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Original Lobster Festival 2026 – Fountain Valley

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Original Lobster Festival 2026 – Fountain Valley

Sep 11 – Sep 13, 2026 Fountain Valley Sports Park, Fount…

Split and dripping, whole Maine lobster for less than a restaurant charges for the bisque alone — that is the pitch, and the line moves faster than you expect because everyone ahead of you already knows what they want. Rolls, bisque, mac and cheese, and whatever variation the vendors talked themselves into this year. It started at Rainbow Lagoon in Long Beach and grew until it needed a park to hold it, and the People's Choice competition for best lobster dish drags genuinely serious regional kitchens into a fight over bragging rights. Around the eating: SoCal craft beer and wine, an artisan marketplace, live music across stages, and carnival rides for whoever is too young to care about crustaceans. Three days in September at the Fountain Valley sports park, sitting centrally in Orange County, with weekend sessions that sell through in advance. Go with the person who orders lobster every time and pretends it is a special occasion.

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Gaslamp Quarter Art Walk — San Diego

Monthly · Next Sep 11 Free Gaslamp Quarter, 5th Ave & G St, S…

You have walked these blocks a hundred times on the way to dinner and never once noticed the staircase between two storefronts, or the room at the top of it with somebody's paintings on the walls. Last Saturday of the month, the doors that are normally shut get propped open. Galleries, boutiques, studios above street level, spaces you assumed were offices — all of it self-guided, so you set your own route and nobody herds you anywhere. Live music turns up at several stops. Artists stand next to their own work and will talk to you about it if you make eye contact, which is rarer downtown than it ought to be. The Gaslamp on a warm evening already does half the work. The rest is free, and it bridges an afternoon into a night out better than any reservation. Take the person you have been meaning to catch up with. You will end up talking more than looking, and that is fine.

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Howl-O-Scream 2026 — SeaWorld San Diego

Sep 11, 2026 SeaWorld San Diego, 500 Sea World …

One version of you loves being scared. The other version pretends otherwise. Both of them want to go, and only one is going to admit it in the parking lot. Five haunted houses open across the park after dark, each engineered to find a different frequency of dread you assumed you had outgrown. One drops you into a Mardi Gras gone wrong, bayou witches walking you through a graveyard that refuses to stay quiet. Another puts you inside a house that feeds on whatever fear you carried through the door. The coasters run in the dark, which changes everything about a ride you thought you knew, and the scare zones between houses mean there is no safe path from one to the next. Select nights through the fall, with admission starting hours before the screaming does. Bring the friend who grabs your arm and then denies it in the car.

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Cold Waves XIV — Los Angeles

Every day · Next Sep 11 Pacific Electric, Los Angeles, CA …

Somewhere between the kick drum and the static — where melody dissolves into texture and the low end becomes a physical object in your sternum — sits a frequency only certain people can hear. If you are still reading, you already know what it sounds like. This one started as a memorial and turned into the annual gathering point for everybody who ever found salvation in a drum machine. Two nights. The first is Stabbing Westward marking thirty years of Wither, Blister, Burn & Peel, with PIG, 16 Volt, and Acumen Nation on a bill that reads like a time capsule from when the genre still felt dangerous. The second belongs to The Black Queen, whose glacial synths keep quietly redefining what this music can feel like, with Forever Grey, NGHTCRWLR, Houses of Heaven, GRIZZ CLL, and Snakes of Russia proving the scene is not looking backward. Downtown Los Angeles, in the newest large-format room in the city. Two-day passes and single-night tickets through AXS. This is not a show you watch. It is a show that watches you back.

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Clay Walker at Wilson Creek Winery

Sep 11, 2026 $55+ Wilson Creek Winery, 35960 Rancho …

For anyone who came of age on 90s country radio, Clay Walker is pure muscle memory: If I Could Make a Living, Live Until I Die, hit after neotraditional hit, delivered by a voice that has aged like the good stuff. Hearing those songs live under the Temecula stars, vineyard breeze and a glass of local red in hand, is about as good as a Southern California summer night gets. Friday, September 11, 2026, at Wilson Creek Winery in Temecula. Come early to wander the grounds, grab a bottle, and settle onto the lawn as the sun drops behind the hills. The whole crowd turns into the backup choir by the second chorus. This is wine country doing what it does best, turning a concert into a whole gorgeous evening. Fifteen minutes from home and worlds away. Come raise a glass.

