KCRW’s stamp will be all over the Southern California live music again scene this summer. The fifth annual KCRW Summer Nights series – part of which was announced this morning – is highlighted by the return of live music to the Annenberg Space for Photography, “Made in L.A.” club nights at the Hammer Museum; and […]
Detroit Bar, the Costa Mesa nightclub whose hip music offerings belied its location in a nondescript strip mall, has been sold. The venue, at 843 W. 19th St., will morph into a gastropub named The Wayfarer – A House of Social Provisions under new owner Jeff Chon, who helms the Newport Beach restaurant The Alley […]
Those who sought to assuage their Fear of Missing Out by attending the FOMO festival on Friday night ended up having to deal with another neurosis: conflicting set times that sent the hardest of the hardcore scurrying up and down the stairs between the Echo and Echoplex all evening. With 11 artists (plus some spoken […]
The Central Social Aid & Pleasure Club, a beacon for live music west of the 405, will be closing in June, and the new ownership of the Santa Monica nightspot is expected to remodel the room and make it a lounge, multiple sources say. At the location of the former 14 Below, the Central SAPC […]