The Wiltern, 3790 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90010
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Oct 28, 2026
$25+
The Wiltern, 3790 Wilshire Blvd, L…
Yes, you read that right: a rave for toddlers. Australian sensation Lenny Pearce takes the drops, the bass, and the glowstick euphoria of a real dance party and rebuilds it for the under-five crowd, turning nursery rhymes into techno bangers while a room full of tiny humans and their delighted, sleep-deprived parents lose their minds on a Wednesday morning. It is the most joyfully absurd family outing you will have all year, and the parents secretly have as much fun as the kids. Wednesday, October 28, 2026, The Wiltern in Los Angeles. Wear neon, bring the noise-canceling headphones for the littlest ones, and let your toddler experience their first proper drop. This is the kind of wonderfully strange, only-in-this-era event you'll be telling people about for weeks. Come rave responsibly, juice boxes included.
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Some music you have only ever listened to alone. Headphones, late, usually on a night when something had gone wrong and you needed a room built by someone who understood without asking. It never occurred to you that several thousand other people were doing exactly the same thing.
Olafur Arnalds writes for piano and strings and then runs it through electronics, which on paper sounds like a compromise and in practice sounds like weather. He built a pair of self-playing pianos, driven by software he wrote, that respond to what he plays live — so the instrument answers him on stage, and no two nights resolve the same way.
The Wiltern is a 1931 art deco theatre with a painted ceiling. People go quiet in it without being asked, which is the correct and rare condition for this.
Friday, November 13. Seven p.m. 3790 Wilshire Boulevard. The private thing turns out to have been a shared one the whole time.
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Nov 17, 2026
$45+
The Wiltern, 3790 Wilshire Blvd, L…
The first UK punk band to ever release a single went on to invent goth, psychedelia, and horror-rock all at once, then outlived every peer who burned out: half a century on, The Damned are still snarling. Dave Vanian in his vampire finery and Captain Sensible in his beret still lead one of the most gloriously theatrical live bands alive, tearing through Neat Neat Neat, Smash It Up, and Grimly Fiendish for a crowd spanning every generation of British-music obsessive. Tuesday, November 17, 2026, the Wiltern in Los Angeles. Come for the punk fury, stay for the eerie, gorgeous goth anthems that made them legends twice over. Wear black, bring the friend who owns every Damned pressing, and witness a band that has outlived and out-cooled everyone. Five decades in and still untouchable. This is punk and goth history, alive and snarling.
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A band once recorded a single hour-long song about smoking weed and marching across a desert, and meant every crushing minute of it. To the doom faithful that record is not a punchline. It is scripture, and they can tell you exactly where they were the first time they made it all the way through.
What happens in the room is closer to a low-frequency religious service than a concert. Riffs slow and enormous enough to rearrange your ribcage. A wall of amps treated like an altar. Several hundred people who came specifically to worship the same tone and will not be hurried.
The only question the believers ask beforehand is whether tonight is a night they play Dopesmoker in full. Inside an art-deco room on Wilshire, the answer barely matters. The pilgrimage was always the point.
Bring the friend who thinks slow means boring. Stand near the front and let the building explain it to them.
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You knew the voice before you knew the name. It was under an anime opening you replayed until it stopped being a song and became a reflex, or it arrived at 2 AM from a friend with no message attached, because the music was the message. That is how this works. It finds you sideways.
The Wiltern is the right room for it. An Art Deco house on Wilshire, small enough that a singer with real range fills every corner without out-shouting a production budget. Her catalog sits on the seam between soundtrack work and songwriting that stands entirely on its own, and live is where you find out how much of it was always hers.
On Wilshire, right at the Metro station, doors ahead of a 7 PM show.
If you have ever sent somebody a song in the middle of the night and hoped they would understand without explanation, this is that, out loud, in a room full of people who did the same thing.
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Some scores do not belong in earbuds. They were written for a room big enough to hold a full orchestra and everybody who ever wanted to say Plus Ultra out loud without having to explain themselves.
Live, with the story unfolding and the strings arriving a half-beat before you remember what happens next, the music does what the show does to you and then keeps doing it long after. The room fills with people who quote the Symbol of Peace to each other and mean every word, which is the sort of crowd that makes an orchestral concert feel closer to a rally. All ages, and every single person needs a ticket regardless of age, which means the kids are in there too, and they are reliably the loudest.
