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Guns ‘N Roses is coming to Seattle for a show at the Everett Center. Well at least the current iteration of Guns ‘N Roses is coming to town. Here is the current lineup:

* Axl Rose - lead vocals
* Robin Finck - lead guitar
* Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal - lead guitar
* Richard Fortus - rhythm guitar
* Tommy Stinson - bass guitar
* Bryan “Brain” Mantia - drums
* Dizzy Reed - keyboards
* Chris Pitman - keyboards

There are still some killer seats available to this show and here are the best places to find them:

StubHub has tickets ranging from $114-266. They’ll let you sell tickets too.
AIW Tickets does indeed have tickets — in this case ranging from $99-225.
TicketsNow can get you tickets now from $105-270

More GNR trivia from the wiki:

Guns N’ Roses is an American hard rock band that gained fame during the late 1980s and early 1990s. The band’s 1987 major label debut, Appetite for Destruction, earned them worldwide popularity. Their 1991 effort, the simultaneous release of Use Your Illusion I and Use Your Illusion II, and subsequent world tour solidified their status. Having sold an estimated 90 million albums worldwide, they are considered one of America’s most successful hard rock bands today.

The band’s musical style, onstage presence, and image helped usher in a new era within the dominant hard rock and heavy metal scene of the 1980s. With glam metal as the leading genre in record sales, video charts, and radio airplay, Guns N’ Roses offered a grittier, more traditionalist take on rock music, which helped to popularize the sub-genre of glam metal known as sleaze rock, and won many fans who admired their apparent authenticity. The band enjoyed worldwide success from 1987 through 1993, but the clashing personalities of various band members, coupled with heavy alcohol and drug abuse hindered the group’s ability to work together. Today, frontman Axl Rose is the only original member in the band’s current lineup.

The legendary comedian Bill Cosby will be in town at the Benaroya Hall soon. Cosby is fixin’ to crack 70 but he is still at it. I assume this tour is in support of his new comedy album reportedly called “The House of Blues Cosby”. His wiki says this about him:

William Henry “Bill” Cosby, Jr., Ed.D. (born July 12, 1937) is an American actor, comedian, television producer, and activist. He received an Ed.D. from the University of Massachusetts for his doctoral thesis on Fat Albert and the Cosby Kids, an educational children’s cartoon series he created.

Anyway, this is a pretty hot ticket here in Seattle so is you are looking to get seats here are the places we recommend you check:

AIW Tickets has tickets starting at $90
Stubhub is coming in at about $115 at the low end
TicketsNow has good seats too

Also, the box office itself is always the cheapest route (even if all the good seats tend to be available only in the choices above).

You ought to find what you need between all of these choices.

Goof luck on your Cosby ticket hunt. Here is some more trivia from the wiki:

* Cosby is an avid cigar smoker, which he attributes to his comedy idol Groucho Marx.
* Cosby is a member of Omega Psi Phi.
* Like Bob Newhart and Brian Regan, Cosby rarely uses profanity in his act
* The Cosbys are donors to Spelman College.
* Cosby took his future wife Camille on dates to Ben’s Chili Bowl, a casual restaurant in Washington, D.C., in the early 1960s. He returned in 1985 to hold a press conference following the success of the Cosby Show and remains a regular patron when visiting D.C.
* Cosby has criticized rap music in the past.
* Cosby applied for a cease and desist order for the channel 101 parody House of Cosbys.
* Cosby has shown an appreciation for the hit series Pokemon.
* Cosby has been depicted on Aaron McGruder’s Adult Swim show “The Boondocks” as a perpetually rambling person who was kidnapped by Ed Wuncler III and Gin Rummy (though they returned him ten minutes later).
* Cosby has been parodied several times on shows such as The Simpsons and Family Guy.
* Bill Cosby has recently appeared on Beef The Series. He on the show has said “Stop, stop it, stop your cursing” on Episode 4.

Dance has made a TV comeback. Between Dancing with the Stars and So You Think You Can Dance, cutting the rug is all the rage on TV now. Well the traveling road show is coming to Seattle at Key Arena. The Ticket brokers have been getting their hands on a lot of the best seats so if you are in need of good seats to the show here are the best places to hunt online:

AIW Tickets has seats starting at $85
Stubhub has a few tickets now and will let you sell your extra seats too
TicketsNow is always worth checking out too

Here is some info from the U.S. Dancing with the Stars wiki:

Dancing with the Stars is a reality show airing on ABC in the United States. The show is based on the British BBC TV series Strictly Come Dancing and is part of the international Dancing with the Stars franchise.

