanked Albany for inviting them back home.
Representatives from In Our Own Voices and the Capital Pride Center came out with Kathy Sheehan, the Mayor of Albany and Sam Mills, Albany’s 2022 Tulip Queen. They all gave a brief speeches about upcoming pride events in the Capital Region.
State Champs brought energy back up when they opened with “Here to Stay.” The band tried to remind everyone that Alive at 5 was supposed to be a family fun event, but then performed “Everybody But You,” one of their hit songs with the F-word emphasized in the chorus. Members of the band stood on the equipment boxes to greet crowd surfers during the set. The crowd surfing was constant by mostly young people. It was evident that the crowd may have been getting tired of the surfing as many surfers were being thrown to the barricade towards the end. The most pit opened twice, first for a circle mosh ad the second time for a traditional mosh.
It was a great performance from State Champs, that lasted over an hour. They answered cheers for an encore with two songs. They have a tour lined up for Sad Summer Fest starting in July. The festival comes to New York on July 22nd at Pier 17.
Young Culture Setlist: Bloodthin, Better Off as Friends, Hum, Godspeed, Kinda Over it, HB16, Fantasy, Laylo, Shiver, 21 Days, Drift, Party Girl, Holiday in Vegas
State Champs Setlist: Here to Stay, Eventually, Frozen, Outta My Head, Hard to Please, Mine is Gold, Act Like That, Simple Existence, Remedy, Easy Enough, Criminal, Just Sound, Losing Myself, Slow Burn, History, Everybody But You, Dead and Gone, Elevated, Secrets
The relaxed, picturesque community of Henderson lies on the Eastern shore of Lake Ontario, founded in 1806 and channeling the town’s history and culture more than two centuries later through the Henderson Harbor Performing Arts Association (HHPAA).
The area was long occupied by the Onondaga of the Iroquois Confederacy, and later named after William Henderson, the original European-American land owner. The property upon which the HHPAA resides dates back to 1813, when it was owned by Mark Hopkins, later a treasurer of the Central Pacific Railroad. The building which the HHPAA resides in is named for him.
Henderson Harbor Performing Arts Association provides a relaxing environment for music, theater, art, local performers as well as national touring acts in a small town venue.
Henderson Harbor Performing Arts Association is located at the western end of the Harbor on County Route 123, aka Harbor Road, and features 18 acres of open grounds and woodlands. The Town of Henderson donated the property to be developed for this purpose in 1986, and the HHPAA have diligently pursued this dream.
This summer, HHPAA feature performances and events that include Shakespeare plays, wine tasting events, art shows, classic car shows, corn hole tournaments, and bands in conjunction with the local Summer Recreation Program.
The goal of the HHPAA is to build an open-air stage as well as a year-round event center. The HHPAA is also the recipient of two grants from the Statewide Community Regrants Program, which support the 2022 Summer Concert Series and the 2022 Summer Theatre Series.
The mission of the HHPAA is to provide opportunities to learn about, and become actively engaged with, the performing and visual arts, with both summer and year-round residents of Henderson, NY and Jefferson County regardless of their socioeconomic, age or educational status.
Since its’ inception, the organization has striven to provide the community and surrounding areas of the north country with a series of summer concerts, an annual Oktoberfest, and in 2002 the establishment of the Lila Bull Arts Academy. The Syracuse Symphony, the 10th Mtn. Division Band from Ft. Drum, and the George Colligan, Jr. jazz group have presented programs with HHPAA.
