2019
Red Bull Music Festival Begins with San Cha’s Epic Tragedy at Vibiana
Telenovellas are a medium of storytelling very telling of Latino cultural values. Staying true to classical themes in literature like revenge, love, and rebirth, this genre of television is a
Take This: Win 2 Tickets to The Sound of Animals Fighting at OC Observatory
We’ve been fans of RX Bandits for a long while here at Janky Smooth and their wild, avant-garde side project The Sounds of Animals Fighting is a rare treat to see
Take This: Win Two Tickets to Spring Fling Fest at 1720 Presented by Dirty Laundry TV
Dirty Laundry TV is celebrating its ten year anniversary with a punk rock rager at 1720 featuring everyone from Jurassic Shark, Healing Gems, Mike Watt and the Missing Men, Junkie,
Take This: Win 2 Tickets to Cannibal Corpse and Morbid Angel
The Decibel magazine tour has returned with dates at The Fonda Theatre and The OC Observatory. This year’s lineup is by far one of the magazine’s most devastating with Cannibal
Don’t Fear the Weird: Fidlar’s Record Release at Teragram
Despite 2019 being the 10th anniversary of Fidlar‘s existence, I first heard the band around two years ago while on tour (late to the game, I know.) We were driving
Songs of Freedom: Jesse Malin’s Gates of the West at the Roxy
The damage done by the last string of California wildfires is still being felt and so relief is still needed to rebuild all the lives that were changed forever. Music,
Black History Month at the Lodge Room: Jazz is Dead Ticket Giveaway
February is Black History Month and to celebrate and educate we are running a campaign that will showcase a different Black musical leader that changed the world. We’re also giving
Take This: Win 2 Tickets to Blackberry Smoke at the Fonda
Blackberry Smoke are one of the greatest modern country rock bands with bluesy guitars and southern style. Hailing from Scottsdale, Georgia, this is a band too good to belong to
Punx Not Dead in Petaluma – Home Sick 2 at the Pheonix Theater
“Is punk dead?” I’ve typically found this refrain loathsome and lazy. Despite my ongoing aversion to the utterance, it was front and center in my own (traitor) brain during the
Heart to Mouth with LP at the Observatory
Words and Photos by: Maggie St. Thomas While promoting her 5th studio release Heart To Mouth, singer Laura Pergolizzi better known across the globe as LP kicked off the first night
Take This: Win 2 Tickets to So-Cal Psycheout
Los Angeles’ best psych rock bands are congregating in the desert for this year’s installment of the So-Cal Psycheout presented by SkyShip Records. See some mind-benders like Frankie and the