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Taking Back Sunday with Thrice and Saves the Day

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Taking Back Sunday with Thrice and Saves the Day

In 8 days · Oct 11 Gallagher Square at Petco Park, 10…

You do not outgrow the songs that held you together at sixteen. You just stop hearing them out loud until a night like this reminds you they have been playing underneath everything — in the car when you are alone, in the shower when nobody judges your singing, in the quiet moment before sleep when the chorus comes back unbidden. Taking Back Sunday, Thrice, and Saves the Day — three bands that shaped an entire generation of people who wore their hearts too visibly and screamed along in bedrooms — share a stage at Petco Park's Gallagher Square. The outdoor setup means you will hear "MakeDamnSure" with the downtown skyline behind the stage and the October air cooling the sweat off your neck. This is not a nostalgia act. These bands are still touring because the songs still work and the rooms still fill. The crowd will be people who found each other in high school parking lots and never fully left that version of themselves behind. Bring the friend who burned you that first CD. Sunday, October 11, 2026 at 7:00 PM. Gallagher Square at Petco Park, 100 Park Blvd, SD 92101.

Dillinger Four, Prision Postumo, Tiltwheel

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Dillinger Four, Prision Postumo, Tiltwheel

In 8 days · Oct 11 Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, San Die…

Some bands tour constantly and some surface roughly once a presidential term, and the second kind produces a very particular charge in a room. The Minneapolis four-piece has spent nearly thirty years releasing almost nothing and playing almost nowhere, which has somehow made the people who love them louder rather than fewer. The records are fast, funny, and genuinely furious about having a job — songs stacked with gang vocals that were built to be shouted back by people who are tired. The crowd for this has been waiting a long time and you will hear exactly how long in the first thirty seconds. Tiltwheel is on the bill too, and that is the local pull worth noticing: they have been playing this county since before most of the room could legally drink, and they have never once been fashionable, which is its own kind of credential. Doors seven-thirty, music eight-thirty, on a Sunday, which for punk is correct. October 11, Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd. Bring the one who still owns the seven-inch. The old San Diego punk network never actually dissolved; it just stopped announcing itself, and it is still booking rooms like this one most weeks of the year.

Rams vs. Bills — Monday Night Football at SoFi Stadium

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Rams vs. Bills — Monday Night Football at SoFi Stadium

In 9 days · Oct 12 SoFi Stadium, 1001 Stadium Dr, Ing…

Monday Night Football at SoFi is not a game you watch on your couch. It's a place you go. The stadium turns into its own city for four hours — the tailgate lots open mid-afternoon, the scoreboard is the size of a building, and the crowd noise at SoFi does something to your chest that your TV cannot replicate. The Rams host the Buffalo Bills on Monday, October 12 in a cross-conference matchup that brings one of the NFL's loudest fanbases into LA's living room. Bills Mafia travels, which means SoFi will have the rare energy of two fan cultures colliding — one that tailgates in shorts and one that tailgates through folding tables. The MNF broadcast on ABC and ESPN kicks off at 5:15 PM Pacific. The Monday night SoFi experience — the light show, the open concourses, the walk back to the car under the Inglewood sky — is the thing the broadcast cannot carry. Monday, October 12, 2026. 5:15 PM PT. SoFi Stadium, 1001 Stadium Dr, Inglewood 90301.

Lyndsay Faye in conversation with Leslie Klinger, "Raven"

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Lyndsay Faye in conversation with Leslie Klinger, "Raven"

In 9 days · Oct 12 ✨ New Free Book Soup, 8818 Sunset Boulevard, …

Some people never got over the first time a detective explained the solution and it turned out better than they had guessed. They are a whole secret society, and they have annotated everything. Tonight two of their high priests are in a bookstore on Sunset: Faye, who writes Victorian crime well enough that the Sherlockians accepted her as one of their own, and Klinger, who produced the annotated editions of Holmes and of Dracula that sit on those same people's shelves like scripture. Faye's new novel goes at Poe, which in this company is not a casual choice - it is picking up the other founding father of the form and asking whether the raven was ever really the point. If you hold opinions about which Holmes adaptation is defensible, you will find your people in this aisle. Book Soup runs its events crammed between the shelves on a weekday evening: thirty chairs, no stage, the author more or less standing in the true-crime section. Free, and the mystery shelf here is stocked by somebody who clearly reads it. Monday at seven.

