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Milwaukee's Riverside Theater, in keeping with their anti-scalping pledge, canceled more than 100 tickets for tonight's Eddie Vedder solo concert and are reselling them to "real fans."

According to an email sent out to theater mailing list members (See Below), the venue confiscated the tickets because some people, who they identified as scalpers, were reselling tickets for upwards of $2,000 each.

Illness has sidelined G. Love & Special Sauce on two shows of their summer tour: August 20-21.

The group will not perform at their August 20 show at the House of Blues in Myrtle Beach, SC. Supporting acts John Butler Trio and Tristan Prettyman will still perform. However, the August 21 at Koka Booth Amphitheater in Cary, NC, is completely cancelled. Refunds are available for both shows at the original point of purchase.

Emerging UK rock ensemble Glasvegas, named "The Best New Band in Britain" by NME, will launch its first-ever U.S. tour this fall with a string of headlining club shows. The tour kicks off September 29 and runs through October 4.

Formed in Glasgow, Scotland, in early 2006, Glasvegas has been personally selected by Ian McCulloch to support his band Echo & The Bunnymen when they play New York's Radio City Music Hall on October 1.

The indie rock bands Drive-By Truckers and The Hold Steady are teaming up for a co-headlining tour across the U.S. this fall. The 23-date trek, labeled the Rock and Roll Means Well Tour, kicks off October 30 in Louisville, KY, and wraps November 25 in Los Angeles, CA.

Ticket presales for the Rock and Roll Means Well Tour begin today (August 19); sales will open to the public on August 22. The tour features two-night stands in New York, NY; Minneapolis, MN; Seattle, WA; and San Francisco, CA. Both bands will share lead billing over the course of the tour by alternating which group closes each night of the show.

Welsh metal-core rockers Bullet for My Valentine are returning to the U.S. for a second leg of shows from September 2-28. The tour's first leg ran July 14 through August 16.

The quartet continues on its nearly two-year world tour supporting their sophomore release, “Scream Aim Fire,” which debuted in the U.S. at No. 4, and is up for Best Album in the Kerrang! Awards, scheduled to be handed out August 21 in London. The band is up for three other awards -- Best British Band, Best Single (“Waking The Demon”), and Best Video (“Waking The Demon”). The album debuted in the U.S. at No. 4.

A California woman who ordered two tickets to a Jersey Boys performance from an online broker late last year not only never received her tickets but has yet to receive a refund. But her persistence is a lesson in how fans should handle customer service lapses, as she told TicketNews this week.

Tracy Taylor of Ventura ordered two tickets to the popular show in November, 2007, from Chicago, IL-based ticket broker TicketSpecialists.com, paying a total of $544 for them. The purchase was a Christmas gift for her parents, and the costs broke down as $230 a piece for the tickets, $69 in obtaining fees and $15 in two-day delivery charges. The show was scheduled for August 5, 2008, at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, and the seats were located in the Mezzanine in Row L.

Following a successful three-month tour of Europe, Neil Young is preparing for his eight-week North American tour with Death Cab for Cutie, Wilco and Everest. The Live Nation-produced performances kick off October 14 in St. Paul, MN, and culminate on December 15 at Madison Square Garden in New York, NY.

Eight of the 19 shows scheduled for Young will take place in the Canadian provinces. The tour rounds out with stops in major cities across the U.S., including Los Angeles, CA; Omaha, NE; Detroit, MI; Chicago, IL; and Philadelphia, PA. The backing band from Young's European gigs will reprise its role for the singer/songwriter's North American adventure.

Seldom do you hear good news about a story of a ticket buyer who was scammed out of tickets and money. Most of the time, that buyer usually contacts his state legislator or calls an attorney. For a consumer who went by the name of "J.B.", all he wanted was his tickets.

"We ordered tickets for two home New York Yankees games Aug. 15 and 16 from StubHub (an online ticket broker) and sent out our payment," he said in a letter written to the 'Action Line' at the South Bend Tribune. "And it turns out it was all fraud."

He went on to explain that he was scammed out of tickets by someone posing as StubHub, using their copyrighted information. The Tribune contacted the secondary ticket company, to see what could be done to help.

Due to overwhelming demand, alternative/progressive rock band Coheed and Cambria have extended their Neverender Tour after all 15,000 tickets went clean in three hours for eight shows in New York and Los Angeles, October 22-25 and November 5-8, respectively. They are now bringing their Neverender shows to the Riviera Theater in Chicago from October 28-31 as well as to London with dates to be announced later.

Neverender is an event created by the band, who will perform over four nights all four of their concept records in their entirety for the first time -- “The Second Stage Turbine Blade," "In Keeping Secrets of Silent Earth: 3," "From Fear Through the Eyes of Madness," and "No World For Tomorrow.” Each night's production will be specifically catered to the record being performed.

TicketNews has released its exclusive venues rankings for the week ending Sunday, August 17, and Yankee Stadium remains the top venue, holding the number one slot with a power score of 3.62. In its eighth week at the top, Yankee Stadium this week holds a commanding lead over all competitors, with its next closest rival, the Gershwin Theater in at number two with a power score of only 2.28. The Gershwin, enjoying continued robust sales of tickets for "Wicked," is this week’s top Broadway venue once again and jumps back up to the overall number two slot from last week’s number five.

Texas Stadium is the second sporting venue in the rankings this week. This week the stadium comes in at an impressive number three position overall with a power score of 2.20, up from position number six and power score of 1.73 last week. As the Dallas Cowboys’ season approaches, their fans are showing their love with their wallets, making this venue a real mover and shaker this week.

In an effort to spotlight the issues that affect the creative community and the importance of music education, Grammys Rock the Conventions will bring live music to the Democratic and Republican National Conventions with star-studded events benefiting the Grammy Foundation.

Three-time Grammy-nominated rockers Daughtry and Everclear, and chart-topping alternative/hip-hop group the Flobots, will perform an up-close-and-personal acoustic evening in Denver, CO, at the Democratic National Convention on August 26.