Yesterday, I checked in with the Academy Store’s Mike De La Vega and Albert Samreth and the Basement Lounge’s Markus D. Manley about last weekend’s Party Weirdo Festival. My original feature on the festival—which was held at the Basement Nov. 14—can be read here. In it, I posited that, if successful, it might be an [...]

The Basement Lounge goes Weirdo

More than a dozen bands—including Dead Meadow, Gangi, 60 Watt Kid and the Lumerians—weaved a psychedelic web of sound during Saturday’s Party Weirdo Festival at the Basement Lounge in the East Village (hosted by the Academy Store and L.A. RECORD). Who says all day festivals are only for the summer? Not [...]

Dead Meadow, 60 Watt Kid and more play Party Weirdo
The all-day, all-ages, inside/outside music fest that is Party Weirdo inherits rather weighty expectations as the next great East Village event, charged with continuing the tradition built months ago by the estimable Summer and Music series. The curators at the Academy, whether aware of this mantle [...]

How the men and women behind the East Village’s Academy store and Basement Lounge are resurrecting the neighborhood—one party at a time

FROM LEFT: MARKUS D. MANLEY, MIKE DE LA VEGA AND ALBERT SAMRETH / PHOTO by JENNIE WARREN
Mike De La Vega could wake up Sunday morning with a little extra money. Or in debt. At [...]