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Wishy-Nature's Pill Tour

Dec 10, 2026 Lodge Room, 104 N Avenue 56, Los A…

Guitar bands that sound like 1994 without being a revival act are having a genuine moment, and the reason this one keeps getting singled out is the songwriting underneath the fuzz — hooks that would survive an acoustic guitar, split between two vocalists who trade rather than harmonize. Indianapolis is not a scene anybody watches, which is usually where the good ones come from. They went from almost nothing to a real touring schedule quickly and are still playing rooms small enough that it feels early. Highland Park's upstairs hall on a Thursday in December, wood floors, a few hundred people, a balcony that fills late. Music at 8:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56. The current wave of this sound is being carried almost entirely by people telling each other, and the rooms are where you find out how many of them there are.

JD McPherson - SOCKS: A Rock N' Roll Christmas Tour w/ Melissa Carper

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JD McPherson - SOCKS: A Rock N' Roll Christmas Tour w/ Melissa Carper

Dec 10, 2026 $30 Belly Up, 143 S Cedros Ave, Solana…

Most Christmas records are covers of covers. The good ones sound like somebody actually had a December worth writing about. JD McPherson made one of the good ones in 2018: SOCKS, eleven original Christmas songs played as greasy, stomping rock and roll, a record that makes a holiday party sound like a sock hop in a snowstorm. This is the fifth annual tour of it, which means the people up front have favorites and will yell for them by name. Melissa Carper opens, a singer who plays bass and slides between country, jazz and soul like the borders were never real. A standing floor, a seated loft upstairs, and a Thursday in December when most of the county is still pretending the holidays are not here yet. Thursday, December 10. Doors 7 p.m., show 8 p.m., 21+. Belly Up, 143 S. Cedros Ave, Solana Beach. $30 advance. Bring the friend who refuses holiday music on principle; this record was made for them, and they will ask what else you have been hiding.

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Swervedriver

Dec 10 – Dec 11, 2026 Pappy & Harriet's, 53688 Pioneerto…

Shoegaze usually gets described as pretty, which does the genre's heaviest band no favors at all. These were the ones with the motorik pulse and the guitars tuned toward menace, English but obsessed with American highways, and the records have aged better than almost anything else from that scene precisely because they were never delicate. Adam Franklin still sings under the noise rather than over it. Thirty-plus years on, the live sound is genuinely loud in a way the reissues cannot convey, and the band leans on the early material without treating it as a museum exhibit. Out in the high desert the room is wood and low-ceilinged and the guitars fill it completely. The band reunited in 2008 after more than a decade apart and has kept a steady touring pace since, which is why the current live show is tighter than the reunion-tour reputation suggests. Music at 9:00 PM in Pioneertown, out past Yucca Valley and the Joshua Tree turnoff, on a Thursday. Shows this size are where you find out how many other people in your area have been quietly carrying the same records around for decades.

Sleepless in Seattle in Concert — San Diego Symphony at The Rady Shell

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Sleepless in Seattle in Concert — San Diego Symphony at The Rady Shell

Dec 11, 2026 The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, 124…

Near the end of the movie, Sam stands on the observation deck of the Empire State Building and the camera holds on his face for three full seconds before Meg Ryan appears. In those three seconds, the orchestra carries everything the character cannot say. You've heard it through speakers a dozen times. You've never heard it performed by a live symphony while the film plays on a screen overlooking the San Diego bay. The San Diego Symphony performs the complete score of Sleepless in Seattle at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park — Marc Shaiman's arrangements, the Nat King Cole needle-drops, the Jimmy Durante moment that lands harder than it has any right to. The orchestra sits between you and the screen, and the score exists in the room as a physical thing, vibrating in the air, rather than a signal compressed into a speaker. Every romantic movie you've ever watched alone on a couch prepared you for exactly this feeling, and none of them prepared you for how different it is when you can see the violinist's face. One performance only: Friday, December 11, 2026 at 7:30 PM. The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, 1245 Seventh Ave, San Diego. Tickets via the San Diego Symphony box office.

