The 2^nd Annual Sunset and Dine is upon us, taking place June 13 at Academy Hollywood, the outdoor theater at the AMPAS (Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences) Pickford Center. The event brings together local businesses for an evening of food, drinks, booths and a movie screening — this time it’s the classic Hollywood film noir Sunset Blvd.

Amoeba Hollywood has tickets available for the event at $30, plus a $2 service fee. Tickets garner visitors access to beer and wine, plus free food samples from local businesses. Amoeba will be on hand at the event with a booth featuring Amoeba goodies and a DJ. Come say hello!

Sunset and Dine kicks off Academy Hollywood’s Oscars Outdoors series, screening movies most Friday and Saturday nights throughout the summer.

The celebration is put together by the non-profit board Central Hollywood Coalition, which manages the Sunset & Vine Business Improvement District (BID), dedicated to revitalizing a 15-block stretch of Sunset Blvd.

Academy Hollywood is located at 6322 DeLongpre Ave. in Hollywood.

Sean Nicholas Savage - Other Life

CD $12.98

LP $19.98

Download $9.98

It may sound like he’s kidding at first — Sean Nicholas Savages’ casio keyboard chords and shivering falsetto sounds like mall music beamed in from another planet on “She Looks Like You.” But beneath the chintzy set up are great songs sung by an aching voice. Other Life sounds like re-created memories of Simply Red, but its modest creation only adds to the songs’ charm. The title track’s lyrics radiate with the same nostalgia as the music, only it’s for life recently lived and chances not taken (“All I do is reminisce laying in my bed with a cigarette/Opportunities fading, crazy feelings staying only feelings/And if I go back now, how many nights till I go wild again?”). Savage perfectly captures the pain of entering adulthood and realizing life is finite, and wild nights can’t go on forever. Savage isn’t quite Prince — his attempts at romanticism on “Lonely Woman” come off as awkward, though endearingly so. But when that acute pain and awkwardness is paired with soft-rock hooks on a song like “More Than I Love Myself,” Sean Nicholas Savage’s brand of instant nostalgia rings truer than 1,000 Instagram posts.

The Black Lips live at Amoeba

Jubilee Music & Arts Festival is almost here! The two-day festival takes place June 7 and 8 in Downtown Los Angeles, in the Arts District at Santa Fe and Willow. The event features music from the likes of The Drums, Bleached and The Black Lips, along with food, drinks, booths, literature, comedy and more.

Amoea Hollywood has tickets available to the event for $50 plus a $3 service fee. Pick up tickets at the info desk, and check out albums by some of the artists who will be playing at the fest. Get more info, including schedule, at the fest's official site.

Pick up a free download of The Black Lips' "O, Katrina," recorded live at Amoeba!

Amoeba has entered into a partnership with L.A.’s Moheak Radio to provide the Amoeba Song of the Week every week for a recorded segment to air on Moheak’s online radio station.

This week it’s Major Lazer’s “Get Free,” from the latest Major Lazer album, Free the Universe. The collaboration between Diplo and DJs Jillionaire and Walshy Fire fuses dancehall and EDM into an irresistible, danceable whole. “Get Free” sees them slowing down for a cool, laid-back reggae pop jam featuring the aerobic vocals of Dirty Projectors’ Amber Coffman.

A bit about Amoeba’s Song of the Week: Every week we’ll provide a song hand-selected by our own staff to Moheak Radio for a recorded segment that will run four times a day (at around 8 a.m., 1 p.m., 5:45 p.m. and once overnight). Besides hearing what our expert staff is into, you’ll get the chance to win prizes from Amoeba Music. The giveaways will happen once a week with announcements at least once every four hours leading up to the giveaway, which will take place on Moheak’s Facebook page. Check it out, support local/online radio and win some prizes along the way.

Amoeba Music has an array of collectibles available, from rare LPs lining the walls of all three stores to Amoeba Hollywood's display cases by the stairs, by the registers and at the back of the store, and Amoeba SF's brand new display cases, located by the books section.

Our collectibles range from discontinued toys and hard-to-find promo items to signed books and merchandise. At Amoeba Hollywood you'll find rarities such as an Elvis trivia game ($15); Beach Boys paraphernalia, including a Brian Wilson promo pennant ($25) and Beach Boys Mojo magazine ($20); a book of Led Zeppelin guitar tablature ($60); a Smiths Tapes limited edition box set ($280); Ravi Shankar’s autobiography Raga Mala, signed by Shankar ($200); and Beatles goods galore.

If you can’t make it into the store, there’s always our online Merchandise section, with Amoeba swag, rare posters and books, and more. See our currently featured items here. And if you need extra cash or credit for those rare items, don't forget we're always looking for your used CDs and LPs, and you'll get 30% more value if you trade in for credit.