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Take This: Win 2 Tickets to Leftover Crack at the OC Observatory

Janky Smooth Central Command February 12, 2019

Red Bull Music Festival Begins with San Cha’s Epic Tragedy at Vibiana

Rob Shepyer February 11, 2019

Telenovellas are a medium of storytelling very telling of Latino cultural values. Staying true to classical themes in literature like revenge, love, and rebirth, this genre of television is a staple to Latino culture because its classical narrative themes reflect the classical values of Latino people. What made San Cha’s Telenovella inspired performance at Vibiana for the opening of Redbull Music Festival so brilliant was how she wielded traditional values to empower ideas that don’t conform to tradition but rather represent progress. Passionate romantic love is a value often attached to Latin culture and it was that love that led to San Cha’s symbolic downfall. Expert and unique curation is the mark of Red Bull Music Festival and this festival-opening show was tailored just for the Latin community with a former Catholic church as a venue and a vibrantly colored, flowery telenovella bedroom set for people to take pictures in the Church’s courtyard. After enjoying a few palomas at the open bar and eating various Latin Hors d’oeuvres like Spanish octopus and tiny fluatas, I made my way into Vibiana and immediately felt a rush of divinity flow through me. The glory of God shooting out from every crevice of

Take This: Win 2 Tickets to The Sound of Animals Fighting at OC Observatory

Janky Smooth Central Command February 11, 2019

We’ve been fans of RX Bandits for a long while here at Janky Smooth and their wild, avant-garde side project The Sounds of Animals Fighting is a rare treat to see that we can’t help but offer a giveaway for. You can call the Bandits ska, alternative, pop punk, whatever you’d like but you’ll find it hard to box them into any single genre. The same goes for TSOAF but multiply that musical confusion and contradiction by an exponent or two. YOU CAN BUY TICKETS HERE OR ENTER TO WIN 2 TICKETS TO THE SOUND OF ANIMALS FIGHTING FEBRUARY 23RD AT THE OC OBSERVATORY 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 The Sound of Animals Fighting Posts WINNER WILL BE WILL BE SELECTED ON MONDAY FEBRUARY 18TH AT 11AM PST VIA EMAIL CONFIRMATION

Take This: Win Two Tickets to Spring Fling Fest at 1720 Presented by Dirty Laundry TV

Janky Smooth Central Command February 8, 2019

Dirty Laundry TV is celebrating its ten year anniversary with a punk rock rager at 1720 featuring everyone from Jurassic Shark, Healing Gems, Mike Watt and the Missing Men, Junkie, and a surprise secret special spring fling fest guest. This is the ultimate spring time getaway close to home and celebration of youth, so Janky Smooth is happy to take part of the festivities and spread the love by giving away a pair of tickets to the fest. YOU CAN BUY TICKETS HERE OR ENTER TO WIN 2 TICKETS TO SPRING FLING FEST PRESENTED BY DIRTY LAUNDRY TV MARCH 3RD AT 1720 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 Spring Fling Fest Posts WINNER WILL BE WILL BE SELECTED ON MONDAY FEBRUARY 25TH AT 11AM PST VIA EMAIL CONFIRMATION

Take This: Win 2 Tickets to Cannibal Corpse and Morbid Angel

Janky Smooth Central Command February 7, 2019

The Decibel magazine tour has returned with dates at The Fonda Theatre and The OC Observatory. This year’s lineup is by far one of the magazine’s most devastating with Cannibal Corpse and Morbid Angel co-headlining and brining classic American death metal headbanging and circle pits from hell to your city. Then when you think that’s all, Necrot and Blood Incantation round out the bill to make an absolutely power house and ravaging lineup for an evening. YOU CAN BUY TICKETS TO THE FONDA SHOW HERE OR THE OBSERVATORY SHOW HERE ENTER TO WIN 2 TICKETS TO THE DECIBEL MAGAZINE TOUR W/CANNIBAL CORPSE AND MORBID ANGEL FEBRUARY 21ST AT THE FONDA THEATRE OR FEBRUARY 22ND AT THE OBSERVATORY Step 1- Follow us on Instagram or Twitter or Like us on Facebook Step 2- Tag a Friend in the comment section of our Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook Decibel Magazine Tour Posts WINNER WILL BE WILL BE SELECTED ON MONDAY FEBRUARY 18TH AT 11AM PST VIA EMAIL CONFIRMATION

