The Punknews.org Tour featuring Somerset, the Dog & Everything, Straight Outta Junior High, and Before I Go is quickly approaching, and we want to get some of you in these shows for free! If there's a show listed below that you'd like to attend, shoot an email off to CONTEST CLOSED with the date/city/venue in the subject of the email and your name and address in the body of the email. If you're the first to claim a show, I'll put your name after the requested date. If there's no name listed for the one you want to go to, that means it's open, so enter quickly! Every winner gets themselves plus one guest in for free!

7/29 - Davenport, IA - Quad City Live - Dennis Kapolnek
7/30 - Des Moines, IA - Hairy Mary's - Ben Pappenheimer
7/31 - Omaha, NE - Ranch Bowl - Alex Wilhelm
8/3 - Cleveland, OH - Pirate's Cove - Tommy Moos
8/4 - Columbus, OH - Flannagans - Andrew Miller
8/5 - Detroit, MI - The Shelter - Greg Hodges
8/6 - La Crosse, WI - The Warehouse - Kyle Fosburgh
8/7 - Minneapolis, MN - The Quest - Jacob Koehler
8/8 - Milwaukee, WI - Mad Planet - Ellen Janisch
8/11 - Toledo, OH - Headliners - Georgia Michael
8/12 - Covington, KY - Radio Down - Dan Braun
8/13 - Indianapolis, IN - The House [Somerset/Straight Outta Junior High only] - Jesse Smith
8/13 - Indianapolis, IN - The Alley Cat [Dog & Everything/Before I Go only] - Grace Holden
8/14 - Chicago, IL - The Metro - Margaret Kadoi

Also, we recently added a "Help Out!" page here where you can print out fliers to help promote as well as cut-and-paste some simple code into your MySpace, Livejournal, webpage, or whatever to put up our banner ad. Anything you do will be greatly appreciated by all of us here! Let us know via links/pictures if you add the banner/pass out fliers - we'll try to do something special for you in return.

And one last reminder - if you can buy actual physical tickets for the show you want to attend [over just paying money at the door], I strongly advise you do and then hold onto the stub, as we'll be doing something very special for those who bought tickets. Currently Cleveland, Chicago, Minneapolis, and Detroit have advance tickets on sale; just click the "buy" links on the tour page to get them!