Swedish Darling to DJ Dance Right Tonight


Lykke Li, the singer behind what seemed like everyone's favorite album over the summer, Youth Novels, and the cutest girl in the world (besides my girlfriend), will be DJing at La Cita's Dance Right tonight. I usually like to make a stink about Dance Right – the Hollywood/Silver Lake scene-zombies, off-rampers coming in from the Valley in sandals sporting faux-hawks, the stanky Polo smell of gentrification with each overpriced drink – but hey, I've been told I'm just a hater, what can you expect?

I honestly try not to hate too much, La Cita's got a great staff, I have a lot of love for the hard working people behind the bar there, and it's an amazing space, and you can't really hate on some of the artwork that comes as collateral for Dance Right... I guess it's mostly just the Thursday night Dance Right crowd that rubs me the wrong way as they rub their coke dusted noses – that and knowing what the drink prices were like before the bar was bought and revamped a few years back. Oh well, no living in the past, right? There are still other bars Downtown to try and save before they get bought out and become the next La Cita. Just the other week I saw that Neu Angeles gave the nod to King Eddy's as a hipster hangout... it's only a matter of time before it becomes Little La Cita [/cue spooky theremin music]. God I hope not. With Crabby Joes long gone, and Charlie O's set to be the next Pete's Cafe, where will Downtowners go? We can't all fit into Jaliscos... can we?

Anyway, whether you like Dance Right and spendy drinks or not, tonight the extremely talented Lykke Li is gonna be there, spinning records I'm told, and that in itself is pretty cool, right? Damnit, I guess I'm gonna have to go check it out. At least it's a good excuse to grab a burrito from Ye Olde Taco House next door.


Dance Right is every Thursday night at La Cita on Hill Street between 4th and 3rd. And in La Cita's defense of the whole overpriced drink thing... there's $3 Dewars till midnight...