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Live music fans rejoice: The Long Beach Bowl will become a reality
With the potential to draw from a larger pool of artists with such a distinctly unique venue, the City has set a budget for the Long Beach Bowl.
Events & Festivals
Kid Cudi, Cypress Hill, Ludacris headline 2025 Cali Vibes festival in Long Beach
Kid Cudi, Cypress Hill, and Ludacris will be headlining this year's Cali Vibes festival, set to take over Marina Green Park come June 8 and June 9.
Culture & Commentary
From the Arena to the Bowl: How Long Beach is returning to live music roots with massive changes and updates
From reclaiming the Long Beach Arena to opening a live music and performance amphitheater space opening at The Queen Mary this fall, Mayor Rex Richardson is doubling down as the Mayor of Amps.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach Lost: The municipal auditorium that hosted everyone from Judy Garland to Elvis Presley
The Long Beach Municipal Auditorium was 8,000-person exhibit hall that would host everyone from Elvis Presley to Judy Garland.
Events & Festivals
Dreamstate—the massive trance music festival—returns to the Queen Mary in Long Beach
After its inaugural year in Long Beach last year, where tens of thousands showed up to levitate musically, Dreamstate returns to the Queen Mary stomping grounds Nov. 22 and Nov. 23.
Culture & Commentary
Jin from BTS chooses Long Beach’s Retro Row as backdrop for new music video
Jin of BTS opted for Long Beach's Retro Row to be the opening backdrop for his first solo music video, "Running Wild."
Culture & Commentary
Dave Chappelle and Killer Mike to end U.S. tour at Terrace Theatre in Long Beach
Comedian Dave Chappelle and Run the Jewels member Killer Mike have partnered for a seven-city stand-up-meets-hip-hop tour. And the aptly titled "Still Talkin That Sh*t!" tour's last stop will be Long Beach.
Events & Festivals
Vans Warped Tour to come to Long Beach in 2025
The Vans Warped Tour has announced that they will be bringing their famed rock festival—which had its last showing in 2019—to Long Beach for two days, July 26 and 27, 2025, as part of its 30th anniversary.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach Art Scene: With upcoming remake, Art Theatre to screen original ‘Nosferatu’ with live score
The Art Theatre Long Beach will be screening the 1922 horror classic Nosferatu with a live score by Jack Curtis Dubowsky.
Events & Festivals
Vibez on the Bay is bringing reggae to the sunset—but it’s much, much more than a concert
Vibez on the Bay is more than a reggae concert; it is about shedding the stigmas behind suicide.
Culture & Commentary
House music meets Burning Man: Lupe Fuentes leads Ascend on Pine block party
Calling all the house-heads and all the Burners: Ascend on Pine is coming to Downtown Long Beach on Sept. 6.
Culture & Commentary
‘Long Beach Bowl’ amphitheater concept at the Queen Mary takes another step toward reality
It is being dubbed the "Long Beach Bowl"—think Greek Theater in capacity and Hollywood Bowl in style. And it will be by the Queen Mary with the DTLB skyline as its backdrop.
Culture & Commentary
Compound Long Beach—the art-meets-food-meets-music hub—leans into its nonprofit roots
Compound Long Beach is many, many things: Art gallery. Restaurant thanks to The Union. Community hub for everything from wellness seminars to mini-markets. But the thing that people should know first and foremost is that it's a nonprofit.
Events & Festivals
From a free night market to free movie screenings, The Queen Mary launches into summer events
After testing ideas—like the "Studio 534" disco nights or the wildly popular, weekly Meet Me at the Mary Tuesdays—The Queen Mary has launched a set of events beginning in May that will play throughout the summer, from free movie screenings to affordable ticketed events like a monthly disco dance party.
Culture & Commentary
IN PICTURES: Hundreds boogie on down aboard The Queen Mary for Longbeachize’s free disco party
500 people reveled and boogied aboard The Queen Mary back in March with a free disco dance event—and once again, in conjunction with Longbeachize and Visit Long Beach, we allowed Long Beach denizens to get down with a free disco’n’funk party inside the ship’s famed Art Deco masterpiece that is the Observation Observation Bar this past Thursday.
