Celebrating 10 years of radness, FYF is just three weeks away taking place August 24 and 25 at the L.A. State Historic Park. This year’s FYF Festival line up will feature: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, My Bloody Valentine, Thee Oh Sees, Toro y Moi, The Breeders, Baroness, Beck, Chvrches, Deerhunter, FLAG, Flume, Gold Panda, The Shouting Matches, and a lot more kick-ass bands you will not want to miss.
Weekend Passes for FYF Fest are $99 and available online or select retailers. A weekend VIP pass is $199. OR, you can WIN A FREE PAIR OF WEEKEND PASSES TO FYF WITH GRIMY GOODS! Want to win tickets to FYF Fest at L.A. Historic Park? Enter the contest below and complete ALL 3 STEPS to be considered. We will only select a winner that has completed all three steps. A winner will be selected on Friday, Aug. 15. We will notify the winner via email and announce the winner via Facebook and Twitter as well.
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2. Next, leave a comment below letting us know what bands you’re excited to see at FYF and why should we give you a free pair of weekend passes. Be sure to leave you valid email address so we can notify you of your win (if you win). Email addresses are kept private and are not seen by the public.
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I am most excited for the smaller bands (The Orwells, Mac Demarco), because you then realize the early folk are truly the music aficionados riding on a wave a great vibes. I have been going to FYF for years and sadly this year I haven’t the money. So if you decide to pick me, I’ll be forever grateful and will make sure to be one of the first people in line to get in! Thanks.
I would be super stoked to see My Bloody Valentine, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Solange and Death Grips. I should win passes because I’ve never been, would love to explore LA, and it would be an amazing surprise for a broke college graduate. (ﾉ◕ヮ◕)ﾉ*:･ﾟ✧
I’m daying to see Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Nosaj Thing, and Solange. I should win the tickets because i want to lose my voice screaming and dancing!
WOW where do i even begin with this amazing lineup. Im excited to see My Bloody Valentine,The Locust!!,Death Grips,Metz,The Orwells, etc. I would be pretty stoked to be able to see so many bands that i really appreciate. I would like to leave the real world and enjoy this awesome weekend before i go to school which is the next day. Thanks Grimy for this contest.
Bands that I’m excited to hear playing and hopefully see at this years FYF Fest are Deerhunter, Mikal Cronin, The Orwells, Toro Y Moi, Beach House, and Mac DeMarco. But If I had a reason why I would want to go it would be TY SEGALL, TY SEGALL, and TY SEGALL.
can’t’ believe I forgot My Bloody Valentine!
I need a weekend full of GOOD music before I head back to school. Let me soak in the sun waves while I dance to Flume, vibe with Shlohmo, and chill with Mac DeMarco!
Please Grimy Goods?
I really want to see Devendra Barnhart, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, DeerHunter, 0Nosaj thing, The oh sees, washed out and the Melvins. I’d love to win these tickets cause it’d be my very first fest and it would be my ideal way to end my summer! 🙂
If I’m lucky enough to win, I’d be especially excited to see death grips, !!!, toro y moi, chelsea wolfe, holy ghost! etc… I’d love to win these because I’d like to end my summer right, this poor art student needs to get out of the house! I live in a town on the outskirts of LA where we have nothing to do and a chance to attend FYF would certainly be the highlight of my summer! I’ve never won anything before, so winning this would be pretty rad. (∪ ‿ ∪)
Hey GrimyGoods! Just wanna start this off by saying thank you for always doing these kinds of giveaways.
I’d be most excited to see Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Solange, Toro Y Moi, The Underachievers, and so many of the other acts. The lineup is amazing!
I’d really like the opportunity to go because I’m trying to impress this girl I really like. We’ve been together for a while now and I would love to take her to see her to see some of her favorite bands but I’m a typical broke college student.
I’m excited to see the Yeah Yeah Yeahs because I wanted to see them at coachella but unfortunately my friends were holding me back at the tent and we got in so late we missed their entire set. I would be so happy to end my summer seeing one of my all time favorite bands and I will see them by myself if I have to this time, not letting anyone get in the way of me missing them.
