dublab, 1035 W. 24th Street, Los Angeles, CA (2026)

05/28/2026

Tomorrow! We’re so excited to have all these beautiful faces and sounds come together 🩵 Grab a friend and join us.

🎫 https://bit.ly/2026-dublab-salon
𝕄𝔸𝕐 𝟚𝟡: 𝔸𝕃𝕃 𝔽ℝ𝔼ℚ𝕌𝔼ℕℂ𝕀𝔼𝕊 𝕆ℙ𝔼ℕ
𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟞 𝔻𝕌𝔹𝕃𝔸𝔹 𝕊𝔸𝕃𝕆ℕ
𝔻𝕆𝕆ℝ𝕊 𝟟:𝟛𝟘ℙ

𝓦𝓲𝓽𝓱 𝔂𝓸𝓾𝓻 𝓱𝓸𝓼𝓽𝓼 : V.C.R. + def sound

✨Guest of Honor: Ben Caldwell [KAOS Network]
✨Inagural DUBBY AWARD: The Basement LA + DJ Kerry
♾️ Conversation: Third Space is The Place
💃🏻DJs: El Marchante, Xica Soul, Passionfruit, Tottie, Aiden Ramos
🥁 Live Performances: Gingee, Bryce Byrd, Wadood + Roman Casper

📻 tune in & explore their shows dublab.com/archive

05/28/2026

Your Friday night out this week can celebrate and keep 100 years of LA music, small business, and local culture going.

𝕄𝔸𝕐 𝟚𝟡
𝟚𝟘𝟚𝟞 𝔻𝕌𝔹𝕃𝔸𝔹 𝕊𝔸𝕃𝕆ℕ: 𝔸𝕃𝕃 𝔽ℝ𝔼ℚ𝕌𝔼ℕℂ𝕀𝔼𝕊 𝕆ℙ𝔼ℕ
🎫 get your tix!
VIP includes dinner, doors 6P
Friends Of includes drink ticket, doors 7:30P
Discounted 4-pack bundle for groups

Join us — a century-old venue that opened around 1923 as a quiet lounge and community organizing spot, and evolved into a legendary dive bar, jazz haunt, underground venue, and eventually the internationally recognized home of … you know it … Low End Theory.

There are many threads over the years connecting artists and DJs who’ve come through dublab, KAOS, The Basement, DIY venues, parties, and The Airliner. And so it only felt right to connect the dots and see what new connections form!

Now under the care of chef Vinh Nguyen and team, The Airliner continues that lineage by supporting DJs, bands, and residents who move through shared scenes across LA.

Come on in !

05/27/2026

2026 Member gifts have landed at dublab hq ✨✨
Now is the time to join us as a Sustaining Member to receive your gift + lock in year-round perks before a hot dublab supporter summer 🫧

Head to dublab.com/support or find the link in our bio!

Shout out our resident DJ models: 🩵 🤍 🖤
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05/26/2026

see you on sunday NY! closing out our 2026 membership drive 𝕊𝕋ℝ𝔼𝔸𝕄𝕀ℕ𝔾 𝕃𝕀𝕍𝔼 ‘s new community space & cafe, with east coast dublab residents n friends ❤️‍🔥 👉dublab.com

SUNDAY MAY 31
1PM–MIDNIGHT EST — FREE — MAD RECORDS
♾️ https://withfriends.co/dublab/join
Tune in, pull up, and sign up to be a dublab member.
Ltd run of 2026 member merch on hand to take home with ya.

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Co-organized with dublab residents Swami Sound & GTalks 💫

📡 powered by .la

05/25/2026

We’re loving our new member testimonials! Don’t forget to shout us out when you become a Sustaining Member or tell us why you love dublab in the comments 💙🩵💙

www.dublab.com/support

05/22/2026

✨Join us May 29 to celebrate people & places that go deeper.

Across Los Angeles, the home has long functioned as a vital cultural architecture and essential third space. In these intimate environments, creative expression and communities form without reliance on mass visibility, institutional validation, or corporate backing. Instead, they are sustained through mutual care, proximity, and intentional sharing of space.

DJ Kerry .djkerry , the force behind The Basement LA embodies this lineage. Resisting the logic of commercial nightlife, by design, it operates as a cocoon for sonic authenticity and deep connection among those in the room.

Founded in 2018, The Basement LA extends from years of DJ Kerry’s collaborative work within LA’s underground nightlife. Through projects like Nitty Gritty, Rice & Beats, and Hang Together, she has consistently held space for q***r- and women-centered nightlife.

