‘Dead’ Scene Walking : Despite what a radio station says, clubs are kicking.

KLSX, the same radio station that declared the club scene dead earlier this week (on Riki Rachtman’s show), is hosting a blowout bash tonight at Billboard Live, a simulcast in celebration of Howard Stern’s New York screening of “Private Parts.” Slash’s Blues Ball is performing. . . .

Akbar, a brand-new hang at the old location of the L.A. Weekly (4356 Sunset Blvd.), is attracting the night crawlers en masse. . . .

If the scene is dead, then why were riot police on hand at Moguls in Hollywood on Friday night, preventing the Dickies from finishing their wee-hours set? “Everyone was having a blast, but we had to stop midway through the Dickies show because they thought we were over capacity,” says David James, the promoter for Outsider Entertainment, the evening’s host. “We came in just under the club’s 325 capacity and the fire marshal apologized later.”

Michael Ng, a fire inspector for the L.A. Fire Prevention Bureau’s public assemblage unit, said: “They were very close to their limit, and their main entrance was barricaded. That was a violation. People were entering through the rear, and that didn’t make me a happy camper.”

On hand was Steve Smith, the cinematographer for the third installment of director Penelope Spheeris’ “Decline of Western Civilization,” in production. Smith has already scoped out Long Beach’s punk rock mecca, the Clipper, which just got a new stage--doubling it in size--and beefed up its sound system. This should come in handy for Friday night’s show, featuring the first show from Snap-Her since the girl group got back from Europe. . . .

Stage diving is allowed at the Clipper, and this should come in handy when the Hanson Brothers show up on March 13 and on March 20, when Japan’s Guitar Wolf--fronted by the charismatic singer-guitarist Seiji--is scheduled to perform its signature punk-psychobilly-garage rock hybrid.