RAD Newsletter

February is closing out on a high note with this PACKED list of shows across Central and Southern California, from hardcore and metal shows to reggae and raves. Oh, and have you heard the new flipturn record?? Check it all out and share what shows you’re hitting up! (seriously, I spend hours on this, tell me)

RAD ALUMNI RELEASE

Our homies in the Orange County metalcore quartet, Blindwolf, dropped their debut full-length Noble Death! Give it a spin and go to their Album Release show March 8th at Chain Reaction! FFO: Thrown, Silent Planet, Currents, Polaris, Wage War, Fit For A King.

FEATURED SHOW

Kondor Entertainment is bringing another sick show to DBZ Backstage with Eight Cold Hells, Midst of Grey, Never Dream, Light Via Dark and Alec Hallway! Snag your tickets now:

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Go to our friends’ shows:

- Central California -

• Feb 19th - Reverend Horton Heat at Tower Theatre 🪨

• Feb 21st - Crooked Teeth, Lavish Youth, Knuckle Ball at Great Room 🪨🍕

• Feb 21st - PICKLE at Fulton 55 🕺

• Feb 21st - MKC at Goldstien’s (FREE SHOW) 🪨🏝️

• Feb 22nd - Pumpfake, Dear Distance at Destructive Warehouse 🤘

• Feb 22nd - This Wild Life, Belmont, Young Culture at Strummers 🍕

• Feb 22nd - Decades In, Sleep Serpent, Vicious at Cellar Door 🤘

• Feb 22nd - Glixen, 9million, She's Green at Great Room 🪨

• Feb 22nd - Scoundrel comeback show at Full Circle Brewery 🤘

• Feb 22nd - Reggaeton Rave at Rainbow Ballroom 🕺

• Feb 23rd - Sons of the Shrimp, The Private Tears at Great Room 🪨

• Feb 23rd - The Altons & Thee Sinseers at Tower Theatre 🎷

• Feb 25th - Ballyhoo! and Cydeways at Strummers 🏝️

• Feb 26th - Abi Carter at Strummers 🌻

• Feb 28th - CHAIN, Shop Dog, See Thru at Strummers 🪨

• Feb 28th - Low Spell, Blazed, 7*, North by North at Great Room 🪨😢

• Feb 28th - Red Hot Tribute, The Faithful at Tower Theatre 🪨

• Feb 28th - Club Spellbound with PUPPET at The 5th Quarter 🕺🦇

- Southern California -

• Feb 20th - Hippo Campus at The Wiltern 🌻

• Feb 21st - Darren Styles at Circle OC 🕺

• Feb 21st - Cavalera, Necrot, Dead Heat at The Belasco 🤘

• Feb 21st - Fluorescent, Sundressed, Fieldrush at The Shed 😢

• Feb 21st - DIIV at The Glass House 🌻🪨

• Feb 21st - Koffin Kats, Lower Class Brats at Echoplex 🪨

• Feb 22nd - The Indecisive, Bedlam Bedrest at DBZ 🤘🪨

• Feb 22nd - CRASHOUT FEST at Arrowhead Elks Lodge 🤘

• Feb 22nd - The Plot In You, Holding Absence, Boundaries at HoB Anaheim 🤘🪨

• Feb 22nd - Hellride, Ignite at Golden Sails Hotel 🤘🪨

• Feb 27th - LA Raver 1 Year Anniversary at Sound 🕺

• Feb 28th - Auditory Anguish, Marrow at Chain Reaction 🤘

• Feb 28th - Deadfones, Dry Spell at Programme Skate🪨🍕😢

• Feb 28th - Plague Vendor, Jagged Baptist Club at Alex’s Bar🪨

• Feb 28th - Ignite, Death By Stereo at 1st Street Billiards 🤘🪨

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!!

Upcoming RAD shows

- March 22nd -

Reminitions, Last of Our Kind, Perception, Idle Mind and Nott are smashing through Great Room! Tickets at the link below!

Great Room - Fresno, CA

- March 28th -

The Bubble Bowl returns🍍Join us for some Bikini Bottom beats and nautical nonsense🪩🦞 Tickets on sale now! Don’t miss out! 🎟️

Strummer’s - Fresno, CA

- May 2nd -

Artificial Language return to the stage with Cyborg Octopus, Eternal Haunts and Imbuessence!! Tickets are on sale NOW so grab em while you can at the link below!

Strummers - Fresno, CA

some fun memories from a RAD show? Let Us Know

New Music Recommendations

Floridian indie rockers, flipturn, dropped their new record Burnout Days! Despite performing on some of the biggest festivals in the states and even appearing on Jimmy Kimmel Live, the band still delivers a very DIY Rock sound that I feel most band lose when they garner such high recognition. Give it a listen and tell me what you think. FFO: Peach Pit, Hippo Campus, The Backseat Lovers, Mt. Joy, Boyscott.

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