Best Punky Time in Los Angeles: The Echo

The Echo

1822 W. Sunset Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90026

(213) 413-8200

Before indie acts du jour score a headlining spot at Spaceland or the Echo or blog-beloved FYF, you're likely to catch 'em on Part Time Punks' stage, Sundays at the Echo. Five years strong, the live music and DJ dance party from Michael Stock (manning Punks solo since his partner split last year) remains both a big new-band breaker (No Age, Mika Miko, Abe Vigoda, Warpaint, Dum Dum Girls, Yacht, etc., all played PTP when they were unknowns) and one of the best spots to celebrate musical innovators of yore (the Slits, the Chameleons, the Homosexuals, the Nightingales, the Urinals and countless more reunited or re-formed to play here). Tribute nights celebrating better known artists like the Smiths and the Cure bring out new wave/Goth geeks, too. Post-punk, no-wave, Indie-pop - essentially the seminal sound swell that emerged from 1978 to1984 - is boldly and lovingly put into context here with emerging art-rock and dance acts, a combo that has also made Stock's KXLU radio show - shamelessly inspired by John Peel's "Peel Sessions" - revered among music heads. Clearly, the appeal of punk you can dance to has gone beyond any one 'hood or clique or style, and PTP is a big reason why. 1822 Sunset Blvd., Echo Park. parttimepunks.com. -Lina Lecaro

Source: LA Weekly