Phoenix Tickets Finder

If there were awards for cool band names Panic! At the Disco would surely win something. Ok, I might dock them a few points for the superfluous exclamation point, but in general it works quite well. I assume it in reference to the Classic Smiths song called PANIC… At least I hope it is. Of course, these guys are no Smiths, but they are making some waves lately. Their wiki says:

Panic! at the Disco is an alternative rock band from Las Vegas, Nevada.

The band has created a fusion sound that combines elements of pop punk, emo, electronica, dance, and indie rock.

Their 2005 debut album A Fever You Can’t Sweat Out charted the Billboard 200 reaching #13, and has sold over one million copies since its September 2005 release.

Anyway, Panic! is coming to Phoenix on December 7 at Glendale Arena (Jobing.com Arena) and here are the best places to get tickets to premiere seats:

Stubhub has seats ranging from $60-167 and they’ll let you sell your extra tickets too.
We Have Seats has seats ranging from $54-150.
TicketsNow might be worth checking too…

And of course Bloc Party will be opening this show. [Update: Bloc Party had to back out of the tour due to the drummer getting sick or something.] Some of you may be more interested in seeing this up and coming band anyway. Here is some info on Bloc Party:

Bloc Party is an English post-punk revival band. The band has been around in various guises since 2002, with names such as Superheroes of BMX, The Angel Range, Diet, and Union, before settling on Bloc Party in September 2003. The name is a play on block party, a name for an informal neighborhood festival, which might hire a local band as entertainment. The band has said that the name was not intended to be an allusion to the Soviet Bloc or the Canadian political party Bloc Québécois; the absence of a ‘k’ is purely for aesthetics.

However, the band’s bassist, Gordon Moakes, said on the group’s official internet forum that it was more a merging of the eastern “blocs” and the western “parties”, in the political sense. Moakes notes that the name was not driven by politics, but rather it “looked, sounded, seemed fine so we [the band] went with it.”

Band members Kele Okereke and Russell Lissack have formed the fulcrum of these various incarnations, and were subsequently joined by bassist Gordon Moakes, and most recently drummer Matt Tong. Lissack and singer/guitarist Kele Okereke met in 1998 in Essex, where Lissack had grown up and Okereke attended school. Lissack attended Bancroft’s School and Okereke attended Trinity for sixth form. They bumped into each other again in 1999 at the Reading Festival and soon after formed the band Union.

The band is currently managed by Coalition, and represented by Simon White, formerly of Britpop band Menswe@r.

It may seem Bloc Party’s own variation of spiky guitar rock draws on influences such as The Cure, Sonic Youth, Pixies, Joy Division, Gang of Four and XTC, but they say that some of these bands are just comparisons. Russell had never heard of Gang Of Four before they came out with Silent Alarm.