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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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Desert Daze 2021: Music, Magick and Medicine
Danny Baraz
December 17, 2021
The road to Desert Daze 2021 was a long and winding way that spanned greater than the material distances of the 10, 60 and 215 highways between Lake Perris and Los Angeles. Everyone’s road was different, from festival organizers, Moonblock and co. and those in attendance. Not everyone’s road was paved with isolation and misery since the last installment of Desert Daze in 2019 but certainly everyone can agree that there has been a paradigm shift in the dynamic of living, or the collective consciousness, or whatever you want to call it, on Planet Earth. related content: Desert Daze 2016- Quantifying the Physics of a Good Time Music, Magick and Medicine beckoned far and wide but intimate attendance (low ticket sales) and a revamped vibe in the typical Desert Daze lineup brought only the most loyal and adventurous of past attendees and in my own conversations in the camp site, many first timers. It shrunk the festival grounds to a one stage operation on the banks of lovely lake Perris, in one of the most beautiful weekends to grace this Fall season in Southern California. Nevertheless, vibrations reverberated like signature sitar tones, like a butterflies wings, causing ripples across space
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