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Dungeon Demon: Hulder at Don Quixote
Rob Shepyer
April 16, 2022
Black metal is like black caviar, a rare and special treat not to be consumed everyday for every meal but on those much needed occasions when you need to feel truly alive. Grizzly, noisy, hazy, and atmospheric are the usual descriptors the mind shuffles through trying to synthesize the experience of listening to this purely underground genre. However, when seeing Hulder live, my mind was more consumed with the thought of power, in awe of how much she was able to harness when performing on stage. It’s not just in her demonic vocals or the way she wields a black guitar, or even a sword for that matter, it’s the entirety of her presence. You sense that this person has integrated the genre so deeply into their core, that they’ve become an actual warrior. As if there’s some kind of medieval mitochondria the black metal injected into her cells to give her the fortitude to be Hulder. related content: Satyricon’s Final Los Angeles Show At The Regent: A Night Too Blackened To Forget Women in black metal isn’t common. It’s not unheard of but it’s certainly not the reason Hulder is special. Hulder is special because she commands an audience,
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Take This: Win Two Tickets to ESG at Don Quixote
Janky Smooth Central Command
December 6, 2021
One of the most influential and dynamic family band’s in music history is returning to Los Angeles for an epic one-off performance presented by Minty Boi. The sisters of ESG are responsible for countless hip hop samples and for created a new dance punk sound that could’ve only originated in New York. These ladies are legends and we are over the moon to give away a pair of tickets to the show at Don Quixote. YOU CAN BUY TICKETS HERE or ENTER TO WIN 2 TICKETS TO ESG DECEMBER 11TH AT DON QUIXOTE 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 INSTAGRAM or FACEBOOK ESG Ticket Giveaway Post WINNER WILL BE SELECTED ON DECEMBER 10TH AT 1PM PST VIA EMAIL CONFIRMATION
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Love in the Time of Covid: Baltra at Don Quixote
Danny Baraz
September 24, 2021
It seems like nothing can stop humanity’s innate compulsion to connect, to converge, to coalesce. Nothing has solidified this to me more than those of us that did so the Friday night of August 6th 2021 at Don Quixote to do the Delta variant dance for Minty Boi’s presentation of Baltra. The masked, unmasked, vaxxed and un-vaxxed came together as one writhing, collective consciousness in the midst of the polarization found on any platform that sends and/or receives a signal. This “new normal” gives people watching an entire pre-programmed context that has taken on new dimensions since the global pandemic began. One thing was clear the moment I walked into the missionary-esque celebration hall known as Don Quixote while Miley Serious were throwing down her set: People were ready to de-program, de-contextualize and connect with others or even better still, with themselves. With the lockdown of live, non-streaming music looming on the horizon once again, people hurled themselves onto the dance floor with reckless abandon- and at each other. French DJ and 99cts Records label owner, Miley Serious threw down a high energy, set of electro-magnetic music that moved the collective. Breakdowns were aplenty and beat drops were always
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