BUZZ CLUBS

Sims’ City

So you’da thought the Beatles were in the house. The wildly visual art collective Mount Sims broke attendance records at the Echo in Echo Park on Friday, with fans screaming along to DJ Matt Sims’ freaky electroclash sounds. With a pair of erotic dancers and outrageous performance artists -- visualize naked people dancing with speakers on their heads and lots of shaving cream -- Mount Sims can climb every mountain.... Hanukkah rocks! Tel Aviv-based psychedelic band Rockfour is plotting an eight-night Hanukkah residency at the Knitting Factory, Nov. 29 through Dec. 6. B.Y.O.M. (Bring your own menorah!) For a preview, you can see them tonight at the Derby in Los Feliz ...

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Food and a flick

Star chef Monica May (North/Smashbox) and her designer hubby, Ricki Kline (North/Belly/Olive), are turning it out at Cinespace, the new Hollywood Boulevard club opening above the Ivar in January. May is plotting upscale versions of dinner-and-a-movie food. Think homemade Cracker Jack with chocolate truffle surprises. Kline, who’s part of the Cinespace design team, is busy installing chandeliers in the pinky fresh kitchen. Ooh la la.... Folks looking for a cool, jazzy scene where they can still hear each other across the booth should check out Canter’s Kibitz Room on Wednesdays. The weekly jazz cabaret’s been keeping it real for 11 years running ...

Had a nice chat with Rob Aston, singer in the gangsta punk ubergroup the Transplants, which also includes Rancid’s Tim Armstrong and Blink-182 drummer Travis Barker. While his famous bandmates finish up tours, Aston’s recording a straight-up hip-hop record. When you’re hot, you’re hot.... It’s gonna be a Wavy Gravy time at the Sunset Room tonight, as Algerian-born DJ Cheb I Sabbah and Ray Manzarek channel India.... We hear those chicas locas, Cheap Chick, are transforming Spaceland into a ‘70s-style arena rock show Nov. 30. Dubbing it Cal Jam 3, Cheap Chick -- an all-girl Cheap Trick cover band -- is promising plenty of beer bongs and bootleg T-shirts. Can you dig?

-- Heidi Siegmund Cuda