Bon Iver has received praise from such luminaries as KCRW, Mojo, and Rolling Stone magazine; Other Lives has been similarly lauded by the Guardian and NPR. Now you can buy tickets see both of ‘em on September 20 when they play the Gibson AmpHitheatre or you can try to win tickets! And–we will be giving [...]

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In honor of White Fence’s awesome space-y vibe to be displayed at their show tonight, we asked people to send us their most spectacular UFO YouTubes. What we got will change human history forever, mostly by listing some people for a show tonight where maybe they’ll fall in love? Or convince a troubled young genius [...]

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What’s it like in Kool Keith’s head? Awesome as fuck, but once you come out, the rest of the world is just like a blank gray screen. But whatever, it’s worth it. Since Kool Keith is playing in a matter of MINUTES, we asked our contestants to pick a YouTube to inspire his next album. [...]

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Earthless ALSO plays tonight with Green & Wood and Joy at the Dark Horse in something of a New Weird America pre-party—though we prefer the term “proto-party”—so we decided to have people mine out the longest jammers they could get out of Youtube. Never have we received so many YouTubes of “Dopesmoker,” which is great [...]

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True Widow tumbled out from the heart of Texas with a knack for the reverberatory arts. Their ‘stonegaze’ sound, as some call it, sounds a bit like a cool soothing rockslide. They will play the New Weird America Fest this Saturday at Nomad. Win tickets here! This interview by Matt Dupree.

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UPDATE: Now win A TON OF FUCKING VINYL as well as free tickets to the New Weird America Fest! Read on! Tee Pee and L.A. RECORD are teaming up again to wreck your mind with the all-day New Weird America fest. First prize: two tickets AND an exclusive pack of Tee Pee records vinyl! Including [...]

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Tonight’s show at Echoplex is simultaneously the best show of 1980/81 and also 2010/11 so far: the Middle Class, Kid Congo Powers and the Pink Monkey Birds, Grant Hart (of Husker Du!) and the Urinals! We asked people to send us YouTubes of appropriately ripping vintage punk and did they ever … especially with the [...]

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Georgia “flower punk band” Black Lips and Brooklyn wreckers Cerebral Ballzy are blowing through town tonight and we got two pairs of tickets to give away. We asked you to send us a YouTube of the best song Black Lips should cover, and we picked our winners early this morning after a long night of [...]

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You know ‘em, you love ‘em, you kinda fear ‘em … and now you can see ‘em free! To win tickets to Black Lips and Cerebral Ballzy on Fri., June 24 at the Fonda, email rsvp@larecord.com with subject line LIPS and a YouTube of the best song Black Lips should cover! Most truly fitting wins! [...]

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You know Mark Sultan from his work with the King Khan & BBQ show, but he also has two new solo albums and a new 7″, and is about to embark on a June tour that will take him to L.A.’s Blue Star Bar Friday. (Last day to win tix here!) He speaks now about In the Red Records, excrement, and so much more. This interview by Lainna Fader.

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