Nashville for Free

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

The other day some fine folks at Commodore Quake approached us. They said “would you like to do a contest to give away My Morning Jacket tickets for their show on October 20th at Vanderbilt’s Memorial Gymnasium?” Our response was a solid HECK YES!

Even if you only know MMJ from Guitar Hero then you probably know that these dudes rock. They play epic shows and are especially famous for their 4 hour late night rainy set at Bonnaroo in 2008. They are modern rock gods despite their lack of radio support. And that is why we’re so pumped to bring you all this contest.

Here’s how to enter: to get one measly drop of your name in the hat then comment on this blog post telling us your favorite MMJ moment but please don’t beg (it’s unbecoming of a rock fan) using your real name. Sorry DragonLuver81, you are not going to win this contest unless you tell everyone that your real name is Eugene Greer. Also, if you don’t sign up through FB or Twitter make sure your email address is valid.

But this wouldn’t be a N4F contest without a bonus step! To get your named dropped into the proverbial hat five extra times then post a picture on our Facebook wall of you enjoying some glowsticks. Why glowsticks? Well, I’ve seen MMJ a few times and each time people throw freaking glowsticks EVERYWHERE. It’s AWESOME. Don’t have any glowsticks? That’s what Photoshop and Paint are for. Remember, you’re promised an extra five entries, but if you make us double over in laughter chances are we’ll toss your name in that hat a few extra times. Seriously, people who do this step win 90% of the time. It’s basic math, people.

I’ll announce a winner next Monday evening, October the 10th. Get cracking, people! MMJ awaits!!!

-Emily

I love these contests. They provide me with some much wonderful entertainment, especially when people actually do the bonus step. And how many times do I have to tell you people, it makes a huge difference. Once again, our ticket winner participated in the bonus step, as seen in the big photo here. Congratulations Megan French, your minimal Photoshop skills helped you win tickets to see the Arctic Monkeys at the War Memorial Auditorium in Nashville! And a poster! Wahoo!

Again, big thanks to our friends at AEG Live. And don’t feel too sad if you didn’t win the tickets. The thing isn’t sold out, and if you buy your tickets to the show at Grimey’s I hear that they’ll give you the poster that Megan won. Also, I recommend checking out AEG Live on Facebook or Twitter, because they’re known to do contests of their own (and they don’t make you get into the mindset of a monkey).

And just for kicks and since they were all most excellent, here are the rest of the pics from the bonus step:

Let me tell ya something, the folks at AEG Live sure do know how to treat a blog. They seem to really like doing contests with us and I’ve enjoyed every single one we’ve had. As you might have heard, we hit 10,000 followers on Twitter yesterday and though I was going to save this contest for next week I’ve decided to roll it out to you all immediately.
But I digress, back to the contest. If you’ve been following us for awhile then you’ll know that it’s really simple to enter our contests. All you have to do is comment on this blog post with your favorite Arctic Monkey’s lyric. Or just a lyric. Just don’t beg me for tickets, because didn’t anyone tell you that begging is unbecoming of a person? It totally is. Arctic Monkeys, those awesome indie rockers, are coming to the War Memorial Auditorium on October 5th (with the most excellent Smith Westerns), and AEG Live has bestowed on us not just a pair of tickets, but a super-sweet poster of the show to give away! Aren’t they great? You should follow them on Twitter and Facebook.

Commenting will get your name thrown into our proverbial hat. However, if you REALLY want those tickets there is a way to stack the deck in your favor. All you have to do is post a picture on our Facebook wall of you going monkey for the camera. You can pose like a monkey, scratch your head while eating a banana. Hell, if you really want you could photoshop your head onto a monkey on an iceberg. And if you really make us laugh we might even put your name in there a few more times. We’ve been doing our contests like this for awhile now, and FYI, the winner is almost always someone who did this bonus step. Think about THAT ya’ll.

I’m going to give you until Monday evening to get yourself entered, which should be plenty of time to get yourself entered properly. Best of luck to all of you and THANK YOU for your support over the years. You all rock. So do the Arctic Monkeys. So enter this contest. Word.

-Emily

In case you haven’t heard, a new show was announced today, and I’m super excited about it. Jack’s Mannequin is coming to the Cannery, y’all! That’s right, on October 18th those awesome alt-rockers will hit up Nashville and remind me of the decent part of high school.

Of course, the show isn’t free. I know, I know, it sucks, but that’s how bands make their money. However, just for you all, our friends at AEG Live (who you should totally follow) have graciously given us a pair of tickets to give to a randomly selected winner.

I like to think that Nashville for Free contests are pretty standard. To enter to win tickets to the show all you have to do is comment either on this blog post or on the Facebook wall. That will get your name thrown into our proverbial hat exactly once. Now, that’s boring and makes the lazy fan as likely to win as the awesome and active fan, so as usual I’ve thought up a way for you to significantly improve your chances of winning…

If you want to get entered into our random drawing FIVE extra times post a picture either in this thread or on our Facebook wall of you posing with a mannequin. I’d also gladly accept photoshopped images with your face on a mannequin as long as it’s not too disturbing. The mannequin does not have to belong to someone named Jack, but it couldn’t hurt, right? As usual, if your picture is the most hilarious thing we’ve ever seen and we might even enter you an extra time or something. So get creative! It pays off. These drawings really are random, and most of the time our winners are people who followed the bonus step.

I’ll be randomly choosing a winner on Monday August 8th, so that gives you the weekend to get all America’s Next Top Model with a plastic statue at Macy’s. If you get escorted out, you don’t know me, got it?

Best of luck,

Emily

I’m not going to lie, I was kind of bummed when only one person did the bonus step for this contest. Seriously you guys, look at the record of winners, almost all of them have done the bonus step! And predictably, the person who did the bonus step and got the extra entries won this time (you can see the scientific process here). Congratulations Alex Miklich, you win the Tracy Morgan tickets!

Not that the rest of you entrants weren’t awesome, far from it. I cracked up at the quotes you all picked. Here are some of my personal favorites:

• The Mento has become the manatee
• You can’t ask a bird not to fly. You can’t ask a fish not to swim. You can’t ask a tiger not to turn back into a Chinese dude at midnight!
• I once saw a baby give another baby a tattoo! They were very drunk!
• We all thought once that pigs would fly the day there would be a black president. Now we have Barack Obama in the White House and swine flu.
• Where are the french fries I did not ask for? You guys need to anticipate me!
• Stop eating people’s old French fries, pigeon! Have some self respect! Don’t you know you can fly?
• I was born to design a video game where characters get weird with each other for golden points.
• I love this cornbread so much, I wanna take it behind a middle school and get it pregnant.
• What’s the past tense of scam? Is it scrumped? Liz Lemon, I think you just got scrumped
• It’s an honor for you to meet me.

Didn’t win? Sorry dudes, I know that it sucks, but at least there are still tickets available here. Thanks again to AEG Live for hooking us up with the tickets! Make sure you check them out on Facebook or Twitter because they have their own contests all the time.

-Emily