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Win Tickets to Saturday's Melvins + Mudhoney Show
A pretty damn good cd came out on Tuesday, the soundtrack to a film about Kurt Cobain called About a Son. The soundtrack has no music from Cobain or any of his bands, instead it's mostly music he was listening to from bands he was fans of.
Very few bands had as much influence on Kurt than the Melvins, and very few bands had as much college radio street cred the years before Nirvana broke than Mudhoney.
Both the Melvins and Mudhoney are on About a Son, and Saturday the two bands play together at the Henry Fonda. We want you to go.
Find out what hoops we will make you jump through after the jump.
All you have to do is
a) be a registered commentor - if you're not registered it takes seconds and its safe free and easy
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b) tell us what your favorite LAist post was this summer
c) make sure that your email address is what you will be looking at Friday afternoon cuz we're gonna email 1 lucky wiener at 2:22pm and that person will only have 22 minutes to write us back or we will email someone else.
So go through the archives, or think real hard and tell us 1 story that you totally loved, and put it in the comments. Friday we will pick someone at random and email them. Saturday's the show at the Fonda in Hollywood on Hollywood Blvd.
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photo of the Melvins via their Myspace
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