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Obsession Rave

Oct 2 – Oct 3, 2026 1720, 1720 E 16th St, Los Angeles,…

Indie sleaze came back because the people who were nineteen in 2008 are now old enough to be nostalgic and young enough to still go out. Flash photography, bad eyeliner, a general commitment to looking like the night cost you something. What makes this one work is that it is not a costume party. The lineup runs dark pop into hard dance, which is the actual through-line of that era rather than the cleaned-up version people remember, and the room is full of people who dressed with real intent. The warehouse downtown is the correct venue — nobody wants this in a nice room, and the people who run it know that. Nine at night on Friday the second, running to two in the morning.

DAS BUNKER 30th Anniversary with CombiChrist

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DAS BUNKER 30th Anniversary with CombiChrist

Oct 2, 2026 $35+ Catch One, 4067 W Pico Blvd, Los A…

A room full of people in black moving on the same downbeat makes a very particular sound, and Los Angeles has been making it in one basement or another for thirty years. DAS BUNKER is where generations of goths, rivetheads, and cybergoths found each other — the dark room that kept existing while every other scene night in this city opened and closed. For the anniversary it brings CombiChrist to Catch One: aggrotech, body music, strobes, and the communal catharsis this particular crowd knows how to generate on command. This is less a concert than a homecoming. Thirty years of people who did not fit anywhere else, in one room, at full volume, finding out that most of them are still here. Wear the black you save for occasions. Charge your boots. Dance until the lights come up with a family you did not know you had.

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La Mesa Oktoberfest 2026

Oct 2, 2026 La Mesa Boulevard, La Mesa Village…

For three days every October, the quiet streets of La Mesa Village trade their everyday calm for Bavaria — and the regulars who treat this as the unofficial start of fall wouldn't miss it. La Mesa Oktoberfest is the largest German celebration in San Diego County, now in its fifty-third year, and it fills downtown La Mesa with oompah bands, lederhosen, bratwurst, pretzels the size of your head, and steins of German beer poured under string lights. It stays genuinely all-ages: a carnival and kids' zone by day, live music and beer halls by night, and a craft-and-vendor market running the length of the village all weekend. Admission is free; you pay only for what you eat, drink, and ride. La Mesa Oktoberfest runs Friday, October 2 through Sunday, October 4, 2026, in La Mesa Village. Bring cash, bring an appetite, and wear shoes you can dance in. Veterans know to arrive Friday afternoon before the village fills, and to pace themselves across all three days — the music and the food halls run from midday well into the night, and the best seats in the beer garden go early.

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Tustin Tiller Days 2026

Oct 2, 2026 Columbus Tustin Park, 17522 Beneta…

The Ferris wheel hasn't changed. The Lions Club is still running it. The parade still rolls down the same stretch of road it's been rolling since before most of the crowd was born, and the corn dogs still cost what corn dogs cost at a carnival that folds up on Sunday night and leaves behind nothing but flattened grass and the particular satisfaction of a town that just spent three days remembering it's a town. Tiller Days celebrates the agricultural roots of a city that paved over most of its farms but never paved over the tradition of gathering in the park to eat questionable food and watch a float built by someone's scout troop. The craft booths are the kind where someone's aunt has sold hand-poured candles at the same table for fifteen years. The crowd is the crowd that lives here: stroller families, teenagers who came for the rides, retirees who came for the pie. Columbus Tustin Park becomes a midway, a food court and a live music venue for one weekend every October. Free entry to the grounds; rides ticketed separately. Saturday parade at 10 AM through Old Town Tustin. October 2–4. Columbus Tustin Park, Tustin.

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DJ_Dave

Oct 1, 2026 El Rey Theatre, 5515 Wilshire Blvd…

Writing code in front of an audience should be unbearable to watch and somehow is not. The screen is projected, the syntax errors happen in public, and the music is being built out of typed instructions while the room waits. DJ_Dave performs live-coded music — the set is literally written on stage, line by line, and every change you hear corresponds to a change you can read. It comes out of the algorave scene, a small international community of people who decided the laptop should be transparent rather than hidden. The result is danceable and slightly nerve-wracking; you find yourself rooting for the performer in a way that never happens at a normal DJ set. A Thursday at the Wilshire theatre, doors at eight. Get there early enough to read the screen.

