Nashville for Free

Our good friends at AEG Live/The Messina Group are always bringing great shows to Nashville, and once again they’ve brought a great contest to us.

Mayer Hawthorne is coming to the Mercy Lounge on Tuesday, May 1st, and we have a pair of tickets to give to YOU. Well, one of you anyway.

To enter just leave a comment on this blog post with the name of your favorite Mayer Hawthorne song. Make sure to leave your REAL email address and, preferably, your real name so I know what name to put on the list. I’ll pick a winner at random.

However, if you want me to place your name in the hat five extra times, there is a little something you can do. To complete the bonus step post a picture of yourself tangled up in strings (in honor of the song “No Strings”) to our Facebook wall. It can be real string, photoshopped, string theory, whatever. Thing is, if you make me laugh I might toss your name in there one or two extra times.

I’ll randomly pick a winner on Sunday night, so get yourself entered!

-Emily

AEG Live/The Messina Group has been particularly kind to us as of late. Just last week they hooked us up with a pair of OAR tickets to give to you all, and now they’ve given us a pair of tickets to see Puscifer next Tuesday, the 28th!

Puscifer is primarily Maynard James Keenan, probably most well-known for his work in Tool and A Perfect Circle. According to Wikipedia (because it’s always a lot of fun to see what the masses think of things) they fall into the ambient, comedy rock, experimental, post-industrial, trip hop genre of music. I honestly cannot imagine that in my head.

To enter the contest leave a comment on this blog post telling me your favorite color. I’ll randomly pick a winner Thursday evening. Please leave your full name as your username so I know who to put on the list. Or I guess just promise to check your damn email and get back to me on that if you win.

As usual, if you REALLY want to win the tickets you can increase your chances significantly by posting a picture to our Facebook wall. A picture of what, you ask? A picture of you holding up the Puscifer demon logo or the Puscifer demo logo thing photoshopped in a picture where it’s attacking your head. Get creative. Everyone who submits a picture gets entered into the hat five more times, but if you make me laugh it might end up being 6 or 7 extra times.

Good luck!

-Emily

When it comes to N4F contests we have a bonus step for two reasons. The first reason is to give people who REALLY want to go a better chance. The second reason is for my own entertainment.

Surprisingly, and for the first time in awhile, the winner didn’t do the bonus step and submit a picture, but a few fine ladies did, and I love them for it. If you didn’t win ticket’s it’s okay, because you’re not completely shut out of the OAR show. You can still get tickets here.

Here are some amazing pics from some true OAR fans:

Have you heard? OAR is playing Marathon Music Works on Friday night! They’re touring off of their newest album, King, and decided to stop by Nashville to visit one of our newest venues.

And wouldn’t you know it? Our good friends at AEG Live/The Messina Group are giving us a pair of tickets to give away at the show!

We haven’t done a legit contest in awhile, so let me remind you of the rules.

To enter leave a comment on this blog post telling me your favorite OAR song. You HAVE to leave your full name or use an email address that has your full name it in (I need to know whose name to put on the list). I recommend logging in via Facebook or Twitter because it makes it easy for me. I’ll pick a winner randomly tomorrow afternoon.

One comment on this blog post means one entry of your name into the hat. However, I always like to give people who REALLY want to win a fair shot, so if you want to be entered an additional five times post a picture to our Facebook wall of you wearing a crown in honor of their new album title. It can be a tiara, a Burger King Crown, photoshop, it doesn’t matter. Oh, and if you make me laugh I might give you a few more entries.

Again, I’m picking a winner tomorrow afternoon/early evening. So get on it!

-Emily

Traditional Valentine’s Day romantic-ness isn’t for everyone. I have to be honest, it isn’t really for me. That’s why I was excited to hear about the Anti-Valentine’s Day Black + White Party EXTRAVAGANZA at the Mercy Lounge on Valentine’s Day. Well, that and because I play guitar for the Dance Rock Sellouts, but that’s beside the point. Even without me and my band I’d be super pumped for this event.

There will be fantastic music from Bobby Exodus and friends, Telecommunicators, and, as previously mentioned, The Dance Rock Sellouts. There will be a photobooth. There will be people dressed in black & white. There will also be prizes, live karaoke, and cookies (from me).

Here’s the thing, the show isn’t free. It’s $8, but since I have connections (duh) I’ve managed to snag TWO pairs of tickets to give away for the show tonight. I’ll randomly pick a winner sometime on Valentine’s Day. Don’t worry, I’ll let you know in advance.

All you have to do to enter is comment on this post. You don’t even have to say something interesting. Bonus points if you tell me the story of the worst date you’ve ever been on!

Go!

-Emily

There are few things we at N4F love more than concerts, but giving away tickets for concerts is definitely one of them. Our friends at AEG Live have given us the hook-up for some pretty sweet shows lately and they’re keeping the awesome going by letting us have yet ANOTHER sweet contest. Friends, I’d like to present you with a chance to win tickets to see Rayland Baxter with The Kingston Springs & Birdcloud at Exit/In this Friday.

