{"id":211468,"date":"2026-03-09T11:13:08","date_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:13:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/211468\/"},"modified":"2026-03-09T11:13:08","modified_gmt":"2026-03-09T11:13:08","slug":"these-18-southern-california-music-venues-have-opened-since-the-pandemic","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/211468\/","title":{"rendered":"These 18 Southern California music venues have opened since the pandemic"},"content":{"rendered":"

Ron Mesh was a tour manager for Guns N\u2019 Roses and hard rock acts for decades \u2014 he knows how a well-appointed club can make or break a band. He just opened Dune Room, an independent venue in Indio that aims to keep the desert\u2019s edgier music scenes thriving for the non-festival-saturated months of the year.<\/p>\n

\u201cI put in everything I would have wanted playing clubs \u2014 bus parking, a great green room and amazing sound system,\u201d Mesh said. \u201cIn L.A., I wouldn\u2019t have come close to getting this. But Indio\u2019s very exciting \u2014 a lot of young metal bands are thriving, and now you don\u2019t even have to go to the high desert to find them.\u201d<\/p>\n

Mesh is well known in the desert\u2019s music scene (he also opened Studio B, a high-end mix studio). The venue \u2014 formerly the Little Street Music Hall \u2014 had a knotty opening<\/a> after some early ownership disputes with former partners. But for salty desert rockers and hungry young punks who can\u2019t afford Coachella tickets, it\u2019s a welcome addition to the scene. \u201cPappy\u2019s has a vibe where you go to the club just knowing there\u2019ll be something cool there,\u201d Mesh said, \u201cIndio is getting that too.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Ron Mesh was a tour manager for Guns N\u2019 Roses and hard rock acts for decades \u2014 he…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":46419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[3802,97208,59300,97213,97214,16033,16309,2303,48,52,51,97209,97210,47,50,49,97207,5712,97212,86,97211],"class_list":["post-211468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-los-angeles","tag-fire","tag-grotty-punk-dive","tag-habit","tag-historic-gay-disco","tag-hotel-lounge-jazz-bar","tag-ice-raid","tag-intuit-dome","tag-l-a","tag-la","tag-la-headlines","tag-la-news","tag-last-few-difficult-year","tag-local-show-going","tag-los-angeles","tag-los-angeles-headlines","tag-los-angeles-news","tag-small-club","tag-sofi-stadium","tag-southern-california-music-venue","tag-strike","tag-tough-ride"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211468","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=211468"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/211468\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=211468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=211468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=211468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}