Los Angeles

Music events & nightlife in Los Angeles

This page collects all 26 Mood articles about Los Angeles, newest first: festival calendars, club and venue guides, artist previews and reviews. For tonight's listings, open the live Los Angeles agenda on Mood. Mood also lists what's screening in Los Angeles - open-air cinemas in summer, indoor screens year round, with today's showtimes.

26 guides, updated 23 September

Tonight in Los Angeles Cinemas in Los Angeles

City Guide14

LGBTQ+ Events in Los Angeles: A Guide to the City's Queer Nightlife

Los Angeles' LGBTQ+ nightlife spans three clusters rather than one gay district: West Hollywood's historic Santa Monica Boulevard strip, smaller DIY rooms across Silver Lake and the Eastside, and a Downtown-adjacent axis anchored by Catch One, a Pico Boulevard disco that opened in 1973 as one of the first Black-owned gay discotheques in the country. Many of the highest-scoring events on Mood's queerness dimension aren't titled "gay" or "queer" at all - a salsa social at Chica Bonita Lounge reads a full 1.0, and a Sunday R&B day party at Temple Grounds runs almost entirely outdoors. Mood tracks these events by venue and date across the city.
Sep 23 Sep 23
Halloween Parties in Los Angeles: 2026 Guide

Los Angeles runs one of the largest Halloween party calendars in the United States, and the confirmed roster has grown fast this season. Mood is now tracking 108 confirmed Halloween-tagged events across the city for 2026, up from 57 at this guide's original publish in late August, spanning underground techno warehouses, a goth and industrial circuit, banda halls, a rooftop reggaeton party, a live-band ska festival and eight separate candlelit classical concerts. Highlights include the minimal techno special from German label Giegling, the roughly thirty-act banda showcase Halloween Picolandia at Pico Rivera Sports Arena, a synthetic blood-shower rave from Succubus Club, and SKANK OR TREAT, a seven-band ska festival in Commerce. Full listings and dates are live on Mood.
Aug 27 Aug 27
Banda and Norteño in Los Angeles: Where the Scene Actually Plays

Banda is the brass-and-percussion genre built around tuba, trombone, clarinet and tambora rhythm, distinct from the trap-influenced corridos tumbados subgenre covered in Mood's separate Los Angeles guide. Mood tracks 81 confirmed banda and norteño events across greater Los Angeles and Southern California through mid-February 2027, spread over 40 venues. Pico Rivera Sports Arena anchors the scene with 22 of those dates, while an arena and casino circuit - Carín León, Banda MS, Los Tigres del Norte - plays rooms from BMO Stadium to Yaamava Resort and Casino, and late club nights like Quebradita Darks and Punchis Punchis Banda Rave fold banda into darkwave and electronic sets. Mood lists the full calendar and adds new dates as venues confirm them.
Aug 26 Aug 26
Christian & Gospel Concerts in Los Angeles: A Guide to the City's Faith-Based Shows

Christian and gospel concerts in Los Angeles are the ticketed, live-music side of the city's faith scene - worship-night tours, gospel day parties and gospel-choir shows that sit apart from Sunday services. In Mood's data they run across very different rooms, from worship nights at the downtown Novo to the Eagle Rock Gospel Singers out at Pappy & Harriet's in the high desert. The liveliest corner is the gospel day party: the Gospel Melodies Day Party at Los Globos reads 0.8 on both energy and danceability, closer to a club night than a service. It is a small but real niche, and Mood pulls the shows into one calendar so they are easier to find.
Jul 16 Jul 16
Underground & Warehouse Raves in Los Angeles

Underground and warehouse raves in Los Angeles are the non-commercial end of the city's dance scene - art-space, Downtown loft and warehouse nights that run outside the big-promoter circuit. This is deliberately the scene the large listings under-cover: not arena EDM, but the harder-to-find rooms passed by word of mouth. In Mood's data these nights sit at the very top of the undergroundness scale, around 0.9 for RECOLLECT UNDERGROUND and the Pauhaus art-gallery show, with high danceability alongside it. Mood pulls the city's underground and warehouse calendar into one feed with venue, date and a link out.
Jul 16 Jul 16
Cumbia Events in Los Angeles: Where to Dance the City's Latin Nights

Cumbia in Los Angeles is one of the city's deepest Latin dance scenes, running from East LA community dancefloors to Downtown dive bars and Hollywood clubs. It spans live bands, sonidero sound-system nights and club sets that fold cumbia into reggaeton and perreo. In Mood's data, 43 cumbia-tagged nights run across roughly 30 LA venues this month, and across them danceability averages 0.86, well above the citywide median - the mark of a floor-first scene. Weekly anchors like Deliciosa Nights at Little Joy Cocktails in Echo Park and multi-room queer-inclusive nights like Klub Nocturno at Catch One sit alongside dive-bar staples La Cita and Footsies. Mood pulls the city's cumbia calendar into one place and updates it through the season.
Jul 15 Jul 15
Anime and Kawaii Raves in Los Angeles: The City's Weeb-Rave Nights

Anime and kawaii raves in Los Angeles are costume-friendly club nights built around anime, K-pop and Harajuku aesthetics, set to hyperpop and EDM. It is a small but distinct niche - a few touring rave brands rather than a weekly circuit - led by the Kawaii Rave series and themed one-offs like the Hello Kitty Rave. In Mood's data these events score at the very top of the scale on energy and danceability, the fingerprint of a full rave rather than a themed bar night. Mood pulls the city's anime and kawaii raves into one calendar with venue, date and a link out, so the next date is easy to find.
Jul 15 Jul 15
Music Events in Los Angeles by Neighborhood: A Guide to the City's Areas

