Tag: live shows
Year In Review: Top 10 Concerts of 2015 Rated by Contributors
Danny Baraz
December 18, 2015
Since the beginning of time, mankind grabbed whatever it could find to tap out and amplify the rhythm in our souls. From the most tribal roots of humanity, those rhythms brought us to our feet and inspired us into spastic soliloquies and baby making motions. Before the advent of the recording studio, there was only one way to hear music- LIVE. For true music snobs and purists, if you can’t do it live, you can’t do it. That is my segway into Janky Smooth’s Top 10 Concerts of 2015. Janky Smooth contributors attended 100’s of shows this year. Selecting the top 10 concerts of 2015 was quite a challenge. Most of the concerts we attended were in Los Angeles so while new labels, venues and promoters are taking advantage of the music explosion taking place all over the globe, Los Angeles continues to be it’s music capital. I often complain about the low energy of concert attendees in the city of my birth and while a handful of bands have been skipping Los Angeles on their tour schedules for this reason and opt for Pomona or Orange County, there’s no denying that if you hype up a Los Angeles crowd, you
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Red Bull Sound Select- Corporate Music With Soul?
Danny Baraz
October 29, 2014
Dear Red Bull, Thank you for everything you are doing for music. It would be easy for you to sponsor a bunch of festivals and the next Beyonce tour but instead you choose to hire a group of hungry individuals to scour the planet for new and up and coming talent with no promise of Return on Investment. Your Red Bull Sound Select events are surprisingly hip and I wonder if any of this is about making money. If this money being spent to book, promote, record, release and showcase new bands is about further building a lifestyle brand then I”m ok with that. It’s better than hiring a douchey celebrity to peddle your brand and you are really giving us something that lasts a lot longer than a momentary burst of energy. Best Regards, Janky Smooth We at Janky Smooth are really looking forward to 30 Days in L.A. It’s one of the most impressive and massive undertakings in music we’ve seen in quite some time. The sheer audacity and patience it must take to deal with 30 different L.A. venues on 30 consecutive nights is enough to make my eyes bleed. Throw in 60 different bands/artists and their
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