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Ticket Giveaway! Nine Inch Nails
Friday, November 22, 8 PM, KeyArena
Explosions in the Sky.
BE THERE.
Tickets go on sale Friday, June 21 at 10 AM. More info and tickets HERE.
Feeling lucky? Email promotions@thestranger.com with NAILS EXPLOSION in the subject line for a chance to win tickets! Please include your full name.
Ticket Giveaway! N-E-X D-O-C-S
Opens Friday, June 21, NWFF
These documentaries are edgy, hybrid, and blur the lines between the world we see around us, and the world we create. Films include a survey of death metal in Angola, students taking on Russian politics, a dance film made by garbage workers, and more.
More info HERE.
Feeling lucky? Email promotions@thestranger.com with NEXDOCS in the subject line for a chance to win tickets to NWFF this year!
What's Happening Blitz Capitol Hill Arts Walk
Thursday, June 13, 5-8 PM, Capitol Hill
Art is everywhere, every month, but for this Blitz, enjoy your art walk with a guide and a pack of like-minded aficionados (and pick up a special-edition Blitz t-shirt on the way!)
More info HERE.
Full list of locations and guides after the jump.
Ticket Giveaway! Nark Magazine Pride Festival
Friday, June 28 - Saturday, June 29
Various locations
Plan to party and support our community because your ticket sales benefit Gay City Health Project and Rusty Nails Siobhan. Weekend passes, VIP meet and greets and 18+ tickets available, free light brunch on the cruise provided by Kitchen Sink Project.
More info and tickets HERE.
Feeling lucky? Email promotions@thestranger.com with JINKX MONSOON in the subject line for a chance to win passes to the festival! Please include your full name.
Ticket Giveaway! My Bloody Valentine
Wednesday, August 21, 8 PM, WaMu Theater
More tickets and info HERE.
Feeling lucky? Email promotions@thestranger.com with SHOEGAZE-ROCK GODS in the subject line for a chance to win tickets! Please include your full name.
Ticket Giveaway! Red Baraat
Wednesday, June 26, 8 PM, Neptune
More info and tickets HERE.
Feeling lucky? Email promotions@thestranger.com with RED BARAAT in the subject line for a chance to win tickets! Please include full name.
Ticket Giveaway! Hey Bartender
Opens Friday, June 14, NWFF
Get behind the bars of the most exclusive cocktail joints in New York City (on screen), and don't miss opening night happy hour, with drinks in the Film Forum lobby mixed by cocktail wizards from Barrio.
More info HERE.
Feeling lucky? Email promotions@thestranger.com with BARTENDER in the subject line for a chance to win tickets to the NWFF this year!
What's Happening Bumbershoot
Saturday, August 31 - Monday, September 2
Seattle Center
More info and tickets HERE.
What's Happening A Drink for the Kids
Saturday, June 22 - Saturday, June 29
Various locations
The Drink for the Kids opening party will be Saturday June 22nd at Moe Bar.
Ninkasi Brewing Company and OOLA Distiller (located on Capitol Hill) are sponsoring the event; anytime you buy OOLA liquor or a Ninkasi beer during Drink for the Kids, all proceeds go directly to The Vera Project. Think you can drink for a good cause? Choose a night (or two or three), bring friends, drink OOLA and Ninkasi, and support your favorite all-ages music venue!
Full list of bars and dates after the jump.
What's Happening Rainbow Women's Health Fair
Saturday, June 29, 12-4 PM, All Pilgrims Church
Services for people of all gender and all sexualities!
More info HERE.
Ticket Giveaway! Fred Armisen
Sunday, July 7, 8 PM, Showbox at the Market
More info and tickets HERE.
Feeling lucky? Email promotions@thestranger.com with PORTLANDIA in the subject line for a chance to win tickets! Please include your full name.
Show Noise for the Needy
Thursday, June 20 - Sunday, June 23
Various locations
Featuring: The Maldives, Kris Orlowski, “The Rolling Stones”, Horse Feathers, Polyrhythmics, Orgone, Hot Bodies in Motion, Cody Beebe and the Crooks, The Blakes, Said the Whale, Big Sur, Case Studies, The Local Strangers, Princess and many more.
NFTN outdoor shows on Saturday (21+) and Sunday (All Ages, Bar 21+ w/ID) at Hattie's Party Lot. Doors at 1PM.
More info and tickets HERE.
