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  • Live Music Winner

    Key Club

    Location: Los Angeles
    With regular club nights and concerts and some primo Sunset Strip digs, the Key Club is one of West Hollywood's most popular live music and dance s...
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  • House of Blues

    Location: West Hollywood
    A restaurant, bar and concert hall in one, the House of Blues is a Sunset Strip favorite. The House's Cajun backwoods theme arrived just when theme...
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  • Troubadour

    Location: Los Angeles
    Along with The Whisky and The Roxy, The Troubadour is one of Los Angeles's landmark live music spots. While the Sunset Strip clubs do their thing a...
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  • Temple Bar

    Location: Santa Monica
    A red wall with looming eyes decorates the exterior of what many consider to be one of Santa Monica's best live performance stages. The Temple Bar ...
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  • Babe's & Ricky's Inn

    Location: Los Angeles
    When asked where the blues was born in Los Angeles, owner Laura "Mama" Gross doesn't hesitate: "Right here at Babe and Ricky's, baby." As LA's olde...
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  • Spaceland

    Location: Los Angeles
    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...
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  • Avalon Hollywood

    Location: Los Angeles
    In the summer of 2003, Los Angeles bid adieu to the Hollywood Palace, the regal, 76-year-old theater and club that for decades hosted the biggest n...
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  • Hotel Cafe

    Location: Los Angeles
    Hollywood posers, slick A&R types and silicon-sporters, beware: If you dare set foot inside this unpretentious, down-home coffee house, residen...
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  • Echo

    Location: Los Angeles
    The Echo is a much-publicized underground-style dance club in the heart of downtown Echo Park. The club is owned and promoted by the man who gave L...
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  • Orpheum Theatre

    Location: Los Angeles
    One of the last existing movie palaces in the historic theatre district Downtown has a feel unlike any other. An important venue for vaudeville as ...
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