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Photo Recap: Parquet Courts and Snail Mail at the Constellation Room
Janky Smooth Central Command
January 27, 2019
Parquet Courts and Snail Mail took their tour to the Constellation Room and brought down the house with their funk inspired art punk. People felt the rhythm and the groove, dancing around to all the hits that made Parquet Courts one of the breakout bands of 2018. Photos by: Albert Licano Parquet Courts Snail Mail
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Photo Recap: Judas Priestess at Catch One
Janky Smooth Central Command
January 27, 2019
Psycho Entertainment brought a night of female-led cover bands to Catch One with Judas Priestess and Cowgirls From Hell. Both bands delivered a new, heavy, and fun take on classic metal songs. Photos by: Anthony Mehlhaff Judas Priestess Cowgirls From Hell
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Wesley Eisold of Cold Cave Interview: Love & Pain One & the Same
Rob Shepyer
January 26, 2019
Wesley Eisold of Cold Cave and American Nightmare has proven to be a significant artist in my life as someone I’m inspired by and whose music finds its way into real moments of my life. With his focus on the gothic dance music he makes as Cold Cave, he’s playing two sold out shows at Hollywood Forever for Valentine’s Day and his birthday the following night then embarking on a tour with Adult. and Sextile ending with their Los Angeles date at the Theatre at the Ace Hotel. There was so much I wanted to ask Wesley because he represents two genres of music and thus two states of mind to make art from. Of all the interviews I’ve done, Wesley’s experience as a writer and avid reader made his answers precise, articulate, powerful, and deep. related content: Cloak & Dagger Fest: The Heart Of Los Angeles Bled From Dusk Till Dawn RS: Your two upcoming sold out Los Angeles shows fall on Valentine’s Day then your birthday. What’s it been like having to celebrate those holidays consecutively? WE: Not to sound overdramatic but I always had a negative connotation with Valentine’s Day. I was expecting to experience this high in
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Rebels of Wrestling: PCW Ultra 3 Year Anniversary
Jonathan Reyes
January 25, 2019
For how popular independent wrestling has become, it’s still at the edge of the map, on the outskirts of the mainstream, that’s where PCW Ultra grows. In the dark, like a mushroom, unsuspecting and complex. Outcasts and rebels with a super chill attitude. Cultivated in the San Pedro bay, to describe the organization as such is to describe the city. While I mean it romantically, if you ask Johnny Ultra who grew up on the other side of the hill in Palo Verdes he’d call it “the place where he throws his trash” and “people with cars who can’t make it up the hill”. Right from the start this felt different. To start PCW ULTRA’s third year anniversary show Shane “Swerve” Strickland the first person to carry the PCW Ultra LHW champion and PCW Ultra Heavyweight championship came out to address the crowd. To let them know to ignore what the internet might say. To let them know that there is nothing, not contracts, not rumors, not weight class stopping him from achieving his goals. He is the newly designated PCW ULTRA champion as he relinquishes the PCW ULTRA light championship with a challenge to the ULTRA light division, try
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A Return Full of Firsts: Deerhunter at The Lodge Room Highland Park
Janky Smooth Central Command
January 23, 2019
Words by: Krista Anderson Photos by: Dillon Vaughn On a cold Thursday night when January’s torrential flood had finally let up over Los Angeles, the band, Deerhunter brought in the eve of their newest album, Why Hasn’t Everything Already Disappeared? Deerhunter’s atmospheric presence mesmerized the excitable, full house at The Lodge Room in Highland Park. related content: The Universe Smiles Upon Khruangbin At The Lodge Room Opened by Confusing Mix of Nations, a New York and Los Angeles based duo with spacey vocal melodies and harsh, analog dance beats, the night was an exploration into sounds both vast and aggressive. Listeners anticipating the album’s midnight release swayed and bobbed while bathed in swirling guitar melodies and whimsical rhythms. Deerhunter’s unpredictable and provocative performance spoke to the experimental nature of the Atlanta based group. Among the haziness of several esteemed favorites such as Halcyon Digest’s “Helicopter” and “Desire Lines” (2010), the band launched two new songs for the very first time before the keen, Los Angeles audience. related content: Creep Or Charmer: Alex Cameron At The Lodge Room The penultimate track of the new album, “Plains,” was revealed mid-set. Synthesizing the cutting rage of Monomania (2013)
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Take This: Win 2 Tickets to Musink Music Festival & Tattoo Convention
Janky Smooth Central Command
January 21, 2019
Holy shit… Oh, man… we got two tickets to Musink Music Festival & Tattoo Convention to giveaway… So stoked. Who will be the lucky winner to see Limp Bizkit for free??? It’s killing me just thinking about it. I’m dying from the anticipation. The nookie is not the only reason for attending this festival though. On night 1 we get a slew of hardcore bands playing from Bleeding Through, to Sick of it All, Hatebreed, and closing out with Suicidal Tendencies, the crossover band of our time. Night 2 has LB headlining but all the bands supporting are sure to have killer sets like Travis Barker, Ho99o9, and special guests which I can only guess will be filled with exciting surprises of the year. I have no idea who to expect and I love it. The final day closes with punk from start to finish. I can’t wait to see Flag and the Dead Kennedys, I’m over the Jello elitism. TSOL will be amazing too especially if they play anything off Change Today. YOU CAN BUY TICKETS HERE OR ENTER TO WIN 2 TICKETS TO MUSINK FESTIVAL MARCH 8TH, 9TH, AND 10TH AT OC FAIR AND EVENTS CENTER Step 1- Join Our
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Satan’s First Born: Possessed at the Whisky
Rob Shepyer