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Taste of Laguna Food & Music Festival

Oct 1, 2026 Festival of Arts, 650 Laguna Canyo…

Laguna spends every summer being a postcard, and then on one October evening it stops performing and throws a party for itself. More than thirty of the town's own kitchens set up inside the Festival of Arts grounds, the same grounds where the art actually lives, and pour unlimited tastings while a band plays and the canyon cools off around you. You drift from plate to plate as the string lights come on. The chefs are standing right there rather than behind a pass, which changes every conversation you have about the food. It is twenty-one and over, it is unhurried, and it carries the specific magic of eating an entire town's worth of good cooking in one place in one night. Laguna Canyon Road, an evening in early October. This is for the person who believes a good meal on a warm night is the entire point of living here. They are right, and this proves it.

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Kids Free San Diego — October 2026

Oct 1, 2026 Multiple Venues, 1549 El Prado, Sa…

A seven-year-old looks into a telescope eyepiece and goes completely silent for the first time in their life. That is the version of October being offered here, and it costs you nothing extra. For the whole month, more than a hundred museums, attractions and historic sites across the county let every kid twelve and under in free with a paying adult. The headliners are all on the list, the zoo and the safari park and the Midway and Belmont Park, but locals know the real finds are elsewhere: the museum in Carlsbad where your kid picks up a theremin and plays it badly and beautifully, the aquarium tide pools that turn a five-year-old into a marine biologist for an afternoon, the folk art collection that quietly teaches a nine-year-old that beauty does not require a screen. All month, all over the county, so you can spread it across weekends instead of stampeding. This is not a discount. It is a city behaving as though it were built for families.

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DeVotchKa at Belly Up — Solana Beach

Sep 30, 2026 143 S Cedros Ave, Solana Beach, CA…

A sousaphone, a theremin and a bouzouki walk onto a stage on Cedros Avenue, and somehow what comes out sounds like a traveling circus performing in a cathedral while the world ends outside. Nick Urata sings in a tenor that carries the weight of Eastern European folk, Latin bolero, and punk rock all at once, and the band plays instruments that most rock acts have never heard of — sousaphone, theremin, bouzouki — as if they were born with them in their hands. The result is a sound that belongs to no genre and every continent, the kind of thing that makes you realize how small the word indie is when applied to a band whose influences stretch from a Balkan wedding reception to a Mexican cinema. At the intimate North County venue on Cedros, the sound wraps around you like a blanket sewn from every country you have never visited, and you leave knowing that the word eclectic was invented for exactly this. Tuesday, September 30, at 8 PM.

Rady Shell at Jacobs Park — 2026 Summer Season

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Rady Shell at Jacobs Park — 2026 Summer Season

Jun 5 – Sep 30, 2026 Rady Shell at Jacobs Park, 222 Mar…

You get there early on purpose. The bay is in front of you, the skyline is over your left shoulder, the sun is going down over the Pacific, and by the time the orchestra plays its first note the setting has already done most of the work. That is the trick of the place — it was purpose-built so the view and the music arrive together. The San Diego Symphony plays here across the whole summer: classical programs, film scores, pops nights, and collaborations with artists the symphony circuit does not usually bring to this city. Regulars will tell you the lawn is the social choice and the reserved seats are the full view, and that you should bring something to sit on either way. The waterfront breeze shows up in the evening no matter how hot the afternoon was. Programs and tickets vary through the season at theshell.org, out on Marina Park Way. Send it to the friend who says they don't like classical music. They have never heard it outdoors with the water right there.

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Robert Plant with Saving Grace

Sep 28, 2026 $100+ Humphreys Concerts by the Bay, 224…

The voice is older now, weathered down from the banshee wail that once rode over Led Zeppelin's thunder — and somehow that makes it land deeper. What Robert Plant is chasing these days is quieter and stranger: Saving Grace, a band steeped in Appalachian gospel, English folk, and desert blues, trading arena bombast for something closer to a seance. Under the open sky at Humphreys, with the boats knocking gently in the marina and the bay air coming off the water, that hushed, haunted sound has room to breathe. He could coast on the old catalog forever; instead he keeps walking toward the unfamiliar, and asking you to follow. Suzi Dian shares the vocals, Rosie Flores opens. For anyone who ever wore out a Zeppelin record, this is not nostalgia — it is watching a restless artist still refuse to stand still at seventy-eight. Monday, September 28, 2026, 7:30pm, Humphreys Concerts by the Bay. Go witness what a legend does when he has nothing left to prove and keeps searching anyway.