Show The Stranger's Music Box
Wednesday, June 19, 8 PM, Neumos
THE INTELLIGENCE
LA LUZ
PONY TIME
Buy your tickets right now HERE.
What's Happening Dance Your Cash Off
Thursday, June 20, 5:30 PM, Nectar Lounge
Hundreds of Seattle’s most agile, most stylish, and most civic-minded folk will dance for five (yes, five!) hours straight to raise money for 826 Seattle. As a nonprofit writing and tutoring center dedicated to helping young people improve their creative and expository writing skills, and to helping teachers inspire their students to write, 826 Seattle wants to continue to provide all their programs free of charge.
Help the 826 folks continue to build indispensable programs for youth by dancing to KEXP DJs, drinking, winning prizes, and fundraising at Dance Your Cash Off 2013!
Register online HERE.
Show Decibel Festival
Wednesday, September 25 - Sunday, September 29
Various locations
With a focus on live performance, interactive multimedia art, state-of-the-art sound and technology based education, Decibel has solidified itself as one of the premier electronic music festivals and promotional organizations in the world.
This year's 10th anniversary program will be taking place September 25th through the 29th and will feature over 100 performers representing over 20 countries. Official showcases will be taking place across 10 premier venues in Seattle's Capitol Hill and downtown neighborhoods.
The 2nd wave of artists were just announced! This year's festival will include: Neon Indian, Gold Panda, Little Boots, XXYYXX, and more! See the full list HERE.
Ticket Giveaway! AM & Shawn Lee, Don't Talk to the Cops
Friday, June 14, 8 PM, Chop Suey
Download AM & Shawn Lee's FREE tour EP HERE!
Don't Talk to the Cops will also play! So now it's a party and you have to go.
More info and tickets HERE.
Feeling lucky? Email promotions@thestranger.com with SHAWN LEE in the subject line for a chance to win tickets!
Ticket Giveaway! Chris Mann
Friday, June 21, 8 PM, Neptune
Upon its release, Mann sang for President Barack Obama and First Lady Michelle Obama as part of TNT’s “Christmas In Washington” special, and appeared on other fancy shows and stages. He's pretty cool. You should go see him perform.
More info and tickets HERE.
Feeling lucky? Email promotions@thestranger.com with CHRISTMAS IN WASHINGTON in the subject line for a chance to win tickets!
Ticket Giveaway! Colin Stetson
Friday, June 21, 7:30 PM, Barboza
Judges ended up on countless year-end lists and emphatically proved that Stetson's approach to solo saxophone transcends niche or genre; a unique and emotionally resonant instrumental music with influences as wide-ranging as jazz, metal, pop, soul, drone, industrial, minimalism, electro-acoustic and modern contemporary.
More info and tickets HERE.
Feeling lucky? Email promotions@thestranger.com with JUDGES in the subject line for a chance to win tickets!
Ticket Giveaway! Win tickets!
WE'VE GOT TICKETS!
When you sign up for our newsletter above, you will automatically get entered into a drawing. The winner gets a pair of weekend passes to see Jinkx Monsoon, Mykki Blanco, and many more. Sign up before Sunday, June 23 at midnight. We'll draw a winner Monday, June 24. Must be 21+ to win. Good luck!
What's Happening Genius Juice
Blended by the marvelous Chris Sparkman of award-winning Sparkman Cellars in Woodinville, Genius Juice is produced in a limited quantity to support the Genius Awards, awarding $25,000 in grants to local artists and arts organizations annually. Only 50 precious cases exist of our 2013 blend, featuring 50 percent Syrah and 50 percent Malbec grapes from gorgeous Red Mountain, Washington.
Genius Juice is only available for purchase in association with Night of a Bunch of Geniuses—our Genius Foundation fundraiser on June 6 at Pike and Summit. Buy it by the case or by the glass: Sparkman Cellars' wine is certified excellent by Wine & Spirits, Wine Spectator, and Wine Enthusiast, and by drinking it in support of the Genius Awards, you will be certified excellent, too.
Ticket Giveaway! SMOKED!
Through Sunday, June 16, The Kitchen by Delicatus
5 cocktails
4-course meal
live theater
This will be one of Cafe Nordo's most intimate events yet.
Ticket Giveaway! Capitol Hill Block Party
Friday July 26 - Sunday July 28
Check out the lineup and festival details HERE.
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