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Take This: Win Two Tickets to High on Fire at Catch One
Janky Smooth Central Command
August 16, 2021
Matt Pike is one of Psycho Las Vegas’ patron saint, it’s some kind of godsend then that his band High on Fire be playing Catch One right after the festival is over. We’re giving away two tickets to this sludgy riff fest and we hope you get the chance to have your ears blasted out by the king of stoner doom. YOU CAN BUY TICKETS HERE OR: ENTER TO WIN 2 TICKETS TO HIGH ON FIRE AUGUST 23RD 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 INSTAGRAM or FACEBOOK HIGH ON FIRE Ticket Giveaway Post WINNER WILL BE SELECTED ON AUGUST 22ND AT 11AM PST VIA EMAIL CONFIRMATION
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The Road to Psycho Las Vegas 2021 Part 2
Rob Shepyer
August 13, 2021
This is how we hold the line. With the country’s social climate at a fever-pitch and the festival we love less than a week away, we are making the choice not to retreat into the shadows and live our lives in fear. If we all just stayed home and didn’t fight to live the way we believe we deserve to, there is no way we’d ever return to how things were. The world will never totally be the same, but we’re not letting concerts go the same way movie theaters did. Fuck that. Psycho lives forever. related content: The Road to Psycho Las Vegas With every international act having to postpone their performances to 2022, the festival has become a domestic affair. We are doing nothing short of chasing the American Dream just like Raul Duke in Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, fueled by metal instead of hardcore psychedelics, what is left of the dream is more perverted and strange than anything the good doctor could’ve imagined. The festival itself is the drug, Vegas is the drug, this fucking pandemic is the drug, let it tweak your senses just a bit and make you lose inhibition just enough to make
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King Crimson at the Greek: Prog Prophets of a Schizoid 21st Century
Rob Shepyer
August 12, 2021
For an outsider looking in to Los Angeles’ music scene, psychedelic rock is of the utmost importance in this underground, cultural moment. Here and now, there are many bands that ought to come to mind as the root inspirations to artists like King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, OSEES or Kikagaku Moyo. You could think The Doors or Velvet Underground, and you’d be right but if you turn back the hand of time even further and cross the pond, you’d pay witness to the first true frontiersman of musical exploration, King Crimson. They stand out as the progenitors of the sonic and lyrical landscapes that pervade Los Angeles’ scene till this very day. Some fans and even musicians today might not be aware of the connection, they might just naively rock out to Fuzz’s cover of “21st Century Schizoid Man” thinking it’s an original, but those in the know not only recognize the debt they owe to King Crimson, they carry their awe with them on stage anytime they play guitar and try to breach the same headspace as Robert Fripp. There are a few tenants to the King Crimson musical philosophy, that act as bedrock for modern psychedelic music, the most
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Technically, We’ve Always Been Sick: Sex Cells Returns to the Globe Theatre
Rob Shepyer
August 5, 2021
There must be something wrong with us. To party so closely, so sweatily, without personal protective equipment in the middle of a pandemic? No face masks. No face shields. No papers needed to be shown to any bio-tech gestapos. We knew the risks. We knew the transmissibility. We saw all the latest science, conspiracies, government lip services and disaster porn. But still, we did the dubious and dangerous thing and decided it was worth the risk to reunite and see friends we missed for over a year. This next comparison might be a little extreme, maybe even tasteless but bear with me, the point is solid–at the height of the 80’s AIDs epidemic, when Anthony Fauci was as much a media personality as he is now, did gay men stop having sex altogether? Some probably did. Some definitely didn’t. Like it or not, the choice of love over fear is similar today. If anything, this experience should make people more empathetic to those who suffered the last epidemic. Celebration, fun, night-life, partying, socializing in general–to many people these things are as essential as actual love-making and no one is going to deny them their right to do so, not the
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Morning Stars Over Lodge Room: King Woman’s “Celestial Blues” Release Party
Janky Smooth Central Command
August 4, 2021
You’ve never heard an album more Chthonian than King Woman’s Celestial Blues What do I mean by that? I don’t mean this is the most raw, underground punk sounding album ever. What I’m saying is that with “Celestial Blues” King Woman has lent a voice and story to all the mysteries working beneath the surface layers of reality around us, be they the internal workings of the body, the mysterious processes of the Earth, the unfathomable cycles of birth and destruction in the cosmos, or the interplay of good and evil magic with everyday life. When King Woman closed out their Sunday night Celestial Blues album release party with a cover of the Stone Roses’ “I Wanna Be Adored”, I thought some kind of mind reading must’ve been at play because after seeing a full set of Kris Esfandiari’s doomy siren songs, my main takeaway was being genuinely impressed with how much she is utterly adored by her fans. They seemed to have her back unconditionally and after every song when the band let it all hang loose, the audience was there to catch them in rounds of applause, whistles and cheers. All that was missing from the evening was a