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Sleep at The Wiltern

Sep 28, 2026 The Wiltern, 3790 Wilshire Blvd, L…

A band once recorded a single hour-long song about smoking weed and marching across a desert, and meant every crushing minute of it. To the doom faithful that record is not a punchline. It is scripture, and they can tell you exactly where they were the first time they made it all the way through. What happens in the room is closer to a low-frequency religious service than a concert. Riffs slow and enormous enough to rearrange your ribcage. A wall of amps treated like an altar. Several hundred people who came specifically to worship the same tone and will not be hurried. The only question the believers ask beforehand is whether tonight is a night they play Dopesmoker in full. Inside an art-deco room on Wilshire, the answer barely matters. The pilgrimage was always the point. Bring the friend who thinks slow means boring. Stand near the front and let the building explain it to them.

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Disney Descendants, ZOMBIES & Camp Rock: Worlds Collide Concert Tour

Sep 28, 2026 Crypto.com Arena, 1111 S Figueroa …

The kid in the back seat has been playing four songs on repeat for a year and you have stopped pretending you do not know the words. That is the honest situation most families are in with this material, and the reason an arena full of it works: nobody is there ironically, the nine-year-olds are feral about it, and the adults have quietly picked favorites. Three franchises that have never shared a stage get mashed into one production here for the first time, with Camp Rock folded in alongside Descendants and ZOMBIES, new arrangements built specifically for the tour, and a cast drawn from the actual casts rather than a soundalike touring company. One detail worth knowing: the performers listed are the on-screen faces from the recent films, which is what separates this from the licensed road shows that use the same songs. It is a Monday, which for once is a gift, because the building will not be fighting a weekend crowd. Doors at six, show at seven.

Watts Towers Jazz Festival 2026 — Simon Rodia State Historic Park

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Watts Towers Jazz Festival 2026 — Simon Rodia State Historic Park

Sep 28, 2026 Simon Rodia State Historic Park, 1…

One man spent thirty-three years building seventeen interlocking towers out of steel, cement, and whatever he collected on walks through his own neighborhood -- and every August, for nearly seventy years running, jazz has played at their base. The Watts Towers Jazz Festival is one of the oldest free jazz festivals in Los Angeles, held right at the foot of Simon Rodia's hand-built masterpiece in Watts since 1958. Two days every August of jazz, blues, and R&B on an outdoor stage within view of the towers, with the Watts Towers Arts Center running visual art and community programming alongside. Free admission. The South LA community that has kept this going for nearly seven decades turns out in full. Bring the friend who thinks nothing this good stays free. This is not a festival that needs more exposure -- it's one that's been here long enough to know exactly who it's for, and showing up for the first time feels like arriving late to a very good party. Simon Rodia State Historic Park, Watts.

San Diego Yoga Festival 2026 — Imperial Beach

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San Diego Yoga Festival 2026 — Imperial Beach

Sep 28, 2026 Imperial Beach, San Diego, CA 91932

The mat is on the sand. The instructor is barefoot. And the sound of the Pacific crashing behind you is doing more for your nervous system than anything in the guided meditation. The San Diego Yoga Festival is a four-day beach yoga experience on the sand in Imperial Beach — classes held directly on the shore with the ocean as the backdrop and live music from the main stage. Beyond the practice: a vending area with healthy food, healing services including Reiki, massage, and sound healing, a dedicated kid's center for families, education on mindful products, and a community of practitioners who chose sand over studio. Sandiegoyogafestival.com for exact dates, schedule, and registration. Imperial Beach, San Diego, CA. If you've ever rolled out a mat somewhere beautiful and thought 'this is how it's supposed to feel,' this is four days of that — with the tide keeping time instead of a clock.

