Brace yourselves, Chicago, we’re about to get flooded with excellent shows at Smart Bar. While the deluge begins this weekend (Craig Richards and Mister Saturday Night? We’ll be there), the biggest block opens with Pearson Sound on Thursday, January 19th. LWE is here to hook you up with two guest list spots to what is sure to be an excellent and well attended show. All you have to do is email contest@littlewhiteearbuds.com with “PEARSON SOUND” as the subject by 12PM CST on January 18th. We’ll pick one winner at random from the entries and notify them via email. Good luck and see you out there!

If you’re in or able to get to London on August 6th, you don’t want to miss this. We Fear Silence is bringing a Rush Hour Recordings label night to Cable and the line-up is suitably impressive. Legendary Chicago duo Virgo Four will be making their last UK appearance together (for the foreseeable future), and are supported Rick Wilhite, Tom Trago, Cosmin TRG and BNJMN. Pretty stellar, right? LWE is hooking you up with a pair of tickets for the event with our latest trivia contest. Simply tell us on what label Virgo Four made their debut in an email to contest[at]littlewhiteearbuds.com with “RUSH HOUR” as the subject line. The deadline is 10am CST on August 3rd. One winner will be chosen at random from the correct entries and notified via email. Good luck and enjoy the show!

Little White Earbuds and Smart Bar are excited to bring Santiago Salazar, Hakim Murphy, and LWE’s Steve Mizek to Smart Bar on Saturday, July 2nd. Two pairs of you will join us gratis if you enter our contest of sorts. Simply send an email to contest[at]littlewhiteearbuds.com with your full name and “S2 IN CHICAGO” as the subject line. The contest closes June 30th at 10 AM. Two winners will be chosen at random and notified via email. Good luck and we hope to see you at the show.

Chicago, are you ready for another double dose of bad ass techno? Oktave once again provides and LWE once again wants to help you enjoy it. If you want to win a pair of tickets to see Function (Sandwell District), Peter Van Hoesen (Time to Express), and Jeff Derringer (Oktave founder) at Smart Bar on June 11th, simply email contest[at]littlewhiteearbuds.com with your favorite release by any of the featured artists and “OKTAVE CONTEST” as the subject line. Two winners will be chosen at random from the entries and notified via email. Contest closes on June 8th at 10am CST. Good luck; hope to see you there either way!

To celebrate the arrival of Jackmaster’s Fabriclive 57, Fabric and LWE are teaming up to give away five copies of the buzzed about mix.For your chance to win, just tell us your favorite Fabriclive mix of all time in an email addressed to contest[at]littlewhiteearbuds.com with “JACKMASTER CONTEST” as the subject. We’ll choose five winners at random from the entries who will be notified via email. Contest ends June 1st at 10am CST. Good luck!

MUTEK and LWE are teaming up to give away two festival passports for all the MUTEK’s 12th edition, June 1st through 5th. To win the prize so good it has us plainly jealous, simply answer our trivia question:

What was the name of MUTEK headliner Plastikman’s first release? Send your answer with MUTEK CONTEST in the subject line to contest@littlewhiteearbuds.com by Friday, May 6th at 10am CST. One winner will be chosen at random from the correct entries and notified. Good luck, and don’t fuck it up.

Frenchman Sébastien Devaud, the producer known as Agoria, is the latest to join Fabric’s esteemed mix series. LWE wants to hook you up with a copy of Fabric 57 and all you need to do is correctly answer our trivia question: on what labels did Agoria release his first full length album? Send your answer with “AGORIA CONTEST” as the subject to editor[at]littlewhiteearbuds.com by 10am CST on Wednesday, April 27th. Two winners will be chosen at random from the correct responses and notified via email. Good luck!

We here at LWE are stoked to see acoustic dance music trio Brandt Brauer Frick make their long awaited American debut in the run up to their appearances at SXSW and Coachella. To celebrate, we’re offering Chicago readers two tickets to see them live for free at the Empty Bottle on Tuesday, March 8th. All you have to do for your chance is answer this (admittedly easy) trivia question: Under what name do the duo of Jan Brauer and Daniel Brandt make house music? Send your answer to editor[at]littlewhiteearbuds.com with “BRANDT BRAUER FRICK CONTEST” as the subject by 4PM on Monday, Mar 7th. One correct answer will be chosen at random, and only the winner will be chosen at random. Good luck, and don’t fuck it up.

If you’re into the sort of dancey, digital smut peddled by Jimmy Edgar, listen up: On September 8th, Edgar is throwing a release party for his latest album, XXX, at Le Poisson Rouge. If you want to see Edgar performing live with support from Cassette (tag team DJ set featuring Machine Drum, Sepalcure and Melo X) and The Elder Jepson (live), enter our trivia contest. On what label did Jimmy Edgar make his vinyl debut under his own name? Send your answers to editor[at]littlewhiteearbuds.com with “JIMMY EDGAR CONTEST” in the subject line by 10am CST on September 1st. One winner will be selected at random from the correct entries. No late entries will be accepted. As a taster for this show, please enjoy a track from the album on us:

Download: Jimmy Edgar ft. Theophilus London, “Hot, Raw Sex”

Today London’s beloved superclub, Fabric, announced that it’s house is once again in order and banished woeful tales of administration. In case you need proof that it’s business as usual, check out the line up for July 3rd: Room one hosts The Nothing Special, with live performances by Shackleton, Pole, and Deadbeat, and a DJ set from resident Craig Richards. Room two features Marcel Dettmann, Shed (live) and Martyn. Room three rounds out the line up with Nina Kraviz and resident Terry Francis. Since we can’t attend, we’re sending you and a friend in our stead. All you have to do to win two tickets is correctly answer our trivia question: On what label did Shackleton make his vinyl debut? Send your answer (with “NOTHING SPECIAL” in the subject) to editor[at]littlewhiteearbuds.com by July 1st at 10am CST. One winner will be chosen from correct responses and notified by email. Good luck!