American Idol Live Coming to RBC Center
You’ve spent two nights a week watching them this year, and on Wednesday, July 27, Raleigh will get a chance to welcome the , including Garner’s own, Scotty McCreery. The Top 11 contestants will perform a variety of solos and combo songs in what will certainly be a sold-out arena show. The lineup includes: Casey Abrams, Haley Reinhart, Jacob Lusk, James Durbin, Lauren Alaina, Naima Adedapo, Paul McDonald, Pia Toscano, Scotty McCreery, Stefano Langone, and Thia Megia. Tickets go on sale to the public on Friday, May 13 at 10am. This event will sell out, and it will behoove readers to seek a presale event during the week.
Death Cab for Cary
On Monday, August 8, will be returning to the area. This time the concert is at Koka Booth Amphitheatre in Cary. The band will be supporting their new CD, “Codes and Keys”, which hits stores on May 31. opens.
John Butler, Gomez Coming to Lincoln
On Wednesday, July 20, the will be playing at the . opens.
Here Comes Hopscotch
Last year’s inaugural was a booming success, showcasing some of the nation’s best up-and-coming indie artists during a three-day stretch across downtown Raleigh. The excitement continued to grow during the Winter as Hopscotch organizers planned their sophomore event (September 8, 9, 10). Last night the official lineup was announced , and it appears the gang is picking up right where they left off last year.
The Flaming Lips and Guided By Voices will carry headlining shows, however other great bands such as Drive-By-Truckers, Superchunk, The Dodos, Japandroids, J Mascis, John Vanderclice, Bandway, and many, many, many more!
Some fantastic ticket packages are now available (all show pass tiers will sell out, so don’t delay).
- VIP – 3-day pass includes admission to all club shows, both headlining nights at City Plaza, exclusive VIP entrance to the shows, and admission to the VIP opening night reception. $155
- All-Show – 3-day pass includes admission to all club and headlining shows. $105
- All-Club – 3-day pass includes admission to all club shows. $65
- City Plaza Friday – includes admission only to the City Plaza Friday show (Guided By Voices, Drive-By Truckers, The Dodos). $32
- City Plaza Saturday – includes admission only to the City Plaza Saturday show (The Flaming Lips, Superchunk, The Light Pines). $34
There will be smartphone apps for the event, and gogoraleigh will, as always, create a special Google Calendar for the events including set times, locations, links to maps of the location, and links to the artists websites.
Here is the full lineup of bands:
Gogo’s TWC Channel Guide Shows You Where the Damned Channel Is
How many times has someone said something like: “Watch this show. It’s on Bravo.” or “the game is on CBS College.” Where the hell are those channels? You flip through a hundred pages of guide data and still can’t find the damned show!
Sweet relief is here now with the alphabetical Time Warner Cable channel guide from gogoraleigh. Print the PDF as a 2-sided document, fold it in half, and you have a neat little half-page alphabetical listing of the more than 350 networks included in Time Warner’s service. Remember that SD channels are those under 1000 and HD channels are 1000 and above.
KE$HA Coming to The Walt
On Tuesday, August 9, will bring the “Get $leazy Tour” to the downtown Raleigh amphitheater. The is currently running.
Furthur Coming to TWC
Furthur featuring Phil Lesh and Bob Weir will be coming to TWC Pavilion on Thursday, July 28. The is on now.
Time for Attorney General to Investigate Ticketmaster
This morning tickets went on sale for Mumford & Sons playing at The Walt, a 5,500 seat venue, in June. Unfortunately, according to several accounts, the event was SOLD OUT at the time the “public” sale began. It appears that all of the event’s tickets were sold during the “pre-sale” that was only available to iPhone owners earlier in the week. So a city-owned facility is hosting a public event, however only those with an expensive phone had the privilege of buying tickets.
Tickets for Taylor Swift went on sale today as well, and the presale for that event began on Tuesday. My sister reported to me that within seconds of being able to get into Ticketmaster’s sale page, only 200-level seats were available.
Honestly I don’t care about who makes the phone involved in the Mumford sale, however I do have a problem, a BIG problem, with the lack of access the general public had to these tickets in a publicly owned venue. In the past presales have included a small block of tickets, often the best tickets. However the problem of finding accessible good seats at the time of the “public” sale has gotten out of hand. Several times in the last decade I have been on Ticketmaster.com the very second tickets became available for Walnut Creek seats, yet not a single time have I gotten seats in the venue’s front three sections.
