The Latest from Key Club
Sunset Sound System!
Thursday, Feb 02, 2012 12:16 PMWe are very excited to announce the return of dance nights to The Sunset Strip. Combining incredible concert-quality sound & lighting with some of LA’s best promoters… Key Club brings you Sunset Sound System every Friday, Saturday, and Sunday (with Thursdays beginning soon)! Each night is a unique experience!
FRIDAYS: CLOCKWORK ORANGE
Clockwork Orange is the original Eighties Club Night in Hollywood. It opened in 1995 on Hollywood Blvd at The Ruby. For the 16 years it was at The Ruby, Clockwork Orange drew over 1000 people every Friday, until the venue was sold in March 2011.
Clockwork Orange is a multi-room format. The main room is Totally Eighties music, with Bruce Perdew spinning everything from the decade that wouldn’t die: New Wave, Post Punk, Nu Romantic, Freestyle, Electronic, Dance, 80′s Hip Hop, Metal, & Punk. From Blondie to the Ramones, and Depeche Mode to the Cure. Room Two features DJ BilLectro spinning Electro, Pop, & Hip Hop.
We’re back after a 10 month hiatus along with Bang on Saturdays, re-creating the magic at Key Club! It’s FREE before 10:30pm, with DOLLAR DRINKS until 11pm, and only $6 all night with the pass.
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SATURDAYS: CLUB BANG
Club Bang has been a Hollywood dance institution since opening their doors over ten years ago. Having hosted top talented DJs and guests, including members of the Smiths, Interpol, Joy Division, and Ladytron as well as introducing crowds to new genres and artists, Bang has been the ultimate destination for the fun & fashionable.
Bang features multiple levels with two rooms of dancing including the main stage and the underground Plush Lounge. The event showcases its original & famous music format where there is something for everyone. Including hits from current chart toppers, retro anthems, and new releases by upcoming emerging artists.
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SUNDAYS (starting February 19th): CLUB BEAT IT and CLUB WANNABE
Two mega clubs are joining forces to bring you a weekly Sunday night 18+ party! Club Beat It, the worlds biggest 80s dance club will be taking over the main room with live DJs spinning Pop, Alternative , New Wave, Post Punk and everything in between.
Downstairs in the Plush Lounge, the infamous Club Wannabe will host a format that is not played anywhere else in Los Angeles, a room dedicated to music from the boy band era and everything 90s and early 2000s! Expect to hear TRL classics, old school hip hop, 90s KROQ smashes, and much more.
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Big Week Ahead: Dimebash, Robin Thicke, D.R.I., and More! Win Tickets HERE!
Tuesday, Dec 13, 2011 12:35 PMThank you all so much for coming out to our shows last week! This week, we hope you already have your tickets because we have shows that won’t disappoint!
Dimebash on 12/14 is SOLD OUT! Members of Anthrax, Pantera, System of a Down, and more will be taking the stage in honor of the late “Dimebag” Darrell Abbott (Pantera, Damageplan). For those of you who did get tickets, you won’t be disappointed!
Also, we’ve got Madball on 12/15 and tickets ARE still available for that show! Also performing that night are Take Offense and Rotting Out. Be sure stay after the show for a live DJ and dancing!
12/16′s show for Robin Thicke, the Love After War Tour, is also SOLD OUT! As well as Saturday’s show for D.R.I. However, there ARE tickets STILL AVAILABLE for D.R.I.‘s matinee show on 12/17! So if you couldn’t get tickets in time for Saturday night, you can still see them Saturday during the day! Also on 12/17, we have Genocide Ent. with C-Sharp and others.
For tickets and informations on shows, go to the Calendar page of the website and click on the event you want to go see.
While at Key Club, we want you to feel as at home as possible. We have a Menu full of delicious foods to give you the “home-cooked” feel to your meal. So indulge as you please and make your show experience the one you want it to be!
Again, thank you to everyone who’s bought tickets to the shows this week and we can’t wait to see you there! Don’t forget to like us on Facebook and/or follow us on Twitter: @Key_Club for more information, as well as contests and other special offers!
Remember, you all are the reason why we do what we do. Be sure to leave us a comment anywhere (blog, facebook, twitter) to let us know how we can better serve you. In the meantime, come on down to the club and enjoy the show!
Not To Miss Shows This Week & Chances to WIN!! Goapele, Blaze Bayley, Pancho Sancho, & more!
