RAD Newsletter

Thank you all who came out to Sounds Heavy and Sounds Rad this past weekend! We’re still recovering 🥴 Check out this full gallery of pics from Sounds Heavy courtesy of Runaways Media: take a look. More content from the fests coming soon!

Go to our friends’ shows:

- Central California -

• May 9th - Exhumed at Fulton 55🤘

• May 11th - Boots in the Park at Woodward Park🤠

• May 11th - STARGATE - location TBA🕺

• May 11th - Afroman at The Wakehouse🎤

• May 12th - The Fall of Troy at Strummers🪨🤘

• May 12th - Riders in the Sky at Tower Theatre🤠

• May 15th - Trophy Eyes at Strummers🪨😢

• May 16th - OHGEESY at Rainbow Ballroom🎤

• May 17th - Tequila Fest ft Busta Rhymes, T-Pain at Chukchansi Park🎤

• May 18th - Stoneshiver Jamboree at Kingsburg Historical Park🪨

• May 18th - Jason Joshua at Fulton 55🪨🧑‍🎤

• May 20th - Cronos Compulsion at Full Circle Brewing🤘

• May 21st - Emo Orchestra ft Escape the Fate at Tower Theatre🪨

• May 23rd - Living Legends at Tower Theatre🎤

- Southern California -

• May 8th - Undergang, Oxygen Destroyer at Catch One🤘

• May 9th - HEAVY HOUSE feat ResistLA at Knucklehead Hollywood🤘

• May 11th - Cruel World at The Rose Bowl🪨🤘🕺

• May 11th - Born of Osiris, Attila at 1720🤘

• May 11th - Ballyhoo! at Constellation Room 🏝️

• May 11th - Space Yacht Sessions at Edison Theatre 🕺

• May 11th - Wasted Beach Haus at The Circle OC🕺

• May 12th - ERRA, Make Them Suffer at Echoplex 🤘

• May 12th - Sparta, Object of Affection at Braindead Studios🪨

• May 13th - Idles, Protomartyr at Hollywood Palladium🪨

• May 14th - Sinking Season, Dry Spell at Programme🪨🍕

• May 15th - Panic in LA feat Rakim, Talib Kweli at 1720🎤

• May 17th - 19th - EDC Las Vegas(this counts as SoCal)🕺

• May 18th - Malevolence at Chain Reaction🤘

• May 18th - Spring Fling Fest at The Doll Hut🪨

• May 25th - OHGEESY at Catwalk Club🎤

• May 25th - Graves & The Bad Weather at DBZ Books N Records🪨

Don’t live in these areas? Are there events that we’re missing? Let us know and we’ll start sharing related events near you! Let us know!

Upcoming RAD shows

- MAY 23RD -

Screamo icons State Faults and Frail Body and smashing through Destructive Warehouse with some SICK metal bands. See you in the pit with Anthares, Lacabra and Smoking Mirror!

Destructive Warehouse - Fresno, CA - INFO

-JUNE 2ND-

Our good friends in the Orange County Pop Punk trio Promotive are returning to Fresno! You can grab tickets to see them with a ton of awesome bands at the link below!

Great Room - Fresno, CA - TICKETS

-JULY 9TH-

8 screamo bands are hitting Bakersfield on the same day, but we swear this isn’t a fest. We’re teaming up with Pink Teeth DIY and No.Threat.BKFD to bring this absolute banger to 415.BKFD. You can grab tickets at the link below

415.BKFD - Bakersfield, CA - TICKETS

Got some fun memories from a RAD show? Let Us Know

New Music Recommendations

BIG fan of this new Charley Crocket record “$10 Cowboy” 🤠 it’s a simple and straight forward Country record with a bit of “swamp-pop-soul.” Really stoked to see him this summer. Give the album a listen: HERE

Want some other new music to listen to? I compiled my favorite new records at:

Records You Should Hear