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Wrangler National Finals Rodeo 2026 — Las Vegas, NV

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Wrangler National Finals Rodeo 2026 — Las Vegas, NV

Dec 4 – Dec 13, 2026 50 Thomas & Mack Center, 4505 S Maryl…

For ten nights every December, the fifteen best cowboys in the world land in Las Vegas to settle a world championship, and if you have ever wondered what rodeo looks like beyond a county fair midway, this is the whole answer standing in one building. The Wrangler National Finals Rodeo is the sport's Super Bowl - ten nights at the Thomas & Mack Center where Western identity is alive and completely unironic. Custom Wranglers, hand-tooled boots, championship belt buckles earned on the circuit. The competition is relentless: saddle bronc, bareback bronc, bull riding, barrel racing, tie-down roping, team roping, steer wrestling, all at peak professional caliber and all compressed into roughly three hours a night. The six-second bull ride, the sub-10-second barrel run, the flawless team roping that takes years of coordination to time - this is American craft at its most precise, and the crowd takes it seriously because the athletes have given years of their lives to it. Between rounds the city holds more concerts, dances, and trade shows at once than almost any other week on the calendar. The NFR Cowboy Christmas Gift Show runs in parallel as the country's largest Western merchandise and trade show, and the NFR Experience venues around town (especially the Gold Coast Casino) host free country concerts nightly for the full ten days - check the schedule for performers. There is no other week in Las Vegas quite like this one: elite athletic competition, that particular Vegas hospitality, and a community that travels from every state for a single week creates an atmosphere with no direct comparison. Buy tickets early via Ticketmaster - NFR sellouts are consistent across all ten nights, and the best seats go in the first hours of sale. If you are attending multiple nights, consider the Thomas & Mack club level for the sight lines. Strip hotels book months ahead for NFR week. Evening performances begin at 5:45 PM sharp. December 3-12, 2026, Thomas & Mack Center, Las Vegas.

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The Kinison, UGHH, Stalemate

Dec 4, 2026 Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd, San …

Bands that were locally enormous and nationally invisible leave behind a very particular kind of loyalty, and Southern California is full of it — people in their forties who can still recite records that never sold outside a two-county radius. This bill gathers that energy: a reunion of one of those bands plus two current acts working the same seam of loud, fast, unfussy rock. Nights like this function as reunions in both directions, for the people on stage and the people watching. The San Diego bar on El Cajon Boulevard is a long narrow room where the stage is barely raised and the sound is genuinely loud. Music at 8:00 PM, doors at seven, twenty-one and over on a Friday. A local scene that never quite got recorded properly survives entirely in rooms like this one, and everybody in it knows that is what the night is for.

LIVE! ON STAGE: JONATHAN RICHMAN featuring TOMMY LARKINS on the drums!

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LIVE! ON STAGE: JONATHAN RICHMAN featuring TOMMY LARKINS on the drums!

Dec 4 – Dec 5, 2026 Lodge Room, 104 N Avenue 56, Los A…

Sincerity performed without irony makes some audiences deeply uncomfortable, which is why this particular performer has spent fifty years being either the favorite or the least favorite thing a person has ever seen. He fronted a band that effectively invented one strain of punk, then abandoned volume entirely for songs about ice cream, insects and being in love, sung in several languages, accompanied only by a drummer he has played with for decades. No setlist, no microphone half the time, and he will stop mid-song to explain something. Phones are discouraged and the request is honored. Highland Park's upstairs Masonic hall is exactly the scale this requires. Music at 9:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56, a Friday, with a second night after. Everyone leaves these arguing about what they just watched, which is a good sign, and the people who love it go back the next night.

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Kenny Feidler

Dec 4 – Dec 5, 2026 Pappy & Harriet's, 53688 Pioneerto…

Country that comes out of the working ranch world rather than out of a marketing department has an audience that is entirely uninterested in what the charts say, and the circuit that serves it runs through rooms like this one rather than through arenas. The songs are about land, horses and the people who do that work, played by a band that sounds like it has done a lot of nights in a row. What makes the desert venue right is that the audience out here overlaps directly — this is ranch country as much as it is an arts colony, and both halves show up. Friday night, late door, wooden floor, a fire on the patio in December. Music at 9:30 PM in Pioneertown. The two populations who share this room on nights like this rarely mix anywhere else, and watching that happen is part of the appeal.

