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A Secret Riot at The Fonda w/ The Garden & Friends
Janky Smooth Central Command
March 31, 2026
It was one, strange chilly Tuesday night on March 24th 2026 going to see The Garden, Hong Kong Fuck You and Ghost Mountain. Unruly punkers and medieval court jesters engulfed the dim foyer of the Fonda Theatre, barely visible without the presence of the fluorescent glow produced by the brightly lit marquee overhead. A blanket of thick black smog enveloped the atmosphere, polluted with the smell of cigarettes. Limping away towards their otherworldly expedition, The Garden embarks on another journey across the West Coast accompanied by Ghost Mountain and special guest, Hong Kong Fuck You, teasing the audience with unreleased tracks from The Garden’s anxiously anticipated album. Ending 2025 off with an aggressive, emotionally charged single dubbed ‘Ugly’, expressing the “unattractive” side of fame and the unimaginable grief of celebrity life, The Garden twins continue to explore and cultivate their signature sound. related: The Garden Summon Ghosts at The Observatory For One Strange Night In Orange County Setting the stage for the evening, HKFY (Hong Kong Fuck You) unleashed a set where deafening low-end frequencies and frantic basslines smothered the room in a thick, aggressive tension, channeling raw visceral rage that felt less like music and more like physical assault.
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Powerviolence is Back: Nothing Less Mini Fest w/ Hong Kong F*ck You at 1720
Danny Ryan
November 19, 2025
Most JankySmooth readers are likely familiar with the recent “hardcore renaissance” that music outlets have been raving about post-Covid with the rise of bands like Turnstile, Drain, Scowl, and Knocked Loose; but less talked about are the current revivals of punk subgenres that have not quite yet received the same level of media attention. LA’s underground is deeply familiar with the excitement surrounding the rising popularity in Oi, street punk, and more recently: powerviolence. During the 2010’s powerviolence and the incorporations of genres like noise and power-electronics were much more common than you see in the hardcore scene nowadays, but there is a rising scene of artists hoping to bring the avant-garde abrasive elements of anarcho-punk back to the forefront. related: Sound And Fury 2025 – Everybody Spinkick! Hong Kong Fuck You (HFKY for short) are among the leaders in blazing this trail, and their dedication to the art of noise is so unique in the modern landscape that LA’s staple promoter for the rare vinyl side of hardcore punk, Nothingless Booking, decided to host a mini-festival at 1720 Warehouse on November 7, 2025 around this concept. It was an absolutely stacked bill including Azusa’s powerviolence legends ACxDC, the recent
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Earth’s Crust: CY Fest 2024 at the Belasco
Rob Shepyer
November 6, 2024
What does a typical LA punk want out of a festival? Given that Los Angeles is the most prominent live music hub in the USA, and the world, the average LA punk attends enough shows to make any given concert, no matter how badass, still leaving something to be desired. From my personal experience, that thing LA punks are left desiring from their scene is to have their minds, tastes, and boundaries expanded. I want to see something different, new. I want a band to show me something I didn’t think was possible. The best way to do this is by assembling bills with bands of various styles from various parts of the globe, and no festival has gathered more international acts in Los Angeles than CY Fest 2024. It was the World Cup of punk, with heavy representation from Sweden, Spain, Japan, Italy, Mexico, and so many more countries. Topping off the festivities, the USA’s contribution to the lineup came in the form of a rare Dropdead co-headlining performance before the reunion of Portland’s female-fronted crusties, Detestation. related content: Set The Animals Free: Wolfbrigade and Dropdead at 1720 With a few bands of the upcoming CY Fest 2025 already
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