Valentine’s Day can be stressful for all parties involved. Regardless of how long you have been together, picking the perfect date for the Big Day is not easy. Not to worry, friends! We have the perfect solution to this dilemma… Start the celebration EARLIER and come boogie with us on February 8th @ NextDoor. We’re putting together an early Valentine’s Party and we want you to be there! To get you in the mood for Valentine’s we’ve put together a special set of “In the Key of Love”… Remember it is never too early to shower your sweetheart in affection any day of the year! Disclaimer: NO DATE REQUIRED TO SHOW LOVE! Bring your wife, husband, best friends and we’ll do the rest 😉
live music
1st Annual Blacklisted Fest
1st Annual Blacklisted Fest!
showcasing Hawaii’s Punk, Metal, Ska, Hardcore and MORE!
12 Bands for 5 bucks! drink specials, giveaways and More!
The Acoustic Guitar Project in Honolulu
The Acoustic Guitar Project (TAGP) is presenting its second annual concert series showcase in Honolulu! What is TAGP? The short answer is… One Guitar… One week… One new song… Five Artists.
Five Musicians are selected each year to represent their city by writing an original song in only one week using their local TAGP guitar. They sign the guitar, upload their song to the website, and pass it on!
This year, the featured artists will be….
revealed shortly!!
Join us for an evening sure to inspire you as you feast your ears upon the diversity of styles, rhythms, and emotions evoked by the sharing of this guitar.
The intention of this event is to connect artists and inspire musicians from all backgrounds and levels of experience to continue (or start!) writing music. We invite you to open yourself to the idea of expressing one’s self creatively- WITHOUT JUDGEMENT or intense critique.
This event is ticketed and a portion of the proceeds will be going to TAGP to continue funding in Honolulu and other cities. As TAGP grows in Honolulu, we will be expanding our musical outreach in a myriad of ways with a focus on making music accessible and fun for keiki,youth, and budding musicians in our community. If you know of a group or organization that would benefit from an acoustic music performance/songwriting workshops, please share that information to Catherine Ritter (catherine.n.ritter@gmail.com), TAGP curator for Honolulu.
Lots of Aloha and see you there!
The Scrubs Collective Showcase
The Scrubs Collective Showcase is back! Join us for another night at the Nextdoor featuring Oahu’s latest wave of music.
In light of recent events, the Scrubs Collective will donate all ticket proceeds to the El Paso Community Foundation. We send our deepest regards to everyone affected by the El Paso and Dayton tragedies.
$10 presale
$15 at the door
Artists include:
Anthony Cruz
Gib
Brochowski B2B Kariminal
Frostbite
Brodie
WillTheThrill B2B freekrafty
Illusion B2B That One Scrub
Doors open 9 PM
Hope to see you on Tuesday, August 20 for a great time while lending a hand to those affected by these events. Much gratitude to the EPCF and Naazar for allowing us make this contribution. Aloha 🤙🏻
First Friday August Activation!
Activating the end of summer!! Come get your way finding and art flowing in Honolulu’s Historical Culture & Arts District…make way for First Friday Chinatown!!!
OPEN STUDIOS – THEATRE SHOWS – GALLERY EXHIBITIONS – LIVE MUSIC – STREET ART – FOODIES – LIBATIONS
Hotel Street pARTy (between Nu’uanu Ave & Smith St.)
8p-10p – LIVE MUSIC:
Come dance in the streets with the local artists and musicians featured every month!!
8p-11p – LIVE STREET VISUAL ARTISTS:
A monthly locally live visual artist blesses the streets with painting, drawing and acting on the streets!!
8p-11p:
Hotel Street Outdoor Beer & Wine BAR
Ono Local Street Grind By:
– Santa Cruz Taco Stand
– AmaEbi HI: Wild Hawaiian Seafood
– Bar 35 Eats
– Soul Fuzzion
HIGHLIGHTED EXPERIENCES:
Hawaii Theatre Center
1130 Bethel St. 8p-11p
IMOMSOHARD – Mom’s Night Out: Round 2!!
Moms, best friends and funny ladies Kristin Hensley and Jen Smedley are the creators of the viral web-series #IMOMSOHARD, where they discuss the good, the bad and the funny about motherhood – with the help of a bottle of red wine!
The ARTS at Marks Garage
1159 Nu’uanu Ave. 6p-10p
Monthly Art Gallery Exhibition Opening pARTy
First Friday at HiSAM – Museum Gallery Shop x Mori
250 South Hotel St. 6p-10p
Fashion show, gallery exhibition, live music, DJ and workshops
Free, family-friendly evening of art and music at HiSAM! All museum galleries will be open.
HI Design Barber & Lounge
954 Maunakea St. 7p-10p
Wine’n Poets “Speak Easy Style” wine tasting & sharing invitational featuring award winning spoken word poets & entertainment.
Indigo Alliance Hawaii
1011 Maunakea St. C.
First Friday Psychic Fair – 15 minute readings for $20…come get your future forecasted for the coming year!
DOWNLOAD YOUR DIGITAL MAP @ chinatownhonolulu.com
***Location & Featured Experiences Vary – Check Venues Directly for Details***
OPEN STUDIOS 6p-9p:
Pūko‘a Studios
Chinatown Artists Lofts
Zwick Academy of Fine Art
Louis Pohl Gallery
The Pegge Hopper Gallery
El Dorado – A Honolulu Casting Lab
The Naughty Vegan Studio
Good Vibe Center
Polearity Studio
Downtown Arts Center
5p-10p: Boutiques, Craft, Visual & Performance Art Shows
Owens & Co.
