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Celebrating 30 Years of Stones Throw Records w/ 3 Pairs of Tickets for Lodge Room
Danny Ryan
September 11, 2026
In celebration of their 30th anniversary, iconic Los Angeles record label Stones Throw Records is hosting one of the most uniquely experimental lineups we’ve seen in recent years from October 16th-18th. Taking place at The Lodge Room, Stones Throw is hosting a massive 3-day outdoor party in Highland Park with a lineup ranging from hip-hop to psychedelic rock to electronic to funk and even to experimental jazz; all in representation of the ambitious goal that the label has had of completely shattering the boundaries of genre throughout the past three decades. This is not a lineup that Janky Smooth readers will want to miss with N8NOFACE, Automatic, Los Retros, Mild High Club, Egyptian Lover, Sudan Archives, Bardo, J. ROCC and Peanut Butter Wolf- just to name a few. You can buy tickets now or enter our social media ticket giveaway @jankysmooth for a chance to win a pair of tickets – read to the end for details. related: Arroyo Secodelic Fest is Re-vibing The L.A. Music Community Stones Throw Records was founded by rapper Peanut Butter Wolf in 1996 and the Los Angeles hip-hop scene has never been the same since; with the label focusing on hosting a wide array of
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Speaking in Jazz: John Carroll Kirby at the Lodge Room
Rob Shepyer
June 30, 2021
One of the silver linings of the pandemic is that being deprived all our favorite things for over a year makes us truly cherish them now that they’ve returned. “Don’t know what you got, till it’s gone”, in the Cinderella sense of the adage, applies here, to this John Carroll Kirby concert at the Lodge Room. I use this cliche because we are seeing it play out in real time. John Carroll Kirby‘s was the second artist to sell out the venue since its re-opening and the sort of people that bought tickets and cocktails on this evening weren’t the sort that might attend an experimental jazz show at any previous moment of their lives. Having gone without the spiritual sustenance of music has made all our souls rather emaciated over the last year, so like a vampire that smells human blood, we are fiending live music now more than ever. That’s not to take away anything from the artist, John Carroll Kirby is nothing short of a jazz genius, which in a sense is a genius’ genius. After the first song finished, John took the opportunity to address the crowd and thank us all for coming out. Sharing in
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