Thursday, April 29, 2010

Varsity Theater tickets

There are a few exciting shows coming up at the Varsity Theater! Some of which may have hard to find Varsity Theater tickets.

5/4 - Aqualung

5/6 - Quiet, Please featuring Low

5/11 - Shout Out Louds

5/17 - Flobots

5/25 - Mumford and Sons

6/18 - Delta Spirit

Varsity Theater tickets
are sold out for the Mumford and Sons show (very buzzed about band) and the Quiet, Please featuring Low is also sold out. Alan Sparhawk of Low and Retribution Gospel Choir is a popular man these days - his bands are everywhere! And worth it for sure, both bands are very well received and well liked around these parts. Varsity Theater tickets are still available for the Flobots, Shout Out Louds and Delta Spirit.

Flobots:


Shout Out Louds:

Sunday, April 25, 2010

Best of Twin Cities tickets

Every year the City Pages has their "Best of the Twin Cities" edition which lists some of the better places to eat/drink/shop/ be seen and heard in the Twin Cities. You will usually find a lot of your favorite places to eat and shop on this list. It also tends to favor new places and it has on many occasions suggested a new place to go out to eat or a new store to shop at. It is as rewarding for the businesses it promotes as it is useful to the patrons who want to try something new. Or, just see one of their favorite restaurants get recognized.

The other cool thing about Best of the Twin Cities, is that anyone can vote on it. The online voting thing is long, there are a million categories, but for the most part it is fair.

This year's Best of the Twin Cities Celebration is happening at the Varsity Theater. Varsity Theater tickets are on sale now for the Best of the Twin Cities Celebration featuring local songstress, Dessa and No Bird Sing. Both acts I am sure are most likely nominated for an award. It is a great way to get acquainted with two local artists and multiple local vendors presented by City Pages if you are not too familiar with them.

I would highly recommend on buying your Varsity Theater tickets for the City Pages Best of the Twins Cities celebration, this is a very popular event every year - it is not one to be missed!

Don't miss Minneapolis favorite, Dessa

Sunday, April 11, 2010

XX Tickets

Well, concert weekend is officially over. Four concerts in three days. I was one of the very select few who had Varsity Theater tickets to see the XX on Friday. I got to the show at about 10pm and there were still people outside looking for tickets (the doors opened at 8!)

One of the more positive things I have to say about the Varsity Theater is that they do not over sell their shows. When Varsity Theater tickets are sold out, they are sold out. First Avenue sells more tickets than they should for a lot of shows making it impossible to move around to get a beer or find a bathroom. The Varsity Theater has made some changes and invested some money to make their venue better to accomate nights that are as sold out as the XX was.

XX tickets
were in such demand that on Wednesday last week 89.3 the Current gave away a pair of ticket to the tenth caller, as they usually do, however, so many people called that it shut their phone system down. Pretty crazy, huh?!

The XX played all of their jams, "VCR" and "Basic Space" were the two I was waiting for. Their show was well orchestrated, very well rehearsed, and very well executed. My only complaint: dumb college kids that somehow got in there and started throwing glow sticks around, which they in turn threw at the band. NOT COOL. JJ opened the show. You may know their song "Ecstasy" which sample a Lil' Wayne song. I had no idea that JJ was an one woman operation. It was her and a screen showing deers running through the woods. Totally not what I expected!

After "Basic Space" I ran out the door to catch Deertick at the Triple Rock - like I said - it was concert weekend!