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Featured Gallery Music Jager-Bombs, Applebees, and Rick Springfield: Mean Jeans

July 18, 2011 - 11:31 am

The Mean Jeans are a good ol’ fashioned, party hard and get rowdy on stage, punk band from Portland. The trio, consisting of Billy Jeans (guitar/vocals), Jean Wilder (drums/vocals), and Howie Doodat (bass, vocals) recently played the Dark Horse (formerly Bordello) in Los Angeles.

After finishing up on stage and toweling off the sweat, Billy Jeans and Jean Wilder “attempted” a serious interview with ChinaShop. The guys told us all about how they are able to create such a powerful sound with only 3 members (a lot of it, according to Billy Jeans, comes down to the fact that they are too lazy to search for additional members), as well as discussed filling up swimming pools with Red Bull plus Jager and amazing parties they don’t quite remember.

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Gallery Los Angeles Babes of Burlesque at Bordello Bar

by Nicole Pajer and Dustin Downing

January 19, 2011 - 9:51 am

I’m not sure of the exact capacity of Downtown Los Angeles’s Bordello, but I’m pretty positive that they reached it Saturday night. The bar was packed with fans dying to see Courtney Cruz and The Devil’s Playground Presents Anime Babes of Burlesque. Around 9:00pm, when doors were set to open, a single-file lined smothered the building and a steady stream appeared to walk in as the night progressed. After a gruelingly long wait to ensure that the guests had all arrived and were given the chance to properly liquor up, Ms. Cruz herself came out to greet the crowd. “I’m thinking this crowd likes naked ladies,” she boasted. Courtney introduced the first act, a two-piece rock band called Sassafras, to which the crowd replied, “Are they naked?” The band was not, in fact, naked but they did succeed in entertaining the troops while the girls got ready backstage.

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Event Got My Sci Fi On Thursday Night at Bordello Bar

by Nicole Pajer and Fever Dragon

May 19, 2009 - 9:17 am

Thursday night I walked into the doors of Bordello Bar and entered a world far beyond my own. I could not fight back the “I have a feeling we’re not in Kansas anymore” vibe as I stepped to the bar to order a vodka soda. Soon enough, I was greeted by many friendly people wearing wigs, a man walked by on stilts in a glittery costume-his radiant smile accented in face paint, and a DJ started playing jams like: “Yummy yummy yummy I got love in my tummy and I feel like lovin’ you.”

“A bundle of happy, fabulous, magical, wonderful, sparkly people” was how host Jean Natalia labeled the crowd at last night’s Wig Out. Created in 2005 by Jean and inspired by a group of her performance artist friends, Wig Out is a monthly performance art wig cabaret home to the Bordello Bar in downtown Los Angeles. Each month boasts a different theme, Thursday night it was: ‘Get Your Sci Fi On!’ Past themes have ranged from: ‘Get Your Evel Knieval On!’ to ‘Get Your Bubblegum On!’

The evening entertainment kicked off with a performance by Orange County based electro/pop/punk band: Romak and the Space Pirates, whose dark and energetic tunes conquered any resistance to dance by those in the audience. The band poked fun at the state of the CD industry by offering wearable USB flash bracelets containing their album for sale after the show. Free downloads of the disc, in exchange for fan reviews, are available here.
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