Spaceland

Every city has one --

that special eclectic venue that consistently brings in some of the world's best underground music acts . In New York, there's the Knitting Factory. In San Francisco, it's Bottom of the Hill. In LA, we have Spaceland. For over a decade Spaceland has been the rest-stop of choice when acts like Sonic Youth, Pavement, Ben Harper and Beck stroll through town. The venue's modest capacity (it holds about 250) ensures an intimate experience, and on any given night you're liable to catch either a well-known band you've been dying to see or an act you've never heard of that blows your socks off. Located in Silverlake, the club lacks the pretentiousness of some of the city's more chichi venues and substitutes them for a grungy atmosphere that includes reasonably priced booze and burgers . When it comes to live music in Los Angeles, it doesn't get much better than this.

-- Garrett Kamps (Photo: Rick Fisher)

Mondays are one of the most popular nights of the week, featuring the best up and coming locals as well as touring acts. Spaceland showcases a different local resident band each month and admission is free.

Wednesdays  Spaceland hosts Club NME, a spin off of the popular UK brand of dance clubs. Indie 103 and NME present the night which combines live acts with DJs spinning rock, indie, punk, electro, classic hiphop, classic house, alternative, mashups and bootlegs.