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Deathpact

Dec 4 – Dec 5, 2026 Nova SD, 454 6th Ave, San Diego, C…

Nobody knows who they are. That is not marketing copy — the identity has genuinely never been confirmed, the performers appear masked, and the entire project communicates through cryptic drops and coordinates rather than announcements. Anonymity in dance music usually wears off within a year or two once somebody gets careless. Deathpact has held it, and the effect is that the audience has built its own mythology in the gap where a personality would normally sit — forums decoding numbers, fans arriving having done homework. The music underneath is heavy, precise bass music, and the live show leans on the visual concept hard enough that it works even if you know nothing going in. Gaslamp, first Friday of December. Come early enough to watch the room work out what it is looking at.

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Shrek Rave

Dec 4, 2026 Boardner's by La Belle, 1652 N Che…

At some point in the last few years the internet decided, collectively and without a vote, that an ogre from 2001 was load-bearing. You know this. You have participated in it. What you may not have processed is that it escaped the internet entirely and became a thing you can physically attend in Hollywood, in costume, at ten at night, with several hundred people who made the same decision you did. The thing nobody warns you about is how committed the costumes get. This is not a novelty-headband crowd. People arrive painted green. There are full Lord Farquaads. And because the premise is unserious, everyone is unusually kind — the social anxiety that governs a normal club floor cannot survive a room where the funniest outfit wins. Musically it is throwback anthems and singalongs rather than anything challenging, which is the correct call. Photo ops run all night, costumes are expected, and it goes ten PM to two AM. Friday December 4 at Boardner's by La Belle on North Cherokee, presented by Club Decades. Tickets through club-decades.com. You already thought of the one friend who would lose their mind at this.

Little Italy Tree Lighting & Christmas Village 2026

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Little Italy Tree Lighting & Christmas Village 2026

Dec 5, 2026 W Date St & India St, San Diego, C…

Every December, the people who moved away from this neighborhood still drive back to stand in exactly this spot when the Aurora tree lights up at dusk. That is what a tradition earns when it belongs to a place and not a brand. Little Italy's annual Tree Lighting and Christmas Village transforms India Street into a winter market on Saturday, December 5 from 4 PM to 8 PM. The celebration centers on the Piazza della Famiglia, where a traditional Italian tree lighting ceremony brings the crowd together under the glow of the neighborhood's 25-foot permanent tree and the dazzling Aurora tree at Piazza Basilone. Towering nutcrackers and kinetic holiday displays line the streets. The Christmas Village on India Street features unique gifts, artisan vendors, live music, and holiday treats. This is a free community event — no tickets, no gates, just a neighborhood that opens its doors the way Little Italy has done since before San Diego was a baseball town. Santa returns for the celebration.

Save Ferris' Annual Happy Skalidays Tour

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Save Ferris' Annual Happy Skalidays Tour

Dec 5 – Dec 6, 2026 Ventura Music Hall, 1888 E Thompso…

December in Southern California refuses to feel like December, and after enough years you stop fighting it and start looking for the traditions that actually match the weather — which is how a horn section playing holiday songs in double time became a real seasonal ritual for a specific Orange County generation. Monique Powell has been running this one every winter for years now and it functions the way a hometown show does: people who have not seen each other since last December turn up in the same three rows. Ska took a beating in the culture and the people who stayed loyal through that are not casual about it. Expect the pit to open during the second song and to include several adults in reindeer antlers. Music at 9:00 PM in Ventura on East Thompson Boulevard. It comes back around every year, which is most of the reason it means anything.

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LIVE! ON STAGE: JONATHAN RICHMAN featuring TOMMY LARKINS on the drums!

Dec 5 – Dec 6, 2026 Lodge Room, 104 N Avenue 56, Los A…

Coming back a second night to watch a man who does not use a setlist is the only sensible response to having enjoyed the first one, because it will be a different show. Fifty years into a career that began by inventing part of punk and then walking away from volume entirely, he plays songs about small sincere things in several languages, accompanied only by the drummer he has worked with for decades. Phones are discouraged and people actually put them away, which by itself makes the room feel like somewhere else. Highland Park's upstairs Masonic hall is small enough that no amplification is really required. Music at 9:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56, a Saturday. Whether you find it unbearable or the best thing you have seen all year, you will describe it to somebody within a day.

