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Jazz at LACMA

Every Friday · Next Oct 9 LACMA, Smidt Welcome Plaza, 5905 W…

Free things in this city are usually free for a reason. This one has been running for thirty-five years, which is longer than most of the paid things, and it still costs nothing. Every Friday evening from spring through October, an actual working jazz ensemble plays outdoors on the plaza at the county art museum, and the crowd is the most genuinely mixed gathering in Los Angeles — museum members who came for the galleries, families with folding chairs, couples on a cheap date, older Angelenos who have been coming since the eighties and have opinions about the booking. People bring picnics. Nobody checks a ticket because there are no tickets. The musicians are not filler. The series has hosted the city's serious players for three decades, and the sound of a horn section carrying across an open plaza while the light goes orange over Wilshire is the specific thing you cannot get from a recording. Seating is first-come and limited, so the people who know arrive around five with a blanket. Music runs six to eight on Friday evenings.

Mac DeMarco at Hollywood Bowl — Los Angeles

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Mac DeMarco at Hollywood Bowl — Los Angeles

In 6 days · Oct 9 2301 N Highland Ave, Los Angeles, …

Mac DeMarco built a career out of sounding like he does not care, which takes more care than most people realize. The slacker-rock tone, the gap-toothed grin, the songs that sound like they were recorded on a four-track in a friend's garage — all of it is precision disguised as nonchalance. At the Hollywood Bowl, that disguise becomes absurd in the best way: one of the most casually brilliant guitar players of his generation, performing in one of the most elegant outdoor venues in the world, for an audience that showed up in shorts and flip-flops because Mac would not have it any other way. The Bowl's natural acoustics turn the jangly guitar lines into something the hills amplify and the evening air softens. The setlist will be whatever Mac feels like playing, which is half the charm and all of the point. Friday, October 9. Hollywood Bowl, 2301 N Highland Ave, Los Angeles.

Jack Johnson: SURFILMUSIC Tour 2026 — North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre

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Jack Johnson: SURFILMUSIC Tour 2026 — North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre

In 6 days · Oct 9 2050 Entertainment Cir, Chula Vist…

There’s a kind of music that belongs to a specific hour — the one where the sky is doing that thing it only does at the coast, and everything you were stressed about suddenly feels very far away. Jack Johnson has owned that hour for twenty years. The SURFILMUSIC Tour brings him to North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre in Chula Vista on Friday, October 9, 2026, with Hermanos Gutiérrez opening, and if you’ve ever sat in those lawn seats as the sun drops behind the hills you already know this isn’t a concert — it’s the Southern California evening you describe to people who ask why you live here. Doors around 4 PM for parking, show at 7:30 PM. Tickets from $67.20 on Ticketmaster. Every ticket includes parking in the unpaved lots. North Island Credit Union Amphitheatre, 2050 Entertainment Cir, Chula Vista, CA 91911. Bring a blanket for the lawn. Leave the week behind.

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YHWH Nailgun

In 6 days · Oct 9 Lodge Room, 104 N Avenue 56, Los A…

Every few years a band arrives that people struggle to describe without listing other bands, and the honest answer for this one is that the drummer is doing something nobody else is doing right now — polyrhythmic, relentless, closer to a machine failing than to rock drumming. Around that sits vocals somewhere between chant and panic and guitar that functions mostly as texture. The New York noise underground produced them and the internet spread them faster than that scene usually manages. Live is where it makes sense; the recordings sound difficult and the room sounds physical. Sets are short, which is correct. Highland Park's upstairs lodge has the volume headroom for it. Music at 8:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56 on a Friday. Bands like this one get passed between people as a dare, and the room ends up full of everyone who took it.

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Sploinky Rave

In 6 days · Oct 9 Ventura Music Hall, 1888 E Thompso…

Rave culture keeps reinventing itself in whatever room will have it, and the current wave is being run by people young enough that the nineties are pure inheritance rather than memory — faster tempos, internet-native aesthetics, and names chosen specifically to be unserious. Nights billed like this one are less about a headliner than about a crowd that has organized itself online and needs somewhere physical to land. That is genuinely how scenes start. Ventura is not where anybody expects that to happen, which is most of why it is interesting; a coastal town with a converted bowling alley and a flat floor is exactly the kind of place a scene can afford. Music at 8:00 PM on East Thompson Boulevard, a Friday. Whoever is running this will be running something bigger in two years, and the people in the room already know it.

