Devotional: A Depeche Mode Experience

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Devotional: A Depeche Mode Experience

Name: Devotional: A Depeche Mode Experience
Start: 2026-11-28T20:00:00-08:00
End: 2026-11-28T23:00:00-08:00
Location: The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101

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Saturday, November 28, 2026

8:00 PM PST – 11:00 PM PST

The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, San Diego, CA 92101

$20+

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Spike Hellis at The Casbah

Aug 1

The Technicolors at The Casbah

Aug 6

Day We Ran at The Casbah

Aug 7

Kid Congo Powers & the Pink Monkey Birds

Aug 9

Off With Their Heads at The Casbah

Agriculture with Uniform and Pure Hex

Oct 29

About

Some fandoms are basically religions, and there is no more devoted congregation than Depeche Mode's. Devotional is the tribute the faithful actually endorse, a note-perfect, black-clad channeling of Personal Jesus, Enjoy the Silence, and every synth-drenched anthem that soundtracked a generation's beautiful gloom. Paired with a Nine Inch Nails tribute on the bill, this is a night at the intimate Casbah where San Diego's dark-hearted come to sing every word with their whole chest. Saturday, November 28, 2026, The Casbah in San Diego. The Casbah is a tiny, legendary dive, which makes worshiping these songs shoulder-to-shoulder with true believers feel that much more electric. Wear black, bring your fellow devotee, and reach out and touch faith. When you cannot get the real thing, this is the next best sacrament. Come pray loud.

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Spike Hellis at The Casbah

In 7 days · Aug 1 $18-$22 The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, San…

Industrial music isn't supposed to be tender, and then the rhythm hits and your shoulders are moving before your brain catches up. Spike Hellis makes coldwave that's both -- distorted vocals, synths built from cold, the kind of groove that's visceral and somehow gentle underneath. They've been at it since 2019, mostly out of LA, mostly for people who already know what coldwave is and don't need it explained. The Casbah on a Saturday opens August with it: two-hundred capacity, the bar that's been the bar for thirty-five years, the crowd in mesh and leather and patches and steel-toes. Bring the friend whose closet is entirely black. Doors at eight, openers at eight-thirty, Spike Hellis around ten. Twenty dollars at the door. Saturday in San Diego -- the room is the kind of crowd that's spent years following labels nobody else has heard of, here because someone in their feed said the right thing about it.

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The Technicolors at The Casbah

In 12 days · Aug 6 $18-$22 The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, San…

Some records only make sense alone in the car at night, windows down, the fuzz on the guitars staying warm the whole drive. The Technicolors make that kind — dream-pop with choruses built for exactly that solitude — and they're playing the Casbah on a Thursday, which is a small kindness to everyone whose weekend is already spoken for. The Casbah has been the Casbah for thirty-five years: two hundred capacity, an indoor smoking patio, the same bar. On a Thursday the crowd skews early-30s — people who ducked out of dinner to catch the openers and will be at work in the morning anyway. The band comes on around nine-thirty, does an hour, and stays to take pictures with everyone who waits at the merch table. Doors at eight, openers at eight-thirty. Tickets through the Casbah's own site — twenty bucks if you grab them before the door. Bring the friend who still buys vinyl.

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Day We Ran at The Casbah

In 13 days · Aug 7 $15-$18 The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, San…

Day We Ran believed the post-Strokes era of catchy guitar rock did not have to be over just because the press said it was. So the LA-based four-piece writes the songs that sound exactly like that anyway — short, hook-forward, the kind of catalog that fills out a Friday night without anyone needing to explain themselves. Friday August 7 at the Casbah in San Diego. Two hundred capacity. The bar that has been the bar for thirty-five years. Doors at eight, openers at eight-thirty, headline around ten. Fifteen dollars at the door. The crowd is the people who came for the Casbah and stayed because the band was better than expected and the people who came specifically for the band and were not surprised.

