If you contact us through MySpace regarding booking, you will probably be ignored for a while because you're not following instructions. Email is ultimately better than MySpace anyway. Remember: include your band name, myspace/website, contact email, your own name, and what dates you're interested in playing. Please keep in mind that we hold our events on Saturdays Everyone gets a show if you're persistent enough - but please keep in mind that we may not get to you right away! There's a stupidly enormous waiting list. Just a note.
A LITTLE BIZ ABOUT THE BIZ
THE COCAINE is a close-knit family of musicians and artists. Simple.
We differ from other artist communities, however, in that we take up residence at a venue in Los Angeles, California’s Little Tokyo called 2nd Street Jazz, and every Saturday, we turn a little jazz club into a bomb-shelter for DIY musicians and artists who are weathered and nearly crushed by the Los Angeles scene.
Because The Cocaine is a family of sorts, and not a business, it relies on good hearts, good times, and good friends. We believe that art is a manner of expression, and we refuse to let artists be reduced to mere commodities. And in order to become part of the family, we need you to believe that you, too, are not just a number.
The Cocaine is not a club or a clique. It’s not a business venture. It’s not a way to become popular. If there’s anything we have come to believe by taking up shelter in a jazz club, it’s that the jazz ethic needs to be reborn in other genres of music. We need musicians to realize that it’s not how many heads you put in the crowd; it’s not how fast you can shred a fretboard; it’s not how many CDs you can sell; it’s not even getting more sets of ears to listen to what you’ve created. What counts is getting on stage and participating in the raw humanity and euphoric catharsis in artistic expression. What counts is getting that expression to connect artists with the audience.
What counts is the music, not the business.
So while the industry crumbles before our eyes, come and hang out with us. Refresh yourself with a drink. Refuel yourself with some grub.
And above all, let us help you remember why you fell in love with turning the volume up in the first place.
VENUE INFO & LOCATION
Currently, THE COCAINE is an in-house booking company for 2nd Street Jazz, which is located at the following address:
2nd Street Jazz
366 E 2nd Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
This show is Monkey Bucket's 54th Birthday Bash. The first 10 people that come to this show dressed as nurses will get in for free! Dress outrageous and get ready to have some fun.
Hey! Just wanted to let you know we will be performing at The Whisky A Go-Go in Hollywood this Saturday at 6PM. Tickets are $14 at the door. The shows is all ages. We will be opening up for the popular band, The Dreaming. Check them out, they are on our top friends. The show will also be pro shot and recorded, so if it motivates you, yes you will be filmed. lol. Anyways, even if you do not plan on going, please respond back with a yes a no. Thanks a lot! It is going to be an awesome show!
HEY!!WE ARE PLAYING THIS THURSDAY AT BORDELLO (FORMERLY LITTLE PEDRO'S) ON 901 E 1ST ST IN DOWNTOWN 10PM. THE SHOW IS FREE AND WE ARE PLAYING WITH GO BETTY GO AND OBEDIENT WAVES BOTH ARE FUCKING AMAZING. HOPE TO SEE YOU THERE!!
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