HHPAA 2022 Calendar of Events
July 9, Sat. – Corn Hole Tournament (details TBA) July 23. Sat. – 7PM Concert – Antwerp Drum and Bugle, The Original Yanks July 25, Mon, 1 Pm – REV Children’s’ Theater presents “The Fisherman and His Wife” July 30 , Sat. 12-4 “Christmas in July” & CAR SHOW, Music by FFOG , Food and beverage available August 6 , Sat. – 7 PM “RAJAH” See our very own Tom Contino with his talented partners. August 7 , Sun – 7PM – “The Butler did it Players” Presents “While Shakespeare Slept” (comedy) August 20,Sat. 7PM – “Bad Husbands Club WITH Triple Shot Horns” September 4 , Sun – 1 PM -10th Mountain Division Band
Brooklyn-based artist mxmtoon performed two back-to-back shows at Webster Hall on June 7 and 8. A self-proclaimed “emo girl with a ukelele”, the 21-year-old expertly conducted a show that swung between positivity and embracing being sad.
A crowd full of teenagers loudly sang along to the pre-show playlist, which was filled with Pheobe Bridgers and Mitski tracks. As the lights died down, the crowd erupted in cheers. The artist (who also goes by Maia), sauntered onto the stage with a giant grin.
“You guys are LOUD…I could hear you singing along backstage” she exclaimed with a giggle.
As the audience laughed, the opening chords of “falling for u” rung out and the show began. Though Maia is a young artist, she commands the stage with authority. She fully lost herself in dance during several moments of the set, most notably during her third song “sad disco”.
The artist tactfully interspersed short stories as a way to prime the audience for shifts in energy. mxmtoon took the time to connect with her audience whilst explaining the meanings behind her songs, which ranged from experiencing depression to wanting to write a song featuring her mother and father.
A moment that particularly stood out was when the artist spotted a pride flag in the audience. Calling attention to the flag, Maia told the audience how she came to realize that she was bi. As she wrapped up her coming-out story, she fervently encouraged the crowd to embrace their authentic selves. The crowd instantly began cheering and jumping with happiness as the artist wished them a happy pride month, which was one of the many touching moments throughout her set.
mxmtoon released her new album, rising, on May 20. The album has several standout singles, such as “Mona Lisa“. rising has received praise from major outlets such as Alternative Press, Billboard, and Uproxx.
The 2022 edition of the Governors Ball Music Festival got underway on Day One, June 10th, outside of Citi Field in Flushing, Queens. The festival has revamped itself in the new location with greater accessibility via mass transit, a dive bar area featuring intimate acoustic sets from artists on the bill, and more of a focus on local food vendors.
Kid Cudi, Governors Ball, 6/10/22. Photo by Buscar Photo
Friday was headlined by Grammy Award winning recording artist Kid Cudi who released Man On The Moon III: Chosen back in 2020 and is set to release his eighth LP later this year. Kid Cudi previewed the new record with “Do What I Want” as well as playing the all-time hit “Memories.”
NYS Music photographers David Reichmann and Joseph Buscarello are on site all weekend covering Governors Ball. Other artists on Friday included Channel Tres, Black Pumas, JPEGMAFIA, and Jack Harlow. Lil’ Wayne was booked as a last minute replacement for Migos who dropped off the lineup earlier in the week. However, only a couple of hours before his set, the festival announced that due to “flight delays” Weezy would be replaced by Harlem native A$AP Ferg.
Black Pumas, Governors Ball, 6/10/22. Photo by Buscar Photo
Saturday is going to be a packed day with sets from Denzel Curry, DJ Diesel (Shaq), Dehd, Tove Lo, and Flume. Halsey headlines the Governors Ball Stage, making her return to the festival after last playing in 2018. Tune back in tomorrow for photos from those sets and more.
The estate of esteemed rapper, Prodigy, has released his first posthumous single since signing a management deal to bring his solo catalog to streaming platforms. “You Will See” is the first single from Prodigy’s forthcoming posthumous project, The Hegelian Dialectic: The Book of Heroine.
The R&B laced track sees the “H.N.I.C.” at his story-telling best, as he details the inner-city lifestyle that littered his raps throughout his career. The “Keep It Thoro” MC did just that, sharing tales of his beloved Queensbridge along with the many vices that come with the street lifestyle.
