🌅MAY 9 🌅 SOUTHERN SMILE PRESENTS: LAVEDA  LAVEDA / SKIMP / AUDIOBATON / ECHO Founded by duo Ali Genevich (vocals/guitar) and Jake Brooks (vocals/guitar/synths), Laveda released their polished debut album ‘What Happens After’ in 2020. Drawing a post-apocalyptic landscape through layers of colorful sound and ethereal melodies, the band fused polished pop clarity with ‘90s …

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The twelfth Molten Plains marks the whole first year! Mattie + Joshua Miller + Conner Simmons T Putnam Hill Monte Espina + Justin Lemmons Em Ramser + Rachel Weaver + Connie Wallace T Putnam Hill is coming from San Antonio bringing his shifting auditory environments, a first time trio of Mattie + Joshua Miller + Conner Simmons …

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🤖MAY 11 🤖DFW Songwriters! Modern Modem | Sean Torres Group | Frigerator   Modern Modem - songwriting project of Dallas based musician Ethan Sedelmeier Sean Torres Group Frigerator   $10 9PM   @modern.modem

May 12 - PARADE OF FLESH PRESENTS: MIDNIGHT - Spirit Adrift - Spiter Trash/metal vets celebrating "20 years of Hell, Speed & Sleaze" with Spirit Adrift & Spiter (members of Devil Master & Integrity). Doors 7 PM | Show 8 PM Tickets

🌾MAY 12 🌾 NOISE ROCK FROM THE DISSECTED PLAINS Nerver – Bighand // Bigknife – Stress Palace – Inverted Candles – Allison Janey Nerver (KCMO) - noise rock // post-hardcore from KCMO CASH by Nerver Bighand // Bigknife - noise rock heavies Meditations in Affinity | Solicitude by BIGHAND//BIGKNIFE Stress Palace - Dallas post-hardcore Stress …

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🔗‍💥MAY 12 🔗‍💥 HARSH NOISE FEST GENOPHOBIA / T.E.F. / A FAIL ASSOCIATION / R.BUTTRUM / TOTAL SWEETHEART / DANIEL RYAN / HEAD WOUND SADISM / PHOEBE E   Brandon Diven’s GENOPHOBIA from Arkansas comes down and shreds the Rubber Room alongside @aad_hn artists and friends Genophobia – harsh asexual electronics from Arkansas. Runs the …

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🥫MAY 13 🥫HEAVY METAL FOR A CAUSE Cannable Convention MK:IV Heavy Metal Food Drive   Shiv – Stone Wolf – Lament Configuration – Cesspool of Corruption – Blasphemous Goat Vomit – Astyanax  4 Non-Perishable Items Per Person For Entry at Door Briskey Cookout – $10 Cash Donation at BBQ booth All Ages – under 18 …

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😱MAY 14 😱 SICKO SCREAMO GIG  Catalyst / Party Hats / Bulletproofbackpack / herlovebeheadsdaisies   Catalyst - Providence, RI Quahog hardcore Party Hats - three-piece emo/screamo band from Denton, Texas Bulletproofbackpack - Rhode Island hardcore herlovebeheadsdaisies - emoviolence   $10 Doors 8 PM   Tags: @catalystpvd @partyhats123 @bpbrihc @herlovebeheadsdaisies

🤠MAY 16 🤠 SEXY TIME NOISE ROCK NIGHT Noise rock gig with Brain Sweat (Wyoming) | Sexual Jeremy | Gay Cum Daddies | Answering Machines   Brain Sweat - noise punk from Laramie, Wyoming. Chevy rocks The Metaphysical Cowboy by Brain Sweat Sexual Jeremy - melodic noise rock proggers The Real Sexual Jeremy by sexual …

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💥MAY 16 💥FREAK RAGERS IN THE RUBBER ROOM RAR | Personality Trauma | Jules Geer RAR - What is RAR you ask? RAR is a gang of rowdy arsonists who do the most wild free improv set you will ever witness. 💥🦖🦕🗯 Personality Trauma - featuring Vanden of American Cruelty, Nick from Psychic Killers and …

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  GODLAND - Trailer from Janus Films on Vimeo.   The struggle between the strictures of religion and our own brute animal nature plays out amid the beautifully forbidding landscapes of remote Iceland in this stunning psychological epic from director Hlynur Pálmason. In the late nineteenth century, Danish priest Lucas (Elliott Crosset Hove) makes the …

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💥MAY 17 💥DIGITAL FREAKOUTS  DJ Acidangel | Freakhorse | Downhill 2k01 | Glockteau Twins | Eve.ning | Petawhip   $10 8 PM @acidangel222 @freakhorse @downhill2k01 @glockteau______twins @handsaremelting @petalwhip