The concept of the show is to pair a celebrity with a professional dancer in an attempt to win a high score from a panel of three judges and then a high number of votes from the viewers, who can call in and vote online. The person who receives the lowest score is eliminated, but they are allowed to dance one last dance at the end of the show.

The current co-hosts are Tom Bergeron and Samantha Harris. In season 1, Bergeron’s co-host was Lisa Canning. The panel of judges is Len Goodman (head judge), Carrie Ann Inaba, and Bruno Tonioli. Harold Wheeler is the musical director. The announcements for the show’s titles and dance introductions were recorded in the United Kingdom by Alan Dedicoat.

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Season three (premiered September 12, 2006) expanded from ten couples to eleven. Celebrity participants for season three of the USA edition of Dancing with the Stars are:

* Tucker Carlson, political pundit/MSNBC news anchor – partner Elena Grinenko (eliminated first)
* Monique Coleman, actress - partner Louis van Amstel
* Sara Evans, singer - partner Tony Dovolani (withdrew during sixth week)
* Willa Ford, singer - partner Maksim Chmerkovskiy (eliminated fifth)
* Vivica A. Fox, actress – partner Nick Kosovich (eliminated fourth)
* Harry Hamlin, actor – partner Ashly DelGrosso (eliminated third)
* Joey Lawrence, actor – partner Edyta Sliwinska
* Mario Lopez, actor/TV host – partner Karina Smirnoff
* Shanna Moakler, beauty queen/reality television star - partner Jesse DeSoto (eliminated second)
* Emmitt Smith, NFL running back – partner Cheryl Burke
* Jerry Springer, talk show host/former politician – partner Kym Johnson (former champion of Australian version of Dancing with the Stars) (eliminated sixth)

* As part of Slim Fast Dance Challenge: Tysonia Sichinga and Christian Perry

(more…)

You gotta hand it to the folks at Disney — they know how to promote their cra… err… stuff. They batch of that stuff in in the form of High School Musical - The Concert. If I have this right, I guess this is the traveling road show of the made for tv movie that my 9 year old daughter and her friends were very interested in called High School - The Musical, of High School Musical or something. I could bring myself to watch it but based on the ads it looks like dreamy hoops star longs to sing or some such nonsense. I’m sure drama and hilarity abounded…

Anyway, if you need to get tickets for yourself and a daughter or something we have done some research and here are the best after market sources for excellent seats to this tour stop at Key Arena:

AIW Tickets will hook you up with primo seats from $50-300
Stubhub will sell you tickets from $60-400. They’ll let you sell your tickets too
TicketsNow has a pretty good selection too

Here is more info from the wiki:

High School Musical is a 2006 Disney Channel Original Movie (DCOM). The made-for-TV musical film tells the story of two students, Troy, the captain of his school’s basketball team, and Gabriella, a shy new student who excels in mathematical fields. Together, they try out for the lead parts in their school musical. Despite some students’ attempts to thwart their dreams, Troy and Gabriella persist and inspire others along the way.

Cast:

* Zac Efron - Troy Bolton
* Vanessa Anne Hudgens - Gabriella Montez
* Ashley Tisdale - Sharpay Evans
* Lucas Grabeel - Ryan Evans
* Alyson Reed - Ms. Darbus
* Monique Coleman - Taylor McKessie
* Corbin Bleu - Chad Danforth
* Olesya Rulin - Kelsi Nielsen
* Chris Warren Jr. - Zeke Baylor
* Bart Johnson - Coach Jack Bolton
* Ryne Sanborn - Jason Cross
* Socorro Herrera - Ms. Montez
* Joey Miyashima - Principal Dave Matsui

Good luck — make that little girl in your life happy!

The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee is coming to Seattle’s Parmount Theater. Can you spell? Want to test your spelling skills on stage with the actors? You can’t try if you don’t have tickets! Here’s what you do. (more…)

Incubus is coming to Seattle and playing at the Paramont Theater. I’m sure they will be playing some songs from their album Light Grenades. Do you want tickets to the show? Here’s what you do:

Check out the tickets from one of our favorite aftermarket ticket sellers.

