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How To Get Tickets To The Sasquatch! Festival in Washington

February 9, 2012 at 10:35 AM | by | Comments (0)

This week the Sasquatch! Festival announced their 2012 lineup featuring some old favorites, like Jack White and Beck, as well as newer groups like Bon Iver.

The tenth incarnation of the fest, which will be held on Memorial Day Weekend (May 25-28) at The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington, will also bring the laughs with comedy acts like Tenacious D, the Portlandia duo of Fred Armisen and Carrie Brownstein, and comedians Nick Kroll, Todd Barry, and Rob Delaney.

Four-day passes for Sasquatch! start at $315 (which includes standard camping) and go on sale Saturday, February 11, 2012 at 10:00 a.m. Also, for the first time this year, festival goers will be able to come and go with a wristband allowing re-entry to the festival grounds.

For more information about the fest line-up or buying tickets, visit sasquatchfestival.com.

[Photo: SceneInTheDark]

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Madonna Will Kick Off Her 2012-2013 World Tour in Israel with Some 30,000 Tickets

Where: Israel
February 8, 2012 at 2:53 PM | by | Comments (0)

The last time Madonna performed in Israel was in 2009, when she held two concerts as part of her record-shattering Sticky & Sweet tour. This time the newly-rechristianed Queen of Pop is not just holding any old concert in Israel, but using the event to kick off her entire 2012 world tour.

The Israelis are, needless to say, pretty excited. They're not as excited as Perez Hilton—who brought out lots and lots of exclamation points for the announcement—but they are still pretty excited.

The world tour will kick off on May 29th in the Israeli city of Ramat Gan and stretch all the way into 2013. After Israel Madonna will travel to a couple other Middle East venues before departing for Europe, where she'll do 26 additional spots over the course of two months. From there it's off to North America to do yet another set of 26 venues, then to Latin America, then to Australia. Before everything is said and done she will have played 90 concerts.

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Missed Portlandia: The Tour? Catch Carrie Brownstein with Wild Flag Instead

January 10, 2012 at 3:07 PM | by | Comments (0)

Right now Carrie Brownstein is on tour with Fred Armisen promoting their IFC series Portlandia. But, if you were hoping to catch Portlandia - The Tour this month, you're out of luck. All seven stops on the tour, which includes the Bowery Ballroom in NYC and the Hideout in Chicago, are completely sold out.

That doesn't mean you still can't check out Carrie live on stage. On January 27, 2012, Carrie and her band Wild Flag will kick off a 3-month tour through the Europe, Australia, and the U.S. Carrie might be best known as 1/2 of the Portlandia comedy duo, but this chick can rock too!

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Booking Flights for Coachella 2012: Yikes.

January 10, 2012 at 11:54 AM | by | Comments (0)

Without a doubt, the one huge travel story today is the scramble to plan for Coachella 2012, the music festival in the desert outside Palm Springs, CA. For the first time, the massive 3-day party will be split in two—two weekends, that is. If you can't make it April 13-15, there's now the option of catching the same acts, on the same stages, with a different crowd around you, on April 20-22.

Headliners of the fest are: The Black Keys, Radiohead and, most anticipated by far, Dr. Dre and Snoop Dogg who will close each weekend with a Sunday performance. Other acts due to hit the many stages include Bon Iver, Cat Power, The Arctic Monkeys, Feist, La Roux, Girl Talk, Santigold and really so many others we don't feel like typing them out. (But here's a Spotify playlist to get you in the mood).

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Get the Blues at the Mississippi Delta's Robert Johnson Festival

Where: County Road 518 [map], Greenwood, MS, United States, 38930-7324
October 5, 2011 at 2:48 PM | by | Comments (0)


You, Robert Johnson’s ghost, and some live blues artists. Just what the doctor ordered.

Last time we were down in the Mississippi Delta we were getting stuck in on local radio, but now here’s a reason to go back down there (and it’s not even related to The Help).

This year is the 100th anniversary of the birth of father of the blues Robert Johnson; and to mark it, next weekend, the people of Greenwood are throwing a blues festival. Not only that, but it’s a festival right in the cottonfields next to where Johnson is purportedly buried.

The King of the Delta Blues 100th Anniversary Remembrance Festival takes place October 15-16 on Money Road, outside Greenwood and by the premises of the fabulous WABG radio station. The lineup includes Rory Block, Dr Feelgood Potts, Maria Muldaur and Bobby Rush, and there will be tributes to blues artists who died this year, like Honey Boy Edwards, Pinetop Perkins and Mississippi Slim.

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In Search of David Lynch's Club Silencio in Paris

Where: 142 Rue Montmartre, Paris, France, 75002
September 21, 2011 at 2:07 PM | by | Comments (0)



It ain't Silencio, but Social Club offers Lynch-inspired oddities nonetheless.

This week, Jaunted correspondent Heidi Atwal takes us along to Paris, uncovering the hidden bits found in between sessions of copious macaron and butter consumption. And we do mean copious. Make sure to check in daily for dispatches from the City of Light.

