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The MINIMONI Awards

Today · Oct 3 Guanyin Tea House, 550 S Glendora …

You have a ranked list in your head. You have had it for years, and you have never once been allowed to read it out loud — not to your coworkers, not at dinner, not to the friend who says she likes that one song. Somewhere in a boba shop in West Covina there is a room full of people who will not only sit through your argument, they have prepared their own, and they have dressed for the occasion. That is the part that gets you: the dress code is business casual. Grown adults will put on a blazer to attend an awards ceremony for two men who will never know it happened, and nobody in the room will find that funny, because it isn't. It is a scripted award show with real categories, fan-voted, winners announced live, plus vendor tables and a gifting suite for people who came empty-handed and could not stand it. Entry is free. Saturday, October 3, noon to 4 PM, Guanyin Tea House on South Glendora Avenue. Whatever you had ranked first, someone in that room is about to argue you down, and you are going to enjoy losing.

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Bobby Lee at Pechanga

Today · Oct 3 Pechanga Resort Casino, 45000 Pech…

Somewhere in the middle of the set he will say the worst thing that has ever happened to him — out loud, on purpose, to a room of strangers — and you will leave lighter than you arrived. That makes no sense until you have sat through it. The MADtv veteran and TigerBelly host has been running the same trick for years: an entire act built out of the confessions most people take to the grave, committed to completely, every awful detail intact. The more uncomfortable it gets, the funnier it gets. This is a man who decided long ago that hiding was more exhausting than simply telling you, and the relief of watching somebody live that way is most of why a room stays with him. Temecula is nearly a homecoming — he is from San Diego, and a crowd that already knows the stories changes what a show can be. One night at the theater inside the resort on Pechanga Parkway. Bring the friend you are comfortable being seen laughing that hard with.

Pier Play Festival 2026 — Kaz James, LP Giobbi, Meduza at Santa Monica Pier

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Pier Play Festival 2026 — Kaz James, LP Giobbi, Meduza at Santa Monica Pier

Today · Oct 3 Santa Monica Pier, 200 Santa Monic…

House music mostly gets played in rooms built to keep the outside out — no windows, no clocks, no horizon anywhere. Put it on a pier over the Pacific instead and the entire thing rearranges itself. The Ferris wheel sits behind the stage. The ocean sits in front of it. Nobody has to design a light show when the sunset is already handling that department. Kaz James, LP Giobbi, Mind Against, Monolink, Claptone, Meduza, Rinzen — every one of them a headliner somewhere else on any given weekend, all of them sharing one stretch of boardwalk here. That lineup in that spot is the whole pitch and it does not require elaboration. One day in the fall, out over the water, tickets online ahead of time. Dancing on wooden planks with salt in the air and an old amusement pier lit up behind you is not something anybody offers you twice. Bring the person who will still be standing there at the last track.

Brian Fallon & The Painkillers, Tim Barry

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Brian Fallon & The Painkillers, Tim Barry

Today · Oct 3 Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, San Die…

A four in the afternoon rock show sounds like a mistake until you have been to one. The light is wrong in the best way. Nobody is drunk yet. The people who came are the people who wanted it badly enough to give up a Saturday afternoon, which means the room is full of the version of a crowd that actually listens. Brian Fallon has spent a career writing about people in cars at night, and hearing those songs while it is still bright outside does something strange and good to them. He is the voice of The Gaslight Anthem, and the solo records are the same preoccupations with the amps turned down enough that you can hear the words — Jersey, radio, somebody's older brother, a girl whose name is also a song title. Tim Barry opens, which is its own reason to come: former Avail, now writing the plainest and most devastating folk songs going. The matinee and the evening show run different setlists. Regulars do both. If you only do one, the early show is the one where he talks more. Four in the afternoon, Saturday the third of October, 2501 Kettner Blvd.