Hi Grimy Goods! The fest this year is so packed with amazing bands, all the way down to the fine print this year that it’s hard to pick favorites. I am really excited about the rare opportunities to see acts like My Bloody Valentine and The Breeders, both of which I have been a fan of for a very long time and may not have another chance to see. I also can’t wait for Charles Bradley and Solange to bring the soul and make me dance! Can’t forget the legendary acts like the godfather of psychedelia Roky Erickson and Mr. Modern Lover himself Jonathan Richman. Oh man, Guards, Glasser, Foxygen… METZ! Oh, and did I forget to say Beach House?! And then of course the real magic of music festivals is to discover your new favorite band from acts you’re less familiar with. Please make my FYF dreams come true! Thank you Grimy Goods!
Hey Grimy Goods I am excited to see Death Grips because they actually said they would show up to play at FYF, Nosaj Thing as well to see some of that LA talent! I believe I should win the tickets because this would be the last event I really cant wait to attend before I move to a new city in a different country on my own in a month and a half. It would be nice to go to FYF and hangout with my friends and enjoy quality music for one last time!
Im excited to see Beach House and Washed Out! Please pick me… I would die to end the summer with FYF!!!!
Im excited to see Beach House, Washed Out, Yeah Yeah Yeahs. Please pick me I would love to end the summer with an amazinggggg time at FYF!!!
excited to see the yeah yeah yeahs! been a fan since their first LP, haven’t seen them live though so pick me!
I am excited to see My Bloody Valentine, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Beach House, Tv on the Radio and basically the whole line up.
Grimmy! I’m über amped to see the YYYs, The Oh Sees, The Melvins, MGMT, and FLAG to name a few. I’ve never been to FYF eventhough I religiously follow all of their FB posts (its hard being a young adult on a budget!). My boyfriend and I are newly engaged and have never been to a concert together. We get so tired of the routine of work, work WORK and the damn hot desert over in Palm Springs. SAVE US! Let us kick-off with a kick-ass party to our engagement <3
I want to have a weekend long party with my friends downtown dancing to all the bands, but my top 3 is Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Washed Out, and STRFKR.
I would be stoked to see Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Flag, The Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Breeders, Roky Erickson, the Melvins – and to discover some cool bands I’ve never heard before.
Might as well pick me!
I’m exited to see CHELSEA WOLFE perform music from her new album. I am also looking forward to Yeah Yeah Yeahs & MGMT.
You should give me a free pair of tickets because I’ve never seen YYY’s & MGMT perform live and it would be GREAT to close out the summer seeing them live at this awesome festival.
Hey Grimy Goods! I really want to see a TON of bands at this year’s FYF Festival. I want to see the Yeah Yeah Yeahs because I love Karen O’s voice and I’ve missed their shows plenty of times this past summer. I also wanna see MGMT, The Breeders, Beach House, and Gold Panda! There are also a lot of bands that I’ve heard of, but never had the chance to experience their music live!
I think I should win this free pair of weekend passes because this will literally be the last concert or festival I will be able to go to in LA. I am leaving to Haverford College (located in Pennsylvania) the 26th of August, and the FYF Fest is the weekend before I get on my flight to Pennsylvania.
I’m REALLY excited for the chance to see MBV, Solange, Simian, Kurt Vile, Beach house, Breeders, Deerhunter (VERY excited), TV on the Radio (EXTREMELY excited), and more and more.
** And** I think I should win because I’m not working right now and REALLY would love to go!! I just don’t have the money 🙁 I’m also leaving LA for a little while and think this would be an amazing send off.
I want to see Poolside, Toro Y Moi, Washed Out, Flag, Shlohmo, Nosaj Thing, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Underacheivers…. and on and on! I’ve been to Coachella, Lollapalooza, Outside Lands, Rock The Bells, but never to FYF, and I live 5 blocks away. I gotta go to see what the future of LA festivals will be, and this one is it for sure!
I’m REALLY excited for the chance to see MBV, Solange, Simian, Kurt Vile, Beach house, Breeders, Deerhunter (VERY excited), TV on the Radio (EXTREMELY excited), and more and more.
