There is nothing more that we want to get done than this installment of Empty Out Your Wallet, so we can get outside and enjoy this day. Leave it to the Ticketmaster gods to curse us once again with numerous great shows making our job harder.
The show that our readers were looking forward to last week, The Flaming Lips at the Aragon, goes on sale at 11 a.m. on Saturday. This should be a great time. Having seen the Lips at Lollapalooza for the first time last year and feeling the joy created by their onstage mayhem, we're looking forward to seeing the show inside and feeling that euphoric buzz again.
Sept. 7, Aragon, $37.50, all ages, on sale 11 a.m. Saturday
Onto a festival that proves we aren't the only ones who download music impaired, The U.K.'s Download Festival comes to Northerly Island. The Shins, Snoop Dogg, Wolf Parade, and more all are slated to perform. We wonder if they will shuffle themselves, so it seems like a private concert playlist on our iPod.
Sept. 2, Northerly Island's Charter One Pavilion, $20 - $40, all ages, on sale noon Friday
With their newly released video, "The Money Maker", Rilo Kiley are garnering some choice commentary for the length, porn star interviews and disco-y sound, but we could care less. We've been listening to More Adventurous and Take Offs and Landings for so long without seeing the band live, that we just don't know how we'll react to them in the flesh and blood. We hope it doesn't involve tears, that'd be uncool.
Sept. 15, Riviera Theatre, $26, all ages, on sale 10 a.m. Saturday
We're gettting cabin fever, so we're skipping on mentioning Macy Gray; Kanye West's fundraiser at House of Blues; Of Montreal; The New Pornographers; or Pit Er Pat's takeover of all the stages in Chicagoland. That's all until we get another paycheck and can clear out the wallet next week.
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oh man, julene, never saw rilo kiley live before? missing out.
i saw them six years ago at the metra, once. was the first time i ever heard them and immediately fell in love.
but by far the best was seeing them at schuba's after execution of all things came out. now that was a show! they were in top form.
the new song is so different, but i still love it. and the video. i'm glad they're still going.
fyi, rilo kiley tickets are already on sale via http://rilokiley.ducatking.com/index.php?1184779661& they are far cheaper than what ticketmaster would charge.
pinback october 14 ftw! i was hoping i'd get to see them for my bday again like last year, but oh well.
michael: never seen a band play at the metra. which station?
Very, very excited about Flaming Lips; I also saw them for the first time at Lollapalooza and have been waiting for them to come back to Chicago ever since.
Voxtrot's also coming back to town to play the Metro on October 4, which I'm very eagerly awaiting, as well.
Thanks for that link, Monkey.
I've seen Rilo Kiley 3 times now, each time amazing (even with an awful crowd in Cleveland).
You've definitely been missing out, Julene!
I wish I weren't too poor to buy some Flaming Lips tickets as well. I've never seen them, sadly. Maybe I'll Craigslist some tickets closer to the date.
Shannon- must have been the Rock Island Line... or perhaps the Woodstock station on the UP Northwest Metra Line.
I actually just ordered my Flaming Lips tickets; turns out there's a presale until 10 PM today. Presale password is "mystics". I was just informed by my friend who gets the Jam Mail emails from ticketmaster [I actually get them, too, but I never read them]
Two tickets were upwards of $90, though. Yikes.
Holy crap, Wolf Parade in Chicago?? How did I miss this? Thanks Julene!
What's Kayne's fundraiser for? Funding Kanye?
P Griffin Baron: HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!
that download festival was originally at alpine valley. do you think all those people get to transfer their tickets? not enough people bought them?
i've never been to n. island (partly out of protest); but if i'm in town i might have to change my mind. however, isn't it smaller than alpine (which, i've never been to either)?
Northerly is way smaller than Alpine. Your talking 7,000 or so versus 35,000. I think the fest is still playing Alpine on the 1st, and Northerly on the 2nd.
it said it was 'moved from alpine' in some stuff i saw.
That's a poor excuse of a lineup for the REAL Download that takes place in the UK.
Along with "Decent Days and Nights", "Empty out your Wallet" is one of my least favorite recurring headlines on this website.