Journopalooza III Tickets Going Fast, $25 Jan. 21

Tickets are going fast for the most outrageous rock & roll spectacle ever planned for the National Press Club Friday, Jan. 21. The door and bar opens at 6:30 p.m. The bands begin at 7:30.

Email Joshua Funk ([email protected]) for the member discount code. Please provide your member number when you inquire.

General admission tickets are $25 in advance, $30 at the door. Tickets, including an exclusive VIP package with an open bar meet-and-greet with the media/rockstars ($40), are available at www.Journopalooza.com.

Proceeds from Journopalooza benefit three great media causes: The Committee to Protect Journalists/Journalist Assistance Program, The Eric Friedheim National Journalism Library, and Reporters Without Borders.

Ballroom walls will tremble as McClatchy’s Jonathan Landay blazes through blues riffs. As in previous years, Pulitzer-prize-winning Washington Post political cartoonist Tom Toles will expect screaming groupies to slingshot lacy undergarments in his direction. By the end of the ferocious battle, audience members will have voted to anoint “DC’s Best Media Band.”

A record-breaking lineup of seven musical acts will play at Journopalooza III. Four notorious veterans of the Journopalooza stage return by popular demand: Charm Offensive, Dirty Bomb, Nobody’s Business, and Suspicious Package.

Journopalooza welcomes for their debut appearances: The Stepping Stones, a Monkees cover band fronted by two Washington Post reporters; the folky, eclectic sounds of Rebecca Christie & Peter Fields, whose talented singer spends her days at Bloomberg; and classic rockers NRBK, whose members have a combined professional history of more than 50 years in media.

The evening will be hosted by DC’s Funniest Journalists, co-winners of Commedia dell Media II, Military.com’s Jamie McIntyre and FOX Business Network’s Rich Edson.

Flying Dog beer will be flowing from five cash bars after doors open at 6:30. Additional fun and fabulosity made possible with the generous support of the Recording Industry Association of America, BAE Systems, and the Brunswick Group.

-- Joshua Funk, [email protected]