Don’t Fear the Weird: Fidlar’s Record Release at Teragram

Dillon Vaughn February 4, 2019

Despite 2019 being the 10th anniversary of Fidlar‘s existence, I first heard the band around two years ago while on tour (late to the game, I know.) We were driving somewhere through the Carolinas in a rattling van formerly used to shuttle the homeless out of LA and all six of us were hungover as hell. With four of the bandmates passed out in the back, I was riding shotgun and taking in the sights while my friend that was driving cued up Fidlar’s 2015 record Too and began singing along in that kind of raspy voice you have after a long night out. Something about the tone of that album – the wistfulness, pacing, and honesty about facing adulthood resonated perfectly with the moment. Almost Free, the album being celebrated and released recently at the Teragram marked a new direction for the band that captured their interest in exploring new song structures and instrumentation and allowed this show to highlight other LA bands approaching music with a similar attitude. related content: Family, Friends, FIDLAR: A Punk Rock Love Fest At The Observatory “Don’t Fear the Weird,” the motto scrawled in red across Brandon Schwartzel’s bass guitar summed up both the new direction for

Songs of Freedom: Jesse Malin’s Gates of the West at the Roxy

Rob Shepyer February 2, 2019

The damage done by the last string of California wildfires is still being felt and so relief is still needed to rebuild all the lives that were changed forever. Music, which always seems to be the source of spiritual refuge for those in need, came to the rescue in the form of Gates of the West, an all-star celebration of the life of Joe Strummer hosted by D-Generation’s Jesse Malin. related content: Jesse Malin And All Star Rockers Raise Money For A Friend At The Roxy The night began with a musical collaborator of Joe Strummer’s, Zander Schloss who took the stage solo with an acoustic guitar to play three songs including “Redemption Song” and “Go Straight to Hell”. Following him, Jesse Malin and his house band took the stage to play a set of originals that harkened back to rock and roll’s heyday of coolness, swagger and nonchalance. Jesse was on the guitar, in the crowd, jumping and jiving, and singing his guts out with more New York attitude than Los Angeles is used to. One special moment was when the band covered a Pogues song because Shane McGowan called the Cat and Fiddle bar in Los Angeles to

Black History Month at the Lodge Room: Jazz is Dead Ticket Giveaway

Janky Smooth Central Command February 1, 2019

February is Black History Month and to celebrate and educate we are running a campaign that will showcase a different Black musical leader that changed the world. We’re also giving away concert tickets. Concert tickets to the first American music genre, jazz. Jazz is Dead presented by Artdontsleep at the Highland Park Lodge Room always assembles some of the most powerful musical evenings you can experience in Los Angeles. With three concerts in their Black History Month series, we are giving away two pairs to their first two shows. Brian Jackson is an American keyboardist, flautist, singer, and composer, known for collaborating with Gil Scott Heron. You can buy tickets to his February 7th performance at the Lodge Room here. Gary Bartz performed in Charles Mingus’ jazz workshop and was a member of Miles Davis’ band. Combining funk, jazz, and soul, Gary Bartz’s saxophone is unforgettable. You can buy tickets to his Lodge Room performance here. ENTER TO WIN 2 TICKETS TO BRIAN JACKSON OR GARY BARTZ BRIAN JACKSON – FEBRAURY 7TH AT THE LODGEROOM OR GARY BARTZ – FEBRUARY 17TH AT THE LODGEROOM Step 1- Follow us on Instagram or Twitter or Like us on Facebook Step 2- Tag a