Mannheim Steamroller Christmas 2026 — The Pasadena Civic

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Mannheim Steamroller Christmas 2026 — The Pasadena Civic

Dec 6, 2026 $55+ The Pasadena Civic, 300 E Green St…

Some holiday traditions survive on nostalgia. Mannheim Steamroller survives on the sound. Chip Davis built something in 1984 that should not have worked — synthesizers and electric guitars playing Silent Night, a rock band doing Christmas — and forty-one years later it is still the bestselling Christmas music franchise in history, not because people are sentimental about the ’80s but because the arrangements genuinely hit harder than any version you grew up hearing in church. Mannheim Steamroller Christmas brings the full production to The Pasadena Civic on December 6 at 3 PM. Fifteen musicians playing more than twenty instruments against a backdrop of multimedia effects that have been refined across four decades of touring. The show is ninety minutes of the Christmas album you forgot you loved, performed live with the kind of dynamic range that streaming audio cannot reproduce — the bass drops in Carol of the Bells, the cathedral reverb on O Come All Ye Faithful, the moment the strings swell and the whole room holds its breath. Tickets are on sale through Ticketmaster. The Pasadena Civic is a 3,000-seat Art Deco hall on Green Street, a ten-minute walk from Old Pasadena’s holiday lights and restaurants. Street parking is free on Sundays. If you are the person who puts on the Mannheim Steamroller album every December while decorating the tree, this is the year you hear it live.

The Pineapple Thief at The Observatory North Park — San Diego

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The Pineapple Thief at The Observatory North Park — San Diego

Dec 6, 2026 2891 University Ave, San Diego, CA…

There’s a kind of music that doesn’t ask you to dance or sing along. It asks you to close your eyes and let the architecture of sound build itself around you, floor by floor, until you are inside something you never saw being built. The Pineapple Thief has been building those structures for over 25 years. The British progressive rock band brings their live show to The Observatory North Park on December 6. Led by Bruce Soord and featuring King Crimson drummer Gavin Harrison, whose precision behind the kit turned the band’s studio recordings into something tighter and more dangerous, this is the most focused version of a band that never stopped evolving. Their catalog spans delicate acoustic passages, crushing riffs, and shifts that make a room of 1,100 people hold their breath. The Observatory at 2891 University Ave is the right size for this band — large enough for the sound to breathe, small enough that Harrison’s drumming vibrates in your sternum. Doors at 7 PM, show at 8 PM. All ages. A Sunday evening in early December. The weekend isn’t over. The week hasn’t started yet. Two hours in the dark with a band that rewards patience, and a drummer who makes patience unnecessary.

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Fraxiom, Saint Misty

Dec 6, 2026 Soda Bar, 3615 El Cajon Blvd, San …

Hyperpop was never supposed to be listened to at a sensible volume in a car. It was built in bedrooms, for bedrooms, by people who were online too much and turned that into a genre — and for most of its life the only place to hear it was alone, in headphones, at two in the morning. Which makes a small room full of people who also did that genuinely strange to walk into. Everyone there has the same private history with the music and none of them have ever been in a room about it. Soda Bar is the right size for this and that is not a small point. It is a dive on El Cajon Boulevard with a capacity in the low hundreds, which means the distance between the crowd and whoever is performing is about four feet. Hyperpop shows in rooms that size tend to go somewhere unhinged, because the format was never designed to be performed at a respectful distance. Sunday December 6, doors and set times through sodabarmusic.com, ten PM. San Diego gets a fraction of these compared to LA, so they do not sit around. If you know the person who has been saying for three years that nothing good ever comes to San Diego, this is the specific counterexample.

Mack Geiger — When It's Pouring 2026 Tour

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Mack Geiger — When It's Pouring 2026 Tour

Dec 7, 2026 Belly Up Tavern, 143 S Cedros Ave,…

Monday nights were not built for staying home — they were built for the kind of show where the artist is playing the last date of the tour and has nothing left to save. Mack Geiger closes out his When It's Pouring Tour at the Belly Up, and there is a reason tour-enders at intimate venues carry a reputation: the songs are looser, the stories between them are longer, and the room gets a version of the artist that the Friday-night crowds never see. Geiger's brand of country leans into the storytelling tradition — the kind where every lyric sounds like it was pulled from a conversation overheard at a diner at 2 AM, honest enough to sting and melodic enough to hum on the drive home. His debut record landed him on major country playlists, and the live show is where that raw, unpolished energy translates into something you feel in the room, not just in your headphones. $25 advance. Belly Up Tavern, 143 S Cedros Ave, Solana Beach. Monday, December 7, 2026, 8:00 PM.