AIW Tickets has seats at $90-$110
TicketsNow is selling seats from $100-$120
StubHub has them a little cheaper starting at $93-$130

Check out their wikipage for more info. Good luck!

Alright, I admit it: The Doodlebops kinda creep me out. My toddler likes the show well enough but I cringe every time it comes on. Seems too similar to the weird psychedelic stuff from decades past like HR Puff n Stuff and that always creeped me out as a kid. Plus, the whole music dance theater thing that the doodle bops reek of just ain’t my thing.

But let’s face it — The Doodlebops are not targeted toward dads; the Doodlebops are targeted toward little kids and little kids eat this kind of stuff up. So if you are looking for primo seats to their Seattle shows we have you covered. They have performances scheduled at the Toyota Center in Kennewick, The Everett Events Center in Everett, and the Paramount Theatre in Seattle.

Stubhub has excellent tickets (including front row seats) ranging from $86-160.
AIW Tickets has similarly excellent seats ranging from $60-85 (though only in Everett it seems)
Ticketsnow has many of the same seats ranging from $75-165

And for your reading pleasure here is some more info on the Doodlebops:

The Doodlebops is a Canadian musical comedy series for preschool children. Beginning its broadcasting run in 2004, the series, produced by Cookie Jar Entertainment airs on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation (CBC) in Canada in the CBC Kids morning block, and on the Disney Channel in the USA as part of the Playhouse Disney morning programming schedule. The series stars are Lisa J. Lennox as Deedee Doodle, Chad McNamara as Rooney Doodle, and Jonathan Wexler as Moe Doodle.

The Doodlebops’ characters are members of a kids’ band, not unlike The Wiggles.

The show features a mix of music, humor and skits that teach pro-social lessons. The show always includes scenes from a concert in front of a preschool audience who actively participate in the singing and dancing.

The band members wear heavy make-up and/or prosthetics to look like live-action cartoon characters. They wore cloth hoods with fake ears during the show’s first season only. In the show’s second season, the band changes to flashier versions of their standard costumes, including sequins and other metallic fabrics, during their concert segments.

Hey, what screams “Christmas” more than a ballet about a girl who gets magically shrunken and then fights a evil rat king? (Or maybe he is just a mouse king… at any rate, he’s the bad guy.) Apparently not much. And once again there is a top-flight production of the Nutcracker playing this December in Seattle. The music is as beautiful as ever and the dancing makes for a lovely experience every year. Here is a little trivia on the Nutcracker from the wiki:

The Nutcracker (Russian: Щелкунчик, English: Shchelkunchik), Op. 71, is a fairy-ballet in two acts, three tableaux, by Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky, composed in 1891–1892, and based on The Nutcracker and the Mouse King (German: Nußknacker und Mausekönig), a story by E. T. A. Hoffmann (1816). Alexandre Dumas’ adaptation of the story was set to music by Tchaikovsky (after the libretto of Marius Petipa) and has become the most popular ballet performed around Christmas time. It is appealing to children and adults alike and has been a standard yearly feature of theatres in many cities. A selection of eight of the more popular numbers from the ballet was made by the composer, forming The Nutcracker Suite, designed for concert performance. The titles of the ballet (simply The Nutcracker) and the suite (The Nutcracker Suite) are frequently confused.

Tchaikovsky composed the ballet in 1891–1892, but he was unsatisfied with it and considered it to be one of his less successful pieces.

The first performance of the ballet was held as a double premiere together with Tchaikovsky’s last opera Iolanta on December 6/18, 1892, at the Mariinsky Theatre in St Petersburg, Russia. The ballet was conducted by Riccardo Drigo and choreographed by Lev Ivanov. However, this performance had just limited success.

The current popularity of The Nutcracker is due in part to Willam Christensen, former Ballet master of the San Francisco Ballet, who imported the work to the United States in 1944. The success of the ballet and George Balanchine’s choreography for his own 1954 version created a winter tradition of Nutcracker performances in the United States.

Ok, so on to where you should hunt for tickets. The box office is always a good place to start, but tickets sell out fast so here is where you should look to find just to the tickets you want:

AIW Tickets has tickets starting at $110
Stubhub is coming in at about $120
TicketsNow has good seats too

You ought to find what you need between all of these choices.