It’s hard to put into words the impact he had on the world — his sound completely changed the game and influenced so many that came after him. His legacy will live on forever through his music and we’re grateful his estate has entrusted ADA to bring his iconic catalog back where it belongs — with his fans.
– ADA president Cat Kreidich
Prodigy passed away in 2017 due to complications from his sickle cell anemia, he was 42-years-old. Listen to “You Will See” below.
Cell phones have changed the dynamic of concerts and festivals in the past 20 years. Whereas in the early part of the 21st century, holding up your cell phone so your friend at home can (sort of) hear a song was fairly common, now in 2022 you can stream the concert direct to them with clear sound and visual quality.
It doesn’t have to be like this. When you’re at a show, naturally you want to take a photo or post to social media, but that can distract from your enjoyment of a show, as well as the enjoyment of those around you.
Enter Yondr. Since 2014, the company has partnered with comedians, musicians and even schools to provide pouches that seal phones inside so they cannot be used during performances or instructional time.
If you haven’t heard of Over Yondr Festival via social media, there’s a reason for that – the company does not have any social media accounts and does little advertising. “People are bombarded with so many notifications and advertisements, it’s not something we need,” said Yondr founder and CEO Graham Dugoni. “People don’t need to be hit up for new things. We practice less is more. Social media isn’t going away but its presence in daily life is going to change.”
The lack of social media hasn’t prevented Yondr from partnering with big names like Dave Chappelle, Alicia Keys, John Mulaney and more to keep events completely phone-free using Yondr’s patented sealable pouch.
The use of these pouches at shows is so that patrons are not distracted by their phones and unable to use them, all while holding onto them during the performance in a sealed pouch. Returning to the intimacy of a distraction-free environment is one thing that drove Dugoni to build the brand in the past 8 years.
At a show when someone photo or text, their attention leaves the space for a moment, making it harder to re-engage. You miss what a great show can be. Spaces need to be carved out for things, like music festivals and live entertainment, that are negatively affected by the presence of phones and digital media.
Yondr founder and CEO Graham Dugoni
Considering the impact phones have on young people, and the next generation of festival attendees, live music and performance patrons will need to keep the phone at bay so they can enjoy the full scope of the event, not what is limited to glances at screens.
Dugoni notes the factors that go into the artist’s decision to insist on a no-phone policy. “When there is privacy, perhaps an artist wants to try out new material and not have the music show up the next day. You need a degree of privacy to make that happen. If you pull a phone out often it can have a negative impact.”
By entering the venue, locking your phone in a pouch and carrying it with you, possession is maintained if access is not. There is of course a smokers-section style area to check your phone just in case, while creating a simple gorund rule for all to get along with.
“After 5-10 min people will forget about their phones. You get out of the rhythm of responding to texts and pings,” noted Dugoni.
Dugoni and his team first came up with the plan for a phone-free festival when the company was founded, he notes how “there is big community of people paying attention to their phones and social media who want to get together without that. Society is looking for spaces where they can unplug.”
aerial view of the festival grounds
Scheduled to take place from June 24-26 on private farmland at 5143 Route 81 in the town of Greenville, the Over Yondr Festival will bring more than a dozen eclectic musical acts and hundreds of music fans to Greenville.
map of the Over Yondr Festival grounds
Greenville was chosen for the location of the festival after the Yondr team took a trip to the area several years ago. They stopped in Rensselaerville and also looked for sites in California but they felt built up. Given how Yondr sees the world now, it seemed like a natural fit. “The locals have been great and it just seemed right. You still have the feel of counterculture and with this generation we are ready for one, pushing back on technology and aiming for simplicity in life. And I think it’s already beginning. Coming out of college, grads don’t want to stare at a screen all day, and a lot of political and social division can arise from that.”
We are trying to put the technology in its right place. The next generation has to learn to treat the physical world as real and their interactions online as different. If you don’t disaggregate those two, a lot of negative things tend to happen. Phone free spaces are helpful and unique places to see 20-30,000 interacting and talking in concession line. It takes only a little to remove this social impediment.