Barrio Vintage
Hound and Quail
In4mation
Ginger13
Valia Honolulu
Single Double
Indigo Alliance Hawaii
Ali’i Coffee Co.
Pantheon Contemporary
Good Vibe Center
Sakura Loft
Polearity Studio
Tea at 1024
Local Joe
5p-2a: Restaurants, lounges, clubs, bars, dance venues (DJ, live music, performances, food & drink specials)
onG kinG aRts cenTer
Nextdoor
Manifest
Bar 35
Downbeat Lounge & Diner
Tchin Tchin
Scarlet Honolulu
Proof Public House
Jj Dolans’s
Rangoon Burmese Kitchen
Bethel Union
O’Kims
Fête Hawaii
Encore Saloon
Brick Fire Tavern
Ethiopian Love
Skull and Crown Trading Co.
Topped
Livestock Tavern
Lucky Belly
The Pig and the Lady
O’Toole’s Irish Pub
Murphy’s Bar and GrillThe Dragon Upstairs
DOWNLOAD YOUR DIGITAL MAP @ chinatownhonolulu.com
#firstfridayhonolulu
#chinARTown
#axispoints
Murs Live
Nextdoor and the Got Rice? show are proud to announce MURS live at Nextdoor! Join us Sunday July 7th for a living legend of the Living Legends! Known for his work with Living Legends, Atmosphere and Tech N9ne Murs is one of the most prolific hip hop artists of our generation.
18+ show, doors open at 7pm with opening acts starting at 8pm.
For vip, group rates and bottle service specials please email us at Nextdoor808@gmail.com
More info: via Wikipedia
Murs formed 3 Melancholy Gypsys with fellow Alexander Hamilton High School classmates Scarub and Eligh. The group became friends with Mystik Journeymen, and joined them in the Living Legends collective in 1996. His solo debut album, F’Real, was released on Veritech in 1997.
Alongside Slug, Murs has been part of the group Felt since 2002. The End of the Beginning, his debut album on Definitive Jux, was released in 2003. Murs released Murs 3:16: The 9th Edition, an album entirely produced by 9th Wonder, in 2004. Taking a more thoughtful approach than gangster rappers, it prompted Andy Gill of The Independent to say “eschewing bogus glamour for emotional realism, Murs manages to say more about the corrosive cancer of hip-hop’s gun culture than all the thousands of column inches lavished on 50 Cent’s bullet wounds”. After another collaborative album with 9th Wonder, Murray’s Revenge, in 2006, Murs signed a contract with Warner Bros., his debut album for the label being Murs for President. It was preceded by Sweet Lord which was given away free to fans.
Murs released Varsity Blues 2, a follow-up to his Varsity Blues EP, with production duties handled by Aesop Rock, Terrace Martin and Droop-E, in 2011. He released This Generation, a collaborative album with Fashawn, in 2012.
Murs was invited by Sacha Jenkins, a hip hop journalist, to join the group The White Mandingos, a collaboration between Jenkins and Bad Brains bassist Daryl Jenifer. They released their first album, The Ghetto is Tryna Kill Me, on June 11, 2013 under the Fat Beats record label. Murs has stated that the recording is a loose concept album about a man from the hood who struggles to maintain his identity while recording as a rock artist. The band members have acknowledged that the album is partially based on their own experiences.
On February 7, 2014, it was announced via Tech N9ne’s Facebook page that Murs was signed to his record label Strange Music. Later that year, Murs teamed up with fellow Strange Music members Mayday! to drop the !Mursday¡ album as his first release on the label. He then released Have a Nice Life on May 18, 2015, Captain California on March 10, 2017, and A Strange Journey into the Unimaginable on his birthday in 2018 – all through Strange Music. In between projects, Murs partnered once again with 9th Wonder to create Brighter Daze, which was released on December 31, 2015.
First Friday July
First Friday July at Nextdoor features a strong list of musical and art talent.
6:30pm-7:30pm Island style music by Kulia Davis
7:30pm-9:00pm Reggae and pop from the amazing Trishnalei.
9pm-2am DJ Neekz and Friends on the ones and twos.
What else to note:
Drink specials drink specials and more drink specials!
Arrive early as we have been hitting capacity by 11pm!
See you all for another amazing FF in Chinatown!
Sailor Jerry Festival #5
5th Annual Sailor Jerry Festival!
We will once again have a pre-party at Anna Obriens on June 14th featuring YOUTH BRIGADE (LA) with The Grim (LA), Superfuct, and Cronseedz… and then the main event in Chinatown on the 15th!!
a total of 18 venues in 2019…
Mahalo for the support!!
SailorJerryFestival.com
Some brand-new Festival merch can be found at Pantheon on nu’uanu ave!
The Scrubs Collective Showcase
The Scrubs Collective Showcase features Oahu’s latest wave of live musicians and DJ’s. Presale tickets are $10 and $15 at the door. 100% of ticket proceeds benefits the Hawaii Foodbank.
Artists include:
Shaun Phenomenon
Skurttle
That One Scrub B2B WillTheThrill
+ More TBA!
Doors Open at 9pm
$4 Fireball specials all night
DM @nextdoorhi for bottle service specials
Sponsored by Warui Karma
Latin Party !!!
Sick of walls and shutdowns? Marla & Palo Seco will be building musical bridges in Chinatown at Nextdoor this coming Saturday the 2th from 9:00 to 12pm. Bring your friends downtown for a great evening of Salsa, Merengue, Cumbias, Boleros and Latin Jazz. Celebrate your immigrant heritage! Grab your dancing shoes and party up down . See you there!