Vote for All American Rejects

Growing up in the central PA punk rock scene, I never knew where I should take my band past the boundary of my hometown. Being that we were equidistant from both Pittsburgh and Philadelphia, it was all guess work which city we should try to head towards. We always wished there was a way to figure out where our online fanbase actually lived. If only we had something like Eventful in our lives back then.


Eventful allows fans to request to have their favorite performers play in their town. So Mike from San Jose, CA can let Juan in St. Louis know that he likes him enough to want him to come across the country to play a show. And this is the spirit of the All American Rejects/Eventful/Rock the Vote competition.

The Idea is that the top 5 cities who request AAR to play will get a show. It doesn't matter if you're from Alaska or California, if you get enough people to participate and VOTE for them to play in your town they will. It's a pretty democratic take on touring if you ask me.

And when you click to demand that All American Rejects come to play in your town, you'll have the opportunity to register to vote on the spot. Democracy at its best.

All American Rejects

If you want All American Rejects to come play in your town this September, all you have to do is say so:

http://eventful.com/allamericanrejects

Rock the Vote has teamed up with All American Rejects and Eventful.com to let you demand a concert in your hometown. The contest runs until September 15, after which time All American Rejects will play a concert and help Rock the Vote meet its goal of registering two million young voters this year.

I demand you come to me!

Eventful.com has come out with a new politics page where you can actually "Demand" that a candidate come to your town. You can check it out here.

So far 5,703 people have 'demanded' that Barack Obama come to their town. Hillary is next at 1,967 and Ron Paul (who?) has 441 demands.... and the list goes on from there.

While these numbers aren't yet staggering, there's a lot of possibility. Just imagine if you and your friends could 'demand' that a politician come to you opposed to wishing that one day they would actually gave a ... what's an PG word? .... hoot..... about young people and show up at your high school or college to convince YOU to vote for THEM. How refreshing would that be? . . . Don't worry folks, soon they'll be pounding on your door to get your attention. . . Just you wait... more too come soon, I promise.