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Light Within Darkness: Endless Night Vampire Ball at the Globe Theatre
Janky Smooth Central Command
February 23, 2019
Words and Photos by: Abraham Preciado The Endless Night Los Angeles Vampire Ball took over the iconic Globe Theatre, hosted by Father Sebastiaan and the Sabretooth Clan (founded in 1995 as a fang club back east in New York) President’s Day Weekend. The Vampire Ball, which is also held throughout multiple cities across the nation and select international locations, brings Vampire culture together each year. related content: Black Baptism Prayers At The Fonda Attendees of the Ball prepare for the event months in advance and arrived in dark elegant wear the night of which ranges from Victorian to Edwardian dress. Dress code is strictly enforced to provide an immersive night for patrons and the community alike. related content: Cold Waves LA: Heaven For Industrial Kids Endless Night brings burlesque performances, light fetish play, live band acts, and more underworld delights to create a night filled with energy and ‘Endless’ fun. This year the patrons were treated with a special musical guest, The Cruxshadows. The band made its first LA appearance in 10 years to a packed house of fans awaiting their return. In short, the crowd was not disappointed by their consuming performance. related content: Luna 13 G.O.A.T. Witch Record Release
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Nothing’s Sexier Than Success: The-Dream at the Fonda
Robert Cohen
February 23, 2019
What is success? I’m sure Google can supply its own blasé explanation, but in an age where boundaries of race, class, and culture are becoming increasing indefinable, the goalposts of success have also drifted into a twilight zone whose borders shift as often as our expectations of what is possible these days. Thanks in equal part to an increasingly competitive media landscape and the rising ubiquity of social media, visibility and success have practically become synonymous. However, as anyone working the in the higher echelons of any industry knows, it’s often the people with the lowest profile who hold the real keys to the kingdom. related content: Corn Dogs, Fashion, Puke, And Rap: Camp Flog Gnaw 2018 Such is the case with seminal R&B act The-Dream. While by no means an unknown, after thumbing through even a short list of his production and writing credits, he has undeniably become more famous as a power-behind-the-throne figure than as a musician in his own right. Although comparisons to the music moguls of yore hold water on first diving into his output, unlike them, The-Dream shares more as an artist and culture driver with the éminence grise of politics, who conduct themselves concurrently as
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Take This: Win Two Tickets to Back to the Beach Festival
Janky Smooth Central Command
February 19, 2019
Music festivals on the beach are always a special treat, something about see your favorite band with the ocean roaring behind them and having the sand right underneath your feet as you mosh. This year’s Back to the Beach festival features a variety of southern California favorites from the world of pop punk. As a true fan of underground music, I can’t lie and tell you this is my favorite style of punk but even still, with a drink in hand, I know I’d enjoy singing all the Blink 182 songs I grew up with or jamming out to Reel Big Fish. YOU CAN BUY TICKETS HERE OR ENTER TO WIN 2 TICKETS TO BACK TO THE BEACH APRIL 27TH & 28TH AT HUNTINGTON STATE BEACH 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 Back to the Beach Posts WINNER WILL BE WILL BE SELECTED ON MONDAY APRIL 1ST AT 11AM PST VIA EMAIL CONFIRMATION
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Take This: Win Two Tickets to Sabroso Festival
Janky Smooth Central Command
February 18, 2019
Beers, tacos, punk rock, lucha libre wrestling, and the beach, what more could you want out of the Offspring’s Dana Point festival Sabroso fest. Even Greg Ginn’s Black Flag is returning to the stage to play this year with Flogging Molly headlining one night and The Offspring closing out the fest. Hell, even Good Charlotte is on the lineup rounding out one of the most legit, pure, true, and uncompromised, least corporate festival lineups of all time. YOU CAN BUY TICKETS HERE OR ENTER TO WIN 2 TICKETS TO SABROSO FESTIVAL APRIL 6TH AND 7TH AT DOHENY STATE BEACH 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 Sabroso Festival Posts WINNER WILL BE WILL BE SELECTED ON MONDAY MARCH 11TH AT 11AM PST VIA EMAIL CONFIRMATION
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Photo Recap: Gang of Four at the Roxy
Janky Smooth Central Command
February 14, 2019
70’s English post punk legends Gang of Four have returned to play a slew of shows, climaxing with their Los Angeles performance at The Roxy. Although guitarist Gill Sterry is the only original member the band still plays their classic songs with youthful power and swagger. In April of 2018 the band released an EP entitled Complicit featuring this lineup. Photos by: Lindsay Arth
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Southern Fried Outlaw Psych: Blackberry Smoke and Nikki Lane at the Fonda
Rob Shepyer
February 13, 2019
In my journey to observe as many genres as I can, holding a microscope over bands on every side of the musical spectrum, Blackberry Smoke always intrigued me. As the one southern rock band on Earache Records, they had a maverick quality about themselves in my eyes. I didn’t know the music as well as I knew the sort of people that enjoyed it. The kinds of people that were into classic rock revival were into Blackberry Smoke. And after seeing them live, I can see why. It’s been decades since bands jammed out this hard. The whole evening had a nostalgic, vintage, and cinematic feel about it. Nikki Lane felt like something out of a T Bone Burnett soundtrack while Blackberry Smoke could’ve been the living incarnation of Stillwater from Cameron Crowe’s Almost Famous. On paper, Nikki Lane‘s support under Blackberry Smoke made this a heavyweight tour. As I strolled into the Fonda, I saw the Queen Bee of Outlaw Country on stage turning Los Angeles into a regular hootenanny the likes of which you might see on the Midnight Special or Heehaw. Dressed in a black jumpsuit with gold serpents slithering up and down the cloth, Nikki’s dark
