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After 20 Years, Emo Giant Something Corporate Is Back With a New Song, Tour — and a Bold Plan to Beat Ticket Scalpers
Something Corporate is back with the band's first new song in two decades, and headed on tour with a plan to keep scalpers away from tickets.
Known for full-throated pop-punk singalongs including “If You C Jordan,” “I Woke Up in a Car” and “Punk Rock Princess,” the band had a brief but successful initial run, releasing its debut LP “Leaving Through the Window” in 2002 and the follow-up “North” a year and a half later before going on hiatus in 2005. As if the pressures of preparing for a tour and recording new music wasn’t enough to keep McMahon busy, he also was determined to make sure that tickets for the new shows went directly to fans and didn’t get posted for exorbitant fees on secondary markets. The group found that the process made a big difference in dodging the secondary market, even if it created a lot of work on their end, from initial messaging to fans to studying sheets of email addresses to try to spot any obviously fraudulent buyers.
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