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BlizzCon 2026 — Anaheim Convention Center

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BlizzCon 2026 — Anaheim Convention Center

Every day · Next Sep 12 Anaheim Convention Center, 800 W K…

You have friends whose real names you do not know. You have played with them for years, you would notice within a day if they went quiet, and you have never seen their face. That is a real relationship, and the world keeps insisting it is not. This is the weekend it becomes physical. World premieres, developers who actually wrote the code walking through what they built, esports played live in a room that shakes, hands-on demos of games that will not ship for months, and an opening ceremony that gets you even when you knew it was coming. The floor fills with playable stations, artist signings, cosplay contests, and meetups where a guild finally stands in one place at one time. Anaheim Convention Center, doors at 10 AM both days, passes through Tixr, cosplay encouraged. Send it to the guild. Watch how fast that channel lights up, and how quickly somebody starts pricing flights.

Anime Night Mart — Free Anime Market at Moreno Valley Mall (September 2026)

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Anime Night Mart — Free Anime Market at Moreno Valley Mall (September 2026)

Every day · Next Sep 12 Moreno Valley Mall, 22500 Town Cir…

The artist alley table has prints of your exact comfort character. The vendor next to it is selling enamel pins you didn't know existed but now can't leave without. This isn't a mall event — it's a gathering. Anime Night Mart takes over Moreno Valley Mall for two days of vendor booths, cosplay meetups, gaming stations, live performances, and raffles — all free, all ages. This is the Inland Empire's own anime night market, built for the crowd that knows their way around a convention floor but doesn't need one to have a good time. The vendors bring fan art, plushies, wall scrolls, and treasures from corners of fandom you forgot you loved. The cosplay corner fills with people who spent weeks building something they'll wear for six hours and cherish every second of it. The energy is warm and nerdy and specific. You'll recognize people by their shirts before you know their names. You'll leave with a bag full of things you'll never explain to anyone who wasn't there — and that's exactly how it's supposed to work. September 12-13, 2026. Moreno Valley Mall. Free admission. All ages.

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My Hero Academia in Concert

Sep 15, 2026 Segerstrom Center for the Arts, 60…

You already know what Plus Ultra sounds like. You've heard it through earbuds on the bus, through laptop speakers at 2 AM, through the thin walls of a dorm room where someone was rewatching the tournament arc for the fourth time. You know the swell that hits when Deku breaks through. You know the strings that play when All Might stands up one last time. You've never heard it performed by fifteen musicians standing in a room with you. My Hero Academia in Concert brings Yuki Hayashi's full score to the Segerstrom Center stage — a 15-piece live band performing alongside projected sequences from all eight seasons of the anime. The moments you've replayed a hundred times get rebuilt from scratch in front of you: the instruments that carry the emotion, the breath between notes that streaming audio compresses away, the physical presence of a cello section pulling the weight of a scene you already know the ending to. And knowing doesn't help. You'll feel it all over again. This is not a screening with background music. This is the score as its own experience — the architecture underneath every scene you loved, isolated and amplified, played by people who are watching your face while they play. Monday, September 15, 2026 at 7:30 PM. Segerstrom Center for the Arts, Segerstrom Hall, 600 Town Center Dr, Costa Mesa, CA 92626. Tickets available through the Segerstrom Center box office and Ticketmaster.

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My Hero Academia in Concert

Sep 16, 2026 3790 Wilshire Blvd., The Wiltern, …

Some scores do not belong in earbuds. They were written for a room big enough to hold a full orchestra and everybody who ever wanted to say Plus Ultra out loud without having to explain themselves. Live, with the story unfolding and the strings arriving a half-beat before you remember what happens next, the music does what the show does to you and then keeps doing it long after. The room fills with people who quote the Symbol of Peace to each other and mean every word, which is the sort of crowd that makes an orchestral concert feel closer to a rally. All ages, and every single person needs a ticket regardless of age, which means the kids are in there too, and they are reliably the loudest. The Wiltern on Wilshire, doors in the evening, orchestra on stage. Take the person who made you watch it in the first place. You owe them this one.

