Isn’t it something that we get cut up and sewn up? …Just a thought for the day. And now for the news: LOS ANGELES – JANUARY 31, 2012 – Due to a medical emergency, the upcoming performance of CocoRosie, scheduled for Saturday, February 11 at the Luckman Fine Arts Complex, will be postponed. The new [...]

This show is pretty much the best show, and you either know you wanna go or will take the most important chance of your life and leave satisfied and happy beyond all expectation! Greg Cartwright’s legendary Reigning Sound will be playing TWO NIGHTS at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach with the mighty Strange Boys! You’ll [...]

Mark Lanegan can back up the best of ‘em or belt it out on his own, and his new album Blues Funeral is creeping over the horizon on its way to an early February release. He’ll be performing with the Mark Lanegan Band at the Echoplex on February 9 and you can get some tickets [...]

Here at L.A. RECORD we like to wake up on groggy mornings with a big bowl of FUZZ, and that’s exactly what Danny Holloway specializes in. He’s one of the toppest DJs in L.A., and one of the residents at the occasional FUZZ night, in which you will listen as the other toppest DJs in [...]

We have been lucky enough to both see and interview Dinosaur Jr in the past, so consider this night verified for excellence! And as it happens, two of you have won tickets to go to the show! To win tickets, we asked us to send your CUTEST VIDEO OF A BABY ANIMAL—an “Animal Jr”–and send [...]

Tonight is Scratch Acid, and in the spirit of Scratch Acid, we had asked you to submit your favorite videos of people getting messed with while high. Submit you did, and we were treated to what probably amounts to the most effective anti-drug PSA ever. Behold, the winners of the Scratch Acid contest. For those [...]

You know, in some places, they never even get a few MINUTES with Neil Hamburger and Big Business—but here at L.A. RECORD, we deliver you an ENTIRE EVENING with America’s Funnyman and the heaviest trio since Blue Cheer! Truly you’d be wise to purchase tickets here, but you can also try and win by sending [...]

L.A. RECORD and Blundertown are dropping Wavves into Alex’s Bar in Long Beach with Abe Vigoda and FIDLAR, too! You can buy yourself some tickets here OR you can dare to win … since this is a “FESTIVUS for the REST OF US” show, we need you to send the most TERRIFYING HOLIDAY VIDEO you [...]

all photos by romana machado The first tipoff that big things were afoot at Solidarity Park came in a flurry of panicky missives on OLA’s email list early last Tuesday evening. Wild rumors of National Guard movements, police surrounding City Hall and blue-boy battalions massing in Dodger Stadium were enough to get us motoring downtown, [...]