Tuesday, Nov 08, 2011 1:33 PMWe have some exciting shows this week going down at the Key Club. Kicking things off on 11/8 to promote her newly released album Break of Dawn, is the sultry R&B songstress Goapele! This is her first show of the tour and you DON’T want to miss it. Metal heads should certainly be in attendance on Thursday 11/10 for Iron Maiden’s front man Blaze Bayley! With a plethora of other great metal and rock bands lining up the stage that night, horns will definitely be raised. So come show yours.\m/
Spend your Friday night with us for the always entertaining Pancho Sancho! There’s a great lineup of other bands that night including 13 Obsessions, Orkestar Meze, Metrognome, and more so come check them out! And Saturday is Hollywood’s own glam metal band Pretty Boy Floyd and Stockholm’s Crashdiet! For ticket information, always check out our main page and calendar for links.
Wanna win some free tickets? Of course you do. We understand that times are hard for everyone right now so we want you to win some free stuff! For chances to win and see our club specials, like us on our facebook page and say “You wanna win free stuff!” to see if you can be our next lucky winner. www.facebook.com/keyclubfans And you can follow us on twitter @key_club for additional specials, alerts, and artist info. ALSO – be sure to download the Foursquare app on your smart phone and check-in every time you come to the Key Club! If you become the November Mayor on Foursquare, then you will win 2 VIP tickets to a show of your choosing in December! Prizes will also be given out to 2nd and 3rd place including tickets, dinner, and drinks. The more you check in, the better your chances. So start checking in!
We always have student and military discounts at the box office. So show your ID and start saving. Also if you’re purchasing tickets at the door, ask about receiving a discount that includes having the facility fee waived when purchasing a ticket to a future event.
Our kitchen and amazing Chef are back! Come in for dinner and make your stomach happy with our delicious pork chops, steak, sweet potato fries, and more. (Yes – I said sweet potato fries…).
Remember – you’re the reason why we do what we do. You keep our doors open and we want to thank you by providing you with amazing live performances that you’ll never forget. So don’t be shy! Comment on our blog, facebook, and twitter pages to tell us anything and most importantly… let us know that you’re having a good time!
Come for the show – leave with a smile. 
Win tickets to KRS-ONE and more at Sunset Live Presents The Key Club. Halloween Weekend! Be at our party! Join our Facebook!
Thursday, Oct 27, 2011 3:47 PMWanna see KRS – One? Wanna have a chance to see shows at the Key Club for FREE? (Love that four letter word!) Become a Key Club VIP! Be our friend on Facebook at www.facebook.com/keyclubfans At Sunset Live Presents The Key Club “We care about you!” You are who makes our doors open and we welcome you every time to our live performance home for the finest in superstar talent. When at the box office ask about receiving a discount that includes having the facility fee waived when purchasing a ticket to a future event. We have drink specials every night. Check the video screens and at the bars to see what is available. Also , feel free to ask your server. Our kitchen is BACK with some of the great food you have come to love over the years. Not on the Sunset Strip? Tune into our webcasts on Stickam. The player is embedded here on our site and it can be easily accessed through our facebook page.
Come for the show… Leave with a smile! 
SEVENDUST Rocks the Key Club! Win tickets here to shows and more!
Wednesday, Oct 12, 2011 3:35 PMOctober 12, 2011 World famous recording artists Sevendust bring their blazing rock to the stage of Sunset Live Presents Key Club. Tickets are still available yet the show is close to selling out. Get yours while you can! When at the box office ask about receiving a 15% discount when purchasing a ticket to a future event. We have drink specials every night. Check the video screens to see what is available. Wanna have a chance to see Sevendust for FREE? (Love that four letter word!) Be our friend on Facebook at www.facebook.com/keyclubfans
Come see the world’s greatest performers at Sunset Live Presents Key Club
Wednesday, Oct 05, 2011 1:53 PM10/5 World/Inferno Friendship Society; 10/6 Everygrey and Acoustic Playhouse in the Plush Lounge; 10/7 Electric Six; 10/8 Andre Nickatina; 10/10 Wayne Static (of Static X) 10/12 Sevendust Rocks the house and 10/14 is E-40! This is the place to go to have fun! Drink specials abound each evening, check the video screens inside the club for details. Ask about receiving a discount when purchasing four tickets as a package. Also, present your ticket for the event your attending and let the box office know you wish to purchase a ticket to a future event and receive a nice discount. Check us out on Facebook at www.facebook.com/keyclubfans and view our live streams at www.stickam.com/keyclub
SSMF WEEK!
Thursday, Jul 28, 2011 3:02 PMThe Sunset Strip Music Festival is coming quick! We have an incredible week of shows planned for you. Click the flyers below for more details…
Tuesday, August 16th
Wednesday, August 17th
Thursday, August 18th
Friday, August 19th
Saturday, August 20th (Day Stage)
Saturday, August 20th (After Party)
More info at www.SSMF.com
iPhone Skydives Without Parachute
Monday, Jul 18, 2011 12:45 PM…and survives!
