Live Music Venues of Silver Lake, Present and Past

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When you think of Los Angeles communities known for their famous music venues, you likely first think of Downtown and Hollywood. If you're willing to include other Los Angeles County cities, West Hollywood's Sunset Strip surely comes to mind. If you're really in the know, though, you no doubt also think of the numerous storied venues of neighborhoods like Echo Park, Leimert Park, Highland Park, Los Feliz, South Central, and, of course, Silver Lake.

The Elysian Hills are alive with the sound of music... and Ask Silver Lake readers' hearts want to sing every song they hear. As painful as it might be to acknowledge, that's not going to happen here. today. Nor will this prove to be an exhaustive list of live music venues. Practically anything, after all, can be a music venue: carports, backyards, living rooms, Masonic lodges, churches, bars, and more. Although the COVID-19 lockdown closed most of them temporarily -- and some of them for good -- music finds a way. Remember during the beginning of the epidemic, when signs and scolds directed strollers on the passegiatta to walk around the reservoir in a counter-clockwise fashion -- and a musician set up near the Meadow would lighten (or at least, aestheticize) somewhat our collective mood with the sounds of their cello?

Or to quote the great House music poet, Paris Brightledge, “The year 3000 may soon come to pass… but the music shall last!” I'm sure it's gonna be alright.

THE LIPETZ HOUSE [1843 North Dillon Street]

The Lipetz House was never open to the public but is worth a mention because its invitation-only performances planted the seeds of music in Silver Lake before there were public venues in the neighborhood. At the time, most music venues were located Downtown, where large auditoriums, concert halls, opera houses, and vaudeville theaters defined the musical landscape. In 1936, pianist Helen Lipetz began performing for guests in her Silver Lake home which architect Raphael Soriano-designed around its music room. The Lipetzes moved out, however, around 1941 and, presumably, took their grand piano with them. 

CLUB ZARAPE, CLUB HAVANA, and EL CLUB CONCONTINENTAL [2905 Sunset Boulevard]

Clockwise from upper left: Chuy Perez, Club Zarape matchbook, Club Havana

advertisement, Ed Ruscha photo of Club Continental, and Leopoldo Gonzales

It might seem strange in a neighborhood where racial housing covenants would make it illegal for Latinos to own a home for another decade, but Latinos were certainly welcome to provide food and entertainment for Silver Lakers as early as 4 May 1938, when Club Zarape opened at the intersection of Silver Lake and Sunset boulevards. Although billed as "Spanish and Mexican", the live music included bolero, rhumba, son Guatemalteco, tango musicians, and others. The music performed at Club Zarape was broadcast on 100.3 KMLA.  By 1953, the club was owned by Ignacio F. Arvizu, who was murdered there by two gunmen during a robbery.  In 1959, it became Club Havana, which hosted big bands like Don Ellis's. In its final years, the venue was El Club Continental, which burned down in 1975. When it was rebuilt, the structure was transformed into Silversun Plaza.

YATES-MULLEN STUDIO [1735 Micheltorena Street]

Two notices for Evenings on the Roof and a 2001 photo of the Yates-Mullen Studio interior

On 23 April 1939, music critic Peter Yates and pianist Frances Mullen began hosting public performances called Evenings on the Roof at their Rudolph Schindler-designed Yates-Mullen Studio. Performers there included Ingolf Dahl, Eudice Shapiro, Felix Slatkin, and others – and the focus was on new and neglected composers. By 1941, the performances were too popular for the small space and the concert series moved to various venues. In 1954, they were renamed Monday Evening Concerts. The series has continued at the Colburn School’s Zipper Hall since 2003. 

SILVER LAKE RECREATION CENTER [1850 West Silver Lake Drive]

Although not so much known for its music today, one of the first regular music venues in Silver Lake was theSilver Lake Recreation Center. The original center, built beneath the Silver Lake Reservoir Dam in 1931, was home, by 1941, to the straightforwardly named Silver Lake Recreation Center Band. The only known mention of the band, in fact, is from that year – when the band included clarinetists Donald Kelley, Earl Richardson, John Kreamer, Paul Marcotte, and Paul Castellucci. It was led by the excellently named “tuba tooter,” Norbertus Widney. 