Yondr founder and CEO Graham Dugoni
As for that eclectic lineup? Dugani and his team assembled the artists, looking for a diversity of sounds among the more than 15 performers, a lineup that felt right for the atmosphere, per Dugani.
Tickets are on sale now for Over Yondr Festival. and get 15% off by entering code NYSMUSIC.
Over Yondr Festival Daily Lineup
Friday, June 24
Topaz Jones Kaleta & The Super Yamba Band Black Mountain Symphony Anna Fox Rochinski Nas Leber SVB
Saturday, June 25
!!! (chk chk chk) Sheer Mag Bones of JR Jones Kississippi Jadeisdxpe Artz
Acclaimed jazz sax titan Kamasi Washington and his eight-piece band delivered a ferocious performance to herald the return of BRIC’s Celebrate Brooklyn!, New York City’s longest running, free music festival at the Lena Horne Bandshell in Prospect Park.
Like many good things, this world-class event was sidelined by COVID-19, with no performances in 2020 and a greatly scaled back schedule in 2021.
Now in its 44th year, the 2022 BRIC season will boast a lineup of heavy-hitting musical artists from Brooklyn and around the world. The roster includes: rapper Vic Mensa; Brooklynite, contemporary poet, writer, lyricist and activist aja monet; Nigerian Afropop phenom Yemi Alade; British reggae vocalist, Maxi Priest; genre-defying rock band, Chicano Batman; Grammy-winning contemporary blues artist Fantastic Negrito; Grammy-winning latin pop singer Fonseca; San Francisco-based Kronos Quartet and filmmaker Sam Green, performing in tandem with “A Thousand Thoughts” documentary; indie-pop band, The Beths; American soul rock band Seratones and many more. The season will also include ticketed benefit concerts featuring Indie-Rock singer-songwriter Phoebe Bridgers; American-born Nigerian singer, songwriter, and record producer Davido; Texas-based psych rock band Khruangbin and multi-Grammy-winning “Queen of Neo Soul” artist Erykah Badu.
The June 8 season opener drew a packed house to Brooklyn that reveled in the sounds of Kamasi Washington and show opener Ravyn Lenae, the alt.R&B newbie riding high of the release of her massive 20-track Atlantic Records’ debut, Hypnos. The classical-trained Chicagoite has been around since 2015, as a part of Zero Fatigue, a collective comprised of Smino, Jean Deaux and producer Monte Booker.
Lenae and her tight quartet of backing musicians blazed through a set of both up-tempo neo-soul and ballads including her album’s standout tracks, including “Where I’m From,” “Skintight,” “Light Me Up,” “M.I.A,” the super slinky “Sticky” and the propulsive near rocker “Inside Out.” Lenae is gifted with a great stage presence and a soaring falsetto, which she uses to great effect on many tracks. The audience was full of Lenae fans, who pressed to the stage with cellphones drawn to capture the performance of this rising star. My one complaint is that she did not introduce her tight backing musicians, an array which included a powerful female drummer who may or may not have been Nikki Glaspie of Beyonce and the great jam bands, Nth Power and Dumpstaphunk.
Before Lenae and Washington’s sets, the crowd was fired up by the well curated spins from DJ Reborn. A vision in magenta, she swayed, and had the crowd doing likewise, to selections including Samankwe’s “Happysong” and Leikeli 47’s “Money.”
The energy hit a new level in Brooklyn when Kamasi Washington and his double-drummer ensemble hit the stage. Unlike many of his album tracks, which heavily feature masses of strings and vocal choruses, Washington’s performance at Celebrate Brooklyn! had a fierce howling edge driven by his tight interplay of his all-virtuoso ensemble.
