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Dinosaur Jr. with Stef Chura

In 3 days · Oct 11 $49.50+ Belly Up Tavern, 143 S Cedros Ave,…

Loud can be tender - a wall of distortion so thick it gives you somewhere to hide while J Mascis mumbles the saddest, sweetest thing you have ever heard underneath it. Dinosaur Jr. invented a lot of that: the template for every band that ever buried a broken heart under a guitar solo, forty years deep and still playing at a volume that rearranges your organs. In the close quarters of the Belly Up, that famous three-amp roar becomes a physical fact, and the crowd — lifers in faded shirts, kids discovering it new — just leans into the wave together. Stef Chura opens. Bring earplugs and do not use them. Sunday, October 11, 2026, 6:30pm, Solana Beach, 21+. Come stand inside the loudest tenderness in rock and let it drown out, for a couple hours, whatever you walked in carrying. Bring the friend who taught you what a fuzz pedal was, or the kid who needs to learn — this is the source.

Squirrel Nut Zippers — Christmas Caravan 2026

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Squirrel Nut Zippers — Christmas Caravan 2026

Dec 2, 2026 Belly Up Tavern, 143 S Cedros Ave,…

December has a sound, and for a certain kind of person it is not Bing Crosby or Mariah Carey — it is a trombone sliding into a minor key while a standup bass walks a line that makes you want to order a whiskey neat in a room full of strangers. The Squirrel Nut Zippers have been making that version of the holidays real since the mid-nineties, when their hot jazz revival turned a generation of alt-rock kids into swing dancers overnight. The Christmas Caravan is their annual lap through the country, and it lands at the Belly Up on a Wednesday night — the kind of midweek show where the audience skews toward people who planned this, not people who stumbled in. Expect brass, expect stomp, expect the kind of warmth that only happens when the music is older than everyone playing it and the room is small enough that the bell of the trombone is pointed directly at your table. $45 advance. Belly Up Tavern, 143 S Cedros Ave, Solana Beach. Wednesday, December 2, 2026, 7:30 PM.

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Quicksand with Bane and Soul Blind at Belly Up Tavern

Aug 12, 2026 Belly Up Tavern, 143 S Cedros Ave,…

Heavy and melodic were supposed to be opposites. Quicksand has spent thirty years quietly demonstrating that whoever decided that had not thought it all the way through. Walter Schreifels came up in the late-eighties New York hardcore scene and carried its weight into songs that lodge in your chest and refuse to leave. The people who got it then never let go, which is what turns a night like this into a reunion as much as a show: the friend who put you onto 'Slip' in the nineties, the coworker you never suspected was in the scene, forty-somethings who still know every word, and kids finding it for the first time. Bane and Soul Blind open, which is less a warm-up than a running start. The Belly Up in Solana Beach, a weeknight, doors early. This is a 'we have to go' text, not a 'maybe.' Send it as the former.

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Darker Waves 2026 — Huntington Beach

Nov 14, 2026 Huntington State Beach, Pacific Co…

Some lineups read like a playlist. This one reads like a reunion for everybody who grew up wearing black in the California sun — the kids who found Bad Religion in a borrowed van, who got Morrissey off an older sibling's cassette, who fell into the Smashing Pumpkins during a summer that rearranged them. Morrissey and the Pumpkins headline, but the undercard is where the real reunions happen: Simple Minds, Bad Religion, Adam Ant, The Psychedelic Furs, Soft Cell, The Damned, Gary Numan, Buzzcocks, Circle Jerks, Marky Ramone — over thirty-five artists across three oceanfront stages, the entire width of post-punk, darkwave, goth, new wave, and hardcore punk in a single day, treated correctly as one family that has always been in conversation. The beach faces west, so by the time the headliners go on, the Pacific is doing the gold-then-purple thing. Sand for a venue floor. November air cool enough for the jacket you have been saving. Wear it. Go find your people on that sand.

Blind Boys of Alabama - Christmas Show featuring special guest Shemekia Copeland

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Blind Boys of Alabama - Christmas Show featuring special guest Shemekia Copeland

Nov 29, 2026 $55 Belly Up, 143 S Cedros Ave, Solana…

Some holiday music is wallpaper. This is the other kind, the kind that gets a room full of strangers on their feet before anyone has decided to stand. The Blind Boys of Alabama have been singing gospel for more than seventy years, Grammy winners and Gospel Music Hall of Fame inductees, and their Christmas show is not something you watch from a distance. They pull the room in song by song, until the hymns you half remember from somebody's grandmother's kitchen come back whole. Shemekia Copeland opens, a blues voice big enough for a cathedral, carrying her father Johnny Copeland's Texas blues into the next generation. It is a seated show in a beach-town club, which is almost absurdly close for singers of this weight. Sunday, November 29, the weekend after Thanksgiving. Doors 7 p.m., show 7:30 p.m., 21+. Belly Up, 143 S. Cedros Ave, Solana Beach. $55 advance. Bring whoever still hums in the kitchen, and start planning where you take them after this.

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.

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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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