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the olllam

Dec 11, 2026 Lodge Room, 104 N Avenue 56, Los A…

Irish traditional music played by people who also work in jazz and electronic production sounds like a bad idea described out loud and like an obvious one once you hear it. The core of this project is a uilleann piper — an instrument that takes roughly a decade to become competent on and sounds like nothing else — placed inside arrangements built by players from a completely different world. The result keeps the ornamentation and the modal feel while the ground underneath moves in ways trad never does. Live it is largely instrumental and builds slowly. Highland Park's upstairs Masonic lodge, with its wood floors and natural reverb, suits pipes better than almost any club would. Music at 8:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56, a Friday in December. Trad players in this city are a small and closely connected group, and a booking like this is when they all turn up in one place.

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Buck Meek

Dec 11 – Dec 12, 2026 Pappy & Harriet's, 53688 Pioneerto…

Half the pleasure of a good songwriter is watching them get out from under the band that made them known, and Meek's solo records do something his other group cannot — looser, funnier, full of Texas imagery and guitar playing that wanders off mid-thought and finds its way back. He is the guitarist people quietly consider the most interesting part of that band, and alone he plays more, not less. The songs are small on purpose and reward a room where nobody is talking. A high desert saloon in December, with a fire outside and a crowd that drove out for exactly this, is close to the ideal listening condition. Music at 9:30 PM in Pioneertown, past Yucca Valley. There is a whole circuit of writers like him who pass through this room across a year, and following it is how a lot of people out here spend their winters.

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Ontario Reign vs San Diego Gulls

Dec 12, 2026 $22+ Toyota Arena, 4000 Ontario Center …

Southern California is not supposed to be a hockey region, and the two sets of fans yelling across the aisles on this particular night stopped finding that funny a while ago. They have a grudge now. It is real. Ontario belongs to the Kings, San Diego belongs to the Ducks, and the rivalry the parent clubs have run for decades gets handed down intact to young players trying to earn their way up out of it. The Gulls travel well, which means the building is genuinely split and loud from the anthem forward. A December Saturday at Toyota Arena. Fast, physical, cheap, and close enough to the glass that you can hear what the players are saying to each other. Wear your colors. Bring somebody from the other end of the freeway and make them regret it in the friendliest possible way.

Home Alone 2: Lost in New York — Live in Concert with the San Diego Symphony

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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York — Live in Concert with the San Diego Symphony

Dec 12, 2026 The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, 124…

You already know the ending. You've seen Kevin outrun the Sticky Bandits a hundred times. You've memorized the face he makes at the concierge, the Plaza Hotel lobby, the way the pigeon lady turns out to be the bravest person in the whole movie. None of that matters, because you've never heard John Williams' score performed live twenty feet from your chair while the film plays on a screen the size of a building. The San Diego Symphony performs the complete Home Alone 2 score at The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park — outdoors, under the December sky, with the bay behind you and Williams' orchestral arrangements filling the kind of open air they were always meant to fill. The brass hits different when there's no ceiling. The strings hit different when you can see the cellist's bow. The moment Kevin walks through a snowy Central Park and the full orchestra swells beneath it — that's the moment you understand why people keep coming back to this format. You already knew the movie. You didn't know the music. This is a holiday tradition built for the person who watches Christmas movies year-round and the person dragged along by them. Both leave converted. One night only: Saturday, December 12, 2026 at 6:00 PM. The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, 1245 Seventh Ave, San Diego.

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Allah-Las

Dec 12, 2026 Lodge Room, 104 N Avenue 56, Los A…

A band that formed while its members were working at Amoeba Records is almost too on the nose for this city, and the music turned out exactly as that origin predicts — sixties garage and jangle filtered through people who had heard absolutely everything and chose this. They have been the house band for a particular Los Angeles self-image for over a decade: beaches, reverb, a slight melancholy under the sunshine. Live they are looser than the records and the sets lean on the deeper cuts more than casual listeners expect. December in Highland Park, upstairs in an old Masonic lodge with wood floors and a balcony, is a good place to hear it. Music at 8:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56, a Saturday, first of two nights. Hometown runs at the end of a year draw everybody who has been meaning to go all along.

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The Slackers

Dec 12 – Dec 13, 2026 Ventura Music Hall, 1888 E Thompso…

Ska got flattened in this country into one joke about horns and checkerboard, which is an unfair fate for a form that is mostly about restraint — the space between the notes is the whole instrument. This band has spent three decades quietly proving it, working closer to Jamaican rocksteady and early reggae than to anything that happened in a nineties American suburb, with an organ player who is the actual center of the sound. They tour relentlessly and have for so long that the crowd spans about thirty years of ages, all of whom know when to move and when to stand still. The Ventura room is flat-floored with a proper dancefloor in front of the stage, which this music requires. Music at 9:00 PM on East Thompson Boulevard. Bands that never stopped touring build a different kind of audience — one that shows up for the eleventh time and brings somebody who has never been.

LA NDN Flea: A Native Market — East West Bank Plaza at The Broad

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LA NDN Flea: A Native Market — East West Bank Plaza at The Broad

Dec 13, 2026 East West Bank Plaza at The Broad,…

Before this city had a name, it had artists. LA NDN Flea is a Native American market that gathers indigenous makers from across the region to sell original art, jewelry, textiles, and handmade goods at the East West Bank Plaza adjacent to The Broad in downtown Los Angeles. This is not a museum exhibit about indigenous culture — it is a living marketplace where the people making the work are standing behind the tables, and the work is contemporary, not historical. Family-friendly activities and DJs round out the afternoon. Saturday, December 13 from 10 AM to 5 PM. Free entry. The plaza sits at Grand Avenue and 2nd Street in the heart of the DTLA arts district, steps from The Broad, MOCA, and Walt Disney Concert Hall. The vendor roster includes original art, beadwork, ceramics, screen-printed apparel, and packaged foods from indigenous-owned businesses across Southern California and beyond. The kind of market where the thing you buy carries a story the maker can tell you in person while you hold it.

Las Vegas Raiders vs. Los Angeles Chargers

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Las Vegas Raiders vs. Los Angeles Chargers

Dec 13, 2026 Allegiant Stadium, 3333 Al Davis W…

December is when a division stops being a table and starts being a grudge. Whatever these two teams still have left to play for by the middle of the month, the fixture carries sixty years of accumulated grievance that neither city has ever fully let go of, and it is one of the rare Sundays where the visiting crowd has driven rather than flown. Chargers fans make this trip in real numbers. It is closer than most of their own road games and it lands on a weekend plenty of people were half-planning anyway, so Allegiant Stadium fills with an argument that has already been running for hours outside in the lots before anyone reaches a seat. The 1:05 slot means an early start and a very long afternoon behind it, which in this particular city is either the entire appeal or the warning, depending on who you travelled with. December 13. Bring somebody who will forgive you for how loud you get.

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The Wooten Brothers

Dec 13, 2026 from $35 Teragram Ballroom, 1234 W 7th St, …

Rooms go quiet in a particular way when musicians who have played together since childhood start doing the thing where nobody appears to be leading. Four brothers, raised as a band before any of them were old enough to choose it, one of whom is routinely named among the best bass players alive by people who do not hand out that phrase lightly. What you are actually buying a ticket for is the interplay - the moment a groove shifts underneath itself and every one of them lands on the far side together without a glance. Bring somebody who plays an instrument; they will not recover. Worth knowing: this is a listening crowd, not a dancing one, and the good spots are the ones with a sightline to the hands. A Sunday evening in mid-December, when the rest of the city is doing Christmas errands. Seventh Street, downtown.

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Allah-Las

Dec 13, 2026 Lodge Room, 104 N Avenue 56, Los A…

Hometown runs at the end of a year are less about the setlist than about who turns up, and for a band that formed behind the counter of a record store in this city the answer is most of a scene. The music is sixties-derived and unmistakably Californian — reverb, jangle, a melancholy that sits underneath rather than on top. A decade in, the deeper catalog is where the interesting material lives and second nights are where they play it. Highland Park's upstairs Masonic hall on a Sunday in December, wood floors, balcony above, the last stretch of the year. Music at 8:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56. Sunday closing nights of a two-night hometown stand draw the people who have been going since the beginning, and it shows in the room.

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Evil Island

Dec 13, 2026 The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, San…

December Sundays are the dead zone of the live music calendar. The year is winding down, everyone is broke from presents, and the bands that play anyway are doing it for the people who would show up regardless. That is the correct condition for a small room. There is no industry in the audience in the second week of December, no one taking meetings, nobody there to be seen — just a couple hundred people who would rather be in a dark room on Kettner than at another holiday party pretending to enjoy a white elephant exchange. The Casbah has been the constant in San Diego music for over thirty years, the room where nearly every band this city produced played early and badly before they got good. A Sunday night bill there is the venue doing what it has always done. Doors at half seven on Sunday the thirteenth of December, music at half eight.

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GENTRI: Christmas 2026

Dec 14, 2026 340 N Escondido Blvd, Escondido, C…

Some voices don’t just fill a room — they make the room disappear. When three tenors trained in opera decide to sing Christmas music, the result isn’t a concert. It’s the moment December actually begins for you, whether you were ready or not. GENTRI brings their Christmas show to the California Center for the Arts in Escondido on December 14. Bradley Quinn Lever, Casey Elliott and Brad Robins built their reputation blending classical training with arrangements that land somewhere between Andrea Bocelli and a particularly moving church service. The Christmas set leans on carols you already know by heart, scored for orchestra, with harmonies that make your throat tighten. The California Center for the Arts at 340 N Escondido Blvd is one of North County’s best acoustic rooms, a hall that rewards vocal purity and makes three voices sound like the music was written for it. Show starts at 7:30 PM. This is a Monday in the middle of December’s final stretch. The shopping is half done, the parties have started to blur, and what you actually need is to sit in a beautiful room and let three voices remind you what the season is supposed to feel like.

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Shintaro Sakamoto

Dec 14, 2026 Lodge Room, 104 N Avenue 56, Los A…

A Tokyo apartment at 2 AM has its own sound, somewhere between a lounge record and a bad dream, and once you have heard it done properly nothing else scratches the itch. Sakamoto broke up his previous band in 2010 while they were at their peak, walked away, and started making something slower and stranger — wobbling guitar, deadpan falsetto, arrangements that sound cheerful until you read what the words are actually saying. American tours are rare enough that people fly in for them. The Los Angeles crowd for this is a specific overlap: city pop collectors, Japanese-language listeners, and the psych-rock people who found him through the old band, all of whom assume the other two groups do not exist. Watch what happens when the room recognizes a song from the first solo album. The Highland Park hall is upstairs in an old lodge with wood floors and a balcony. Music at 8:00 PM. He plays a second night here, and both usually go before the week of the show.

NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet — Jacobs Music Center, San Diego

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NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet — Jacobs Music Center, San Diego

Dec 15, 2026 1245 7th Ave, San Diego, CA 92101

You felt it the first time as a child — the moment the overture swells and the stage dissolves into a world where tin soldiers march and snowflakes dance in formation. That feeling never left. It just went dormant, waiting for a December evening dark enough to wake it up. NUTCRACKER! Magical Christmas Ballet brings America's largest touring Nutcracker production to Jacobs Music Center on December 15. This isn't a local ballet company doing their annual recital. This is an international cast of dancers, acrobats, and puppeteers transforming Tchaikovsky's score into something that moves between classical ballet and spectacle — larger-than-life puppetry, costumes that seem to generate their own light, and aerial work that belongs in a Cirque show. The production has been touring for over a decade and has become a December institution in every city it touches. Jacobs Music Center sits at 1245 7th Ave in downtown San Diego, the same hall where the San Diego Symphony plays. The acoustics are built for orchestral music, which means Tchaikovsky's score fills the room the way it was written to. Doors open at 6 PM, showtime 7 PM. All ages. This is a Tuesday night in mid-December. The work week is winding down, the holidays are close enough to feel, and San Diego's evening air carries just enough chill to make a velvet seat in a warm concert hall feel like exactly where you're supposed to be.

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