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The Sound of Silence: Outside Lands 2019
Janky Smooth Central Command
August 21, 2019
Words and Photos: Maggie St. Thomas Back at Outside Lands Music & Arts Festival for my 2nd year in a row, I definitely felt like I was home again. This San Francisco 3-day event is always a mixed bag of goodies and is well known for offering one of the most diverse line-ups in music. Six stages and artwork displays come alive beneath towering eucalyptus trees in the gorgeous lush green forest that surrounds Golden Gate park. Outside Lands is massive. This year was a record breaking crowd that was served the finest once again from the people of Grandstand Media. related content: The Queens Converge At Outside Lands 2018 There was a rainbow color of lights emitting from the trees, through the thick layers of fog, or maybe that was the smoke emanating from Grass Lands, a large cannabis education section. This year Outside Lands made history as the first festival in California to offer their concert goers a place to purchase and consume marijuana products. For 3 days, the festival was home for good vibes, good music, and all around good everything. The beauty of Outside Lands is that there is so much to entertain just about anyone. My favorite part of
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Sand in my Sax: Back to the Beach Festival
Dave Unbuckled
May 13, 2019
I voluntarily didn’t arrive to Saturday’s show until minutes before Reel Big Fish took the stage at around 4:00, which gave me plenty of time around town to observe the legions of bat wielding ANTI-FA members, as well as the brigades of MAGA hat wearing Trump supporters, that had gathered at the Huntington Beach Pier. I still haven’t found out if this was some coincidence or planned meet up or perhaps if some Ska against Racism club just showed up early with bandanas and baseball bats to walk around town, before going to skank to their favorite band. Regardless, the crowd inside seemed arguably worse, and considerably goofier than I had anticipated, but I suppose this should be expected when three of the four festival headliners (Aquabats, Reel Big Fish and Goldfinger) were nineties-era ska bands who’s music was more prevalent in between Nickelodeon and Disney Channel shows than they were on Punk Comps. related content: Offspring In The Air: Sabroso Taco & Music Fest I shamefully grew up listening to Goldfinger, Reel Big Fish and Blink 182. They were my gateway drugs into the underground as I entered adolescence, and YES there was a time in the mid-nineties, outside of
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Take This: Win Two Tickets to Back to the Beach Festival
Janky Smooth Central Command
February 19, 2019
Music festivals on the beach are always a special treat, something about see your favorite band with the ocean roaring behind them and having the sand right underneath your feet as you mosh. This year’s Back to the Beach festival features a variety of southern California favorites from the world of pop punk. As a true fan of underground music, I can’t lie and tell you this is my favorite style of punk but even still, with a drink in hand, I know I’d enjoy singing all the Blink 182 songs I grew up with or jamming out to Reel Big Fish. YOU CAN BUY TICKETS HERE OR ENTER TO WIN 2 TICKETS TO BACK TO THE BEACH APRIL 27TH & 28TH AT HUNTINGTON STATE BEACH Step 1- Join Our Newsletter (look for pop up every time you arrive at jankysmooth.com) Step 2- Tag a Friend in the comment section of our Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook Back to the Beach Posts WINNER WILL BE WILL BE SELECTED ON MONDAY APRIL 1ST AT 11AM PST VIA EMAIL CONFIRMATION
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