Thanks to a suggestion from a good friend, Mike Sison I would like to recommend a great place that, because of the vision of a DJ named Josh Billings, offers house music fans a place to gather on Tuesday nights for good spirits, good music and good dancing. If you were wondering where I was when I made tweets such as this (tweet #1) (tweet #2) (tweet #3), I was settling into the vibe of FOCUS, the resident house music night at Tapas Restaurant.

FOCUS has been able to host some the great names on the house music scene, from Mark Farina to Colette and Heather. The vibe of these events are always great and the people, you can tell, are genuinely there to hear the music and vibe along with everyone else. I sometimes wonder if the bouncers even see any real action during Tuesday nights.

It probably helps mellow things when you do drink specials and offer $1 tacos out on the patio, huh? Yeah, I would think so too. But the purpose of this post isn't to just sing the praises of FOCUS, but to draw your attention to something that they do that's totally cool. They record most of the live DJ performances and make them available on their website. So if you're unable to attend a certain night, or if you want to go back and relive some of the musical magic that happened on a particular night, they have a great archive; all free and all ready for you to download and listen to.

FOCUS is located at Tapas Restaurant in Newport Beach, CA (so if you're in the area feel free to stop in and check out the music; if I see you there I'll get you a taco, yeah?) If you want more information on FOCUS, click here for their main website. If you want to download some of the DJ mixes, click here for their "Live at Focus" archives.