M.I.A.'s Hard L.A. Ticket Sales 'Not What We Expected,' Promoter Says

'We put both events together to make one large event,' Gary Richards tells MTV News of joining forces for Hard Summer.By James Montgomery M.I.A. Photo: Roger Kisby/ Getty Images Earlier this week, when the M.I.A.-headlined Hard L.A. concert was abruptly canceled, promoters originally cited "increased security costs," then added that those costs had nothing to do with the death of a 15-year-old girl at a Los Angeles rave a few weeks earlier. Late Thursday, we learned that it was a combi...

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