Musician Liam Hayden, known as Cult Member, standing in a grassy field at sunset. The person wears a black zip-up hoodie with a white skeleton print on the chest, black pants, and a black baseball cap. A long wooden fence and grazing cattle are visible in the background.
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House music has so many offshoots, and Liam Hayden plays some of its most popular strains.

Better known as Cult Member (aka FKA GothBoiClique, Thraxxhouse, or Ghoste), the 27-year-old used to make cloud rap inspired by Spaceghostpurrp and Gravity Boys, but he currently plumbs the depths of techno, ambient, and trance music on records that utilize gear like the  Roland TR-08, Tascam Portastudio 424, and Elektron Octatrack (as pointed out by the website Underground Underdogs).

A December 2025 LP, New Life, was an appropriately-named release to jump start this year and drive the Québécois producer to our neck of the woods.

Tickets to see Cult Member play Crowbar in Ybor City on Saturday, March 14 are still available for $29.67.

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This article appears in Mar. 12 – 18, 2026.

Read his 2016 intro letter and disclosures from 2022 and 2021. Ray Roa started freelancing for Creative Loafing Tampa in January 2011 and was hired as music editor in August 2016. He became Editor-In-Chief...