The Inland Empire doesn't get the nightlife press of LA or the cultural mystique of San Francisco. Nick Doe is fine with that. Based in Highland, deep in San Bernardino County, Nick Doe has been putting in the work on a regional underground scene that operates largely beneath the radar of California's bigger music markets. The Inland Empire stretches across a vast swath of Southern California that most coastal residents drive through without stopping, but those who live and create here know there's a rich, underserved community of music lovers hungry for the kind of experience that the underground provides. Nick Doe found that community and started feeding it — building connections across the IE that link together people who had been going to events in isolation without knowing there was a whole network of underground culture happening around them. The sets are real. The community is real. The Inland Empire underground is real — and Nick Doe is one of its most visible and committed proof points.
The Inland Empire doesn't get the nightlife press of LA or the cultural mystique of San Francisco. Nick Doe is fine with that. Based in Highland, deep in San Bernardino County, Nick Doe has been putting in the work on a regional underground scene that operates largely beneath the radar of California's bigger music markets. The Inland Empire stretches across a vast swath of Southern California that most coastal residents drive through without stopping, but those who live and create here know there's a rich, underserved community of music lovers hungry for the kind of experience that the underground provides. Nick Doe found that community and started feeding it — building connections across the IE that link together people who had been going to events in isolation without knowing there was a whole network of underground culture happening around them. The sets are real. The community is real. The Inland Empire underground is real — and Nick Doe is one of its most visible and committed proof points.