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Deer Tick

In 5 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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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 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, Solana Beach. GA $49.50.

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Talib Kweli at Belly Up

Sep 17, 2026 $35-$62 Belly Up Tavern, 143 S Cedros Ave,…

Picture the hip-hop show where nobody is looking at their phone. The MC says a line and three hundred people finish it for him — not because they memorized it, but because it lives in the part of their brain where convictions are stored. The beat drops and the room exhales together because this is the sound that taught them what bars actually meant. Talib Kweli is the reason a generation of hip-hop fans learned to care about lyrics first. From Black Star with Mos Def to the solo catalog that spans two decades of conscious, unflinching, word-dense rap, Kweli built a career on the premise that hip-hop could be smart and still hit hard. He didn't compromise. The audience that stayed with him didn't compromise either. Belly Up on a Thursday night for Talib Kweli is a room full of people who own vinyl they won't lend out. Who have opinions about Reflection Eternal. Who will drive to Solana Beach on a weeknight because some shows you don't wait for the weekend. Belly Up Tavern, 143 S Cedros Ave, Solana Beach, CA 92075. Thursday, September 17, 2026. Tickets from $35.

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Built to Spill at Belly Up Tavern

Aug 29, 2026 $35-$45 Belly Up Tavern, 143 S Cedros Ave,…

Some guitar leads earn the right to go on as long as they feel like going on, and Doug Martsch's are the argument for the whole practice. Melodic, patient, loud enough to stay honest across a road trip's worth of miles. He has been running the Boise catalog since 1992, a band that built its following one drive at a time instead of one radio spin at a time, which is why this room fills with people who own the records on vinyl and are now in their forties, standing beside the ones who learned the catalog from them. Belly Up is the right size for that in this county: six hundred capacity, close enough to read the setlist taped to the floor, a room where nobody is more than a few rows from anything. Bring the friend who put There's Nothing Wrong With Love on every mixtape they ever made for anybody. They have been waiting a very long time to hear it in a room this size.

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Tortoise at Belly Up Tavern

Aug 1, 2026 $30-$35 Belly Up Tavern, 143 S Cedros Ave,…

There was a stretch of the nineties when a handful of bands decided instrumental rock could be patient -- no vocals, no hurry, just musicians listening to each other build something -- and almost every band that came after learned the shape of it from this one. Tortoise has been at it since 1990, the Chicago post-rock catalog that taught the genre what it could be when nobody was rushing. Belly Up Tavern in Solana Beach is exactly the scale for it: six hundred capacity, the venue that books the legends the radio missed and the audience already loved. Bring the person who owns TNT and Standards on vinyl -- and the room will be full of them, plus the people who learned about Tortoise from those people. Saturday, August 1. Doors at seven, music at eight. Thirty to thirty-five dollars at the door. The drive from LA is two hours; people make it without complaining.

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Bahamas: Industrial Sport & Sound with Sister Ray — Belly Up, Solana Beach

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Bahamas: Industrial Sport & Sound with Sister Ray — Belly Up, Solana Beach

Nov 8, 2026 Belly Up, 143 S. Cedros Ave, Solan…

Afie Jurvanen writes songs that sound like the last hour of a house party where everyone who is left actually likes each other. Under the name Bahamas, the Canadian songwriter has spent a decade and a half making guitar-driven indie that is warm without being soft, funny without trying, and honest in the way that only comes from someone who has stopped performing honesty and started just being it. The Industrial Sport & Sound tour brings Bahamas to Belly Up in Solana Beach — a room that was built for exactly this kind of show. Low ceilings. Good sound. The kind of venue where the bartender knows the setlist and the crowd is two drinks past pretending they did not come alone. Sister Ray opens with their own brand of textured indie rock. This is the Sunday night show you almost talk yourself out of, and then you go, and then you remember why you live here. Belly Up, 143 S. Cedros Ave, Solana Beach, CA 92075. Sunday, November 8, 2026. 8:00 PM. Belly Up books rooms like this most weeks of the year, and the people who come for the venue rather than the name are rarely sorry.

Anime Expo 2027 — Los Angeles Convention Center

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Anime Expo 2027 — Los Angeles Convention Center

Jul 1 – Jul 4, 2027 Los Angeles Convention Center, 120…

You will be tired in a way that feels earned. Four days, a hundred thousand people, and not one of them needs you to explain what you are talking about. The largest anime convention in North America takes the Los Angeles Convention Center over Fourth of July weekend and spills into the JW Marriott and the Ritz-Carlton beside it. Industry panels, screening rooms, autograph sessions with voice actors and composers, concerts that sell out weeks ahead. Studios from Japan use this as their main North American announcement stage — if a sequel or adaptation is being revealed, it often happens in a room you could be standing in. The exhibit hall carries imported merchandise and collaboration exclusives that surface nowhere else on the continent. Los Angeles Convention Center, 1201 S Figueroa St. Thursday through Sunday. Badges run from top-tier early-access down to single-day passes. Book the connected hotel corridor months out. Everyone who tells you that learned it the hard way.