$uicideboy$ Grey Day Tour 2026 — Glen Helen Amphitheater

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$uicideboy$ Grey Day Tour 2026 — Glen Helen Amphitheater

Today · Oct 3 Glen Helen Amphitheater, 2575 Glen…

A crowd that found its band by refusing every channel built to sell them one shows up differently. Ruby da Cherry and Scrim built one of the most committed followings in rap with no radio push, on raw production, Southern Gothic imagery, and an unwillingness to lie about addiction, mental health, or mortality. Grey Day is the annual homecoming, and it functions less like a festival than a collective exhale for the community that grew up around all of it. The card runs deep: Shoreline Mafia, Shakewell, Drain, Black Kray, and $lim Gucci filling out a full day of underground rap and metal-leaning production, the whole G*59 extended universe in one place at once. Glen Helen gives it the scale it earned, an outdoor venue that has held Download and Rock in Rio. The floor fills early and the crowd skews young. It sells out most years. If somebody in your life has had those lyrics sitting in their notes app for years, this is their room.

San Diego-Tijuana International Jazz Festival 2026

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San Diego-Tijuana International Jazz Festival 2026

Every day · Next Oct 3 California Center for the Arts, 34…

A horn section does not care about borders. It never has. The notes drift across the line the same way the smell of street tacos drifts north and the freeway hum drifts south, because the line is a legal fact and not a musical one, and players on both sides have known that since long before anyone drew it. The festival stretches across both cities — free open-air concerts in downtown Tijuana and downtown San Diego, plus a ticketed headline night at the arts center in Escondido — which effectively turns the border region into one stage. Brian Blade headlines with his Fellowship Band, a group that moves between jazz, rock, folk and gospel without asking permission to cross anything. Mingus Dynasty plays the Charles Mingus book with Wayne Escoffery, Helen Sung and Boris Kozlov. The free shows are the heart of it: music in public, no velvet rope. Go stand on a sidewalk and hear something extraordinary for nothing.

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Anamanaguchi, Covet, sueter7

Today · Oct 3 Quartyard, 1301 Market St, San Die…

The sound of a Nintendo chip is not nostalgia for everybody. For a certain kind of person it is the sound of being eight years old, alone in a room where nothing bad was happening, and hearing it played loud by four people on a stage does something complicated to the chest. Anamanaguchi run their music through a hacked NES. Not an emulator and not a plugin — the actual hardware, the physical chip, wired into a live band with guitar and drums stacked on top. They wrote the score for the Scott Pilgrim video game, which is how most people found them, and they have spent every year since proving the chiptune was never a novelty. Covet co-headline, and Yvette Young's fretboard-tapping instrumentals drag in a completely different crowd — math rock kids who came to study technique and end up dancing anyway. Those two audiences almost never share a floor. That is the reason to go. Downtown at 13th and Market, doors at six on Saturday the third. All ages.

Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live Glow-N-Fire 2026 — Long Beach Arena

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Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live Glow-N-Fire 2026 — Long Beach Arena

Every day · Next Oct 3 Long Beach Arena, 300 E Ocean Blvd…

Your kid has been sleeping with a Mega Wrex toy for six months. They don't know it's 40 feet tall in real life. They're about to find out. Hot Wheels Monster Trucks Live Glow-N-Fire turns the Long Beach Arena into something between a concert and a demolition — blacklights, pyrotechnics, car-crushing robots, and trucks the size of your apartment launching off ramps while the floor shakes. Mega Wrex, Tiger Shark, Bone Shaker, Bigfoot, and the new Rhinomite all compete in a bracket that your five-year-old will take more seriously than any playoff game you've ever watched. The FMX riders perform between rounds — flipping motorcycles in the dark while fire shoots from the stage — and the whole thing is loud enough that your kid will talk about it for weeks in a way that makes every other parent at school jealous. October 3–4, 2026. Saturday 6:30 PM, Sunday 1:30 PM. Long Beach Arena, 300 E Ocean Blvd, Long Beach 90802. Available through Ticketmaster.

