New American Music Union: Free Tickets to a Lucky Neatorama Reader

By Alex in Music on Jun 20, 2008 at 7:05 am

Thanks to the good folks at American Eagle Outfitters, we have two tickets to the New American Music Union, a two-day summer music festival this August 8 & 9 in Pittsburgh, PA, for one lucky Neatorama reader.

Line-up for the music festival include Bob Dylan, The Raconteurs, The Roots, Gnarls Barkley, and more. The festival will also feature college bands (the best of which will win a recording session). More info here: LinkThanks Steve!

If you’d like the ticket, all you got to do is ask (in the comment section). One winner will be chosen at random in the next day or two; the tickets will be sent to US address only.

You don’t have to live in Pittsburgh, but obviously you have to go there for the show. Please don’t ask for the tickets just because you can or because you want to resell them – they probably won’t have good resale value, as tickets are on-sale right now for the affordable price of $25 for students, and $49.50 for general admission.

In return, please let me ask you for a feedback on Neatorama – what we’re doing right (or wrong) and what we can do to improve the blog. I gotta tell you, after running the blog for almost three years (with great help from Miss Cellania and other authors), I’m tired and am in need of fresh ideas :) If you’d like to leave a feedback, but not be in the running for the tickets, that’s fine too – just let me know.

Update 6/23/08 – Congrats to Marci who won the ticket (chosen at random).


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  1. MervinGleasner
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 7:14 am

    I went to Pittsburgh once when i was 17… id love to go again! Will you send me back? I’d be most grateful.

  2. Rae
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 7:24 am

    To be truthful, I’m not sure what you can do to improve, but what you’re doing right: I love the wide range of topics you cover. It’s very esoteric, and it is almost always something new and interesting.

  3. Gary
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 7:35 am

    I’d really like those tickets!

    Thanks.

  4. DreamMrSandman
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 7:46 am

    I love this site, I learn about the COOLEST things, keep it up! I’d LOVE to go to this festival, I went to my first and only concert in 2006 and I would REALLY like to go to another one, especially one playing SUCH good bands and singers. Every time I find out a band I love is playing nearby, the tickets are either too expensive for me or they’re sold out because they’re playing like the NEXT day. I’d LOVE the tickets

  5. Francesca
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 7:55 am

    Hi, I follow you since almost a year and I think this site is really COOL, so please don’t lose the verve and go on giving us cool stuff so that we can get fancy with our friends! ^^
    (I’m not English-speaking so please forgive any mistake :P )
    Compliments! ^^

  6. Fran
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 7:58 am

    Would love the tickets. I love the site. I’m constantly telling friends about things I’ve read here.

  7. Krystine
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 8:16 am

    Can I go? Pretty please? I’ll rock a Neatorama shirt whilst rocking out. :)

  8. Seth.Marcell
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 8:17 am

    I would LOVE those tickets!

    Love the site, my major issue is this. I often access the site from a PDA (sprint mogul running Windows Mobile 6 pro)

    The site is very hard to navigate on this phone. Some mobile browser optimization would pretty much be the only thing i could ask.

    That being said, im sure very few people are accessing the site this way and it would be a pain in the butt to optimize for the phone. I’ll still read everyday.

  9. George
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 8:20 am

    I live in Pittsburgh AND I love Neatorama! Can I please have the tickets? I will tell every single person at the concert to go to Neatorama everyday and leave comments!

  10. azlynch
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 8:20 am

    Give me tickets. I love Ball canning jars.

  11. Marci
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 8:24 am

    I think Neatorama is one of my favorite boredom busters, I could click on random all day.

    I think a more separated forum for discussion (with registered user names) would be neat for everybody to talk about the things posted.

    And I’d love the tickets. Bob Dylan would be amazing.

  12. rahbehkah
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 8:31 am

    I would love to go this concert! It is just down the road! Plus, I love your website. Thanks for all your hard work and effort to keep me entertained.

  13. ruby
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 8:47 am

    I love this website! I also like your logo, but I think your masthead could use a little bit of a redesign. Maybe something fun and funky…but that’s just my artistic side speaking!

  14. sw
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 8:49 am

    i would lik ethe tickets please :)

    please don’t burn out! i love the site just as it is (with the exception of the overly long articles to have to scroll over). i have turned everyone in my life onto your site, and constantly find myslef talking about things i’ve read here.

  15. zack
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 8:50 am

    i’d love to take my daughter to the show. She loves the Roots and Gnarls

  16. joak
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 9:02 am

    i would love these tickets!

  17. Mia
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 9:10 am

    May I have some tickets, please? I think your site is one of the best. I go crazy if I miss a day of Neatorama. Suggestions: more music videos from lesser known artists, and maybe throw in some extra foodie stuff here and there. I like new recipies.

  18. Lauren F.
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 9:25 am

    Um, I’ll take a ticket or two…

  19. cz
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 10:24 am

    i live in pittsburgh…i want the tickets!

