- Flexible Art/Performance Setup
Hyper Minds is a guitar set built on volume, edges, and immediacy. The Smell is right when polish would miss the point.
Los Angeles live music, edited for tonight and the week ahead.
Venue guide
Best for loud rooms, punk energy, and informal discovery.
The Smell is in Downtown LA. It earns its place here when a specific bill cuts through the weekly noise. The current seven-day window has 6 shows listed, mostly around indie.
small flexible room · usually under 350 capacity · flexible art/performance setup
Hyper Minds is a guitar set built on volume, edges, and immediacy. The Smell is right when polish would miss the point.
Read more → is the Thu indie row at The Smell: guitars, songs, and a human-scale room.
Alberto Marquez Productions presents… Sikaflanta weresorrybutsomethingwentwrong Venis gives The Smell a direct guitar-and-songs feel on Fri, stronger when the band sounds direct.
Another guitar-and-songs Fri set at The Smell, with the room keeping things direct.
Skidwizard Axid Hair4Curtis turns The Smell into the song-band row on Sat, with enough bite for a smaller room.
Another guitar-and-songs Sat set at The Smell, with the room keeping things direct.