Club Highland at The Hollywood and Highland Mall. At last, you’ve graduated from lowly patron of ground-level kiosks and Auntie Anne’s Pretzels (effin’ good pretzels though) to the velvet-roped waiting lines and plastic, Greco Roman girders that scream Hollywood Decadence, à la Ed Wood. And a never-ending maze of dance room after dance room (or maybe it just seemed never ending after the jager) with a guy obsessively projecting the same 5-minute loop of Hentai porn over and over again, like Michael Jackson watching Elizabeth Taylor movies. Never mind the scuzz, though; Black Gold’s here to distract you, and despite a surprisingly short set, they chose hits like “Shine” and “Plans and Reveries” to garner them a few new followers. The crowd, clearly there to express DJ adoration more than anything, did their best to grind up against each other and get moving to Than Luu’s drum beats and Shiben’s thundering bass lines on tracks like “Detroit.”