The Wiltern on Wilshire, doors in the evening, orchestra on stage.
Take the person who made you watch it in the first place. You owe them this one.
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Somewhere around two in the morning, a Japanese jazz playlist stops being background and becomes the only thing in the apartment. Everyone who has gone down that hole ends up in roughly the same place, and the band waiting at the bottom of it formed in 1976.
What CASIOPEA does live is almost unfair: Issei Noro's melodic runs on guitar, Akira Jimbo's rhythmic precision, and a harmonic sophistication that has kept the whole catalog sounding contemporary decades past the point it should have dated. Mint Jams remains a benchmark for what a live fusion record can even be.
They do not come here often. This one sits inside the City Pop Waves run, which has quietly become the Southern California home for Japanese music, and the Wiltern is small enough that the playing will land far closer than the recordings ever suggested.
Send it to the person who sent you the playlist. They have been waiting longer than you have.
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Rock music in a room the size of The Wiltern operates at a different physics than it does in an arena — you feel the kick drum before you hear it. The HU and Apocalyptica with Special Guest The Ras performs at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on June 6, 2026. All Ages. 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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The Wiltern, 3790 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles. May 31st. Elmiene — the British soul singer whose voice arrives like something from a different decade and lands fully in this one — bringing the Sounds for Someone Tour to the Wiltern, which is the venue that the Koreatown mid-size room was invented for.
Elmiene's work operates in the territory where R&B and neo-soul and something older and harder to name all converge. The voice is the thing. The production is built around the voice, which means live, in a room with the Wiltern's acoustic properties and sightlines, the Sounds for Someone material is going to do something that the recording can only point at.
Tickets at ticketmaster.com. May 31st. The Wiltern is the perfectly sized room for the artist and the audience already knows it — these shows go before the second announcement cycle. Get your ticket before the floor goes quiet and the reserved seats follow. Elmiene live is the experience the album was rehearsing for.
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The version of CHAOS & CARNAGE that exists on record is the map — the show at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on May 30, 2026 is the territory. CHAOS & CARNAGE performs at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on May 30, 2026. All Ages. There is no second chance at this particular night in this particular room — that is the only thing a live show offers that recordings can't replicate.
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The way Sepultura plays a small room is a different argument than the record — The Wiltern in Los Angeles on May 29, 2026 is where that argument gets made in person. Sepultura performs at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on May 29, 2026. All Ages. Live shows at rooms this size leave a different imprint than arenas — the ones who go remember the set list; the ones who don't remember the night they said no.
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The Wiltern, 3790 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles. May 26th. The Paper Kites — the Australian band whose music occupies the specific register of folk and chamber pop where a song sounds like it was written for the exact feeling you're having but couldn't name — bringing their US tour to the Koreatown venue that does this kind of show exactly right.
The Wiltern is built for the music The Paper Kites make. The acoustic properties of the room, the sightlines from the mezzanine to the floor, the crowd density that makes a sold-out mid-size show feel like the intimacy of someone playing for a room they chose — all of it aligns for a band whose production is built around the space between the sounds as much as the sounds themselves.
Tickets at ticketmaster.com. May 26th. The Paper Kites live is the experience the recordings were always pointing toward. Get your ticket before the Wiltern closes — these shows sell on the strength of the community that has been quietly carrying this catalog for years. If you know why you need to be there, you already know to move fast.
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The Wiltern, 3790 Wilshire Blvd, Los Angeles. May 23rd. American Football — the band whose self-titled album arrived in 1999 and spent fifteen years as the best record that nobody remembered buying and everyone remembered owning — playing the Wiltern with Mei Semones.
That album was the soundtrack of something for a specific generation, at a specific age, in a specific emotional register that doesn't have a name. The guitar tone is recognizable in three seconds. The songs feel like they were recorded in the middle of something that hadn't resolved yet, which is why they still sound exactly right for people who were in the middle of something when they heard them. Playing them live in Los Angeles, in a room of people who were all there at the same time — different cities, same feeling — is what the Wiltern does on nights like this.
