Restless Presents announces the full lineup for Substance 2023

Restless Presents announces the full lineup for Substance 2023, Southern California’s only independent dark underground event.  Featuring performances from Gilla Band, Crack Cloud, TR/ST, Tempers, Buzz Kull, Osees, Lightning Bolt, Chat Pile, MSPAINT, Twin Tribes, Panther Modern; sets from LA’s most popular DJs such as Silent Servant, Riki; and 30+ more vibrant post-punk/dark underground artists across two weekends at the historic Globe Theatre, Nov. 3-4 and Nov. 9-10. Tickets Available at: https://substancefestival.com

Today, Restless Presents, the esteemed LA-based collective of bookers, promoters and music lifers, announces the full lineup for Substance 2023, the sixth iteration of their annual multifaceted celebration of dark rock, high-force industrial, percolating electronics and strident post-punk. With a lineup including the Dublin-based noise rock quartet Gilla Band, known for their fiercely uncompromised sound, blending distortion, electronics, hard rhythms, and surreal lyrics; Crack Cloud, a Vancouver-based multimedia collective blurring art rock and post-punk with striking visuals; the dark etherealism of TR/ST, Tempers, Buzz Kull; not to forget the vibrant (sometimes vicious) boundary-melting contributions of Osees, Lightning Bolt, Chat Pile, MS PAINT, Twin Tribes, and Panther Modern, Substance 2023 is so much more than an immersive sonic experience. It’s a brazen commitment by Restless Presents to the passionate, exhilarating music that has captured the hearts and souls of Cali… hang on… the world’s post-punk, electronic and goth factions. Taking place over two weekends at the esteemed Globe Theatre in Downtown L.A. on Nov. 3-4 and Nov. 9-10, this remarkable event invites over 1500 fans to indulge in the preserved splendor of the theater's exquisite Beaux Arts architectural style. Throughout the entire weekend, bands, performing artists and DJs will command the stage, creating a sonic bacchanal celebrating forward-thinking rock progenitors while heralding the take-no-prisoners spirit of the next wave of aural explorers. These four November nights at the Globe Theatre will be teeming with decibels and dramatic production for a presentation that’s completely inclusionary, faithfully contemporary and positively complementary to the various dark rock, post-punk and electronic-forward scenes. After doing 2022’s event at the Los Angeles Theatre, Substance 2023’s return to the Globe Theatre feels more like a homecoming to both fans and artists. For Substance 2023, the Restless Presents axis of Tarney and Garo had their work cut out for them in ways both challenging and ecstatic. As the team responsible for legendary events and various recent sold-out shows at the Lodge Room, Echoplex and the Regent Theater, Restless Presents knows how to build a living exhibition with integrity, inspired curation and a vivid awareness of what is happening right now. Their embracing of new artists makes the event feel like a genuine manifestation of community and not the status quo rock-show mindset reinforcing “headliners and openers.”  SUBSTANCE 2023 Lineup FRIDAY 11/3/23 Gilla Band Crack Cloud PVA Special Interest zzzahara The Serfs Pelada Brutus VIII Secret Attraction  Agender Pod Blotz Mirror of Venus Touching Ice SATURDAY 11/4 TR/ST Tempers ACTORS Buzz Kull Lust for Youth Harsh Symmetry Void Vision SDH Male Tears  INHALT Houses of Heaven Madeline Goldstein The Mall THURSDAY 11/9 Osees Lightning Bolt Chat Pile  MS PAINT Flat Worms  Cold Gawd Diode The Bank of America Hallows FRIDAY 11/10 Twin Tribes Forever Grey Panther Modern Ms.Boan Sacred Skin High Functioning Flesh Trit95 Rare DM Bestial Mouths Choke Chain Normal Bias Soft Vein Tassel Follow Substance  Instagram Follow Restless Nights: Instagram