Draft:The Flux Capacitors
The Flux Capacitors | |
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 The Flux Capacitors performing live at San Diego Comic Con in 2025 | |
| Background information | |
| Origin | Los Angeles, California, U.S. |
| Genres | Rock, pop, new wave, dance |
| Years active | 2013-present |
| Members |
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| Website | www |
The Flux Capacitors are an American cover band formed in Los Angeles in 2013 by Ryan Silverberg and Brian Lanzarotto.[1]. The band is named and themed after characters and events from the Back to the Future franchise, and is notable for its pop culture integration including writing music for the mobile game Ghostbusters: Afterlife ScARe[2][3][4][5], performing with celebrity guests, being featured in Universal Fan Fest Nights at Universal Studios Hollywood, and being active in the Back to the Future fan community[6]. The band primarily plays popular music from the 1980s and 1990s, while also including music from popular film and TV franchises such as Back to the Future, The Lost Boys, Labyrinth, and Parks and Recreation.
Celebrity Guest Members
[edit]The Flux Capacitors regularly collaborate with celebrity guest musicians, most frequently performing with guest singer Danny Cooksey[7][8][9] and other Salute Your Shorts and Nickelodeon alumni Venus DeMilo, Alisa Reyes, and Phil Moore.
In 2016, at the height of the mobile game Pokémon Go, The Flux Capacitors performed the Pokémon television series theme song, and the unreleased Pokémon Go theme song with the original singer Jason Paige[10][11][12][13][14][15]. Jason Paige's YouTube channel credits The Flux Capacitors as being the first band he has performed the Pokémon theme along side.[16]
In 2025, The Flux Capacitors collaborated with Gerard McMahon to perform his song Cry Little Sister from the 1987 film The Lost Boys at San Diego Comic-Con[17][18] and other events themed around The Lost Boys franchise[19][20][21]
References
[edit]- ^ "The Story of a Back to the Future-Themed Band and Their DeLorean". LA Weekly. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
- ^ "'The story behind Ghostbusters: Afterlife ScARe's theme song". Ghostbusters News. Retrieved 2025-12-08.
- ^ "'Ghostbusters: Afterlife 'ScARe' on Call 24 Hours a Day to Serve All Your Supernatural Elimination Needs". Promote Horror. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
- ^ "Horror Highlights: DEATH VALLEY, Ghostbusters: Afterlife ScARe, THE DARKNESS OF THE ROAD". Daily Dead. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
- ^ "'GHOSTBUSTERS: AFTERLIFE 'ScARe' ON CALL 24 HOURS A DAY TO SERVE ALL YOUR SUPERNATURAL ELIMINATION NEEDS". SciFi Pulse. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
- ^ "'Back to the Future' band". CNN. Retrieved 2025-12-08.
- ^ "Hosnian Prom - The Bash at SDCC 2024". The San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
- ^ "Hosnian Prom: The 501st Legion Bash at SDCC". KPBS. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
- ^ "Hosnian Prom: The 501st Legion Bash at SDCC". DOSD. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
- ^ "'Pokémon Theme' Singer Jason Paige Still Wants to Be the Very Best". SPIN. Retrieved 2025-12-08.
- ^ "Ready Party One: Love and Thunder, SDCC Kick Off Party!". KPBS. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
- ^ "Ready Party One: Love and Thunder, SDCC Kick Off Party!". SDCC Blog. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
- ^ "San Diego Event Calendar". vinylmnky. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
- ^ "7 Comic-Con After Parties That You Can't Miss". San Diego Magazine. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
- ^ "We Stop By XLE's Ready Party One At SDCC 2022!". Nerd News Social. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
- ^ Jason Paige (2019-11-28). FIRST EVER Live Pokemon Theme Performance by OG Jason Paige -At LA Comiccon 2016 The Flux Capacitors. Retrieved 2025-12-09 – via YouTube.
- ^ "XLE Productions Returns to San Diego Comic-Con with Kickoff Party "Ready Party One" [UPDATE July 14]". SDCC Blog. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
- ^ "Ready Party One Is Kicking SDCC 2025 Off In Style". Screenrant. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
- ^ "The best things to do this week in San Diego: Oct. 27-31". The San Diego Union-Tribune. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
- ^ "Vamp to The Future". Stay Happening. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
- ^ "Vamp to the Future". The Holding Company. Retrieved 2025-12-09.
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