Happy mouse (king) hunting.

“Trans-Siberian Orchestra (often abbreviated as TSO) is a rock/metal orchestra founded by Paul O’Neill, Robert Kinkel, and Jon Oliva in 1996. It is best known for its remakes of classical Christmas songs.”

So says their wiki. I honestly don’t know anything about these guys — I can hardly spell their name (Trans-Siberian, Trans Siberian, trans Siberean…) but they are apparently popular enough to schedule an upcoming gig at Key Arena and that place is BIG. I guess they must not suck.

Here are the price ranges I’ve seen for tickets at a few top ticket vendors:

AIW Tickets does indeed have lots of seats ranging from $95-199
StubHub has fewer seats to this one. Their prices range from $85-130
TicketsNow inventory ranges from $125-225

More on the orchestra:

Trans-Siberian Orchestra was founded in 1996 in New York City by composers Paul O’Neill and Robert Kinkel, and Savatage lead singer Jon Oliva.

O’Neill had managed and produced rock bands including Aerosmith, Humble Pie and Scorpions, later writing for and producing Savatage, where he began working with Kinkel and Oliva. The concept for a band playing Christmas carols in a rock opera style was not received warmly by the industry, but quickly proved a success with adults as well as young people.

In the recording studio, Trans-Siberian Orchestra uses a full 60-piece orchestra and a choir. As of 2004, their touring band included 14 vocalists, 14 musicians, and 2 narrators.

Trans-Siberian Orchestra released their debut album Christmas Eve and Other Stories in 1996, and it remains their best-selling album. Their 1998 release The Christmas Attic was similarly a concept album with a Christmas theme. In 2000, they released their first (and to date only) non-Christmas album, Beethoven’s Last Night, a concept album about Ludwig van Beethoven’s last night on earth, during which he meets Fate, her son Twist, and Mephistopheles.

After several years of touring, they returned to the studio with another full-length album, Lost Christmas Eve, and the accompanying DVD/3-CD release The Christmas Trilogy, which contained all three of their Christmas albums to date.

The band is, as of early 2005, working on a new non-Christmas album, Night Castle. It is projected to be released sometime in 2007 and is expected to feature the band’s rendition of Carmina Burana, performed as a preview by the band during their 2004 and 2005 tours.

Their 2005 tour was number 21 on the list of the most successful concert tours of the year, earning just over US$21 million.[1]. The schedule for their 2006 winter tour has been released on their website.

Back in 2002, when their first single, “Swing, Swing” was released people branded The All-American Rejects as a “one hit wonder.” No longer can they say such things about this band. In 2005 they released their album Move Along and it has been a chart-topper ever since. They are coming to Seattle (at the WAMU Theatre) soon and tickets are still available for this great show!

Check out our favorite after market vendors:

AIW Tickets has the cheapest price with tickets ranging from $60-$90
StubHub also has great seats for $65 and $90
TicketsNow has tickets from $65-105

Here are some factoids about the All-American Rejects from their Wiki page:

The All-American Rejects are an American power pop band that formed in Stillwater, Oklahoma. Their latest album Move Along was released in 2005 while the single “Dirty Little Secret” reached number nine on the Billboard Hot 100 in January 2006 and number 18 in the UK top 40 in June 2006.

In the summer of 2001, the Rejects released the EP Same Girl, New Songs and began to tour the American Midwest. By the tour’s end, the band had signed a contract with Doghouse Records — the label of such bands as River City High and The Get Up Kids.

Then, in 2002, with producer Tim O’Heir (who had, in the past, worked with bands like Superdrag, Sebadoh, and Juliana Hatfield), the Rejects recorded their international debut album. From this album came the single “Swing, Swing,” for which the Rejects were best-known for several years. The self-titled album hit stores on October 15 of that year.

In 2005, the group released their new album, Move Along on July 12, from which came the single “Dirty Little Secret”. The music video features images from collective art project PostSecret. The second single “Move Along” was released in January 2006. In August 2006, the third single, “It Ends Tonight”, was released.

In 2006, the band toured around the US with Fall Out Boy, Hawthorne Heights, From First to Last, The Hush Sound, and October Fall in the Black Clouds and Underdogs Tour.