🌟MAY 18 🌟 HUGE ROCK GIG ON THE OUTSIDE STAGE The Undefeated / Gentlemen Rogues / Mike and Ian’s Side Hustle / Fresh Ghosts   Gentlemen Rogues play power-pop/punky rock n roll kinda stuff, in the vein of The Replacements, Superdrag or Husker D Gentlemen Rogues recently played support for Superchunk, and also played sole support on Bob Mould's Texas dates, for his Distortion and Blue Hearts tour. …

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💋MAY 18 💋LUSH & LUXURIOUS MELODIES Frankie Rose | SRSQ | Llora At the Helms presents: Frankie Rose - refined DIY art-pop & ethereal melodies SRSQ - griefwave/dreamgaze/grating pop for the unfit Llora - non-binary synth-pop for androgynous sweethearts  ~~~~~ After spending nearly two decades establishing herself across New York and Los Angeles independent music …

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⛰️🎶MAY 19 ⛰️🎶EXPLORING DENTON JAMS Mountain Song | Mr Breakfast | Harry Zimm | Arms Above   Mountain Song is the exploratory project of five Dentonites, joining forces from previous bands Sun Airway (Dead Oceans), The A-Sides (Vagrant Records), and RF Shannon (Punctum Records) Mr Breakfast - Alt Dream Pop/ post punk/ Shoegaze Band OG …

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👟MAY 19 👟 LOCKER ROOM ROCKERS Pagan Athletes | BoBo | Thyroids   Pagan Athletes ~ two-piece noise rock brothers from Omaha Pagan Athletes by Pagan Athletes BoBo ~ egg punk rockers My Riffs by Bobo Thyroids ~ wirey scuzz punks A Swift Kick In The Ass by THYROIDS   $10 Doors 7:30 PM | …

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🌺MAY 19 🌺 SCRATCH YOUR PSYCH/GRUNGE ITCH With sounds from Grandelusion, Danny Conrad, and Thurzdaze The vibes will be so lovingly vile, your brain will be rattling inside your skull. Don’t miss out, we’ll see you there ;-)   $10 8 PM   @grandelusion90 @danny_conrad @thurzdaze_official

🕹️🌮MAY 20 🌮🕹️The Tacos and Video Game Tour:  Psychostick | Bit Brigade | Urizen Psychostick - a comedic metal (self-proclaimed "humorcore") band with a reputation for having hilarious lyrics, heavy riffs, notorious stage antics, and a high energy performance. The music successfully crosses a level of heaviness and aggression found in bands such as Chimaira, …

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👹MAY 20 👹 FREAK NIGHT   We Are The Asteroid | Gus Baldwin and The Sketch | Heavy Baby Sea Slugs | Flesh Narc Freak rockers WE Are The Asteroid roll through again after crushing it opening for the Melvins in October. WE Are The Asteroid is a three piece “freak rock” band based in Austin …

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🧷MAY 21🧷 SUNDAY PUNKSDAY Madaline | Hummin Bird | Panther Revival | Peppercat   Madaline - punk ska from TX Hummin Bird - Tulsa punks Panther Revival - two Black punks from Greenville, TX playing loud music Peppercat - solo bedroom grunge   $12 Doors 7:30 | Show 8PM   @madalineska @humminbird666 @pantherrevival @lofi_peppercat

😏 MAY 21 😏NOT YOUR DADDY’S INDIE NIGHT Acid Wave ~ The Ends ~ Smothered ~ Cosmic Frownies   Acid Wave (El Paso) is an all-girl alternative indie band, soon to release their highly anticipated new album with Hogar Records. Their dreamy melodies and catchy hooks have drawn comparisons to bands like Crumb and Alvvays. …

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"I'm gonna do a rad hour-long solo set of my music following a screening of a pretty awesome documentary called "Free Richard Haskins" made by Make Something Beautiful. It's got all kinds of crazy interviews from me in jail and a lot of cool people are in it. I hope you dig it and I …

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⚒️MAY 23 ​​⚒️HARDCORE PIONEERS - JEROME’S DREAM Jerome's Dream | Elizabeth Colour Wheel | Venus Twins | Record Setter OG 90s screamo pioneers Jerome’s Dream roll through Denton for the first time with slowcore zoners Elizabeth Colour Wheel. Denton favs Venus Twins and Record Setter tapped for the local support.    Jerome’s Dream (San Francisco, …