THISTLE INN & MARDI GRAS ROOM and CACHE [2395 Glendale Boulevard]

Top: An illustration of Thistle Inn. Bottom left-right: An ad promoting Monsieur Roman and a matchbook cover

The heyday of the cocktail lounge was in the 1940s and ‘50s, when Tiki Culture and mood music together slid into the plush booths of dimly lit dining establishments. The inventor of the powdered meat tenderizer, Adolphe A. Rempp, opened the New Orleans-themed Thistle Inn in 1946. Live music was performed there in its Mardi Gras Room, although it was less hot jazz than easy listening -- usually a solo organist or accordionist, in its early years. In its final years, it was known as the Silver Lake Inn.

In or shortly before 1983, Julian Montoya and Herbert Gonzales opened a Latin Dance club there called Cache, which featured live tango, salsa, and more. It also featured its own twelve-piece Orquesta Cache and hosted touring musicians like "El Rey,"Tito Puente. It closed in 1989. 

HAPPY HOLLOW and RED CHIMNEY [1717 Silver Lake Boulevard]

Clockwise from the top left: Happy Hollow matchbook cover, Paul Jordan, Pete Jolly's Red Chimney recordings, an add for the Red Chimney, and another Happy Hollow matchbook with another image

Down the boulevard, Anthony Chiponis opened the Happy Hollow cocktail lounge in 1951. There, Paul Jordan offered live organ accompaniment for diners until after 1964, when it was rechristened the Red Chimney. The Red Chimney featured the music of jazz combo, the Pete Jolly Trio, who recorded live tracks there, later released as The Red Chimney and Sherry's Bar Recordings. In 1967, the venue was reborn as a “European nightclub,” that replaced live music with DJs and subsequently operated under various names including Visions, Le Chic Discotheque & Video Dance Club, and, finally, Dreams of LA. More on that venue later.

EL CID [4212 Sunset Boulevard]

Photos of Cordova, Talavera, Allen; a vintage El Cid postcard, and image by Colin Remas Brown

In 1962, flamenco dancers Margarita Cordova and Juan Talavera; and Cordova's husband, Clark Allen opened El Cid at the former location of the Cabaret Concert Theatre. In its early years, El Cid hosted folk and traditional musicians from Arabia, the Caribbean, China, England, Ghana, India, Indonesia, Mexico, and elsewhere from around the world.

Although the founders of El Cid are all long gone, the tradition of Flamenco continued under the ownership of nightclub magnate and hotelier, Steve Edelson, who bought the venue in 2002 and who introduced DJs, hip-hop, indie, and electronic acts. In 2009, an agreement to sell El Cid to Scott Milano resulted in a legal dispute. The court eventually ruled in favor of Milano, who runs it today, where the musical focus continues although it also hosts the film series, Silver Lake Shorts.

PATINO’S, TOY TIGER, EL SABROSO & HOUSTON’S, OTHER SIDE & FLYING LEAP, and HYPERION PUBLIC [2538 Hyperion Avenue]

Screenshots from The Other Side: A Queer History's Last Call, directed by Jane Cantillon

With the explicit targeting of gays for harrasment and imprisonment, the first gay piano bars emerged as comparatively subdued spaces that police were less likely to target than dance clubs. While there were gay piano bars elsewhere in the city at least as early as 1950, Patino’s Cocktail Lounge was one of and possibly the first in Silver Lake when it opened in 1968.

Over the years, It continued to operate under various names including the Toy Tiger, El Sabroso & Houston’s, and the Other Side & Flying Leap Café – which was the subject of the documentary, The Other Side: A Queer History's Last Call (2013). Most recently, the space was home to Hyperion Public, which was opened by Akida Mashaka, John Speaks, and Paddy Aubrey -- but which was shut down in 2024.

MR. C’S CLUB, JOLY’S II, and AKBAR [4356 Sunset Boulevard]

Mr. C's Club (Ed Ruscha); Joly's II; and Lori Donato & the producer of the documentary, The Other Side singing (Gary I. 2014)

Around 1973, Chico Avilez opened Mr. C’s Club, which featured conjunto norteños. By 1974, it was the Silver Dollar Saloon, a “Castro clone” denim disco. From 1983 until 1995, it was another gay piano bar, Joly's II (the original Joly’s was over on WesternAvenue). Since 1996, it’s been home to Akbar, where most music comes courtesy of the jukebox or DJs.

