Have a very reggae New Year
While there's still an air of "amateur night" about it, New Year's Eve will always maintain that mythical status as the ultimate evening out of the year. What will you wear? Where will you go? And most importantly, who will you be with when you get there?
Most of young L.A. seems to be leaning towards the Metromix-sponsored Hard New Year’s Eve, and with good reason. It should be massive. I wonder how many will be surprised to discover that headliners Justice are DJing and not playing a live set? I suspect most will be too partied up to care and/or notice.
With a multitude more similarly themed end-of-the-year blowouts happening around town, it’s easy to miss a really, really cool NYE show happening at the Echoplex starring reggae legend Sister Nancy (pictured). Even if you don’t know her by name, you probably know her signature song, “Bam Bam.” This Dub Club event also features Brooklyn’s red-hot Ranking Joe on the bill.
While I’m all for the big rah-rah party times of Hard, Giant Maximus, etc., the simple, feel-good charms of Sister Nancy and the Dub Club crew sounds like the perfect way to roll out of 2007 and into the first day of the rest of your life, you know? Keep it irie in the New Year, y’all!
—Scott T. Sterling