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Know Good + Blookah + More at Quartyard

In 9 days · Oct 17 Quartyard, 1301 Market St, San Die…

The bill that nobody outside the city has heard of is usually the one worth going to. Touring headliners are a known quantity; a local lineup on a Saturday afternoon is a bet on a scene, and the people in the crowd are mostly the ones building it. San Diego's bass and downtempo scene has spent years being overshadowed by Los Angeles two hours north, which has had the useful side effect of keeping it unpretentious. Know Good and Blookah work the slower, weirder end — trap tempos slowed down, a lot of space in the arrangements, the sort of thing that works far better outdoors in late afternoon light than it ever does at 2 AM in a dark room. The shipping-container yard downtown is the right venue for exactly this: open-air, concrete, a bar in a converted container, and no pretense whatsoever. Gates at four on Saturday the seventeenth; the light goes gold around six and that is the part to be there for.

Flamingosis: Bright Moments 10 Year Anniversary

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Flamingosis: Bright Moments 10 Year Anniversary

Oct 23, 2026 Quartyard, 1102 Market St, San Die…

A record turns ten and you realise you have been dating the rest of your life against it. You know where you were living. You know who you were trying to impress. The album did not change; the distance did. Bright Moments came out in 2016 and became one of those records that spread entirely sideways — SoundCloud, shared links, a friend saying just listen to it. Aaron Velasquez builds it out of crate-dug funk and live instrumentation rather than presets, which is why it has aged like a record and not like a playlist. Shrimpnose opens. Quartyard is an outdoor lot made of shipping containers in the East Village, so this is a six p.m. show under an open sky rather than a dark room — closer to a block party than a concert, and the right shape for a record that always sounded like late summer. Friday, October 23. Six p.m. 1102 Market Street, San Diego. Ten years is long enough that the room will be full of people who found it separately and are about to find that out.

Laugh Outside: Matt Stanton's 1000th Comedy Show

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Laugh Outside: Matt Stanton's 1000th Comedy Show

Nov 6, 2026 Quartyard, 1301 Market St, San Die…

A thousand shows is the number nobody in the audience is supposed to know about. It is a private milestone — bar rooms with four people in them, a Tuesday in a laundromat, the drive home rewriting a tag that died. Standing in a yard watching someone hit it in public is a strange and good thing to be invited to, because the person on stage is counting and you are not. Comedy outdoors is harder than it looks. There is no ceiling to hold the laugh in, so a joke either travels across open air or it evaporates, and comics who work this series will tell you the first two minutes are spent teaching a crowd under the sky how to be a room. Quartyard is built out of shipping containers in East Village with a lawn and a beer line and dogs underfoot, which means the laughs you do get are the ones that earned it. Six in the evening on a Friday, downtown San Diego. Every comic you have ever loved had a thousandth show that nobody filmed.

This Happened

Anamanaguchi, Covet, sueter7

Oct 3, 2026 Quartyard, 1301 Market St, San Die…

The sound of a Nintendo chip is not nostalgia for everybody. For a certain kind of person it is the sound of being eight years old, alone in a room where nothing bad was happening, and hearing it played loud by four people on a stage does something complicated to the chest. Anamanaguchi run their music through a hacked NES. Not an emulator and not a plugin — the actual hardware, the physical chip, wired into a live band with guitar and drums stacked on top. They wrote the score for the Scott Pilgrim video game, which is how most people found them, and they have spent every year since proving the chiptune was never a novelty. Covet co-headline, and Yvette Young's fretboard-tapping instrumentals drag in a completely different crowd — math rock kids who came to study technique and end up dancing anyway. Those two audiences almost never share a floor. That is the reason to go. Downtown at 13th and Market, doors at six on Saturday the third. All ages.

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Bear Ghost – Tiny Hitman Tour 2026

Oct 25, 2026 Lodge Room, 104 N Avenue 56, Los A…

Theatrical rock made by people who are obviously having a wonderful time is deeply unfashionable and completely undefeatable in a live room. This Arizona band writes songs with narrative arcs, key changes that should not work, and a horn part when a horn part is funny — the sort of thing that finds its audience through video games, animation communities, and the general internet rather than through radio. Their crowd is young, extremely online, and knows the words to material that never charted anywhere. Expect the room to handle whole sections unprompted. Sunday evening in an upstairs Masonic hall in Highland Park, wood floors, no seats. Music at 7:00 PM at 104 N Avenue 56. Fandoms built in Discord servers and comment sections are the ones most likely to turn a normal concert into something closer to a convention, and that is the atmosphere here.

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Chromeo (DJ Set)

Oct 30 – Oct 31, 2026 Nova SD, 454 6th Ave, San Diego, C…

They have been making the same joke for twenty-five years and it has never once stopped being funny, which is its own kind of achievement. A Jewish guy and an Arab guy from Montreal, self-described as the only successful Arab-Jewish partnership since the dawn of human culture, playing talkbox funk with total sincerity underneath the bit. Dave 1 and P-Thugg built a career on electro-funk that could easily have been a costume and instead turned out to be a genuine command of the form — the basslines are real, the talkbox is played rather than programmed, and the songs hold up without the humor propping them up. The DJ set is looser than the live show and leans harder into the disco and boogie records underneath their whole sound. Halloween eve in the Gaslamp, which means the room will be half in costume and entirely committed. Halloween eve, doors at ten, and you should absolutely wear the costume.

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Passing Strange

Every Wednesday · Next Nov 4 Pasadena Playhouse, 39 S El Molino…

You left the neighborhood to find yourself and came back fluent in a language nobody at home speaks. That ache has a soundtrack now, and it has taken almost twenty years to reach the city it was written about. Stew's rock musical follows a kid from South Central who runs to Amsterdam and Berlin chasing the real, and discovers the thing he was running from was the only honest material he had. It won the Tony for its book and became the show people quote at each other in parking lots, and somehow Los Angeles never staged it until now. Zhailon Levingston directs a live band onstage rather than tucked in a pit, so the guitar is a character with opinions. Opening night falls on a Wednesday, November 4 at 7:30pm, which Pasadena Playhouse runs as Wine Wednesday with a pour before curtain. It plays El Molino Avenue through November 29. Bring the friend who also moved away.

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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