The Kerosene Hours

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The Kerosene Hours are the hours between midnight and 4 a.m. — that strange pocket of time that exists between real life and someone else’s dream, a time when everything is a shade of neon red, lonely blue, or sickly green, a time when anything and everything can happen. The Kerosene Hours is also the alt/dark rock, multimedia project of LA-based creative Aaron Silverstein. 

Silverstein’s first releases as The Kerosene Hours were a couple of EP’s released in 2019 titled “The King of Leaving” and “Desperate Perilous Virtue.” In March of 2022 he released his debut album as The Kerosene Hours, titled “Fantasy Ultra.” The album and the accompanying visuals are a meditation on the inherent insanity of suburban life viewed through the lens of the darkest fantasies we keep hidden from the outside world — Who do we want to be? Who do we think we are? Who are we really? The follow-up to Fantasy Ultra was an EP of unreleased tracks that were written around the time of the album. That EP, titled “Plagues of the Cinematic,” was released in November 2022. 

In September of 2023, Silverstein released his first collection of instrumentals as The Kerosene Hours titled “Sleepers I: Body in The House.” Planned as a trilogy, Sleepers I was inspired by Silverstein’s late night walks through the city and the tiny worlds that exist inside every home after dark. His debut feature film, THE INFINITE HUSK, which he wrote, directed, edited, and scored, premiered at SXSW in March 2025. 

Silverstein was born and raised in Los Angeles and is a professional Creative Director by trade.



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Silverstein’s rich vibrato swells as he muses, pushing the track forward. Building from humble beginnings into an epic dark rock ballad, “Imperfect You” makes like an exemplary Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds lost classic. — Glide Magazine

His latest, Hello Crazy, is deliciously driven. The spooky synths and Silverstein's quivering wail feels at once like 90's Goth pop and a 70's Italian Horror movie. — American Pancake

Hypnotic percussion and dark, driving bass combines with a quivering “you were in my dreams last night,” vocal cue for a gripping sound steeped in elements of rock and post-punk. This project sounds definitively fit for nighttime roaming, and this release affirms that with a thoroughly successful aesthetic — Obscure Sound

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