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Contest: Silversun Pickups at Greek Theatre

The Silversun Pickups return next week to California! You can catch the band at the Fox Theater in Oakland on Tuesday, Aug. 3; at the Greek Theatre on Friday, Aug. 6; and at Soma in San Diego on Saturday, Aug. 7. And the Scenestar wants to give you a chance to catch our hometown heroes with a contest for a pair of tickets to see the band at the Greek Theatre!

To enter to win, send your full name, contact info and Twitter account name to oscar@thescenestar.com before Wednesday, Aug. 4, at 10 a.m. Followers of both The Scenestar and the Greek Theatre Twitter accounts will get a second-chance drawing to win tickets. You can also buy tickets for the Greek Theatre show via Ticketmaster. So click below to get your tickets to catch Silversun Pickups live next week!

August 3rd: Silversun Pickups at the Fox Theater (Oakland, CA)

August 6th: Silversun Pickups at The Greek Theatre

August 7th: Silversun Pickups at Soma (San Diego, CA)

Fennesz Books Rare West Coast Tour

It's pretty rare that we get to see Austrian electronic artist Christian Fennesz in Los Angeles, much less near Scenestar headquarters! Fennesz has booked a show at our neighboring Eagle Rock Center for the Arts on Wednesday, Sept. 29.

Bay Area Scenestar readers can catch Fennesz live when he performs on Tuesday, Sept. 28, at the Swedish American Hall.

Tickets to see Fennesz in San Francisco are on sale now via Ticketweb for $20. Tickets for the Eagle Rock Center for the Arts show should go on sale in the near future. We'll keep you posted as always Scenestar readers, so you can catch Fennesz live in September!

New Music Video: Holy Ghost! "I Know, I Hear"

Holy Ghost! is back with a new music video for single "I Know, I Hear," from latest EP Static On the Wire. Holy Ghost! was in town recently to open for LCD Soundsystem and will be back to open for Chromeo in San Diego at the House of Blues San Diego on Monday, Aug. 16. Click below to get your tickets to see Holy Ghost! live!

August 16th: Chromeo w/ Holy Ghost! at House of Blues San Diego

Madame Wong's Hosts Wavves Release Party

San Diego's Wavves will travel to Los Angeles for a very special show next week. The band will perform at historic venue Madame Wong's, which is scheduled to close down on Saturday, Aug. 14. Wavves will host its record release party for new album King of the Beach at Madame Wong's on Wednesday, Aug. 4. You can also catch Wavves at the FYF Festival in September.

Tickets to see Wavves at Madame Wong's are limited and will go on sale to the public today, July 30, at 4 p.m. via Ticketweb for $10 each. Click below to catch one of the last shows ever at the historic punk venue, and see Wavves live next week in Chinatown!

August 4th: Wavves at Madame Wong's

September 4th: FYF Fest w/ Wavves at Los Angeles State Historic Park

Caribou Returns to Perform at Music Box

After performing a sold-out show at the El Rey Theatre in May, Canada's Caribou is back in Los Angeles this October! Back on tour in support of newest album Swim, Caribou has scheduled a show on Friday, Oct. 8, at the Music Box! Caribou will be joined by opener Emeralds.

Tickets to see Caribou can be purchased via Ticketmaster now for $20.50. Be sure to click below and get your tickets to see Caribou live at the Music Box!

October 8th: Caribou w/ Emeralds at the Music Box

Presale: CocoRosie at the Music Box

CocoRosie is returning to the West Coast in support of recent release Grey Oceans. You can catch CocoRosie this fall, starting with a show at San Francisco's Regency Ballroom on Tuesday, Oct. 5. CocoRosie then returns to Los Angeles on Wednesday, Oct. 6, to perform at the Music Box in Hollywood.

Tickets to see CocoRosie will go on sale to the general public on Saturday, July 31, at 10 a.m. via Ticketmaster. A special Goldenvoice presale will be held on Friday, July 30, at 10 a.m. Click below to get your tickets early to see CocoRosie live at the Music Box in October! Password: GREY

October 5th: CocoRosie at the Regency Ballroom (San Francisco, CA)

October 6th: CocoRosie at the Music Box

Sunset Junction Offers $20 Festival Pass

Sunset Junction is back for its 30th year of bringing live music to the streets of Silverlake on Saturday, Aug. 21, and Sunday, Aug. 22. Most of the festival lineup has been announced, and it includes Scenestar favorites Big Daddy Kane, C.C. Sheffield,Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros, Ghostland Observatory, Mayer Hawthorne, Meshell Ndegeochello, Lee "Scratch" Perry and Shiny Toy Guns, along with many other artists.

Tickets are on sale now via fla.vor.us for $15 a day, or you can buy tickets at the door for $20 a day. But for one day only, you can get BOTH days for $20 (that's $10 a day) to celebrate Sunset Junction's 30th anniversary! Click below on Friday, July 30, until the end of the day to get your discounted tickets to Sunset Junction.

Yeah Yeah Yeahs London Show on iTunes

The Yeah Yeah Yeahs have a new concert film entitled "Live in London," filmed during the band's It's Blitz tour. Karen O and company were filmed live at London's O2 Academy in Brixton for the 80-minute, 16-song, Nick Wood-directed film. The film is available for download for $9.99 via iTunes, so click below if you want in on some live Yeah Yeah Yeahs footage from the band's latest tour!

Yeah Yeah Yeahs "Live in London"

Presale: Florence + The Machine at the Wiltern

As previously reported, Florence and the Machine will perform two dates at the Wiltern on Saturday, Nov. 6, and Sunday, Nov. 7! These dates are in support of her latest release, Lungs.

Tickets for the second Florence and the Machine show will go on sale on Friday, July 30, at 10 a.m. via Live Nation. For you impatient Scenestar readers, you can get your presale tickets now. If you don't want to miss out on Florence and the Machine live in November at the Wiltern, click below by 10 p.m. to get your tickets early! Password: VENUE

November 6th: Florence and the Machine at the Wiltern

November 7th: Florence and the Machine at the Wiltern

Live: Tool at Nokia Theatre at L.A. Live

ARTICLE BY JAMIE SKOWRON
PHOTOS BY VERONICA MUNOZ

JULY 19 | LOS ANGELES—Reverend Maynard James Keenan (Tool vocalist) said, “Let there be light,” and then there was light…. The Nokia Theatre was the sight of the congregation tonight, with excitement and hype building across the digital super-highway in the days preceding Tool's two shows in Los Angeles.

Tonight's sold-out show produced heavy volumes of security-driven scrutiny, and many people were sent away or not permitted to re-entry due to a high frequency of previous ticket fraud and unpermitted video/photography. With the excitement of a schoolgirl, I took my seat, surrounded by people who were salivating at the opportunity to experience the magnanimous energy of Tool. This band summons the use of avant-garde cinematography and contemporary art in conjunction with trance-inducing, mind-bending music to channel a direct spiritual and mental link between the deficiencies of societal and personal evolution.