Copa Del Rave — World Cup Final Watch Party at Academy LA
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Copa Del Rave — World Cup Final Watch Party at Academy LA
Copa Del Rave is turning every World Cup match day into a full cultural event at Academy LA and Exchange LA through July 19. Your country plays. Your country DJ rages. Billboard covered it.
Copa Del Rave is the only event series in Los Angeles that turns FIFA World Cup match days into full-scale cultural events. Running June 11 through July 19 at Academy LA and Exchange LA — two of the city's top nightclubs — the residency pairs live match broadcasts with DJ sets from artists and collectives repping the countries playing that day. Claude VonStroke plays for Team USA. Gasolina and Reggaeton Rave cover Mexico. Afrobeats to the World and Blaq Pages handle the African diaspora. 9AM Banger locks in for Eastern Europe. The formula: watch your country play, then watch your country's DJ rage.
Billboard covered it. Beatportal covered it. This is not a viewing party — it is a match-day cultural event series with no equivalent in LA's event landscape. The 2026 World Cup happens on US soil for the first time in 32 years. Copa Del Rave is the insider way to experience it: less sports bar, more temporary residency at the intersection of soccer culture and electronic music.
The World Cup Final on July 19 is Copa Del Rave's culminating night. One match, two finalists, every DJ crew that has been building toward this moment all summer. Academy LA is at 6021 Hollywood Blvd. The kind of event that will define what World Cup summer felt like in Los Angeles.
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