Love, Lust, Music, Rockville CA

What happens when you give free reign to Josh Schwartz, creater of The OC, Chuck, Gossip Girl, to create a new web series. You get Rockville, CA.

What’s this Rockville, you say?

It’s the new exclusive series from the WB.com that follows a group of people around a rock club, including special performances by some of the ‘hottest bands’ around.

Set at the fictional Rockville nightclub, the scripted drama stars Andrew West (“Privileged”), Alexandra Chando (“As the World Turns”), Bonnie Burroughs (“Cold Case,” “Eli Stone”) and Ryan Hansen (“Veronica Mars,” “Las Vegas”).

“I spent a lot of my early-to-mid-20s, before ‘The OC,’ at these kinds of clubs,” Schwartz says. “It’s a time when you’re poor and you don’t care. Music matters to you. … I really wanted to capture that (time).” TheWB.com has commissioned 20 episodes, each averaging around four minutes.

“We were given an incredible amount of creative freedom,” Schwartz continues. “There weren’t casting clearances, there were no notes on scripts. It was exciting and scary and fun doing it all on our own. It created a really convivial atmosphere on the set.”

Unfortunately TheWB.com is one of those geo-retarded websites that only allow you to view their content from inside the US. Hopefully we’ll end up getting Rockville, CA on iTunes sooner or later, and no doubt it’ll be on the torrents before too long.

Here’s a photo from the production