News bits: LCD Soundsystem/Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Burger-A-Go-Go, Musink, L.A. Rock Lottery

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Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Photo by Samantha Satruday)
Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Photo by Samantha Satruday)

Fresh off our newswire:

► LCD Soundsystem and Yeah Yeah Yeahs will team up for a night at the Hollywood Bowl on May 4. Tickets start at $37.50. Presale tickets (password: FEVER) go on sale at 9 a.m. Wednesday; general on-sale is at 10 a.m. Friday.

► The Coathangers and Dengue Fever will headline respective nights of this year’s Burger-A-Go-Go tour, which visits L.A. and Long Beach the first weekend in March. The Coathangers, Death Valley Girls, the Flytraps and Feels play Night 1; Dengue Fever, Winter, Summer Twins and Patsy’s Rats perform on Night 2. The tour visits the new L.A. warehouse space 1720 (1720 E. 6th St.) on March 2-3. The tour hits Alex’s Bar in Long Beach on March 3-4. Tickets are on sale now; visit our concerts page.

► The lineup has been announced for the 11th annual Musink, which visits the O.C. Fair and Events Center on March 16-18. Descendents headline Friday night (joined by Fear, Strung Out and the Adolescents); Blink-182 do Saturday night (with Good Charlotte and the Interrupters); and Lil Yachty closes the fest on Sunday (with Machine Gun Kelly). Tickets on sale at 10 a.m. Friday.

► And on Feb. 10, there’s a charity event at the Echo called the L.A. Rock Lottery. The lottery sees 25 musicians meet at 10 a.m., and, via chance selection, form five groups. The groups then go off to practice spaces, with 11 hours to create a band name and three to five songs (one cover song is allowed). They perform the songs that night. Show time is 9 p.m.

Among those participating: Alex Estrada (Silver Snakes), Andrew Martin (Moon Honey), Brian Kesley (Joseph, Maggie Rogers), Charlie Overbey (Custom Made Scare, The Broken Arrows, Valentine Killers, Deadbolt), David Clifford (Red Sparrowes, Jail Weddings, Pleasure Forever, the VSS), David Pacheco (Thee Commons), Evan Weiss (Sparks, Junk, Wires on Fire, GIRLS), Jake Courtois (Patients, Courtois), Joe McGarry (Pop Noir), Kelcey Ayer (Local Natives, Jaws of Love), Max Bernstein (Ke$ha, Demi Lovato, Krewella, the Actual), Mikal Cronin (Mikal Cronin, Moonhearts, Ty Segall Band), Mike Watt (Minutemen, fIREHOSE, the Stooges), Patty Schemel (Hole, Upset), Roger Brogan (Spectrum (UK) w/ Sonic Boom, Dean & Britta), Ryan Wilson (Division Day, the Little Ones).;