Win Tickets to Coachella 2009 from URB Magazine and Loudcrowd!

Your 90's-ologist fo' sho' got her three-day pass and hotel room on for this year's Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival in the desert of Indio, CA from April 17-19. I had so much fun in one day last year that I had to do it right this year and brave all three days. The more to party with! And that's the name of the game with Coachella is parties; Loudcrowd and URB want to make sure a lucky winner not only has access to the show, but to a swank luxury home cum INDIOASIS party spot. Sign me up!

If you are not planning to go to Coachella this year, that's your first mistake. Check out this lineup:



It's choice. I hope to see you there!

Awesome Pavement Contest in Celebration of Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Expanded Edition Reissue on December 9

Matador Records is reissuing the seminal 90's indie-rock band Pavement's 1997 album, "Brighten The Corners," and in honor of this momentous occasion they're having what seems like a lame contest at the outset, but then you think about it, and then it's kinda rad: A $500 giftcard from IKEA and a shopping trip to the Swedish furniture mavens near you with a member of Pavement! Get excited!! This is a very cool offer, especially for those indie-rock loving, broke-arsed college students that you know. All you have to do is submit a photo of your hovel that needs an extreme makeover, as well as an essay describing why the muck and mire of said hovel has got to go, to the Pavement fans group on imeem. The deadline is December 6, and the winner will be announced on December 9, the day that "Brighten The Corners: Nicene Creedence Edition" is issued. Good luck with that!

I leave you with the tune "Date With IKEA," off Brighten The Corners, that gave Matador and imeem this big contest idea: