Denton Rock Lottery 23
Saturday, November 14, 2026
BENEFITTING KUZU 92.9FM IN DENTON, TEXAS
The ROCK LOTTERY concept is simple, but effective. Twenty-five musicians meet at 10:00AM at the evening’s performance venue. These volunteers are organized into five bands through a lottery-based chance selection. The five different groups are then released to practice at different locations. The musicians have twelve hours to create a band name and three to five songs (with a one-cover-song limit.) The bands then return to the venue by 10:00PM and perform what they have created in front of a waiting audience.
This event will bring together many facets of the music community that may seem incompatible, as well as musicians whose interests may conflict. The challenge for these participants is to try and go beyond their personal and musical differences and work together to create a unified group project that contains the personal styles of each of its members.
ROCK LOTTERY 23 MUSICIANS:
IVAN BELTRAN
└ ONLY EVER
ALEX BHORE
└ SLIPS
CHRISSS BREIT
└ GLI33I
ASWAD BRYANT
└ DESTROYSION
BLAKE COUTEE
└ HEN AND THE COCKS
ALEXI DOLLAR
└ LAUGHING MATTER
REBEKAH ELIZABETH
└ THE LARRY BYRDS
ZEKE FOREVER
└ ZEKE FOREVER
FRITZ
└ UVER
CORY GRAVES
└ VANDOLIERS
JOSHUA GRAVES
└ YELLOWBELLY
AARON HEATH
└ CHEMICAL SPELL
MIGUEL JAQUEZ
└ GOODBYE HORSES
HAYDEN KIRKBY
└ ORCANAUT
JUDY MITCHELL
└ RECORD SETTER
LUCA BUONGIORNO NARDELLI
└ FIVE POINT PALM EXPLODING HEART TECHNIQUE
NIIN
└ NIP SLIP
NUNU
└ PHANTOMELO
ZACH PALMER
└ SMOTHERED
JOE PEREZ
└ DUST CONGRESS
DANIEL RYAN
└ DANIEL RYAN
ZÉLEE SHARNÉE
└ AETHYRIEM
AARON SHIPLEY
└ ALL THE TIRED HORSES
MELANIE LITTLE SMITH
└ WENEPA
RYAN VEITH
└ BULLETSBETWEENTONGUES
HOSTS: CHELSEY DANIELLE & SCOTT PORTER
DJs: YO CISCO KIDD & SPINN MO
RL23 poster by Zach Mickler-Sandoval / Pan Ector Industries.
RLXX would like to thank our amazing sponsors for helping to bring our ridiculous ideas to life:
LITTLE GUYS MOVERS
RECYCLED BOOKS & RECORDS
HUNTER DIGITAL INSIGHTS CONSULTING
PICONE
UNION BEAR
ORBIT PRESS
RL23 will include live screen printing of band t-shirts by PAN ECTOR.
Event Time
Saturday, November 14, 2026
Morning admission at 9:30AM.
Evening doors at 8:00PM.
Evening event starts at 9:30PM.
Event Location
Dan’s Silver Leaf
103 Industrial Street
Denton, Texas, 76201
(940) 320-2000
KUZU is Denton's non-profit, free-form community radio station. KUZU’s programming is entirely community funded, operated and produced. Denton listeners can tune in terrestrially at 92.9FM, with a worldwide signal available at kuzu.fm/streaming.
Event organized and musicians selected by Meredith Buie, Katie Rose Crosswhite, Charlie DeBolt, Bryan Denny, Charlie Hunter, Stefanie Lazcano, Graham Rainer, and Lily Taylor. Production assistance by Martin Iles.