  20. Steve
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 10:39 am

    I sympathize with your burnout; it’s a wonderful site but it ties you down. I went thru the same thing with my job. My suggestion would be to freshen your approach by seeking more “neat” and less bizarre, more creative adaptations to life (the stone house) and less plastic time killers (your lego obsession). Good luck. Thanks but no thanks on the concert tickets.

  21. Jill
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 10:51 am

    I don’t think I’d have a chance of getting out there to see the show, as great as it is.

    But in regards to what you’re doing right, I only discovered this blog a week ago and love it. I’ve already posted a handful of links to my Rue The Day Blog.

    You have awesome content on topics I’m interested in. Keep it up.

  22. Thomas
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 10:54 am

    Bob Dylan, Gnarles Barkley, AND The Roots?? If I get the tickets, I promise not to say mean things to stupid people in the comments section for at least… a few months.

  23. sparge
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 11:01 am

    Never been to Pittsburgh, but would love the chance!

    Only thing I can suggest is… maybe a few more flash games? (I do have an idea for a collaboration if you’re interested in going down that route)

  24. Amy
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 11:08 am

    Alex, I would love two tickets — hope i win, I’m obsessed with the Raconteurs and the rest of the lineup is amazing too!

    Neatorama is awesome — I visit every day! Don’t change a thing, except maybe the What is it? posts (boooo-ring, or maybe I’m just bitter cuz I never know what the object is . . .)

  25. Toby B
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 11:17 am

    Oooh, decisions, decisions…
    I know I won’t be in Pitt in August so I won’t ask for them, but I vote you give them to either, Krystine, George, or the Sandman.
    Your site is awesome, don’t change a thing (cept maybe the masthead, maybe once a month or something like dooce).
    Looking forward to more Neatorama shows!

  26. mrmark
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 11:34 am

    Why is Neatorama so great?

    Maybe because I have commented maybe a hundred times and I still don’t have an account!! I like the trust in its readers and I like the layout you switched to this year.

    Sometimes when I check Digg and Reddit I feel so full of politics and deaths and people lying or being bad. When I come back to my Neatorama I’m filled with sunshine dust and moon water, it is that wonderful. My girlfriend and I read Neatorama together so when i call her in Maryland, I live in Philly, we can chat about the latest post and go off on tangents about the subject like I remember the tree house post you put up awhile ago, that was(is) our dream to live in a tree house, that had us talking all night until she fell asleep on the phone. Neatorama is so cute like that.

    Or when you posted about Hobbit houses awhile back or any post from Uncle Johns great bathroom reader.

    My least favorite thing is the oddball videos someone will post, like those music videos, no offense Mr Stanhope!, but I think you are doing a wonderful job being my cavalier knights of smiles :D

    - mrmark, mrelrayes, mark, etc.

  27. mrmark
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 11:34 am

    OH! no option to edit a post is sometimes bad too! lol

    edit: I will take her(gf) if you pick me :D

  28. Emily Drew
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 11:36 am

    I already live in Pittsburgh. I’d love to go! Can I have the tickets, pretty please?

  29. stiggy
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 12:01 pm

    I have been going to this site for about a year now, and I love everything. I sometimes think some of the posts aren’t ‘neatorama’ worthy… but thats subjective. I would think that filtering out anything that is NOT considerably ‘neat,’ would ultimately leave something out that is (nature of the beast).

    I always learn new stuff when I come here, I love the tokyoflash games, and the guess what it is games. They always lean towards something cool.

    Quite Frankly, I enjoy the current composition immensely to come back every day. I know thats not what your looking for, but I felt I needed to put in my 2 cents.

    B

    P.S. I don’t want the tickets. I just wanted a logical place to say ‘well done’ and … well…. ‘thanks’ for providing this site.

  30. Stephanie
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 12:08 pm

    I’d love these tickets. This site is fantastic. It gives me weird news and the chance to get tickets!

  31. oxyacetylene
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 12:10 pm

    ppppppppppllllleeeeeeeeaaaaaaaassssssseeeeeeee!!!!!!!let me have the tickys!please,please(no shame here)please!!!!
    i would love to take my wife to see bob dyllan!i’ll wash ur dog! hell, i’ll even wash ur cat! now wouldn’t 15-20 minuites of watching a total stranger getting soaked and the bejeesus scratched out of him be totally worth 2 tickets? also while we’re there i hereby pledge to personally clean all the toilets in the train station with my tongue! not only would that be 1 hell of a commercial for listerine,but truly shows my desire for wishing to go. we also have 2 cameras with 2 gig cards on them so will send u plenty of pics of us there if u wish.to end on a low note …ppppplllleeeeaaaaasssseeeeeeeeeeeeee! with strawberry jam on it?

  32. Austin
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 12:41 pm

    I don’t know how to help improve the site. You seem to be the best at the “cool stuff” category. I would really really really enjoy the tickets. Please.

  33. gryt
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 12:50 pm

    Pick me!

    Love the site, not sure what you could do to improve… More posts? :)

  34. travis
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 12:57 pm

    May I please have these tickets?

  35. Jeb
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 2:13 pm

    Sounds like a blast, I’ll throw my hat in the ring!

  36. J.
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 2:30 pm

    I would love those tickets. Pretty please!

