Every Monday night from 8 til late in downtown San Diego. James Behrens / Ben Bostwick / Joe Hager

“We’re still swingin’ Swing Gitan over here!” Hot Club of Los Angeles blazes through two sets of dazzling Django jazz at our acclaimed Monday night residency (est. 2011). Find out why Jackson Browne calls us “an LA treasure”, and Mike Myers of the Santa Monica Arts Commission writes “best live music experience in town!” According […]

One of the cornerstone acts of the U.K. retro-soul scene, the New Mastersounds play taut, old-school funk, vintage R&B, and groove jazz with a confident swing that has earned them positive press and led to collaborations with major acts across the globe. The bulk of their recordings are instrumentals, though they’ve cut sessions with noted […]

The Brig Band is an L.A. jam band that has been playing Live since 2002 Aptly named after a Venice CA bar, the Brig Band was formed in 2002 by a group of local pro musicians when bar owner Dave Reiss decided to turn Tuesday nights into an all-star jazz/funk/hip-hop/rock jam. What was originally a […]

Japanese psych pioneer Shintaro Sakamoto kicks off a brief West Coast run at the Fonda in Los Angeles this October, before heading down to the Observatory in San Diego, then up to Portland, Seattle, and then Brooklyn for a show with Habibi and El Michels Affair, followed by a night in Mexico City. Accompanying for […]

Japanese psych pioneer Shintaro Sakamoto kicks off a brief West Coast run at the Fonda in Los Angeles this October, before heading down to the Observatory in San Diego, then up to Portland, Seattle, and then Brooklyn for a show with Habibi and El Michels Affair, followed by a night in Mexico City. Accompanying for […]

Experience Fresh Veggies Micro Brass, a dynamic wind instrument ensemble blending brass band traditions with metal and pop-punk energy through innovative use of live effects pedals.

The ever-evolving musical vehicle for notorious psych-rock musician Anton Newcombe, the Brian Jonestown Massacre has endured numerous phases and iterations since arriving in the mid-’90s, becoming something of an independent institution in the process. Early highlights like 1996’s Their Satanic Majesties’ Second Request showed Newcombe’s propensity for melding late-’60s psychedelia with textured shoegaze, while later […]

Experience an extraordinary evening of jazz as Grammy-winning guitarist John Scofield performs with Vicente Archer, Gerald Clayton, and Bill Stewart for two concerts on November 1, 2025.