Check Out: Vero Sings for the Victims Will Raise Voices Against Violence

Vero News has written a piece about the upcoming “Vero Sings For the Victims” event:

VERO BEACH — In recognition of National Crime Victims Rights Week, local singers will participate in Vero Sings for the Victims, 3 p.m. Sunday, April 18 at the Waxlax Theater for the Performing Arts at St. Edward’s School.

The fundraiser will create an emergency fund to benefit victims of violent crimes such as rape, murder, assault and battery. The fund will assist victims who must go through the court system for the State Attorney’s Office and are temporarily pressed for funds due to the crime.

Read more HERE. Tickets are already on sale at Ticket Alternative.

Ticket Alternative’s Guide for St. Patrick’s Day Events Around the Country

Ticket Alternative loves St. Patrick’s Day! So we put together a list of St. Patrick’s Day parties across the country. A couple of these are just blocks away from our Atlanta offices! Check out what our favorite pubs have in store for St. Patty’s - and join us for a pint of Guinness!

Fado Irish Pub Denver
Wednesday, March 17
1735 19th St. Denver, CO
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St. Patrick’s Day in Denver means party at Fado’s! Doors open at 8 a.m. and live music starts at noon! Live sets by Brian and Brendan Clancy, the Indulgers, the Celtic Step Dancers, Michael Collins pipe band, Seneca, and Under a Blood Red Sky (U2 tribute band). Check www.fadoirishpub.com/denver for set times and more info!

Fado Irish Pub Columbus
4022 Townsfair Way Columbus, OH
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Doors open at 7 a.m. at Fado Columbus on St. Patrick’s Day! Kegs & eggs, live music, Irish dancers, DJs and drink specials go on all day and night long! Check out www.fadoirishpub.com/columbus for music and performance set times.

Fado Irish Pub Las Vegas
9470 Eastern Ave Las Vegas, NV
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Celebrating St. Patty’s in Vegas this year? Don’t take and chances at the slot machines – head down to Fado Irish Pub Las Vegas! St. Patrick’s Day starts bright and early at 8 a.m. with kegs and eggs and hours of live music! Check out the Fado Las Vegas Red Bull Bar with a martini slide unlike any other!

Star 94 St. Patrick’s Day Party
Saturday, March 13 at Andrew’s Upstairs
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Is your boss making you come to work on St. Patrick’s day? Worried about getting your fill of green beer and corned beef? Well you are in luck! Star 94 and Andrew’s Upstairs is hosting a day-long St. Patrick’s day party on Saturday, March 13 with live music, DJs, green beer and corned beef!

2010 Meehan’s ShamRock and Roll featuring Yacht Rock
Saturday, March 13 at Meehan’s
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What better way to celebrate St. Patrick’s day then to rock out (smoothly) with Atlanta’s very own Yacht Rock Revue! Meehan’s Public House, DAVE FM and Guinness are celebrating their 2nd annual pre-St. Patty’s Day party on Saturday, March 13 with performances by REMakes, Please PleaseRock Me (Beatles tribute) and the smooth sailing sounds of Yacht Rock!

Rock Like an Irishman hosted by Leslie Fram
Saturday, March 13 at Smith’s Olde Bar
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Atlanta’s former First Lady of Radio is back in action. Leslie Fram is hosting a night of rock at Smith’s Olde Bar with up-and-coming buzz bands: Plain Jane Automobile, A Million Years and The Weeks. Purchase your tickets in advance and receive a CD pack from the bands!

St. Patrick’s Day 2010
Wednesday, March 17 at Fado Irish Pub
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An Atlanta tradition for years, Fado Irish Pub hosts the biggest “proper Irish” St. Patrick’s Day celebration! Start the day off early at 6 a.m. with a pint and a delicious hot Irish breakfast. The street festival begins at noon and will feature traditional Irish dancers, bagpipes, music from Astral Freaks (Van Morrison cover band) and Atlanta’s best U2 cover band – Desire! The party goes on til the wee hours of the night with DJs, beer tents, and plenty of fish & chips! Get your tickets today – this event always packs out!

