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If Anyone Needed A New Year, It’s Me: The Black Lips at The Lodge Room
Taylor Wong
April 5, 2024
New Year’s Eve; this is usually when you reflect on the year you’ve had and think about the year that’s about to come. Well my year was shit to say the least. Nothing beats losing a job, your dog getting cancer, and two break ups that bookend 2023. The year
Pro(n)g Rock: Voivod at The Fonda
Rob Shepyer
March 28, 2024
It’s a rarity that the Voivod UFO comes hovering over Los Angeles and to miss witnessing an event like this is simply a rookie metal move. Last time, the band came to El Rey opening for Revocation for an oddly mixed bill. Now, the band paired with Prong, who they
Ceremony Gets Their Flowers at the Hollywood Palladium
Rob Shepyer
March 4, 2024
As 2024 launches into orbit, I see our Los Angeles music scene and its veterans coming full circle as the year’s trajectory begins to take shape. Ceremony’s epic Palladium show celebrating the anniversary of 2010’s Rhonert Park EP was the biggest headlining show of their career, performing in front of 3,700
3Teeth at The Teragram: Industrial Dystopia
Danny Ryan
February 8, 2024
Love for gothic industrial and nu-metal aesthetics seemed nonexistent for a while, being almost universally seen as cringe and outdated as indie rock and trap music dominated the airwaves in the late 00’s and early 2010’s. With political tensions rising after the 2016 election however, angry and darker music came
Levitation 2023: The Catharsis of Heavy Music
Janky Smooth Central Command
January 11, 2024
Halloween weekend. Thickness in the air. Darkness in the world. I’m committed to a music festival far from home and it’s supposed to rain. Austin, Texas: despite having been there only 5 months prior for Austin Psych Fest, one of the most special community-based music experiences of my life, I
JANKY SMOOTH Top 10 Shows of 2023 Rated By Contributors
Janky Smooth Central Command
December 31, 2023
Live musical entertainment is the lifeblood of Janky Smooth, that’s why we’re so blessed to be in the best concert city in all the world, bar-none. Los Angeles hosted so many of the year’s greatest bangers, it’s quite impossible to recall them all, however our contributors have compiled their top
JANKY SMOOTH Top 10 Albums of 2023 Rated By Contributors
Janky Smooth Central Command
December 31, 2023
2023 wasn’t just the year we saw many of our Janky favorites mature into their true selves, 2023 was the year these favorite bands put out the career defining material that will be pointed to years from today as the moment the band began creating the music they became iconic
Pixies and Modest Mouse: Clash of the Indie Titans at Hollywood Bowl
Alfredo Luna
December 20, 2023
Sunday night, Sept 17th at the Hollywood Bowl was a clash of the titans, with powerhouse artists in Modest Mouse and Pixies gracing the stage and concluding their joint North American run together. The lineup had prompted many in the lots and the shuttles playing the guessing game of figuring
Ladytron Reverberate The Belasco In Their Return to Los Angeles
Janky Smooth Central Command
December 15, 2023
The long-awaited, electrifying and innovative live show of UK’s Ladytron finally returned to Los Angeles. Ladytron performed at Belasco Theater after their summer stop at the alt-rock “Just Like Heaven” 2023 festival. Historically still standing from LA’s silent era movie theater district, The Belasco has become the best tour stop
Yves Tumor at The Wiltern: Living in the Abstract
Sarah Dinse
November 16, 2023
Yves Tumor took the stage On October 12th at The Wiltern in Los Angeles to give us a performance as eccentric and memorable as they are. This four piece experimental rock band can hardly be tied to one genre, making their sound something we’ve never heard before. They have carefully
