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Four animated musicians who do not exist have somehow outlasted half the bands who do — and now they are bringing a mountain to Inglewood. Gorillaz play the Kia Forum on October 24, 2026, touring behind their ninth studio album with a show that collapses the line between concert, art installation, and fever dream. Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett's virtual band has spent two decades proving that a cartoon can headline an arena if the songs hit hard enough, and the live show has always been the proof — a full band translating what should be impossible into something that shakes the floor. Little Simz and Deltron 3030 open, which means the evening starts strong before it gets strange. The Kia Forum at 3900 West Manchester Boulevard in Inglewood holds 17,500 for concerts. Doors open at 7:30 PM. Tickets are available through Ticketmaster. If you have ever wanted to see a gorilla play bass in person, this is the closest you will get, and it will be enough.
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She made you care about a song called 'Paint The Town Red' at a time when you weren't sure you cared about anything. That's the trick — Doja Cat doesn't ask permission to live in your head. She just moves in and redecorates.
The Tour Ma Vie World Tour stops at the Kia Forum on October 22, and this is the version of Doja Cat that shed the viral moments and leaned into the artistry that was always underneath. The production is arena-scale but the energy stays intimate — a performer who can shift from rap to pop to R&B to something that doesn't have a name yet, all within the same set, all while making it look like she's doing it for the first time.
Show at 7:30 PM at the Kia Forum in Inglewood. Tickets on Ticketmaster. You already know who you'd take to this one.
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She shaved her head at the Latin Grammys and wrote protest on her chest. You either understood immediately or you looked it up afterward. Either way, you never forgot — because the act itself was the message, and the music that followed proved she meant every word.
Mon Laferte brings the Femme Fatale Tour to the Kia Forum for two nights, November 7–8, and this is the artist who moves between ranchera, pop, cumbia, and rock like they were all the same language spoken with different accents. The voice is enormous. The presence is unapologetic. The show is a transformation — not a concert, a communion between an artist and an audience that chose her for exactly who she is.
November 7. Show at 8 PM. Two nights because one isn't enough for what Los Angeles feels about this woman. Tickets on Ticketmaster.
The person in your life who wears their convictions out loud — they need to be in this room.
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The diaspora doesn't have a hometown anymore. It has songs. And Rawayana made the ones that sound like home tastes when you're 3,000 miles from it — the warmth and the ache mixed together until you can't separate them.
The ¿Dónde es el after? World Tour hits the Kia Forum on November 15 at 8 PM, and this is the Venezuelan band that fused reggae, funk, hip-hop, and tropicalia into something that makes you dance while your eyes sting. Their music carries the weight of a country in exile and the joy of refusing to let that weight win. Tickets from $59 on Ticketmaster.
The crowd will be a map of the Venezuelan diaspora in LA — faces that found each other here, voices singing lyrics that mean something different when you can't go back. The after-party will happen in someone's kitchen. You'll be invited.
If you know someone who left, they know this band. Send them this show.
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He broke through by covering other people's songs on the internet — no label, no manager, just a bearded guy in his living room singing with a voice so disproportionately huge that the first reaction was disbelief. Now the living room is the Kia Forum and the covers became originals and the originals became 'Lose Control,' which you have heard in a grocery store and stopped walking for.
Teddy Swims brings The UGLY Tour to Inglewood on a Wednesday night in November, and the Kia Forum holds 17,500 people who will all be pretending they are not affected while being visibly affected. His voice is the kind that makes people who do not cry at concerts cry at concerts. The tour wraps here — the last night, the loudest room, the version of every song that the recording was trying to be.
The UGLY Tour is named after his album, but it is also named after the thing his music does: it finds the part of you that is not pretty and tells it to sing anyway. A Wednesday night in November. The Forum. The feeling you will pretend you did not have.
Wednesday, November 18, 2026 at 7:00 PM. Kia Forum, 3900 W Manchester Blvd, Inglewood, CA 90305.
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Somebody's fingers are bleeding and nobody in the building wants the set to end. That is the whole review.
Billy Strings did not modernize bluegrass. He played it so hard and so honestly that the walls between traditions stopped being load-bearing. Flat-picking at a speed that makes people laugh out loud in disbelief. Jams that wander into country Doc Watson never mapped and would have gone along with anyway. This date follows a sold-out night across town, which is the only sales figure worth quoting. An arena is a strange room for one acoustic guitar and he keeps proving otherwise.
