Neil Young is gearing up for his 8 week tour of North America with Everest, Wilco, and Death Cab for Cutie. The tour starts on October 14 at the Xcel Energy Center in St. Paul MN. Currently, Live Nation (the company producing the tour) indicates that Neil Young’s tour will conclude in New York City with a show-stopping performance at the Famous Madison Square Garden on December 15. Neil Young Madison Square Garden tickets are already hot items at Endless Tickets. Neil’s successful 3-month tour of Europe prompted the 19-show tour in the United States and Canada. Eight of the shows will take place in Canadian provinces. Unfortunately, New York fans who wanted to see Death Cab for Cutie at Madison Square Garden, are in for a disappointment. Death Cab for Cutie only signed on for Neil Young shows between October 14^th and November 5^th. The country group Wilco will help Neil finish off the rest of his shows.

When the players take the field on September 21, 2008 it will be for the last time in the current Yankee Stadium. This year is the last season for the stadium, which has been the host of some of baseball’s greatest talents: Yogi Berra, Joe DiMaggio, and of course Babe Ruth just to name a few. The last game will be on Sunday with the New York Yankees vs. The Baltimore Orioles closing out the life of arguably one of, if not the most, historical ballparks in the United States.

The new Yankee Stadium is being built not far from the current Stadium at a cost of $1 billion. More corporate suites, retail space, restaurants (Hard Rock Café) and most likely increased ticket prices will go hand in hand with the new Stadium. Whether one is devastated by the destruction or excited about the construction, one fact remains: Being hell-bent on attending the last game ever at the current Yankees Stadium. Tickets for the last game at Yankee Stadium are selling for big bucks at Endless Tickets. In fact, tickets above the Yankees dugout are selling for over $10,000 each. If you have money, we have the tickets!

Below is an article entitled: “Ticket scalping: A U.S. open market on the Chinese black market” by John Canzano, Oregonian columnist

Wednesday August 13, 2008, 12:11 AM

“BEIJING - The man tells me to hop on the subway, ride past the stop for the Forbidden City - get off at the Dongdan Station - then look for eight towering, shiny windowed buildings that make up the Oriental Plaza.

"Find building E2," he says.

I'm to ride the elevator to the 19th floor, and make certain I'm not followed, and when I arrive at the receptionist's desk, I'm to ask for "RC and Associates."

Who's RC?

Who knows?

Hey, you want Olympic tickets don't you?

So welcome to the black market, real-life capitalism in a country that outlaws scalping or the resale of tickets for above face value. Also, welcome to the operating offices of a ticket seller that is facing trouble at home, and, if discovered, trouble here.

Beijing authorities arrested more than 400 people in the last week in a ticket sales crackdown, but there's money to be made, so tickets are changing hands all over this city. And you should know that when I walk into the back-room offices, what I see shocks me. It is this:

Americans.

Lots of them.

Three of them are on the telephones, buying and selling tickets. Another is on the Internet, scanning ticket-auction sites. Another is passing out Subway sandwiches and cans of soda to those working.

There are American employees handing off envelopes to Chinese couriers, and others dealing with a steady flow of customers picking up tickets. And in one office, there are mountains of $100 bills on a table, and a man is feeding them into a counting machine that rips through them, "PFFFFFFFFFFFFTTT," making Chairman Mao's face on the bills blur past.

You need tickets?

On the carpeted floor of another office, there are a half dozen stacks of the unmistakable orange tickets sitting out in the open, on the floor. Some of the stacks as tall as a foot high and the Olympic security holograms twinkle under the fluorescent office lights.

Across the hall, a clean-cut 30-something man named Jeremiah Kraft, who says he is the manager of the operation, is sitting behind a desk, hammering numbers into a calculator. He's meeting with two local office clerks, a husband and a wife, who rode the subway here trying to sell a pair of tickets to the sold-out Rhythmic Gymnastics final.

They bought the tickets less than $20 each months ago, and want $1,000 now.

