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Dead Moon Night: A Tribute to Fred Cole at the Echo

Audrey Kemp August 31, 2018

Metal-heads, goths, rock-n-rollers and cowboys young and old packed in like sardines before a stage festooned in funerary flowers and a dead man in the moon under a dim red haze. The chemistry that bonded them? A common love and appreciation for Dead Moon and the late Frederick Lee Cole.

Take This: Win 2 Tickets to The Aquabats Super Kickstarter at El Rey

Janky Smooth Central Command August 30, 2018

After a long journey fighting intergalactic evil-doers, righting wrongs, and saving women tied to train tracks and falling from burning buildings, The Aquabats have returned to El Rey for what is being billed as their biggest shows of all time: The Aquabats Super Kickstarter! There will be special guests, thrills,

Unplugged and Undying: Six Organs of Admittance, Wino, and Xasthur at Resident

Rob Shepyer August 30, 2018

When Bob Dylan first plugged in and went electric at the Newport Folk Festival in 1963, he was harangued, mocked, and shit on by the same followers that professed their total devotion to him as a folk singer. Similarly, when metal goes acoustic, there are always detractors. Yet, with the

Ahead of his Timelessness: David Byrne at The Shrine Auditorium

Jessica Moncrief August 29, 2018

A lone brain sits on a fold out table complete with a wooden chair directly under a spotlight. This abstract scene of living art set the stage perfectly for a journey into the psyche and imagination of the legendary David Byrne. With bare feet, white disheveled hair, and a cool

Take This: Win 2 Tickets to The The at the Hollywood Palladium

Janky Smooth Central Command August 29, 2018

The UK’s legendary post punk band The The has reunited for a tour across the states and they’ll be hitting Los Angeles on September 25th for what is sure to be a memorable performance at the Hollywood Palladium. Janky Smooth is giving away a pair of tickets to this monumental

Song Premiere: Microwaves “Via Weightlessness” Janky Smooth Exclusive

Janky Smooth Central Command August 28, 2018

Are you a fan of spazzcore? Do you like instrumentation and arrangements that are as obscure and wildly creative as they are musically brilliant? Well, do we at Janky Smooth have your latest obsession to fix you up with: Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania’s Microwaves makes music that takes you places, only they use

The Industrial Virus is Spreading: Das Bunker Presents Kanga at Resident

Rob Shepyer August 28, 2018

Das Bunker has returned, this time out of the post-apocalyptic brick humidifier that is Los Globos’ crumbling upstairs bomb shelter to the posh but mosh-approved Resident for a Kanga and Cyanotic duel-headlining show. The horror on the faces of those yuppies that were trying to peacefully go about their networking on

Cinema of Sound: Timber Timbre at The Moroccan Lounge

Dillon Vaughn August 27, 2018

Timber Timbre‘s unbelievably cinematic sound conjures some of the most distinct imagery with ease; thankfully they were able to bring that experience to fans at the Moroccan Lounge in DTLA last week for two sold out nights. Embedded in their music is an intimacy fitting for the most tense moments

The Hardest So-Cal Has to Offer, Strife Plays “In This Defiance” at The Roxy

Rob Shepyer August 27, 2018

Southern California has always been a hotbed for hardcore punk from Black Flag to The Circle Jerks but carrying on the torch into the 90’s was a band from Thousand Oaks, California called Strife. Exhibiting that classic straight edge, beat down character, Strife was a band that from the get

New Name, New Video – ZOOLUXX (Formerly Solar Sons) Release “Finally Be”

Janky Smooth Central Command August 24, 2018

For years, ZOOLUXX, formerly known as Solar Sons, has been the quintessential soundtrack for night’s out in Los Angeles. From their residency at Good Times at Davey Wayne’s to being a fixture in all the best underground house parties, everybody in L.A. knows these guys. You’ve thrown back beers to