THE SARGE

UCCS music major and singer-songwriter Juaniee headlines the Halloweek Monster Mash concert at Berger Hall on the UCCS campus in Colorado Springs — Thursday, October 29, 2026, from 7 to 10 PM — with Kaiziken and Naiema Johnson on the bill, a costume contest, and a room full of students ready to kick off Halloween weekend. The concert is presented by UCCS Student Life & Leadership as part of Halloweek. The Show: Monster Mash at Berger Hall, October 29 Berger Hall is the room, Halloween energy is the dress code. Fans are encouraged to come in costume and enter the costume contest between sets. Juaniee takes the headline slot — top billing on the official flyer — with support from Kaiziken and Naiema Johnson. For questions or accessibility accommodations, contact UCCS Student Life at (719) 255-3470 or studlife@uccs.edu. Meet Juaniee: UCCS Singer-Songwriter on the Rise Juaniee is a Colorado independent recording artist, singer, and songwriter studying music at UCCS (class of 2...

COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. — THE SARGE — hip-hop and pop-punk-rock artist, producer, sound designer, and CEO of The Sarge LLC — has built one of Colorado Springs' most active independent music brands from the ground up: a Billboard Hip Hop and HipHopSince1987.com featured/published artist, a promoter with 10+ years running shows and residencies, a college-educated audio professional, and now a full-time music major giving back to the next generation of artists in his own city. His monthly multi-genre residency, BUST OUT THE BOX at Wagon Wheel Sports Bar & Concert Hall in Colorado Springs, is currently in its second year and approaching its thirteenth edition. His current charity showcase, BUST OUT THE BOX #13: UCCS MUSIC NIGHT on Saturday, November 21, 2026, is raising $25,000 for the UCCS Music Department — a campaign recently covered by UCCS News. The Climb: Service, Setbacks, and a Decision to Build Before the stage name, there was the rank. Michael K. Ung served as a U....

Colorado Springs, get the official word here first. Bust Out The Box #12 — THE DEVILS NIGHT — takes over Wagon Wheel Sports Bar & Concert Hall on Friday, October 30, 2026, headlined by Assassinate. Due to unforeseen circumstances, Chloe Killz has announced she will not be able to perform at this year's show. We are announcing the change now, openly and honestly, because our supporters deserve to hear it straight from The Sarge LLC. Why Chloe Killz Cannot Make October 30 Chloe Killz is not only a performing artist — she also runs the Roxy Theatre in Denver, Colorado. A Roxy concert headlining Amanda Perez was previously cancelled after Amanda Perez suffered a stroke. The Roxy has now moved that concert to October 30, and the venue was unable to set any other date for it. As the person running the Roxy, Chloe has to be in Denver that night, holding down her own room on the only night the rescheduled show can happen. The conflict is unavoidable, and it has nothing to do with t...

Horrorcore rap artist XO RECKLE$$, representing Cheyenne, Wyoming, hits the stage at Bust Out the Box #12 — "THE DEVILS NIGHT" — Friday, October 30, 2026, 8 PM at the Wagon Wheel Sports Bar & Concert Hall, 2308 Platte Ave, Colorado Springs. He joins headliner Assassinate and a stacked lineup for THE DEVILS NIGHT in Colorado Springs. 21+ only. Support him direct — grab tickets with his discount code XO. WHO IS XO RECKLE$$? XO RECKLE$$ reps Cheyenne, WY — and he brings that Wyoming energy south to Colorado Springs on October 30. His lane is horrorcore rap: dark, raw, and built for a night called THE DEVILS NIGHT. He's part of the Bust Out the Box #12 lineup rolling into the Wagon Wheel, standing alongside Assassinate, CU$H, Hazadis, Chloe Killz, and DROC. If you follow the underground in this region, you already know the name. If you don't — this is the night to learn it live, in the building. CARD #05 OF 06 IN THE OFFICIAL #12 COLLECTOR SERIES XO RECKLE$$ holds car...

Hip-hop artist CU$H — aka REAL KU$H — hits the stage at Bust Out the Box #12 — "THE DEVILS NIGHT" — Friday, October 30, 2026, 8 PM at the Wagon Wheel Sports Bar & Concert Hall, 2308 Platte Ave, Colorado Springs. He joins headliner Assassinate and a stacked Front Range lineup for the biggest Halloween hip-hop show Colorado Springs has seen all year. 21+ only. Support him direct — grab tickets with his discount code CUSH . WHO IS CU$H? CU$H moves under the name REAL KU$H — same artist, same energy. His lane is HIP HOP: bars, presence, and a style that's all his own. He's part of the Bust Out the Box family rolling into the Wagon Wheel on October 30, bringing raw, no-shortcuts hip hop to the Colorado Springs stage. If you've been at the Box lately, you already know the name. If you haven't — this is the night to fix that. HIS NAME IS ON THE LINEUP — AND ON THE CARD CU$H holds a card in the official Bust Out the Box #12 trading-card collector series: a b...

The GoFundMe to raise $25,000 for the UCCS Music Department is live now, tied to Bust Out the Box #13: UCCS Music Night on Saturday, November 21 at the Wagon Wheel in Colorado Springs. The Sarge wants to thank everyone who's already donated — and he wants to be clear about one thing upfront: this is not a personal cause. It's a community cause. And it's bigger than him. This Wasn't UCCS's Idea. It Was His. Let's be straight about something: UCCS isn't out here asking for donations. He is. Sarge took the initiative to launch this fundraiser himself, because the math is simple — if the music department could get what it needs through normal channels, it would have gotten it already. It hasn't. So he stepped up and built the fundraiser around the November 21 charity showcase he's already producing. That's how this works with him. He sees a gap, he builds the thing. The GoFundMe — https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-us-raise-25000-for-uccs-music — is the...

