(((folkYEAH!))) Presents - Tropical Fuck Storm w/ J.R.C.G.

Name: (((folkYEAH!))) Presents - Tropical Fuck Storm w/ J.R.C.G.
Start: 2026-02-02T20:00:00-08:00
End: 2026-02-02T21:00:00-08:00
Location: Moe's Alley

Schedule

Mon, 02 Feb, 2026 at 08:00 pm

UTC-08:00

Location

Moe's Alley | Santa Cruz, CA

Information
(((folkYEAH!))) presents Australias own Tropical Fuck Storm with special guest Sub Pop recording artist J.R.C.G.!Monday, February 2, 2026Doors: 7pm / Show: 8pm$25 in advance / $30 day of the show21+*Tickets on sale Friday, October 24th at 10am PT**All sales are final*Avoid scammers! Only purchase tickets from moesalley.com or ticketweb.com====TROPICAL FUCK STORMIt was the silence as much as the disease that proved so unsettling. The world had gone inside, underground, taking with it some of its more destructive aspects. The clean and clear air in major cities was a jarring reminder of the airborne rot we had grown used to. Stuck indoors, we went stir crazy, imagined new worlds, dystopian worlds, apocalypses of the small and large variety. There were viral social media stories, most of them fake, about animals reoccupying cities, dolphins taking back the canals of Venice, elephants getting drunk in abandoned Chinese corn wine distilleries and passing out in tea gardens . In those first fearful days of the pandemic, we wrote ourselves out of existence and imagined what the world would be like without us. We missed the noise; we carried it inside us. We tried to find melody in the madness.Most of us have lived some inner Tropical Fuck Storm over this past year and a half. Gareth Liddiard, frontman for the Aussie band with a name perfectly suited to the times, was like the rest of us in feeling the malaise. On not writing any new songs for the first six months of the global shutdown, he says, Why would I? Everything seemed pointless. Even for a band thats made a career out of crafting songs attuned to political and social crisis, there was a new bleak in the air, what the band calls give-a-fuck fatigue. A Laughing Death in Meatspace and Braindrops, Tropical Fuck Storms 2018 and 2019 records, probed the destructive force of consumerist culture, the imperialistic reaches of the United States, the threat posed by a warming planet. The band wedded a brave new worldview to an ever lively acid punk sound. Which made you sometimes despair. While still wanting to dance.J.R.C.G.To experience Justin R. Cruz Gallegos pulverizing Sub Pop debut is to get burned down to ashes and burst forth, born anew. Grim Iconic(Sadistic Mantra), the Tacoma-based artists second album, is driven by opposing forces: noisy abstractions and tightly structured beats, anguish and dissolution at the outside world and empowerment within, apathy and catharsis. Grim Iconic(Sadistic Mantra) weds scouring electronics to hooky songs and Gallegos powerful drumming in a way that feels visceral and new. Its his most personal statement to date, at once playful and intent, driven and combustible, total fucking chaos mixed into glints of broken-glass beauty.Born in Tucson, Arizona, Gallego experienced culture shock as a child after relocating to the frigid climes of the Pacific Northwest. He found solace in the Seattle punk scene centered around Iron Lung Records and has since remained a fixture in the underground community.

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This event is 21 and over. Any ticket holder unable to present valid identification indicating that they are at least 21 years of age will not be admitted to this event, and will not be eligible for a refund.