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Buddy Guy 90

Sep 11, 2026 The Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, 222…

A very small number of people alive can say they taught the sound of modern music to the men everyone else now treats as monuments. He is one of them. He showed Hendrix and Clapton and Stevie Ray what a guitar could be made to scream, and he carried Chicago's West Side blues out of the clubs and into everything that came afterward. Now he is turning ninety, and he is spending part of that birthday on a stage by the water rather than at home accepting a plaque. Still playing. Still one of the most thrilling live performers anybody can go and see. This is not a nostalgia booking. It is a chance to stand in a room with a living root of the whole thing while there is still time, the bay sitting behind the stage and the city lights wrapped around the rest of it. Come if you love the blues — or if you love anyone the blues made possible.

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Taj Mahal & Keb' Mo'

Sep 11, 2026 $87+ Humphreys Concerts by the Bay, 224…

The blues is an inheritance, passed hand to hand, and on this stage you get two generations of it at once. Taj Mahal is a living root of American music — six decades of reinventing the form, Grammy shelves groaning, a walking encyclopedia of where these songs came from. Keb' Mo' is the smooth, modern heir, all warmth and craft. Together, as TajMo, they trade verses and grins like family at a reunion, and the whole thing feels less like a concert than a front-porch session that happens to have a few thousand chairs. Under the stars at Humphreys, with the water lapping and the night warm, that easy, joyful, deeply rooted sound is exactly where it belongs. Friday, September 11, 2026, 7:30pm, Shelter Island. Come let two masters remind you that the blues, done right, is not sad at all — it is the sound of surviving with your sense of humor intact.

Stabbing Westward, PIG, 16 Volt & Acumen Nation at Pacific Electric

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Stabbing Westward, PIG, 16 Volt & Acumen Nation at Pacific Electric

Sep 11, 2026 $40+ Pacific Electric, 1729 Naud St, Lo…

If you spent the late nineties in black jeans and a permanent scowl, this bill is a time machine with the dial set to your best worst year. Stabbing Westward built anthems out of romantic devastation, 'Save Yourself' and 'Shame' among them, and they anchor a full night of the era's industrial heavy hitters: PIG, 16 Volt, Acumen Nation, all on one stage in a restored rail-yard building downtown that was made to take this much volume. The low end has somewhere to go in a room like that, which is exactly why these bands sound wrong in a normal club. It is a reunion for a scene that never actually broke up. It went home, got jobs, and kept the records. Naud Street in downtown Los Angeles, one night, doors in the evening. Come scream the choruses you have been muttering in the car for twenty-five years. The eyeliner is optional. The catharsis is not.

Cold Cave Performing Cremations at the Masonic Lodge, Hollywood Forever

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Cold Cave Performing Cremations at the Masonic Lodge, Hollywood Forever

Sep 11, 2026 $40+ The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood For…

Playing your most abrasive, near-unlistenable early material inside a 1931 Masonic lodge on the grounds of a working cemetery, on purpose, to a crowd that has waited years for exactly that -- only Wesley Eisold would think of it, and only Hollywood Forever would host it. Before Cold Cave became the synth-pop-adjacent project people slow-dance to, it was 'Cremations,' a slab of harsh, hissing early noise that most bands would bury and never exhume. Hearing it performed in full inside that ornate room -- up the old staircase, no elevator, the cemetery dark outside the windows -- is the kind of gesture that makes the whole scene lose its mind. Wear something you would be buried in, get there early for the stairs, and let the noise fill one of the most genuinely haunted rooms in Los Angeles. It is beautiful and unsettling in equal measure. There is nowhere else this show could possibly happen.

