We have one winner for our Bon Iver ticket contest but don’t worry, we’ll announce one more winner the day of the show! To try to win the second pair of tickets, just email rsvp@larecord.com with subject line Bon Iver and a link to a YouTube video with the funniest weather report you can find [...]

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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 addition to waiving the service fee on all shows for any tickets purchased today, LiveNation has deployed LMFAO and Shwayze to personally sell tickets to fans at the Palladium from 6 to 8 PM today. Considering we have spent hours on the phone with several cheerfully robotic Internet service providers today, it’s nice to [...]

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Entire island ecosystems arise, corrupt, decay and disappear within the generous lifespan of Yo La Tengo, the New Jersey three-piece who reinvent endlessly what an independent American rock band is supposed to do—play Flamin’ Groovies songs in heaven, for instance. Guitarist/singer Ira Kaplan speaks very early in the morning. This interview by Chris Ziegler.

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Onetime component of the vastly-influential alt-country originators Uncle Tupelo, Jay Farrar has traveled an arguably harder road than ex-bandmate Jeff Tweedy. While Wilco draws inspiration from the odder corners of post-Radiohead skronk and so reaps a megabuck harvest of acclaim, Farrar’s Son Volt continues to burnish the spare and anthracite-hard aesthetic of high lonesome. This interview by Ron Garmon.

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Download: Sonic Youth “Sacred Trickster” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (from The Eternal out now on Matador) Three months after their last L.A. appearance—in spirit and curatorial form—at Origami, Sonic Youth will arrive in person to play the Wiltern on Tue., Sept. 29, with guests still to be announced. Tickets are available here [...]

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Animal Collective’s Merriweather Post Pavilion was called the best record of 2009 even back in 2008, and as usual the band penetrated that sort of cloudiness to shine light down on everyone who was looking for it. They speak now over free french fries (and later via email) after their last Los Angeles show. Deakin (Josh Dibb) was not present on this tour. This interview by Chris Ziegler.

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Photographer Lindsey Best visited the Shins show last Sunday and returned with these shots of James Mercer, Dave Hernandez and a brand-new line-up including members of Modest Mouse and the Fruit Bats. Two pages of her work below and our pre-show interview with James Mercer here.

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