(from CNN) — Jarrod McKinney’s iPhone 4 — a notoriously fragile device — cracked when his 2-year-old knocked it off a bathroom shelf.
“I was like, ‘Man! That’s all it takes to crack the glass?’ ” he said.
So it’s easy to see why McKinney, a 37-year-old in Minnesota, would be “just absolutely shocked” when that same phone survived a fall from his pocket — while he was skydiving from 13,500 feet.
He found the gadget, its glass surfaces shattered, on top of a building about a half-mile away from where he landed with his parachute.
Joe Johnson, a skydiving instructor, said he and a few friends watched from the ground below the two-story building as McKinney raised the phone above his head in triumph after he located it using a GPS tracking app.
Just to be funny, Johnson decided to call the busted phone.
He didn’t expect the call to go through. But it did.
McKinney felt the phone vibrate and started laughing.
“They were all like, ‘It works! It works!’” he said of his friends watching his rooftop search from the bottom of the building.
That’s especially amazing since the iPhone 4 can suffer from cell reception issues. When the Apple smartphone debuted in 2010, a saga the tech media called Antennagate followed. Consumer watchdogs claimed a design flaw on the phone’s antenna caused it to drop calls unexpectedly. Apple gave out free phone cases to address the issue.
Mike Gikas, a tech editor at Consumer Reports, the nonprofit group that tests phones and other gadgets for their reliability, jokingly said that McKinney finally found a way to fix the phone’s reception woes, by dropping it from a plane.
“That’s the proved method for fixing the antenna problem,” he said, laughing.
Gikas said it is possible a phone could survive a major fall. “I think that can happen,” he said. “I think water is harder to deal with than shock.”
McKinney, who first submitted this story on CNN iReport, the user-generated news site, said he’s not sure when the phone slipped out of his pocket during his fall from the plane.
He was in a rush to “get out the door” (of the plane), he said, and forgot to zip the pocket of his baggy skydiving pants, which are designed to be loose-fitting so they catch air and slow him down as he falls from the sky.
The iPhone had protective gear of its own — an Incipio-brand phone case that was broken after the fall but still was on the phone.
Even though the phone still makes and receives calls, it isn’t very practical to do so because the touchscreen is shattered. IPhone users must use the gadget’s screen to dial numbers and to answer incoming calls. The only way McKinney can use it is with a Bluetooth connection in his truck.
He plans to get the screen fixed, though.
Johnson, the skydiving instructor, was so impressed with the whole ordeal that he plans to pick up one of the phones sometime soon.
“It goes to show you if I crash land and need an ambulance, they can still track me down with the GPS,” he said.
Some Android phones — Apple’s main competitors in the smartphone field — are perhaps better known for their durability. As CNN’s Mark Milian reports, Google, which makes the Android mobile operating system, launched several of its phones into space, tied to balloons.
Also, in case you were wondering if it’s weird for a skydiver to take his phone on a jump in the first place, apparently it’s not.
There is a host of online videos of skydives filmed on smartphones.
McKinney said he always takes the phone with him so he can call someone if he gets lost after he hits the ground. Sometimes the wind blows skydivers away from the intended destination, he said.
He noticed his phone was missing after he was on the ground. He reached into his pocket, wanting to take a video of his wife, who had jumped after him.
“I was actually really bumming because I’ve lost a phone in the past and I usually just have a ton of photos and videos of my kids on the phone,” he said.
“I just knew it was gone. Falling from that height? (What are) the chances of you finding something like that or even knowing where to look?”
Electric Daisy Carnival Review
Saturday, Jul 02, 2011 2:13 PMFrom fluxcity.com, by Michela Fossati-Bellani
EDC: Highs and Lows
As you probably already know, Insomniac Events, one of the most prominent electronic dance music promoters in Northern America, celebrated the safe and successful completion of their 15th annual Electric Daisy Carnival.
The Festival was held in Nevada, at the Las Vegas Motor Speedway from 8pm until 6am June 24-27. Due to the size of the event, which attracted a total of 230,000 ticket holders, special guests and VIPs, it is safe to assume each attendees’ experience is likely to vary. The following recounts the collective journey of various EDC 2011 attendees and emphasizes the “Highs” and “Lows” experienced. Let us start with the lows so we can end with the highs.