The St. Patrick’s Day IrishFEST
Wednesday, March 17 at RiRa Irish Pub
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RiRa Irish Pub and 99X host an all day St. Patrick’s Day festival in the heart of Midtown Atlanta. Come out for the perfect pint of Guinness, traditional Irish food and live music courtesy of the Nine Inch Neils (Neil Diamond cover band). Except all the madness of a traditional day-long beer filled St. Patrick’s Day!

Whiskey Blue presents St. Patrick’s Day with Yacht Rock
Wednesday, March 17 at Whiskey Blue
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Whiskey Blue goes green! Celebrate St. Patrick’s Day in style at the posh Whiskey Blue bar & lounge inside the W Hotel in Buckhead. Atlanta’s favorite mustache-sporting, smooth jam-loving Yacht Rock Revue is set to perform! Expect a night mixed with Bee Gees, Hall & Oates, Kenny Loggins and Michael McDonald classics!

CANCELLED: LoCash Cowboys @ The Rock, in Maplewood MN, on March 18

LoCash Cowboys have canceled their show at Maplewood, Minn.’s The Rock on March 18. Tickets are currently being refunded. No word yet on whether or not the show will be rescheduled but we’ll keep you posted.

Hook up with Ticket Alternative at SXSW

Jamie and I will be at SXSW this year. You can follow our adventures via the Twitter account we set up @TixAlt_SXSW – This should be fun!

We’re working on a Ticket Alternative Happy Hour for some of our current clients that will be there, as well as some new clients interested in meeting the team (details to be announced soon).

We arrive Wednesday and leave Sunday. So, if you’re interested in meeting up with us, you can send us a message via @TixAlt_SXSW on Twitter or via email.

The first item packed will be the trusty Ticket Alternative bottle opener/lighter. Always a winner.

See you in Austin.

Iain

UNICEF to host Multiple Events Across the U.S. for World Water Week (March 21-27)

UNICEF's Tap Project

The UNICEF Tap Project, which was created in 2007 to raise awareness of the world water crisis, has since grown to become a powerful nation-wide movement.

All money raised through the 2010 UNICEF Tap Project events will be allocated to the countries and areas UNICEF has identified as among the most in need. Those countries include Togo, Central African Republic, Vietnam, Guatemala and, of course, Haiti.

With 120 UNICEF hosted events around the country during World Water Week (March 21-27), there is something and somewhere for everyone to become involved.

UNICEF Tap Project DC Launch Event
Washington, D.C.
Saturday, March 20
LOCAL 16
U Street and 16th NW
6-9PM
$25 get tix here

The DC launch event hosted at the Local 16 includes appetizers, Tap Project drink specials, Local 16 DJs, and raffle prizes!

I (Tap) LA Benefit Concert
Wednesday, March 24
The Roxy Theatre
9009 Sunset Boulevard
8-10PM
$20 get tix here

UNICEF’s I (Tap) LA benefit concert, at The Roxy Theatre in Downtown Los Angeles, features musical artists Alysse Fischer, The Makepeace Brothers, and Gaby Moreno, with the fun and funny Eric Schwartz hosting the event.

Tap With A Beat Benefit Concert
Friday, March 26
Santa Monica, CA
World Peace Ikeda Auditorium
525 Wilshire Blvd
8-10PM
$15 get tix here

One of the biggest events hosted during UNICEF’s Tap Project is the star-studded Tap With A Beat benefit concert. An ALL AGES concert featuring young performers and celebrity presenters, Tap With A Beat educates a youthful audience on the importance of making clean water available to everyone in the world. Tap With A Beat 2010 will be hosted by Lil Mama, America’s Best Dance Crew judge, also joined by other young performers and celebrity presenters including Ana Maria Perez Del Tagle (Camp Rock), Alyson Stoner (Camp Rock), Kay Panabaker (Fame!), Francia Raisa, Allen Evangelista, and Camille Winbush, cast members from the Secret Life of the American Teenager, AudioPush (Interscope Records), Monti Montanez (former JIVE Records Menudo band member) and many more and a celebrity presenter soon to be announced!  

