Tickets for two bands that will make fans misty-eyed with nostalgia are going on sale this week, although its unlikely many people will buy both.
In one corner, we’ve got New Kids on the Block playing a huge venue, the White River Amphitheatre. The group wasn’t the first boy band, but they were certainly one of the most successful.
NKOTB’s reunion tour has excited plenty of thirtysomethings, including hip fans such as Diablo Cody, the ex-stripper who wrote the Oscar-winning screenplay for “Juno.”
In the other corner, we’ve got the Vaselines, a group that Kurt Cobain dubbed his “most favorite songwriters in the world” back in the 1990s.
That endorsement — along with Nirvana’s covers of “Jesus Don’t Want Me for a Sunbeam” and “Molly’s Lips” — doubtlessly helped the Scottish group with its US popularity. They play Neumos in May.
Info on those shows and more is below. Sadly, I don’t have any presale information right now. If you do, drop it in the comments section. And if I missed a show, plug that in there too.
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