RAD Newsletter

Welcome to the new year! Keep scrolling for some new Hip Hop from Fresno, a solid lineup of shows in Central & Southern California and a reminder that 2025 was a great year for Deathcore. Also, share your January shows. Share your recently released music. Let’s get the ball rolling on 2026 with some sick shows and new records!

RAD FRIENDS RELEASE

The homie MC Wicks dropped Ultra Violence back in September with producer Level 13 and it’s still got people talking. FFO: Fashawn, Pro Era, Smoke DZA.

FEATURED SHOW

Celebrate Fulton 55’s 15th Anniversary party with Ska legends Let’s Go Bowling! Have you grabbed tix yet??

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Go to our friends’ shows:

- Central California -

• Jan 7th - Close Enemies ft Tom Hamilton of Aerosmith at Tower Theatre 🤘🪨

• Jan 8th - Arthop at Tioga 🕺

• Jan 9th - SULK - GOTH NIGHT at Strummer’s 🕺🦇

• Jan 10th - Bobby Lee at Tower Theatre 😄

• Jan 10th - Cumbia Bass at Fulton 55 🕺

• Jan 10th - Houseboy and Werebear at The Partisan 🪨

• Jan 11th - SEE THRU, Groceries! Julie F the Rulies at Great Room 🌻

• Jan 11th - The Special Consensus, Ripe For Pickin' at Tower Theatre Lounge 🌻

• Jan 13th - Berner at Rainbow Ballroom 🎤

• Jan 13th - halibut head, Los Dogs, Sleeve, Happy Now at Summer Fox Fresno 🪨

• Jan 16th - Metalachi at Fulton 55 🤘

• Jan 17th - Energize ft DJ Dan at Veni’s 🕺

• Jan 17th - Local Band Showcase at Fulton 55 🪨

• Jan 17th - Blazed, Citrus Jr., Pop Free, Bug Stomp at Roosevelt Manor 🍕🪨

• Jan 17th - Dick Bertelli, Asleep with the trees, Mortality at Great Room 🌻

• Jan 17th - 710 Doom, Maggot Colony, Surgical Wake, Where Sea Meets Sky at Summer Fox Tower 🤘🪨

• Jan 24th - An Evening with BLACK FLAG at Strummer’s 🪨

• Jan 24th - Catbox, Do You Compute at Temblor Brew 🪨

• Jan 24th - Jurassic Jam Benefit show at Fulton 55 🪨

- Southern California -

• Jan 10th - Rock Lottery at Sid The Cat Auditorium 🪨

• Jan 10th - Joust, Marked 4 Death, Foreshadow at DBZ BACKSTAGE 🤘

• Jan 15th - Frequency Within, The Dancing Skeletons at Harvelle's Santa Monica 🪨🍕

• Jan 15th - Berner at The Regent 🎤

• Jan 15th - Inhuman Condition, Wretched at Constellation Room 🤘

• Jan 16th - BIJOU at Sound Nightclub 🕺

• Jan 16th - Black Flag at The Roxy 🪨

• Jan 16th - Berner at The Observatory 🎤

• Jan 16th - Together Pangea at Teragram Ballroom 🌻🪨

• Jan 17th - Bane, Rotting Out at The Belasco 🤘

• Jan 17th - Zebrahead, Alien Ant Farm at HoB 🪨

• Jan 17th - Through the Roots at Garden Amp 🏝️

• Jan 18th - Ignite, Berthold City at Programme Skate 🤘

• Jan 21st - Seahaven, Midrift, Death Lens, CIDT at The Observatory 😢🪨

• Jan 24th - Stop. Drop. Rewind and Sundressed at Permanent Records 😢

• Jan 24th - Life Turned Cold, Deprave, Maldita Gente at DBZ Backstage 🤘

• Jan 24th - Manic Hispanic + Death By Stereo at Alex’s Bar 🪨

• Jan 24th - Cold As Life, Strife, Ignite, Scalp at 1720 🤘

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 13th-

Metalcore party on Friday the 13th at Summer Fox Tower! Catch Canadian twins Opal In Sky with Villain of the Story and Young Medicine!! Tickets on sale NOW!

-MARCH 17th-

Four Stroke Baron, Cyborg Octopus and Snooze hit Strummer's on RAD Music’s Bday with Artificial Language!! This will be an early show! Tickets are on sale NOW

Got some fond memories from a RAD show? Share them with us!

New Music Recommendations

January isn’t known as a month of new releases typically, so here’s a record that I needed to recommend last year. Canadian Deathcore legends, Angelmaker, released what might be my favorite record from them. In a year of Deathcore icons dropping some of their best material(Whitechapel, Despised Icon, Acacia Strain), This Used To Be Heaven definitely needs to be talked about. Give it a spin kick. FFO: Spite, Signs of the Swarm, Shadow of Intent, Chelsea Grin.

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