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Los Horoscopos de Durango

In 6 days · Oct 9 Peacock Theater, 777 Chick Hearn C…

Duranguense had a moment in the mid-2000s so total that if you were a teenager in Southeast LA then, the tuba line is wired directly into a memory of somebody's quinceanera. Most of the acts from that wave disappeared. This one did not, and it is fronted by two sisters who inherited the band from their father and then spent twenty years proving they were the point rather than the footnote. What makes a show like this worth a Friday is the audience: people who were sixteen when these songs ran the radio, now bringing their own teenagers, who are mortified for exactly four songs and then know all the words. Marisol and Vicky Teran still do the full set live with the horn section rather than tracks. The sisters took over after their father Armando stepped back, kept the saxophone-and-tuba arrangements intact, and have outlasted nearly every act that shared the radio with them. Friday the 9th of October; the band takes the stage at eight sharp.

#WeTouchGrass presents: SAN DIEGO Anime Rave

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#WeTouchGrass presents: SAN DIEGO Anime Rave

In 6 days · Oct 9 – Oct 10 Spin Nightclub, 2028 Hancock St, S…

Loving something loudly in private has a silence all its own. You know the opening eight bars of a song nobody at your job has heard. You have a real opinion about a fight scene you cannot bring up at dinner. Then a room like this opens and the private thing turns out to belong to several hundred people who also stayed up for the simulcast. The remixes are built for exactly this - the DJs cut openings into club edits, so a track you have only ever heard under a title card lands at one in the morning with a floor full of people shouting the Japanese back at it. There is a cosplay catwalk. The cocktails are named after characters. Nobody explains any of it, because nobody needs it explained. Spin Nightclub, 2028 Hancock Street, San Diego. Nine o'clock, twenty-one and over. The same crew runs the Los Angeles room, and the circuit keeps going all year.

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Last Dinosaurs

In 6 days · Oct 9 – Oct 10 Pappy & Harriet's, 53688 Pioneerto…

Guitar pop from Brisbane that got enormous in Southeast Asia and Latin America while remaining a cult concern in the United States is a genuinely odd career shape, and it produces American shows where a meaningful part of the room has flown or driven a long way. The songs are bright, intricate, built on interlocking guitar lines rather than power chords, and they have aged into something people associate with a specific stretch of their twenties. The band has kept the same core for well over a decade. Out in a high desert saloon with a wooden floor and a patio full of people between sets, the whole thing takes on a character no city club would give it. Music at 9:30 PM in Pioneertown, a Friday. Half the pleasure of a booking like this is finding out who else in your area has been quietly following a band nobody around you has heard of.

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Kyle Watson 360

In 6 days · Oct 9 – Oct 10 Exchange LA, 618 S Spring St, Los …

Playing in the round removes the one thing a DJ normally has, which is a back. No screen to hide behind, no lighting rig aimed helpfully away from the face, an audience on every side watching the hands. The South African producer works the funkier end of tech house — basslines with actual swing in them rather than the metronomic version that dominates the format — and the 360 setup suits that, because a groove-led set rewards being able to see how it is assembled. The old stock exchange building downtown, all marble and vaulted ceiling, is an absurd and wonderful place to put a dancefloor — the trading floor became the main room, and the ceiling height gives the low end somewhere to go that a purpose-built club never has. Ten at night on Friday the ninth, on South Spring Street, until three.