Oceanside Sunset Market -- Summer 2026 Thursdays

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Oceanside Sunset Market -- Summer 2026 Thursdays

Every Thursday · Next Oct 8 Free Coast Hwy & Pier View Way, Oceansi…

The Pacific is a block away. Every Thursday evening from 5 to 9 PM, the corner of Coast Highway and Pier View Way becomes the Oceanside Sunset Market — vendors, food, live music, and the light that only happens when you're that close to the water at that hour. The beach-town market that runs when the day is actually good. Local makers, artisans, food vendors, and the crowd that comes out because the evening earned it. The vendor mix is Oceanside-specific: local crafts, art, jewelry, produce, and the food vendors that the beach corridor supports. The live music stage runs throughout the evening. The Oceanside Pier is visible from the market — the setting does work the vendors don't have to. Free to attend. Parking available near the Pier. Every Thursday, May through September, 5-9 PM. Oceanside, California. The market runs through marine layer some evenings. The cooler Pacific air is part of the draw, not a reason to stay home.

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Pacific Beach Night Market

Monthly · Next Nov 4 Free Bayard St and Garnet Ave, Pacific …

A hundred and fifty steps from the ocean, a corner of Pacific Beach turns into a block party that nobody had to organize you into. Fire pits going. Nine to twelve food vendors rotating week to week, so the thing you loved last time might be gone and the thing replacing it might be better. Live music that is genuinely local — acoustic sets, small bands, the occasional DJ. Games. A crowd of PB locals and students and people who simply wandered up from the beach still holding a towel. Past vendors have run birria tacos, banh mi, craft lemonade, Hawaiian shave ice, artisan pastries, small-batch hot sauces. A few craft sellers usually set up alongside. This is a neighborhood gathering, not a ticketed event. Free. No RSVP. You walk up. Bayard St and Garnet Ave, Pacific Beach. 5 to 9:30 PM. Bring a layer — it cools off fast after sunset, even in August.

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Taste of Soul LA 2026

In 9 days · Oct 17 Free Crenshaw Blvd (Martin Luther King …

The smell reaches you before the stages do - barbecue and catfish and soul food covering a mile-plus of Crenshaw Boulevard, because every major Black-owned restaurant in South LA has a booth out here and the food is the center of the whole thing. For one Saturday in October, this stretch between Martin Luther King Jr. Boulevard and Leimert Park Village becomes one of the largest street festivals in Los Angeles. More than 300,000 people move through in a single day. The format is street vendors, restaurant booths, live music stages, a car show, health screenings, and community organization presence - but it is the food and the crowd that make it. Founded by the Los Angeles Sentinel, the oldest Black-owned newspaper in California, it has run for over two decades and stayed a genuine community institution: multigenerational, neighborhood-rooted, and enormous. This is Leimert Park and Crenshaw at their fullest. Free to attend. Crenshaw closes to traffic for the day. The Metro K Line stops at Leimert Park Village and is the easiest way in and out. Arrive early if you want to move - by noon the crowds are deep.

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Gaslamp Artisan Market (GLAM)

Every 1st Saturday · Next Nov 7 Free 400-500 5th Ave, Gaslamp Quarter, …

Every Saturday and Sunday, the heart of San Diego historic Gaslamp Quarter transforms into an outdoor open-air artisan market. The Gaslamp Artisan Market -- known as GLAM -- runs the length of 5th Avenue between Market Street and J Street, with 70 local artisans showcasing handmade, one-of-a-kind goods. This is where San Diego independent makers set up shop: handcrafted jewelry, original paintings, ceramics, leather goods, woven textiles, hand-poured candles, botanical skincare, and prints from local artists who live and work in this city every day. The market hosts live music from local musicians throughout the day. GLAM is free to attend and open to all ages. Shaded seating is available. The market runs 10 AM to 4 PM. Getting there: Located in the Gaslamp Quarter, easily accessible by trolley (Gaslamp Quarter station on the Blue and Orange line). Street parking and paid lots available on nearby blocks. No ticket required. This recurring weekend market is one of San Diego most accessible community gathering points for makers and collectors alike.

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