  37. Christophe
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 2:34 pm

    Why is Neatorama so great?

    It’s neatly eclectic. I don’t like equally all the posts but really can see the ‘neatyness’ in it. There’s always something new and interesting.
    So sorry Alex, no ideas, no help besides a couple of url suggestions, just cheering the good work, enjoying a good time. Thanks.

  38. icydeadpeeps
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 4:43 pm

    I think you are doing a wonderful job running this blog. I was just recently introduced to it when a friend showed me the video of the truck imploding, and I’ve been checking back everyday (and most of the time many times through out the day) to see any new posts. You update it very frequently which I find to be amazing, I also love the variety of quizes, news, competitions, and quotes that make this blog so unique. I really can’t think of much to change right now. Keep up the good work.

    Icy

  39. rpmlem
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 5:30 pm

    I live very close to Pittsburgh and would love to go to this with my brother and see my favorite band (The Roots). PLEASE let me have the good fortune of getting these two tickets!

  40. Morgan
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 5:55 pm

    I’d like some tickets please.

  41. ted
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 9:50 pm

    I don’t want to go. Please don’t give them to me. I’m not even in your country.

  42. Carly
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 11:45 pm

    I’d love the tickets and I love the site! I even have my mom checking it out at work :D

  43. mclayville
    Jun 21st, 2008 at 12:36 am

    I would love me some tickets.

  44. Chad Cloman
    Jun 21st, 2008 at 7:34 am

    I do NOT want the tickets. Instead I would like to say that I read about 40 different web sites daily, and Neatorama is one of my favorites. Please don’t let burnout cause you to stop running the site. It’s definitely one of my staples, because on most of the other sites I get news or technology info, while here I get neat stuff. Neatorama is one of my “fun” sites.

  45. joey
    Jun 21st, 2008 at 8:29 am

    oh neatorama, please can i have those tickets?

  46. Jim R Feliciano
    Jun 21st, 2008 at 10:40 pm

    I want these tickets. I want to travel to Pennsylvania
    Thank you.

  47. Jeff666666
    Jun 22nd, 2008 at 9:29 am

    I would like the tickets, please.

    Neatorama is one of my favorite sites – one that I subscribe to through RSS and that I look forward to reading everyday. I honestly can’t think of any improvements because you’re so ecclectic that you prety much cover everything. Keep up the good work!

  48. Megan
    Jun 23rd, 2008 at 9:20 am

    I live in Pittsburgh with my husband. We moved here 2 years ago directly after getting married, directly after graduating college. He started Chemical Engineering Graduate studies – We are 6.5 hours away from all friends and family. Despite my having been a double Art and Music major I have NEVER been to a concert! It’s pretty much Criminal! I always feel as though I just miss the tickets, or it’s too expensive, or too far away. This would be the perfect opportunity and a treat.

    Please give me tickets, and feel the satisfaction of giving me my FIRST Concert experience!

    Additionally, Neatorama is one of the blogs I frequent Daily. I wouldn’t know how to improve your blog. I can tell you that I enormously enjoy the longer articles and lists. I also like the quizzes. I think it’s great that you seem to have ?partnered up? with Uncle John’s Bathroom Reader. Have you considered attempting to create relationships with other Interesting Nuggets of Knowledge companies, such as Weird USA and their corresponding State books?

    Thank you for your consideration!

  49. Robb Fort
    Jun 23rd, 2008 at 11:10 am

    I’d really like to win these tickets. My son and both want to go! Please!?!?!
    Make this Daddy happy!

  50. ruby
    Jun 23rd, 2008 at 1:47 pm

    I know I already commented here….and I would really like the tickts and I am close to Pittsburgh. I just got married and we haven’t planned a honeymoon yet! This would be very cool as my hubby is a musician!

  51. Alex
    Jun 23rd, 2008 at 7:32 pm

    It’s always tough for me to pick a winner – so many people asked so nicely that if I had more than just a pair of tickets, I’d definitely give them all.

    But unfortunately I have to pick just one winner – and to make it fair, I actually have a method: I let random.org pick a winner at random (unless that person didn’t want tickets, then I pick another number).

    Congratulations to Marci who won the two tickets! And to everyone else, I thank you for playing (to Ruby: congrats on the recent wedding!)

    Thank you for those who gave kind words of support – Neatorama is fun, but it’s also a lot of work, and it gets harder and harder to blog/work/play with the kids … there’re only so many hours in a day!

    I’ll take a look at the specific recommendations – you guys have got some great ideas!

  52. trish
    Jul 16th, 2008 at 1:48 am

    this is the thing……..I have loved Anthony since I was “knee high to a tad pole” if he thinks this is a good idea then I support it…I need those tickets…I went to Rolling Rock for him and he hasnt been here since….please…may i have the tickets?

  53. Murren
    Jul 18th, 2008 at 1:10 pm

    I want tickets so I can see The Roots and Bob Dylan!

  54. mrcrowley
    Jul 18th, 2008 at 4:40 pm

    i only need 1.. then you can give away the other one.. make 2 people happy!!!!


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