[2] Smolin's program was also nominated for an LA Weekly Music Award in 2004 in the "Best Radio Show" category.

[3] The Music Never Stops began as a program featuring live recordings of the Grateful Dead, but after the death of Jerry Garcia; Smolin expanded the scope of the show to include contemporary jam-rock and miscellaneous psychedelia, paying special attention to music being made by musicians in Los Angeles.

Under the performance moniker Mr. Smolin he has released four albums, At Apogee (2004) and The Crumbling Empire of White People (2007) (both produced by Tony Award-winning composer/dramatist Stew), a Los Angeles song cycle entitled Bring Back The Real Don Steele (2009),[13] and a collaboration with Double Naught Spy Car entitled Heaven's Not High (2013).

In September 2017, he released an instrumental album entitled The Sooterkin Library, a trio project that Smolin describes as "12-tone avant-freak mongrel psycho-tonk".

[15] Smolin is the author of two novellas: Narcissus in the Dark (2012),[16] whose narrator is God sentenced to eternity in a dungeon and whose consciousness thinks new universes into being while sorting through the detritus of his troubled past, and the experimental prose project Wake Up in the Dreamhouse,[17] composed one sentence at a time on Twitter.