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Whisky a Go Go Events

Whisky a Go Go, 8901 W Sunset Blvd, West Hollywood, CA 90069

Here is what is coming up at Whisky a Go Go, and what has already happened there. Concerts, games, festivals and the smaller nights that never surface in a generic search — no account needed.

Coming up 5 events
Dokken
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79 days away
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Dokken
Dec 26, 2026 Whisky a Go Go, 8901 W Sunset Blvd…

December 26th is the flattest day on the calendar. The build-up is spent, the wrapping paper is bagged, somebody's relative is still on the couch, and the restlessness that arrives around four in the afternoon has no obvious cure. Driving to Sunset for a guitar solo is a cure. Don Dokken and company open a six-night stretch where this club gives each evening to a different band that mattered back when Los Angeles rock was the biggest thing the city exported. This is the loudest, best-attended night of the run and the one where the balcony actually fills up. A detail that changes how you plan the evening: the stairs to the balcony are narrow and the good rail spots along the front go inside the first twenty minutes after doors, so the people who care about sightlines arrive early and eat afterward instead. Saturday the 26th, and the doors go at 7:30 rather than the usual six.

Enuff Z'Nuff, Pretty Boy Floyd, The Throbs
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81 days away
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Enuff Z'Nuff, Pretty Boy Floyd, The Throbs
Dec 28, 2026 $33+ Whisky a Go Go, 8901 W Sunset Blvd…

The week between Christmas and New Year's has no shape to it. Work is theoretical, the leftovers are on their fourth appearance, and somewhere in a closet there is a shoebox of ticket stubs from when you were seventeen and the Sunset Strip was the center of the known world. Nobody in your house wants to hear about it again. Here is a room full of people who want to hear about nothing else. Three bands who were actually on that Strip when it meant something, stacked on one bill on a Monday night, in the club where most of it happened. Enuff Z'Nuff still play the Chicago power-pop that got them filed under hairspray for thirty-five years. Pretty Boy Floyd have never once apologized. The Throbs open. What the regulars know: the floor here is small enough that the stage monitors bleed straight into the crowd, so you end up hearing the show roughly the way the singer hears it. Doors swing at six on Monday the 28th; the room is upstairs off the Strip.

White Lion
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82 days away
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White Lion
Dec 29, 2026 $44+ Whisky a Go Go, 8901 W Sunset Blvd…

A song you have not chosen to hear in twenty years comes on over a grocery store PA and your whole chest goes sideways. You were maybe twelve when 'When the Children Cry' first got to you. You did not have language yet for what a song could do to a person, and then suddenly you did, and it was that one. Mike Tramp still sings it, still in the same key, which is the quietly astonishing fact underneath this whole evening. This is night four of a six-night run where the Whisky hands each date to a different band that mattered in the eighties, and Tuesday belongs to White Lion. Expect the ballads to land harder than the singles. A thing regulars count on here: the between-song talk runs long and gets genuinely personal, because the room is small enough that it feels less like a concert and more like being told something. Tuesday the 29th. Tickets open around $44 and the doors go at six.

Faster Pussycat with Nasty Passion
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83 days away
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Faster Pussycat with Nasty Passion
Dec 30, 2026 $55+ Whisky a Go Go, 8901 W Sunset Blvd…

Some of us were the kid who wore too much eyeliner to a high school that had strong opinions about it. You got called things in the hallway. You kept doing it anyway, because the alternative was dressing like the people doing the calling. That kid never entirely leaves, and once every few years the kid needs somewhere to go. Taime Downe has fronted this band since 1985 and has never softened the sleaze even slightly, which by now reads less like a gimmick and more like a moral position. Nasty Passion open. It falls late in the club's December stretch, on a Wednesday, so the crowd skews toward people who genuinely care rather than people passing through. Worth knowing before you go: the merch table sits at the bottom of the stairs and these bands tend to work it themselves after the set, which is how most of the good stories from these nights start. A six o'clock start on the 30th, and tickets sit around $55.

L.A. Guns
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84 days away
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L.A. Guns
Dec 31, 2026 Whisky a Go Go, 8901 W Sunset Blvd…

New Year's Eve in this city is mostly a tax. Somebody's cousin knows a promoter, the ticket runs ninety dollars, the champagne is a thimble of something sweet, and at 12:04 you are standing among strangers wondering why you left the house at all. There is another version of the night. A band named after the city plays the club that built the city's reputation, the bill runs six acts deep, and nobody in the room is performing having a good time for anyone's camera. Phil Lewis has been doing this since the Strip was still genuinely dangerous. Urick, Taz Taylor Band, Nasty Passion, Philthy Rych, Evil Blade and Fire 'N Ice fill out the card. The thing to understand about a stacked bill here is that it starts early and runs long, so the opener you have never heard of is very often the set people end up talking about on the sidewalk. Six o'clock on the 31st, at an address that has not moved since 1964.

Previously at Whisky a Go Go 1
Julien-K & Nite, Vanta After Dark, Drugforjoy, Karma Hitlist, Astrodice
This Happened
11 Gathered
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Julien-K & Nite, Vanta After Dark, Drugforjoy, Karma Hitlist, Astrodice
Oct 6, 2026 Whisky A Go Go, 8901 Sunset Blvd, …

Somewhere in a box you still have the disc. You were maybe eleven, the game had a soundtrack far too emotional for anything happening on the screen, and for years you assumed you were the only person who felt strongly about it. You were not. Julien-K wrote a chunk of that music. The band came out of Orgy and then spent years scoring Sonic games and Transformers films, which splits their audience cleanly down the middle — half followed them off nu-metal radio, half found them through a game menu screen at age eleven. Both halves show up. The Whisky stacks five bands on this bill, which is the old Sunset Strip arithmetic: you buy the ticket for one of them and spend the drive home arguing about a different one. A Tuesday on the Strip is its own specific animal. Thin crowd, no tourists, everybody in the room chose to be there. Sunset Strip, doors at six, Tuesday the sixth — five bands deep.

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