You will not find this on any big event site, and that's exactly the point: tucked into an Echo Park bakery, a room full of NCTzens is throwing a tenth-anniversary party for a group most of the city has never heard of, and it will be one of the most heartfelt gatherings in Los Angeles that day. Ten years of NCT Dream, celebrated the way fandom does it best: custom cup sleeves, a photocard event, a cake, walls of fan art, and strangers who feel like old friends the second you walk in. Saturday, August 1, 2026, at Kien Giang Bakery in Los Angeles, drop in during the afternoon. Come in your Dream colors, bring your binder, and spend a few hours somewhere you actually belong. This is the back-of-the-store magic: small, homemade, and yours.
The masks come out at the Delhi Center and suddenly Santa Ana belongs to a different world. One where gravity is optional, betrayal is theatrical, and the crowd is the loudest instrument in the building. DreamSlam Wrestling’s Luchapalooza is back for round two, and if you were at the first one, you already have a friend you’re texting right now.
Luchapalooza 2 lands on Thursday, August 21 at 505 East Central Avenue in the heart of Santa Ana. DreamSlam has been building something special in Orange County — a promotion rooted in lucha libre tradition but with the kind of high-flying, no-limits storytelling that makes every match feel like the main event. The Delhi Center is the perfect venue for it: intimate, loud, and a place where the energy in the room feeds directly into the ring.
What separates DreamSlam from the corporate wrestling experience is proximity. There is no jumbotron because you don’t need one. The ropes are right there. The wrestlers are right there. The moment someone launches off the top turnbuckle, you feel the air move. This is wrestling the way it was meant to be experienced — as a communal act of disbelief.
Doors and bell time TBA. Follow DreamSlam Wrestling on Instagram for ticket info and the full card announcement.
Sep 10, 2026
$36
Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd, San …
Ten years ago a record slipped out that most people missed entirely and a devoted few never quite recovered from. Fever Daydream was Greg Puciato — better known for screaming his lungs out in Dillinger Escape Plan — turning hard left into lush, aching, synth-drenched pop that sounded like heartbreak lit by a dashboard at 3am. A decade on, The Black Queen is playing it front to back, and the small confines of Soda Bar are perfect for it: a room of people who found this album in a low moment and carried it quietly ever since, finally in one place to feel it together. Expect fog, neon, and a crowd singing along to songs they thought only they knew. Thursday, September 10, 2026, Soda Bar, 21+. Go stand in the glow of a cult record turning ten, surrounded by the other people it saved — the ones who never needed it to be popular to know it was perfect.
Nov 20, 2026
$20+
505 E Central Ave, Santa Ana, CA 9…
The best pro wrestling in Southern California doesn't happen in an arena, it happens in a packed Santa Ana warehouse where an indie outfit called DreamSlam throws down and the whole room is close enough to feel the canvas shake. SoCal Royale is their big battle-royale blowout, a night of high-flying lucha, hard-hitting brawlers, and homegrown characters the regulars love like family. Friday, November 20, 2026, at 505 E Central Ave in Santa Ana. This is grassroots wrestling at its most electric: cheap, chaotic, and genuinely thrilling, with future stars busting their bodies three feet from your seat. Bring cash for merch, pick a hero and a villain, and lose your voice. This is the back-of-the-store show the corporate product forgot how to make. Come see wrestling the way it's supposed to feel.
Nov 20, 2026
✨ New
Queen Mary Waterfront, 1126 Queens…
Trance is the genre that never died because the people who love it never stopped needing it. While every other electronic subgenre cycled through trend pieces and backlash and revival tours, trance just kept going — four-on-the-floor, building toward a break that feels like the top of a roller coaster, and then the drop that feels like flying.
Dreamstate SoCal returns to the Queen Mary Waterfront in Long Beach on November 20 and 21 with over 70 artists across four stages, including the new Long Beach Amphitheater and the Beatbox Art Car for local artists. Above and Beyond plays an Anjunabeats Classics set. Infected Mushroom brings the psytrance. Ferry Corsten, Dash Berlin, and Astrix represent the old guard. ARTBAT and Hannah Laing represent whatever comes next.
This is not a festival where you stand in the back and nod. This is a festival where you close your eyes and the bassline finds your sternum. The community is the draw as much as the music — trance fans are a tribe, and Dreamstate is the annual gathering.
18+ event. VIP areas 21+. November 20–21, 2026. Queen Mary Waterfront, Long Beach, CA. Tickets at socal.dreamstateusa.com.