Holy man Ariel Pink takes over First Unitarian Church on June 21 with Kirin J. Callinan and Purple Pilgrims and we’ve got a pair of tickets to give away! Email us at rsvp@larecord.com with the subject line ARIEL PINK and we’ll pick a winner this week!

Wanna win tickets to see France’s Joakim—the man behind Tiger Sushi the record and Tiger Sushi the label, too—with L.A. RECORD favorite Free The Robots and L.A.’s Channel One? (Plus tons more, including an installation by the always enigmatic Strangeloop?) Then let’s make this nice and simple: just email us at rsvp@larecord.com with subj JOAKIM [...]

The Urinals are back with a stack of long-awaited reissues, and there’s more on the way! So after you get your 7″s from Superior Viaduct, why not take a shot at free tickets to the release party for their landmark Negative Capability reissue on In The Red? Just email us at rsvp@larecord.com subj URINALS and [...]

L.A. RECORD is thrilled to be a part of the Summer Twins residency at the Bootleg in June, and especially thrilled that we get to have a mixtape swap on OUR little night! How’s that work, you ask politely? Well, not only is the actual SHOW free, but if you bring a mixtape—or mix CDR, [...]

The dream-a-delic duo Peach Kings are playing the Bootleg with Strange VIne next Friday and we got the tickets! Wanna win ‘em? So easy. Just email us at rsvp@larecord.com with subj PEACH and we’ll pick a winner next week!

After much deliberation and many awesomely freakish and often hilarious entries, the esteemed proprietors of thee Cha Cha Lounge have selected the design for the next L.A. RECORD + Cha Cha pint glass! Congrats to Dave Van Patten, who wins a skateboard and as much PBR as his guts can hold! Glasses will be ready [...]

Time for our monthly at the Cha Cha in Silver Lake, where we’ll be celebrating the winner and runner-ups alike in our pint glass contest! Come on out for cheap drinks, earthshaking records recently pried from way in the back of the weirdo bin and some truly ferocious foosballing! Free to all!

The Postelles are coming all the way from New York to media-mail their Anglophile indie-pop direct to the Bootleg, and we got some tickets to give to you! Wanna go see this for free? Email us at rsvp@larecord.com subj POSTELLES and we’ll pick some winners Monday!

Does Amanda Jo Williams have a new look? Balding, bearded, standing a few feet shorter than she does in memory? We recognize the cowboy boots and that singular country hellcat voice of hers… but something’s different about her face. Ok, ok… That’s Don Black of Ghiant lip synching to the new AJW smash hit,”2000Hell” (mp3 [...]