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Lettuce at Belly Up

Sep 11, 2026 $49.50-$86 Belly Up Tavern, 143 S Cedros Ave,…

You walk into the room and the bass player is already deep into something that makes your hips move before your brain catches up. The horns are stacked three deep and playing like they're having a private conversation that just happens to be the best thing you've ever overheard. The drummer is grinning. Everyone on stage is grinning. You look around and realize every single person in this venue is moving. Lettuce has been doing this for over twenty-five years — a funk and soul collective out of Boston's Berklee College of Music that turned a jam session into a career, a six-piece brass-heavy groove machine that makes you wonder why anyone would ever sit down at a concert. They don't do ballads. They don't do slow songs. They walk on stage and the room becomes a dance floor whether it was built to be one or not. Belly Up on a Friday night in September is the exact right container for this energy. Six hundred people, standing room, and a band that treats every show like the last house party of the summer. The kind of night where your shirt is soaked by the encore and you don't remember driving home. Belly Up Tavern, 143 S Cedros Ave, Solana Beach, CA 92075. Friday, September 11, 2026. GA $49.50 advance / $51 door.

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Sessions Surf Festival 2026 — Encinitas

Every day · Next Sep 12 Seaside Reef & La Paloma Theatre, …

A week where surfing, music, and art collide in the town that was built for all three. Sessions Surf Festival takes over Encinitas from September 12-19, 2026 — surf film screenings at the La Paloma Theatre, a community surf contest at Seaside Reef, art exhibits in local galleries, and headlining music acts including Osees, Unwritten Law, and Bully playing stages scattered across the coastline. Formerly the Solento Surf Festival, Sessions has grown into the kind of week-long celebration that defines what Encinitas actually is: a surf town that takes its culture seriously without taking itself too seriously. Live music runs most nights. The surf contest draws local rippers who ride this break every morning. The film festival screens the kind of indie surf documentaries that never make it to streaming. Multiple venues across Encinitas — Seaside Reef, La Paloma Theatre, and local galleries. Check sessionssurffestival.com for the full schedule and tickets. If Encinitas is your town, you already know. If it's not, this is the week it becomes your town.

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Cardiff Greek Festival 2026

Sep 12, 2026 3459 Manchester Ave, Cardiff-by-th…

One weekend every September, a quiet stretch of coast in Cardiff-by-the-Sea fills with the smell of slow-roasted lamb, the sound of bouzouki, and the kind of dancing that pulls strangers into the line by the second song. The Cardiff Greek Festival has been the parish's gift to North County for decades — hosted by the Saints Constantine and Helen Greek Orthodox Church, run by the families who cook the food themselves. Expect souvlaki and gyros, spanakopita and loukoumades fried to order, Greek wine and coffee, church tours, a marketplace of imported goods, and live music with traditional dancing all afternoon. It is small, warm, and deeply local — the opposite of a corporate festival. The Cardiff Greek Festival runs Saturday, September 12 and Sunday, September 13, 2026, at 3459 Manchester Avenue, Cardiff-by-the-Sea. Admission is free; bring cash for the food, and come hungry. Parking is tight along Manchester Avenue, so most regulars walk or bike in from the coast and make a slow afternoon of it. Come for the food, stay for the dancing — by late afternoon the courtyard is moving and nobody stays a stranger for long.

LAWineFest 2026 — Los Angeles Equestrian Center

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LAWineFest 2026 — Los Angeles Equestrian Center

Sep 12, 2026 Los Angeles Equestrian Center, 480…

A tasting room teaches you about one winery. A field in Burbank full of strangers who all want to argue about Grenache teaches you about a whole state. Twenty-one years in, this has settled into something no tasting room can copy: sunshine, live music all afternoon, food trucks along the perimeter, and the particular freedom of a day where the only decision is whether to try the next pour or go back for another taco. General admission covers unlimited tastings across California and international wines, plus craft brews, ciders, and kombucha, and you keep the glass. The VIP tier is capped per day and opens a garden of boutique wineries — the small producers who never reach a shelf you have seen — with real seating and an earlier start. Twenty-one and over, free parking, no downtown traffic. If you have spent a year saying you should go to more wine things, this is the one that costs a Saturday and changes what you order for a decade.

