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Shiner, Fotocrime, Nonexistent Night

In 7 days · Oct 15 Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, San Die…

Too heavy for the radio and too melodic for the hardcore kids was a real commercial dead end, and the bands stuck in it spent the nineties being adored by about eleven thousand people who all still bring it up unprompted at parties. The headliner came out of Kansas City and made that particular trade-off sound deliberate: enormous low end, patient song structures, vocals that stay calm while everything underneath them gets heavier. Then look at who is opening. Fotocrime plays cold, drum-machine-driven post-punk that on paper shares nothing with the band above it, and in sequence makes complete sense — the same appetite for weight and repetition, routed through a different decade and a much colder set of tools. That is the actual reason to go. Bills this well-sequenced are rare, and the odds are good you arrive for one act and order the other one's record from the parking lot afterward. Doors seven-thirty, first act eight-thirty, a Thursday. October 15, Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd. Bring whoever you argue about record production with. The line between heavy nineties rock and the darkwave rooms across town is far thinner here than either crowd will admit.

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The Loons, The Killing Floors & Los Sweepers at Casbah

Aug 29, 2026 Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, San Die…

Some rock and roll never left the garage and never wanted to. Fuzzed-out, snarling, soaked in the sixties, played by lifers who treat a Farfisa organ like a sacred object and will absolutely tell you why yours is the wrong model. This is a whole night of it. The Loons have carried the torch for this city's psych-garage underground for decades; the other two bands on the bill bring the younger, meaner end of the same sound. Stack them at the Casbah and you get the sweaty, reverb-drowned kind of show that reminds you rock and roll was always supposed to be slightly dangerous and mostly fun. The record-collector kids with the Nuggets box set and the boots already know the secret: San Diego has quietly been one of the best garage towns in America for forty years, and nights like this are the proof. Bring the friend who says nothing good happens here anymore. Stand them near the front and let it settle the argument.

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Playlunch

Aug 13, 2026 $15-$18 The Casbah, 2501 Kettner Blvd, San…

Jangle-pop and post-punk keep each other honest when you let them share a song -- too much sweetness and you drift, too much spikiness and you clench -- and Playlunch writes right down that seam. The Melbourne five-piece makes tight Australian indie, the kind of catalog that earns a small devoted cult on every continent it actually reaches. The Casbah on a Thursday is the right room for the US run: two hundred capacity, the bar that's been the bar for thirty-five years. Bring the friend who imports records and makes you listen to them in the car. The crowd is the indie kids who already have the songs plus the Casbah regulars who show up for whatever sounds promising on a Thursday. Doors at eight, openers at eight-thirty, Playlunch around ten. Fifteen dollars at the door, Thursday in San Diego.

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The Rock and Roll Playhouse Plays Music of Olivia Rodrigo + More for Kids

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The Rock and Roll Playhouse Plays Music of Olivia Rodrigo + More for Kids

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

You used to go to shows. Then you had a kid, and the math stopped working — the babysitter, the 9 PM doors, the guilt either way. That trade is the ache this fixes, and it fixes it by refusing the premise. A live band plays the songs at real volume through the real PA, and the floor stays empty of chairs on purpose so that the children can move however they want during it. Nobody shushes anybody. Parents end up dancing harder than the kids, which everyone pretends not to notice. The format has run for years in rooms like this one and the unwritten rule is that you arrive early enough to claim floor space near the stage, because the front two rows are where the four-year-olds organize themselves into something resembling a pit. The Highland Park hall has a balcony for anyone who needs to sit down and watch it happen. Music at 11:30 AM, all ages, upstairs at 104 N Avenue 56. It runs most months with a different songbook, so the families who come once tend to come back.

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San Diego Rock 'n' Roll Marathon 2027

Jun 6, 2027 Balboa Park to Embarcadero, San Di…

Somewhere past the halfway mark your legs go quiet and the voice in your head turns mean. Then you round a corner in Balboa Park, a live drummer picks the beat back up for you, and your stride comes back before your brain agrees to it. The whole 26.2 is scored, a band every mile, and it changes what the distance does to a body. That is why the sidewalks fill as thickly as the course. People who will never run it come stand inside a street festival that happens to have runners in it, through downtown, Mission Hills, Old Town, and the beach neighborhoods, out to a finish on the waterfront. San Diego is where this format started back in 1998, and the city still treats it as its own invention. The half and the 5K share the weekend, spectating costs nothing, and entry fills fast. Go run it, or go stand at mile twenty and hand a stranger their second wind.

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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