Free Decemberists, TVOTR Shows for Activists

Free Shows + Promoting Political Involvement = Rad (X 2)
Free Decemberists, TVOTR Shows for Activists

TV on the Radio, the Decemberists, the Long Winters, Rogue Wave, Xiu Xiu, the Dresden Dolls, Minus the Bear, and the Drive-By Truckers are just a few of bands that want you to get politically active. In exchange for your activism, they'll let you into their shows for free. Yep.

In partnership with Music for America, a progressive nonprofit organization that encourages young people to engage in politics, these bands are giving away free concert tickets to volunteers who sign up to attend their shows and promote political involvement.

This is how the official MFA website explains the deal: "You go to the show, you register some voters, you talk to folks about what we're doing (building a whole new community to fix politics), they get excited and the whole thing keeps growing."

Sounds pretty simple.

If you wanna volunteer at a show near you, the MFA site has a spiffy map that lets you look up event locations. Better hurry though, 'cause a lot of shows are already wait-listed. Political participation is the new audience participation! Can I get a woo! woo!?

Posted by Laura Pearson on Thu, Sep 28, 2006 at 1:00pm