Janky Smooth

Sleepy Bangers/Hard Lullabies: The Book of Love at Teragram

Rob Shepyer September 10, 2018

Over the last few years, The Book of Love has been playing shows to celebrate their three decades long career. Los Angeles, as a city that means so much to their career, was the one city that was missing from their tour schedule until Friday night’s show at the Teragram

Take This: Win 2 Tickets to Music Tastes Good

Janky Smooth Central Command September 10, 2018

Music Tastes Good has always been one of the most underrated festivals Southern California has to offer with its marriage of gourmet eats and diverse live music. This year though, the lineup is above and beyond every year prior with New Order, Janelle Monae, James Blake, Parquet Courts, The Black

Magick Man: Killing Joke at the Regent

Rob Shepyer September 7, 2018

Killing Joke is a band that cannot be pigeon-holed. The moment you call them a post-punk band, they put out an industrial album. But within either camp, they were always the misfits of the bunch. Their post-punk was more rhythmic and off-kilter than their peers and their industrial was more

Take This: Win 2 Tickets to Lagwagon at El Rey

Janky Smooth Central Command September 6, 2018

Lagwagon have been putting music in its place, playing punk the way it was meant to be played for nearly three decades. In that three decades, the album Lets Talk About Feelings has gone down as one of the band’s most beloved and celebrated recordings. As it’s singer, Joey Cape’s favorite

Long Live The Funk: George Clinton and Parliament Funkadelic at the Observatory

Jessica Moncrief September 6, 2018

George Clinton has come a long way since forming The Parliaments as a teenager in a barbershop in Plainfield. Since the beginning of his career, the legendary godfather of funk has been making music and inspiring young creatives for more than 6 generations. In April of this year, he announced

Groveling Before the Gods of Grind: Napalm Death at Teragram

Rob Shepyer September 5, 2018

Of all the epic metal shows Church of the 8th Day has ever put on, Napalm Death at the Teragram has got to be my favorite. The creators and gods of Grindcore, Napalm Death, changed music forever by goofing on certain elements that other genres wouldn’t dare experiment with at the

Take This: Win 2 Tickets to Helloween: Pumpkins United at the Palladium

Janky Smooth Central Command September 5, 2018

Of all the giveaways we do and shows we cover, I’m probably most excited for this one. Helloween: Pumpkins United at the Hollywood Palladium. The creators of power metal, straight from Germany and with all the seminal members of the band, from every era, sharing the stage at once to

The Daytona Experience: Pusha T at the Observatory

Rob Shepyer September 4, 2018

2018 has been an amazing year for rap. We’ve seen the return of Slim Shady, five Kanye West produced albums, and one of the most volatile rap beefs to ever occur in the game with Pusha T completely destroying Drake. Along with making a star fall, Pusha T created my

The Olive Branch Extends to Irvine: The Scorpions at FivePoint Amphitheatre

Rob Shepyer September 4, 2018

The Scorpions play everywhere, from Israel to Beirut, to Siberia to their Irvine show at FivePoint Amphitheatre for the Crazy World tour. And what an aptly named tour it is, having seen so much of the world’s diversity and political strife, what is unique to The Scorpions is that they

A Super Rad Super Kickstarter for The Aquabats Super Show at El Rey

Rob Shepyer September 3, 2018

Saving the world is often a thankless job but for over twenty years this has not been the case for The Aquabats. This is a band of superheroes/musicians with a fan base so die hard they not only have their own uniform and vernacular but they pass down their love