Yo Grimy’s – I am a FYF fest virgin, so, needless to say, I gots to have it. Would love to rock with Flag, Breeders, Roky Erickson, Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, YYY’s, Melvins, Les Savy Fav, Jonathan Richman, and so much more plus get turned on to a bunch of bands I’m unfamiliar with.
I really want to see yeah yeah years, toro y moi, and MGMT! I want to get some weekend passes to take my friends and have a fun summer in the city! 🙂
Excited for a chance to see Beach House for the first time & MGMT, Thee Oh Sees, Toro Y Moi, so much good music, never been to FYF could seriously use a weekend drive down south to a beautiful end of Summer in SoCal.
I would love to see Kurt Vile, Baroness, Glasser & TV on the Radio just to name a few…
And rumor has it they would love to see me too!
I wanna see yeah yeah yeahs, my bloody valentine, tv on the radio,mgmt, the breeders, toro y moi!!!! I want tickets because I’m poor!:/ thx:)
I am excited to the witness the badass fierceness of Karen O. I want to sing along to TVOTR’s poetry set to syncopated rhythms. I want my ears to be sonically assaulted by Death Grips & MVB and then be caressed by Devendra Barnhart’s voice.I want the groovy soundwaves of Poolside & Washed Out to transport me to the beach even if by imagination alone. I want to get funky with !!! and holy ghost! I want to partake in the weirdness and greatness of Dan Deacon’s performance art live shows. I want to be entranced by Beach House & Glasser sonic landscapes. I want my ears to be seduced by the sexy robot sounds of Nosaj Thing and Shlomo. I want my spirit to soar with the screaming eagle of soul Charles Bradley & his Extraordinaires. I want to dance like no one is watching to STRFCKR, Toro y Moi & Classixx. I want to experience MGMT live and let them become my drug of choice while they perform. I want Ty Seagall’s fuzz to explode in my ears. I want to be transported to the middle east with Omar Souleyman’s hypnotic dance songs.
There are so many more things I could write about…the DTLA skyline serving as the backdrop for this great festival, the accessibility of park, the awesome vibe and the new memories and experiences that will be created this weekend.
As you can see music is a visceral experience for me and I deserve to go to FYF because I am somebody who will enjoy this in a whole different level. Music is my religion and FYF would be a pilgrimage of sorts to me.
well first off.. ANTWON, yeah yeah yeahs, death grips, HTDW, touche, flag, joyce manor, flume, deacon, shit everyone. i can’t even. I need to walk on heads and see all these amazing artists, u are my spirit animal guide me to the fyf underworld <3
love u
I also turn 21 in 2 weeks so PURRRFECT TIMING MEOW
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I most want to see Simian Mobile Disco with Bicep, MBV, and Holy Ghost!, but I want to see practically every other name on the lineup! Dan Deacon, Washed Out, and Shlohmo are other must-sees for me. I’m actually quite worried about conflicts if I end up going…
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, CHVRCHES, Beach House, Breeders, Poolside, Classixxx, Washed Out . . . so many more . . . so many more.!
I want to go see yeah yeah yeahs, mgmt, toro y moi, STRFKR, beach house, washed out and be introduced to other bands i haven’t listen to. I should win because i want to party hard with my friends and get wasted. Thats what festivals are for! woo!
Hi FYF! I am so stoked for FYF this year because a few of my favorite artists are playing (lucky me) such as: Deerhunter, My Bloody Valentine, Solange, How to Dress Well, Yo La Tengo, Beach House… the list goes on!
I’d like to win tickets since my funemployment and financial situation has prevented me from being the adventurous concert goer I once was.
Keep up the great work!
xo- Karen
Because I’m a totally 80’s child I raised my kids on my New Wave music and favorite LA radio station. My oldest introduced me to the Yeah Yeah Yeahs about a year ago and I would love to take her to FYF to rock out to YYY and MGMT!!! Being a single mom I only had enough $ to buy what was needed, if I win the tickets the memory I will share with her will be priceless 🙂 thank you Grimy Goods for a chance to win!
I am most excited to see Breeders, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, the Comedians, and Solange. I went to my FYF the first weekend I moved to LA 3 years ago. It brings such fond memories.
I am most excited to see Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Breeders, the Comedians, and Solange.
