{"id":389833,"date":"2025-11-19T11:44:27","date_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:44:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/389833\/"},"modified":"2025-11-19T11:44:27","modified_gmt":"2025-11-19T11:44:27","slug":"10-must-see-concerts-in-los-angeles-this-holiday-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/389833\/","title":{"rendered":"10 must-see concerts in Los Angeles this holiday season"},"content":{"rendered":"

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This year, the holidays in L.A. offer the gift of live music that will allow us all to excite or escape our out-of-town relatives when they come to the West Coast. We\u2019ve dug up a little something for everyone \u2014 from K-pop fans to alt-rock lovers and R&B\/hip-hop nerds. Enjoy our guide to 10 must-see concerts to enjoy from post-Thanksgiving through the top of 2026.<\/p>\n

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The only guide you need for holiday entertainment.<\/p>\n

Iluka, Moroccan Lounge, Dec. 4<\/b>
This Aussie expat to L.A. has found a sweet spot of desert-country twang, exuberantly melodic songwriting and rock sass that pairs well with her witchy, suffer-no-fools feminism ( \u201cCrucify Me\u201d has this banger of a chorus: \u201cYou love to crucify me \/ But I\u2019m way too hot to die\u201d). Her new piano-brooder of a single, \u201cHard to Love Me,\u201d hits right in the Adele-shaped hole in pop balladry right now. This release show for her album \u201cThe Wild, the Innocent and the Raging\u201d \u2014 funny Springsteen riff, that \u2014 could be the start of something much bigger. \u2014 August Brown<\/p>\n

KIIS-FM Jingle Ball, Intuit Dome, Dec. 5<\/b>
The Top 40 radio station\u2019s annual holiday concert features plenty of the year\u2019s big hitmakers, including Alex Warren, Audrey Hobert, Jessie Murph, Rene\u00e9 Rapp, Leon Thomas and Zara Larsson. But the real draw is probably a rare appearance by Ejae, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami \u2014 better known as the voices behind \u201cGolden,\u201d the chart-topping pop smash from Netflix\u2019s \u201cKPop Demon Hunters\u201d that was just nominated for a Grammy Award for song of the year. Also on the bill: Conan Gray, Feid, Jackson Wang, the Kid Laroi and Sean Paul. \u2014 Mikael Wood<\/p>\n

Ben Folds, Blue Note, Dec. 11<\/b>
Fresh off his resignation from the Kennedy Center after, well, all of that<\/a>, Folds is returning to a more hospitable venue in the new L.A. outpost of the jazz club Blue Note. Folds released the delightfully titled Christmas album \u201cSleigher\u201d last year, and this holiday-themed set will likely pull from it and his vast pop catalog as well. It\u2019s hard to image a cozier seasonal vibe after the awful year we\u2019ve all had in L.A. \u2014 A.B.<\/p>\n

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Katseye, Hollywood Palladium, Dec. 13<\/b>
It\u2019s a long shot for new artist at next year\u2019s Grammys, but even making it to the nominations was a big step for Katseye, the globe-spanning girl group that\u2019s nominally K-pop in its structure, training and Hybe affiliation, but one more overtly geared to American tastes and sensibilities. Alongside \u201cGolden\u201d and Ros\u00e9 and Bruno Mars\u2019 \u201cApt.,\u201d this is a watershed moment for K-pop being taken as pop music like any other within the Recording Academy. Katseye has never put on less than a killer performance in its brief life as a band. \u2014 A.B.<\/p>\n

KROQ Almost Acoustic Christmas, Kia Forum, Dec. 13<\/b>
Reading the top of the bill here \u2014 Evanescence, Papa Roach, Social Distortion, Rise Against, the All-American Rejects, Third Eye Blind, Yellowcard \u2014 you\u2019d be forgiven for thinking KROQ got trapped in a time loop doomed to endlessly repeat the late \u201890s and early \u201800s. But come early for the incongruously booked but supremely exciting U.K. post-punk of Wet Leg and the ferocious Atlanta pop-punk combo the Paradox, who opened for Green Day and Jack White on the strength of just a few viral videos. \u2014 A.B.<\/p>\n

