PART TIME PUNKS is the name of a club that takes over noted Echo Park live music venue, The Echo on 1822 Sunset, every Sunday night. The club was started by Michael Stock and Benjamin White-who not only DJ the night, but also promote it, book the bands, project the visuals along with Samuel Cooper (the short films of Kenneth Anger, Oskar Fischinger, Stan Brakhage and Derek Jarman fit in neatly with old skateboard videos, Dogs In Space, The Great Rock and Roll Swindle, Blank Generation, old band videos/documentaries and Jan Svankmeier's Alice).

The night focuses heavily on obscure and classic music coming out of America, the UK and Europe in 1978 to the present: Punk, Post-punk, Punk-funk, New Wave, No Wave, Hardcore, Indie-Pop, Twee, Grunge, Electro, Minimal-Synth, Shoegaze, Baggy, etc. Not only in the form of the music being played for the dance floor, but also the bands that are booked to play. Mostly up-and-coming and unsigned (from LA and NYC); all of whom are draw their influences from the creative pool.

The purpose of PART TIME PUNKS is to promote an inclusive atmosphere where you can go to hear and dance to amazing music that you may or may not have already heard...a place for people who're looking for something more substantial in their party music. aesthetics over attitude, substance over style. PART TIME PUNKS...and don't the kids just love it?