Los Angeles is less one nightlife scene than a dozen, spread across neighborhoods that can be an hour's drive apart, and where you are changes what kind of night you get. West Hollywood leans drag and pop, Santa Monica jazz and poolside house, Hollywood the widest range of iconic and eclectic shows, Downtown and the Eastside rap, indie and psych, and the Valley tributes and local nights. In Mood's data, LA lists more than 5,000 music events over the next three months - a scale that only makes sense broken down by area. Mood pulls the whole calendar into one place and lets you filter by neighborhood, so the question becomes which area rather than which ten pages to check.
Jul 15 Jul 15
Corridos Tumbados and Regional Mexican in Los Angeles: Concerts and Club Nights

Corridos tumbados and regional Mexican music are among the biggest live-music scenes across Los Angeles and Southern California, and in Mood's data the calendar splits cleanly in two. One side is the concert circuit - veteran acts such as Los Tucanes de Tijuana on the amphitheatre tours, plus 90s-corridos throwback bills that read high on nostalgia. The other is the club night, where recurring events like Besos Y Corridos at Beso score near the top of Mood's energy and danceability scales. Some of the largest shows play greater-LA and Southern California rooms rather than the city itself. Mood pulls both ends of the scene into one calendar, updated through the season.
Jul 15 Jul 15
Goth, Darkwave and Cholo Goth Nights in Los Angeles

Goth and darkwave nights in Los Angeles are a long-running underground club circuit, spread across Silver Lake, Downtown and Hollywood, with a distinctive Latino strand often called cholo goth that is uniquely Angeleno. In Mood's data these nights read high on undergroundness, roughly 0.6 to 0.8 across the circuit - a credibly underground scene rather than a mainstream club in black. Silverlake Goth Night at El Cid reads 0.9 on danceability, a floor-first party, while Lucha Goth Haus at Don Quixote carries the cholo goth thread. Mood pulls the city's goth and darkwave calendar into one rotation, updated through the season.
Jul 15 Jul 15
World Cup Watch Parties in Los Angeles: Where to Watch the Final

World Cup watch parties in Los Angeles are the viewing parties, bar screenings and Latin club nights built around the 2026 tournament, and as a host country the city runs a party-first calendar. Mood is tracking around 20 across LA through the knockouts and the 19 July final, from Lodge Room and Lock & Key viewing parties to reggaeton and perreo afterparties around the Mexico matches at Treehouse Rooftop and Club 54 Lounge. More than half pair the match with an afterparty. Mood pulls every LA watch party into one calendar with venue, date and a link out.
Jul 9 Jul 9
Hip-Hop in Los Angeles: A Guide to the City's Rap, R&B and Soul Nights

Hip-hop in Los Angeles spans over several overlapping scenes: the South Central open-mic tradition behind Project Blowed, Leimert Park's community rooms like the World Stage, the crossover soul and rap bookings at the Blue Note, and the Hollywood club circuit. This guide traces the history, from the Good Life Cafe and Death Row to the 2026 renaming of Nipsey Hussle Square, and reads the current month through Mood's data - including how the city's rap listings and its live R&B and soul nights split into two halves of one board. Mood tracks the full calendar in one place.
Jul 8 Jul 8
Music Events in Los Angeles: What's On in October 2026

Los Angeles runs one of the largest live-music calendars in the United States, with 3,060 events listed across 562 venues in October 2026. The month's arena tier includes Doja Cat's Tour Ma Vie World Tour and Gorillaz's The Mountain Tour at the Kia Forum, Kacey Musgraves' Middle of Nowhere Tour at Crypto.com Arena, and Tom Jones marking six decades on stage at the Greek Theatre. Rock, alternative rock and indie rock together remain the calendar's largest genre cluster, ahead of pop and hip-hop, while jazz keeps a weekly home at The World Stage in Leimert Park. Mood aggregates every venue and promoter's listings into one searchable calendar with dates, lineups and links, rather than a dozen separate box-office sites.
Jun 26 Jun 26
Electronic Music Events in Los Angeles: What's On in October 2026

Los Angeles runs one of the larger house and techno scenes in the United States, with 379 electronic events listed in Mood's data for October 2026, split between 344 house-family bookings and 118 techno-family listings. KETTAMA opens the month with a three-night run at the Shrine Auditorium, Steve Aoki closes it at Academy LA on the 30th, and Exchange LA carries the sharpest single date of the month with Charlie Sparks' "Mutate" showcase on the 25th. Below the superclub tier, Eagle LA, Sound Nightclub and 95 secret-location bookings carry the circuit's harder, more underground half. Mood tracks the full calendar - venue, date and genre - in one place.
Jun 26 Jun 26

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Guide3

Film Review2

Event Review1

Marcel Dettmann at Academy LA: The Verdict on a Berghain Resident in Hollywood's Big Room

Marcel Dettmann is a Berghain resident since 2004 and one of techno's most disciplined DJs, known for track-based sets built on the sequencing instincts of Berlin's Hard Wax record store rather than crowd theatrics. On September 19 he headlined Academy LA on Hollywood Boulevard alongside Sol Ortega, Perel and local selector John Bryars, a booking Mood's own data reads as unusually mainstream for the genre: the night's undergroundness score sits well below the Los Angeles techno and house average, while its capacity and polish scores run closer to a festival stage than a basement club. Full details on the show and venue are on Mood.
Sep 20 Sep 20