{"id":78418,"date":"2025-12-02T17:19:12","date_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:19:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/78418\/"},"modified":"2025-12-02T17:19:12","modified_gmt":"2025-12-02T17:19:12","slug":"gorillazs-house-of-kong-heads-to-los-angeles","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/78418\/","title":{"rendered":"Gorillaz&#8217;s &#8216;House Of Kong&#8217; Heads To Los Angeles"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After its <a href=\"https:\/\/www.spin.com\/2025\/05\/gorillaz-construct-house-of-kong\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">summer debut<\/a> in London, Gorillaz are rebuilding the exhibition House of Kong for Los Angeles audiences at Rolling Greens DTLA from Feb. 26-March 19. The event dovetails with the March 20 release of the Damon Albarn-led cartoon band\u2019s new album, The Mountain.<\/p>\n<p>As part of the celebration, Gorillaz will also perform standalone shows at Hollywood Palladium on Feb. 22-23, during which they\u2019ll air The Mountain in its entirety with surprise special guests. <a href=\"https:\/\/houseofkong.gorillaz.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\">Exhibition ticket-holders<\/a> will have the first crack at concert access, with details to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>To complement House of Kong, Gorillaz are reassembling for concerts at the 7,500-capacity Copper Box Arena on Aug. 29-30 and Sept. 2-3. Exhibition ticket-holders will have the first crack at tickets, with details to be announced.<\/p>\n<p>Per organizers, House of Kong traces Gorillaz\u2019s \u201clife of misadventures, musical innovation and groundbreaking virtual ways\u201d since their debut in 2000 with \u201cTomorrow Comes Today.\u201d See the exhibition trailer below.<\/p>\n<p>The Mountain finds Gorillaz flanked by IDLES\u2019 Joe Talbot, Sparks, former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr, Anoushka Shankar, Asha Bhosle, Asha Puthli, Bizarrap, The Roots\u2019 Black Thought, Super Furry Animals\u2019 Gruff Rhys, Jalen Ngonda, Kara Jackson, Omar Souleyman, the Clash\u2019s Paul Simonon, Trueno and Yasiin Bey (formerly Mos Def). The voices of departed musicians such as Bobby Womack, De La Soul\u2019s Dave Jolicoeur, the Fall\u2019s Mark E. Smith, Fela Kuti drummer Tony Allen, rapper Proof and even actor Dennis Hopper are also represented on the project.<\/p>\n<p>Gorillaz will support\u00a0The Mountain\u00a0with a U.K. and Ireland arena tour next spring, beginning March 21 in Manchester.\u00a0Appearances at summer European festivals will follow.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"After its summer debut in London, Gorillaz are rebuilding the exhibition House of Kong for Los Angeles audiences&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":78419,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[45231,45232,48,52,51,47,50,49,45233],"class_list":{"0":"post-78418","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-damon-albarn","9":"tag-gorillaz","10":"tag-la","11":"tag-la-headlines","12":"tag-la-news","13":"tag-los-angeles","14":"tag-los-angeles-headlines","15":"tag-los-angeles-news","16":"tag-pushly"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=78418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/78418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/78419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=78418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=78418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=78418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}