Grand Park Summer Events & Free Movies 2026 — Los Angeles

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Grand Park Summer Events & Free Movies 2026 — Los Angeles

Every Saturday · Next Oct 3 Free 200 N Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 9…

There is no membership, no reservation, no blanket application — you just show up in the middle of downtown Los Angeles and a movie is playing on twelve acres of park that runs from City Hall to the Music Center. That kind of open, unguarded public space is exactly what cities claim to want and almost never sustain. Grand Park has sustained it for over a decade. On summer evenings the park hosts free outdoor movies, and the audience is downtown LA in cross-section: workers who stayed late and found a reason to stay later, people who walked over from Pershing Square, families from Boyle Heights and Chinatown and Echo Park who treat Grand Park as a weekend destination, tourists who did not know this existed. Beyond the movies, the park runs free concerts, fitness events, and cultural celebrations through summer and fall. Text it to the friend who says there is nothing free to do downtown. 200 N Grand Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90012. Free. Adjacent to the Metro Red and Purple Lines at Civic Center. See grandparkla.org for the 2026 schedule.

Chris Botti - Champagne Jazz at Thornton Winery

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Chris Botti - Champagne Jazz at Thornton Winery

Today · Oct 3 $95+ Thornton Winery, 32575 Rancho Cali…

Close your eyes during a Chris Botti solo and you could swear you are in a Manhattan jazz club at one in the morning, except the air smells like crushed grapes and the ceiling is the actual sky. Botti is the best-selling American instrumental artist of his generation, a Grammy winner who spent years playing trumpet behind Sting before his own name got that big, and his tone does something specific to a room. People who announce that they do not like jazz go quiet mid-sentence. He plays Thornton's terrace on the first Saturday of October, the vineyard already turning toward harvest, the estate sparkling wine poured through dinner service. Of all fourteen nights in this series, the regulars circle his first. Twenty minutes up the freeway and you are as close to a great concert hall as this valley gets. Buy the seat now and thank yourself in autumn, sitting next to whoever you would most want there.

The Hayley Williams Show — with Magdalena Bay & Rico Nasty at North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre

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The Hayley Williams Show — with Magdalena Bay & Rico Nasty at North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre

Today · Oct 3 North Island Credit Union Amphithe…

She built Paramore from a garage in Franklin, Tennessee into one of the defining rock bands of a generation — and then she walked away to find out who she was without them. The Hayley Williams Show is not a Paramore concert and it's not trying to be. This is the solo tour that proves the voice was never the brand — the voice was always the instrument, and the instrument has spent the last five years learning new songs. With Magdalena Bay and Rico Nasty as openers, the bill is a deliberate collision of indie pop, experimental electronic, and hip-hop that only makes sense if you understand that Hayley Williams has never been interested in staying where you expected her. North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre is the right venue for this — big enough to feel like an event, open-air enough to feel like a conversation. October in Chula Vista means the heat has broken and the night air does half the work. Non-transferable tickets, resellable only at face value through the Ticketmaster Face Value Exchange. Saturday, October 3, 2026. Doors 6:00 PM. Show 7:00 PM. North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre, Chula Vista.

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Payare Leads Strauss' A Hero's Life

Today · Oct 3 Jacobs Music Center, 750 B St, San…

A full orchestra at full cry produces a goosebump nothing else can — the moment a hundred musicians lean into the same enormous idea at once and the sound stops being music and turns into weather inside the room. The season opens with exactly that. Rafael Payare, the wild-haired force who has made this orchestra one of the most exciting in the country, conducting Strauss' Ein Heldenleben — A Hero's Life — a forty-five-minute autobiographical epic that asks an orchestra to depict love, battle, and legacy without a single word being sung. Yefim Bronfman brings the grace of Mozart first, which is the correct order of operations: you want to be calm before that thing starts. Sitting inside the newly reborn Jacobs Music Center for it is a reminder of why people have been filing into concert halls for two centuries. Come if you want to feel a hundred people mean something at precisely the same instant.

Comedy Heights at Twiggs Coffee Roasters

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Comedy Heights at Twiggs Coffee Roasters

Every Saturday · Next Oct 3 Twiggs Coffee Roasters, 4590 Park …

Some of the best comedy in this city happens in the back of a coffee shop with about a hundred chairs in it, and it costs nothing, and that combination has confused people for years. No cover. No drink minimum. No corporate anything. Just a room, a mic, and comics who keep coming back to University Heights because the audience is real and the booking is better than a free show has any right to be. Some weeks it is a rotating lineup of working comedians. Some weeks it is a marathon with a headliner closing it out. The alumni list is long enough that on any given night you might be sitting in the room for someone's breakthrough set — a thing you only recognize much later. Twiggs on Park Blvd, Saturday nights at 8. Tips are encouraged and the bar takes cash. Get there early, because the back room fills. Bring the friend who claims they never laugh at stand-up anymore.