Events & Festivals
House heads unite: Day Trip Festival returns to Downtown Long Beach for pure dance ecstasy
Dance festival giant Insomniac is returning to the Queen Mary-as-a-backdrop for its annual house-centric Day Trip festival, where tens of thousands of house lovers from around the country will gather on Long Beach's southern shore to dance the nights away come June 23 and 24.
Events & Festivals
This ain’t Texas: Country Coastal Jam returns to Long Beach with Jason Aldean, Thomas Rhett
Bring out the cowboy hats because Long Beach is about to get more country: The massive two-day country festival that is Coastal Country Jam is about to return for its second year at Marina Green Park in Long Beach.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach’s best vinyl listening club to host-queer centric session with Madonna’s ‘Erotica’
Long Beach Last Call—the 10-day celebration of our bar culture—is partnering with the Good Luck Vinyl Club for a queer-centric event that will listen to Madonna's controversial 1992 masterpiece, "Erotica."
Culture & Commentary
NOFX’s ‘Punk in Drublic’ farewell tour-meets-festival to end in San Pedro
When NOFX brings its farewell 'Punk in Drublic' tour mixed with a curated guest list of performers, a craft beer garden, and 40 songs performed by NOFX alone to its final performance, it will be in San Pedro at Berth 46.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach’s Good Luck Vinyl Club enters 2024 with Snoop Dogg listening party, DJ Battlecat set
Long Beach's Good Luck Vinyl Club—the third-Tuesday-of-every-month vinyl listening event that focuses on a specific album of an artist and then the surrounding sounds of that very album—will open 2024 with a set from DJ Battlecat and a listening to Snoop Dogg.
Culture & Commentary
Altruism—Long Beach’s homegrown, city-centric nightlife event—celebrates one phenomenal first year
From Blaq Pages and Budgie playing side-by-side to Battlecat's hip-hop set amid Jared Jackson's house jam, Altruism is about the intersection of musics.
Events & Festivals
Massive, inaugural drum’n’bass-meets-dubstep festival Apocalypse to take over Long Beach
While many of the indie EDM acts frown upon Insomniac's corporate culture and lack of love for the authentic raver scene—overselling and dangerous conditions...
Events & Festivals
Returning to Long Beach’s reggae roots while Gwen Stefani, Ice Cube, Wiz Khalifa to headline Cali Vibes 2024
The popular festival that brings both Cali vibes and Cali sobriety together harmoniously returns to Marine Green Park under the Long Beach sky.
Culture & Commentary
Four years in the making, Long Beach’s industrial-pop outfit BREATHERRR releases vinyl version of new album
Once a one-man show, BREATHERRR has evolved into a full-on band—their industrial-pop sounds about to be showcased at a massive show at the Art Theatre.
Culture & Commentary
Long Beach Mayor proposes an amphitheater near the Queen Mary—which makes perfect cultural sense
While there were many things to be considered in Mayor Rex Richardson's proposed budget for 2024, one of the most culturally significant things isn't being heavily highlighted.
Events & Festivals
Trance heads unite: Dreamstate festival with Armin van Buuren moves to Long Beach for first time (with after party aboard Queen Mary)
After successful festivals in San Francisco, Mexico City, London, Melbourne, and New York, Dreamstate will be taking over the grounds surrounding the Queen Mary.
Culture & Commentary
Snoop Dogg, Tupac producer Battlecat played for Altruism music series in DTLB—and why that is important for Long Beach
SoCal hip hop legend DJ Battlecat played to a packed, sold-out show at the Edison in DTLB as part of the Altruism music series, which is an important cog in shifting Long Beach's music into the future.
Events & Festivals
Coastal Country Jam moves from HB to LB, with Blake Shelton and Tim McGraw headlining
The festival's return from hiatus also marks a change in venue, from the shoreline of Huntington Beach to Marina Green Park in Long Beach, bringing along country stars Blake Shelton and Tim McGraw.
Culture & Commentary
ComplexCon’s ‘food lagoon’ is an ode to SoCal grub—including Long Beach’s own scene
The annual convention—which saw Snoop Dogg perform on his home turf for the first time in decades when it premiered—is looking to amp up its food section with plenty of Long Beach and regional vendors.