They are going on a headlining tour in the fall of 2006 called “Tournado” with Motion City Soundtrack, The Starting Line, The Format, Gym Class Heroes, and Boys Like Girls.

Panic! at the Disco is coming to Seattle at the Everett Center.

Here’s some info from Panic at the Disco’s wiki page for your reading pleasure:

Panic! at the Disco was formed in the suburban area of Summerlin, in unincorporated Las Vegas, by childhood friends Ryan Ross on guitar and Spencer Smith on drums. Since the age of thirteen, the two played blink-182 covers in bands of different formations, but finally recruited Brent Wilson on bass and Brendon Urie on vocals and guitar. One theory of the origin of the band’s name is from the song Panic! by The Smiths. The main theory is that the band’s name originated from a song written by Name Taken, titled Panic.

Tickets are still available to see this new band rock the stage! Here’s where to look for them:

AIW Tickets does have seats from $75-$95
StubHub has tickets from $79-$118
TicketsNow is selling them for $85-$115

“If I Had a Million Dollars…if I had a million dollars….I’d be rich.” You know you want to be singing that song when Barenaked Ladies come to Seattle at the Everett Events Center. If you love the Barenaked Ladies, their new album Barenaked Ladies Are Me is definitely not a disappointment. If you haven’t listened to much of them, what better way to get acquainted with their music than head to a show? What you need to do is check out our favorite aftermarket ticket sellers:

StubHub has tickets from $60-109
AIW Tickets is selling seats for $105
TicketsNow is coming in slightly higher at $110-$145

Here’s a little blurb in case your interested from the BLN’s wiki page:

Barenaked Ladies (often abbreviated BNL) is a Canadian alternative rock band currently composed of Jim Creeggan, Kevin Hearn, Steven Page, Ed Robertson, and Tyler Stewart, and formerly Andy Creeggan. They formed in 1988 in Scarborough, Ontario, a suburb of Toronto, and are best known for their hit singles, “One Week”, “Pinch Me”, “If I Had $1000000″ and “Brian Wilson”, and for their light-hearted and comedic performance style. Their trademark at live shows is humorous banter between songs, and improvised raps/songs, both of which are staples at almost every concert they perform.

“Primus sucks! Primus sucks!” You know you want to be yelling this until Primus comes out on stage at the Paramount Theater. The paramount is a great place to see shows.

Here’s what you do to get tickets:

AIW Tickets has tickets from $75-$98
StubHub is selling them at $89-$106
TicketsNow has them for $80 and $100

Enjoy the show and if you want to learn more about Primus check out their wiki page.

Primus is an American rock band formed in California in the mid-1980s. Singer and bassist Les Claypool has been the only constant member. They have had two guitar players, although Larry LaLonde has held onto the role for over 16 years, and several different drummers. Tim Alexander, Bryan Mantia and Perm Parker are the only drummers to have recorded with the band.

Their music has proven difficult to define; while usually considered by critics to be funk metal or alternative metal, Primus has been called everything from “thrash-funk meets Don Knotts, Jr.” to “alternative rock” to “the Freak Brothers set to music.” Les Claypool himself once described their music as “psychedelic polka.”

Comedian George Lopez from The George Lopez Show is coming to share his comedic genius with Seattle! He will be at the Paramont Theater. That seems to be a big night for concerts! If you want to have a fun night laughing and enjoying yourself go see him.

Here’s where you should hunt for tickets:

AIW Tickets definitely has the cheapest seats from $65-$195
TicketsNow is selling seats for between $70 and $220
StubHub has seats from $73-$230 and

Here is a bit of bio from George Lopez’s wiki page:

He was born to a Mexican-American family and grew up in the San Fernando Valley near Los Angeles, California. He became a popular stand-up comedian, especially among the Latino community for his satirizing of Mexican-American life and culture in the United States. Much of his humor was drawn from the financial poverty of his upbringing and of the Latino community in general. He has released four albums of recorded stand-up comedy shows, including Right Now Right Now and Team Leader, which was nominated for a 2004 Grammy for Best Comedy Album [1]. He appeared in The Latin Kings of Comedy, where he was special guest along with other top Latino stand-up comedians. Alien Nation in 1996 was his first album released of his stand-up comedy shows. His current stand-up comedy DVD is Why You Crying?. He recently released “El Mas Chingon” in September of 2006.