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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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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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It’s a vinyl-only affair, and you’re invited!  Space 15 Twenty, in conjunction with B-Music/Finders Keepers, invite you to the second-annual neighborhood Record Fair, this Sunday (1/30/11) from 10 AM to 4 PM.

Come comb through vinyl staples and rarities from Amoeba Music, B-Music / Finders Keepers Records, Mexican Summer, Origami Vinyl, Vacation Vinyl, Dublab and many more independent music stores and record labels!

Space 15 Twenty is located at 1520 N. Cahuenga Blvd in Hollywood (½ block north of Amoeba Hollywood)

This event is FREE and open to the public.

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Long Beach quartet, Cold War Kids, take the Amoeba stage tonight in celebration of the release of their third full-length album, Mine is Yours. The album was recorded over three months in Nashville and Los Angeles with producer Jacquire King, who includes Tom Waits, Kings of Leon, and Modest Mouse among his long list of collaborators.

Mine is Yours is a strong departure from Cold War Kid’s previous albums Robbers & Cowards and Loyalty To Loyalty, where lyrics explored narratives from various characters’ perspectives.  This time around, lead singer Nathan Willett mined new material from personal experiences.  “I was reading things and thinking about Michael Stipe and R.E.M, and their whole evolution,” the frontman tells Rolling Stone.  “They started with the kind of lyrics that were more or less kind of just good-sounding words, and then kind of moved into really revealing something about themselves — that was my goal.”

Be witness to Cold War Kids getting up close and personal, TONIGHT!

Cold War Kids perform 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.

Cold War Kids‘ third full-length album Mine is Yours releases TODAY, January 25^th via Downtown Records.  The full album is currently available for streaming via Cold War Kids’ MySpace Page.

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Following up last night’s show at the El Rey, UNCLE’s James Lavelle will man the turntables tonight for a guest DJ set at Amoeba Hollywood.

UNCLE are touring in support of their latest incarnation and new album, When Does the Night Fall, which is kaleidoscopic in scope.  The album has been described as, “both widescreen and intimate, propulsive and reflective, drawing in influences as diverse as krautrock, psychedelia, techno, afrobeat and their grass root sample sound.”  The album also features a smorgasbord of guest vocals from The Black Angels and Elle J, to San Francisco’s Sleepy Sun and Los Angeles’ Autolux among many others.

Check out this master of the ones and twos live while you have the chance!

UNCLE’s James Lavelle plays a guest DJ set at 7 PM, TONIGHT, Tuesday (10/26/10) at Amoeba Hollywood.  All Amoeba shows are FREE and all ages.  For more information, check out Amoeba’s Live Shows Page.

UNCLE‘s newest album, Where Does the Night Fall, is available now from Surrender All Records.

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