The Blasting Company – plays Over the Garden Wall

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The Blasting Company – plays Over the Garden Wall

In 9 days · Oct 12 Lodge Room, 104 N Avenue 56, Los A…

Every autumn the light goes long and gold in the late afternoon and something in you starts looking for a wood to get lost in. Ten episodes aired in 2014. That was the whole thing. And somehow a generation now marks the turn of the season by rewatching them, in order, with the good candle lit. The band on this stage is the reason. They wrote the score — the frog songs, the tavern rounds, the glass-harmonica dread underneath the pretty parts — and they play it live with the same battered instrument cases and close harmony that made a children's cartoon feel like a folk record somebody found in an attic. Expect the room to sing back without being asked. Expect people in cloaks who did not coordinate and are delighted anyway. The crowd here skews people who found the show alone, at night, and assumed nobody else knew. They were wrong, and that discovery is most of the joy of the evening. Music at 8:00 PM at the Lodge Room in Highland Park. There is a second night after this one, and it sells out the same way.

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Y La Bamba

In 9 days · Oct 12 Pappy & Harriet's, 53688 Pioneerto…

Driving two hours into the desert to hear songs about faith and family sung half in Spanish is a strange and correct thing to do, because the material has always had more space in it than a city club allows. Luz Elena Mendoza Ramos writes about inheritance in the widest sense — language, religion, the parts of a family you cannot put down — over arrangements that begin as folk and keep breaking into something less settled. The voice does things live that recordings flatten. A high desert saloon on a Monday means the smallest and most attentive version of this audience. Music at 8:00 PM in Pioneertown, past Yucca Valley. Monday bookings out here exist for the people who live in the basin, and they turn out regardless of who is playing.

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Sangre Bruja, Fancy Faces, Rex Ramona

In 9 days · Oct 12 Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, San Die…

Monday night in this city is treated as a write-off, which is strange for a place where a third of the interesting bands live here and none of them are waiting for the weekend to exist. Three of them are playing. The headliner sings in Spanish over punk that owes as much to the border as to anything out of Los Angeles, and the accent is not a stylistic decision — it is simply where they are from, which is a thing that really only happens within about twenty miles of that line. The other two acts are local as well. Nobody on this bill is touring through on the way to Phoenix. Everybody on it will be standing at the bar afterward, and you can talk to them, which is most of the point of a room this size. Doors seven-thirty, first band eight-thirty, finished at a Monday-appropriate hour. October 12, Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd. Text the friend who keeps insisting there is nothing to do. Almost none of the bilingual punk that has come out of this county over the last twenty years was ever written about in English.

Java Joe's Open Mic — Bi-Weekly Tuesdays

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Java Joe's Open Mic — Bi-Weekly Tuesdays

Every other Tuesday · Next Oct 13 Java Joe's Coffee House, San Diego…

You have a song and you have never played it for anyone who was not legally obligated to be kind about it. There is a room in San Diego that exists specifically for that problem. Because it is a coffee house and not a bar, the room listens instead of talking over you. That single fact changes everything: quiet instruments work, dynamics are audible, and the distance between you and the nearest table is essentially nothing. Gaby Aparicio hosts, keeps the order honest, and does not let the list get gamed by whoever showed up loudest. Half the crowd is performers waiting their turn. The other half came because the format produces surprises — some Tuesday, somebody nobody knows gets up and does something remarkable. Sign-ups happen before the music starts and the list fills. Check facebook.com/javajoesopenmic for the current address. Bring the friend who has been writing songs in their car. Do not tell them why.

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sombr - You Are The Reason Tour

In 10 days · Oct 13 $45+ Pechanga Arena, 3500 Sports Arena …

Every few years a young songwriter comes along whose sad, swooning bedroom-pop soundtracks an entire generation's heartbreak, and right now that's sombr. The kid behind back to friends and undressed has gone from viral to arena in what feels like a single breath, and his You Are The Reason Tour is where his fans, mostly Gen Z and utterly devoted, get to scream every aching lyric together in one room. Tuesday, October 13, 2026, Pechanga Arena in San Diego. Come for the swelling choruses and the specific catharsis of hearing your feelings sung back to you by ten thousand strangers who feel them too. Bring the friend you text lyrics to at 2 a.m. If you're old enough to not know the name yet, ask any teenager. This is a moment.