Great American Beer Festival 2026 — Denver, CO

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Great American Beer Festival 2026 — Denver, CO

In 7 days · Oct 10 – Oct 11 Levitt Pavilion, Denver, CO

For the first time in four decades, the country's longest-running craft beer competition steps outside - two days under the open Denver sky, 300 breweries, the whole thing rethought after 40 years indoors. What happens on the floor is a curated education in American brewing. Hundreds of breweries pour samples across organized sections by style - sours, lagers, IPAs, stouts, sessionable ales, and experimental categories that did not exist as named styles ten years ago - and the pouring representatives are often the brewers themselves. A conversation that starts at a sample cup can end with an invitation to tour the brewery. The density of craft knowledge on this floor is unmatched anywhere in the country. It is worth attending for anyone who drinks craft beer with intent, for people who want to understand why American craft brewing became a global benchmark, or for anyone curious what beer tastes like when it is made by someone who cares more about the liquid than the label - but it is not a music festival, it is a tasting event first. Tickets go on sale in July, starting with a presale for Brewers Association and American Homebrewers Association members, and public tickets typically sell out within hours. The outdoor Levitt Pavilion venue means weather planning for October in Denver. Sessions run 12pm to 4pm both days. Designated driver tickets are available. Drink water. GABF has crowned the best American craft beers since 1982, and the competition results announced at the festival shape what breweries brew and what distributors carry for the following year - a GABF medal is the craft brewing equivalent of a Michelin star, and the public tasting gives you access to the same beers the judges evaluated, poured by the people who made them. American craft brewing is one of the defining cultural exports of the past forty years, a grass-roots rebellion against industrial uniformity that built its own infrastructure, vocabulary, and community from scratch, and GABF is where that community gathers annually to declare what it has accomplished. The Great American Beer Festival 2026 takes place at Levitt Pavilion in Denver, CO.

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OB Oktoberfest Day 2 — Ocean Beach

In 7 days · Oct 10 Free entry Ocean Beach, San Diego, CA 92107

By Sunday the urgency of opening day has burned off, and the people left are the ones who wanted to be here rather than the ones who felt like they were supposed to be. That is Day 2 of Ocean Beach Oktoberfest — the version the neighborhood keeps for itself, once the crowd has found its rhythm and the vendors know what is moving. OB has its own relationship with events like this: lower pretense, higher warmth, a crowd that talks to strangers because that is just what OB does. The pretzels are still warm. The beer covers German imports alongside SoCal craft. Newport Avenue closes to traffic and the blocks fill with people who have been coming for years standing next to people who stumbled in and immediately understood why it keeps happening. The food vendors, the live music, the slow pace of a Sunday afternoon in a neighborhood that does slow Sundays better than most of San Diego — it adds up to something that does not feel like a corporate event, because it isn't one. Send it to the friend who complains that festivals feel fake. Tickets at oboktoberfest.com. Ocean Beach, San Diego.

Palm Tree Music Festival — Montecito 2026

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Palm Tree Music Festival — Montecito 2026

In 7 days · Oct 10 Santa Barbara Polo & Racquet Club,…

A polo field. The Santa Barbara mountains standing behind the stage. The Chainsmokers, Kygo, T-Pain, Zedd, and the All-American Rejects on the same bill on the same afternoon. The absurdity is not a bug — it is the entire proposition. This is less Coachella and more the party that happens when money and taste collide on a perfect October afternoon and nobody involved is embarrassed about it. Loud Luxury, Frank Walker, and Myles O'Neal fill the space between headliners. The crowd is dressed for a garden party that has clearly gotten away from everyone. The horses have been moved elsewhere for the day. You will hear a song you have not thought about since one specific summer, and you will hear it standing on grass that normally costs a membership to walk across. Send this to the friend who still knows every word to a track they claim to be embarrassed by. Watch how fast they say yes.

Marques Wyatt B2B Doc Martin — A Celebration of House Music at California Plaza, DTLA

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Marques Wyatt B2B Doc Martin — A Celebration of House Music at California Plaza, DTLA

In 7 days · Oct 10 California Plaza, 350 S Grand Ave,…

Two men have been playing house records in this city since before most of the floor was born. Put them back to back and the set becomes a history lesson you feel in your chest rather than one you follow with your head. This is not a festival. No wristband tiers, no main stage, no lineup poster built to sell out a weekend. It is a gathering, the house community turning up in daylight for the people who built the community in the first place, with David Harness, Big Cee, and Seeps filling out the day around the extended back-to-back set. The sun moves across the plaza all afternoon. The groove does not move at all. California Plaza in downtown Los Angeles, starting in the afternoon and running into the evening. If you know who Marques Wyatt is, you were already going. If you do not, this is exactly how people find out.

