Giveaways:

Just in time for Valentine’s Day, UCLA Radio is giving away VIP tickets to an advanced screening of The Vow! The screening is taking place on February 8th at the ArcLight Hollywood at 7:30PM. Just head over to our Facebook page to find out how you can win.

A newlywed couple recovers from a car accident that puts the wife (played by Rachel McAdams) in a coma. Waking up with severe memory loss, her husband (Channing Tatum) endeavors to win her heart again. The Vow has been rated PG-13 by the MPAA for the following reasons: an accident scene, sexual content, partial nudity and some language.

To find out more about the movie, like it on Facebook, follow it on Twitter, and check out the trailer below. Don’t miss The Vow when it hits theaters February 10th!

We’ve got tickets to go to the advanced screening of the upcoming thriller The Woman in Black, starring Daniel Radcliffe. The screening is taking place on Tuesday January 31st at 7PM at The Grove. Tickets are first come first served. Just follow us on Twitter @uclaradio to find out how you can enter to win!

In this supernatural thriller, widower Arthur Kipps (Daniel Radcliffe), whose grief has put his career as a lawyer in jeopardy, is sent to a remote village to sort out the affairs of a recently deceased eccentric…but upon arriving in the hamlet, it soon becomes clear that everyone in the town is keeping a deadly secret.  Although the townspeople try to keep Kipps from learning their tragic history, he soon discovers that the house belonging to his client is haunted by the ghost of a woman who is determined to find someone and something she lost…and no one, not even the children, are safe from her vengeance.

Don’t miss The Woman in Black when it hits theaters on February 3rd. For more information, like the movie on Facebook, follow it on Twitter and check out the trailer below:

Twin Sister is a dream pop / indie pop band hailing from the East Coast.  Their sound is similar to that of Beach House, Real Estate, and I think possibly comparable to a more instrumental Metric.  The band is fronted by Andrea Estella, who’s vocals smoothly drone into the melodic pop sounds of Twin Sister.  They released their latest album In Heaven last September and found their song “Daniel” becoming a hit single among the blogosphere.  As Twin Sister heads out on their North American tour, they are making a stop at The Echo in Los Angeles and UCLA Radio is giving you a chance to win a pair of tickets to go and see them.

Listen to The Banana Stand on UCLARadio.com from 7-8 PM on Monday January 23rd for your chance to win!

Event Info:

Twin Sister w/ Ava Luna @ The Echo on Feb 3, 2012.

UCLA Radio is giving away tickets to see the new movie, Underworld Awakening, valid throughout the run of engagement starting when it hits theaters on January 20, 2012! Head over to the UCLA Radio Facebook page to find out how to enter to win!

Underworld Awakening brings a stunning new dimension to the epic battle between Vampires and Lycans, as the first film in the franchise to shoot in 3D. Kate Beckinsale, star of the first two films, returns in her lead role as the vampire warrioress Selene, who escapes imprisonment to find herself in a world where humans have discovered the existence of both Vampire and Lycan clans, and are conducting an all-out war to eradicate both immortal species.

To find out more about Underworld Awakening, like the Facebook page and follow the movie on Twitter. You can also check out the official trailer, below.

To kick off the quarter, UCLA Radio is giving you another chance to win a new phone! We are giving away the new BlackBerry® Bold 9930 on the UCLA Radio Facebook page this week in preparation for The Kick Off, taking place on January 12th in Ackerman Grand Ballroom!

The BlackBerry Bold 9930, runs on the Verizon network and is a powerful smartphone offering the thinnest BlackBerry yet, with the iconic BlackBerry keyboard and gorgeous high resolution touchscreen making this smartphone the best of both worlds. The BlackBerry Bold 9930 helps turn your ideas into action and be bold in 2012.

For more information visit: http://blackberry.com/bold. Don’t miss The Kick Off this Thursday at 8:30PM in Ackerman Grand Ballroom, with headliner Dillon Francis. You can get more information by visiting the website here: http://thekickoff.weebly.com/

To enter, like the UCLA Radio Facebook page and follow the instructions in our status. Winners must be able to pick up their phones on the UCLA campus. They will be announced on Thursday, January 12th. Good luck!

To kick off the new year, UCLA Radio is giving you the chance to see NBC’s new show Smash before it premieres on February 6th at 10/9c. This advanced screening of the pilot episode is taking place at The Grove on Monday January 9th. Just be one of the first 50 people to click this link www.gofobo.com/rsvp and enter this code: UCLARAVS48 to download your ticket! Tickets are first-come, first-served so make sure you arrive early.

