No, I’m not telling you to cut off your hands at the El Rey tomorrow night. I am, however, telling you to leave a note in the comment section telling me what you would do–what magical invention you would create, or in what fascinating subject you would make a major breakthrough. If you won the Nobel Prize, what “science” would you have applied?! Do tell. Leave your email addy, so I can contact you if you win; winner gets an autographed CD & poster from We Are Scientists! The band, like, wrote on them! With their names! Possibly with KITTENS! Like in the picture!

They play with Cut Off Your Hands and the Blood Arm, both of whom are fantastic. This should be an awesome show. If you can’t get into this one (tickets are here) I also recommend Broken Ocean at the Viper Room and the Mae Shi with Die Rockers Die & Death to Anders at Spaceland.

seen on Zach Huddleston’s Facebook.  More info here and here.

Quick follow up to yesterday’s post about A car driving through the front of the IO West theater, yeah, um, they are gonna be closed for a while. This from their e-mail list:

THEATRE & BAR CLOSED DUE TO ACCIDENT

At approximately 4pm on Thursday, June 26th, an SUV crashed through the front of the iO West bar.

Thankfully, nobody was hurt. Due to the extensive damage to the exterior and interior of the bar, the theatre will be closed until repairs are completed.

ALL SHOWS ARE CANCELED UNTIL JULY 7th.

CLASSES WILL CONTINUE AS SCHEDULED.

Phone service has been temporarily interrupted and should be restored by the weekend.

Updates and info will be available on the iO West website as they become available.

We’ve talked about sketchy valet situations here before but this one is definitely reaching the top of that list. These photos showed up on my friend Skampy’s flickr feed yesterday and are from a situation downtown at The Edison on Wednesday night. Apparently upon leaving the bar the valet people said there was a “problem” with her car (the BMW pictured above) and they would need to take them too it, and when they got there they found this. It seems one of the valet drivers had lost control of the Toyota (also pictured above) and slammed it into her parked car. Yeah, nice “problem.” I guess once the manager of the Edison got involved he and several other witnesses heard the valet folks say they will take full responsibility for this, but if those giant disclaimers they have all over the place are any heads up, my guess is it’s not going to be a smooth and easy solution. Yikes!

No details on this yet. Photo taken about an hour ago by Graham Douglas. Thanks Shane!

Hi all y’all! Metroblogging has some more tickets for you. The luminous Nikka Costa is coming to the El Rey this Friday the 27th along with DJ C-Minus, and we’ve got a few pairs of tickets to give away. Wanna win? Tell me who Nikka’s godfather was down in the comments. Be sure to leave your email address in the email field so I can contact you if you win.

Wanna suck it up & buy tickets? Go here. Or myspace her here.  Or facebook. Or see an adorably lo-tek (but still bangin’) video here.

EDIT:

We haz winners! Sorry, no tickets left. Try the Warped Tour instead.

Last-minute ticket alert!!! We don’t even have time to make up a clever contest for this one. We’ll be choosing randomly from the first commenters to tell me their fave thing about tonight’s lineup at the Greek: Rilo Kiley, Lavender Diamond and Benji Hughes!

Leave an email I can reach you at asap.

Yes, the Warped Tour is still happening! After all these years! Year after year, it still happens!

Wow!

We’ve got tickets to give away to their shows in Pomona (6/20) and Ventura (6.22)! You could see Against Me!, The Aggrolites, Angels & Airwaves, As I Lay Dying (Playing 6/20-7/18), The Bronx, Cobra Starship, Fear (Playing 6/22), Gil Mantera’s Party Dream, Gym Class Heroes, HorrorPops, Katy Perry, Pennywise (Playing 6/20-6/29 and 7/15-8/3), Reel Big Fish, Relient K, Say Anything, Shwayze, Skeet Skeet, Story of the Year and too, too many more. Too many.

But I plan to make it difficult for you, or perhaps at least counterintuitive. Because I’m a pain in the ass.

To win, you have to tell me your LEAST FAVORITE BAND on the bill, and you have to give me a good reason why you hate them with every fiber of your being. Vitriol. Rage. Bile. Ad hominem attacks. Go on. Impress me. Be a hater.

If ya don’t win, and you still want tickets, buy ‘em for Pomona (6/20) or Ventura (6.22)!

Indie acousti-songstress and myspace protege Ingrid Michaelson’s exploded into the vacant space left by Sarah McLaughlin and Dido, giving emo singletons and primetime dramas yet another soundtrack to their self-sufficient-yet-full-of-yearning melancholia. Bless her soul. She plays the El Rey Tuesday the 24th along with Greg Laswell.

She really is super good. Listen here. To win tickets, let me know which lyrics in her songs speak to you the most and why. I promise not to call you emo. It’s ok. Don’t forget to leave your contact email so I can get back to you if’n you win.

We’ve got more than tickets to give away, though! Our grand prize winner gets a copy of her latest album, Girls & Boys. w00t.

Some neighborhoods in and around Los Angeles may be getting relief from the RVs that camp out on public streets for days, months, or years on end, but not all neighborhoods.  Along the western end of Washington Boulevard which divides Venice and the Marina, posted signs clearly limit parking to two hours between 8 a.m. and midnight.  That doesn’t stop the RVs from parking there continuously. 

More RV tard-iness, after the jump