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💥🛹MAY 24 💥🛹SKATE PUNKS AT RGRS nopoint – noogy – beaver – casual relapse   Nopoint - skatepunk brewed in St. Louis come through Denton for their Skate Fast, Eat Trash 2023 tour With support from: Noogy - Texas hardcore punk ska core Beaver - Denton punks Casual Relapse - Dallas hardcore punks $10 Doors …

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🌙💖 MAY 24 💖🌙 HELIUM QUEENS TEXAS MOON TOUR Helium Queens | The Pan-Tones | Kace Helium Queens - Power Trio of Queens from the Moon sent back in time to give Warnings & Love - Space Opera Synth Pop 💚💖🧡🌙 🌺 🌏 The Pan-Tones - Not your average Flute Band Kace - Local performer …

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💥MAY 25 💥CRUSHING GOODNESS The Ends tour kickoff! + Party Hats + Lap (Little Rock) + Motorsports (Austin TX) + Girlo Thursday night full of psych, screamo, noise, and all around crushing goodness in the Rubber Room   THE ENDS (Denton): slacker slowcore noise rock lacerations PARTY HATS (Denton): chugging skramz machine cutting through bittersweet …

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🧨MAY 25 🧨 NO COAST PRESENTS: NO LIGHTS & MORE No Lights (SF) | Mall Walker (ATX) | Flowerbed | Unspell   A No Coast Presentation: No Lights from San Francisco (feat members of Kowloon Walled City) brings their precise post-punk stylings to Texas stages this spring. https://nolightsband.bandcamp.com/album/stay-awake   Mall Walker is the newest project …

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💣MAY 25 💣HIP HOP BANGER ON THE OUTSIDE STAGE Backwoodz Records Presents: Shrapknel & Skech185 - Analogue Rebels Tour   SHRAPKNEL - Curly Castro and PremRock; a duo as dissimilar as they are made for each other. The two artists are a veritable study in contrasts and contradictions, Castro was born and raised in Brooklyn …

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⛓️MAY 26⛓️ TRASH METAL MANIACS FUGITIVE – FLESHROT – U.N.I.T. – FUTURE SHOCK – DEEP COVER Celebrating the release of “Maniac” on 20 Buck Spin Records   Fugitive - Ft. Worth TX Trash Metal - Members of POWER TRIP, CREEPING DEATH, SKOURGE Fleshrot - Lubbock TX Vomit-inducing Death Metal U.N.I.T. - San Antonio TX Punk …

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🧬MAY 26 🧬 FLUID CONSTRUCT  5.26.23 + Alaska + DR9XIA + D.F.G. + Jordan Williams   Alaska - the oak cliff fairy  DR9XIA - drexciyan offspring bringing future sounds D.F.G. - (karmina) is a producer/dj and cofounder of the music collective Karmina based in Dallas, Tx. His music styles weave in and out of his …

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🥳MAY 27 🥳 SOCK HOP 5 IS UPON US!  Join Character and friends on May 27th as we celebrate Character’s 32nd birthday in full form with the fifth annual sock-hop at Rubber Gloves Rehearsal Studios!   Musical acts include: Character. (super special mega set w/ guests) Pudge Chilldren Of Indigo Flip & The Combined Effort …

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🌌MAY 27 🌌 CHILL GAZE BEDROOM POP POST PUNK NIGHT! Winona Forever | Eli Josef | Modern Modem | New Avenues    Vancouver’s Winona Forever combine spicey rock riffs and arts and crafts rhythms to create delicious ready-to-listen pop songs. Since 2015 the band has been releasing music that embraces the warm and free-spirited leanings of …

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🎸MAY 28 🎸PSYCHEDELIC NERD ROCK NIGHT BLUESDREAM | FOR EACH() LOOP | DESTROYSION | THE HAZY CHAMBERS | TEMPTRIX 13 | SUCIO Vibe out to songs drenched in reverb, just the right amount of distortion and heady conversations about pedal boards and linguistics. Bluesdream is heavily influenced by 60s psychedelic rock, folk/blues, southern rock. forEach() Loop is …

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🌝MAY 29 🌝UPLIFTING LO-FI INDIE NIGHT Advance Base - Wish Kit - Fishboy Advance Base is the melancholic soft rock recording project of Chicago, IL singer/songwriter Owen Ashworth (formerly of Casiotone for the Painfully Alone). Using a two-handed arsenal of electric piano, Omnichord, samplers, effect pedals & drum machines, Ashworth builds minimalist, heavy-hearted, & nostalgia-obsessed …

