The Rolling Stones squeezed onto a basement stage in Echo Park in 2013, warming up for their Hyde Park shows in front of a few hundred stunned Angelenos - the kind of night the Echoplex has made a habit of. The room at 1154 Glendale Boulevard opened in 2006 directly beneath The Echo, its 350-capacity older sibling that had been running on Sunset Boulevard since 2001, and the two stacked venues quickly became the twin engine of the Los Angeles independent music scene. Both rooms were built by Spaceland Presents, the promoter behind the legendary Silver Lake club Spaceland, and the Echoplex inherited that booking DNA: a 780-capacity standing room where breaking bands, cult heroes and superstars playing intentionally small collide. Nine Inch Nails and Green Day have both used the room for surprise club shows, while Autechre, Beth Hart and a generation of indie acts worked it on the way up. The venue is as much a dance institution as a live one. Long-running weeklies like the reggae-obsessed Dub Club and the funk-and-soul 45s night Funky Sole made the Echoplex a destination whether or not a tour bus was parked outside, and the room anchors the neighbourhood's festival culture that grew around Echo Park Rising. In 2019 Live Nation acquired Spaceland Presents - including the Echoplex, The Echo and the Regent Theater downtown - folding the clubs into its portfolio while leaving the programming's independent character largely intact. A major audio upgrade sharpened the experience: L-Acoustics K2 line arrays were installed in 2018, a first for a live music club in California, giving the low-ceilinged concrete room touring-grade sound. The layout is simple and effective - long bar, open floor, stage at one end - with the entrance tucked off Glendale Boulevard below the Echo's Sunset Boulevard frontage. Practicalities are standard for Echo Park: most shows are 18 and over with a wristband system at the bar, street parking is contested and rideshare is the sensible play, and the walk up the hill afterwards lands you in one of LA's best late-night taco corridors. For a room of its size, few venues anywhere have a deeper bench of famous nights.

Type: Theater / Concert Hall

Address: 1154 Glendale Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA, United States, 90026

Website: https://www.theecho.com

Minimum Age: 18

Cover Charge: 1

Capacity: 780