Take This: Win Two Weekend Passes to Desert Daze 2017
Janky Smooth is proud to announce our Desert Daze 2017 ticket giveaway for the 3rd year in a row. Have you already gotten tickets for our favorite annual festival in
August 2017
Echo Park Rising (Five Pointed) Stars: Twin Temple
The vast miasma of artists at Echo Park Rising 2017 was an elating reminder of the fact that we’re drowning in a sea of stellar underground rock n’ roll. In
Echo Park Rising 2017: Long Lines Couldn’t Slow Fresh Faces In All Places
The 2017 Echo Park Rising lineup generated quite a bit of buzz this year, as it was absolutely stacked with old favorites, over a dozen unmissable acts and a number
Before ANTIFA, There Was Crust: Doom Celebrates Dirty 30 At The Regent
Anarchism and Anti-Fascism seem to have found a new seat, front and far-left-of-center, in the public forum. That seat is occupied by the political movement that has adopted those principals
Prettiest Eyes & Egrets On Ergot: The L.A. Sound Explodes Out Of Harvard & Stone
Everything you need to know about rock based music coming out of Los Angeles can be summed up by the sounds that were coming out of Harvard and Stone one
Summertime In The LBC: Love Letter To A City That Doesn’t Always Love Back
Finding out the Summertime in the LBC festival was not actually in the Queen Mary had me feeling like they literally missed the boat on this one. Why couldn’t they
Negative Approach Steamroll Echoplex w/ Nails, Bloodclot, Final Conflict
The mighty, punishing, blue-collar punk heroes of Detroit, Negative Approach, are one of my favorite bands of all time and their seminal album, Tied Down, is on my top ten
Ministry Make Bid To Be Official ANTIFA House Band At San Diego Show
It was FYF weekend in Los Angeles- a weekend in the summer in which Los Angeles is the center of the summer music festival world. Not to mention the swarming
Desert Daze Finalize 2017 Lineup: Iggy Pop, Ty Segall, Sleep, & More
You could have seen Iggy Pop this year at Punk Rock Bowling or Burger Boogaloo or FYF Fest but nothing will compare to the Street Walking Cheetah taking the stage
FYF Fest 2017 Steals Coachella’s Throne As So-Cal’s Premiere Festival
My bones are still rattling and recovering from Capn’ Jazz’s sold out set at The Echo Thursay night. So much so that I limp across the edges of Exposition Park,