THE SILVERLAKE LOUNGE [2906 Sunset Boulevard]

Left: a Greyhound bus crash in front of the Silver Lake Cafe in the 1940s. Top left: The Silver Lake Cafe in the 1970s. Bottom right: Sisu live at the Silver Lake Lounge

The Silverlake Lounge has existed, in some form (e.g. the Silver Lake Cafe) since at least as early as the 1940s. It re-opened under new management in 1973, by which time it was yet another neighborhood piano bar. Sometime between 1977 and ‘82, the Silverlake Cafe became the Silverlake Lounge. Back then, it mostly featured DJs, drag performers, and dancing – but there were live music acts too. In May 1982, a shootout between cocaine dealers and undercover cops left three dead during a performance by the mod and ska revival band, the Untouchables. 

Scott Sterling’s booking agency, The Fold, moved in in 1997 and, for years, Silverlake Lounge provided a weekday home for local indie bands like Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, Elliott Smith, Silversun Pickups, SISU, Tame Impala, and Vampire Weekend. Weekends, though, still belonged to drag queens for a time. The Fold moved out in 2012 and ownership of the venue has changed more than once since then – but the live music continues.

SILVERLAKE CHALET and LOS GLOBOS [3040 Sunset Boulevard]

Clockwise from top left: founder Juan Ribot with John Wayne, a photo of Los Globos when opening, a notice about Los Globos from its salsa days, Los Globos in the 2000s, and the former Los Globos sign.

In 1973, the Silverlake Chalet took over a former American Legion Hall. The short-lived Chalet featured the music of Darias & His Orchestra until 1974, when Mallorcan immigrant Juan Ribot opened Los Globos there that May. At the time, it was part of (along with Candilejas Club, Club Bahia, Club Continental, and the Panamerican Night Club) a club catering to Cubans and other salseros back when the area was nicknamed Little Havana. 

Los Globos was bought by Steve Edelson, in 2011, who shifted its musical focus. Since then, Moby, Project Blowed, Eyehategod, Metalachi, and many others have performed. In 2012, the Department of Building and Safety shut down dancing at the club, citing improper permitting. In 2013, Edelson sued the City of Los Angeles for $10 million, claiming he was being unfairly targeted by code enforcement. The court sided with the city.

SUNSET JUNCTION STREET FAIR [3600-4400 blocks of Sunset Boulevard]

Live performances Sunset Junction Street Fair in 1982 and 2007 (Beth F.)

Bob White opened a gay cafe and cabaret called The Frog Pond in 1976. After it was firebombed by homophobes, White founded the Sunset Junction Neighborhood Alliance in 1980 as a response. From then until 2010, the alliance threw the annual Sunset Junction Street Fair – a massively popular street fair that turned Sunset Boulevard into an outdoor venue for luminaries like Ashford & Simpson, Buzzcocks, Chaka Khan, Evelyn Champagne King,  the Gun Club, Isaac Hayes, Jody Watley, Little Anthony & the Imperials, Love, the New York Dolls, Redd Kross, Sleater-Kinney, and many, many more.

After White's partner, Art Fredette, died of cancer, White hanged himself. The Frog Pond became the home of the Company of Angels theater company (now the Lyric Hyperion Theatre) and Michael McKinley became the face of the Alliance. Following accusations of financial mismanagement, crippled by debt, and denied permits by the City of Los Angeles; the Sunset Junction Street Fair ended in 2010.

THE O.N. KLUB [3037 Sunset Boulevard]

Scenes at the O.N. Klub

On 17 May 1980, Londoner Howard Paar opened the O.N. Klub, in a building that had formerly housed numerous gay bars (e.g. Ramm's Head, the Butch Gardens School of Fine Art, Barfly West, the Yellow Brick Road, and Stud Two). The ON was also an inclusive space, albeit one inspired by the British Two-Tone scene. Appropriately, it featured mod revival and ska bands like The Boxboys, The X-Streams, The Untouchables, and Fishbone – as well as non-mod/ska acts like Geno Washington, the Bangles, the Go-Go’s, Grandmaster Flash and the Furious Five, Los Lobos, and Tom Waits. Its run ended in 1985 after Paar’s career path led him to work as a music supervisor in Hollywood.