Cameron Winter, Palace Theatre, Dec. 13 & 14<\/b>
He was just in Los Angeles for an extremely buzzed-about gig with his New York-based band Geese at the Fonda Theatre, where the crowd reportedly included Bono, Beck and Chappell Roan along with a bunch of record execs eager to start an old-fashioned indie-rock bidding war. After Geese\u2019s tour wraps \u2014 and before the band\u2019s appearance at next year\u2019s Coachella festival \u2014 the group\u2019s slacker-dreamboat frontman will return to L.A. for a pair of shows behind his acclaimed 2024 solo album, \u201cHeavy Metal.\u201d \u2014 M.W.<\/p>\n

4 Non Blondes, Roxy, Dec. 15<\/b>
Though 4 Non Blondes broke up in 1994, pop music never seems to go long without finding some new use for the group\u2019s early-\u201990s alt-rock hit \u201cWhat\u2019s Up?\u201d This year it was Cardi B and Lizzo\u2019s sampling the song for their track \u201cWhat\u2019s Goin On,\u201d which then seemed to lead to a viral TikTok mash-up of \u201cWhat\u2019s Up?\u201d with \u201cBeez in the Trap\u201d by Cardi\u2019s nemesis Nicki Minaj. Before all that happened, the group\u2019s frontwoman, Linda Perry \u2014 who went on to establish a successful career as a songwriter and producer for stars like Pink and Christina Aguilera \u2014 got 4 Non Blondes back together for a handful of festival dates over the summer. Now the band is set to play the Roxy ahead of a reunion album that Perry says is due in 2026. \u2014 M.W.<\/p>\n

Allman Betts Family Revival, Orpheum Theater, Dec. 20<\/b>
These scions of Southern rock have done right by their formidable legacy in this supergroup, where Devon Allman, Duane Betts, Berry Duane Oakley, Alex Orbison and others need no introduction to anyone who still longs for swampy three-part guitar harmonies. (The double album \u201cBless Your Heart\u201d could have been in rotation for the late Jimmy Carter<\/a>). They\u2019re calling in every admirer and collaborator for this holiday show with Robert Randolph, Jimmy Hall, Dweezil Zappa, Sierra Green, Cody & Luther Dickinson and more. \u2014 A.B.<\/p>\n

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Leon Thomas, The Wiltern, Dec. 22 & 23<\/b>
Fresh from half a dozen high-profile Grammy nominations \u2014 including nods for album of the year and best new artist \u2014 Thomas will spend two nights at the Wiltern on tour behind his acclaimed 2024 LP, \u201cMutt.\u201d It\u2019s a crafty retro-R&B disc that shows off the years of studio expertise he accrued behind the scenes as a writer and producer for the likes of Ariana Grande and SZA; it also reveals a bit of the ham who got his start as a child actor on Broadway and Nickelodeon. \u2014 M.W.<\/p>\n

The Roots, Walt Disney Concert Hall, Dec. 31<\/b>
Three decades after they broke out of the Philadelphia hip-hop scene, Questlove and Black Thought\u2019s hard-working hip-hop outfit is one the most reliable live acts in music: a crowd-pleasing soul-funk groove machine equally at home at a music festival, a supper club or on the set of \u201cThe Tonight Show,\u201d where the Roots somehow still seem to be having fun as Jimmy Fallon\u2019s house band. Given the group\u2019s ample catalog and Questlove\u2019s countless A-list pals, it\u2019s anyone\u2019s guess what they\u2019ll play \u2014 or who might put in a surprise appearance \u2014 as they ring in the new year at Disney Hall with two shows, one at 7 p.m. and one at 10:30 p.m. \u2014 M.W.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"This year, the holidays in L.A. offer the gift of live music that will allow us all to…\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":389834,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5123],"tags":[185650,12260,26949,17281,1582,276,15968,5169,6276,2961,224,5337,185652,185653,50043,185651,4000,4370,1628],"class_list":{"0":"post-389833","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-los-angeles","8":"tag-a-b-katseye","9":"tag-album","10":"tag-band","11":"tag-bill","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-california","14":"tag-dec","15":"tag-group","16":"tag-l-a","17":"tag-la","18":"tag-los-angeles","19":"tag-losangeles","20":"tag-m-w","21":"tag-new-artist","22":"tag-next-year","23":"tag-non-blondes","24":"tag-pop","25":"tag-show","26":"tag-year"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@us\/115576194542739592","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389833","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=389833"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/389833\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/389834"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=389833"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=389833"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=389833"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}