<p>I'm just wondering if any of you enjoy going to live music, mostly because I'm damn psyched about seeing the Goo Goo Dolls and Augustana tonight. I've got at least two concerts lined up for every month until May, and I went to 5 concerts first semester...hell, almost died at Gogol Bordello after I was done with exams.</p>
<p>Any good concert stories? Bands that are amazing live?</p>
<p>I LOVE going to concerts...I also have a pretty good line up for the year.</p>
<p>I adore concerts. :]</p>
<p>I had a great fall lineup, I haven't started making spring plans yet though. Most of the bands I'm waiting for haven't announced their East coast tour dates (like the Shins, arrrrr) yet.</p>
<p>March-- The Roots and Regina Spektor
April-- Guster and Rufus Wainwright.</p>
<p>Nice taste!</p>
<p>I cannot believe I'm missing World Inferno Friendship Society this friday at the Black Cat :(</p>
<p>I just got back from Goo Goo Dolls and Augustana (awesome show, I'll put links to pictures and video tomorrow)...next weekend I'm seeing CCSka (floormate's band) in Jersey, and on the 28th I'm seeing Guster.</p>
<p>ahhhhhh.
I AM SO JEALOUS.
That should have been a realllllly good concert (<3 augustana)</p>
<p>I don't really go to concerts, but I have two friends....One, who's dad manages Fergie, the Veronicas, and a few other groups, she gets free tickets all the time. And another, my BFF, her dad is a radio DJ (if you're in NY its 107.1, The Peak, ahha). and he always gets free tickets and stuff for her. A year and a half ago The Fray played at the radio station, and she got to go to this huge concert in the fall with The White Stripes, Red Hot Chili Peppers, and a bunch of other bands. </p>
<p>augustana is getting pretty popular now. In the summer nobody had heard of it, and now its like #4 on the vh1 top 20</p>
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<p>oo, another Regina fan.</p>
<p>Friday: Albert Hammond, Jr
Saturday: Matt & Kim
April: Page France
May: SASQUATCH MUSIC FESTIVAL</p>
<p>I really want to go to the Bonnaroo music festival in Tennessee. It's going to have bands like The White Stripes, The Flaming Lips, Franz Ferdinand, The Decemberists, Wolfmother, Regina Spektor, The Black Keys, and Martha Wainwright. Now if I can only persuade my parents to let me out of school a couple days early and somehow obtain >$500 I'll be all set!</p>
<p>March 9: Taj Mahal and Los Lobos
March 17: Donna the Buffalo</p>
<p>i'm gonna see regina spektor in march too! then bamboozle in may</p>
<p>Just saw The Mooney Suzuki yesterday as well.</p>
<p>I wish I could see Of Montreal =( But I can't.</p>
<p>My mom loves Augustana. I personally think that they're a wee bit bland, but much better than the Fray.... yuck.</p>
<p>"Saturday: Matt & Kim"</p>
<p>Yay! I LOVE Matt & Kim. 'Verbs Before Nouns' is one of my favorite songs.</p>
<p>oooooo arcade fire!!!! im gonna see them!!! i'm exciiiited!!</p>
<p>i missed the thermals though, and that made me sad.</p>
<p>I used to go to concerts every second of my life but then I realized how much money I was spending and forced myself to stop. :(</p>
<p>Right now I have tickets to see The Decemberists in March, Andrew Bird in May, and Dispatch in July. </p>
<p>The greatest show I ever saw was Broken Social Scene, last October. At any given time there were 12 to 15 musicians on stage, trading instruments and dancing wildly and just generally being amazing. It blew my mind and I highly recommend it to everyone.</p>
<p>arcade fire at sasquatch! + interpol, bjork, the dandy warhols, tokyo police club ++ more.</p>
<p>I saw Regina back in October; it's an absolute shame how popular and mainstream she's become (this coming from someone who liked her before her explosion of infamy... heh).</p>
<p>Anyway, I go to as many shows as I can. I saw Morrissey back in November (best day of my life, hands down) and am totally psyched he's finally launching a full-fledged North American tour. I don't really get a chance to go to as many shows as I would like to; we live about an hour and a half from Chicago and it's a pain getting down there and a pain getting back. But the Smoking Popes did play in DeKalb back in December (we're right outside DeKalb), and that was great fun. I'm going to see Ted Leo in April and hopefully the Decemberists as well. We missed Bright Eyes, though; tickets were sold out within minutes and we weren't able to get any (which was a pain, because my friend did get online exactly when tickets went on sale.)</p>
<p>"I saw Regina back in October; it's an absolute shame how popular and mainstream she's become (this coming from someone who liked her before her explosion of infamy... heh)."</p>
<p>I used to suffer from this... umm... possessiveness towards 'my' bands as well. Now I just try to remember that it's -good- if those bands succeed... but I still feel kind of sad when one of the special little bands that I 'discovered' explodes.</p>
<p>I guess if Regina is popular now, it's a good thing, because it means that the public is finally developing decent musical taste =) Think of it that way!</p>
<p>Last week I saw Snow Patrol, which was completely awesome. The next concert I have tickets for is Arcade Fire, but that's not until June 1st. I've seen them before, and they're great live.</p>