Concert Onsales- Paramore, The Faint, Rancid and more
A step-by-step guide to buying concert tickets this weekend:
- Read this article.
- Laugh at this article’s in-jokes and pop culture references.
- Look up pop culture references.
- Note ticket onsale times and go about your daily life.
- Feed your dog.
- Log onto Ticketmaster.com at onsale time and purchase concert tickets.
- Complain about service charges being as much as actual ticket prices.
- Be happy you got tickets, yet deep inside worry about if you can truly afford them.
- Make peace with your inner self.
- Enjoy concert.
- Repeat.
Here is a list of highlighted concert onsale’s for this weekend:
The first KROQ sponsored show of the OC Fair’s Pacific Ampitheater run has been announced. Paramore will headline the venue on July 30th with the paino based Jack’s Mannequin opening. This concert will sell out pretty quick (at least in theory, my crystal ball is in for repairs) so make sure you get tickets Saturday at 10am. Tickets are $39.50, which seems like a lot in my book, but fair admission is included so you can pet the pigs and llamas to your hearts desire.
Also going on sale Saturday at 10am for the Pacific Ampitheater:
- Tom Jones on July 15th.
- Don Cheto with El Maczio and Banda Imperio on July 25th
- Slightly Stoopid and, sigh, Pepper on August 2nd.
After a few years between shows, Nor Cal punk-rockers Rancid are headed back to the L.A. area for a bevy of shows. The band will play the House of Blues- Anaheim on September 20th and 21st, then move to the Music Box at The Henry Fonda Theater for six shows between September 30th through October 5th. I’m gonna guess that a few more shows might be added in Anaheim (more opportunity for Lars and Tim to ride the tea-cups). Tickets are $17.49 for Mickey Mouse’s House and $24 for the Henry Fonda. Tickets are on-sale Saturday at 10am.
Also coming to the Music Box are electro-rockers The Faint. The band has been nice enough to schedule two dates at the venue, August 7th and 8th, for your dancing pleasure. Tickets are on sale (gasp!) Saturday at 10am.
For you rap and hip-hop fans Power 106’s annual Powerhouse concert will once again take place at the Honda Center on June 21st. This years line-up includes Lil’ Wayne, Ice Cube (he must be taking a break from filming “Are We There Yet VI: The Quickening”), T-Pain, Chris Brown and Colby O’Donis. Tickets go on sale… wait for it… Saturday at 10am.