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The Living Tombstone — SOMA, San Diego

In 3 days · Oct 10 SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, San …

If you know The Living Tombstone from the internet — and statistically, you do, because Yoav Landau's tracks have been streamed a billion times across YouTube and Spotify without most people knowing his name — then you already know the sound. Electronic, rock, and chiptune fused into something that lives in the space between video game soundtracks and proper dance music, made by someone who built a career writing songs about Five Nights at Freddy's and then kept leveling up until the music outgrew the meme. The SOMA show brings Landau's project to a venue that fits the vibe — standing room, all ages, the kind of crowd that discovered this music through gaming communities and fan-made animations and now gets to hear it through speakers that weigh more than they do. The live show translates the production in a way the bedroom headphone experience can't — bass you feel, drops timed to lighting rigs, the communal energy of a room full of people who found the same strange corner of the internet. Saturday, October 10, 2026 at 8:00 PM. SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, San Diego, CA 92110. All ages. General admission.

Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter at SOMA — San Diego

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Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter at SOMA — San Diego

In 9 days · Oct 16 SOMA San Diego, 3350 Sports Arena …

Steve Jones is standing ten feet away from you playing the riff that started everything. The Sex Pistols — original members Jones, Paul Cook, and Glen Matlock — return with Frank Carter on vocals for a North American tour that stops at SOMA on October 16. Carter, the ferocious frontman of Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes and ex-Gallows, brings the dangerous energy that this music was built on. Support from LA's Militarie Gun, whose post-hardcore sets have been tearing through SoCal basements for years. This is not nostalgia. This is the band that detonated the blueprint for every punk show that followed, playing a room small enough that you can see the sweat. SOMA's concrete floor and low ceiling were built for exactly this volume. The people in this room are not here because they read about punk in a textbook. They are here because the first time they heard 'Anarchy in the U.K.' something clicked and never unclicked. Doors 7 PM. Show 8 PM. Tickets from $114 via Ticketmaster. All ages.

The Story So Far with The Starting Line & Ultra Q — SOMA, San Diego

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The Story So Far with The Starting Line & Ultra Q — SOMA, San Diego

Nov 6, 2026 SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, San …

If you grew up in California between 2012 and 2016, there's a good chance The Story So Far was the soundtrack to the drive that changed something. Pop-punk with the self-awareness to know it's pop-punk and the conviction to play it like it matters anyway — the Walnut Creek band that turned suburban restlessness into something a generation moshed to in venues exactly like this one. SOMA's Mainstage is the right room for this. Big enough to hold the energy, small enough that the pit reaches the stage. The Starting Line opens with the kind of elder-emo gravitas that makes the crowd remember there was pop-punk before there was The Story So Far, and Ultra Q fills the gap between nostalgia and whatever comes next. Then TSSF walks on and the room forgets it has a ceiling. This is an all-ages, general admission, standing show. If you know, you know. If you don't, ask the person next to you — they've been waiting for this since the tour was announced. Friday, November 6, 2026 at 8:00 PM. SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, San Diego, CA 92110. All ages, general admission.

Sub Urban: The Bell Tolls Tour — SOMA, San Diego

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Sub Urban: The Bell Tolls Tour — SOMA, San Diego

Sep 10, 2026 SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, San …

Sub Urban makes music that sounds like someone left the lights on in a haunted house and a DJ showed up. Dark-pop with production so dense it practically has texture — the kind of songs that live on playlists titled things your parents wouldn't approve of, streamed by the demographic that discovered him through 'Cradles' and stayed for the whole uncanny valley. The Bell Tolls Tour brings the Taiwanese American singer-songwriter to SOMA's Sidestage for an all-ages, standing-room-only show that will pack the room with the exact crowd you'd expect: people who know every lyric, dressed like they coordinate with the album art, filming vertically. SOMA's Sidestage is the intimate configuration — closer quarters, louder per capita, the kind of venue where you feel the bass in your sternum. Thursday, September 10, 2026 at 8:00 PM. SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, San Diego, CA 92110. All ages, general admission, standing room only.

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The Midnight: Time Machines Tour — SOMA San Diego

Sep 18, 2026 SOMA, 3350 Sports Arena Blvd, San …

You know the feeling at two in the morning when an old synth line comes on and the highway briefly looks like a movie you starred in twenty years ago. That is the entire catalog, and live it is worse, or better, depending on how much of yourself you were planning to hold together tonight. Tyler Lyle and Tim McEwan write like the soundtrack to a John Hughes film that never got made: neon-drenched synths, saxophone breaks with no business being that devastating, and a treatment of nostalgia as a superpower rather than an affliction. The newer record leans harder into the sci-fi end of it. But the show is where the thing reveals itself, because this is not an audience watching a band. It is a room of people who each independently worked out that synthwave is a feeling, and then discovered they were not alone in it. SOMA in San Diego, all ages, a concrete room where the sound finds you personally. Bring whoever used to drive around with you at night with nowhere to be.

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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 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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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.

Diwali Mela 2026 — Artesia Little India Street Festival

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Diwali Mela 2026 — Artesia Little India Street Festival

Nov 10, 2026 Pioneer Blvd (183rd to 188th St), …

Pioneer Boulevard shuts down, and for one day the biggest Little India in Southern California becomes the biggest Diwali party west of the Mississippi. The Artesia Diwali Mela takes over seven blocks of Pioneer Boulevard — from 183rd Street to 188th Street — with a main stage of Indian music and dance performances, dozens of food vendors serving everything from chaat to biryani to fresh jalebi, cultural booths, merchants with jewelry and textiles, and a street-level energy that makes Diwali feel like exactly what it is: the festival of lights brought to life in a California parking lane. Sunday, November 10, 2026, 11 AM to 10 PM. Pioneer Boulevard, Artesia, CA. Free admission. If you know someone who grew up celebrating Diwali and hasn't been to this yet, send them this. If you didn't grow up celebrating Diwali and want to understand why a billion people do — come find out.

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Fleet Week San Diego 2026

Nov 6 – Nov 9, 2026 Free admission Broadway Pier, 1000 North Harbor D…

Your chest hears them before your ears do. A sound comes in off the water, every conversation on the Embarcadero stops mid-sentence, and a few thousand heads tilt back at the same moment. This is the week the Blue Angels belong to San Diego Bay, flying low enough that the downtown skyline becomes their backdrop. What visitors miss is the quieter half. You can walk aboard Navy destroyers, submarines, and amphibious ships free of charge, up the gangway and into the passageways where somebody's kid stands on deployment. The Parade of Ships moves through the bay, the bands play, and the city says out loud that the Navy is its largest employer. This is not a show San Diego hosts. It is San Diego looking at itself. Free, family-friendly, on the Broadway Pier and Embarcadero in October, and the trolley beats parking on air show day. Bring the person who has never stood underneath one of those passes.

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