Dying Scene Show Review: Fear, Leftover Crack, and the High Curbs (Teragram Ballroom, Los Angeles, CA 12/21/2024)

LA and NY punk collided on December 21st as Fear and Leftover Crack played to a crowd at the Teragram Ballroom in Downtown Los Angeles. While the surrounding area could be described with some lines from Fear’s own “I Love Livin’ in the City,” the venue represents a part of a movement to revitalize older concert spaces in the area. Formerly known as the Playhouse Theatre, this historic building was once a silent movie house before becoming a diner, but eventually became a fairly popular location to film TV and Movies. The six hundred capacity venue has a compact area for merchandise sales and an adjacent bar with a few tables to order food, remnants of the Teragram Ballroom’s past. The main floor of the venue itself has a bar on its back wall behind the sound booth. Blue lights and bi...