More broadly, her work has strengthened creativity and stewardship among DJs, organizers, and attendees across the city and scenes around the world.

As Kerry has said, “This is the room where you should be able to level up”. The line speaks less to status than to growth, inviting DJs and guests to stay longer, listen deeper, and evolve together.

In a city shaped by fragmentation and capital barriers, The Basement is a grounding place. We are honored to celebrate DJ Kerry—and all the helpers, dancers, DJs, and members who are The Basement LA—as recipients of the inaugural DUBBY Award.

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🎫 https://bit.ly/2026-dublab-salon

05/22/2026

✨ Join us on May 29 to celebrate Ben Caldwell, dublab’s 2026 Guest of Honor, for a lifetime dedicated to creating platforms where creatives and young people could learn, experiment, and define representation on their own terms.

Caldwell’s career is shaped by his profound dedication to ethno-communication; his practice of shaping culture from within local communities through independent media and music makes him a model for us at dublab and countless others.

A member of the LA Rebellion movement in the 1970’s and founder of in Leimert Park in 1984, Caldwell built a lasting model for community-driven art, media, and space. His film works such as I & I: An African Allegory (1979) are characterized by conceptual frameworks within an expansive practice reinforcing that creativity is inseparable from political, historical, and economic self-determination.

KAOS remains an oasis for LA’s underground Hip-Hop scenes and independnet media to flourish. From the Good Life Café lineage, Project Blowed helped define experimental rap in the 1990s, while Banannas carried that spirit forward for new generations of artists, writers, and beatmakers. From Freestyle Fellowship, and Medusa to Ras G, , , Yo-Yo, and countless others whose creativity reverberates worldwide.

We’ve been lucky to feature Caldwell on dublab’s Deep Routes: The Crenshaw Continuum with .art.la in 2020, and again with .sound & on eXHIBIT AYe in 2023.

📡 Listen back by searching “Ben Caldwell” in our archives.

📙 Learn more in KAOS Theory: The Afrokosmic Ark of Ben Caldwell by Taj Fraizer.

05/20/2026

𝔸𝕃𝕃 𝔽ℝ𝔼ℚ𝕌𝔼ℕℂ𝕀𝔼𝕊 𝕆ℙ𝔼ℕ : and you’re invited! We’re thrilled to announce our 2026 Salon program, welcoming visionary transmedia artist Ben Cadlwell as our Guest of Honor; and celebrating with our inaugural DUBBY AWARD. Music & conversation all night with artists, DJs, and cultural workers who keep LA in motion.

Join at the century-old to sustain a vast creative ecosystem, with dublab as an enduring connective center. Tickets on sale now, bring a friend 🩵

𝔽ℝ𝕀𝔻𝔸𝕐, 𝕄𝔸𝕐 𝟚𝟡
𝕋ℍ𝔼 𝔸𝕀ℝ𝕃𝕀ℕ𝔼ℝ, 𝟞ℙ - 𝟙𝟚𝔸
𝕋𝕀ℂ𝕂𝔼𝕋𝕊: Link in bio 🎫 presale only
VIP Dinner doors 6P
General Admission doors 7:30P
Awards Ceremony starts 8P
** discount ticket bundles available for groups**

For over 26 years, dublab has supported thousands of artists and our community partners through our free radio broadcast, event resources, education initiatives, and opportunities to build creative careers.

Your ticket directly supports the future of our collective work and helps keep vital cultural spaces and networks accessible, experimental, and community-powered.

We hope to see you there.

05/18/2026

Our resident DJ Frankie Jax Nomad has been detained by ICE.

🎗️GoFundMe link in bio  https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-baraka-get-home-safely-after-being-detained-by-ice

We are heartbroken by this reality, and we stand with Frankie and everyone living under the threat of detention, displacement, and criminalization.

dublab is contributing to Frankie’s GoFundMe with the generous support from a matching donor.

If you see this and have the ability, we encourage you to donate at any level possible, share the fundraiser, and keep this support moving outward through your networks.

We also want to share some resources that can be helpful:

🎗️Immigrant Legal Resource Center — www.ilrc.org 🎗️CHIRLA (Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights) — https://www.chirla.org 🎗️National Immigration Law Center — www.nilc.org 🎗️Know Your Rights resources — www.wehaverights.us
🎗️Loyola Immigrant Justice Clinic:
https://www.lls.edu/academics/experientiallearning/clinics/loyolaimmigrantjusticeclinic/

The people who shape our communities through their histories, perspectives, and creativity are what make life richer, connected, and worth fighting for.

Please keep Frankie and his loved ones in your thoughts, actions, and support right now.

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