Los Angeles, CA (August 27, 2026) - Legendary film and classical composer, singer-songwriter, and recording artist Danny Elfman and artist/jewelry designer ALLIGATORJESUS reunite for a new limited collaboration, inspired by a shared fascination with the macabre and the visual language of cinematic horror. Elfman’s actual skull, captured through CT imaging, becomes the foundation for custom-fitted ALLIGATORJESUS grillz inspired by the classic monsters that shaped his creative universe. The collection includes a premium T-shirt and garment-dyed hoodie, now available at shop.dannyelfman.com and in-store at ALLIGATORJESUS DTLA.
For ALLIGATORJESUS, Danny Elfman has been a creative presence long before the two became friends. His music and imagery have shaped generations of film, art, and popular culture by giving the strange a sense of grandeur—turning monsters, shadows, theatricality, and unease into something unmistakably beautiful. After more than a decade of watching Elfman perform live, the idea of creating a set of grillz for him had lived quietly in the background for years. As their friendship developed, so did a shared visual language: a fascination with classic horror, anatomy, mortality, and artists such as Joel-Peter Witkin, whose meticulously staged photographs transform the body, death, and the grotesque into haunting, almost sacred tableaux.
The image at the center of this collaboration grew out of a moment at one of Elfman’s performances in Southern California. Sitting in the second row, directly in front of him, ALLIGATORJESUS found himself looking past the spectacle of the stage and imagining something more permanent: Danny stripped down to the architecture beneath it all—the skull, the teeth, the final portrait. That vision eventually took form through Elfman’s actual skull, captured through CT imaging, which became the foundation for custom-fitted ALLIGATORJESUS grillz inspired by the classic monsters that shaped his creative universe. Rendered in stark clinical detail, the resulting image exists somewhere between medical document, memento mori, Hollywood monster still, and luxury object.
The collaboration arrives just ahead of Elfman’s North American tour, kicking off September 7, 2026 in Chicago, with stops in Detroit, Toronto, Boston, New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, and more. Elfman is also set to appear at several major festivals this year including Shaky Knees, Louder Than Life, and Aftershock. A full tour routing is included below. For tickets and more information visit dannyelfman.com.
Danny Elfman - 2026 Tour Dates
^ festival performance
Sept 7 - Chicago, IL - Aragon Ballroom
Sept 9 - Detroit, MI - Fox Theatre
Sept 10 - Toronto, ON - History
Sept 12 - Boston, MA - MGM Music Hall at Fenway
Sept 14 - Silver Spring, MD - The Fillmore Silver Spring
Sept 15 - New York, NY - SummerStage
Sept 16 - Philadelphia, PA - The Met Philadelphia
Sept 18 - Atlanta, GA - Shaky Knees Festival ^
Sept 20 - Louisville, KY - Louder Than Life Festival ^
Oct 3 - San Francisco, CA - The Masonic
Oct 4 - Sacramento, CA - Aftershock Festival ^
ABOUT DANNY ELFMAN
Danny Elfman is an award-winning composer has garnered international recognition for composing over 100 film scores and his legendary 40-year collaboration with Tim Burton on films including Batman, Beetlejuice, Edward Scissorhands, Pee-wee’s Big Adventure, and Alice in Wonderland as well as music, lyrics and songs forThe Nightmare Before Christmas for which he also sang the part of Jack Skellington. Elfman was also the lead singer and songwriter for the LA rock band Oingo Boingo for 17 years. Elfman has frequently collaborated with director Sam Raimi on films such as Spider-Man, Doctor Strange in the Multiverse of Madness and Send Help and with director Gus Van Sant on the Academy Award-winning films Good Will Hunting and Milk. Additionally, he wrote the music for the Men in Black film series franchise, as well as iconic television themes for The Simpsons, Desperate Housewives, Wednesday, and most recently, Stuart Fails to Save the Universe. His honors include four Academy Award nominations, a GRAMMY, three Emmy® Awards including Main Title Theme for Wednesday (2023), multiple Saturn Awards, and lifetime achievement honors from The Society of Composers & Lyricists, the Max Steiner Film Music Award, and the Fantasia International Film Festival’s Cheval Noir Award for career achievement. Beyond film, his nine classical symphonic works are performed worldwide, and his concert From Boingo to Batman to Big Mess and Beyond premiered at Coachella in 2022. Elfman’s recent projects include scoring Sam Raimi’s Send Help (2026), as well as contributing to A$AP Rocky’s #1 album Don’t Be Dumb, for which Elfman contributed multiple string arrangements, appeared in the video for the single “Punk Rocky,” alongside Winona Ryder and Thundercat, and performed with A$AP Rocky on SNL. In early 2027 Elfman will release his highly anticipated new album via Sumerian Records, the follow-up to his acclaimed 2021 release Big Mess. In September, he will kick off his new rock tour, and is set to perform at major music festivals including Shaky Knees, Louder Than Life, and Aftershock.
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ABOUT ALLIGATORJESUS
ALLIGATORJESUS is a Miami-born, Los Angeles-based artist and jewelry designer known for custom grillz, fine jewelry, and one-of-one pieces that blur the line between art, fashion, and personal identity. Emerging from the underground, his work has since appeared on some of culture’s biggest stages—from the Super Bowl and FIFA to magazine covers and collaborations with globally recognized artists and cultural figures. Rooted in sculpture and driven by experimentation, ALLIGATORJESUS has built a practice around transforming unconventional ideas into highly crafted objects, while maintaining the outsider perspective and creative freedom that shaped the brand from the beginning
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Robert Kinsler
