Last night at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, Charli XCX’s performance was nothing short of a chaotic, glittering, perfectly executed fever dream. It was the first of two nights in the city on her Music, Fashion, Film tour, and walking through security felt like the party had finally left the group chat and spilled into the arena. Immediately upon arrival, a collision of pure club excess, pop spectacle, and fashion-week energy washed over the crowd.
Read MoreSome crowds sway, some crowds bounce, and then there was the Santa Barbara Bowl on a perfect Friday night with Jungle on stage, where it felt like literally everyone was dancing! Supporting their new album Sunshine, the UK collective delivered a show that was tight, joyful, and impossibly groovy, in front of an almost entirely sold-out crowd that never once stopped moving.
Read MoreSome shows are loud, some are big, and then there are the ones where a room full of people forgets to breathe. Father John Misty's "solo" night at The Fonda Theatre in Los Angeles was firmly the latter, a hushed, deeply emotional evening that ranks among the most intimate we've ever seen him play, and one that felt like an all-timer from the very first song.
Read MoreVery few albums have left a mark quite like "Toxicity” and System Of A Down are marking its 25th anniversary in a big way. The GRAMMY Award-winning rock icons are celebrating with a week-long exhibition at Beyond The Streets in Los Angeles, opening Tuesday, October 13th and running through Sunday, October 18th, 2026. Admission is free, and no ticket is required.
Read MoreSome nights are built to be remembered, and Monday, November 16th at the Wiltern in Los Angeles is shaping up to be one of them without a doubt! Josh Homme is teaming up with a remarkable group of musicians, comedians, and special guests for "Joshua Homme and Friends," a one-night-only benefit concert raising funds for two worthy organizations: CORE and the Sweet Stuff Foundation.
Read MoreJack Johnson has never sounded more at home than he did in Santa Barbara. On the first of two massively sold-out nights at the Santa Barbara Bowl, part of his SURFILMUSIC Tour, the former UCSB student delivered a warm, effortless, utterly joyful show, one that reminded everyone in the amphitheater why his music has soundtracked sunny afternoons for more than two decades.
Read MoreThe rain didn't stand a chance against Parcels! The Australian five-piece brought their LOVED Tour to the outdoor grounds of McMenamins Edgefield in Troutdale, and a packed crowd spent the entire night dancing straight through the drizzle, feet in the mud and hands in the air, proving once again that this band's live show is simply on another level.
Read MoreEverything Everything came to The Bellwether with one job: play Get To Heaven front to back for its 10th anniversary. What the packed Los Angeles crowd actually got was something even bigger, a tight, ferociously performed run through the entire album with a handful of deep cuts that turned an already special night into a genuine career-spanning victory lap.
Read MoreEverything Everything have built a reputation as one of the most electrifying live bands working today, and Los Angeles fans are about to get a rare chance to see exactly why! On September 26, the British art-rock outfit brings its Get To Heaven 10th Anniversary Tour to The Bellwether, performing the acclaimed 2015 album front to back in a night that promises the same kind of manic, high-wire energy that's defined the band's live shows for over a decade. Get tickets HERE!
Read MorePond has a legitimate claim to being the best live band working today and their show at Austin's Mohawk did everything it could to prove the case. Even with the Texas heat bearing down on the outdoor venue, the crowd never let up, matching the band's relentless energy song for song in a set that balanced deep-catalog rarities with the freshest cuts from their new album, all building toward a closing moment nobody in that crowd will forget anytime soon. Truly, the best night ever.
Read MoreBleachers kicked off both a new tour and a five-night residency at the legendary Troubadour, and the sold-out crowd packed into that tiny West Hollywood room got something genuinely rare…a massive, arena-caliber band playing like they had nothing to prove and everything to give, in a space that barely holds a few hundred people. It's the kind of show that reminds you why intimate venues exist in the first place and why a band this good in a room this small feels like catching lightning before it escapes back into the sky.
Read MoreThe Mars Volta chose the Majestic Ventura Theater to launch their Fall tour, and a sold-out, packed house got proof almost immediately that this band sounds even better in person than on record. In a tight, no-filler set that ran just over an hour and 15 minutes, the group tore through more than two decades of material with a hunger that made it clear everyone on that stage was operating at their absolute A-game.
Read MoreThe Mars Volta have never been a band content to sit still, and their newest single proves it yet again. "Reina Tormenta / Enlazan Las Tinieblas" arrives as a searing preview of the group's forthcoming album, dropping just as the iconic outfit gears up to launch a North American tour that promises to be one of the most anticipated runs of the fall.
Read MoreRock & Roll Hall of Famers Journey are rolling into Los Angeles with the second leg of their Final Frontier Tour, and the September 12th stop at Crypto.com Arena is shaping up to be one of the most emotionally charged shows the city sees all year. Billed as the band's farewell run, this is five decades of arena-rock history coming full circle, and Angelenos are about to get a front-row seat to it.
Read MoreBleachers are heading back to Los Angeles for a run that feels built for a room like this one. This September, Jack Antonoff and company will play five nights at the Troubadour, September 10, 11, 12, 14, and 15, a rare chance to catch one of rock's most electric live acts in one of the genre's most storied rooms.
Read MoreGoose brought their Summer Tour 2026 into the Greek Theatre for a Friday night that felt raw, intimate, and completely mesmerizing from the first note to the last. Even in a venue built for thousands, the Wilton, Connecticut band found a way to make the whole night feel close and personal, and by the time the encore hit, the entire amphitheater was on its feet and moving.
Read MoreWhitney made their first-ever appearance at Topaz Farm on Friday night, and the show was one of the most intimate, raw, and genuinely beautiful shows we've seen all year. Playing to a crowd seated on blankets and lawn chairs among the wildflowers and open fields of the working farm, the Chicago band, joined by Nicholas Allbrook of Pond, turned a Sauvie Island evening into something that felt less like a concert and more like a shared moment.
Read MoreSome shows you plan for months. Others you find out about hours before they happen and drop everything anyway. That was the scene outside Sibylline Records in Pasadena this week, when King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard's Stu Mackenzie and Joey Walker announced a surprise pop-up DJ set on Instagram, and by the time the “needle” dropped, the sidewalk on El Molino Avenue was as packed as the shop itself.
Read MoreThere are venues that host a concert and there are venues that conspire with one, and on Monday night the Greek Theatre was firmly in the second camp. Tucked into the eucalyptus and pine of Griffith Park, the open-air amphitheater gave Death Cab for Cutie exactly the room they needed to close out a two-night Los Angeles stand on the I Built You a Tower World Tour.
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