Tickets at ticketmaster.com. May 23rd. The Wiltern is mid-size and the right size for this — not an arena, not a club, the specific scale where the music can be heard correctly and the room can hold the weight of it. Get your ticket before the floor closes.
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The Wiltern in Los Angeles holds shows at the distance where the monitors bleed into the room and the crowd becomes part of the mix. City Pop Waves: ANRI LIVE 2026 U.S.A Timely!! performs at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on May 20, 2026. All Ages. What plays in the car on the way home is always the live version, even when the live version hasn't happened yet.
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Hip-hop performed live in a room like The Wiltern in Los Angeles is a different instrument than the studio version — the crowd is the rhythm section. Lupe Fiasco performs at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on May 16, 2026. All Ages. The people who were there will describe it differently than anyone who heard about it later — that difference is what the ticket buys.
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Good Dye Young at The Wiltern in Los Angeles — the stage-to-crowd distance that changes what a live show means, in the city where this particular crowd assembles. Good Dye Young performs at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on May 12, 2026. All Ages. The people who were there will describe it differently than anyone who heard about it later — that difference is what the ticket buys.
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Live music in a room like The Wiltern has a specific physics: the sound arrives before you've decided how to feel about it, and Moonchild: Waves Tour has always known what to do with that. Moonchild: Waves Tour performs at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on May 2, 2026. All Ages. 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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Snail Mail at The Wiltern in Los Angeles — the stage-to-crowd distance that changes what a live show means, in the city where this particular crowd assembles. Snail Mail performs at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on May 1, 2026. All Ages. The recording is already out there — this is the version that isn't.
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The way Oh Wonder plays a small room is a different argument than the record — The Wiltern in Los Angeles on April 28, 2026 is where that argument gets made in person. Oh Wonder performs at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on April 28, 2026. All Ages. The recording is already out there — this is the version that isn't.
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The version of Be Like Blippi Tour! that exists on record is the map — the show at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on April 27, 2026 is the territory. Be Like Blippi Tour! performs at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on April 27, 2026. All Ages. The people in the room carry it differently than the people who watched the stream.
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The way Bethel Music 2026 Tour plays a small room is a different argument than the record — The Wiltern in Los Angeles on April 26, 2026 is where that argument gets made in person. Bethel Music 2026 Tour performs at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on April 26, 2026. All Ages. The people who were there will describe it differently than anyone who heard about it later — that difference is what the ticket buys.
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The version of KCRW that exists on record is the map — the show at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on April 25, 2026 is the territory. KCRW performs at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on April 25, 2026. All Ages. Live shows at rooms this size leave a different imprint than arenas — the ones who go remember the set list; the ones who don't remember the night they said no.
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The Wiltern in Los Angeles holds shows at the distance where the monitors bleed into the room and the crowd becomes part of the mix. Alice Phoebe Lou: Oblivion Tour performs at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on April 24, 2026. All Ages. There is no second chance at this particular night in this particular room — that is the only thing a live show offers that recordings can't replicate.
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The Wiltern in Los Angeles: the floor, the monitors, the ceiling that amplifies everything — live rock at this scale is a different frequency than anything a speaker can reproduce. She Wants Revenge performs at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on April 23, 2026. All Ages. 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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Stand-up comedy in a live room is a different contract than the special — the crowd is visible, the silence lands differently, and this is the version that doesn't get edited. Naomi Watanabe: From Tokyo performs at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on April 17, 2026. All Ages. The people who were in the room at a show like this laugh differently when they hear the material again — they were there when it was made.
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Live music in a room like The Wiltern has a specific physics: the sound arrives before you've decided how to feel about it, and Amplified Alpine has always known what to do with that. Amplified Alpine performs at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on April 12, 2026. All Ages. What plays in the car on the way home is always the live version, even when the live version hasn't happened yet.
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Humbe at The Wiltern in Los Angeles — the stage-to-crowd distance that changes what a live show means, in the city where this particular crowd assembles. Humbe performs at The Wiltern in Los Angeles on April 11, 2026. All Ages. There is no second chance at this particular night in this particular room — that is the only thing a live show offers that recordings can't replicate.