Pierce The Veil — I Can't Hear You World Tour Finale

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Pierce The Veil — I Can't Hear You World Tour Finale

Sep 12, 2026 Petco Park, 100 Park Blvd, San Die…

Watching a band walk off a stage for the last time in the city where they first plugged in does something no other night of a tour can do. Pierce The Veil close their three-year I Can't Hear You World Tour in San Diego, and Petco Park stops being a ballpark for one evening and becomes the final chapter of a twenty-year story that started in local clubs a few miles from the outfield. The show sold out, which tells you what the city already decided about it. For the people who screamed along to King for a Day at Soma in 2007 and for the ones who found the band through a friend's playlist last year, the night is the same thing: proof that it meant what you thought it meant. A hometown crowd at a hometown farewell holds nothing back. If somebody in your life has been waiting half of it for this, you already know exactly who to send this to.

CITY POP WAVES: CASIOPEA Special Live 2026 — Los Angeles, CA

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CITY POP WAVES: CASIOPEA Special Live 2026 — Los Angeles, CA

Sep 12, 2026 The Wiltern, 3790 Wilshire Bouleva…

Somewhere around two in the morning, a Japanese jazz playlist stops being background and becomes the only thing in the apartment. Everyone who has gone down that hole ends up in roughly the same place, and the band waiting at the bottom of it formed in 1976. What CASIOPEA does live is almost unfair: Issei Noro's melodic runs on guitar, Akira Jimbo's rhythmic precision, and a harmonic sophistication that has kept the whole catalog sounding contemporary decades past the point it should have dated. Mint Jams remains a benchmark for what a live fusion record can even be. They do not come here often. This one sits inside the City Pop Waves run, which has quietly become the Southern California home for Japanese music, and the Wiltern is small enough that the playing will land far closer than the recordings ever suggested. Send it to the person who sent you the playlist. They have been waiting longer than you have.

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The Airborne Toxic Event

Sep 12, 2026 $81+ Humphreys Concerts by the Bay, 224…

Everyone who was a certain age in the late 2000s has a version of the same memory: a string section swelling, Mikel Jollett half-singing half-confessing about a girl and a bad night, and the specific feeling of a heartbreak that felt like the end of the world and secretly kind of thrilling. That is what The Airborne Toxic Event does — literary, orchestral, unashamedly dramatic rock for people who feel things at full volume. Under the open sky at Humphreys, with a full band and strings and the bay behind them, songs like Sometime Around Midnight stop being nostalgia and become the catharsis they were built to be. This is a room full of people who will know every word and are not embarrassed to mean them. Saturday, September 12, 2026, 7:30pm, on Shelter Island. Come feel twenty-three again, in the best and most bittersweet way, with a few thousand people who never stopped playing that record.

Soda Stereo: ECOS Tour — Kia Forum, Inglewood

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Soda Stereo: ECOS Tour — Kia Forum, Inglewood

Sep 12, 2026 varies Kia Forum, 3900 W Manchester Blvd,…

There are bands your parents played, and then there are bands your parents played that rewired an entire continent's relationship with rock music. 'De Musica Ligera' is not a song in Latin America; it is a shared reflex. Gustavo Cerati's guitar work defined a generation, and those songs went into every party, every road trip, every three-in-the-morning conversation in Buenos Aires and Bogota and Santiago and Mexico City — then travelled north with everyone who left. Hearing it at arena volume, surrounded by people who carry the same songs in the same place, is the nearest thing to a working time machine currently available. The Forum in Inglewood is going to be very loud, very emotional, and probably a little damp. Call your mother. Ask if she wants to go. Be ready for the answer to arrive before you finish the question.

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Rose Bowl Flea Market — Pasadena

Every 2nd Sunday · Next Sep 13 From $15 Rose Bowl Stadium, 1001 Rose Bowl …

Nobody leaves with the thing they came for. You go looking for a lamp and come home with deadstock denim, a stack of vinyl, and an object that has no category but is clearly yours. That is what twenty-five hundred vendors on a stadium lot do to a person. Stylists, collectors and vintage hunters have been circling the second Sunday of the month since 1967, and the mix reads like everything Los Angeles has ever absorbed — Japanese streetwear beside 1970s Americana, mid-century furniture next to handmade jewelry, band tees, housewares, art prints. The quality ceiling runs higher than most dedicated vintage markets, because at that vendor count the best of it rises to the top. Rose Bowl Stadium in Pasadena, second Sunday of every month, general admission from 9am and early birds in at 7:30 for first pass. Go with the person who will hold your spot while you double back for the thing you talked yourself out of.

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