Dirty Beetles and Loomiere.live Present:SOLID GOLD POOL PARTY 2025 Coming to ya in all it’s golden glory! Featuring an all-star DJ lineup with World Class selectors from 5 LA-based Burning man camps. Celebrating the birthday of one of our fabulous headliners, and one headliner in from another country that is definitely not the 51st State. […]

Every Sunday at StillWater, right next to Dana Point Music

FREE EVENT! BOOGIE NIGHTS Sunday, August 3rd @ Pershing Square in LA Live Performances By: – CAMEO – DAZZ BAND – ONE WAY – EVELYN “CHAMPAGNE” KING -MARY JANE GIRLS EVERYBODY FREE w/ RSVP! (Must be 21+ w/ Valid ID) $20 VIP TICKETS (ACCESS TO PIT – FRONT STAGE) VIP TICKETS GUARANTEES ENTRY! FULLY STOCKED […]

MonoNeon’s newest album, You Had Your Chance…Bad Attitude!, is out now on all platforms! Doors 7pm

Grammy-winning and Oscar-nominated artist Adrian Quesada is an adventurous musician best known as the co-founder, guitarist, and producer of the 7-time Grammy-nominated band Black Pumas. The band first brought their unbridled take on psychedelic soul to their 2019 self-titled debut—a widely acclaimed LP that was nominated for Album of the Year, with smash singles like […]

Sun Ra founded the Sun Ra Arkestra in Chicago in the mid-1950’s. Sun Ra was among the earliest pioneers of the synthesizer and the free jazz revolution of 1960’s. Sun Ra sent a strong spiritual and musical message to his Arkestra wanting them to help make the universe better through positive vibrations and music. The […]

Electric Waste Band is now in year 33 of their weekly Monday night residency at Winston’s OB. Long gone are the glory days of piling into a van and following the trail of the Grateful Dead each time they embarked upon one of their celebrated tours. Today, the iconic 60s band from San Francisco belongs […]

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 […]

Dead Valley returns to the Barrel Tavern for this week’s Minglewood Mondaze

Sun Ra founded the Sun Ra Arkestra in Chicago in the mid-1950’s. Sun Ra was among the earliest pioneers of the synthesizer and the free jazz revolution of 1960’s. Sun Ra sent a strong spiritual and musical message to his Arkestra wanting them to help make the universe better through positive vibrations and music. The […]

Every Tuesday night in Atwater Village, Hellbent Booking presents Bluegrass Night. Break out those banjos and scoot those boots over to the Bigfoot East, from eight to eleven.

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 […]

Wailing Souls are standard bearers and among the few active surviving elder statesmen from the birth and the golden era of reggae music, still led by charter members, Winston “Pipe” Matthews and Lloyd “Bread” McDonald. With a career spanning more than five decades, from rock steady through reggae to dancehall and beyond, their canon is […]

B-Side Junkie Presents 60s Rock, Garage, Psych, Soul, with Deejay Clifton

This is an all ages event at Quartyard – San Diego. Hey, we are Vansire. We are from Minnesota. All of the songs are written and recorded by us, Josh Augustin and Sam Winemiller in our basements, living rooms, and bedrooms. We’ve been making music together since high school, and Vansire started after we met on drumline. […]

Onward & Upward Summer Tour 2025

DYLAN MEEK A seventh generation Texan, from a family of glass artists, literature professors, psychologists, and rocket engineers, Dylan was raised in Wimberley, TX. At 14, Harlem piano master Jimmy Neeley took him in as a protege, passing along nearly a century of wisdom and music. At 17, he moved to Boston to live with […]

Reef and Run hosts Heads All Happy at East Beach on Thursday August 7th.