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Louder Than Life 2026 — Louisville, KY

Sep 17, 2026 Highland Festival Grounds at Kentu…

Somewhere in Louisville, a father and daughter are headbanging to the same riff — he has been waiting since 1988 for Iron Maiden's anniversary tour, she discovered My Chemical Romance through a video last summer — and Louder Than Life is the only festival in America where both of them feel like they belong in the same room. Louder Than Life returns to Highland Festival Grounds at the Kentucky Expo Center September 17–20, 2026, with nearly 200 bands across seven stages in what has quietly become America's largest rock and metal festival. The 2026 lineup is stacked: Iron Maiden headlines Thursday as part of their 50th anniversary Run For Your Lives World Tour. My Chemical Romance takes Friday. Limp Bizkit owns Saturday with an undercard that includes one of the strongest all-female-fronted rock lineups ever assembled at a major US festival — Halestorm, In This Moment, Lindsey Stirling. TOOL closes the entire thing on Sunday with Gojira, Danny Elfman, and The Mars Volta. The deep cuts are what make Louder Than Life more than a headliner festival: Pantera's only US show of 2026, Megadeth on their farewell tour, BABYMETAL bridging metal and J-pop for 40,000 people who never expected to love both. A Day to Remember, Alice Cooper, Pierce the Veil — four days of music that spans five decades of heavy without pretending any era is better than another. Seven stages means you will always have to choose between two acts you want to see, and that tension is the sign of a festival doing its job. If you have ever been told your music is too loud, too aggressive, too much — this is the festival that was built as the counterargument. Four days in Louisville where heavy is the default and everything else is the exception. The bourbon culture of Louisville means the food and drink programming hits as hard as the music, and the festival grounds are walking distance from downtown. Tickets are available through the official site with single-day and multi-day options. Nearly 200 bands across seven stages means the schedule is an endurance sport — plan your conflicts now, bring comfortable shoes, and accept that you will miss something great every hour. That is the luxury of a lineup this deep. Louder Than Life is the proof that rock never went anywhere — it just needed a festival big enough to hold all of it at once.

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Pacific Pinball Expo 2026 — Alameda

Sep 18 – Sep 20, 2026 Alameda, CA 94501

Pay once at the door and every machine in the hall is yours for the weekend - hundreds of them, on free play, from the clacking electromechanicals your grandparents fed dimes into to the newest Sterns still smelling of factory. The Pacific Pinball Expo in Alameda is one of the largest pinball collector and player events in the Western United States, drawing machines and enthusiasts from throughout California and beyond for a full weekend of free-play games, collector seminars, restoration workshops, and the competitive play that has made it a pilgrimage for the serious pinball community. The Pacific Pinball Museum operates year-round in Alameda as the primary public pinball collection on the West Coast, and the Expo amplifies that with additional machines collectors bring specifically for the event. The machine selection emphasizes historical breadth: electromechanicals from the 1950s and 60s sit alongside solid-state classics from the late 1970s through the Williams and Bally golden era of the 1990s, on through modern machines from Stern and Spooky. Restoration seminars by experienced collectors cover electrical troubleshooting, playfield restoration, and parts sourcing - practical knowledge the machine-owning community struggles to find in any other format. The Expo is held at a venue in or near Alameda, roughly 45 minutes north of San Jose and 20 minutes from Oakland, with shuttle service from BART typically organized during the event. Full weekend passes and single-day admission available.

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Lost Lands 2026 — Thornville, OH

