Kevin Bronson on November 9th, 2012

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[News, rumors, observations and random things from the depths of my notebook:]

Silver Lake may soon be without a neighborhood festival. No official word yet, but sources are saying the Silver Lake Jubilee – the three-year-old fundraiser for community-based nonprofit the Los Angeles Arts and Athletics Alliance (LAAAA) – will go off at a new location in 2013. All bets favor a site in downtown L.A.

The Jubilee upped its musical offerings (and its admission price) in 2012, its second year occupying a five-block stretch of the eastern terminus of Santa Monica Boulevard, but it was still a great outlet for local bands to display their wares. As the late, once-great Sunset Junction found, however, staging a street fair is an expensive proposition. And the new location? Just hope they allow dogs.

‣ As reported Thursday, Los Globos is back in business starting tonight. The bigger news for the somewhat-embattled Silver Lake venue is that it has brought on widely respected Alex Maxwell as talent buyer for its rock bookings. Maxwell booked shows for the Fold for three years before departing Scott Sterling’s firm earlier this year. Ben Beck will book Los Globos’ DJ and EDM fare, and Ané Uno will handle the room’s Latin music offerings.

Show offerings at Los Globos have been hodgepodge ever since Steve Edelson (who once owned El Cid) took over the club, which lost its permits temporarily last week and has been the target of neighborhood backlash. Los Globos has two performance spaces (500- and 350-capacity, respectively), but subpar lighting and sound and some palpable ill will in the artistic community (much of which dates back to the owner’s El Cid days) have prevented the venue from becoming a serious player. Maxwell should change at least some of that.

‣ Speaking of venues, Complex – the nightlife haven planned for the Glendale space formerly occupied by La Brie’s and the Scene Bar – still hasn’t opened. The venue (806 E. Colorado Blvd.) has booked some interesting electronic acts but keeps having to move the shows as delays plague their efforts. Opening was originally planned for July.

‣ Speaking of venues (and speaking of downtown), the in-the-works Ace Hotel will have a performance space too. With Spaceland Productions’ planned renovation of the Regent Theater into a concert venue, it’s going to get crowded.

‣ The grassroots arts/music/bicycling group FMLY have gotten into the mix too. They are opening an event space is the Arts District downtown called the L.A. Fort.

‣ Other tidbits: Jeff Castelaz’s first move as head of Elektra Records is to bring local rockers Kitten over from the Atlantic imprint, for which the band released its “Cut It Out” EP in August. …  “Forgiveness Is a Weapon,” the early 2012 release from orchestral rockers Archer Black, is the basis for a film that recently started production. That’s a still from the film at left. Directed by Scott Cronan and starring Luke Barnett and Jennifer Thomas, the film includes seven vignettes, set in surreal landscapes, that tell the story of two lovers torn apart and literally sewn together … We love Will Schwartz’s Psychic Friend project, and talk is that the project’s next album will come via Dangerbird Records. … King Devil will be playing its final show Nov. 16 at the Good Hurt in Venice. … Anybody else really eager to hear the Flood-produced Warpaint material? Moreover, anybody got an extra ticket for the S.S. Coachella cruise? … Anybody else eager to hear the Tom Cruise sci-fi movie being scored by M83’s Anthony Gonzales? … And, wow, Civil Wars.