For more UNICEF Tap Project events, please visit www.tapproject.org

Win Tickets to Cold and Nonpoint at Juanita’s in Little Rock on March 17!

We have a nice handful of tickets to give away to see Cold with Nonpoint and Day of Fire at Little Rock’s Juanita’s on March 17. Just email us at win@ticketalternative.com for your chance to win with the word “Cold” in the subject. Or, if you’re not feeling so lucky, buy your tickets at Ticket Alternative.

CD Review: Let’s Wrestle — In the Court of Let’s Wrestle; Playing 529 in Atlanta and Black Cat in D.C. with Quasi

Let’s Wrestle

In the Court of Let’s Wrestle

By Eric Chavez

When it comes to British rockers, they just seem to do it better. The Beatles, Bowie, The Clash, Led Zeppelin … the list could go on. In America, rock “music” tends to be nothing but background music for your local teen clothing store, and popular acts such as Boys Like Girls, Fall Out Boy, and Good Charlotte aren’t breaking any new rocky ground. With that said, Let’s Wrestle are adding a little bit of their British beats to the sometimes dry world of rock. … Continue Reading

Tickets on sale for the American Craft Beer Fest in Boston

Tickets are now available for this year’s American Craft Beer Fest in Boston. The event takes place over 2 days – June 18th & 19th. There is one session on Friday from 6:00pm – 9:30pm, and two sessions on Saturday. The first session is from 1:00pm – 4:30pm and the second from 6:00pm – 9:30pm

Tickets are $40 per session (service fees apply) and include:

* Entry into one session; 21+ w/ valid ID
* All 2oz beer tastings
* Access to over 325 craft beers!
* Fest guide
* Tasting cup

The event takes place at the Seaport World Trade Center, 200 Seaport Blvd in Boston, MA

Q&A with Cymbals Eat Guitars’ Joseph D’Agostino; Playing Rock and Roll Hotel March 6 and The EARL March 11

By Julia Reidy

What do you do when your debut record gets more attention than you ever thought it would? When it’s the blogosphere that drives your success, and your nascent band suddenly has the weight of the critical community behind it? You go on tour! Cymbals Eat Guitars will stop at The EARL and at Rock and Roll Hotel on their first national headlining run. They’ll be performing selections from Why There Are Mountains, the much-lauded, muscular LP the band released this past September via Sister’s Den Records. Supported by recent indie luminaries Bear In Heaven and Freelance Whales, it stands to be a night to remember. TA Live talked with frontman Joseph D’Agostino about the snowball of success and what it’s like to live with your ears burning.

I really enjoyed your record. Can you talk to me about what it’s been like on your end? It got the mythical Pitchfork Best New Music tag, and people have been noticing it in a pretty big way.

We didn’t have an audience or a career or anything that you might consider serious before we received that review. Really, receiving the Best New Music and the amount of play that we were starting to get from WOXY radio in Cincinnati, those were the two big things that sort of helped elevate our band to the point where we had to be viable — like we had to be a good live act, because we hadn’t been playing any shows before March of 2008, really. At the same time, there’s definitely a disconnect between internet hype and actually attending shows and things. But I get the feeling that we are enjoying a pretty unique situation, because it also seems that the spread of our record has been very much a word of mouth kind of thing, rather than one huge crush, and then suddenly we’re just ubiquitous. … Continue Reading

Find the Ticket Alternative Team!

Some of us at Ticket Alternative are heading out to Hudson Grille in Midtown for Happy Hour from 6:30 – 7:30 tonight. Find us and say, “I’m looking for Dr. Guard” and we’ll buy you a drink!