Dead Moon Night: A Tribute to Fred Cole at the Echo
Metal-heads, goths, rock-n-rollers and cowboys young and old packed in like sardines before a stage festooned in funerary flowers and a dead man in the moon under a dim red
Take This: Win 2 Tickets to The Aquabats Super Kickstarter at El Rey
After a long journey fighting intergalactic evil-doers, righting wrongs, and saving women tied to train tracks and falling from burning buildings, The Aquabats have returned to El Rey for what
Unplugged and Undying: Six Organs of Admittance, Wino, and Xasthur at Resident
When Bob Dylan first plugged in and went electric at the Newport Folk Festival in 1963, he was harangued, mocked, and shit on by the same followers that professed their
Ahead of his Timelessness: David Byrne at The Shrine Auditorium
A lone brain sits on a fold out table complete with a wooden chair directly under a spotlight. This abstract scene of living art set the stage perfectly for a
Take This: Win 2 Tickets to The The at the Hollywood Palladium
The UK’s legendary post punk band The The has reunited for a tour across the states and they’ll be hitting Los Angeles on September 25th for what is sure to
Song Premiere: Microwaves “Via Weightlessness” Janky Smooth Exclusive
Are you a fan of spazzcore? Do you like instrumentation and arrangements that are as obscure and wildly creative as they are musically brilliant? Well, do we at Janky Smooth
The Industrial Virus is Spreading: Das Bunker Presents Kanga at Resident
Das Bunker has returned, this time out of the post-apocalyptic brick humidifier that is Los Globos’ crumbling upstairs bomb shelter to the posh but mosh-approved Resident for a Kanga and Cyanotic
Cinema of Sound: Timber Timbre at The Moroccan Lounge
Timber Timbre‘s unbelievably cinematic sound conjures some of the most distinct imagery with ease; thankfully they were able to bring that experience to fans at the Moroccan Lounge in DTLA
The Hardest So-Cal Has to Offer, Strife Plays “In This Defiance” at The Roxy
Southern California has always been a hotbed for hardcore punk from Black Flag to The Circle Jerks but carrying on the torch into the 90’s was a band from Thousand
New Name, New Video – ZOOLUXX (Formerly Solar Sons) Release “Finally Be”
For years, ZOOLUXX, formerly known as Solar Sons, has been the quintessential soundtrack for night’s out in Los Angeles. From their residency at Good Times at Davey Wayne’s to being
Too Heavy to Die: Boris’ 25th Anniversary with Melvins at Echoplex
Boris celebrated their 25th anniversary of being a band at The Echoplex opening for the band that they take their name from, Melvins. Both classic sludge rock staples played incredibly
How to Trip Off Volume: Elder at The Roxy
How do you get high? Flower? Shrooms? Synthetics? Running? There are many ways. Some of them led me to this style of stoner/doom metal in the first place but once