The Frights bring their surf-punk Tuesday to Felton Music Hall on Dec. 8

The Epitaph band plays a 400-capacity room in the redwoods, and tickets top out at $32.

The best December nights in the mountains involve a drive up Highway 9 in the dark, a warm room, and a band loud enough to fog the windows. The Frights are bringing one on a Tuesday.

The Frights play Felton Music Hall on Tuesday, Dec. 8, 2026, with music starting at 8 p.m. The show was announced Oct. 23, and tickets are $28.80–$32 through Prekindle.

If you know The Frights, you probably found them through the Epitaph years. Their third full-length, *Hypochondriac*, came out in August 2018 on the label and was produced by Zac Carper of FIDLAR, according to Epitaph's announcement. Before that came *You Are Going To Hate This*, which Alternative Press streamed when it was released, and singles like "Over It," which Epitaph paired with a video. San Diego's NBC SoundDiego has covered the band as one of its own for years.

Four hundred people, a Tuesday, and a band that's been doing this for a decade: that's a good night out.

This year the band played a 10th-anniversary show at The Observatory North Park in September. That's ten years of snotty, hooky songs about being young, broke and anxious, and a lot of the people who sang along at their first shows are now old enough to want a seat at the bar. Felton covers both groups.

Felton Music Hall is a good room for it. It holds about 400 people, so it gets loud and crowded without feeling like an arena, and it has become a regular stop on the Santa Cruz County circuit, as Lookout Santa Cruz has noted in its venue coverage.

A couple of practical notes. It's a Tuesday in December, so check the weather before driving the San Lorenzo Valley, and leave time to park. With 400 tickets at around $30 each, this is the kind of show that sells out in the last week when people's friends talk them into it. Buy early.

Bring earplugs, bring the friend who still has *Hypochondriac* on vinyl, and plan on one more song than you expected.

Details and set times will be on our show page.

Sources: Epitaph: The Frights announce new album Hypochondriac (epitaph.com); Epitaph: The Frights drop new video for Over It (epitaph.com); Alternative Press: The Frights stream new album You Are Going To Hate This (altpress.com); NBC San Diego SoundDiego: You Won't Hate This (nbcsandiego.com); The Frights 10yr Anniversary, Sep 12 2026 (ma.to); Lookout Santa Cruz: Santa Cruz County live music, Felton Music Hall (lookout.co); Prekindle: The Frights at Felton Music Hall (prekindle.com); JamBase: The Frights at Felton Music Hall (jambase.com); The Frights - Wikipedia (en.wikipedia.org); Felton Music Hall - FAQ (feltonmusichall.com)