"I can't go higher than [$750] each," Kraft said. "OK. I gotta go."

The couple left without selling.

The operation in tower E2 is run by an Austin, Texas-based company called TicketCity. It is an Internet reseller, operating mostly in the United States. And it's among the few agencies working undercover in Beijing.

By the way, if you get online at any of a half-dozen other outfits offering Olympic tickets for sale, there's a good chance you'll still end up here on the 19th floor, picking up your tickets. Those businesses collect a handling fee, then sell the order to TicketCity.

"People are so in the dark about how it works," an employee said.

The law has turned the spotlight on TicketCity back home, though.

The Texas Attorney General's office is suing TicketCity under the state's Deceptive Trade Practices Act, alleging the company sold opening ceremony tickets it didn't possess, and then, failed to deliver them. The company, by the way, says it is "vigorously defending itself" against the claim.

Also, the U.S. Olympic Committee and the International Olympic Committee both said TicketCity is not an authorized Olympic-ticket reseller and anyone who sells a ticket above face value is operating outside the law in Beijing.

Which probably explains why Kraft said, "We'd like to fly under the radar right now." And why the employees here act suspicious and antsy - as if they're expecting a police raid - any time someone new walks into the room. Also, it's why they're going by "RC and Associates," which is one of a few for-profit corporate names TicketCity registered with the Texas Secretary of State's office in the last 15 years.

The operation feels lucrative, and ambitious, but also flimsy- as if everything could be gone in 15 minutes, leaving nothing behind but sandwich wrappers, the desks and the bowl of mints sitting at the reception desk.

The Games organizers sort of caused some of this, yes?

They've unknowingly made TicketCity a short-term fortune by controlling the initial distribution of tickets, making it difficult for foreigners to come to China and steering a disproportionate number of tickets into the hands of locals. So people feel far safer selling to an American company in a tall, beautiful building than to a stranger on the street, who could be an undercover police officer.

The company operating in building E2 has obtained such a large market share of the tickets available that it's now steering prices, even as it's facing legal problems back home.

On ticketcity.com Wednesday afternoon in Beijing, beach volleyball tickets were priced at $280 each, men's basketball tickets at $210 each. And while they're unable to sell opening and closing ceremony tickets, a pair of tickets for today's morning swim session at the Water Cube was priced at $19,998.

You can find Olympic tickets for sale from private parties allover the Internet. But you can also get burned. Or arrested. And thieves and cons know that people breaking the law to obtain tickets aren't likely to contact the authorities if they get duped.

Ironic, isn't it?

What we have here is a Communist government that has helped foster a bit of pure American capitalism, and an old-fashioned black market. The 10 employees on the 19th floor could be arrested today. But if all goes well, the employees of TicketCity tell you they'll rake in "a big score," in Beijing, and then board flights to the United States that will take them out of here a few days before the closing ceremony.

Until then, they're answering phones, counting money and hoping that noise down the hall isn't the authorities.

I've never seen sandwiches eaten with such angst.”

 

As expected, the August 23 showing of WWE Raw in Madison Square Garden is sold-out. Madison Square Garden Tickets consistently sell-out regardless of the performer. WWE Raw Tickets at the Garden went on sale through TicketMaster June 21^st at 10 am. We at Endless Tickets advise our customers to above all ARRIVE EARLY! Madison Square Garden Ticketing officials recommend that patrons arrive at least an hour early. Additionally, increased security measures require that all packages, including briefcases and pocketbooks, will be inspected prior to entry to the venue.

