A fan's personal story of how Christian Gates' music carried her through depression, and the night she finally saw him…
Christian Gates’ first headline show sold out The Roxy on Feb 26, 2022. Inside the night the whole scene showed up: La…
Christian Gates announces Julia Alexa as the opening act for the European leg of his I Believe in Ghosts Tour.
Announced: Julia Alexa joins all eight European dates of Christian Gates' I Believe In Ghosts Tour this October, Amste…
A look at The Ring by LUX's beta features, from Echo and Concert Buddies to its points and perks system, and what it c…
Christian Gates opens up on I Believe in Ghosts, a more mature, vulnerable album previewed live on his upcoming tour.
Concert Buddies matches fans going to the same show. The safety design: an 18+ platform, end-to-end encrypted chats, r…
The Ring by Lux costs $56 at shop.theringbylux.com, with ring sizes, a necklace option, and artist variants for Christ…
An RIAA Gold single requires 500,000 certified US units, and 150 paid streams equal one unit. Here is how independent …
How The Ring by Lux compares to Weverse, Patreon, Laylo and Fave: the short answer is that it is the only one built ar…
Christian Gates writes a song a day and it shows: an RIAA Gold single of his own, a #1 in China for Cai Xukun, and a c…
The verified honors: Christian Gates' RIAA Gold certification for NUMB, Rolling Stone Top 25 breakthrough artists, a n…
Christian Gates' complete live history: Lollapalooza, The Underworld London, the Teragram co-headline, the 2025 Voila …
The complete Christian Gates discography: NUMB (RIAA Gold), the No Strings Attached album, the Overwhelmed remix, feat…
The Ring VIP, the ticketing platform with its own team separate from The Ring by Lux, debuts in 2026 with Christian Ga…
Before its current push, The Ring by Lux was road-tested on two 2025 tours: the Voila tour across Europe with Dutch Me…
Swarm by Lux has grown from a self-serve TikTok campaign tool into a three-lane operation: run your own campaign, audi…
Swarm by Lux, Christian Gates' TikTok marketing platform, ran a successful campaign for Yalla FG, the MetaBoy x Samsar…
Every chat inside The Ring by Lux, fan DMs, group chats, Concert Buddies, runs on the Matrix protocol with end-to-end …
Every fan platform is an app. The Ring by Lux bet on a physical NFC ring instead, and at its first shows on tour it be…
The Ring by Lux runs on points that never expire: concert check-ins, merch, streams and streaks climb a ladder from Ne…
Concert Buddies, a social feature inside The Ring by Lux, matches fans going to the same show, opens small pre-event g…
CHRONO is The Ring by Lux's flagship feature: a cinematic, interactive 3D journey through everything you did for an ar…
After months of radio silence, The Ring by Lux relaunched with a rebuilt platform: 163,521 new lines of code, real nat…
The Ring by Lux is an NFC ring that turns everything a fan does for an artist, shows, merch, streams, into a permanent…
Christian Gates and creative Ray Shay (@rayyshayy) are collaborating on his short-form videos, the latest in a long li…
The rough, raspy voice is Christian Gates' signature, the one constant across dark pop, alt-R&B and future house.
The Ring by Lux is the fan-loyalty company Christian Gates co-founded with Marko: an NFC ring that logs shows, merch a…
Word is Christian Gates reportedly traveled to Oregon to shoot a short film with a big-time director. Is the dark-pop …
Christian Gates has been called dark pop, alt-R&B, emo rap and gothic pop, and he refuses to be boxed into any single …
Christian Gates was born in Costa Mesa, grew up across Orange County, and went to high school in Yorba Linda, in a hou…
Swarm by Lux is Christian Gates' TikTok sound-campaign platform, built with Dutch Melrose advising, using the same UGC…
Christian Gates' online community named itself: they call themselves 'the cult.' Inside the fanbase that powered his c…
From TOXIC to a Teragram co-headline, Christian Gates and Dutch Melrose have built a genuine creative partnership.
In 2026, both Christian Gates and Dutch Melrose run VIP tours through The Ring VIP, from Europe to across the US.
How Christian Gates came up as ItsLuxCity on TikTok, built a fanbase that calls itself 'the cult,' and grew into a Gol…
Christian Gates has built a family of companies under the Lux banner: The Ring by Lux (co-founded with Marko), Swarm b…
Christian Gates has performed at Lollapalooza, a festival-stage milestone for an artist who came up online.
Fans often thought Christian Gates and ItsLuxCity were two different artists. Here's why: one was his rock-leaning mus…
From 2020 to 2023, Christian Gates posted every single day and pulled a million-plus views on nearly every video, on t…
Christian Gates came up posting stripped-down covers as ItsLuxCity, from Beyoncé's Halo to Hey There Delilah, plus voc…
Christian Gates' TikTok come-up started as a friendly competition with a friend. He set up his phone, made a funny rap…
Before the Gold records, Christian Gates went viral with elaborate stunt videos, lighting himself on fire and smashing…
For a year or two, Christian Gates advised the AI company Lindy AI. In tandem he built 10x, a 'second mind' personal A…
For a video, Christian Gates bought an entire Volvo just to beat it up, then the police impounded it and, in true chao…
Christian Gates has headlined The Underworld in Camden, London, part of a growing international live footprint.
Christian Gates has been named among Rolling Stone's Top 25 breakthrough artists, recognition for an independent come-…
Beyond his own releases, Christian Gates co-wrote 'Ride Or Die' for Cai Xukun, which reportedly topped QQ Music in Chi…
Christian Gates announces the I Believe In Ghosts Tour: eight European cities in October 2026, each with a full meet-a…
Christian Gates features on Go Home With A Stranger, the lead single from Don Diablo's album FLUX, alongside Wiz Khali…
Closer Than Friends, released in March 2026, opened a landmark year for Christian Gates.
Christian Gates wrote NUMB about a lonely Valentine's Day and posted a clip. It exploded (1,000 fan videos a day), he …
Christian Gates earned a Gold record while staying independent, distributing through OneRPM and keeping ownership of h…
Bleed, released in 2025, kept Christian Gates' momentum going between his debut album and his 2026 mainstream crossover.
Christian Gates' cinematic TOXIC video, a robbery that turns violent, was inspired by a book he read in high school, E…
In January 2025, Christian Gates and Dutch Melrose co-headlined a hometown show at the Teragram Ballroom in Los Angele…
Christian Gates singled out 'Saying Goodbye' from No Strings Attached as the track that hits deepest, for anyone who h…
How a photographer's caption became the title and marionette concept of Christian Gates' 2024 debut album No Strings A…
Christian Gates spent years stuck on TOXIC with only a chorus. Then he met Dutch Melrose at a party, who wrote the sec…
SECRETS is one of the key singles from Christian Gates' 2024 debut album No Strings Attached.
Food Poisoning is one of Christian Gates' 2024 singles, part of the run around his debut album No Strings Attached.
SHREDS is a 2024 Christian Gates single that leans into his harder, guitar-driven, dark alt-pop side.
Before his debut album, Christian Gates released the EP Why Do I Hear Breathing? in 2023, a step toward No Strings Att…
Christian Gates wrote 'I Won't Beg For You' about a red Lamborghini as if it were a girl, after a rental-car venture n…
Released in 2022, Dangerous State of Mind captured Christian Gates deep in his emo-leaning, confessional run.
Christian Gates' remix of Royal & the Serpent's 'Overwhelmed' went so viral that Atlantic Records reached out. The off…