Gates to the Smokin’ Grooves festival opened bright and early on Saturday morning with artists playing as...
Aria Silva-Espinosa
Product of Orange County in the early 1990's, Aria's mother raised her on a healthy diet of '80's goth and new wave music. After settling in Fullerton, Aria became involved with the local music scene in the area as an angry teenager. She spent several years in Philadelphia before completing her undergrad in Louisiana and returning to LaLa to haunt the Silver Lake/Echo Park/ East Hollywood area. Aria drinks dark beer, speaks Spanish and is surprisingly adept at parallel parking. Specializing in soapbox rants about social inequality and intersectional discrimination, she started writing for Janky Smooth after winning a Janky ticket giveaway to go see The Dwarves.
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