Returns To Mohegan Sun Nickelback

In the Arena on Tuesday live, September 28th. Tickets go on sale Saturday
Nickelback, who were named Billboard’s ‘Group of the Decade’ have extended their Dark Horse World Tour and will be playing Mohegan Sun Arena on Tuesday, September 28th with special guests Three Days Grace and Buckcherry. The show begins at 6:15pm.
Tickets are $110.00 and $90.00 and go on sale Saturday, July 17th at 10:00am through Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster customers may log onto ticketmaster.com; call Ticketmaster’s national toll free Charge by Phone number 1.800.745.3000; or visit any Ticketmaster outlet. Tickets will also be available at the Mohegan Sun Box Office starting Sunday, July 18th, subject to availability.
Nickelback is one of the biggest Rock bands in the world, with over 35 million albums sold. The band’s latest album, Dark Horse, produced by the legendary Mutt Lange, debuted at #2 on the Billboard Top 200 shart and has remained on the Top 200 for fifty weeks selling over 2.4 million albums in the U.S. alone.
Nickelback has enjoyed unprecedented success with their last album, All The Right Reasons, which has been RIAA certified 8X platinum. The six singles from the album totaled 12 million downloads and 6 million ringtones. Each of the five videos from All The Right Reasons has reached #1 on VH1’s playlist: “Photograph,” “Savin’ Me,” “Far Away,” “If Everyone Cared” and “Rockstar.” In 2006, Nickelback was awarded a World Music Award for “World’s Best Selling Rock Group,” a Billboard Touring Award for “Breakthrough Artist,” an American Music Award for “Favorite Pop/Rock Album” and a People’s Choice Award for “Favorite Rock Group.”
Mohegan Sun Arena is ranked the 4th best venue by Billboard Magazine and was the 2008 recipient of a Country Music Award for “Casino of The Year.” For more information on concerts and other great events at Mohegan Sun, visit mohegansun.com. For information on this week’s schedule, call the Entertainment and Special Events hotline at 1.888.226.7711, ext. 27163.

Nickelback: Nickelback Returns To Mohegan Sun

Nickelback, who were named Billboard’s ‘Group of the Decade’ have extended their Dark Horse World Tour and will be playing Mohegan Sun Arena on Tuesday, September 28th with special guests Three Days Grace and Buckcherry. The show begins at 6:15pm.
Tickets are $110.00 and $90.00 and go on sale Saturday, July 17th at 10:00am through Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster customers may log onto ticketmaster.com; call Ticketmaster’s national toll free Charge by Phone number 1.800.745.3000; or visit any Ticketmaster outlet. Tickets will also be available at the Mohegan Sun Box Office starting Sunday, July 18th, subject to availability.
Nickelback is one of the biggest Rock bands in the world, with over 35 million albums sold. The band’s latest album, Dark Horse, produced by the legendary Mutt Lange, debuted at #2 on the Billboard Top 200 shart and has remained on the Top 200 for fifty weeks selling over 2.4 million albums in the U.S. alone.
Nickelback has enjoyed unprecedented success with their last album, All The Right Reasons, which has been RIAA certified 8X platinum. The six singles from the album totaled 12 million downloads and 6 million ringtones. Each of the five videos from All The Right Reasons has reached #1 on VH1’s playlist: “Photograph,” “Savin’ Me,” “Far Away,” “If Everyone Cared” and “Rockstar.” In 2006, Nickelback was awarded a World Music Award for “World’s Best Selling Rock Group,” a Billboard Touring Award for “Breakthrough Artist,” an American Music Award for “Favorite Pop/Rock Album” and a People’s Choice Award for “Favorite Rock Group.”