Role Model: Chuck On Tour — Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre, San Diego

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Role Model: Chuck On Tour — Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre, San Diego

In 10 days · Oct 13 Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Th…

Somewhere between the second verse and the bridge of 'Blind,' you realized this wasn't just a song—it was a mirror. Role Model writes the kind of music that makes heartbreak feel like a shared language, the tracks you sent to someone at 2 AM not because you wanted them to hear a song but because you needed them to understand how you felt without having to say it. Now he's bringing the Chuck On Tour to San Diego State's Open Air Theatre with special guest Samia opening. The outdoor amphitheater sits on a hill at SDSU where October's warm San Diego night fills the space between songs, and the skyline behind the stage makes everything feel more cinematic than it has any right to. His live shows turn audiences into singalongs—strangers harmonizing on lyrics they each thought were private. If someone sent you 'Forever Oh' or 'Stealing the Show' at a weird hour, this is the show you send them back. Tuesday, October 13 at 7:30 PM. Cal Coast Credit Union Open Air Theatre, 5500 Campanile Dr, San Diego, CA 92182.

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The Blasting Company – plays Over the Garden Wall

In 10 days · Oct 13 Lodge Room, 104 N Avenue 56, Los A…

The second night of a two-night run tends to be the looser one, and for a show built around a ten-episode cartoon that people watch every autumn like a liturgy, looser is an improvement. This is the band that actually wrote the score — the tavern songs, the frog numbers, the parts that made a children's program sound like a lost folk record. Playing it live, in costume, to a room that knows every word, produces something closer to a singalong than a concert. The people who come to the second night are frequently the ones who came to the first and could not leave it at that. Highland Park's old Masonic hall is upstairs, wood-floored, with a balcony. Music at 8:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56, a Tuesday in October. Whether the leaves turn where you live or not, this is how a lot of people in this city mark the season now.

Metaphor: ReFantazio Orchestra Concert — Peacock Theater, Los Angeles

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Metaphor: ReFantazio Orchestra Concert — Peacock Theater, Los Angeles

In 10 days · Oct 13 Peacock Theater, 777 Chick Hearn C…

You spent eighty hours inside that world. You heard the battle theme so many times it became the sound of your own stubbornness — the part where the strings climb and the choir enters and you refused to put the controller down because the next cutscene was the one that was going to break you. Shoji Meguro writes like the music knows something about you that you have not said out loud yet. The tavern theme that made you pause the game and just sit there. The boss transition where the orchestra swells and your hands went cold. The quiet field track that played while you were supposed to be somewhere else, but you walked around anyway because the melody was doing something you could not name. Now a full orchestra and choir perform that score live, and the difference between hearing it through speakers and hearing it fill a hall is the difference between remembering a place and standing in it again. The Japan premiere sold out; this is the first orchestral realization of these compositions in the United States. The audience is the quiet part made loud — a thousand people who each spent those hours alone in a room, and were in the same room the whole time without knowing it.

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Deer Tick

In 10 days · Oct 13 Belly Up Tavern, 143 S Cedros Ave,…

Certain bands sound like the third hour of a night that was supposed to end two hours ago, and this is the defining example. The records swing between tender and completely unhinged, sometimes inside one song, and live that ratio is decided in the moment rather than in advance. John McCauley's voice is a genuinely damaged instrument — shredded in a way that makes the sweet songs land harder because you can hear what it costs him to sing them quietly. There is no setlist discipline to speak of. People who have seen them four times have seen four different bands. A Tuesday out in North County. Doors at seven, music at eight. October 13, Belly Up Tavern, 143 S Cedros Ave. Bring the friend you have had a genuinely bad night with and stayed friends after. The bands that trade on that specific ragged warmth almost always play out here rather than downtown, for reasons nobody has ever adequately explained.