Sep 18 – Sep 18, 2026 Legend Valley, 7585 Kindle Rd, Tho…

Deep in the middle of Ohio, in a valley that looks like it belongs in another century, 40,000 people gather every September to worship at the altar of bass music — and the dinosaurs standing guard over the stages are not ironic. Lost Lands returns to Legend Valley in Thornville, Ohio, September 18–20, 2026, for the festival that Excision built from scratch into the defining pilgrimage for dubstep, riddim, bass house, and everything that makes your chest cavity rattle. This is not a festival that happens to play electronic music. This is a festival that exists because an entire subculture needed a home, and Jeff Abel built them one — complete with prehistoric set pieces, forest stages, and production values that make arena tours look restrained. The 2026 lineup runs 210 artists deep, with Subtronics, Eptic, Borgore, Adventure Club, and Sullivan King anchoring a bill that covers every corner of bass music from melodic dubstep to experimental halftime. The camping experience is half the point — Legend Valley transforms into a temporary city where the community that lives online all year becomes real for three days. You will meet people wearing custom jerseys for producers most of the world has not heard of, and they will treat you like family the second you know the names. The totems, the light shows people build in their campsites, the 3 AM sets in the forest stage — this is what separates Lost Lands from every other EDM festival. If you have ever felt something physical when a bass drop hit — not danced, not nodded, but felt your sternum vibrate and your vision blur for half a second — Lost Lands is the festival that was built for that feeling. If you have never experienced it, this is where you will understand why 40,000 people drive to a valley in Ohio every September. This is an 18+ event. Tickets include festival-only, camping, early entry, glamping, and hotel packages through the official site. The drive from Columbus is about 45 minutes, and Legend Valley's open-sky layout means the Ohio night sky becomes the ceiling for every stage. 2026 adds new camping configurations and expanded production across all stages, continuing Lost Lands' transformation from festival into annual homecoming for the bass music community worldwide. If the algorithm has never shown you a Lost Lands recap video, you are about to discover a world that has been thriving without mainstream attention for years.

SuperMotocross World Championship Playoffs — Carson, CA

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SuperMotocross World Championship Playoffs — Carson, CA

Sep 19, 2026 Dignity Health Sports Park, 18400 …

You feel the bikes in your sternum before you hear them, and once twenty-two of them drop the gate at the same instant, the sound stops being sound and becomes weather. The Playoffs are where the format turns brutal. The escalating points system means every moto counts double: a bad start is not recoverable, a mechanical failure ends a championship, and the entire crowd understands the math while it is happening. The track is a hybrid built to test supercross and motocross in a single afternoon, which strips out anyone who is only good at one. Jett Lawrence and Haiden Deegan defend against Eli Tomac, Chase Sexton, Ken Roczen and the rest of a field that ground through a whole season to get here. FanFest opens the morning wide — team access, riders, the kind of proximity other motorsports sell as a package. Get there early and stand near the fence. You will not go back to watching it on a screen.

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Pop-Up Anime Museum — San Diego

Sep 19, 2026 Free / $15 premium Westfield UTC, 4545 La Jolla Villa…

You have watched these shows from the other side of a screen for years. For a short run, you get to walk into them. It is built around the art — official production art, recreated scenes, large-format installations from titles this community has been carrying for years — and the whole thing is staged so that moving through it feels like moving through an episode. The rooms photograph the way they do because they were built using the visual logic of anime itself: you round a corner and the corner is the show. People come planning to grab one picture and lose an hour. Free entry covers the open gallery; the premium tier unlocks the additional installations and the full walkthrough. It sits inside Westfield UTC in San Diego, and it will not be there long. Send it to the person you watched half of these shows with. Standing inside one of them is a very different thing from remembering it.

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K-Pop Takeover San Diego 2026

Sep 19, 2026 TORO, 672 Fifth Ave, San Diego, CA…

By the third song the stans who know every B-side and the people who got dragged along by a friend are shouting the same fanchant, and nobody can tell anymore which was which. That is the actual product here. Not the setlist — the room. A DJ pulls from second-generation classics through whatever dropped last month, and the floor answers in unison because everyone learned the same choreo alone in their bedroom. People arrive in fan outfits, in cosplay, carrying merch they will absolutely make you look at. It is loud and bright and built so that you leave knowing names. TORO, on Fifth Avenue in the Gaslamp. Doors at noon, last entry at 1:00 PM. Under 18 needs an adult 21 or older, and no outside food or drink. Tickets through Like It Love It Events. Send it to the person you text at two in the morning when a comeback drops.

