The moment of truth has arrived. We’ve gotten some amazing drinking jams to drown yourselves in or keep you away from the bottle, forever! Submissions are due Sunday, tomorrow!
Drink, drank, drunk. In honor of St. Paddy’s Day, L.A. RECORD wants your original drinking songs. Songs about drinking. Drinking about songs. Xmas ruled, Valentine’s was sweet, [...]

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Kool Keith is performing at the Church (606 e. 6th st) this Saturday night for Valentine’s Day, flanked by girls with big butts (wearing his custom thongs) and backed by a live band. Lady Tigra & Fatlip (dj set) & Ryan Heffington (We Are The World) with the Fingered dancers will also provide live entertainment, [...]

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The folks at Bedrock—Echo Park’s newest rehearsal and recording studio and soon-to-be newest microbrewery!—have given us a brand new Dixon snare plus four Dixon t-shirts and four VIP passes to the Bedrock grand opening on Sunday, October 25! A lot of L.A. RECORD friends are helping out with this event, like IS GOOD radio and [...]

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Strange World of Coffin Joe–Series Trailer from Hadrian Belove on Vimeo.
We have two tickets to see tonight’s Coffin Joe series screening at the Silent Movie Theater… for whoever writes us with an answer to this question:

What Brazilian town was “Coffin Joe” creator Jose Marica Marins born in?
Email the answer with the subject COFFIN JOE to [...]

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We asked for riddles and we got a few…Here are some favorites.

What’s the speed limit of sex?
—68; at 69 you have to turn around.
What’s black and white and re[a]d all over?
—A Newspaper.
What did the dying hard drive say to his friend with lots of storage?
—Can I get a backup?
What animal is always prepared to travel?
—An [...]

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We have a pair of tickets to see Phoenix, Metric, and the Soft Pack at Greek Theater TONIGHT. Email Daiana [at] larecord [dot] com with your favorite riddle and we’ll set you up. Entries must be received by 1 pm.
examples:
What did the ram say to his sweetheart?
—I love ewe.
What is hard to beat?
—A drum with [...]

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L.A. RECORD would like to thank everyone who entered yesterday’s DESTROY L.A. contest. We got tons of hilarious and frequently disturbing entries—it’s almost as if this is something people think about a lot… We have decided to post the two winners to showcase their [...]

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UPDATE: Awesome entries so far—keep destroying!
L.A. RECORD is completely freaking out to be able to give away two killer V.I.P. packages to Brainfeeder’s ultimately epic all-niter at the Fonda this Saturday. Two lucky lucky people will not only see L.A.’s premier beat monsters obliterate a venue, a genre and the limitations of the human mind [...]

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Download: Rainbow Arabia “Haunted Hall”

(from Kabukimono out now on Manimal)
Download: Hecuba “Miles Away”

(from Paradise out now on Manimal Vinyl and available from L.A RECORD)
Thanks to good ol’ Lazy Brow, L.A. RECORD has ONE PAIR of tickets to give away to tomorrow’s FRIENDS OF FRIENDS show at the Echo! The first person to tell us how [...]

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The Screamers live at Target Video
L.A. RECORD is proud to partner with Cinefamily to present this unprecedented opening of the vaults of San Francisco’s Target Video, who filmed a giant chunk of the West Coast’s original punk bands (including the still-infamous Cramps at Napa [...]

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