Echo Park, meet ‘Rockville’

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travis-rockville1The Times had a nifty preview today of “Rockville, CA,” the Internet series that debuts in 2009 on TheWB.com. Color me curious.

The series, in five-minute “webisodes,” will chronicle the travails of some music scenesters surrounding the fictional Echo Park nightclub Rockville. It’s the product of Josh Schwartz (“The O.C.” and “Gossip Girl”) and is being filmed at the Echo and Echoplex. I stopped by today for a session and was treated to a little Travis for lunch.

The music is being curated by Alexandra Patsavas of Chop Shop Music. Twenty-two bands will be taped in all (20 will make the cut), and the lineup is pretty good. Among them: the Duke Spirit, Nico Stai, the Kooks, Earlimart, Eagles of Death Metal, White Lies, Kaiser Chiefs, Oppenheimer, the Republic Tigers, the Little Ones, the Broken West and Lykke Li.

Just seeing Travis onstage again reminded me of the great Coachella moment from two years ago, when guitarist Andy Dunlop clambered to the top of a stack of amps to play a solo, then jumped off, so I dug this photo out of my archives:

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