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So-Cal Cosplay Shoot — Waterfront

Sep 20, 2026 Free Embarcadero, San Diego, CA 92101

A character you'd photograph against Balboa Park's mission arches reads completely differently against ferry docks, harbor patrol boats, and the downtown skyline at sunset - and that's the entire reason to bring your build to the water instead. The So-Cal Cosplay Shoot at the Waterfront is the open-air edition, San Diego Bay behind every frame, the Embarcadero handing each costume an urban backdrop with water and skyline in the same shot. It's not better or worse than the park version; it's a different image, and the difference is the point. Any fandom, any build. Photographers with gear are welcome and encouraged. The waterfront light peaks in the late afternoon, so arrive early enough to catch golden hour before the crowd fills in. The shoot is organized but relaxed - come in costume and find the right backdrop. Embarcadero, San Diego. September 20th. Free. Follow @socosplayscene on Instagram for the exact gather point and start time.

Monterey Jazz Festival 2026 - Monterey, CA

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Monterey Jazz Festival 2026 - Monterey, CA

Sep 25 – Sep 27, 2026 Monterey County Fairgrounds, 2004 …

The fog rolls in at night and the whole crowd wraps itself in jackets and blankets without missing a note - that is the tell that you are somewhere the music has been happening continuously since before your parents were born. The Monterey Jazz Festival is the oldest continuously running jazz festival in the world, held at the Monterey County Fairgrounds since 1958. Nearly seven decades of outdoor jazz on the bay. The experience is one of productive wandering: you build your own schedule across five stages spread through the fairgrounds, stumbling into performances you did not plan and discovering artists you will listen to for the rest of your life. Evenings at the main arena carry the weight of history - the musicians who have played here include Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Billie Holiday. The daytime has a wine-country ease: Thai and Jamaican food stalls, local Monterey County wines poured at on-site tastings, and a crowd ranging from jazz scholars to families simply drawn in by a beautiful September weekend on the California coast. If you love music discovery and the pleasure of something with genuine cultural history, Monterey Jazz is worth every dollar. The Grounds Pass is the insider move - it gives access to all five stages and most artists, and the unexpected discoveries in the smaller tents are often the sets people remember longest. This is not for anyone who needs a massive headliner to justify a weekend; it is for people who understand that the best music experiences are the ones nobody planned. A few practical notes: bring layers, because Monterey evenings can drop into the 50s even in September - veterans pack a waterproof jacket, gloves, and a stadium seat cushion for the concrete bleachers. Use the remote parking lots and the free festival shuttle instead of trying to park close. The venue is cashless, so load a card before you go. Food lines move quickly in early afternoon but back up at dinner. Download the free festival app before you arrive and use the My Lineup feature to avoid schedule conflicts. What Monterey represents is rare in American culture: a living institution. Nearly seventy years of continuous programming makes this not just a festival but a timestamp - every year it runs, the art form gets another year of documentation, and attending in 2026 means adding yourself to that record. Tickets and full lineup at montereyjazzfestival.org.

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My Hero Academia in Concert

Sep 25, 2026 3801 Mission Inn Avenue, Fox Perfo…

Nobody warns you about the swell in your chest when the theme hits and a character decides to go beyond what they can survive. Now put a live orchestra a few feet in front of you and let an entire room have that at the same time. That is the whole proposition. The Fox is an old theater with the acoustics of a place built before anyone thought about amplifying anything, which means the brass arrives in your ribs rather than your ears. The crowd comes dressed as the people they wish they were brave enough to be, and by the second half nobody is self-conscious about it anymore. All ages, and every person needs a ticket regardless of age, so the kids get counted like everyone else, which is right, because they are the ones who cry first. Mission Inn Avenue in Riverside, doors in the evening. Go with whoever you watched the finale with. Do not go alone.

Princess Mononoke 4K Remaster — Studio Ghibli Fest 2026

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Princess Mononoke 4K Remaster — Studio Ghibli Fest 2026

Sep 26, 2026 AMC The Grove 14, 189 The Grove Dr…

No clean villains. A forest worth bleeding for. A war between industry and nature where the film flatly refuses to hand you a side to stand on, and a girl raised by wolves who has no interest in your comfort. This is the one adults reach for to prove the studio makes serious art, and the restored print is the reason to finally see it at the size it was built for. Hisaishi's score in a real theater does something a living room cannot approximate — the strings arrive from behind you. The crowd is the other half of it. These are people who will argue about San and Lady Eboshi in the lobby afterward, hold firm positions on dub versus sub, and treat the whole thing as scripture. A full house of them at The Grove is the kind of screening you build an entire evening around. Text the person you would obviously be going with. You already know their name, and they are already free.

