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Riot Fest Denver 2014 Ticket Contest

Giveaway: Win Tickets To Riot Fest Denver 2014 (New Location!)

Note: Riot Fest has provided tickets and artwork but all words and concert photos are mine.
You may remember this little thing called Riot Fest that consumed my family last September? When my friend Charlotte flew in from Seattle and Monika and I wore bandanas because of the dust and I took photos of The Replacements in dresses and cowboy hats? Oh yeah, that music festival - where my 11 year old son saw Iggy Pop perform within 24 hours of Public Enemy.
Dicount Code Westword WMS

FanPlan.Info Discount Code for Westword Music Showcase (WMS)

Sometimes ideas are born of frustration. The past few years Bryan, Monika and I have been attending festivals and having trouble accessing schedules in the moment due to poor cell service and/or apps that are full of graphics. At one point last year we started making Google Doc spreadsheets that had the times, bands, venues and twitter handles available - just to make our lives easier. This morphed into FanPlan.Info, which is a text-based micro site best viewed on mobile phones. It shows (and sorts) the schedule of major festivals by time, band and stage. And when you click "tweet this," a pre-populated tweet pops up with band name, twitter handle (if they have one), venue name, venue handle (if they have one), the time the band is playing, official festival hashtag, and, of course, #fanplan.

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Eldren at Tellerpalooza in Denver

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Joe King of The Fray

Joe King (of The Fray) at The Bluebird Theater

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