SMASH stars Debra Messing, Christian Borle and Katharine McPhee. There’s nothing more exciting than the opening night of a hit Broadway musical, except maybe what happens getting there. While Wicked and The Lion King pack audiences in on the Great White Way, Julia and Tom, a successful songwriting team (Debra Messing and Christian Borle), begin work on a new musical based on the life of Marilyn Monroe. When a tenacious producer (Anjelica Houston) jumps abroad, so begins the difficult task of casting the silver screen icon.

Ivy Lynn, a tough Broadway veteran, seems like the obvious choice. But enter Karen Cartwright (Katharine McPhee), a young girl form Iowa with a dream of making it on Broadway who walks in and blows everyone away. So who will get the part and begin a journey that will change their lives? It’s an age-old story, but a star just might be born once again.

While everyone is consumed with putting the show together, real life has a tendency of getting in the way. Julia and her husband are in the middle of a complicated adoption; the producer’s husband begins divorce proceedings which could threaten the finances of the show; and the brilliant but womanizing director could derail everyting if he puts the young star in a compromising position. This will be a rollercoaster ride that culminates on opening night when the adiences gets to determine whether or not the show is a smash!

In the era of The Voice and Glee, executive producers Steven Spielberg and Craig Zadan & Neil Meron (producers of Chicago and Hairspray), and songwriters Marc Shaiman and Scott Wittman (Hairspray), bring you the blood, sweat, and tears of the making of a Broadway musical.

To find out more about SMASH, visit the official website for the show, like SMASH on Facebook and follow the show on Twitter. Don’t forget to check it out on NBC when it airs on February 6th at 10/9c. In the meantime, check out the extended trailer below:

If you are not already, it’d be a good idea to become a fan of our new Facebook page and follow us on Twitter.  We reward our fans and followers with live coverage of the best events, new music, and ticket giveaways, so do yourself a favor and get in on the action!

Once again, UCLA Radio is giving you the chance to go to an advanced screening! This time, it’s to see In the Land of Blood and Honey, Angelina Jolie’s directorial debut! The screening is taking place on December 15 at the ArcLight Sherman Oaks. Head over to our Facebook page to find out how to enter.

Set against the backdrop of the Bosnian War that tore the Balkan region apart in the 1990s, In the Land of Blood and Honey tells the story of Danijel (Goran Kostić) and Ajla (pronounced Ayla) (Zana Marjanović), two Bosnians from different sides of a brutal ethnic conflict. Danijel, a Bosnian Serb police officer, and Ajla, a Bosnian Muslim artist, are together before the war, but their relationship is changed as violence engulfs the country. Months later, Danijel is serving under his father, General Nebojsa Vukojevich (Rade Šerbedžija), as an officer in the Bosnian Serb Army. He and Ajla come face to face again when she is taken from the apartment she shares with her sister, Lejla (Vanesa Glodjo), and Lejla’s infant child by troops under Danijel’s command. As the conflict takes hold of their lives, their relationship changes, their motives and connection to one another become ambiguous and their allegiances grow uncertain. In the Land of Blood and Honey portrays the incredible emotional, moral and physical toll that the war takes on individuals as well as the consequences that stem from the lack of political will to intervene in a society stricken with conflict.

Check out the trailer here and don’t miss it when the film hits theaters on December 23rd!

San Francisco based band, Girls, will be playing the Music Box on Tuesday, December 6 and UCLAradio wants to send you to the show! Girls is currently touring for their sophomore album, Father, Son, Holy Ghost, which was released this past September. Read the rest of this entry »

Want to go to the world’s largest paint party? UCLA Radio is giving away tickets to DayGlow at the Shrine Auditorium on November 25th!

It’s arguable that there’s no better environment in which to accidentally mess up your phone than college. There’s a lot of ways, some more creative than others, to lose or break that disproportionally important little rectangle of technology. Even if you haven’t recently pulverized the smartphone in your back pocket after a late-night leap of faith from a fraternity rooftop, chances are good that your phone is out of date. Maybe it doesn’t take pictures. Maybe it doesn’t have a full keyboard. Maybe it doesn’t even have (brace yourself) Internet access. It’s probably time for a new one. But when you find that two thirds of your last paycheck have been spent on Top Ramen, your options suddenly become somewhat limited. That’s when BlackBerry® and UCLARadio (once again!) save the day.

We’re giving away the new BlackBerry® Torch 9810 on November 14th on our Facebook page, and on-air on UCLA Radio News (Thursday, Nov 17th at 6PM) and The Friday Night Fuse (Nov 18th at 8PM)! The Torch 9810 is the latest in smartphone wonder designed by the magicians at Blackberry®. Running on the AT&T network, it offers the best of all phone worlds by combining an all-touch display with a slide out QWERTY keyboard. Texting and maintaining your social networks has never been easier. You won’t want to miss a chance to get one for your very own.

Like us on Facebook and follow us on Twitter to find out how you could win! Also, don’t forget to listen live on Thursday Nov 17th at 6PM and Nov 18th at 8PM!