Take This: Win 2 Tickets to Blackberry Smoke at the Fonda

Janky Smooth Central Command January 31, 2019

Blackberry Smoke are one of the greatest modern country rock bands with bluesy guitars and southern style. Hailing from Scottsdale, Georgia, this is a band too good to belong to the modern era. Nothing about this band is watered down, nothing about them is corporate, soft, compromised, or packaged. This is good ol’ fashioned muddy bayou rock that just so happened to be good enough to make it to an arena level. Supporting the band at this Fonda Theatre show is outlaw country’s young, heartbreaker, two punch princess, Nikki Lane. YOU CAN BUY TICKETS HERE OR ENTER TO WIN 2 TICKETS TO BLACKBERRY SMOKE FEBRAURY 6TH AT THE FONDA THEATRE 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 Blackberry Smoke Posts WINNER WILL BE WILL BE SELECTED ON MONDAY FEBRUARY 4TH AT 11AM PST VIA EMAIL CONFIRMATION

Punx Not Dead in Petaluma – Home Sick 2 at the Pheonix Theater

Nicole Verto January 30, 2019

“Is punk dead?” I’ve typically found this refrain loathsome and lazy. Despite my ongoing aversion to the utterance, it was front and center in my own (traitor) brain during the week leading up to Home Sick 2. You see, after almost forty years, the punk institution known as Maximum Rocknroll announced that the zine would cease printing in 2019. The notion hit me hard. I recalled being fourteen and seeing MRR for the first time as a young teenager and traced from there to the first time I saw the rows and rows of green-taped records myself. It felt like a death. I went to three other shows in the days between the announcement and attending Home Sick 2 but HS2 was the one that really shook me out of my cynicism. Of course punk is not dead. Of course the community is still growing and reaching folks of all ages. Even better: those of us already in too deep seem to be better than ever at welcoming other sounds into our spaces. The curators behind Home Sick (none other than headliners Ceremony) managed to again create a space both familiar and refreshingly representative of this constant evolution happening within

Heart to Mouth with LP at the Observatory

Janky Smooth Central Command January 29, 2019

Words and Photos by: Maggie St. Thomas While promoting her 5th studio release Heart To Mouth, singer Laura Pergolizzi better known across the globe as LP kicked off the first night of her much anticipated and heavily sold out North American Heart To Mouth 2019 Tour at the Observatory in Santa Ana. Playing in support for this critically acclaimed recording artist and songwriter on a vast stretch of the tour is LP’s fiancé’ Lauren Ruth Ward, another high energy performer with an exceptional vocal range, and with instruments that compliment her free spirit including a star shaped tambourine, and red and white polka dotted mushroom maracas. related content: The Queens Converge At Outside Lands 2018 The sold out venue goes dark and the crowd screams in anticipation. It was a sight to behold and everyone in attendance was immediately transfixed the second LP’s boots hit the stage. LP’s voice is powerful and euphoric, creating an expansive dreamlike state that becomes a high all in itself. Her stage presence is magnetic from any angle, unique and unforgettable. Accenting her strikingly sharp androgynous look with her signature wild brown curls, tonight she sported a teal colored long sleeve pirate shirt, a dark vest, pencil think black

Take This: Win 2 Tickets to So-Cal Psycheout

Janky Smooth Central Command January 28, 2019

Los Angeles’ best psych rock bands are congregating in the desert for this year’s installment of the So-Cal Psycheout presented by SkyShip Records. See some mind-benders like Frankie and the Witch Fingers, Dream Phases, Blank Tapes, and more! Camping and parking are included in the package so enjoy the weekend braving the elements of your mind, man! YOU CAN BUY TICKETS HERE OR ENTER TO WIN 2 TICKETS TO THE SO-CAL PSYCHEOUT MARCH 29TH, 30TH, AND APRIL 1ST AT GARTH’S BOULDER GARDEN’S IN PIONEERTOWN 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 So-Cal Psycheout Posts WINNER WILL BE WILL BE SELECTED ON THURSDAY FEBRUARY 14TH AT 11AM PST VIA EMAIL CONFIRMATION

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