aespa SYNK: COMPLæXITY World Tour – Los Angeles

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aespa SYNK: COMPLæXITY World Tour – Los Angeles

Today · Oct 3 Intuit Dome, Inglewood, CA

Days before the group ever steps onto a stage, Koreatown is already running the show. Cupsleeve events in cafes, fan projects assembled on somebody's apartment floor, banners printed at cost and handed out free. MY do not attend a concert. They build one around it. The four of them, Karina, Giselle, Winter, and Ningning, run an entire alternate universe up there: avatar alter-egos, staging built like a science-fiction sequence, the kind of fourth-generation production that treats an arena as a screen with people standing inside it. This is their biggest North American arena run so far, which is exactly why the satellite gatherings around it have gotten as elaborate as they have. Intuit Dome in Inglewood, a short walk off the Metro C Line, tickets through Ticketmaster. Find the fan events before you go. Going alone is possible. Almost nobody does it.

Brian Fallon & The Painkillers, Tim Barry — Evening Show

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Brian Fallon & The Painkillers, Tim Barry — Evening Show

Today · Oct 3 Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, San Die…

The afternoon crowd goes home and a different one files in, and by nine the room smells like every good club you have ever stood in. Same artist, same night, different setlist, entirely different animal. The evening show at a two-hundred-cap room is where Fallon plays the loud ones — the Gaslight songs a matinee audience is too sober for and this one absolutely is not. There will be a moment, probably in the encore, where he stops singing and lets two hundred people carry a chorus he wrote about being twenty and broke in New Jersey, and everyone in the room will be somewhere else for about forty seconds. Tim Barry opens this one too. Two sets from him in a day is a gift; he tells long stories between songs about riding freight trains and every one of them is true. If you did the matinee, come back — the overlap is smaller than you would guess. If you did not, this is the one people will still be talking about at Christmas. Same address, same Saturday, eight o'clock — and a different band by then.

We Touch Grass: Los Angeles Anime Rave 2026

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We Touch Grass: Los Angeles Anime Rave 2026

Today · Oct 3 – Oct 4 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.

Show Me the Body with The Whispers and Jivebomb

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Show Me the Body with The Whispers and Jivebomb

Today · Oct 3 $57+ The Fonda Theatre, 6126 Hollywood …

Hardcore was never really about the music so much as the room — the sweat, the pile of bodies, the strange tenderness of a hundred alienated kids catching each other mid-air. Show Me the Body took that ethos and made it stranger and heavier, banjo run through a distortion pedal, industrial clang and blunt-force noise, a New York band that built an actual community around being loud and unwanted together. Live at the Fonda, it is chaos with a conscience: a pit that will spit you out and pick you back up, a crowd that treats the show like a meeting of a congregation nobody else would have. The Whispers and Jivebomb bring the heaviness early. This is for the kids who never fit the other rooms. Saturday, October 3, 2026, 9pm, Hollywood. Come throw yourself in and find out that the loudest, ugliest room in town is somehow also the one that will catch you.

Sherelle, Todd Edwards, Danny Daze, Mia Koden, bahar khadem

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Sherelle, Todd Edwards, Danny Daze, Mia Koden, bahar khadem

Today · Oct 3 – Oct 4 Los Globos, 3040 W Sunset Blvd, Lo…

Occasionally a lineup is assembled by somebody who is clearly showing off, and the correct response is gratitude. Four names that would each headline their own night, stacked on one bill in a Silver Lake room that holds a few hundred people. Todd Edwards is the reason a whole strand of dance music sounds the way it does — his chopped-vocal technique was lifted wholesale by Daft Punk, who then hired him, and UK garage was effectively built on top of what he worked out alone in New Jersey. Sherelle plays at 160 beats per minute and upward, jungle and footwork at a speed that reorganizes a room. Danny Daze comes from Miami electro. Putting them in sequence is a bet that the crowd can follow. Doors at ten on Saturday the third; the room does not really start until midnight and does not stop until four.

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