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Daily Email - Monday - 8/25/2025

August 25, 2025

Monolink’s new album The Beauty of It All is coming out on September 26, and Ultra Records confirmed it’s dreamy as hell. To celebrate, we’re giving away a signed vinyl with your name (and his) all over it!*

JUST ANNOUNCED

  • Glōm Fest is hitting Lodge Room with goth legends + darkwave icons from across the globe for one night only on Friday, 9/12. Win tickets to come lose yourself in the shadows. You’ll never want out.*

  • Experience Big Wave: No Room for Error inside Cosm’s 87-foot LED dome, where Tahitian surfer Heimiti Fierro takes on Teahupo’o’s monstrous surf. Win tickets to feel every swell in fully immersive surroundings!*

  • Two boats, two bands, one music-fueled evening. Sofar Sounds is throwing a double-decker Labor Day Weekend boat show out of Marina del Rey this Sunday, 8/31, and you’re invited! Use code DOLA20 for 20% off!*

  • Craving a pool day? Dance music curator Space Yacht is throwing a massive pool party this Saturday, 8/30 at the SLS Beverly Hills rooftop, and we’re giving away tickets!

  • Plus fresh announcements from Playboi Carti, Season to Risk & Sisters, Biscits, and more!

50 THINGS TO DO IN SEPTEMBER

Photo: Sun Soaked Festival via Visit Huntington Beach

Whether you’re still in summer mode or already hoarding pumpkins in secret, September’s got range. Big shows, weird parties, good excuses to leave the house — it’s all here:

IN THE DAYS AHEAD

🕹️ ½ Price Games Wednesdays

Every Wednesday at Dave & Buster’s

Wednesdays = 1/2 Price Games at Dave & Buster’s, all day long! Pro tip: grab an Eat & Play Combo while you’re there, and you’ve got max fun, minimal spend.*

🎤 BJ The Chicago Kid

Tomorrow & Wednesday, August 26 & 27 at Blue Note LA (5PM & 9PM)

Streetwise R&B songwriter and singer from the South Side of Chicago, as the name implies, GRAMMY nominee BJ The Chicago Kid brings velvet vocals and smoked-out soul to Hollywood for back-to-back nights of slow burns and smooth grooves.*

🔥 Big Time Rush

Tomorrow, August 26 at Intuit Dome (7PM)

From “Boyfriend” to Billboard, Nickelodeon’s favorite boy band is all grown up and headed to Inglewood. Big Time Rush is the early-2010s comeback we desperately deserve. Relive the teen heartthrob nostalgia!

🤩 Spotlight: Gigi Perez

Tomorrow, August 26 at The GRAMMY Museum (7:30PM)

Catch Rolling Stone’s “2025 Act to Watch” Gigi Perez on The GRAMMY Museum’s rooftop in DTLA with a Q&A hosted by Hayley Kiyoko and a special performance!

🎸 Foreign Air

Tomorrow, August 26 at The Moroccan Lounge (9:30PM)

Foreign Air started as Dropbox demos and couch-surfing hangs. Now they’re scoring Nike ads and warping minds in the DTLA Arts District with glitchy electronic, alt-rock muscle. And tickets are like $20!

LOCALS ONLY

  • All your favorite LA party crews at one massive block party in the DTLA Arts District?! LoveChild’s Block Party returns this Sunday, 8/31 at 9ThirtyLA for 9 hours of dancing with Hardly Home, Pangea, Slow Jamz, and more!

  • Save the date! LA Ale Works’ annual Oktoberfest returns to Hawthorne on Saturday, 9/20! Do you have what it takes to dethrone the Pretzel Eating Champion, get Weiner in Das Hole, or hold a 1/2 barrel keg over your head? 

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