Yuuri Live 2026 in Los Angeles — The Wiltern

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Yuuri Live 2026 in Los Angeles — The Wiltern

Sep 26, 2026 The Wiltern, 3790 Wilshire Blvd, L…

You knew the voice before you knew the name. It was under an anime opening you replayed until it stopped being a song and became a reflex, or it arrived at 2 AM from a friend with no message attached, because the music was the message. That is how this works. It finds you sideways. The Wiltern is the right room for it. An Art Deco house on Wilshire, small enough that a singer with real range fills every corner without out-shouting a production budget. Her catalog sits on the seam between soundtrack work and songwriting that stands entirely on its own, and live is where you find out how much of it was always hers. On Wilshire, right at the Metro station, doors ahead of a 7 PM show. If you have ever sent somebody a song in the middle of the night and hoped they would understand without explanation, this is that, out loud, in a room full of people who did the same thing.

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My Hero Academia in Concert

Sep 26, 2026 Jacobs Music Center, 750 B St, San…

The first time the strings hit the You Say Run motif in a room where you can feel the bass in your ribs, you're going to understand something the streaming version never told you — that Yuki Hayashi wrote music that was always meant to be physical. My Hero Academia in Concert arrives at Jacobs Music Center with a 15-piece live band performing the complete score across all eight seasons, synchronized to projected anime sequences on screen. San Diego Symphony's hall was built for sound that fills a room and stays in your chest, and Hayashi's compositions — the triumphant brass of All Might's theme, the fragile piano lines underneath Shoto's backstory, the full-orchestra crescendo when Deku figures out what his hands are actually for — were always orchestral music wearing a different costume. Every watch party you've ever been to played the show on a screen. This one plays the music in the air between you and the screen, performed by people who are breathing the same tempo. The crowd will be half cosplay, half people who came because someone told them this was the one not to miss. Both groups will be right. Saturday, September 26, 2026 at 7:30 PM. Jacobs Music Center, 750 B St, San Diego, CA 92101. Tickets available via AXS.

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Pacific Airshow 2026 — Huntington Beach

Oct 2 – Oct 4, 2026 Huntington Beach Pier, Huntington …

The sound arrives after the airplane does. That is the part nobody warns you about — a shape crosses the water in total silence, and a full beat later the noise catches up and hits you in the chest like a door slamming somewhere in the house. There is no stadium here and no bleachers between you and any of it. You stand on sand with the Pacific at your back while aircraft come down the shoreline low enough to read the markings, and a couple of million people up and down the coast lose their minds at the same instant. For something at this scale to happen over a public beach, free, open to whoever walks up, is genuinely unusual. Three days each October. The sand fills early on the main days, the premium viewing areas are ticketed and go fast, and the pier is the best free vantage point there is. Bring the kid who looks up every single time something flies over the house.

We Touch Grass: Los Angeles Anime Rave 2026

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We Touch Grass: Los Angeles Anime Rave 2026

Oct 3 – Oct 4, 2026 TBA Catch One, 4067 West Pico Boulevar…

Somewhere around the second hour, a room full of adults in cosplay screams the opening of a show they once cried at, and nobody is embarrassed, and that is the whole product. This is not a convention panel with a speaker in the corner. It is a full-tilt dance floor — breakdowns built off anime openings, EDM edits, bass drops, remixes, and a sea of glowsticks going up the second the right song lands. The crew has run this circuit across North America and Europe, and the San Diego night they threw sold out months ahead, which tells you what the door will look like here. Cosplay is strongly encouraged. Catch One has the rooms and the sound system to hold it. On Pico in Los Angeles, twenty-one and over, and tickets move fast. Send it to the friend who owns the wig and has never once had anywhere to wear it.

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