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🎆MAY 29 🎆SURREAL SYNTHETICS Secret Shame comes to Rubber Gloves May 29 Local support from: REIVINNICK - merges the surreal vocals of Reivin Alexandria with Nick Earl’s spaced out sounds. Doors at 7 Show at 8pm $10 “These songs are about eating disorders, abuse, addiction, and mental illness–and this one is also about all of …

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⚡MAY 30 ⚡POST HARDCORE NOISE ROCK GIG Facet (Oakland) | Godot | Please Advise | Sacred Attention Facet – Oakland CA clean, minimal, heavy noise rock With local support: Please Advise – email rock Godot - Denton mathcore / sludge Sacred Attention – if temple of the dog was on shrooms   $10 Doors at …

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🪩 MAY 30 🪩 Glitter, Glam, Grunge, & Grim System Exclusive | Helium Queens | Answering Machines | Python Potions System Exclusive - Glittering synth-poppy heart throbbing post-punk from the heat of an eternal Pasadena summer stops through Denton on their extensive USA Tour! Helium Queens - Power Trio of Queens from the Moon sent …

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join spiderweb salon for an open mic night! 🕸️may 31🕸️ signups open at 7pm show 7:30pmrubber gloves rehearsal studios..speakeasy stage bring your poetry, music, stories, performance art, puppet shows, dance, etc..solo & collaborations welcome! may featured artist: kim nall hosted by nova martin & courtney marie free!   *spiderweb salon has a zero-tolerance policy for …

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💀🥀MAY 31🥀💀 DECADENCE & DARKNESS Child Of Night | Lily Taylor (ft. Black Taffy) | NTTA Child of Night is a three-piece experimental electronic/post-punk act based in Columbus, Pittsburgh, and Brooklyn. After forming in 2017 the group has toured the USA extensively and collaborated with many like minded individuals within the realm of dark music. …

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🎯JUNE 1 🎯Come rock out at Rubber Gloves with LARVAE, Sexual Jeremy, The Aches, and Cosmic Frownies on June 1st. It will change your life. LARVAE | Sexual Jeremy | The Aches | Cosmic Frownies LARVAE - denton rockers singing about love Sexual Jeremy - experimental sexy time rockers The Aches - post punk but …

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💀JUNE 4 💀HAILEY’S FAN CLUB PRESENTS: A HAUNTING IN JUNE Hailey's Fanclub presents: Ak'chamel (Houston)  | Ruffle | KFC Twin Towers | Lovestruck Cucks | Queer Highway Ak'chamel (Houston) - Percussive avant-folk strung-out psychedelia steeped in gnostic desert rock vibes and possessed by exceedingly strange vocals. Ruffle - Rick Eye VS Princess Haultaine - first …

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🧛🏻‍♀️ JUNE 5 🧛🏻‍♀️ COLDWAVE + DARKWAVE VAMPIRE MONDAY Bestial Mouths | MoMWow | Nicole Marxen | UXRA | Freakhorse Bestial Mouths  As the voice and spirit of Bestial Mouths, Lynette Cerezo is a powerfully haunting figure. Across international stages and recordings, spellbinding performances take audiences through voidic visions. From their inception in 2009, the …

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🪀JUNE 5 🪀Alt Rock All Night Atlanta-based - Smoke Detector - comes through Denton on their Summer tour! Smoke Detector | Jockey | The Ends Smoke Detector - ATL based alternative band Jockey - Dallas TX Fast & Sad rockers The Ends - DFW Noise/indie rock  $10 Show 8 PM @smokedetector69 @jockeyband @theendstx Needs Batterys …

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✨JUNE 6 ✨ DREAM-POP, DARK WAVE, & PARTY PUNKS MADELINE GOLDSTEIN | More Ephemerol | Sculpture Club LA Artist Madeline Goldstein comes to Denton With emotion and a strong ear for pop melody, Madeline Goldstein echoes the energies of new wave, dream-pop, and dark wave, all while showcasing the vocal range and passion of femme …

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⚡JUNE 6 ⚡ zoomer DJ gig in the rubber room lonelygirl15 | dj melon soda | phoebe e | dj 3030a.d. | suburban sorcerers lonelygirl15  dj melon soda  phoebe e (dj set) dj 3030a.d.  suburban sorcerers   Doors 8 PM | Show 9 PM

🧪JUNE 7 🧪EXPERIMENTS IN THE RUBBER ROOM Freak Establishment | BOBO | Slow Draw | Sybil Freak Establishment - experimental guitar BOBO - egg punk rockers Slow Draw - ambient experimental soundscapes Sybil - experimental vocals, beats, and drone $7 8PM @freakestablishment @bobo.band @slowdrawmusic @san_jaypo