Star Monster is a Madison, Wisconsin bass producer and multi-instrumentalist - born Phillip Paul Parhamovich III, originally from Cleveland, Ohio - who debuted in 2017 and built his sound out of experimental hip-hop, halftime and high-energy dubstep. The tone is deliberately spooky and playful rather than purely heavy, and his releases run across his own catalogue plus compilations for ShadowTrix Music. He came from visual art and NFL videography before music, which shows in how much of the project is visual, and he broke wider in 2025 through viral short-form video, remix flips and a signature dance he calls the Shwiggle. Festival credits include Burning Man, Emissions and Stilldream alongside his own North American club runs; a PNW bass crowd is getting an act that leans weird and funny rather than straight riddim.
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An absolute, national (US) measure — not a ranking against the other artists on this site. We take the strongest of three open signals: ListenBrainz listens, English Wikipedia pageviews, and the number of Wikipedia language editions that have an article. The strongest one wins, so a signal we couldn't read never drags the result down. Bucket 1 means measured and small. Unrated never means small — it means we don't have the numbers.
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Upcoming shows
Nothing on the calendar for Star Monster right now. They've played the region 2 times before. Browse all events.
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No reachable source carries a review of a Star Monster set or first-hand audience reaction. What is documented is an EDM Identity artist spotlight, a Last.fm biography, Beatport and ShadowTrix release credits, and Isthmus event listings in his home town of Madison - all descriptive or promotional rather than evaluative. He is a mid-tier touring bass act whose audience lives on platforms this project cannot reach, so the figures below are sample data, not a verdict on his shows.
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Gathered 2026-08-23 (medium confidence) from musicbrainz.org, last.fm, edmidentity.com, beatport.com, isthmus.com, servintalentagency.com, https://www.deezer.com search API — artist image via exact case-insensitive name match, highest fan count