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Kid Congo Powers & the Pink Monkey Birds

Aug 9, 2026 $20-$25 The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, San…

The man playing guitar in this two-hundred-capacity room on Sunday night came up through the Cramps, the Gun Club, and Nick Cave's Bad Seeds — three of the most influential bands of the last fifty years — and he's still out here with the Pink Monkey Birds, close enough that you can read his face. Kid Congo Powers helped teach everyone else what those songs could be, and he plays rooms like this because rooms like this are where it still means something. The Casbah has booked bands like him for thirty-five years, in a converted Middletown rectangle that holds nothing fancy except the people who keep showing up. Shows like this sell out — not from marketing, but because the regulars text the regulars and the regulars buy the tickets. Sunday night, 21+, doors at eight, openers at eight-thirty. Tickets through the Casbah's own site; they've always sold their own. Bring the friend who owns the first Gun Club record.

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Off With Their Heads at The Casbah

Aug 12, 2026 $18-$22 The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, San…

Punk this fast usually skips the hard part, and then Off With Their Heads gets up and sings the whole ugly inside of your own head at you -- the not-drinking, the long slow shape of recovery -- without slowing down once. Ryan Young has been fronting it since 2002 out of Minneapolis, gravel voice, bass you feel in your chest, folk-punk and pop-punk overlapping so completely that the crowd knows the words better than the band does some nights. The Casbah on a Wednesday is the room for it: two hundred people, most in patched jackets, some with tattoos that quote the lyrics. Bring the friend who got you through the year you don't talk about. Doors at eight, openers at eight-thirty, headline around nine-thirty. Wednesday in San Diego -- which is to say the room is the people who showed up because the Casbah was the only place in town that booked it. Tickets through the Casbah's own site.

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Playlunch

Aug 13, 2026 $15-$18 The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, San…

Jangle-pop and post-punk keep each other honest when you let them share a song -- too much sweetness and you drift, too much spikiness and you clench -- and Playlunch writes right down that seam. The Melbourne five-piece makes tight Australian indie, the kind of catalog that earns a small devoted cult on every continent it actually reaches. The Casbah on a Thursday is the right room for the US run: two hundred capacity, the bar that's been the bar for thirty-five years. Bring the friend who imports records and makes you listen to them in the car. The crowd is the indie kids who already have the songs plus the Casbah regulars who show up for whatever sounds promising on a Thursday. Doors at eight, openers at eight-thirty, Playlunch around ten. Fifteen dollars at the door, Thursday in San Diego.

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Slow Magic

Sep 24, 2026 $22+ The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, San…

Nobody knows exactly who Slow Magic is, and that's the whole enchantment: an anonymous producer in a glowing animal mask who plays live drums over shimmering, tribal, emotional electronic music, turning every show into something between a rave and a ritual. His cult following treats each performance like a secret handshake, and an intimate San Diego set at the Casbah is exactly the kind of small, sweaty, transcendent night the mainstream will never know about. Thursday, September 24, 2026, The Casbah in San Diego. Come for the masked mystery, the pounding live drums, the glow, and a crowd of true believers dancing with their eyes closed. Bring the friend who loves a little magic with their music. This is the hidden, luminous, big-hearted underground at its very best. Let it carry you somewhere else.

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Agriculture with Uniform and Pure Hex

Oct 29, 2026 $22+ The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, San…

Black metal is supposed to be cold, misanthropic, and allergic to joy — and then Agriculture showed up calling what they do ecstatic black metal and meaning every syllable of it. Their sound takes the genre's blast beats and tremolo storms and points them at the sky instead of the abyss: transcendent, overwhelming, weirdly life-affirming, closer to a religious experience than a funeral. Live in a room as small and legendary as the Casbah, that wall of sound becomes something you feel in your sternum, a crowd of the initiated losing themselves to noise that somehow leaves you lighter. Uniform and Pure Hex bring the heaviness on either side. This is for the ones who always suspected the loudest music could also be the most transcendent. Thursday, October 29, 2026, 8pm, the Casbah, 21+. Come get leveled by the most joyful extremity in metal, with the small, devoted crowd that already knows the secret.

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Devotional: A Depeche Mode Experience

Spike Hellis at The Casbah

The Technicolors at The Casbah

Day We Ran at The Casbah

Kid Congo Powers & the Pink Monkey Birds

Off With Their Heads at The Casbah

Playlunch

Slow Magic

Agriculture with Uniform and Pure Hex

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