Saturday, June 13, 2026 at 6:00 PM
Getty Center, Los Angeles
Hunx and His Punx are ecstatic campy fun, laced with a bite. The trio—Seth Bogart, Shannon Shaw (of Shannon & The Clams), and Erin Emslie—helped define a strain of early-2000s queer garage punk that's as indebted to analog retro-trash aesthetics and girl-group harmonies as to riot grrrl and DIY noise. Their command of dark humor does the best any of us can in a weird, wild, heavy world—only with sharper hooks and better eyeliner. It’s a sensibility that repurposes a chewed-up 20th century for the present, placing them in a lineage of outsider pop closer to the gleefully twisted kitsch of John Waters than to straightforward punk revivalism. After more than a decade-long hiatus, Hunx and His Punx released *Walked Out on the World and Lived to Tell the Tale*. With singles like “Alone in Hollywood on Acid” and “No Way Out,” the album is a jubilant celebration of chaotic glam and tender depravity.