LOWS:
Official EDC Shuttles/Traffic: Friday hampered fans’ moods with major miscalculations of official EDC Shuttle arrangements. AWG Destination Management, the company responsible for transporting fans to and from the venue, claimed to have supplied enough buses to run “every 30 minutes, or until the shuttle bus is loaded” from seven locations on the strip. However this was not the case and instead, after nearly two hours of sweaty, waiting, pushing and stampeding, proactive fans dished out more cash on alternative transportation such as limos and taxis. In addition to terrible shuttle arrangements getting to and from the festival was dreadful due to high traffic flow around 7-10 pm on the first day. Not to mention, the lack of communication from Shuttle Company to fans made the wait extra frustrating and made me wish I had driven my own car. Many fans (including myself) forfeited their $60 shuttle pass for the weekend after missing up to three hours of Friday’s sets and waiting as long as a reported four hours to return home to the strip. The shuttles did reportedly become more organized on subsequent days, however, by that point I was unwilling to risk missing more festival time.
Gravel: Waking up on day two of a three-day festival and wishing you had a wheel chair to avoid rocky gravel under your raw, danced-out feet is not a good sign. Not only are you spending odd hours on your feet dancing festival food off your bum, but the ground is much less inviting than other festival environments. Take a seat on this dusty, gravely, cement next to the kid that threw-up all over himself, no thanks!
Incompetent Security: With temperatures nearing 90 degrees the least fans could hope for were helpful and informed security guards. It was not long before I personally experienced the guards’ incompetence. I was repeatedly pointed in the wrong direction for 30 clammy minutes while searching for the “General Store,” the only destination misplaced on the map. I soon realized that none of the guards knew what they were saying and just pointed in any direction to get you out of their face. So I surrendered to the heat and sat down to regenerate with my group before watching the master of Bass.
HIGHS:
Artists (hard to pick!):
Bassnectar: “the brainchild of Lorin Ashton,” as mentioned on Insomniacs’ artist page, created a raw, vicious, and wobbly mash of every imaginable genre ranging from 90’s punk to pop songs. The talented artist inflicted intense auditory satisfaction as well as undeniable physical pleasure on his fans from 11pm until midnight on Saturday.
Avicii: Another expected favorite, Avicii, 21- year- old Swedish prodigy, seemed to revive the crowd as positive vibes flowed freely and the danceable tunes kept fans’ feet moving. Attendees sang along to Sebastian Drums, “My Feelings for You,” and held hands during Avicii’s dreamy new vocal hit of “Penguin”, called “Fade Into Darkness” and I think I saw some ravers crying (happy tears) during Avicii’s remix of Armin van Buuren’s 2011 “Drowning.”
Honorable mentions for sets witnessed: Benny Benassi, Swedish House Mafia, Tiesto, Alesso, Afrojack, Pleasurkraft, Sander Van Doorn, Laidback Luke, and so many more.
Sirius XM Radio: In anticipation of this year’s Electric Daisy Carnival, Sirius XM’s Electric Area channel has launched Electric Daisy Radio, a weekly show featuring DJ sets from last year’s Electric Daisy Carnival. Sirius XM station Electric Area (channel 52) broadcasted the entire festival live for fans that were unable to attend.
Art Installations/Performers: 13 amazing art sculptures, most of it previously seen at festivals and raves such as Burning Man, Coachella and Beyond Wonderland, were brought to LV, as well as over 200 performers, acrobats, skydivers uniformed in L-wire parachuting from the sky, giant puppets, stilt walkers, and fire twirling dancers. Also, the 15-minute long firework display that lit up the sky each night at around 2 a.m., captivated attendees and provided the ultimate lightshow.
Cosmic Meadow: The only stage with grass, Please and Thank You!
Free Water/Cooling: Insomniac continued the recent summer festival tradition of free water bottle refill stations and “cooling stations.” By the end of each night security guards continuously “water-falled” cold water into the mouths of dedicated front row fans.
Overall, although a few of the festivals aspects weighed fans excitement, Insomniac pulled off a very successful event in Las Vegas. They issued a statement on Monday, “We are proud to be able to provide a safe, secure and fun event for all of our attendees, performers, artists and staff…and we are already planning for next year.” Fans can look forward to many more events including the debut of Insomniac’s newest festival addition called Escape from Wonderland, which will be held on October 29, 2011, at the NOS Events Center, San Bernardino, CA.
Myspace sells for $35 Million
Wednesday, Jun 29, 2011 12:19 PM(Reuters) – News Corp has agreed to sell social media site Myspace for about $35 million to online advertising company Specific Media, according to a source familiar with the transaction.
The deal, expected to close later on Wednesday, is a mix of cash and stock with News Corp retaining about 5 percent.
Additionally, more than 50 percent of Myspace’s 500-strong workforce is expected to be laid off because of the sale, the source said.
The source is not authorized to speak publicly because the deal has not yet closed.
The sale of Myspace caps six years of ownership under Rupert Murdoch’s News Corp, which swooped in to buy Myspace in 2005 for $580 million beating out rival Viacom for what was then one of the world’s hottest social networking sites.