When we found out that filmmaking genius, budding electronic artist, and all-around maestro of weird David Lynch was opening a real-life version of Club Silencio from Mulholland Drive in Paris, our mission was clear: seek out said club and finally figure out what the hell the blue box symbolizes.

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When Volunteer Travel Really Works: A Day with Arcade Fire in Hyde Park

Where: Hyde Park, London, United Kingdom
July 8, 2011 at 1:00 PM | by | Comments (0)

When Canadian super-band Arcade Fire calls, you most definitely answer.

Admittedly, I wasn't contacted by Win Butler himself, but rather a liaison of the band that heads up their altruistic outreach in conjunction with Partners in Health. The Grammy Award-winning band has long supported PIH, particularly their efforts in Haiti, singer Régine Chassagne's home country. During the promotional tour for The Suburbs one dollar, pound or euro from every ticket sale was donated to PIH, the money going toward community-building and healthcare initiatives in the poverty-stricken country.

To help spread the word about PIH and their admirable mission, Arcade Fire enlists a go-getter team of fans to volunteer at each show, working the crowd pre-gig to educate them about the organization's mission and fundraising on their behalf. At Arcade Fire's sprawling (pun intended) London show in Hyde Park last Thursday, I was one such volunteer, manning (er, womanning) the merchandise booth as the Vaccines, Beirut, and Mumford & Sons provided a sonically-pleasing backdrop to the day's charitable efforts.

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The New Thing in London? Live Performances in Living Rooms, with Robert Pattinson

July 5, 2011 at 9:00 AM | by | Comment (1)

At Jaunted, we contend that one of the best ways to get to know a city is through its music, which can speak in spades about the uniqueness of a place, its people and cultural landscape. Gigs range from the intimate to alienating, depending on the popularity of an artist and the size of the venue they can fill.

Personally, we prefer the former: shows where you don't have to violently elbow others out of your personal space or where a concert hall's subpar acoustics effect the quality of an evening.

Sofar Sounds (Songs From a Room) is the anti-arena experience: its founders have pioneered a music movement where they host performers in living rooms, their location kept under wraps until the last minute. Visit their website to view video clips of past shows, audience members visible just feet away from drum kits as they get unprecedentedly close to an artist for the evening. Past special guests have included impeccably coiffed Twilight star Robert Pattinson and the Magic Numbers.

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Tickets to London's Somerset House Summer Concert Series Going Fast

Where: Strand, London, United Kingdom, WC2R 1LA
May 17, 2011 at 1:32 PM | by | Comments (0)

The scene at a past season of Somerset House's Summer Concert Series

London's Somerset House is best known for its ties to the fashion industry, playing home to the bulk of London Fashion Week happenings and hosting exhibitions such as the recent René Gruau retrospective and a photographic tribute to Matthew Williamson.

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Plan for the Free 'Back to the Beach' Concert to Aid Florida's Gulf Coast

Where: 9300 Emerald Coast Pkwy. W. [map], Destin, FL, United States, 32550
September 3, 2010 at 9:24 AM | by | Comments (0)

Even though Florida tourism hasn't really been hit by the BP oil screw-up, country singer Vince Gill will come to the Gulf Coast region to do a free concert on September 25 in an effort to promote travel to the area.

According to his website, Gill is a fan of the Northwest Gulf Coast's beaches and coastal communities, so it prompted him to agree to headline the 90-minute concert dubbed Back to the Beach 2010 at the Sandestin Golf and Beach Resort's driving range.

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Five Other Things to Do in Chicago During the Pitchfork Music Fest

July 15, 2010 at 9:45 AM | by | Comment (1)

You've already bought your tickets to Chicago's Pitchfork Music Festival in Union Park July 16 to 18. Your flight and hotel are booked. But what will you do in Chicago aside from the fest? We have five places that'll keep indie-loving people like yourself busy before and after you catch Sleigh Bells and LCD Soundsystem on the big stage.

Our top five indie picks for Pitchfork fest goers:

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BP Wants to Start Free Gulf Concert Series, After Success of Jimmy Buffett Show

July 12, 2010 at 4:01 PM | by | Comment (1)

BP officials say that they're on the verge of successfully capping the oil spill, although we'll believe that when we see it. For all we know, this will be another one of those schemes that works fine on paper, only to have some robot bump into a pipe and send everyone back to the drawing board.

Putting aside their technological fumbling though, the company seems to have stumbled into a brilliant formula for dealing with the catastrophe's tourism-related fallout: host free entertainment, and hope people show up.

Two events from the last few days show the potential of this little-tried "free" strategy. The first, which wasn't funded by BP, was the annual Blue Devils beach air show over Pensacola. The weekend after July 4th is the single biggest tourism weekend of the year in the region, and cleanup crews worked overnight and into the show to keep oil away from the crowds. The efforts paid off in the form of a $25 million revenue haul.

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