Something is going on here. Is it that Ticketmaster is shunting all of these tickets to StubHub for extremely higher prices? Are they giving all of those seats to the promoter? Are presales the only way to get decent seats now?
I don’t mind the free market deciding the value of tickets, however the free market should have “free access” to seats at the market price, especially if the ticket seller implies that the limited supply tickets is available.
Because of the unjust nature of obtaining tickets at the time of the “public” sale, I will no longer assist ticket promoters with their sham by reporting this ticket sale time in my announcements. Instead I will either post the presale times or simply abstain from posting the information as it seems irrelevant and misleading altogether. In the meantime the State of North Carolina’s Attorney General’s office should investigate Ticketmaster’s operations for possible antitrust activity with events in our public venues.
It’s Mark Gottfried
Good news for my dental patients: Mark Gottfried will be introduced as the NCSU head coach this afternoon:
I remember liking his interviews when he was at Alabama. They miked him up for a game and it was fun to hear his conversation. Solid hire. Who cares about shaking the earth. He can get the team to being good. Alabama is hard to recruit to, so he might be able to do even better here. With Leonard Hamilton being the 3rd best coach in the ACC, the ACC beyond Roy and K is wide open (and they won’t be around in 10 yrs)….
Follow NCSU Coaching Candidates on TV
Today Sidney Lowe officially resigns from his coaching post at N.C. State University, casting a new light on the NCAA and NIT tournaments for NCSU fans seeking the right coach. Back in January I posted a list of coaches who are fairly young and finding success at smaller schools. Some of these coaches continued to have excellent seasons, and others didn’t.
Let’s revisit this list, however, with the tournament schedules in mind. The list appears in the order in which each coach’s team will play over the next four nights.
Format: Name (school) – Sagarin Computer Ranking, Tourney Seed, Air Time (Network)
Season Over (No Bid or Tourney Loss)
- (Iowa St) – #87
- (Duquense) – #75
- (St. Marys-Cal) – #43, NIT 2-seed. 11p (ESPN2) – Lost by 1 in 1st round
Wednesday
- (Wichita St) – #64, NIT 4-seed. 7p (ESPN2)
- (Colorado) – #49, NIT 1-seed. 9p (ESPN3.com)
- (Wash. St) – #55, NIT 2-seed. 10p (ESPNU)
Thursday
- (ODU) – #39, NCAA 9-seed. 12:40p (truTV)
- (Richmond) – #36, NCAA 12-seed. 4:10p (TBS)
Friday
- (Texas A&M) – #33, NCAA 7-seed. 4:10p (TBS)
- (Xavier) – #35, NCAA 6-seed. 7:27p (truTV)
- (Georgia) – #52, NCAA 10-seed. 9:45p (CBS)
Advancing, Next Game TBA
- (Missouri St) – #73, NIT 3-seed. 8p (ESPN3.com)
If you would like to add these events to your Google Calendar, simply follow the link below.
McCreery One of Idol’s Favorites
Garner’s Scotty McCreery is making a big impact on this season of . He may resemble Clay Aiken, but his voice is decidedly different. Entertainment Weekly posted their odds for each contestant and have the 17-year old, deep-voiced country crooner finishing third, with 6-1 odds on winning it all. The story is found on page 48 of this week’s issue.
With the Canes making a push to the playoffs and with Duke and Carolina entering the NCAA tournament in the top 8, and with McCreery’s showing thus far, it looks like we may have a busy Spring in Raleigh.
Idol airs Wednesday at 8pm.
Subscribe to Gogo’s Google Calendar for Complete NCAA Tournament Action
It’s NCAA tourney time and you guessed it! Gogoraleigh is your source for importing calendar events for all of the games. It is a Google Calendar which contains all 36 First Round games. Keep following it, though, as the next round games will be added as soon as they are determined. , on your Android Phone, iPhone, iPad other capable device!
The two area teams playing include:
- UNC vs. Long Island – Friday at 7:15 pm (CBS)
- Duke vs. Hampton – Friday at 3:10 pm (truTV)
This year’s tournament will be broadcasted on four different networks for the first time. The games will appear in Raleigh on these Time Warner Cable Channels:
SD
- CBS – 3 and 105
- TBS – 34 and 302
- TNT – 26 and 301
- truTV – 44 and 313
HD
- CBS – 1105 and 5.1
- TBS – 1302
- TNT – 1301
- truTV – 1313
Surprise! Prince Is Coming
On Wednesday, March 23, Prince will play the RBC Center in Raleigh. Tickets go on sale Monday morning (3/14) at 10am.
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