Boxing fans must wait even longer for the much anticipated match between Joe Calzaghe and Roy Jones Jr. A recent wrist injury for Joe Calzaghe has prompted the scheduled match on September 20 at Madison Square Garden to be postponed. John Wirt (the CEO of Roy Jones Jr’s. promotional company Square Ring) said Tuesday that Calzaghe's attorney, Gareth Williams, informed him of the injury. "He told me it's an injured right wrist," Wirt said. "I was told that he hurt it on Sunday punching a heavy bag. We're trying to reschedule [the fight] for November, and that works for them, so the injury must be something they feel will heal sufficiently by then." Wirt also mentioned he is talking to officials from Madison Square Garden about an alternate date in November. Fans who purchased Madison Square Garden Tickets for the fight, should be assured of entry to the postponed match in November.

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The Jonas Brothers are coming to Madison Square Garden on August 9, 10, and 11. The popularity of the Jonas Brothers definitely is starting to rival that of Hannah Montana. The Madison Square Garden performances are part of their “Burning Up Tour” which promotes their new album. The Jonas Brothers are wildly popular these days and share many of the same crazed-ticket-wanting Hannah Montana fans. The fury and controversy involved in selling these tickets often makes for a stressful situation for parents of Jonas-Brothers-smitten teens and of course for ticket brokers too. A Madison Square Garden ticket for any event is likely to be valuable and even possibly hard to obtain. Even with 3 showings at the Garden, Jonas Brothers tickets will certainly be in HIGH demand as August approaches.

Professional wrestling fans in New York are jumping for joy again! Given the success of the WWE's Royal Rumble this past January,
the WWE has announced that it will return to Madison Square Garden this summer beginning on August 23, 2008.
Scheduled events include: World Heavyweight Championship, Steel Cage Match, Intercontinental Championship, and the World Tag Team Championship.
Madison Square Garden tickets are always a hot item and as such WWE fans should expect to find it difficult to acquire tickets for this summer's matches. WWE events at The Garden are far-and-few-between, especially considering the "rocky" relationship between the McMahons and MSG.
 

World Heavyweight Championship
CM Punk vs. Batista

Steel Cage Match
John Cena vs. JBL

Intercontinental Championship
Kofi Kingston vs. Kane

World Tag Team Championship
Cryme Tyme vs. Ted DiBiase/Cody Rhodes


Chris Jericho vs. Shawn Michaels

WWE Raw is also an insanely popular phenomenon. Endless Tickets has a wide variety of WWE Raw Tickets.

The New York Giants announced this week that they will  institute  the  Personal Seat License  system for  their season ticket holders  at the new  stadium . The  "NEW" NY giants stadium is set  to  open before the 2010 season. It is not surprising that the Giants  elected to utilized the PSL system to fund the construction costs of the stadium .  Many  new stadiums including MLB stadiums  like the St. Louis Cardinal's Busch Stadium  are built with  PSL proceeds  from loyal season ticket holders. St. Louis Cardinals Tickets are  one thing but NFL  tickets are quite different in terms of pricing. The New York Giants plan on charging  from  $1,000 to $20,000 for  their PSLs. Luckily most of the tickets in the upper bowl will  only be $1000! 

Despite the current less-than-favorable economic environment we live in, fans of the hit Broadway musical Jersey Boys are "show-going" in full force. In fact, Jersey Boys Broadway Tickets consistently remain in the top 10 overall best sellers list. Jersey Boys is a musical based on the lives of Frankie Valli and the Four Seasons and was introduced on Broadway November 6, 2005 at the August Wilson Theatre. For the week ending March 30, 2008, Jersey Boys Broadway tickets racked in a whopping $1,160,319. Given the success of Jersey boys on the Broadway market, it is likely that this show will be expanded to include new cities during the 2009 season. A complete list of Jersey Boys venues for 2008:

• Au-Rene Theater - Broward Ctr For The Perf Arts (Fort Lauderdale, FL)
• Benedum Center (Pittsburgh, PA)
• Bob Carr Performing Arts Centre (Orlando, FL)
• LaSalle Bank Theatre (Shubert Theatre - IL) (Chicago, IL)
• Music Hall At Fair Park (Dallas, TX)
• Palazzo Resort Hotel Casino (Las Vegas, NV)
• Prince Edward Theatre (London, GL)
• Procter & Gamble Hall (Aronoff Center) (Cincinnati, OH)
• State Theatre - Cleveland (Cleveland, OH)
• Temple Buell (Denver, CO)
• Toronto Centre For The Arts (Toronto, ON)
• Virginia/August Wilson Theatre-NY (New York, NY)

