Well, we love Roky Erickson. Can’t explain it, don’t care to anyway. Roky’s rok is the rokinest rok that ever rok-ed, and if you got to wake up, make sure to wake up to rok-n-roll! Anyway—of course this means we want everyone to go see him next week! Thanks to the beautiful people at Goldenvoice, [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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 [...]

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A couple weeks ago we announced a ticket giveaway for Low and Bachelorette! Herewith we announce the winners, but you can buy tickets here! First, the winner is…. KATHERINE G: LIMBO WORLD RECORD Pretty amazing how this older dude can wiggle under this pole. And at the end, they play it in slo-mo just in [...]

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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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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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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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Download: Rainbow Arabia “Haunted Hall” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (from Kabukimono out now on Manimal) Download: Hecuba “Miles Away” [Audio clip: view full post to listen] (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 [...]

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