May 2012
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The Great GoogaMooga - May 20 at Prospect Park
Billed as an amusement park of food and drink, I received word that free tickets would be available for The Great GoogaMooga in Prospect Park. With about 75 of NYC’s best restaurants, 35 brewers and 30 winemakers, it was impossible to turn down.
I was able to snag early-bird tickets when the producers made up for the EventBrite melt-down, and I went for the Sunday option. I figured...
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The Black Keys/Arctic Monkeys - May 18 at...
Have love (for The Black Keys), will travel (from NYC to Maryland).
I bought tickets for the Merriweather Post Pavillion show about a week after seeing them at Madison Square Garden. I mentioned wanting to go to my friend Rachel and she mentioned she had never been to an actual concert. Got the tickets the very next day.
We made it to the venue, which is beautiful! They have a great facility,...
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Paul Weller - May 18 at John Varvatos
I admit it: I don’t know much about Paul Weller. But I never turn down a free show, I never turn down an open bar, and I certainly never turn down the opportunity to hear a free show with an open bar in the old CBGB space. The grime and rock and sex and drugs ooze from this place. Even now as a high-end retail store, the stickers and setlists are still stuck to the walls, and Varvatos has...
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Florence + the Machine - May 8 at Radio City Music...
I’m getting a little behind on concert recaps, so sorry for the late post. A while ago, I wrote about winning tickets to see Florence’s taping for VH1’s Unplugged. It was a beautiful intimate setting, and it completely spoiled me. I had no desire to see Flo in a cavernous (albeit gorgeous) venue like Radio City. But Diet Coke’s Twitter handlers decided to hand me over a...
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GPN's Storytellers premiere airs June 15! →
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Grace Potter & the Nocturnals - April 30 VH1...
I answered Gotham Casting’s call for audience members. And then I enlisted my friends to do the same. Out of all the concerts they’ve offered, Grace Potter and the Nocturnals’ taping was the one I wanted to go to most. I’ve been a fan of Grace for a while now, and I don’t think there will be many opportunities to see the band in such an intimate venue anymore.
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