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Me First & The Gimme Gimmes Inter-Review At The Fonda Theater

Me First and The Gimme Gimmes made their welcome return to Los Angeles at the Fonda Theater on May 13th to a sold out crowd that was comprised of every demographic one could think of. After all, the band has been celebrating their 20th anniversary for the past two years,

Isaac Rother & The Phantoms- 5 Hits from Hell

Isaac Rother & The Phantoms Are Back With 5 Hits From Hell…

Isaac Rother & the Phantoms and their soul-laden stew of R&B horror rock and off-the-charts live show bring a seminal but sometimes forgotten era of rock from the 50s and early 60s back to life.     But Isaac and his Phantoms also evoke a time just a few decades

Com Truise at The Regent

Com Truise & Clark At Forefront of Breaking Stigma of Electronic Music

Electronic music often carries a heavy stigma for being repetitive or unoriginal. Unfortunately, many artists get lumped into the broad category of ‘EDM’ thus rendering their art unpalatable or unapproachable for a significant portion of music enthusiasts. What people fail to recognize is that, just as electric guitar is central

Spike Slawson- Me First & The Gimme Gimmes

Me First & The Gimme Gimmes Janky Smooth Sessions w/ Spike Slawson

7 days until day 1 of Punk Rock Bowling 2017… Last Saturday, May 13th, I sat down with the not-so-soft-spoken Spike Slawson, of Me First & the Gimme Gimmes, at the Fonda Theater before their Los Angeles appearance of their Greatest Hits Tour. We discussed his punk rock super hero

Angelo, Dirty Walt, Norwood- Fishbone trifecta

Fishbone at The Echoplex: The Royal Treatment for Chim Chim

Saturday night at the Echoplex started off with the Uber driver dropping us off in front of The Echo, where we waited outside for 2 minutes before we realized it was the wrong place. So we run across the street down some filthy stairs around a corner and now we

Le Butcherettes Leave A Pint of Blood On Stage at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach

Mex-American punk trio Le Butcherettes are sheer intensity personified onstage. On a Wednesday night at Alex’s Bar in Long Beach, the crowd sizzled anxiously under the ominous glow of the shadow-casting red lights.The entire venue has been arranged to allow for maximum capacity, standing room only. Photographers clamored on top

pallbearer

Take This: Win 2 Tix To See Pallbearer at The Echoplex on 5/18

Pallbearer dropped a MASSIVE 3rd doom metal album this past March and they are showing why it’s perfect timing for Metal to make a comeback- right here, right now. With the hard rock resurgence the past couple years, the endless stream of pop punk and garage rock proliferating out of

Thurston Moore Band

Thurston Moore: Genre Be Damned When You’re An Icon

Before I go into what happened when Thurston Moore graced the Teragram Ballroom’s stage on Saturday May 12th, I need to paint the picture of what happened immediately after. Smoking a cigarette and leaning against a neighboring liquor mart, I saw an old college friend of mine, a bit of

Ho99o9 Halloween at The Roxy

Take This: Win 2 Tix To See Ho99o9 at The Echo on Friday 5/19

If we cover even just one more Ho99o9 live show in the pages of Janky Smooth, our readers might start to think that we are nothing but biased groupies.  But we don’t care about that as much as being overly redundant since this publication makes no bones about the fact

Coachella Undercover by Josh Peters

The Secret Journal Of A Pizza Spy at Coachella 2017

Thursday Thoughts On The Night Before Weekend 2 of Coachella 2017 Starts The drive to Indio from LAX was supposed to take three hours & forty seven minutes, but it would be a lot longer than that before we would be out of the car and setting up our tent.

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