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Take This: Win 2 Tickets to Leftover Crack at the OC Observatory
Janky Smooth Central Command
February 12, 2019
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Red Bull Music Festival Begins with San Cha’s Epic Tragedy at Vibiana
Rob Shepyer
February 11, 2019
Telenovellas are a medium of storytelling very telling of Latino cultural values. Staying true to classical themes in literature like revenge, love, and rebirth, this genre of television is a staple to Latino culture because its classical narrative themes reflect the classical values of Latino people. What made San Cha’s Telenovella inspired performance at Vibiana for the opening of Redbull Music Festival so brilliant was how she wielded traditional values to empower ideas that don’t conform to tradition but rather represent progress. Passionate romantic love is a value often attached to Latin culture and it was that love that led to San Cha’s symbolic downfall. Expert and unique curation is the mark of Red Bull Music Festival and this festival-opening show was tailored just for the Latin community with a former Catholic church as a venue and a vibrantly colored, flowery telenovella bedroom set for people to take pictures in the Church’s courtyard. After enjoying a few palomas at the open bar and eating various Latin Hors d’oeuvres like Spanish octopus and tiny fluatas, I made my way into Vibiana and immediately felt a rush of divinity flow through me. The glory of God shooting out from every crevice of
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Take This: Win 2 Tickets to The Sound of Animals Fighting at OC Observatory
Janky Smooth Central Command
February 11, 2019
We’ve been fans of RX Bandits for a long while here at Janky Smooth and their wild, avant-garde side project The Sounds of Animals Fighting is a rare treat to see that we can’t help but offer a giveaway for. You can call the Bandits ska, alternative, pop punk, whatever you’d like but you’ll find it hard to box them into any single genre. The same goes for TSOAF but multiply that musical confusion and contradiction by an exponent or two. YOU CAN BUY TICKETS HERE OR ENTER TO WIN 2 TICKETS TO THE SOUND OF ANIMALS FIGHTING FEBRUARY 23RD AT THE OC 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 The Sound of Animals Fighting Posts WINNER WILL BE WILL BE SELECTED ON MONDAY FEBRUARY 18TH AT 11AM PST VIA EMAIL CONFIRMATION
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Take This: Win Two Tickets to Spring Fling Fest at 1720 Presented by Dirty Laundry TV
Janky Smooth Central Command
February 8, 2019
Dirty Laundry TV is celebrating its ten year anniversary with a punk rock rager at 1720 featuring everyone from Jurassic Shark, Healing Gems, Mike Watt and the Missing Men, Junkie, and a surprise secret special spring fling fest guest. This is the ultimate spring time getaway close to home and celebration of youth, so Janky Smooth is happy to take part of the festivities and spread the love by giving away a pair of tickets to the fest. YOU CAN BUY TICKETS HERE OR ENTER TO WIN 2 TICKETS TO SPRING FLING FEST PRESENTED BY DIRTY LAUNDRY TV MARCH 3RD 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 Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook Spring Fling Fest Posts WINNER WILL BE WILL BE SELECTED ON MONDAY FEBRUARY 25TH AT 11AM PST VIA EMAIL CONFIRMATION
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Take This: Win 2 Tickets to Cannibal Corpse and Morbid Angel
Janky Smooth Central Command
February 7, 2019
The Decibel magazine tour has returned with dates at The Fonda Theatre and The OC Observatory. This year’s lineup is by far one of the magazine’s most devastating with Cannibal Corpse and Morbid Angel co-headlining and brining classic American death metal headbanging and circle pits from hell to your city. Then when you think that’s all, Necrot and Blood Incantation round out the bill to make an absolutely power house and ravaging lineup for an evening. YOU CAN BUY TICKETS TO THE FONDA SHOW HERE OR THE OBSERVATORY SHOW HERE ENTER TO WIN 2 TICKETS TO THE DECIBEL MAGAZINE TOUR W/CANNIBAL CORPSE AND MORBID ANGEL FEBRUARY 21ST AT THE FONDA THEATRE OR FEBRUARY 22ND AT THE OBSERVATORY Step 1- Follow us on Instagram or Twitter or Like us on Facebook Step 2- Tag a Friend in the comment section of our Twitter, Instagram, or Facebook Decibel Magazine Tour Posts WINNER WILL BE WILL BE SELECTED ON MONDAY FEBRUARY 18TH AT 11AM PST VIA EMAIL CONFIRMATION
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Don’t Fear the Weird: Fidlar’s Record Release at Teragram
Dillon Vaughn
February 4, 2019
Despite 2019 being the 10th anniversary of Fidlar‘s existence, I first heard the band around two years ago while on tour (late to the game, I know.) We were driving somewhere through the Carolinas in a rattling van formerly used to shuttle the homeless out of LA and all six of us were hungover as hell. With four of the bandmates passed out in the back, I was riding shotgun and taking in the sights while my friend that was driving cued up Fidlar’s 2015 record Too and began singing along in that kind of raspy voice you have after a long night out. Something about the tone of that album – the wistfulness, pacing, and honesty about facing adulthood resonated perfectly with the moment. Almost Free, the album being celebrated and released recently at the Teragram marked a new direction for the band that captured their interest in exploring new song structures and instrumentation and allowed this show to highlight other LA bands approaching music with a similar attitude. related content: Family, Friends, FIDLAR: A Punk Rock Love Fest At The Observatory “Don’t Fear the Weird,” the motto scrawled in red across Brandon Schwartzel’s bass guitar summed up both the new direction for
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