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King Tuff Unloads His Clip With A Farewell Show At The Lodge Room
Taylor Wong
May 22, 2025
May 15th was one of those rare nights at The Lodge Room where the room felt sacred. Not because we were mourning someone who passed, but because we were saying goodbye to a living legend. After more than a decade of calling L.A. home, King Tuff—aka Kyle Thomas—was leaving the
Warped Tour 2025: Full Lineup, Dates & Cities Announced
Janky Smooth Central Command
May 21, 2025
Vans Warped Tour is Back! 2025 Lineup, Cities & Dates For fans who grew up sweating through Vans sneakers in parking lots, clutching crumpled setlists, and discovering their favorite bands by accident—this is the moment you’ve been waiting for. After six long years of silence, Vans Warped Tour is officially
Take This: Win a Pair of Tickets To See Gang of Four at The Fonda
Janky Smooth Central Command
May 20, 2025
Gang of Four will return to Los Angeles for their Long Goodbye Tour Stop at The Fonda on May 28th and we have a pair of tickets to giveaway. See below or on Instagram for details. In 2024, Gang of Four embarked on their “The Gang of Four: The Return
Cruel World 2025 At The Rose Bowl: We’re Only Happy When It Rains
Rob Shepyer
May 20, 2025
Cruel World 2025 at the Rose Bowl was the fourth iteration of the festival, but some strange alignment in the distant goth cosmos caused a number of firsts in Cruel World history. Rain fell on Los Angeles’ goth community as they all gathered at the Rose Bowl for what music
Model/Actriz at The Roxy: A Queer Sermon in Noise Rock
Taylor Wong
May 16, 2025
I first stumbled into the world of Model/Actriz by accident. It was a few years back at Sound & Fury Fest, and I was assigned to shoot them. I didn’t know their name, didn’t know the music, didn’t know what I was about to walk into. I just knew I
Take This: Win Two Tickets to L.A. Witch at The Lodge Room 05/23
Janky Smooth Central Command
May 15, 2025
We are giving away a pair of tickets to the L.A. Witch tour stop at The Lodge Room on May 23rd, 2025. Details below… Last time we caught up with L.A. Witch was at the Palladium in Hollywood supporting Janes Addiction and it just re-sparked our love for the band.
Oneohtrix Point Never at The Wiltern: Post-Post-Modern Music
Rob Shepyer
May 13, 2025
Oneohtrix Point Never at the Wiltern wasn’t an ordinary concert — it was a creative breakthrough into a new form we were all indulged in. I remember being in a film class about postmodernism and asking my professor what movement was supposed to come after. The professor’s answer was “hyperreality”,
King Tuff Is Leaving Los Angeles: A Final Farewell at the Lodge Room?
Janky Smooth Central Command
May 10, 2025
Los Angeles, get ready to say goodbye to one of the city’s most beloved rock ‘n’ roll weirdos. Kyle Thomas aka King Tuff is bidding farewell to the City of Angels with a final hometown performance at The Lodge Room in Highland Park on Wednesday, May 15, 2025. As part
Negative Spaces In A Hyper Poppy Atmosphere At The Wiltern
Danny Ryan
May 8, 2025
Poppy is certainly an anomaly in the heavy music world, almost resembling an overall brand or abstract concept more than just a simple musician as she further blurs the line between influencers and artists. While many people are familiar with her through her days of bizarre Youtube videos where she
Sex Cells and We’re Buying- somewhere south of Hollywood Blvd
Danny Baraz
May 7, 2025
Somewhere in the heart of Hollywood on Wilcox, in a club/venue I have never entered before, Sex Cells re-emerged from it’s hiatus hole, to return to us a provocative buffet of fetish culture, avant-garde/smutty art, and self-expression. Out of the birth canal of Danny Fuentes, the L.A raised freak show turned ambassador