January 18, 2019
Anton Lavey’s church of Satan could’ve only happened in San Francisco. They have a certain way of playing with ideas in Northern California that they can deal in evil and sin while not taking themselves too seriously but also not being perceived as jokes. Anton Lavey’s dream of a new world based on humanist principals was so unapologetic that it could invert any cross. It’s no wonder, that these two forces, satanism and good ol’ fashioned San Franciscan California dreaming, contributed to the birth of death metal in a band called Possessed. related content: The Battle Of The Bays: Obituary & Exodus Clash At Teragram Ballroom Whether you debate death metal crawled out of the San Francisco bay or Tampa bay, we are all in agreement that Possessed’s singer, Jeff Becerra is an icon of the genre. You feel power and wisdom emanating from him when he’s working a stage. His vocals shoot out in bolts, they’re not quite guttural but it’s certainly signature death. It delivers the satanic, thought-provoking, and ominous lyrics home, as if a dark wizard were singing. related content: Morbid Angel At The Regent: A Lesson In Death Possessed began in 1983 and after breakups, reformations, lineup
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Photo Recap: Mick Jenkins and Stock Marley at El Rey Theatre
Janky Smooth Central Command
January 17, 2019
Chicago hip hop sensation, Mick Jenkins, brought his Pieces of a Man tour to the El Rey theatre for a sold out show with support from Stock Marley. The album of the same name as the tour was released in October 2018 so the city came out in force having anticipated this show for awhile. With old school, underground beats that highlight Jenkins’ loose, free, lucid lyrical flow, the fog and vibe at El Rey were of legendary thickness. Photos by: Rodney Campos Mick Jenkins Stock Marley
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Take This: Win Two Tickets to Reverend Horton Heat at the Observatory
Janky Smooth Central Command
January 16, 2019
Rev your hot rod engines for the Reverend Horton Heat because he’s coming back to the OC for wo consecutive nights of rock and roll at the Observatory. Each show has a slew of different openers with Big Sandy, Voodoo Glow Skulls, and Mustard Plug on 1/18 then Big Sandy, The 5.6.7.8’s, The Delta Bombers, and James Inveld on 1/19. YOU CAN BUY TICKETS HERE OR ENTER TO WIN 2 TICKETS TO REVEREND HORTON HEAT JANUARY 18TH AND 19TH AT THE 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 Reverend Horton Heat Posts WINNER WILL BE WILL BE SELECTED ON THURSDAY JANUARY 17TH AT 11AM PST VIA EMAIL CONFIRMATION
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Take This: Win 2 Tickets to The Crazy World of Arthur Brown at Catch One
Janky Smooth Central Command
January 14, 2019
The God of Hell Fire and the godfather of psych rock, Arthur Brown is bringing his crazy world to Catch One. If you’re into psych rock, you should be ashamed of yourself if you haven’t seen this man perform. Even in his old age, Arthur Brown is still incredible and fun to see live. Janky Smooth is giving away a pair of tickets to the Crazy World of Arthur Brown at Catch One. YOU CAN BUY TICKETS HERE OR ENTER TO WIN 2 TICKETS TO THE CRAZY WORLD OF ARTHUR BROWN JANUARY 25TH AT CATCH ONE 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 Crazy World of Arthur Brown Posts WINNER WILL BE WILL BE SELECTED ON MONDAY JANUARY 21ST AT 11AM PST VIA EMAIL CONFIRMATION
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The Top 10 Artists/Bands of PCW Ultra and Anniversary Show Giveaway
Janky Smooth Central Command
January 12, 2019
Los Angeles is the country’s best music scene but wrestling is soon becoming another trademark of Southern California culture thanks to promotions like PCW Ultra. Featuring the indie scene’s next big darlings and underground wrestling’s most dangerous, death-defying, and high-flying athletes, PCW Ultra is going to pull out all the stops for their upcoming anniversary show on Friday January 18th 2019 at ILWU Memorial Hall in Wilmington. Before the show goes down and history is made, we wanted to find out which bands and artists these wrestlers love to listen to. Father Josef Machete (WARBEAST) CLUTCH Black Sabbath Down Church Of The Cosmic Skull The Meatmen The Pietasters Dax Riggs Father John Misty The Modern Lovers Thin Lizzy Sami Callihan (Death Machines) Prince Michael Jackson Queen Childish Gambino The Misfits Bowling for Soup Van Halen Beastie Boys A Day to Remember AFI PJ Black (Worldwide Underground) Parov Stelar Max the Sax Kungs Kamasi Washington G-Easy Eminem Krewella XXXtentacion Skrillex Logic Post Malone Johnny Ultra (Worldwide Underground) Phantogram Flight of the Concords Kanye West Eminem Metallica Elton John Grateful Dead Elvis Presley Red Hot Chili Peppers Guns n’ Roses Brian Cage Kid Rock Linkin Park Jimmy Eart World Johnny Cash Coldplay
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Trip-hopping into 2019: Tigercide at the Echo
Aria Silva-Espinosa
January 10, 2019
It takes a day or two to get your bearings in a new year. It was hard to find the motivation to leave the comfort of my heated apartment but we headed out to The Echo on the second day of 2019, drawn by the allure of some dark, brooding electronic music to match the early sundown city vibe I’ve been feeling lately. Something about the residual Christmas lights still adorning a few random houses and the dying pine trees collecting on the sidewalks reminds me that the festivities are over and it’s time to come back to the usual grind. I needed a good show to start the year off right so the ethereal, trip-hop duo Tigercide seemed like an obvious choice for my first show of the new year. related content: Los Angeles On Mushrooms: Infected Mushroom At Exchange LA Before the show, vocalist Shexist and accompanist Saint Brended chatted amicably with us on the green room couches. Optimistic about the upcoming year but still feeling the pre-show jitters, Shexist inquired about the audience size. It’s hard to draw people out of hiding after the holiday season and even the biggest bands have trouble filling a venue when
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