With red crocodile-skin walls and black-and-white patent-leather banquettes , the large basement bar features live music , offering a modest alternative to more trend-making spaces in the meatpacking district like Aer and Level V. The noise around R & R has grown louder since it has been playing host to the New York residency of Whitestarr , a Los Angeles band made up of legendary rock offspring , including the frontman Cisco Adler -LRB- son of Lou Adler , manager of the Mamas and the Papas -RRB- , who is best known as Mischa Barton 's boyfriend .