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Ho99o9 recruit your children to their Death Kult at The Church of Fun

Ho99o9 are the worst nightmare of white, middle America. The genre twisting duo piss on your patriotism, your politics, your god and your daughter as she explores her desires for fetish and black cock. Not only do they influence punk kids but they also have the hip hop heads.  Every

Rocket From The Crypt

Alex’s Bar: 15 years of punk gratitude w/Rocket from the Crypt

Last night, Alex’s Bar in Long Beach celebrated the first of two nights dedicated to the amazing punk rock bar’s 15 year anniversary. It’s not just the extreme care and thoughtfulness that is taken when booking bands or the red light, burlesque vibe and the fact that they don’t murder

Band of Horses

Band of Horses at The Observatory: This is personal

When Band of Horses released “Everything All the Time” in 2006, I was in the midst of a transformation. I was going to use the word “mourning” to describe my state of mind at the time but that might lead to the use of a cheap pun related to a

New ho99o9 video: Casey Jones/Cum Rag

Very few bands encapsulate all the different music we love at Janky Smooth into one band more than the band ho99o9.  It’s not everything we love but it’s most of what we love, all in one band.  We’ve been hyped on them since the first rumblings of their existence. Ho99o9

Calabrese

New Album Review: Calabrese – Lust for Sacrilege

Horror Punk fans are insatiable.  Like the unending hunger and thirst for brains and blood, the more the better.  After 5 full length albums and an EP, Calabrese has released their 6th LP titled, “Lust for Sacrilege” on January 13 2015. I am here to report that Calabrese have pretty

BABES Video Premier: “You and Me” Featuring Vice founder Gavin McInnis

The band, Babes is taking Los Angeles by storm with their sexually charged, beautifully arranged, swooning, sad bastard music.  Singer/Keyboardist, Sarah Rayne has stars in her eyes as she explains, “We’re Horny and we’re sad”. Babes released their self titled EP on Harvest Records in May 2014.  The song You

TwinShadow

Twin Shadow at The Troubadour: New songs and awkward banter

Most people who know me know I have a bit of a soft spot for Twin Shadow, so it was no surprise when I asked Janky Smooth if I could cover their first live LA show this year. For those of you living under a large solid mass formation, Twin

Kim and the Created

An insane lineup for another Moon Block event at the Echo

The Echo is on a fuckin roll these days. Friday January 23, Moon Block put on one of the most amazing shows I have seen in a long time. Even though they were competing with the FIDLAR show at the Regent Theater, It seems Mitchell Frank is only competing against

FIDLAR at the Regent

FIDLAR return and play one of their best shows ever at The Regent

We all know FIDLAR as the beer swilling, vagina drilling, fun poking, nose coking blacked out voice of this generation. Proof that art imitates life and not the other way around. They are history repeating itself without being boring or predictable but rather, a reinforcement that the youth of today

Janky Smooth Archives: FIDLAR *Cheap Beer* at the Observatory 9/19/13

In honor of FIDLAR playing their first show in a year at the Regent Theater in Downtown L.A. tonight, we dug in our archives to find this video of FIDLAR kicking off their first headlining tour at The Observatory in Santa Ana.  They were supported by The Orwells, Meat Market and

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