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Celebration of Music From the Civil Rights Movement at the White House featured Bob Dylan, Joan Baez, Smokey Robinson, Natalie Cole, Yolanda Adams and Jennifer Hudson

Kreutzmann: I hate that scalping thing. It's one of my pet peeves. It's legal robbery. There should be a law against it. I'm not going to mention names, but the bigwigs in the business, the promoters—whatever you want to call them—one of them now owns a ticket company, and they were going to try to take a whole lot of tickets and scalp them, and we got them to stop that. It's asking our fans to pay too much money for something that really should almost be free. Garcia always said, “Music is so good for you, it should be free.”

Assemblyman Richard Brodsky offers a new bill for consumer protection on the ticket scalper market.

When I chat with Saliers, she is at home in Georgia, gearing up for a tour that will take her and Ray across the country in support of their just-released album, Poseidon and the Bitter Bug. We spoke about the highs of this past year (Obama), the lows (Prop 8) and the yet to come.

The New York Times sheds light on the problems of an unregulated secondary ticket market for live music events.

With tickets for the upcoming Nine Inch Nails tour with Jane’s Addiction set to go on sale to the public on March 20th, Trent Reznor took to the NIN forum to map out his thoughts on the secondary ticketing market, or “scalping” as it used to be called when the practice was illegal.

The GRAMMY Museum(SM) will open to the public on Saturday, Dec. 6 with the debut of Songs of Conscience, Sounds of Freedom -- the first major museum exhibition to explore the 200-year history of music and politics in America, and music's role as a political force in society.

Music for Democracy hosted an Obama supporting event at the mansion of renowned filmmaker Tyler Perry featuring an array of hip-hop stars, celebrities, and African-American leaders of the Atlanta community.

Hip Hop Artist T.I. casts his early vote in Georgia today

Musicians Take the Stump to the Stage for Obama