I’m super stoked to see toro y moi, beach house, thee oh sees, and deerhunter of course!!! Hope I win these lovely passes
Yo Grimygoods~ I would love to see STRFKR, Shlohmo, Flume, Dan Deacon, Nosaj Thing, Delorean, How to Dress Well, and Antwon amongst MANY others! I was unable to catch Delorean at FYF 2010 because I was unable to go and I was super bummed out as they were my #1 band I would go to see. I saw Dan Deacon and Nosaj Thing at FYF 2011 and it was *pure* magic. I would love to see them again. But you can’t forget about the comedians as well~ I can’t wait for Doug Benson, Paul Scheer and Hampton Yount! I would love it if you guys hooked it up! <3 <3 <3
Flume and Toro Y Moi would be the bands that I’d love to check out. It’s been hard for me to get tickets for the past 2 Flume shows because they always sell out before I ever get a chance to buy them.
I wish both bands played the same day or I would have saved up and bought a single day ticket in a heartbeat. But, alas, they are not, so I’m just hoping for some sort of miracle: Like perhaps winning the lottery, or the good people @GrimyGoods helping a strapped-for-cash-girl who just got dumped by her bf (#LAgirlproblemz) and is now looking for a little distraction.
That distraction hopefully being immersed in music that would be the equivalent of 537 orgasms–to my ears~
I would love to win these free tickets to FYF for several reasons! Personally I’m stoked to see MGMT, Devendra Banhart, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Beach House, Yo La Tengo, and Holy Ghost! Also, my dad grew up in the 60s and is a huge fan of the 13th Floor Elevators, so he’s very excited to see Roky Erickson! We would both love to be given this opportunity 🙂
There are so many good bands on the line up this year, but a few that I am super stoked about are YYYs, Beach House, Toro y Moi, Holy Ghost!, and Kurt Vile and the Violators. I have been going to FYF sense it was just the Fuck Yeah Fest and it has been awesome to see the festival transform into what it is today. Unfortunately the 99$ ticket price was a little too rich for my blood this year, that is why I am really hoping you will hook me up with some passes. thanks!
The whole line up is killer, but I’d love to see joyce manor. I’ve been rocking out to them all summer so it’d be a dream to actually see them. Lemuria and MGMT would be kickass too.
I’m excited for YYYs, Toro y Moi, TV on the Radio, Charles Bradley, Devandra Banhart, THEE OH SEES, and poolside 🙂 I was wanting to go this year but before I knew it the one day passes were sold out 🙁 I would really appreciate this experience right when my summer ends because I start school the following Monday haha. I want to end summer on a good note. Thanks Grimy Goods for this awesome opportunity! XD
Hey Grimy Goods, I would love to see Beach House, YYYS, MGMT, The Breeders, and My Bloody Valentine the most for freeeeee!! You should give me the tickets because other people have a job they can probably afford to buy the tickets I don’t, I haven’t seen a concert since last summer, and I need an excuse to get out of the suburbs! (If I had a job I would buy a pair!) And because I always check out your posts for free giveaways!! 😀 <3
I’m an LA blogger + I want to cover festival fashion. Bands I want to see include: The Melvin, Nosaj Thing, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Devendra Banhart… and a bunch of others!! <3 Pick ME!!!
The last 3 years I’ve been taking my GF to several indie rock shows through out LA. She has yet to attend a festival such as FYF or Coachella…she says it looks exhausting. I WANT TO EXHAUST HER. Would love to see Devendra, Yo La Tengo, Deerhunter, Clasixx, !!! and of course Karen O-YEAH YEAH YEAH.
alright, where to begin? Obviously, the top priority is going to be Washed Out. His new album Paracosm is perfect in every single way. It’s like listening to summer through a kaleidoscope with Instagram filters. he’s been getting so much better live, and I’m stoked to see the new stuff live.
Second is going to be Toro y Moi just because he had one of the best albums of the year (and the best music videos too). He’s gets real funky live. These two guys alone are the epitome of a summer music festival.
From there, it’s gotta be TV on the Radio, Classix, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, MGMT, and Poolside.
Oh, and how could we forget Jonathan Richman? Everyone loves dancing in lesbian bars anyway.