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Last Chance to Enter the Vegoose Contest

Hey Rockers, our Vegoose Ticket Giveaway ends today at 4:20pm. Vegoose is the Halloween weekend two day rock fest in Las Vegas with dozens of bands and a crowd that loves to dress up in wild costumes.
Tom Petty will be headlining, the Mars Volta will be there, the Black Crowes will be there, Fiona Apple will be there, and we want you to be there.
So here's how you can enter... go to the Vegoose website and write us a haiku that includes at least one other band that will be performing that we haven't mentioned in this post. Send us as many haikus as you want in one email - ok fine, not as many haikus as you like, limit them to six.
Send your email to thelaist@gmail.com, make sure to put in the subject header Vegoose. You have until Friday at 4:20pm. By sending us your haiku you are allowing us to use your poetry on this blog. The winner will be announced tomorrow.
Enjoy some of the entries we've already received below.
Sounds of rock and roll
Widespread Panic and Killers
Dance the night away
full moon
alleyway at night
cat power
by sheer force of will
dark neon lights illuminate
a cup built to spill
If I may be so blunt
Damion Marley will blaze
Spark One At Vegoose!
They know how to rock
Phil and Trey of Dead & Phish
Oct feels like old times
Viva Las Vegoose!!
Elvis has left the building
It's Widespread Panic!!
a band of horses
equine instrumentalists
way better than glue
pachouli power
rhythm devils unite for
jolly good jamming
skittish feline force
confidence, fair cat power
makes sultry stage show
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