Bob Dylan, Ellie Goulding, and 2016 Football — these are the tickets to buy this week

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Getting tickets for the biggest concerts and events is a difficult task in 2016.

Gone are the days of buying a ticket at the door. With scalpers ready to jump on tickets as soon as they’re released, only to put the seats on sale minutes later for four times what they paid, in many cases the only way you can get tickets is if you’re ready to click "purchase" just as quickly as the scalpers are.

For this reason, we’ll be using this space to highlight buzzworthy shows with tickets you should try to snag before the scalpers do.

Bob Dylan

We lost Prince yesterday and everyone is still in grief. Life is hard. Musicians come and change the world and sometimes we don’t realize what they meant to us until it’s too late. Music has the advantage of discographies; we’ll be able to listen to Prince’s records forever. But it is now a fact that any of us who had never gotten to see Prince live will never get the chance. Bob Dylan is another artist that changed music, and you don’t want to realize too late that you never got the chance to see him.

Find tickets in your city here.

Peter Frampton

“Frampton Comes Alive” is one of the greatest live albums ever recorded. Anyone who has seen Frampton before will attest to the fact that he is one hell of a performer. His work with the talk box is astounding and the breakdown of “Do You Feel Like I Do” still makes the crowd go wild.

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Ray LaMontagne

Listen to a Ray LaMontagne record three times in a row and he will quickly be one of your favorite singer-songwriters. His voice is a gravelly coo that hits you in the heart or the face, depending on how he wants his music to manipulate you, and his guitar playing is pretty next level as well.

Find tickets in your city here.