Denver hip-hop artist DROC takes the stage at Bust Out the Box #12 — “THE DEVILS NIGHT” — Friday, October 30, 2026, 8 PM at the Wagon Wheel Sports Bar & Concert Hall, 2308 Platte Ave, Colorado Springs. He joins headliner Assassinate and a stacked Front Range lineup for the biggest Halloween show Colorado Springs has seen all year. 21+ only. Support him direct — grab tickets with his discount code DROC . WHO IS DROC? DROC reps Denver, Colorado — Derrick off the stage, DROC on it. His lane is HIP HOP, full stop: no horrorcore label, no boxes. Just bars, built the Denver way — raw, relentless, and earned. He’s part of the Denver wave rolling south to Colorado Springs on October 30, bringing the uncut, no-shortcuts Denver sound to the Wagon Wheel stage. THE MAN WHO NAMED THE NIGHT Here’s what most people in the crowd won’t know: DROC didn’t just land a slot on this lineup — he helped shape the night itself. THE DEVILS NIGHT — the name this whole Halloween show now runs under — ca...

"I'm done playing around." — THE SARGE That's not a threat. That's a promise — to his family, to his community, to every artist watching him from the crowd wondering if it's too late to go bigger. Michael K. Ung, the Colorado Springs artist, producer, and promoter known as The Sarge, is pursuing higher education in Music Business and Innovation, and brick by brick, he's building an empire. Not someday. Right now. In the classroom, on the stage, in the studio at 2 AM. The wheels keep turning, and he keeps thinking of better ways to serve the community with the tools he has. But most importantly — he's just having fun with it, grateful for the opportunity to create as much as he possibly can. Here's what "unstoppable" looks like. The Foundation: Earned, Not Given Before the empire, there was the grind. The Sarge is a performing music artist — hip-hop and pop-punk-rock — and he earned his bachelor's degree in Audio Production from F...

The GoFundMe is LIVE — I'm raising $25,000 for the UCCS Music Department, and 100% of every single dollar goes straight to them. Donate here to help us raise $25,000 for UCCS Music. Why UCCS — This One's Personal UCCS has been an amazing part of my life so far. I'm a music major there. I sing with Pitch Peak, the a cappella group. I'm the music student administration officer. The UCCS Music Department gave me a home — a place where a U.S. Army Infantry veteran could walk in and become a student of music, surrounded by people who live and breathe this craft every single day. Every year, I try to do a charity event. That's just what I do — if I've got a stage, I'm putting it to work for somebody. This year, I'm donating to them. The department that took me in, that sharpened me, that believed a soldier could become a musician — this one's for them. Where Every Dollar Goes One hundred percent of proceeds collected will be donated directly to the UC...

THE SARGE #1: LOCAL MUSIC HERO is officially out. The first issue of the 23-issue weekly comic series from The Sarge LLC dropped Saturday, October 4, 2026 — available now on Kindle and free to read on GlobalComix, with a $3 digital edition on itch.io. One new issue lands every Sunday through March 7, 2027, and Season 2 is already in the works for an early 2027 announcement. Where to read Issue #1 right now Readers have three doors in. The Kindle edition is live now for $2.99 — built for phones, tablets, and e-readers, DRM-free, the way comics should be. The GlobalComix edition is free to read right now at the official series page, with the full 13-page issue open to everyone. And the itch.io edition is there for $3 for readers who want to support the series directly and keep a DRM-free file of their own. Read THE SARGE #1 free on GlobalComix Get the $3 digital edition on itch.io What "Local Music Hero" is about Every superhero has an origin. This one starts in Colorado ...

Same beast. New name. BUST OUT THE BOX #12 has a new name: THE DEVILS NIGHT Halloween Party . Friday, October 30. Wagon Wheel Sports Bar & Concert Hall, Colorado Springs. 21+. The name change was brought on by DROC , built in collaboration with the headlining artists of this event. When the artists speak, we listen — this is their night. And let's be clear: the headliner is STILL ASSASSINATE (6SS6IN6TE) & friendz . Same lineup. Same stage. Same energy. Only the name got meaner. Devil's Night is October 30th — the night before Halloween, when the streets come alive. Fitting. Tickets are live now on Eventbrite: get tickets here . Update your calendars, tell your crew, and we'll see you at the Wagon Wheel. Stay Different.

ARTIST SPOTLIGHT: WHO IS ASSASSINATE If you run in Colorado horrorcore circles, you already know the name. If you don't — you're about to. ASSASSINATE — Nathaniel Illig — is one of the most commanding underground performers in Colorado Springs and the Denver underground scene, a horrorcore heavyweight whose live show hits like a shockwave and whose story reads like a myth. On Friday, October 30, 2026, he headlines HALLOWEINER — Bust Out the Box #12 — at the Wagon Wheel Sports Bar & Concert Hall in Colorado Springs. This is the artist behind the name. THE ORIGIN: BORN AGAIN OF THE NIGHT Nathaniel Illig's story starts long before the stage. Born July 8, 1991 — in his Words. "more than a sequence of numbers," as he puts it, "the day fate decided a legend would be born" — he was brought down from the mountains to a small suburb of northern Colorado, where his family was searching for more opportunity. He grew up, in his words, "raised to be the peop...