THE RED LION TAVERN [2366 Glendale Boulevard]

Left to right: One Man Band (Mel E. 2015), The Red Lion (Colin Remas Brown), and International Sex Symbol, Heino! (Joshua H. 2014)

The Red Lion opened as a British Pub in 1959. In fact, Red Lion is the most common British Pub name in the UK. Of course, it took on a decidedly Bavarian air when Germans took over in 1963. It was sold to a different group of Germans in 1981. There's no record of music previously but under the new ownership, bar-goers were treated, three nights a week., to the guitar stylings of Manfred Mueller.

Mother-and-son Edita and Aidas Mattis took over the Red Lion in 2004 and, although Lithuanian, have mostly maintained its Teutonic character (the dirndls were sadly phased out).  The music today and for many years has been provided by pianist Doug Legacy on Tuesday and Wednesdays. Other live staples of the tavern include Canadian performer Marc Hickox,  who impersonates the late schlager singer Heino on Heino nights and during Oktoberfest and Silvia Moore, who stars in a Marlene Dietrich tribute night.   

THE GAUNTLET II and EAGLE LA [4219 Santa Monica Boulevard]

Nick Name & the Normals, Freak Show flyer (QueerMaps), and "old photo of Chuck at the Gauntlet" (One Archives)

A leather bar called The Gauntlett II took over the space of another leather bar called Outcast in 1983. Dale Habberstad and his partner, Zack, opened the first Gauntlet in Hollywood in 1965. Gauntlett II was notable for serving as a hub of the queercore scene, featuring bands like Best Revenge, IAMLOVED, Nick Name & The Normals, and others. In 2005, it was taken over by another leather bar, Eagle LA, which features music at Eagle LA Live Sundays.

ETHICAL POOL [620 1/2 North Hoover Street]

Scenes at Ethical Pool (Heather Haley)

David Hopper, Jon Wrasse, and Heather Haley opened a rehearsal space and recording space called Ethical Pool in the former Dayton Heights Rexall Drugs in or around 1985. Up until then, the building had been home to a sweat shop. Ethical Pool featured live performances by numerous local underground acts, including Candy Kane, Crowbar, Greg Burk, Heather Haley & the Zellots, Killer Wail, Mathew Gelbert, Milo Bender, The Mindreaders, Sacred Antennae, Snake Farm, Soave Bolla, Tupelo Joe, and members of what would soon become L7. It operated there at least as late as 1991.

PAN/SPACELAND and SATELLITE [1717 Silver Lake Boulevard]

Left: newspaper ad for Beck, Possum Dixon, and Lutefisk show Right (top to bottom): Dinosaur Jr., Foo Fighters, Fiery Furnaces, and Neil Hamburger

Live music returned to Dreams of LA in 1993, when Mitchell Frank and Nancy Whalen started their live music night there called Pan. In 1995, the night was rechristened Spaceland, which gradually spread across the entire week leading most to refer to the venue itself as Spaceland. It featured fairly big acts like Arcade Fire, Foo Fighters, the Killers, Beck, the White Stripes, Arctic Monkeys, Amy Winehouse, the Shins, Weezer, Modest Mouse, Jane's Addiction, and many more. Spaceland was featured in the 2008 Jim Carrey vehicle, Yes Man.

In 2010, however, Spaceland moved to the Echo/Echoplex in Echo Park and in order to continue the astronomical theme, Dreams of LA was renamed the Satellite. The Satellite's talent buyers included Spaceland veteran Jennifer Tefft, Scott Reifman (from the Mint), and Leah Hobbs. The Satellite, though, closed during the COVID-19 lockdown, in 2020, and sadly never reopened.

BE-BOP BATTLIN’ BALL at RUDOLPHO'S [2500 Riverside Drive]

Clockwise from top left: Dawn Shipley & the Sharpshooters, flyer for Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys, screengrab of Ray Campi, and the Rudolpho's sign

Rudy del Campo, founder of Casita del Campo, opened another restaurant, Rudolpho’s, in 1982. In 1996, the restaurant began hosting a razabilly night called Be-­Bop Battlin’ Ball -- organized by Gonzalo Gonzales and Vito Lorenzi. It hosted older doo-wop and rockabilly acts like Chan Romero, Ray Campi, and Glen Glenn -- as well as retro-inspired acts like Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys and Dawn Shipley & the Sharpshooters. Rudolpho's continued to host music nights featuring everything from acid jazz to salsa until it closed in 2008. After that, the restaurant became a second location of Aram and Rose Serobian's Home and, in 2018, Sang Shin Chun's restaurant, Ivanhoe. Now, a restaurant called Casa Chida is scheduled to open there.