In his bio he’s described as “a gentleman, a singer of song, a teller of tale, a picker of strings, a thinker of things.” All good things to be as a performer. Rayland, the Kingston Springs, and Birdcloud are all local, so you know that this show is going to get nuts in the best way possible, and you can see it all for free!

All you have to do to enter is by commenting on this blog post and telling me what your favorite Thanksgiving dish is. I’ll even give you a bonus entry if you share the recipe!

I’m picking a winner this Thursday so be sure to get yourself entered ASAP! And tell your friends, because if they win they might bring you with them.

Keep on rockin.

-Emily

Yes, we’re doing yet another contest! It’s because we love you all and we have awesome friends at AEG Live who put on great shows and have amazing hearts. This time we’re giving away tickets to see blues/country/rock performer Corey Smith.

Corey Smith, high school teacher turned professional musician, is playing at the War Memorial Auditorium this Saturday. It’s his biggest show in Nashville to date. Smith has put out SIX records since 2003 and his latest, The Broken Record really is his break-out record. It hit 17 on the US Country Charts. The guy apparently grossed $4 million last year. Not bad considering he’s on an independent label and is pretty much completely self-made.

Let me just say this – a guy who grossed that much money on his own has to be pretty stellar.

Since the show is this Saturday this is going to have to be a pretty short contest. I’m picking a winner on Thursday night, so make sure you comment on this blog post telling me your favorite color. Or just say “hey, I’d like to win the tickets.” Whatever, as long as your email address is valid you’re good to go. Like I said, I’m randomly picking a winner on Thursday night, so get your entry in by then.

Good luck!

-Emily

Happy impending Halloween! I have some great news for you all. Our wonderful friends at AEG Live has decided to bestow upon us the most excellent of Halloween treats for our readers. Chris Cornell is coming to the War Memorial Auditorium on November 2nd and we have a pair of tickets to give to one of you fabulous people!

As many of you know, Chris Cornell was in a little band called Soundgarden. Let’s just say that my brother was a huge fan so I became a fan. Then Soundgarden was no more but Audioslave came to be. Say what you want about Audioslave, but they rocked, in large part because Chris Cornell rocks. Come on, no one can wail like that guy. I personally couldn’t be more excited to see him live.

But back to the contest! By now you all should know how it works. To be entered once comment (with your REAL name) telling me your favorite Chris Cornell moment. Easy peasy, right?

Well, if you want your name entered into the proverbial hat FIVE extra times then post a picture to our Facebook wall of you in a Halloween costume. Halloween might not have anything specific to do with this concert, but Cornell’s music is pretty damn well suited for the holiday, and well, it’s Halloween weekend.

Get on it, because I’ll be picking a winner by random on October 31st sometime in the early evening.

Good luck, and rock steadily!

-Emily

Up in Gallatin Tennessee (550 South Tunnel Road to be exact) there’s this place known as The School. It’s not a functioning school and it’s a really cool space. The space is owned by the family of a friend of mine and apparently one day he and a few of his friends got together and decided to take a day and throw a hell of a festival. It’s called the Big Nashty, it’s $10 in advance/$20 at the gate, and it’s this Saturday from 12pm to 2:30am (they can do that  because it’s not surrounded by houses). Oh yeah, and they’re giving us a pair of tickets to give away.

Being 14.5 hours long you know there has to be one crazy line up. Performers include Hans Condor, Bad Cop, Cy Barkley, Faux Ferocious, Sons of Lions, Natalie Royal, Hide Your Mamas, Evan P. Donahue, Deathstar Lovebeam, Rangi & Papa, Natalie Prass, Natural Child, D Watusi, Couched, Reid Magette, Siberian Traps, Dead Armadillo, Trevor Willmott, Chris Wild, New Pleasure, and Night Beds.

But that’s not all! There will also be fireworks, alcohol, confetti, cars, tents, waffles, food, facepaint, moon bounce, friends, camping, and general fun of incredible proportions.

But back to the free tickets. Normally it’s a mere $10 or $20 per person, but I have a pair of tickets to give to one of you fine people. All you have to do to enter is comment on this blog post. Use your real name and real email address so I can get it easily. I’m picking a winner on Wednesday so be quick about it! That’s a lotta music for free dudes!

-Emily

We had some pretty fierce competition for the My Morning Jacket contest. A whole bunch of you commented, sent in pictures/videos, and got Dexter references in the blog posts, but ultimately there can only be one randomly selected winner, and her name is Alex Miklich! That’s her in that picture (kind of). Once again it shows that doing the bonus step really does improve your chances of winning. But anyway, congratulations Alex! I hope you bring enough glowsticks to share with everyone!

Big thanks once again to Vanderbilt University for putting on this show and letting us do a giveaway. Non-winners, don’t cry too much, tickets for the My Morning Jacket show at Vanderbilt as part of Commodore Quake are still available here. It’s going to be a great show and MMJ is totally worth paying to see live. Their shows are the stuff of legends

As always, I’d like to also thank (and showcase) all of the other participants who sent in pictures, which you can see here:

-Emily