Nickelback loved, loathed

Tickets for Thursday’s Nickelback return to the Fargodome aren’t sold out, but they’re not easy to get.
Fargodome General Manager Rob Sobolik said that as of last week, two tickets together couldn’t be purchased.
But for every one of those 12,500-some screaming Nickelback fans out on Thursday, there are probably just as many critics of the group making just as much noise.
Nickelback is one of the best-selling bands of the past decade, moving more than 30 million albums, prompting Billboard to name it band of the decade.
Still, detractors never miss a chance to take a hit at the British Columbia-based quartet.
A review in the Ottawa Sun called a recent show “nothing but a massive Nickelback group hug” for “fans who don’t care how sexist, stupid or emotionally arrested Nickelback’s music is, indulged their taste for songs about getting wasted or porn actresses in one predictably nasty, dirty and horribly predictable rock show.”
Safe to say the reviewer didn’t have a good time.
One group of non-fans who had a good time at the band’s expense were the organizers of a Facebook campaign who collected more fans for a pickle than the band had.
“I get really offended when people don’t like Nickelback because I like them so much,” says Darion Olson.
The 17-year-old from Dilworth, who claims to be the group’s No. 1 fan, will be in the crowd and screaming loud.
She became a fan when her stepfather took her and her sister to the group’s Fargodome show in January 2006. That show drew around 8,000.
“I’ve been a fan ever since,” Olson says, adding that she saw them at the Alerus in July 2007. “I’m infatuated with them. I love Chad Kroeger. I think he’s gorgeous.”
Looks may be a significant part of the appeal, since the group has a sizeable number of female fans.
For Marnie St. Germain, 38, the attraction is less about the sights and more about the sound.
“I just love their music,” she says, adding that she’ll be at the show though her 14-year-old daughter is upset she has to stay home to baby-sit.
Recently St. Germain’s been digging the group’s newest pop single, “This Afternoon.”
“It’s a good summer song,” she says, “great for listening to on the boat.”
She’s familiar with one of the popular criticisms – that Nickelback songs all sound alike.
“So do a lot of other bands,” she says.
Some haters even synched up “Someday” and “How You Remind Me” to follow the similarities, calling it “You Remind Me of Someday.”
Mike “Big Dog” Kapel, DJ at Q98 and FM 105.1, says some of the vocal haters used to be fans but have cooled to Kroeger and Co.’s mellower tunes like “Photograph” and “Far Away.”
“The hatred stems from the fact that they started off as a hard-rock band,” he says. “Some metal heads I know still admit that first Nickelback album is really good.”
But after seeing the chart-topping success of “How You Remind Me,” Nickelback followed the ballad formula to mainstream success, he says.
He compares the band to the Goo Goo Dolls, which started off as more of a punk band but broke out with ballads, or Metallica, which shifted from heavy metal to classic rock with what is called “The Black Album.”
“I was really into them early on,” says Erik Stenehjem. “Their first three albums are really awesome.”
Though he’s still a fan, the 21-year-old doesn’t know if he’ll catch the show at the dome, though he said they put on “a heck of a show” at the Alerus.
Lately, he says, they’ve been too “safe” with their music.
“They’ve been really focused on selling albums than pushing the envelope,” he says.
“You hear the ‘sell-out’ argument and all that, but at the end of the day, they carry a good tune,” says fan Travis Kurtz, who has already seen them about five times.
“I’ve hopped on the hate bandwagon there a little bit,” admits Kapel, “but their songs are so catchy, it’s hard not to get sucked in a little bit. Especially that new one. ‘This Afternoon’ is a catchy little ditty for a summer afternoon of drinking.”

Nickelback Tickets are available online on GigSport.

Nickelback Confessions of a new Nickelback fan

Nickelback concert saying you're going is like kicking a sack of puppies.
People are going to hate you for it.
But I have been converted.
To make any friends I'm not likely by saying the Canadian supergroup absolutely, totally, rocked out at the Boondall Entertainment Centre last night.
In fact, I might lose some.
But Nickelback know what their fans want and make no apologies for it.
This was NASCAR turned into a rock concert. There were fireworks. There were girls in bikinis on big screens. There were mullets. There were more fireworks. At one point, no fewer than six band roadies armed with cannons fired Nickelback t-shirts into the crowd while throwing out cups of beer.
The tone for this extravaganza of machismo was set early when, following an eardrum busting crack of fireworks, the band opened with the sexy, or some might say grossly offensive, pumping rock of Something in Your Mouth.
This was followed by the mellower Because of You before one of Nickelback's big hits, Photograph ("Look at this photograph..."), unsurprisingly a crowd favourite.
Next Figured You Out ("I like your pants around your feet") was dedicated to the ladies who, despite what anyone may think, seemed to love the dirty lyrics, with the majority of female fans rocking out to Chad Kroeger's chainsaw voice.
Sufficiently rested by a string of slower paced songs, the guys then launched into their 2006 hit country rock Rockstar ("Hey hey I wanna be a rockstar") and then moved into the hard rocking Sad But True, Burn It To The Ground and a monster drum solo which saw drummer Daniel Adair genuinely looking in pain after 10 minutes solid playing.
Finally the band closed with a collection of crowd favourites, including How You Remind Me followed by a reverse to the 2002 hit Too Bad ending with an encore of 2003's Someday and 2008's Animals.
Of course it couldn't be over without another gigantic fireworks and flame display with what looked like a New Year's Eve collection detonated all at once.
I'm surprised Boondall stayed standing.
Simply put Nickelback were performers, absolute stand out performers, engaging the crowd in showy gestures like the call and response ("We say Nickel, you say Back!") and talking extensively with the audience, weaving a narrative through their performance.
It made everyone, even those of us who'd arrived feeling dubious, feel like a diehard fan
It was stadium rock at its absolute best. Anyone who has ever watched a hair metal video clip (Poison, Van Halen, Guns N' Roses) would love the excess, the bravado, the noise. And let's not forget the fireworks.