Just Like Heaven Festival 2026

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Some of these songs got into you before you had any say in the matter — a car radio, an older sibling's bedroom door, a movie you were too young to be watching. You did not choose them. They chose the shape of you.

That is the whole trick of this bill. It books artists whose catalogs crossed over from music into memory, decades and genres apart, and somehow they hold together in a way nobody can explain on paper. Brookside is the right ground for it: open field, mountains at the edge of your vision, Pasadena heat carrying sound the way outdoor sound is supposed to travel.

And the crowd is half the show. Everyone there wants to be there, which changes the air completely.

Come early enough to settle before the afternoon sets. Blanket, sunscreen, shoes you can stand in all day.

Text this to whoever you would have called the first time one of these songs wrecked you.