Femi Kuti & The Positive Force Throughout his prolific career, Femi Kuti has stood as a powerful voice for justice, carrying forward the revolutionary Afrobeat legacy pioneered by his father, Fela Kuti. Known for his unflinching critiques of political corruption and social inequality, Femi’s heady mix of funk, jazz and highlife has always been a […]

Mestizo Beat is an instrumental group based out of Los Angeles offering the next wave of West Coast Latin Funk. Inspired by the 1960’s – 1970’s era of funk & soul, Mestizo Beat mixes afro-latin rhythms with deep grooves and psychedelic overtones that has developed into the bands signature sound. Formed by two brothers, guitarist […]

Another GMB Friday night dance party at the world-famous Ribjoint Dana Point with 2 sets of LIVE/DEAD. Grate music, grate drinks and grate food – what a grate way to start the weekend! Mike Mays – SaxPaul Brown – DrumsJosh Abel – Percussion & VocalsRene Mente – Keys & VocalsDerby Sutton – BassChris Vincent- Lead […]

Friday, August 8 at M. Special Brewing Company on State Street. We have an opening set from the incredible young Bellotti Brothers and a very special band lineup with David McInness coming in to play fresh off of a tour. We also have a debut of NEW merch made by the amazing Karen Payton. This […]

Fridays this August from 7-9pm catch Matt Adams of the Blank Tapes playing solo piano at Spaghetti Western Saloon in Morongo Valley.

KCRW + Boogie Boudreaux presents, A Psychedelic Summer Boogie! KCRW DJ Boogie Boudreaux is no stranger to Gold-Diggers and after 2 years rocking the decks for her electrifying BOOGIE DOWN late night party, she’s excited to present a summer celebration featuring two California psych rock bands + a classic BOOGIE DOWN DJ set after the […]

Easy Wind returns to the Belly Up in Solana Beach, CA for another Joyous occasion. We’re in our 10th year celebrating the music of Jerry Garcia and the Grateful Dead. It’s going to be a magical night with lots of surprises, celebrating your favorite music. Authentically performing Classic  GRATEFUL DEAD.Easy Wind has built a reputation […]

4 years after the DVD Live@Shrine, Femi Kuti returns with a generous, powerful and timeless new album, continuing to explore and push back the frontiers of Afrobeat. With thirteen titles that grab your belly, your feet, your heart and your head, from the ghettos of Lagos to the palaces of corrupt politicians, Day by Day […]

Second Fridays Doors at 8pm2 sets21+

40th Annual Oceanside Longboard Surfing Club Contest and Beach Festival Join us for an action packed three-day family-friendly extravaganza at the beautiful Oceanside Pier on August 8th, 9th, and 10th, 2025. Building on the success of the previous 39 years, our event promises to deliver a wide range of activities suitable for the entire family. […]

With Cathy Hackett joining on vocals

Tangent Productions Presents. Saturday, August 9th, 2025. Come enjoy the Grateful Jam Fest concert featuring SoCal’s finest talented artists.  Headlining is deadhead favorites Cubensis! Also, performing is Wall of Sound, The Alligators, Skeleton Crew, Deadspace Revival, and psychedelic lighting by Mad Alchemy! $20- Pre-Sale Limited Early Bird GA Standing Room Ticket $30- GA Standing Room […]

Desert Friends is a Hi Dez, psych collaboration between Antrom Alexander and Lucas Penner with Cody Rhodes on drums. One-year-old and your Desert Friends are making strides: debut album “Lost Palms Oasis” (October 2024); feature on The Joshua Tree House’s New Moon Playlist (Dec 2024), a mini tour of Southern California including two packed shows […]

Celebrating the music and legacy of Jerry Garcia on Saturday, August 9th Presented by the Lodge Room and Blues for Sallah. Doors at 7pm and show starts at 8. All Ages.

Sam Blasucci is best known as one half of Mapache, a Southern California roots-rock duo just as instantly recognizable for their elegant, intertwined guitar parts as they are for their devoted, Nudie-Suit wearing fanbase. But when Blasucci was writing the songs that would become his debut solo record, Off My Stars, he found himself less […]