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Apr 30

Outline: Jockstrap, Jane Remover, Kenny Mason, HiTech & more

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Outline is back this summer – it’s a fun one. This year we’re bringing a rowdy block party vibe to Knockdown Center, with a mix of outdoor and indoor sets from some of the best modern hip hop, tweaked hyperpop, raw club and molten electronic rock happening today.

Jockstrap, the tweaked dance pop offshoot of the sprawling Black Country, New Road collective, fuses delicate pop with passages of seismic, EDM-tinged intensity. On the other side of the coin, Jane Remover basks in the dense waters of maximalist, digitally-saturated cloud rap and hyperpop. Kenny Mason is a leading light of modern southern rap. Coming off the strength of 2024’s “Angel Eyes,” Mason’s expansive approach veers between woozy undertow and explosive energy. HiTech are some of the most effective party starters in the world today. Tracks like “TAKE YO PANTIES OFF” speak to their no-fucks-given, brazen charisma. dazegxd and Kassie Krut offer opposite perspectives on the same thing: each group brings a ruptured, concussive approach to the pop song. dazegxd channels chiming house music, frenetic liquid dnb and more, while Kassie Krut submerges their songs in the muck and mire of our overloaded audio/media landscape. But both traffic is exceptional hooks that stay with you.
Apr 29

DJ Koze

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The mythical DJ Koze makes his Ruins debut on June 14th.

The Pampa Records boss taps into a vein of rolling, cosmic groove that is truly psychedelic. The man is a lysergic guru and there’s no better place to see him than in the open air, under the setting sun.
Apr 23

Octo Octa and Eris Drew

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Eris Drew and Octo Octa’s annual Pride weekend b2b in The Ruins has become a highlight of the year. The T4T LUV NRG co-founders are one of the great collaborative units in dance music today, bringing a sense of undiluted joy to the outdoor stage. Few sets speak to the spirit of liberation quite like theirs. Do not miss this.

Apr 10

John Carpenter Live in Concert

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Second night added.
John Carpenter, the master of horror, performs his iconic scores at Knockdown Center.
Few directors in cinematic history take their films’ music into their own hands quite like John Carpenter. Across the ’70s and ’80s, his synth-heavy soundtracks, written and performed by him, for “Halloween,” “Assault on Precinct 13,” “The Thing,” “Prince of Darkness,” “Escape from LA” and many more set the standard for taut, creeping dread and tension so thick you could cut it with a knife.
In recent years he’s been touring his works to great acclaim and rapturous response, rightfully claiming his position as an artist of vast influence in both of his primary mediums.
Apr 10

Massano

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Massano makes his Knockdown Center debut with an extended headlining set in the Main Hall.

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