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Jongho Day in LA Cupsleeve Event

In 7 days · Oct 10 Somemore LA, 2717 W Olympic Blvd, …

Somebody's birthday is coming up and he does not know you exist. You have made peace with this. What you have not made peace with is having nowhere to put it — the date sits in your calendar every year doing nothing, a small private holiday with a congregation of one. On Olympic Boulevard there is a cafe where that stops being true for five hours. This is the second year the same person has thrown this party, which is the detail worth sitting with: it started as one fan deciding a day mattered, and it came back, which is how a tradition actually begins. Buy a drink, get the cupsleeve and the freebie set, and go early, because while supplies last is not a formality here — the sets go, and the people who showed up at one o'clock have them. He is the one the group sends out when a note has to be hit live and cannot be missed. Saturday, October 10, 1 to 6 PM, Somemore LA on West Olympic. Bring the friend who knows exactly which note you mean.

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PICNIC WITH TAEMIN

In 7 days · Oct 10 bobaTEAque, 1960 N Tustin St, Oran…

Some of you have been watching the same person work since he was twelve years old. That is a strange sentence to say out loud at a normal dinner table, so you don't say it, and the length of time just sits there unshared — a decade and a half of somebody else's career quietly braided into your own. A boba shop on North Tustin is turning itself into a picnic about exactly that. Themed photo spots, activities, vendor tables, and a donation drive attached, timed to his LiMiNaL tour stop so the people who are going and the people who could not get tickets end up in the same room anyway. That second group is the one this is really for. The vendors applied back in September and got cut off on the 15th, which tells you how far ahead people were planning to sit in a strip-mall cafe in Orange on a Saturday afternoon. October 10, 1 to 6 PM, bobaTEAque. You already know who you would send this to, and you already know she will say she is busy and then go.

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Adam Port

In 7 days · Oct 10 Pappy & Harriet's, 53688 Pioneerto…

House music that is patient rather than urgent asks something of a crowd, and the Berlin collective this producer belongs to has spent a decade proving that people will give it if the room is right. Sets run long and build slowly, percussion-heavy, vocals used sparingly and then to devastating effect. They became one of the most in-demand acts in dance music largely by playing outdoors in places where the setting did half the work. A high desert saloon in Pioneertown, with a patio and a sky and cold air outside, is very much that kind of setting — considerably smaller than where this artist usually plays. Music at 7:00 PM, an early start for a Saturday. Dance floors that form outdoors under a desert sky are what a certain part of this scene has been chasing for years, and this is one of them.

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The Rush Tribute Project

In 7 days · Oct 10 $34+ The Magnolia, 210 E Main St, El Ca…

Rush fans carry a grief that is specific and stubborn: the band is gone. Neil Peart, the drummer who was the reason a generation picked up sticks, died; the band retired; and the odds of ever again standing in a room while those impossible time signatures fill the air went to zero. Which is exactly why a great tribute stops being a novelty and becomes something closer to a memorial service that rocks. The Rush Tribute Project plays it straight and plays it hard — Tom Sawyer, Limelight, the whole prog cathedral — for a room full of people who need to hear it live one more time and cannot, any other way. There is no cynicism in this crowd, only devotion. The Magnolia gives it the sound it deserves. Saturday, October 10, 2026, doors 6:30pm, show 7:30pm, El Cajon. Come stand with the faithful and let the music you thought you had lost fill a room again.

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JUNGLE

In 7 days · Oct 10 Crypto.com Arena, 1111 S Figueroa …

Some records are built for a room where everyone gives up on looking cool at the same moment. Jungle have spent a decade making exactly that: falsetto-stacked, horn-driven dance music that sounds like a seventies soul revue rebuilt by people who grew up on house, and a live show that is less a band performing than a dance troupe occupying a stage. The choreography is the thing people are unprepared for. Their videos are single-take dance pieces and they bring that discipline into the building, so what you get is not four people behind laptops but a stage full of bodies moving in formation while the low end rearranges your chest. RIO KOSTA opens. Their last two records leaned further into the disco end of it, so the set list has become a genuinely good argument rather than a greatest-hits walk. This is the show to bring the friend who claims they do not dance, because the room makes the decision for them. Saturday October 10, on stage at a quarter to eight, downtown.

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