Inglewood, doors in the early evening, seats through the usual channels.
If you have ever tried and failed to explain why a guy with an acoustic guitar is the most exciting live act in America right now, stop explaining. Buy them a seat and let the music handle the rest.
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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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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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This is the only Southern California date on the entire global tour, and the ENGENE and Divemond fanbase in SoCal is one of the most organized K-pop fan communities in the country - which means the show starts long before the doors do. Pre-concert fan gatherings, photocard trading meetups, group entries, coordinated light stick formations: all standard practice for this fandom. IVE is one of K-pop's defining acts of the current era - six members (Yujin, Gaeul, Rei, Wonyoung, Liz, and Leeseo) with a catalog including ELEVEN, LOVE DIVE, After LIKE, Kitsch, I AM, and Baddie - and the SHOW WHAT I AM setlist rewards longtime fans and first-timers alike. The Kia Forum holds roughly 18,000 and is reachable via the LAX Metro stop or the surrounding lots (0-50); connect with IVE USA fan accounts on social media to find group-entry meetups and photocard exchanges near the venue on show day. Doors open around 6:00 PM - plan for lines and arrive by 5:30 if you can. General admission and reserved seating; VIP packages with soundcheck available. Kia Forum, 3900 W Manchester Blvd, Inglewood, CA 90305, August 1, 2026. Tickets via Ticketmaster and Live Nation.
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Kia Forum in Inglewood is the kind of venue where the crowd can see the sweat and the setlist changes feel personal. Charlie Puth: Whatever's Clever! World Tour performs at Kia Forum in Inglewood on April 29, 2026. The crowd at a show like this has been waiting for exactly this room — the specific night where the distance between stage and floor is close enough to matter.
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Live music in a room like Kia Forum has a specific physics: the sound arrives before you've decided how to feel about it, and THIRD DAY 30th Anniversary Tour with very special has always known what to do with that. THIRD DAY 30th Anniversary Tour with very special performs at Kia Forum in Inglewood on April 24, 2026. Doors at 6PM, show at 7PM. The setlist is fixed, the room is real, the sound doesn't survive the door — this is the version that lives only in the people who show up.
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Kia Forum in Inglewood: the floor, the monitors, the ceiling that amplifies everything — live rock at this scale is a different frequency than anything a speaker can reproduce. ELECTRIC CALLBOY: TANZNEID WORLD TOUR performs at Kia Forum in Inglewood on April 21, 2026. The people in the room carry it differently than the people who watched the stream.
While you are lookingDifferent scene, same night out.
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3900 W Manchester Blvd, Inglewood,…
Charli xcx spent a decade being the pop star that other pop stars listened to before the rest of the world caught up. Now the rest of the world has caught up, and the Music, Fashion, Film Tour is what it looks like when someone who was ahead of the curve finally gets to play rooms that match the scale of the ideas. At the Kia Forum in Inglewood, the production is exactly what you would expect from someone who titled an album Brat and meant it: loud, bratty, unapologetic, and designed to make 18,000 people feel like they are at a warehouse party that happens to have professional lighting. The setlist pulls from every era. The crowd knows every word, including the ones from albums that never charted because Charli fans do not wait for the radio. The Brat summer never ended — it just moved indoors for the fall. Sunday, October 18. 8:00 PM. Kia Forum, 3900 W Manchester Blvd, Inglewood.
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3900 W Manchester Blvd, Inglewood,…
Green is not a color at this show, it is a headcount. When the lights drop and every lightstick in the building turns over at once, you are watching a coordinated act by thousands of people who organized it themselves, on forums, weeks in advance, for free.
Six of them on stage — Shownu, Minhyuk, Kihyun, Hyungwon, Joohoney, I.M — running choreography hard enough that hip-hop, R&B, and dance-pop stop being separate genres somewhere in the second act. This is the only Southern California date on the run and one of the largest rooms they have played here, which is why the fan projects start so early: banners, slogans, photocard events, all coordinated on Reddit and the official community before anyone boards a plane.
The Kia Forum in Inglewood, off the freeway or a walk from the Metro C Line. Find the fan project post first. Showing up empty-handed is its own kind of lonely.
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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.
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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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Monthly· Next Nov 4
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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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In 10 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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