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Take This: Win Two Tickets to If I Die First at 1720
Janky Smooth Central Command
August 3, 2021
Now that emo-trap is so popular, one might think that emo bands have fallen out of relevancy but as we’re about to find out on August 12th, If I Die First is bringing emo punk back with a vengeance and as a super group, perhaps they’re the only band powerful enough to do it. If I Die First is made up of Nedarb, Lil Lotus, Lil Zubin and members of From First to Last, Travis Richter and Derek Bloom. The night is additionally stacked with DJ sets from Alice Glass and Parvo as well as a performance by Girl Pusher. It’s going to be nuts, so we’re giving away a pair of tix. YOU CAN BUY TICKETS HERE OR: ENTER TO WIN 2 TICKETS TO IF I DIE FIRST AUGUST 12TH 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 INSTAGRAM or FACEBOOK IF I DIE FIRST Ticket Giveaway Post WINNER WILL BE SELECTED ON AUGUST 9TH AT 11AM PST VIA EMAIL CONFIRMATION
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Take This: Win Two Tickets to Wicca Phase Springs Eternal at 1720
Janky Smooth Central Command
July 27, 2021
The emo rap stylings of Wicca Phase Springs Eternal capture the hearts and minds of fans young and old whether they’re into emo from the early 00’s or trap from the 20’s– Wicca Phase is their guy. One of the most lyrically thought provoking members of Gothboiclique, Wicca Phase’s pedigree as a poet cannot be understated. That’s why when the man plays, Janky Smooth is there to cover the show and give some tickets away to anyone else that feels the same way we do. YOU CAN BUY TICKETS HERE OR: ENTER TO WIN 2 TICKETS TO WICCA PHASE SPRINGS ETERNAL AUGUST 5TH 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 INSTAGRAM or FACEBOOK WICCA PHASE SPRINGS ETERNAL Ticket Giveaway Post WINNER WILL BE SELECTED ON AUGUST 1ST AT 11AM PST VIA EMAIL CONFIRMATION
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Take This: Win Two Tickets to Baltra and Miley Serious Immersive Rave Presented by Minty Boi
Janky Smooth Central Command
July 26, 2021
Emotional House from New York makes its way to a secret location in Los Angeles for a Baltra set for the ages. This coupled with French Rave Queen Miley Serious and a dancing CGI elf makes this one of Minty Boi’s most epic shows to date. We’re giving away two tickets to the show for you to dance and cry the night away. YOU CAN BUY TICKETS HERE OR: ENTER TO WIN 2 TICKETS TO BALTRA AUGUST 6th AT A SECRET LOCATION 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 INSTAGRAM or FACEBOOK BALTRA Ticket Giveaway Post WINNER WILL BE SELECTED ON AUGUST 1ST AT 11AM PST VIA EMAIL CONFIRMATION
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PHOTO RECAP: Mike Jones at Echo Flex
Janky Smooth Central Command
July 23, 2021
The last concert before Los Angeles’ mask mandate was put into effect had to be LA’s premiere 90’s hip hop party, Echo Flex at the Echoplex where late into the evening fans got up close and personal to each other to romp and dance to hip from the greatest era of the genre’s history, only to top it off with a rare performance from one of the OG’s himself, Mike Jones. Photos by: Rodney Campos Mike Jones
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PHOTO RECAP: The Fall of Troy at 1720
Janky Smooth Central Command
July 23, 2021
Legendary Post-hardcore band The Fall of Troy played a highly anticipated show at 1720 to an audience filled of fans old and new there to rock out, mosh, and relive their high school years. One of those men was our photographer Taylor who captured an audience devoted to the band through thick and thin, as well as a three other bands who wear their passions on their sleeves. Photos by: Taylor Wong The Fall of Troy Duck Duck Goose Inthebackground The Littlest Viking
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Sweat Therapy: Dumb Fucks and Niis at the Echo
Janky Smooth Central Command
July 21, 2021
Words by Juan Perez Photos by Paula Jean On the night before the mask mandate went into effect, Pretty But Wicked put together a showcase for the ages, bringing together an eclectic crowd to witness some of the best acts Los Angeles has to offer. From young kids still in high school, to old heads who have been around, this last ditch effort to party before we’d be forced to wear masks showed how much power the love of music has. Playing their first live show ever, Smirk is a project formed by frontman Nick during the pandemic. What started off as something just for fun turned into one of the new best acts in the scene. Old school punk, with something a little bit more obscure added into the mix. The crowd responded very well to the set, stage diving and circle pitting. It was a nice, little warm-up for the madness to come. Just hearing the conversations afterwards tells me how much of an impression the band made for their first time. Next up was Downside. Gaining a huge reputation in the LA punk scene for rowdy shows, the crowd really brought it for these guys. The fans were so
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Take This: Win Two Tickets to King Woman at the Lodge Room on 7/30
Janky Smooth Central Command
July 20, 2021
We are so excited for the two last nights of July, when on the Lodge Room’s stage, doom-gaze banshee queen of the sirens, King Woman, will blossom into a new form, much like a character in a video game or anime. We are giving away two tickets to the first evening which will feature performances by Spare Parts For Broken Hearts, Divine, and Painkiller Kim DJ’ing. YOU CAN BUY TICKETS HERE OR: ENTER TO WIN 2 TICKETS TO KING WOMAN JULY 30TH AT THE LODGE ROOM 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 INSTAGRAM or FACEBOOK KING WOMAN Ticket Giveaway Post WINNER WILL BE SELECTED ON JULY 26TH AT 11AM PST VIA EMAIL CONFIRMATION
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