Exposing the painful tragedy of Labor Day Weekend. (Via myspace.com)

What better way to prepare yourself for a jam-packed three-day weekend than by bringing yourself down with emo act Hawthorne Heights? Seriously, this way everything else will seem all that much better afterwards, the way simple water tastes super sweet after you’ve just heaved up your 12th shot of Patron; or Andre the Giant seems especially tall if you’re standing next to him in a shallow pit. Or, you know, would, if he weren’t dead. To get your free ticket to the show with The Day After and Mickey Avalon at Rio’s Voodoo Beach, hit up SpyOnVegas.com. Click for more words and pictures »

By Jason Scavone

The Ataris love MySpace, too. (Via MySpace).

You know that friend of yours, the one with the skinny jeans and the misunderstood hair? And he’s always updating his MySpace and saying things like, “No good shows ever come through Vegas, man,” in a questionably high-pitched voice? And you’re like, “What is that on your shirt? Is that like, an autopsied bird with a still-beating heart? Because that’s what it looks like.”

Tomorrow you can finally man up and tell that friend to shove it, because not only is there a show, it’s free.

VooDoo Beach at the Rio is hosting The Ataris and Carolina Liar as part of its Summer Pool Party series. SpyOnVegas is going to be there with a Cuervo open bar and Area 107.9 is going to be there, doing whatever radio stations do at concerts. Print out your ticket at SpyOnVegas.com.

By Michelle McKay

(Photo by Sullivan Charles | SpyOnVegas.com)

… but just be careful you don’t catch any viral marketing.

By Jason Scavone

These guys HATE secondary colors. (Via myspace.com)

The Presidents of the United States of America — that’s right, all of them, except that lazy ne’er-do-well Harrison — take the stage tonight at Rio’s VooDoo Beach for a free poolside concert. Doors open at 6 p.m. for the SpyOnVegas.com Open Bar, and the show starts when the free hooch stops at 9 p.m.

PotUSA, you’ll remember, is that band that put out an album with “Lump” and “Kitty” in ‘95, then released five other albums over the next 12 years that you haven’t heard.

After the show, the official PotUSA afterparty is on the roof at VooDoo Lounge.

By Jason Scavone