“When you want that raw hip hop, you know where to come to..” The first show that the GCS family went to in 2015 was to go see the blast master himself, KRS-ONE with DJ Predator Prime on the cuts. You have to love those $5 wednesday shows at The Observatory. The show was beyond packed, every joint a classic and a couple b-boys and b-girls jumped on stage to do their thing.
LGCLTV presents ENDZ live at GCS Santa Ana MARCH 1st, 2015. Join us on a sunday afternoon as ENDZ from Locally Grown Collective joins us to celebrate the release of his album “Live Free”. As special guests for the event, the line up includes Vel The Wonder, Severe, Sage One and a DJ Set by INDJNOUS. It’s an early event, running from 5pm until 8pm. Don’t sleep on this!
Coming MARCH 14, 2015. GCS is proud to announce that the SPACESHIP TOUR will make a stop at GCS santa ana. Headlining the tour is Gremlin with Hands. Also on the tour is Asem Pria and Rock-Oh!. Looks like the special guests for this show are Modern Day Soulja, Esko, Adon, RX, Vibes and Koncept714. We can’t wait for some great music! As always, the show here is all ages and free. 6 pm until 9pm.
Hip Hop group CLDMKRS has merch in our shop now. A collection of MC’s, music producers and artists that have jumped on the scene and made waves in the industry. Stay on the lookout for their music.
We’d like to introduce you to a new brand that is now available at our store. Growing Gardens, a lifestyle brand out of Los Angeles. We are looking for a lot of great stuff from these guys…
Feb. 7th, 2015. “All Our Love 2” at the gcs clothing store and art gallery. DEITY blessed this wall with her latest creation. We are pleased to bring her out to the DTSA area and we always love to show her work on our gallery walls. She’ll have some new art pieces up all month in our gallery. 
Continue reading introducing… DEITY’s newest gift to Santa Ana.
By nature, street art is meant to be temporary. Never lasting too long, if spotted, it should be appreciated, photographed, and remembered. Because the length of it’s existence is always unknown. With that said, we bid a fond farewell to this piece by the artist 3rdi. Painted for his NOV 1st 2014 solo art show at the new GCS Santa Ana entitled “Return to tell the Tale”, this piece has been enjoyed by countless passers-by, urban campers, midnight alley thugs and 4th street shoppers alike.
Don’t be too upset, the wonderful DEITY is painting a new masterpiece that will be finished for the FEB 7th art walk …. We know that wall will continue to be straight fire!
Moving locations has its up side. Our sound selectas thought its a little too quiet out here. So they’ve set up a few times to give the area some ambience. DJ Ab , DJ Real and Deejay Great Daine have played under the sun (and moon)… who’s next?….
we are very pleased to announce that SCARUB will be our special guest for art walk on FEB 7th during the “All Our Love 2” art show. He’s been one of our favorite emcees of all time, we are happy that he can take time out of his busy schedule to rock a set at GCS santa ana.. as always, the event is all ages and free!. . art show runs from 7pm until 11pm.. not sure when he’s going to perform yet.. stay tuned!
One of our personal favorites, Rhode Island’s own Sage Francis blessed The Observatory stage for a very cool $5 tuesday night show. Sage has been on the road for a good minute to promote his new album “Copper Gone“. The room was packed with avid fans that were receptive to the new material as well as eager to hear the classics. As always, he did not disappoint. The quiet freight train that is Sage hit the crowd with a constant barrage of deep thought and great music. And did we mention leg, a whole lot of leg. We can’t wait until the next time we can see this giant perform. Continue reading to see the rest of the photos from the night. 
Continue reading Sage Francis at The Observatory JAN 27th, 2015
Hello GCS friends,
Times have been hectic. Things change. But one thing remains the same… GCS is still here for you. HA! OK, lets not get to deep and emotional. We fell off a bit on keeping up our blog posts, but here we are. So we’ll be pulling double duty, posting current and up coming events as well as returning to the previous year that was unfortunately neglected. So bear with us until we get caught up. As always, you can keep in contact with our FACEBOOK and INSTAGRAM pages. Thanks for taking the time to read this and let us know how we are doing…
GCS clothing showing some neighborhood pride. Putting out a little something for the hometown heroes. Available in MENS tees, tanks and baseball tees and Womens Tanks… check our site for availability.
Introducing! This is the GCS Clothing Store Santa Ana’s newest incarnacion of our original content blog. In order to keep all of our friends, family, aquaintances, business partners, patrons, neighbors, lurkers, and all other interested parties informed and updated on the happenings and going ons here at the shop, we have resurrected the ancient artform of blogging. Here you will find words and images that relate to events and shows in our space. Artists profiles, product reviews and music suggestions will be found in abundance. We will accept your questions, comments, requests, and critiques about any or all of our posts. The most important part of this is that YOU enjoy. So do so!
