RAD Newsletter

We’ve got a PACKED weekend of events coming up! This Friday, SOUNDS HEAVY at Strummers, Saturday SOUNDS RAD at Tioga Sequoia and RAD NIGHT at The Fulton to close things out! This week is your final chance to buy presales for these events, so grab them now if you haven’t HERE!

Southern California, we haven’t forgotten about you…we may just announce a new show next week, stay tuned 👀

Would also like to say thank you to Joshua Tehee for letting me ramble on the air on New Rock 104.1’s segment Homegrown! Check out his blog Bandgeeeek where you can read the Q&A I did with him recently.

Go to our friends’ shows:

- Central California -

• May 2nd - Unprocessed at Strummers 🤘

• May 2nd - HEDGE at Club Encore🕺

• May 11th - STARGATE - location TBA🕺

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

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

• May 15th - Trophy Eyes at Strummers🪨😢

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

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

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

- Southern California -

• May 1st - Artificial Language at Brick By Brick🪨🤘

• May 2nd - Artificial Language at Chain Reaction🪨🤘

• May 5th - Galactic Empire at Chain Reaction🪨🤘

• May 5th - Maylene & The Sons of Disaster at 1720🪨

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

• 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🤘

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 3RD-

FRIDAY NIGHT SOUNDS HEAVY! Grab tickets to this insane lineup NOW at the Strummers bar or the link below! You can check out some of the bands on the fest on our Spotify playlist: LISTEN HERE

Strummers - Fresno, CA - TICKETS

MAY 4TH-

SATRUDAY SOUNDS RAD at Tioga Sequoia! We’ve got a wide array of artists, vendors and food this Saturday. We even have our own specialty can of beer for Sounds Rad which will ONLY be sold at the event! Tickets available at Tioga’s Beer Garden, Ragin Records, Hillblocksviewofficial or at the link below!

Here’s a Spotify playlist to check out all the artists on the fest: LISTEN HERE

Tioga Sequoia Beer Garden - Fresno, CA - TICKETS

- MAY 4TH -

RAD NIGHT - Official Sounds Rad After Party! The fun doesn't have to end after our fest at Tioga 💃 come party with a ton of our friends at The Fulton (only 0.5 miles from Tioga)! We got some new friends and some Day Ones on the lineup including Tyler of Wolf & Bear who's crazy enough to headline SOUNDS RAD and then dj after. Only $5 at the door with a fest wristband, $10 without a wristband

The Fulton - Fresno, CA - INFO

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

New Music Recommendations

This is the only time I’ll recommend a record on here twice, but it’s for good reason. Listen to Artificial Language’s new EP Distant Glow and come see them at any of the following shows, or ALL of them…nobody can stop you

May 1st - Artificial Language at Brick By Brick

May 2nd - Artificial Language at Chain Reaction

May 4th - Sounds Rad Festival at Tioga Sequoia

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

Records You Should Hear