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Our friends at SuperDeluxe just producing this mini-doc on your favorite all-ages venue, the legendary Smell of Downtown LA. We thought you might like it as it features interviews with No Age, Kim and the Created, White Fang and and the Smell’s owner Jim Smith.

The new owners of the building housing the club are planning on tearing it down within a year to make way for higher end developments, a microcosm of what's happening city-wide and especially in DTLA. SuperDeluxe talked to members of the Smell community past and present to figure out why this institution is so important to them, and why it needs to find a new space to continue...

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