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It’s that time again.  Tomorrow, Saturday, April 16^th, is Record Store Day, the one day a year we join together to celebrate the uniqueness and the supreme audio knowledge of our local old-school independent music merchants.  As usual, your Los Angeles-area record meccas will play host to a slew of in-store concerts, DJ sets, and sell a ton of exclusive RSD releases.  Listed below are the best of the bunch.

Amoeba – Hollywood

DJ Sets and Record Signing:

12 NOON – Evidence
2 PM – Henry Rollins
4 PM – F*cked Up

Other Noteworthy Events:

Amoeba Hollywood will hold exclusive Record Store Day releases behind the front counters. Line will form outside store no earlier than 8am on Saturday morning.

11 AM – 4 PM – Limited edition Record Store Day t-shirts from Anti- and Epitaph Records & Family Industries.  Live silk-screening! Make a $5-$10 sliding scale donation to Doctors Without Borders, choose your design, and get your limited-edition t-shirt!

2 PM – Beastie Boys Pre-order for Hot Sauce Committee Part Two.
Pre-order the new album (out May 3rd on Capitol Records ) and receive a FREE pair of tickets to the theatrical screening of their new long-form video!
DATES: April 17, April 18, April 19
TIMES: 12:15 pm & 1pm
LOCATION: Laemmle’s Fallbrook 7, 6731 Fallbrook Ave, West Hills, 91307

Record Store Day gift bag giveaway (with purchase, while supplies last)

Fingerprints Music – Long Beach

In-Store Concerts:

2 PM – Keith Morris (DJ Set)
5 PM – Foo Fighters (SOLD OUT – Absolutely no walk up entry)
7 PM – Brett Dennen*

*As of this posting there is still room on the guest list for Brett Dennen, but space is filling up quickly and RSVP is required. Please call the store for details: (562) 433-4996

Other Noteworthy Events:

6 AM – Fingerprints opens

7 AM – Beastie Boys Pre-order for Hot Sauce Committee Part Two.
Pre-order the new album (out May 3rd on Capitol Records ) and receive a FREE pair of tickets to the theatrical screening of their new long-form video!
DATES: April 17, April 18, April 19
TIMES: 12:15 pm & 1pm
LOCATION: Laemmle’s Fallbrook 7, 6731 Fallbrook Ave, West Hills, 91307

2 PM – 3 PM – F*cked Up work the counter and make musical suggestions

Please note: Fingerprints Records will be closed during the in-store events.

Origami Vinyl

In-Store Concerts:

2 PM – Secret Guest
8 PM – The Growlers

Other Noteworthy Events:

Store opens at 10 AM

Check here for a complete list of participating stores, and here for the complete list of limited edition vinyl Record Store Day releases.

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After 3 albums and 9 years, LCD Soundsystem are headed for retirement; but the band’s not sulking quietly away into the sunset.  New Jersey native, James Murphy, and his crew are going out with a bang, selling out NYC’s Madison Square Garden in a matter of minutes.  Unfortunately, scalpers snapped up countless tickets for the show before fans could get their hands on them; so to appease die-hards, and drive down scalped ticket prices, the band added a 4-night run of gigs this week at Terminal 5, leading up to the big show, Saturday, April 2^nd.

For the MSG finale, the band promises a nearly three hour-long concert, with many surprises and special guests planned.  If you didn’t secure your spot at the Garden, or you’re a fan from the rest of the U.S. of A, check out the live concert webcast, hosted by Pitchfork.com in conjunction with Smashbox.

The final LCD Soundsystem performance goes down in the history books on Saturday, April 2^nd at 9PM EST / 6 PM PST.  It is a one-time-only broadcast, and will not be replayed.  Check out the live LCD Soundsystem MSG webcast, HERE.

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James Blake by Shantel Mitchell for NPR

Smith Westerns by Shantel Mitchell for NPR

Raphael Saadiq by Katie Hayes Luke for NPR

Yuck by Katie Hayes Luke for NPR

Not lucky enough to catch the South By Southwest action from streets of downtown Austin, TX?  Have no fear, NPR serves as your SXSW coverage headquarters with photos, live audio, and full archived audio sets from each day of the fest.  SXSW continues through Sunday, so be sure to check back at NPR.com for additional coverage throughout the weekend.

Check out full archived sets from Wednesday, the opening day of SXSW at NPR.com, below:

James Blake @ SXSW

Smith Westerns @ SXSW

Raphael Saadiq @ SXSW

Yuck @ SXSW

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British electronic wunderkind-of-the-moment, James Blake, has extended his North American and European tour dates in support of his critically acclaimed self-titled debut.  After a stint at Austin’s SXSW later this month, he will return to the U.S. in May, playing two dates in L.A., at both The Troubadour and the historic Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever Cemetery.

Tickets for both L.A. shows go on sale this Saturday, March 12^th.  Check out the L.A. ticket links for details, plus the full tour schedule, after the jump. Read the rest of this entry →

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Tonight, Swedish songstress Lykke Li brings her wounded rhymes to the Amoeba stage for a live performance and album signing of her just-released sophomore LP.  Wounded Rhymes, according to a press release, is, “packed full of pounding, voodoo drums, girl group gang vocals, sparkling guitar lines, woozy keyboards, love unrequited, and hope re-ignited,” and features Lykke Li’s vocals doing a lot of the heavy lifting. 

Wounded Rhymes is the follow up to 2008’s critically-acclaimed debut, Youth Novels, and was produced by Bjorn Yttling of Peter, Bjorn & John, and recorded in Stockholm, Sweden.

Lykke Li performs at 6 PM tonight at Amoeba Hollywood.  All Amoeba shows are FREE and all ages.  For more information, check out Amoeba’s Live Shows Page.

If you aren’t able to make tonight’s show, you can catch Lykke Li all over town this week as she promotes Wounded Rhymes.  Lykke Li headlines a sold-out show at the El Rey, Wednesday, March 9^th, and plays a FREE intimate poolside show for the Mondrian Sessions, Thursday, March 10^th.

Thursday’s Mondrian Sessions with Lykke Li takes place at Skybar inside the Mondrian Hotel; you must be 21+ to attend.  Show starts at 8 PM, and admission is FREE with RSVP, HERE.

Lykke Li’s newest LP, Wounded Rhymes, is available now from her own imprint, LL Recordings / Atlantic Records.

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