RAD Newsletter

Everyone’s been talking about Kentucky based hardcore band Knocked Loose and their set on Jimmy Kimmel Live last Tuesday with POPPY. It’s wild to me that there has been such a huge backlash from the show’s viewers, but like it or not, this was a huge moment for heavy music. Watch the full performance HERE and read the response from Knocked Loose’s Bryan Garris to the complaints HERE. Keep scrolling for new music, new shows and a ticket giveaway!

RAD ALUMNI RELEASE

SLC post-hardcore / swancore band Eidola have released their heaviest record yet. Check out Eviscerate at the link below! FFO: Wolf & Bear, Royal Coda, Silent Planet, Northlane, ERRA.

FEATURED SHOW

Win tickets to this week’s featured show! Join us for a weekend of events celebrating the 85th Anniversary of the iconic Tower Theatre! Make sure to follow both Tower Theatre and RAD Music on Instagram and enter below!

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Go to our friends’ shows:

- Central California -

• Dec 4th - Strawberry Girls, Bloomer at Strummers 🪨

• Dec 5th - CASAHOP at Tioga Sequoia Beer Garden(FREE SHOW) 🕺

• Dec 6th - Ship Wrek at Fulton 55 🕺

• Dec 6th - Tower Theatre 85th Anniversary Celebration: Comedy Night 🤣

• Dec 7th - Tower Theatre 85th Anniversary Celebration: The Box 🪨🌻

• Dec 7th - Mosh for Tots Vol 2 at Tioga Sequoia Beer Garden 🤘

• Dec 7th - Scowl, Slugger at Strummers 🤘

• Dec 7th - Zingara, Super Future at Rainbow Ballroom 🕺

• Dec 7th - Fire To The Throne, Perception at House of Pendragon(FREE SHOW) 🤘

• Dec 8th - Tower Theatre 85th Anniversary Celebration: Wizard of Oz Screening 🎥

• Dec 12th - Secrets, Heartist at Full Circle 🪨🤘

• Dec 13th - Wolf & Bear, A Foreign Affair at Transplants 🪨🤘

• Dec 14th - Grinchmas ‘24 at Azteca Theatre 🕺

• Dec 14th - The Last of Lucy, Eternal Bloom at Republik Ultra Lounge 🤘

• Dec 14th - Guaua, Cheridomingo, Shop Dog at Strummers 🌻😢

- Southern California -

• Dec 6th - Felix Martin, Ando San at Scribble 🪨🤘

• Dec 6th - Keep Flying, Pushing Veronica at Permanent Records 🍕

• Dec 6th - 7th Stay Tough Fest 2024 at Programme Skate 🍕🪨🌻

• Dec 6th - Rave Wonderland Charity Pop-Up at TBA 🕺

• Dec 7th - Lady Faith at Circle OC 🕺

• Dec 8th - reclush, Shallow Water Black out at DBZ 🪨🌻

• Dec 13th - God Forbid, Skinlab, Exmortus at The Regent 🤘

• Dec 13th - GAMMER at The Circle OC 🕺

• Dec 13th - Jingle all the Bleh Toy Drive: Midst of Gray at DBZ 🤘

• Dec 14th - 15th -FOR THE CHILDREN at The Belasco 🤘

• Dec 14th - Strawberry Girls, The Seafloor Cinema at DBZ 🪨

• Dec 14th - Wolf & Bear, A Foreign Affair at The Parish @ House of Blues 🪨🤘

• Dec 14th - Bleeding Through, Carnifex, God Forbid at House of Blues 🤘

• Dec 15th - Benefit for CARMA(OC Animal Rescue): Hoity-Toity at Programme Skate 🪨

• Dec 20th - From Autumn To Ashes, Dead American at The Glass House 🤘

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

- February 6th -

Join us for a night of sludgey doom metal with DOPETHRONE, KADABRA, CHRCH, Beastmaker and Smoking Mirror! Grab tickets in advance at the link below.

Fulton 55 - Fresno, CA

- March 22nd -

SoCal metalheads Last of Our Kind return to Fresno with Nott, Idle Mind and Entice! Snag your tickets to the pit at the link below!

Great Room - Fresno, CA

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

New Music Recommendations

The self proclaimed Kaiju Metal band, Oxygen Destroyer, released this fantastic ripper of a death/thrash record back in August and I can’t get enough. It helps that the Seattle based metal band are also RAD Alumni(booked them last year with Italy’s Fulci). Throw Guardian of the Universe on and smash a miniature city. FFO: Enforced, High Command, Necrot, Spectral Wound, Skeletonwitch.

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