Heavy on the Cool: Dry Cleaning at Teragram Ballroom
Raybans, iced coffee, and cigarettes high atop Manhattan on a gloomy day spent people watching on a fire escape. A Jim Jarmusch movie plays on mute in the living room
Chicano Batman Bring a Crumb Home to the Shrine
Chicano Batman must’ve hit such an intense crescendo on their current tour when they reached the Shrine Auditorium in Los Angeles on Wednesday, Nov 10th to play night 1 of
Photo Recap: Gipsy Kings at City National Grove of Anaheim
Their story begins in the south of France, where a family of Gitanos, Spanish Romani, formed a band that sang Spanish songs with French dialects to create some of the
Take This: Win Two Tickets to Satsang at Moroccan Lounge
Creating music that sounds like the perfect blend of American Western folk and Far Eastern philosophy, Satsang imbue their down home maladies with tranquility and enlightenment inspired by Hindu and
Photo Recap: Khruangbin at the Greek Theatre
Photos by: Manuel Arredondo Khruangbin has been a topic of contention at Jankysmooth. Most contributors love them, some just don’t get it. Some just don’t know how to dance. Regardless
Take This: Win Two Tickets to Nothing Fest III at Garden Amp
Young love is in the air anytime Nothing Mag presents us with another installment of their annual Nothing Fest. They’ve had such acts as Banes World and Tijuana Panthers grace
Photo Recap: Idles at the Fonda Theatre
Every few years, there seems to be new, incoming waves and incarnations of what American’s call The UK Invasion. I don’t think any invasion in military history has lasted this
Dressed to Transgress: Sex Cells Halloween at the Globe
I don’t think theres ever been a Sex Cells that wasn’t just Halloween on the wrong weekend. Costumes, debauchery, candy, scantily-clad ladies and sexually deviant dudes are ingrained in the
Take This: Win Two Tickets to Gipsy Kings at City National Grove of Anaheim
It’s an honor to do any kind of marketing on behalf of one of music’s most important and endearing legacies, that of the Reyes family band known as The Gipsy
Texis or Treats: Sleigh Bells at Teragram Ballroom
Sleigh Bells guitarist and arranger in chief, Derek E. Miller has come a long way from Poison the Well to meeting Alexis Krauss while waiting on her at a restaurant-
Take This: Win Two Tickets to Tokyo Police Club at Teragram Ballroom
It’s time Janky Smooth embraces more indie music. And not just indie music but Canadian indie music. That’s why we’re throwing a giveaway to see Tokyo Police Club the best
Music Video Premiere: The Manx – Before She Was A Moth
As we all collectively wash away the rubbery layers of grease makeup, corn syrup infused fake blood, and half digested liquor soaked gummy worms we have a brief moment to