DARKSIDE
DARKSIDE is the psychedelic electronic/art-rock project of Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington, mixing guitar drift, dubby space, and slow-burn club abstraction.
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Artist index
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20 artist profiles and 29 more current listings.
DARKSIDE is the psychedelic electronic/art-rock project of Nicolás Jaar and Dave Harrington, mixing guitar drift, dubby space, and slow-burn club abstraction.
LA darkwave/post-punk leaning act appearing on underground Gold-Diggers bills with synth and goth-adjacent artists.
Orange County punk band with raw old-school garage-punk and street-punk instincts.
Australian indie-pop band with soft-focus guitars, clean melodies, and a relaxed jangle/dream-pop feel.
Christina Jean is a rockabilly/punk-adjacent singer observed on a Paramount bill with The Quakes and The Vectors.
Baltimore-raised rapper and producer known for abrasive experimental hip-hop, punk energy, and internet-age production chaos.
Denver producer Trevor Christensen records as Said The Sky, making melodic bass and future-bass songs with emo-pop vocal hooks.
Death Lens is an East Los Angeles punk band known for urgent garage-punk, hardcore energy, and politically aware community-rooted songwriting.
New York noise-punk/electronic band turning live drums, samplers, and shouted vocals into frantic club-damaged rock.
California producer/DJ making tech-house and festival-club tracks with crisp, functional grooves.
House duo of Nitti and Party Favor focused on festival-scale tech-house hooks and big-room club energy.
Watkins Family Hour is the long-running roots/collaboration project led by siblings Sara and Sean Watkins, built around folk, bluegrass, country, and rotating guest musicians.
World Stage Big Band is the house/community big band connected to Leimert Park's World Stage, carrying a local jazz-education and performance tradition.
Emerging indie act observed on a Moroccan Lounge bill with Mason Ignacio.
Dutch trance and progressive-house DJ/producer, long-running A State of Trance host, and one of the global names that defined modern festival-scale trance.
Bella Kay is a young indie-pop/pop-rock singer-songwriter with confessional lyrics, raw vocal framing, and a viral 2026 breakout around iloveitiloveitiloveit.
Hayley Williams is the Paramore frontperson and a solo songwriter whose work moves from combustible pop-punk vocal drama into art-pop, synth-rock, and intimate confessional writing.
Australian indie-rock band making breezy surf-leaning guitar pop with melodic, road-trip energy.
Lush, theatrical, wry singer-songwriter material with real bandcraft.
Emerging singer-songwriter observed on The Mint's local songwriter bill.