Considering the climate outdoors is not precisely scary throughout the winter months in SoCal, our live performance calendar manages to maintain our social life very heat between all the additional meals and household gatherings scheduled to descend on us within the coming days.
It is on this spirit of giving that we provide a fast however packed record of how to spend time within the firm of fellow followers, all basking within the present of reside music this vacation season. Putting collectively a slate that brings one thing further as a present for everybody: from the metalhead, to the pop princess to the avant-jazzer. Here’s our information to 10 must-see concert events from post-Thanksgiving by means of early 2025.
Each 12 months, beginning on Thanksgiving Day, tradition vultures can unwrap an early present: a slew of films, TV reveals, concert events and extra that fill the calendar till the top of the season. And this week, The Times is completely happy to be your information to a few of the most noteworthy offers, from Oscar contenders and crowd-pleasers to vacation specials you and your loved ones can curl up with. Read on!
Dawn Richard + Spencer Zahn / Zebulon / December 2
Richard deserves a clear break from anybody Diddy information in his life. She’s a completely modernist R&B singer in any setting, however even higher with the adventurous pianist and composer Zahn in tow. “Quiet in a World Full of Noise,” their newest collaboration in a fruitful sequence, is a young, weak meditation on grief and deserves its flowers. — August Brown
TV on the radio / El Rey Theater / 4, 5 and seven December
Twenty years after the discharge of the acclaimed “Desperate Youth, Bloodthirsty Babes,” this adventurous New York art-rock crew reunited to play their first reveals since 2019. TV on the Radio’s 2004 debut mapped the puzzling psychic panorama of a post-9/11 America, so it is becoming that the band selected this second of exuberance and concern to make its return. At El Rey you may see singer Tunde Adebimpe, guitarist Kyp Malone and drummer Jaleel Bunton on stage; Dave Sitek, the band’s guitarist and studio mastermind, determined to not attend these reveals. —Mikael Wood
KIIS-FM Jingle Ball / Intuit Dome / December 6
For the artists on the invoice — all keen to listen to their songs on the radio within the new 12 months — this annual all-star vacation live performance is a option to kiss the highly effective programming rings of KIIS (and its guardian firm, iHeartMedia). For followers within the viewers, it is an environment friendly reference level for what’s taking place in at the moment’s Top 40, together with SZA’s splendidly digressive R&B, Benson Boone’s heartfelt goodfellas ballads, neo-Britney dance-pop by Tate McRae and the post-hip-hop nation of Shaboozey. music. Meghan Trainor, Kane Brown, Madison Beer, T-Pain, NCT Dream… and Paris Hilton may even carry out. Some issues by no means change. — MW
Metallica / YouTube Theater / December 13
Between two dates at SoFi Stadium and a headlining look at Indio’s Power Trip competition, Metallica hasn’t precisely been laborious to see in Southern California for the previous 12 months and a half. But here is a uncommon alternative to catch the veteran metallic band within the form of small(ish) room they have not performed usually in for many years. The event for Metallica’s go to to Inglewood’s 6,000-seat YouTube Theater is the group’s biannual Helping Hands profit live performance, which goals to lift cash to combat starvation and help technical training. Jimmy Kimmel will host the night and anticipate extra performers to be introduced. — MW
Billie Eilish / Kia Forum / December 15, 16, 17, 20 and 21
Hitting the street for the primary time with out brother and producer Finneas as a everlasting a part of his reside band, the 22-year-old pop celebrity stops by the Forum for 5 reveals in help of “Hit Me Hard and Soft.” which simply grew to become the brothers’ third consecutive album to be nominated for Album of the Year on the Grammy Awards. (No one else did this with their first three LPs.) Before the tour, Finneas stated he would be part of his sister on stage often when his schedule permitted; right here she is going to function Eilish’s opening act on December twenty first. – MW
Jeff Parker ETA IVtet / Zebulon / Dec. 16-17
The guitar genius was the beating coronary heart of the nice Highland Park jazz membership ETA, whose residencies produced a lot of compelling combos such because the SML experimental group. Fans of his IVtet – a small group of jazz and session heroes who’re among the many greatest improvisers within the metropolis – can be thrilled to see the combo return to motion reside and on file with “The Way Out of Easy”, a refined free track record. – sliding jams. – AB
Besame Mucho Festival / Dodger Stadium / December twenty first
Shakira lately postponed an enviornment tour from 2024 to 2025 so she may meet fan demand by upgrading some stadium dates. But the Colombian pop icon — whose newest album, “Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran,” chronicles her sophisticated breakup with Spanish soccer star Gerard Piqué — continues to be slated to headline the third Besame Mucho competition at Dodger Stadium, the place he can be joined by Enrique Iglesias, Pitbull, Los Tigres del Norte and Banda MS for a broad overview of Latin music unfold throughout a number of phases. Among the handfuls of different artists on the invoice: Ivy Queen, Juanes, Café Tacuba, Caifanes, Los Tucanes de Tijuana and Carlos Vives, the final of whom was simply named Person of the Year on the Latin Grammys. — MW
X / The Observatory / 27 December
What the hell will Los Angeles do with out X? The standard-bearers of the SoCal punk scene for greater than 5 a long time promised they’d name it quits with “Smoke & Fiction,” a gripping sendoff of an LP launched this 12 months. Who is aware of what number of concert events they’ve left within the tank? While it is best to see them each likelihood you get, this Christmas spectacle ought to be particularly significant. – AB
Latin Mafia / Hollywood Palladium / January 22
The Mexico-based De La Rosa brothers earned a brand new Latin Grammy artist nomination for his or her debut album, “Todos Los Días Todo El Día,” which deftly straddles city, lure, R&B, EDM and indie. They’ve already performed Coachella and Camp Flog Gnaw. What’s the following step? A latest listening get together in Mexico City that attracted 18,000 followers suggests they’re about to get a lot larger within the United States. – AB
Jamie xx / The Sanctuary / January 23
You will not have a greater night time on a dance ground than when Jamie xx is on deck. The producer and former xx member exceeded his personal excessive requirements with this 12 months’s “In Waves,” a joyous, heartfelt insistence on the membership’s redemptive energy. Whatever else darkish issues are taking place in late January within the United States, know you can nonetheless go take heed to “Baddy on the Floor” with a room filled with jubilant associates. – AB