THE DOLLHOUSE [1000 block of North Coronado Street -- private residence]

Clockwise from top left: Beachwood Sparks, 4th of July sign, Wheelhouse, Dollhouse

audience, and a soloist seen through the trees (from Anna Slotky Reitano and Rena Martine)

There have been many houses in Silver Lake that have hosted backyard parties that have featured live music but none, perhaps, more legendary than the private home on CoronadoStreet that came to be known as the Dollhouse. Its backyard featured psychedelic-infused legends like the Brian Jonestown Massacre, Twink, the Warlocks, Beachwood Sparks, theTyde, Mike Stinson, and many others. 

The shows began shortly after Ian Marshall, Kerrylyn Genetive, and Tita Ortega moved into the house in 1999. After Amber Hart moved in, in 2009, it was she who bestowed the outwardly inconspicuous home with the name by which it’s remembered. The shows ended after 2015, when the last of the Dolls moved on.

ZEN SUSHI [2609 Hyperion Avenue]

Screen grabs of the Zen Sushi Sign, the Decibels, Zen Sushi Exterior

Although the restaurant, Zen Sushi, dated back to the early 1970s, it was after Steve Edelson took over in 2000 that it became a live music venue. It became known for its hip-hop, indie, and punk shows featuring acts like The Randies, The Decibels, Left Arm Scar, Glenn Jacinto (ex-Teeth), and Superproxy. In the early 2000s, Vaginal Davis and Ron Athey also hosted a night there called Gimp. In 2008, following ongoing issues with licenses, it was shut down. The space is now home to a women's sports bar called Untamed Spirits, owned by wife-and-wife team, Janie and Stephanie Ellingwood.

DANGERBIRD RECORDS [3801 Sunset Boulevard]

Dangerbird Record murals, Milly, and Slothrust performing live at Dangerbird

Musician Peter Walker and music executive Jeff Castelaz founded Dangerbird Records in 2004. The label's Silver Lake headquarters sometimes feature artists from its roster. Bill Baird played a Halloween set there in 2018. Milly played a live set in May 2021 and later that year; Joel Jerome, Matt Costa, and Sea Wolf, played a show called "The Birds are Back in Town."

HYPERION TAVERN [1941 Hyperion Avenue]

Left to right: Hyperion Tavern exterior (Luis B.), interior (Garage C.), and Joanna Wang in performance

In 2007, Hieu Dama and Jens Hommer took over the windowless box that had, before that, been home to a succession of gay bars going back all the way to 1962 and including Cuffs, Hyperion Lumber, Jack Wrangler’s, Headquarters, the Single Shack, and Wally & Woody’s Hy Spot Club. They named the windowless box, Hyperion Tavern, and it featured live music from the likes of Ima Robot, the Fancy Space People, Lily Marlene, Jessica Pratt, and and geek rock goddess, Joanna Wang. It closed during the COVID-19 lockdown in 2020 and has remained closed ever since.

THE SILVER LAKE INDEPENDENT JEWISH COMMUNITY CENTER [1110 Bates Avenue]

Left to right: Kol Nidre, Little Voices, and live performers at Rosh Hashanah 5786.

The Hollywood-Los Feliz Jewish Community Center was established in 1951 as a membership-based community center for the area's Jewish population. The Jewish Community Centers of Greater Los Angeles stopped funding it in 2001 and in 2002, it became the Silver Lake Independent Jewish Community Center. It adopted a stance, whilst still rooted in Judaism, of radical inclusivity. With the launch of theCulture Lab in 2012, it began including live music as part of its programming. Since then, live performers have incliuded jazz pianist Marta Sánchez and her quintet, a klezmer trio, singer-songwriter-rapper Levi Paris, and bands such as Zusha.