Monday Evening Concerts: Canto Ostinato with Tacita Dean's FILM

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Monday Evening Concerts: Canto Ostinato with Tacita Dean's FILM

Every Monday · Next Dec 7 Marciano Art Foundation, 4357 Wils…

Simeon ten Holt wrote a piece with no fixed length. The players decide in the room how many times to repeat each section and when to move on, so Canto Ostinato can run ninety minutes or five hours and no two performances share a shape, because the musicians are listening to the audience as closely as to each other. Four of them here, two pianos and two sets of mallets, inside a former Scottish Rite Masonic temple on Wilshire with Tacita Dean's FILM running through the space: a silent 35mm work made for a vertical screen, all grain and hand-worked frames, the opposite of a projection you can let slide past you. Repetition is the only thing either artist asks of you, and both of them mean it kindly. Tickets surface roughly a month ahead through the series and the museum. Marciano Art Foundation, 4357 Wilshire Blvd, on December 7 and again on the 14th.

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The Womack Sisters

Dec 8, 2026 Music Box, 1337 India St, San Dieg…

Their grandfather was Sam Cooke. Their father was Cecil Womack, their uncle was Bobby Womack, and that is an inheritance heavy enough that most people would either lean on it entirely or refuse to mention it. They have done neither. Zeimani, Kucha and Bookie sing together the way only siblings raised inside a specific harmonic tradition can — the blend is not learned, it is structural. The material sits between old soul and something looser and more current, and live it stays deliberately unpolished; there is no click track holding it together, which means the tempo breathes and occasionally somebody laughs mid-phrase. A Tuesday in Little Italy, in a room that holds a few hundred. Weeknight shows self-select for people who genuinely wanted to be there. Doors at seven on Tuesday the eighth of December; they sing at eight.

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Mark Guiliana BEAT MUSIC

Dec 8, 2026 Lodge Room, 104 N Avenue 56, Los A…

Drummers who lead their own bands usually overplay, and the reason this one does not is that he spent years as the guy other people called when a record needed rhythm that sounded like a machine and breathed like a person — including a famous last album by an artist who wanted exactly that. Under his own name the project is a different animal: electronics, synths, and drumming that treats a groove as something to erode rather than repeat. It reads as jazz on paper and lands closer to electronic music in the room, which is why the crowd is split between conservatory players and people who came for the beats and did not know they were at a jazz show. Highland Park's upstairs hall has the ceiling height this needs. Music at 8:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56, a Tuesday in December. The players who come to this one usually end up at each other's gigs around town for the rest of the month.

Jonathan Richman featuring Tommy Larkins

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Jonathan Richman featuring Tommy Larkins

Dec 9, 2026 Ventura Music Hall, 1888 E Thompso…

A performer who has spent five decades refusing every available form of irony is either the most or least fashionable thing in music depending on the year, and at the moment it is very much the former. Songs about ice cream, insects, painters and being in love, sung in several languages, with one drummer and frequently no microphone. He will stop mid-song to explain what he meant. Phones are discouraged and the room complies, which produces ninety minutes that feel genuinely disconnected from the rest of the week. Ventura's converted bowling alley is small enough that the no-amplification approach works. Music at 8:00 PM on East Thompson Boulevard, a Wednesday in December. He plays Los Angeles the same week and people go to more than one, because no two are the same show.

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Downtown LA Art Walk — December 2026

Monthly · Next Dec 10 Free Historic Core, Spring St & Main St…

The Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk happens on the second Thursday of every month from 6 to 10 PM across the Historic Core galleries, studios, and cultural spaces clustered on Spring Street and Main Street between 3rd and 9th. It has been running continuously since 2004 and draws between 5,000 and 10,000 people on a typical night. The format is self-guided. No wristband, no single entrance, no ticketed main stage. You walk. Galleries extend opening hours and host receptions, live music, and artist talks. Boutiques, bars, and restaurants along the route stay open late. Street art installations appear in parking lots and alleys. Pop-up vendors set up between gallery hops. The crowd skews young and creative — designers, photographers, muralists, and the people who follow them. It is one of the few monthly events in LA that reliably brings out the local art community rather than the art-adjacent tourist circuit. Parking is available in DTLA surface lots and garages. The nearest Metro stops are Pershing Square (B/D Lines) and 7th St/Metro Center (A/E/B/D Lines). Most people walk between venues. Wear comfortable shoes. The event is free to attend — individual galleries may have ticketed openings happening the same night.

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