Also, check out BBM Generation — an online-hub designed to help promote collaboration and achievement through social media. For more info, visit http://us.blackberry.com/bbmgeneration/.

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UCLA Radio is giving you a chance to go to an epic boxing showdown between Bruins and our rivals over at USC!

November 11, 2011 at the Los Angeles Athletic Club:

Boxing at The Los Angeles Athletic Club has been around since the club’s inception over 130 years ago. Maintaining the boxing tradition today, The Los Angeles Athletic Club and Espada Boxing are, once again, teaming up for the L.A. Collegiate Boxing Invitational. The night’s events will feature over eight NCBA sanctioned bouts with the main event taking place between two of the oldest crosstown rivals UCLA versus USC.

Three levels of seating are available for this black tie (optional) event. Exclusive balcony VIP seating that includes a special whiskey tasting along with complimentary wine and beer. VIP ringside seating is available for groups of four or more and general admission seating is available. All tickets will include lavish hors d’oeuvres, pre-fight buffet and post-fight desserts. Cigars will be available throughout the night to enjoy the breathtaking views of the club’s outdoor rooftop.

Doors open at 6PM and the fight starts at 7:30PM. Black tie optional.

You can make a reservation by calling 213.630.5255 for General admission ($75), Ringside ($110) or VIP Balcony Seating with Whiskey Tasting, Beer and Wine for ($150). Or, you can head over to our Facebook page to enter to win FOR FREE!

When you cross six recently graduated college students, a cello, and a few striped sweaters, there’s a couple of things you could end up with. One is the beginning of a dumb joke. The other is young indie rock band Ra Ra Riot, playing at the El Rey Theatre this Thursday, November 10.

Since their birth on the Syracuse University campus in early 2006, Ra Ra Riot’s progression has been as fast-paced as one of their songs. In less than two years following their formation, the group was invited to open for artists such as Art Brut, Bow Wow Wow, and Tokyo Police Club, and was hailed as “one of the best young bands in a really long time” by SPIN.com. Their first album, The Rhumb Line, was released in 2008, and was followed up by The Orchard in 2010. Both received critical acclaim from sources like Pitchfork.com and NPR.

Ra Ra Riot has the delightful ability to mix paralleled bouncy rock with original, creative elements. Their music bursts with poppy energy (think Vampire Weekend), but the dizzying string arrangements (courtesy of violinist Rebecca Zeller and cellist Alexandra Lawn), crisp vocals (Wes Miles), and lively lyrics bring an altogether unique signature to the sound. I was really excited to find out that “Dying Is Fine” is based off of an e.e. cummings poem, even borrowing a good amount of its lyrics from the word-whirling poet. (Really!) Ra Ra Riot’s sound is fun and fast and light-hearted, but thoughtful and polished at the same time. It’s like having a dance party while reading Goethe’s Faust, or something.

The band headlines at the El Rey this Thursday, with notable openers Yellow Ostrich and Delicate Steve. Doors open at 7 PM and tickets are still on sale for around $30. More info about the show can be found here.

If you’re the type who prefers to win free tickets rather than buying them, tune in to Pretentious & Pop from 12-2 PM on UCLARadio.com this Monday, November 7! We want to hook you up with a pair so that your musical mind can be blown this Thursday. Catch ya at the El Rey.

UCLA Radio has tickets to Escape from Wonderland and we want to give them to YOU! This new event from Insomniac events is taking place on Saturday October 29th in San Bernardino at the NOS Events Center and you could be there! Just follow us on Twitter and check out our Facebook page to find out when we’ll be giving away tickets on-air and online.

This Halloween, from the people that brought you music festivals like Nocturnal Wonderland and the Electric Daisy Carnival, Insomniac presents its signature, fully immersive audiovisual festival experience, but transformed into a Wonderland gone MAD! For the first time ever, you can experience the haunted world of Halloween, Insomniac-style.

The NOS Event Center will be completely turned inside-out, where grotesque creatures and devilish dancers beckon from behind dark corners, and a wrong turn could land you in a custom-built Haunted House! This bone-chilling adventure will be full of eerie art installations, pyrotechnics, and other terrors to go along with the world-class soundtrack, including Afro Jack, ATB, Benny Benassi, Dash Berlin and many more! You are invited to join if you dare.

You can tune in to EQ on UCLARadio.com/listen.pls on Tuesday October 25th from 10PM-12AM to enter to win! Or, head over to our Facebook and Twitter pages where we will give more info about how you can enter online!

To find out more about Escape, to buy tickets, or to prepare yourself for the experience, check out the official Escape from Wonderland website, follow Insomniac on Twitter and like the event on Facebook. You can also check out the newly released trailer for the event below.