Monterey Jazz Festival 2026 - Monterey, CA

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Monterey Jazz Festival 2026 - Monterey, CA

Sep 25 – Sep 27, 2026 Monterey County Fairgrounds, 2004 …

The fog rolls in at night and the whole crowd wraps itself in jackets and blankets without missing a note - that is the tell that you are somewhere the music has been happening continuously since before your parents were born. The Monterey Jazz Festival is the oldest continuously running jazz festival in the world, held at the Monterey County Fairgrounds since 1958. Nearly seven decades of outdoor jazz on the bay. The experience is one of productive wandering: you build your own schedule across five stages spread through the fairgrounds, stumbling into performances you did not plan and discovering artists you will listen to for the rest of your life. Evenings at the main arena carry the weight of history - the musicians who have played here include Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Dizzy Gillespie, and Billie Holiday. The daytime has a wine-country ease: Thai and Jamaican food stalls, local Monterey County wines poured at on-site tastings, and a crowd ranging from jazz scholars to families simply drawn in by a beautiful September weekend on the California coast. If you love music discovery and the pleasure of something with genuine cultural history, Monterey Jazz is worth every dollar. The Grounds Pass is the insider move - it gives access to all five stages and most artists, and the unexpected discoveries in the smaller tents are often the sets people remember longest. This is not for anyone who needs a massive headliner to justify a weekend; it is for people who understand that the best music experiences are the ones nobody planned. A few practical notes: bring layers, because Monterey evenings can drop into the 50s even in September - veterans pack a waterproof jacket, gloves, and a stadium seat cushion for the concrete bleachers. Use the remote parking lots and the free festival shuttle instead of trying to park close. The venue is cashless, so load a card before you go. Food lines move quickly in early afternoon but back up at dinner. Download the free festival app before you arrive and use the My Lineup feature to avoid schedule conflicts. What Monterey represents is rare in American culture: a living institution. Nearly seventy years of continuous programming makes this not just a festival but a timestamp - every year it runs, the art form gets another year of documentation, and attending in 2026 means adding yourself to that record. Tickets and full lineup at montereyjazzfestival.org.

Sin Bandera: Escenas US Tour — Kia Forum, Los Angeles

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Sin Bandera: Escenas US Tour — Kia Forum, Los Angeles

Sep 27, 2026 Kia Forum, 3900 W Manchester Blvd,…

Your mom played 'Entra en Mi Vida' on repeat during road trips and you pretended it was embarrassing. Then one night, years later, the song came on in a bar and you felt everything she was trying to tell you. The embarrassment was never about the music. It was about how deeply it worked. Sin Bandera brings the Escenas US Tour to the Kia Forum on September 27 at 8 PM. Leonel García and Noel Schajris — the duo that soundtracked an entire generation's first heartbreak in Spanish — are filling arenas again because some songs don't expire. They settle deeper with age. Tickets from $88. The setlist will hit every nerve you forgot was exposed. The couple next to you will be holding hands and crying. Someone behind you will be singing every word with their eyes closed. You will be one of them before the third song. This show is the text message you send your hermana at 11 PM: 'Ven conmigo. No te lo puedes perder.'

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Ohana Music Festival 2026 — Dana Point

Sep 25 – Sep 27, 2026 Doheny State Beach, 25300 Dana Poi…

Between sets you can hear the ocean. That one detail is why this festival does not feel like the others, and it is the reason Eddie Vedder built it on a state beach instead of a fairground. The Pacific is not a view from the field here. It is standing directly behind the stage. The booking follows his own record collection: rock that aged into something, Americana, folk, and the independent streak connecting them. Past years have run from Pearl Jam and The Who through Stevie Nicks, My Morning Jacket, and Phoebe Bridgers. Doheny works as a natural amphitheater, and the September light coming off the water does something to a set that no inland venue can fake. Dana Point, an easy run down the coast, with weekend and single-day passes through the festival site. Send it to the friend who keeps saying every festival feels the same now.

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The Phil Collins Story

Sep 27, 2026 $45+ Cerritos Center for the Performing…

Few catalogs are as secretly universal as Phil Collins': the drummer-turned-everyman whose Genesis epics and solo heartbreakers have been quietly living in everyone's head since the 1980s. The Phil Collins Story is a full-band tribute that honors all of it, from the drum-fill heard round the world in In the Air Tonight to the sunny ache of Against All Odds and the Motown swing of You Can't Hurry Love. Sunday, September 27, 2026, Cerritos Center for the Performing Arts. Come for the songs you forgot you loved until the first note reminded you, bring the parent who wore out the vinyl, and prepare to be surprised by how many words you know. This is comfort-food nostalgia performed with real musicianship. Come feel it coming in the air tonight.

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