{"id":987631,"date":"2025-08-20T02:31:00","date_gmt":"2025-08-20T02:31:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/?p=987631"},"modified":"2025-12-08T19:22:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-08T19:22:13","slug":"tours-are-no-longer-fun-neil-young-lambasts-ticketmaster-for-ripping-off-fans-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/?p=987631","title":{"rendered":"Flaming Lips cancel Houston show at 713 Music Hall before doors open; Ticketmaster denies refunds"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Flaming Lips fans were left scrambling Wednesday night when the band canceled its set at 713 Music Hall just before showtime \u2014 and Ticketmaster is refusing refunds.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>The band shared the news around 6 p.m. on\u00a0social media, right when doors were scheduled to open. It mentioned a &#8220;family emergency&#8221; and directed questions about refunds to point of purchase.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Read more <a href=\"https:\/\/www.houstonchronicle.com\/entertainment\/music\/article\/flaming-lips-cancel-houston-show-refunds-tickets-20826891.php\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.ticketnews.com\/2025\/07\/study-ticket-resale-saved-fans-414-million-in-2024\/\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Houston Chronicle<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"link","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-987631","post","type-post","status-publish","format-link","hentry","category-news","post_format-post-format-link"],"acf":[],"featured_image_src":null,"featured_image_src_square":null,"author_info":{"display_name":"sbriesacher","author_link":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/?author=3"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987631","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=987631"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/987631\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=987631"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=987631"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ticketpolicyforum.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=987631"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}