Doors won’t open before the middle of January, but owners of the 17-year nightclub Blue Cafe—which closed Aug. 31, following a flood—have found a new location from which to serenade downtown.

Autolux
In 2005, 12 of us set out to cover Coachella for the launch of Ice Cream Man’s Web site with the objective to review and photograph every band. We hardly saw each other the entire weekend—except when Autolux played. At the time, the band was bringing back shoegaze to the scores of people who seemed [...]

Ladies and gentlemen, Francisco the Man!

Could be coincidence that we re-entered standard time just as Francisco the Man and Matt McCluer’s the Sweet Sweet Things began their November co-residency at Detroit Bar, but I’d like to think we fell back precisely for bands like these—an extra hour of darkness only sweetens the rock ‘n’ roll [...]

Great local bands head south tonight to Detroit Bar: Summer Darling is a perfect bet for the fall sweater set*, which is to say they play good, loud rock ‘n’ roll without any traceable beachside residue. Fans of Fielding will find its pretty introspective pop intact in Two Guns, featuring former Fieldingers Kevin, Aaron and [...]

Thurs | Oct 2 | Detroit Bar, Costa Mesa

PHOTO by EMILY WILSON
Sparrow Love Crew could probably start a party anywhere, even in your grandparents’ living room: From the DJ’s first scratch, they’d keep the fun free-flowing until their collective wit was all rhymed out. And this is exactly what happened last Thursday at Detroit, as [...]

AUSHUA singer/guitarist Nathan Gammill was beaten badly outside an Orange Circle bar last week. Still in the hospital, without insurance, he won’t be playing in the band’s Detroit Bar gig Thursday night (September 18). That show–also starring Local Natives (formerly Cavil At Rest), The Union Line & Voxhaul Broadcast is now a benefit for Nathan. [...]

Black Francis’ double seance

PHOTO by MICHAEL HALSBAND
In the thick of all the tension and band conflict in Steven Cantor’s Pixies reunion documentary loudQUIETloud, there’s one moment of surreal honesty that flawlessly articulates Frank Black’s frustration, both with his own solo material and the Pixies. He’s doing a phone interview while lying on a hotel bed [...]

Earlimart get together, grow up, stop looking back

PHOTO by DREW REYNOLDS
Heading for Los Angeles from California’s Central Valley, 70 miles south of Fresno on Highway 99, you see the signs that lead to the town of Earlimart. To founder and frontman Aaron Espinoza, those signs mean you’ve left Fresno and you’re on your way to [...]

Favored Long Beach band Forcefield ON is heading down to Detroit Bar tonight and through sheer force of charisma and skill they have secured a special kind of guest list to benefit you the cash-drained music hoover. Per Forcefield frontman Jesse Wilder:

Nomo’s regional approach

ILLUSTRATION by JOE MCGARRY
Nomo produced their first record in the classic tradition of Afro-beat founder Fela Kuti: fifteen people huddled together in a room, recording each song live together. They used everything that made Kuti famous, like huge horn arrangements and hypnotic guitar lines backed up by what sounds like a polyrhythmic army [...]