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Y La Bamba, Vanessa Zamora

In 10 days · Oct 13 Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, San Die…

Having two languages and no single room where both of them are ordinary is a specific kind of loneliness. Most music asks you to pick one and stay there. Luz Elena Mendoza's project refuses. The songs move between Spanish and English mid-thought, the way people actually talk in half the households in this county, and the arrangements sit somewhere between Mexican folk tradition and something considerably stranger and more fragile — harmonies that stack up and then drop out entirely, leaving a voice alone in a way that is almost uncomfortable. Vanessa Zamora opens, coming up from Tijuana, which reframes the whole night. It stops reading like a tour stop and starts reading like a regional conversation that happens to be selling tickets. Two artists, one border, nobody treating it as a theme. Doors seven-thirty, music eight-thirty, a Tuesday. October 13, Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd. Bring your mother if she will come, or the friend who also code-switches without noticing they are doing it. The border runs directly through the middle of this city's music and it very rarely gets booked that honestly.

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Blondshell - Scaring Strangers Tour

In 11 days · Oct 14 $40+ The Observatory North Park, 2891 U…

The ugly, quiet thing you would never say out loud - the resentment, the bad decision you keep repeating, the person you should have stopped calling - Sabrina Teitelbaum says all of it plainly, and built a whole record out of the relief. Under the name Blondshell she turns private wreckage into songs that feel less like performance and more like being seen. The Scaring Strangers Tour brings her to the Observatory North Park on a Wednesday night, Starcleaner Reunion opening, the kind of mid-size room where a lyric can land in the dark and you feel the whole crowd flinch at once because they know it too. This is guitar music for people who thought they were the only one. October 14, 2026, 7pm, North Park. Go for the song that has been describing your year better than you could, and stay for the strange comfort of three hundred strangers who needed to hear it just as badly.

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Mursic, Find Me Falling, Rio

In 11 days · Oct 14 Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, San Die…

Local bands get exactly one shot at you, and it is almost always on a weeknight, opening for somebody else you actually came to see. Occasionally they get a whole bill to themselves. This is one of those, and it is stacked with the kind of melodic, slightly overwrought guitar music that a nineteen-year-old needs and a thirty-four-year-old secretly still needs. Three acts, all working the same emotional register, none of them famous enough that you will be watching over anyone's raised phone. The crowd will be mostly friends of the bands, which sounds like a warning and is actually the appeal — nobody is bored, nobody is there ironically. A Wednesday. Doors seven-thirty, first band eight-thirty. October 14, Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd. Bring whoever still defends the album that got you through a specific year. San Diego turns out this kind of band constantly and almost none of it makes it past the county line.

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Shiner

In 11 days · Oct 14 – Oct 15 Pappy & Harriet's, 53688 Pioneerto…

Some bands are famous entirely among other bands, and this is one of the clearest examples — a Kansas City group whose records got passed around by musicians throughout the late nineties while almost nobody else noticed, then became the reference point for a whole strain of heavy melodic rock that came after. They broke up, stayed broken up for the better part of two decades, and reformed to find that the reputation had grown enormously in their absence. The sound is dense and precise, guitars stacked into something closer to architecture than to riffing. Crowds for this skew heavily toward people who play in bands themselves, which makes for an unusually attentive room. High desert saloon, Wednesday, doors at 9:00 PM in Pioneertown. Reputation built entirely by word of mouth between musicians is a slow way to build an audience and a durable one.

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Daniel Sloss: BITTER

In 12 days · Oct 15 $40+ Balboa Theatre, 868 Fourth Ave, Sa…

A single stand-up special reportedly ended eleven thousand relationships and triggered hundreds of divorces, and Daniel Sloss treats that number as a rave review. Beneath the filthy jokes and the withering Scottish delivery sits a genuinely dangerous idea: that you deserve better than the comfortable lie you have settled for. His new hour, BITTER, promises the same trick — savage, brilliant, uncomfortably honest comedy that feels like being roasted by the smartest, meanest friend you have, right up until it quietly rearranges something inside you. This is stand-up for people who want to be provoked, not soothed. Thursday, October 15, 2026, 7pm, Balboa Theatre. Come for the brutal wit and stay for the strange gift of a comedian who respects you enough to tell you the truth you have been avoiding — you may laugh the whole way through and still leave a different person than you walked in. Go with your partner if you dare; go alone if you are smart.

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