Well....maybe that depends on the king; nevertheless, Madison Square Garden is planning a major renovation which includes new, more comfortable seats. In a press release date April 3, 2008 Madison Square Garden announced plans to renovate the world’s most famous arena, "transforming its interior into a state-of-the-art building that will significantly enhance the experience of customers, sponsors, athletes and performers. The renovation, which is projected to cost $500 million and will be paid for in its entirety by Madison Square Garden, will be targeted for opening for the 2011-12 seasons."
Some highlights of the renovation include:

•  Dramatically redesigned 7th avenue entrance

• New, more comfortable seats, with better sightlines that put patrons closer to the action

• New, wider and more spacious public concourses with seating areas and spectacular views to the city

• State-of-the-art lighting, sound and LED video systems in HDTV

• New food and beverage options offering additional convenience for customers and a greater selection

• New bar areas that directly open to the arena bowl

• A new upper level with a fan and group sales party deck with bars and buffets
  
• Many additional new restrooms, with more than 50% more dedicated space
  
• Restoration of MSG’s world famous ceiling

Madison Square Garden's Ticket Office is located in the Garden's Main Ticket Lobby, directly beyond the building's Seventh Avenue Mall, at 7th Ave. and 32nd St. Madison Square Garden has a full schedule of great events lined up for the rest of 2008. New Yorkers will be scooping up Madonna Tickets, Jimmy Buffett Tickets, and Celine Dion Tickets in anticipation of the "construction down times" during the 2009-11 seasons.

On May 8, 2008, the recent Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inductee, announced her new Sticky & Sweet tour. Madonna is promoting her candy-as-sexual-metaphor album also know as "Hard Candy" during the Sticky and Sweet tour. Although the tour starts in the UK during the mid part of 2008, Madonna will jump the puddle to the US in Early October. The first concert will be on 10/3 at the Izod Center in East Rutherford NJ. Quite possibly the most important and highly anticipated tour dates in the US will be the shows at Madison Square Garden on October 6th and 7th. Madonna definitely knows how to entertain her fans  and is no stranger to Madison Square Garden as a venue. Her Confessions Tour performance at the garden in 2006 was packed with non-stop singing and breathtaking dancing. See a video of this live performance at Madison Square Garden below.  Tickets  to see Madonna  will undoubtedly be some of the most popular and hard-to-get items of 2008. Unfortunately, the deadline to sign up for early access to tickets via Madonna's fan club website was May 1, 2008; however, tickets will be made available to the general public in the USA later in May. A full list of Sticky & Sweet tour dates:

· 10/3 - East Rutherford, NJ @ Izod Center
· 10/6, 10/7 - New York, NY@ Madison Square Garden
· 10/15 - Boston, MA @ TD BankNorth Garden
· 10/18 - Toronto, ON @ Air Canada Center
· 10/22 - Montreal, QC @ Bell Centre
· 10/26 - Chicago, IL @ United Center
· 10/30 - Vancouver, BC @ BC Place Stadium
· 11/01 - Oakland, CA @ Oracle Arena
· 11/04 - San Diego, CA @ Petco Park
· 11/06 - Las Angeles, CA @ Dodger Stadium
· 11/08 - Las Vegas, NV @ MGM Grand
· 11/11 - Denver, CO @ Pepsi Center
· 11/16 - Houston, TX @ Minute Maid Park
· 11/19 - Philadelphia, PA @ Wachovia Center
· 11/22 - Atlantic City, NJ @ Boardwalk Hall
· 11/24 - Atlanta, GA @ Philips Arena
· 11/26 - Miami, FL @ Dolphins Stadium