9::00am | While Long Beach may have too few music venues, within city limits you still find a scene that fosters little-known yet fantastic musical artists, as well as musics that defy traditional categorization.
Chief among the portals of discovery for such art-making during the last seven years has been {open}, whose friendly confines has featured everything from national names like Billy Corgan and Dave Navarro to local gems like oto and Free Moral Agents.1 And that’s to say nothing of the “sound art” to which {open} is open, what with co-owner Shea M Gauer being a member of FLOOD, the people who bring us SoundWalk every year.
Walk through the doors of {open} on Saturday, September 10, and you’ll get a little bit of everything, as the bookstore/performance space will play host to a fundraiser for dublab, a nonprofit Web-radio collective featuring “beat music,” which event coordinator Menchie caliboso describes as “an intersection of hip-hop and electronica” streamed across the Internet by a coterie of roughly two dozen DJs.
In addition to live DJ sets by the likes of Matthewdavid, Jonwayne, and DJ Cornejo, Saturday’s fundraiser will feature live sets by a strong list of Long Beach musical talent, including Alyssandra Nighswonger and recent Buskerfest contestant Miniature Houses.
The suggested donation for this all-ages event (which runs from 2 p.m. to 10 p.m.) is $7, though “no one will be turned down for lack of funds,” says the Facebook event page.
If you can’t make it down, you can hear the whole thing live on dublab.com. So tune in and turn on, one way or the other.
1 Check out the recording that Free Moral Agents has just released of a fab set they did at {open}: http://buyfma.bandcamp.com/album/live-at-open-books.