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THE BLUE CAFE - HUNTINGTON BEACH: THE BLUE CAFE - HUNTINGTON BEACH!
OPENING OCT 27, 2006
Corner of Warner & PCH, Huntington Beach, CA (used to be The Brigg)
Check Blue Cafe website for more details).
WATERLOO COFFEE HOUSE - Mission Viejo, CA: Waterloo Station Coffee House
23162 Los Alisos Blvd ste 101
Mission Viejo, ca 92691
949-587-1363

A new coffee house themed on the owner's love of trains / London / Brtish music. A small intimate venue !! Open till 9:30 pm for coffee... closed up at 10 pm - on Fri / Sat. Book with Rick.
THE PUKA BAR: Long Beach, CA
THE BLUE CAFE - LONG BEACH, CA: 210 Promenade
Long Beach, California "Where Live Music Lives". Home of local and National touring blues acts AND Alt Rock, Reggae, Brazilian Rock, Samba, etc.! Lively club right on the Promenade in downtown Long Beach. Do NOT leave yr car parked out front (it's a $40 ticket)! Park in parking garage and get validated, baby! Two story building, great food, big stage downstairs and Retro Blue Room lounge upstairs both with live music! This is just a great place to hang out and listen to some great music. The Blue Room is amazing to play tall stage in the corner it looks like an old Vegas club room good sound!
C&D's WELCOME CAFE - REDONDO BEACH, CA: 1808 S Pacific Coast Hwy, Redondo Beach, Ca 90277
(310) 316-9270 Map
This Coffee House has gone all-out for original music bands in the So-Cal area. Saturday Nights all the comfy couches & chairs are set up concert-style around a sound system just perfect for the room. Every genre of music is welcome here. Great staff, fresh salads and sandwiches (even grilled) and of course - espresso drinks! OH AND ice cream! Wed night open mikes, Saturday booked original music bands. Can't lose with this one. Easy free parking in the 1800 open garage.
THE CINEMA BAR - CULVER CITY, CA: 3967 Sepulveda Boulevard, Culver City, CA, 90230
(310) 390-1328 Map
This is one of my favorite places to catch some great music in action! The Cinema Bar is a fantastic supporter of local and touring talent. This place can get packed, nice outdoor patio in back has speakers also so you don't miss a thing if you need to smoke/relax, etc. Free parking on street in the evenings. Plus you can catch Bucksworth there on occassion!
COFFEE GALLERY BACKSTAGE: 2029 Lake Street
Altadena, CA 91001

Coffee Gallery Backstage is... well Bob Stane tells it best...

"The Coffee Gallery Backstage is a 49 seat show room connected to a coffee house surprisingly called, "The Coffee Gallery." The Backstage is a listening room with a fine sound system, good lights, comfortable seating and a killer atmosphere.

The room "location" is a coffee bean warehouse somewhere in Central America. You are comfortably stranded while your cruise ship rides out a storm at the mouth of the river. You, fortunately, are ashore and have stumbled upon this warehouse where a group of musical and witty, mostly American, expatriates are earning their cups of exotic coffee by entertaining with voice, guitar and humor.

There seems to be a never-ending supply of them; it is almost always a different group every weekend night. The entertainers seem to be overjoyed with this bean storage facility as the audience is starved for "good" music and comedy and no machinery of any kind makes a sound while they are performing. Grinders are not allowed. Each individual bean is crushed, quietly, by hand by underpaid field workers."

and directions...
Come directly into Pasadena.
The 210 Freeway will have a Lake Blvd. turnoff. Take it and go North (toward the mountains). Go 2 miles. You will pass New York Drive. Get ready to park. Two more blocks and you are at 2029 Lake St., a two story building.

Park but PLEASE only on Lake or in the lot of Ronnie's Service Station

The Backstage show room is in the BACK! (Don't be distracted by the Trolls and Gnomes in the front. Don't feed or touch them..Yes, they will whine and tug at the hem of your garments.) Ignore them.

Map of
2029 Lake Ave
Altadena, CA 91001-2444
THE DOLL HUT - ANAHEIM, CA: 107 South Adams
Anaheim, CA
(714) 533-1286 MAP

Punk Rock, Rockabilly, Psychobilly, Rock & Honky Tonk. I think all beers are $4 (that was MY experience). I highly support all clubs that book original music bands and seem to charge the same price no matter what beer you get. Oh and they mark you for re-entry with an magic-marker 'X' - and a messy one, at that. OH and there's pool & darts. OH and I think it's the only place I've seen where you can get really tall silver cans of Pabst Blue Ribbon. Really. People were actually drinking it. And the place was packed with hot Rockabilly chicks - you know, the clothes, the shoes, bloody red lips and tattoos.
THE GYPSY DEN - SANTA ANA, CA: 125 North Broadway Avenue, Santa Ana, CA 92701
(714) 835-8840
Great Coffeehouse/retaurant. Bohemian atmosphere, healthy (lots of vegetarian) foods and indie & acoustic artists!
HOTEL CAFE - HOLLYWOOD, CA: 1623 1/2 N. Cahuenga, Los Angeles, CA 90028
(323) 461-2040
One of the best places to find great indie talent in Los Angeles.
KARMA COFFEEHOUSE - HOLLYWOOD, CA: 1544 N. Cahuenga, Hollywood, CA, 90028
(323) 460-4188
Fabulous Coffeehouse in Hollywood to check out indie artists! Organic coffees, teas, food, etc. Comedy, music, and right up the street from Amoeba Records! Also right next to the Farmers Market on Sat/Sun!
MARLIN BAR & GRILL - HUNTINGTON BEACH, CA: 16655 Gothard Street, Huntington Beach, CA, 92647
(714) 842-5587 Map
Americana music is HOT - boasts just as much - if not more - variety as any other genre of music - and is almost impossible to find in Orange County, California! The Fallen Stars (a fabulous local Americana Rock Band) bring together and host a full night of original Americana music bands at THIS club. Always a great show. Call for info! This place also has amazing tacos & pizza. Plenty of free parking, friendly staff!
PAPPY AND HARRIETS - PIONEERTOWN, CA (JOSHUA TREE): Cool old-west high desert Honky-Tonk in Pioneertown, California.