Demme was described by the Los Angeles Times as an "expert at 'building a room,' choosing a precise mix of guests, sculpting space with light and shadow, and cultivating a mood something akin to performance art."
At Carwash, she held DJ and MC contests and booked then-new artists and rap acts, including KRS-One, Leaders of the New School, Afrika Bambaataa, Digital Underground.
Through Buzztone, she and Walters managed artists including Cypress Hill, House of Pain and Pop's Cool Love, who were notably featured on the first-ever MTV Unplugged episode of Yo!
Among other projects, Demme designed and promoted events for organizations including Rock the Vote and Step Up as well as for corporate clients such as Mercedes-Benz, DKNY, Vogue and Motorola.
In a matter of weeks, "celebrities packed the poolside Tropicana Bar, and anybody else who made it past Demme's velvet rope could consider it a career achievement in itself.
Credited for transforming the Roosevelt into the "hottest joint in town," Demme personally oversaw the door, and the exclusivity of Teddy's was even more extreme than it was at the Tropicana Bar, with the LA Weekly noting that she was both "celebrated and vilified for her in-crowd-only gatherings.
[16][22] Demme, who had become progressively more interested in physical design, next launched H. Wood, in the former location of the Stork, a club adjacent to the Kodak Theatre in Hollywood.
Designing the exterior of the club with bricks that were salvaged from a decommissioned naval base and windows from Andy Warhol's Factory, Demme said she viewed the project as an art installation.
Salon wrote: "In Amanda Demme's composite photographs of (the women) seated in stark wooden chairs against a white background, the magnitude of Cosby's many crimes is ripped from a half-forgotten past into an unforgiving present.