Cauldron Dark Alternative

10/10/2026

TONIGHT @ River Park Arts Center !!! All early bird tickets are sold out, but you can still save a little before the show by getting your tickets at the Resident Advisor link in the comments below:

10/10/2026

LAST CHANCE to get the cheaper advance tickets for Baseck / Decide Today / Freeze Etch / Marnegro TOMORROW NIGHT (SATURDAY 10/10) @ River Park Arts Center ! Link for tickets in the comments!

10/09/2026

Baseck THIS SATURDAY @ River Park Arts Center! Get your tickets EARLY at the link in the comments to get the BEST PRICING, as the price will go UP at the door! This is gonna rule!!

Baseck talks us through his origin story, going from turntables and...

10/01/2026

If you haven't bought tickets for the Baseck / Decide Today / Freeze Etch / Marnegro show at River Park Arts Center yet (brought to you by Cauldron Dark Alternative and Anxiety Club), get them as soon as possible to get the best price, as they are LIMITED:

(But if you're one of the Cornell 7 or an apologist for them, please G**O)

If you like hard industrial, techno, drum-n-bass... this one is gonna be a banger!

Join Cauldron Dark Alternative and Anxiety Club in welcoming BASECK (Los Angeles, CA) and DECIDE TODAY (Cincinnati, OH) from their East Turtle Island 20...

09/17/2026

Big announcement I wasn't expecting to make so soon after YART:

SATURDAY OCTOBER 10

Freeze Etch and MARNEGRO will be supporting Baseck (Los Angeles) and Decide Today (Cincinnati) at the River Park Arts Center in South Bend, for an evening of industrial rhythms, mangled techno and atmospheric electronics!

Fellow synth heads: you might recognize Baseck from some of the product demos he has done for Erica Synths, Elektron, Perfect Circuit, etc. Super lucky to have him in our back yard so, and Decide Today brings the industrial menace in spades. Don't miss it!!

This event is a collab production between Cauldron Dark Alternative and Anxiety Club. As such, we're ticketing this one a little differently than I have done for my own events in the past, and there's a limited quantity, so see the comments for the advance ticket link at Resident Advisor to get the best deal ASAP!

06/17/2026

Rather than putting our artists and audience in harm's way in the direct path of violent tornado weather, we made the decision to cancel the show. 🙁 Please considering checking out the bands' offerings on Bandcamp to support them on the road. Links in the comments!

06/13/2026

THIS UPCOMING WEDNESDAY, June 17, at the new River Park Arts Center next to MAKE SOUTH BEND... Cauldron Dark Alternative presents:

BUBBA FONTAINE (Indianapolis, IN)
DECIDE TODAY (Cincinatti, OH)
WATER IS THE SUN (Drekka+Timber Rattle duo - Bloomington, IN)

+ DJ FREEZE ETCH (South Bend, IN)

Come out and enjoy an evening of ritual ambient, synthesizer madness, industrial, breakcore, and more!

Doors @ 7:00 PM
Show @ 7:30 PM
$10 / all ages

RIVER PARK ARTS CENTER (next to Make South Bend)
2226 Mishawaka Ave, South Bend, IN See less

05/15/2026

WEDNESDAY, JUNE 17

Cauldron Dark Alternative presents:

BUBBA FONTAINE (Indianapolis, IN)
DECIDE TODAY (Cincinatti, OH)
WATER IS THE SUN (Drekka+Timber Rattle duo - Bloomington, IN)

+ DJ FREEZE ETCH (South Bend, IN)

Come out and enjoy an evening of ritual ambient, synthesizer madness, industrial, breakcore, and more!

Doors @ 7:00 PM
Show @ 7:30 PM

$10 / all ages

RIVER PARK ARTS CENTER (next to Make South Bend)
2226 Mishawaka Ave, South Bend, IN

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09/06/2025

Cauldron Dark Alternative and Ethereal had the opportunity to curate an entire stage for an entire day at this year's YART immersive arts festival here in South Bend last weekend, and it was truly a spectacle!

Massive thanks to Lauren Steinhofer for the opportunity and for her hard work in putting together her unique vision for the festival. Thanks to Patrick Danger Quigley for the heavy lifting with running sound at our stage. And of course thanks to THE DREADFUL DIN, BUGNUTT, Freeze Etch, ACADEMY ORDER, Hypnagogia, and MISS RED MYSTIQUE for giving in their all on our stage.

Simply incredible to see something like this come together in South Bend!

08/30/2025

TODAY IS THE BIG DAY! Come out to YART and check us out on the palm stage!

Unfortunately the band Sad and Pretentious had to bow out for health reasons, but we will be roughly sticking to the same schedule, just with a little more wiggle room between acts.

Anyway, see you there! 😀