SILVER LAKE JUBILEE [Myra Avenue and Santa Monica Boulevard]

Left to right: Aloe Blacc 2012, (James Milner), Eastern Conference Champions (both James Milner); and Las Cafeteras 2012 (Salina/Scaniz)

After the Sunset Junction Street Fair was shut down, the Silver Lake Jubilee looked, albeit briefly, like it might be its successor. It was founded by musician Jack Martinez and producer Mark Beecroft. The inaugural event took place in May 2010. In its first two years it featured the likes of Kinky, Ruthann Friedman, Neverever, The Allah-Las, Autolux, Dios, Las Cafeteras, Aloe Blacc, and many other rising stars and rediscovered legends. In 2013, it relocated to the Arts District where it was renamed Jubilee Music & Arts Festival. That was its last year and Martinez died in 2020.

BEAUTY IS PAIN [650 North Hoover Street]

Left to right: Screen grab of Vietnambla, the exterior, and Summer Twins

A single-story flatiron in the Dayton Heights district was in the 1920s home to George W. Johnson, a licensed dealer of the I-ON-A-CO (a pseudoscientific medical device invented by quack doctor, Gaylord Wilshire, that promised to rid users of varicose veins). It’s been home to many businesses since then, including a short-lived live music venue in 2012. Although called Beauty Is Pain, it seems unlikely to have been a reference to the building's I-ON-A-CO days. BIP (as it was sometimes known) featured live performances from the likes of Terrorists, Vietnambla, and the much-missed Summer Twins.

MJ's and TENANTS OF THE TREES [2810 Hyperion Avenue]

New singer on Deck (Virginia E. 2013), another singer at MJs, and Billie Eilish at Tenants of the Trees (2016)

Around 2002, a gay bar called MJ's took over the space that, since at least 1969, had been home to Woody's Hyperion Lounge. Although it primarily featured DJs and go-go dancers, MJ's sometimes featured live music until its closure in 2014. I know because I saw someone associated with Peaches perform there.

Jason Lev and Reza Fahim took over the space. The covered its Streamline Moderne architecture with boards, giving it the appearance of a large crate. They named their new venture Tenants of the Trees, after a 1907 collection of poetry by blind poet Clarence Hawkes. Since then, it has featured DJs and live performers like Billie Eilish, The Big Moon, and others.

ZEBULON [2478 Fletcher Drive]

Zebulon sign (Jeremy R. 2017), Zebulon stage, and Zebulon interior (Nick A. 2019)

Guillaume Blestel, Jef and Joce Soubiran and other un-named partners opened Zebulon on the border of Silver Lake and Elysian Valley in 2017 in the former warehouse of Altamirano Records. It was the successor of the original Zebulon, which operated in Brooklyn’s Williamsburg neighborhood from 2003-2012. Since then, it has featured both established acts and up-and-comers including Linda Perhacs, Los Wembler's de Iquitos, Modern Time Machines,Robyn Hitchcock, Polartropica, The Legendary Pink Dots, and, of course, many others.

SILVERLAKE JAMS [1800 block of Silver Lake Boulevard -- private residence]

Shortly after moving to Los Angeles in 2021, Ellen McNeill founded the backyard pop-up series, Silverlake Jams at her private home. The first event drew seventy attendees and Silver Lake Jams evolved into a larger, ticketed affair – which also included dinner and drinks from sponsoring local partners. Performers have included Iman Jordan, Alejandro Aranda, Ni/Co, Jordy Searcy, Sophia James, and others.

PORCHFEST LA [various locations]

The original Porchfest was founded in 2007 in Ithaca by Gretchen Hildreth and Lesly Green

as a community-based performance festival where local residents volunteer their private spaces to become temporary stages for local artists. The inaugural Porchfest LA, organized by Hélène and Sammy Ginsberg and others, took place in November 2024 at various porches, yards, and patios, and porches of East Hollywood, Los Feliz, and Silver Lake. 120 performers were featured. It is scheduled to return on 1 and 2 November... although it's now expanded all the way to Culver City and Mar Vista.

Over the years, Silver Lake's celebrated and innovative music scene has included many spaces, from private living rooms and backyards, to lounges and dance clubs, to street festivals and porches, and beyond! While the names of the venues and performers may change, this history of creativity continues, reflecting the enduring resilience of Silver Lake music.

To quote Brightledge again, "I hope it's gonna be alright 'Cause the music plays forever, yeah!"