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Win Tickets For Scorpions Farewell
After 45 years (yes, 45!) the Scorpions have decided to lay down their guitars. Before they do, however, they'll be on a three-year farewell tour. That tour comes to southern California this week, and blogging.la has your tickets. »
Win Tix to The New Pornographers 7/20!!!!
Those Canadians! Giving us great things like poutine, part of a title of a Calvin & Hobbes collection, and a pretty great band pretty awesomely called The New Pornographers (band name history: founder and lead singer A.C. Newman was contemplating the use of placing “new”... »
Win tix to see Rocco Deluca headline at the White Light White Night benefit this weekend
This weekend, the South Bay plays host to the annual gala known as White Light White Night, benefitting the nonprofit Walk With Sally, which works to mentor and support children who have parents with cancer. This year, White Light White Night features So Cal native... »
Win tickets to Danzig
Do you really think you deserve to go see Danzig with with Gorgeous Frankenstein & Toxic Holocaust at Club Nokia on June 26th? Huh? Do ya? Well, I have FOUR PAIRS OF TICKETS I’m giving away. That’s right. Four pair. Actually, I’m not giving them... »
Win Tickets to See Gogol Bordello Tomorrow at the Mayan
What has 18 legs, 7 nationalities, 4 percussionists, and an accordian? Gogol Bordello that’s what. They’re playing tonight and tomorrow night at the Mayan, and we’ve got a pair of tickets to give away to a lucky reader. Gogol Bordello’s magical gypsy punk music first really... »
Win Tix to The Brian Jonestown Massacre on June 22!
I remember when I first started hearing music from the BJM is the early oughts, when the band was already over ten years old, and their combo of druggy spacerock and Rolling Stones influences was legendary on the non-westside (I can’t call it the eastside,... »
Win Tix to 50 Cent at Club Nokia on June 4
When Goldenvoice told me Fitty was coming to town, I couldn’t pass these up. I’d say expect some cool guest cameos along with the rap-impresario personality he’s fostered since his grittier street tapes debuted in the early oughts. Wanna go? Give me your favorite rap lyric. My favorite is by Dr. Octagon: “I would have... »
Win Tix to Frightened Rabbit This Sunday!
They weren’t able to make it to SoCal for Coachella, but it took a volcano to foil their plans. Rendering up a chiming, lo-fi sound with a driving rhythm section, they make spare use of Mogwaiian soundscaping & noodling to contrast with their wailing Kermitty vibrato, irresistibly danceable tambourines and snares and…is that a flute?... »
The Return Of The Dan Band. Win Free Tix!
On Friday, May 21, The Dan Band returns to Club Nokia. With thanks to our friends at Goldenvoice, LA MetBlogs has your tickets. Read on… In early April we sent some MetBlogs readers to see The Dan Band. Here is what a couple of them had to say: “This band is best when encountered as a... »
Win Tickets To See Ben Folds and a Piano, Thursday May 13th!
I’m not sure if you get as giddy as I do when I hear that Ben Folds is coming to town. I’ve been hooked on his live performances since his first L.A. show at the Roxy in October 1995 with his former band, Ben Folds Five (they opened for Heather Nova). It’s a real... »
Win Tix to Rogue Wave Tomorrow at the El Rey!
This is one of my favorite recent discoveries to date. I first heard “Asleep At Heaven’s Gate” in late ‘07 and could have sworn blind they were from Wales or something, but in fact their rippling, lush, orchestral post-rock sound comes from Oakland CA. We’re giving away a pair of tix to their show... »
Win Tix to Dark Star Orchestra On Wednesday at the El Rey!
Paging all Deadheads & fans of the jam! Dark Star Orchestra recreates, in epic detail, full-on Grateful Dead shows, paying homage to the auteurs of spinny dance music. Info on the show is here, and we’re giving away tix to two lucky winners! Get on your swirly skirt, your tie-die tee, and get ready to jam... »
Win Tix To Aqua Teen Hunger Force LIVE at the El Rey!
OMFG. Seriously. This show, on Tuesday–I don’t even know what to say. I can’t even imagine what it will be. Except “weird.” And “good.” This is a live stage show from the psychotic creators of Adult Swim’s most postmodern and bizarro series, “Aqua Teen Hunger Force,” which stars a combo meal of a self-centered and... »
Win Tix to High On Fire, with Priestess, Black Cobra & More this Friday
Woooo! METALLLL!!! Yeah, these guys pretty much blow it all out of the water. With a heavy-handed approach and a sound that crashes like thunder, High On Fire is the quintessential “power trio.” Less a band than a supersonic exercise in volume and sheer heaviness, the band has burned the metal rulebook and forged... »
Win Tix to Butch Walker & The Black Widows with Eulogies
Butch Walker’s infectiously melodic tunes graft classic Americana onto Elvis Costello-style songcraft. H’e also an accomplished songwriter, with an impressive roster of famous folks who’ve covered his songs, often to the tune of high record sales. But it’s his own work that’s worth the price of admission. You won’t have to pay any price, though,... »