The band kicked off its performance with an extended version of “The Garden Path,” Washington’s latest single. The stage was set with an intro solo by keyboardist Brandon Coleman, who fuses straight-ahead jazz, hard core funk and P-Funk master Bernie Worrell-esque spaceisms in a wholly unique style. Trumpeter Dontae Winslow followed, with the first of many searing solos that matched the mighty Washington in melodic architecture and excitement. Likewise for flautist and soprano saxman Rickey Washington, Kamasi’s father. The elder Washington not only helped mold his son’s talent but kicked up every tune he soloed on during the set.
Washington is both a superlative composer/arranger and a true titan of the art of tenor sax soloing. His extrapolation on the opening tune and all others in the performance build thoughtfully, from breathy balladeering to Tranesque sheets sound to a free jazz Pharoah Sanders scream and skronk. Washington and his band heightened the pace with the next tune, “Street Fighter Mas,” a majestic-themed, funkified selection from his acclaimed 2018 disc, Heaven and Hell, with 12 million streams, his biggest hit on Spotify.
The melodic “Sun Kissed Child” was one of the tunes that featured the singular soloing of bassist Miles Mosley. On this and several other tunes, Mosley clawed, sawed and thumped on his bass, giving it an otherworldly sort of post-Hendrix howl with judicious use of a harmonizer, fuzz and his bow. Another standout band member was vocalist Patrice Quinn, who admirably recreated the vocal parts of Washington’s tunes that are, on record, performed by a chorus. Kamasi’s performance also included crowd-pleasing tunes like “Blaxsploitation,” “Truth” from his awesome 2017 EP “Harmony of Difference” and the final track, “Fists of Fury.”
With his floor length robe, big beard and crown of locks, Washington projects a biblical/prophetic presence. This is wholly appropriate as his performances are an almost religious experience for those who love jazz, classical music, funk and everything in between. Keyboardist Coleman’s dabs of electronica and Washington and Mosley’s use of effects like delay give this jazz a futuristic feel that is missing from so much of the genre today – one which seems set on reproducing a music past from the likes of Coltrane that can never be matched.
If you want to see a show that embraces all the many eras of jazz’s great past but with an eye to the future, catch Kamasi Washington.
New York has passed new ticket regulations that state that ticket sellers must include fee costs upfront and resellers must disclose how much they spent on the original ticket. It will also be illegal to resell tickets if they were originally free.
New York’s assembly passed the ticket regulation bill on Friday, and now it awaits New York Governor Kathy Hochul to sign it into law. The ticket market, notably sites like Ticketmaster, are notorious for their hidden fees, and as John Oliver said “one of the most hated companies on Earth.”
NY’s ticket regulations will allow for better transparency so customers can make informed decisions on if they want to buy the ticket, and if they are being taken advantage of. New York State Senator James Skoufis, who sponsored the bill, spoke in a statement about it.
Information is power in this space as it is in any other marketplace. When we pass regulations like this, people will be able to know ‘am I getting a good deal or a bad deal.’ If they’re getting a bad deal and if they get marked up three, four, 10 times and they still want to buy the ticket, God bless them. But they deserve to know the answer to that fundamental question: Am I getting ripped off here or not?
New York State Senator James Skoufis
However, NY’s ticket regulations won’t stop predatory scalping and high fees prevalent in the industry. Skoufis says he wanted other improvements towards joint ticketing issues, like adjusting the high fees and preventing holdback (tickets a promoter holds on to that aren’t made publicly available for purchase).
AXS CEO Bryan Perez praised the new policy and said he is happy NY is implementing it in a statement.
We are very much a part of the official ticketing ecosystem, and we are always trying to do things that benefit the fan on behalf of performers, athletes and teams. The challenge in our industry is the fragmentation that if everyone who plays doesn’t play by the same rules, it creates a bad situation for all of us. The fact that New York can apply it to all ticketing sites that operate in New York we think is a good thing, and it’s exactly what needs to happen to create an even and fair playing field for the consumer.
AXS CEO Bryan Perez
New York’s new ticket regulations are a step in the right direction to help prevent common problems in the ticket industry. Be sure to use CashorTrade for face value tickets.
