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# Your Morning Coffee Podcast: Is Ticketmaster the villain? • Battling merch fees & more
- URL: https://www.hypebot.com/your-morning-coffee-podcast-is-ticketmaster-the-villain-battling-merch-fees-more/
- Published: 2023-01-30T14:15:46.000Z
- Updated: 2023-01-30T14:15:50.000Z
- Description: Episode #129 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is live. This week on the YMC podcast, your charming hosts. Continue reading [https://www.hypebot.com/hypebot/2023/01/your-morning-coffee-podcast-is-ticketmaster-the-villain-battling-me
- Author: Bruce Houghton
- Tags: Live & Ticketing, Music Business, music, music industry, musician, musicians, Spotify, YouTube, #wp, #wp-post, #Import 2026-01-21 09:44

Episode #129 of Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart’s podcast Your Morning Coffee: Weekly News for the New Music Business is live.

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This week on the YMC podcast, your charming hosts Jay Gilbert and Mike Etchart discuss the following important music business stories and topics:

- Everyone Hates Ticketmaster; Is Everyone Wrong? (LA Times)
- Calls To End Fees That Venues Charge Artists To Sell Merch Grow Louder (Hypebot)
- and much, much more…

They also have interview clips from Jonny Kaps on +1 Records’ new partnership with Acceleration, and Michael Huppe, President, and CEO of Sound Exchange.

### Episode 129

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