Market · Los Angeles metro · within 25 miles
The Los Angeles market books about 1,195 shows a year across 680 venues, with 730 already on the calendar. Rock leads the tagged shows at 34%, ahead of Jazz / Blues at 15%. Saturdays are the busiest night and Mondays the quietest, and Friday and Saturday together carry 48% of the year. August is the peak month. Whisky a Go Go is the most-booked venue, with 117 shows on record. The market covers Los Angeles and 131 nearby cities within 25 miles, including Long Beach, Pasadena and Fullerton.
Refreshed September 29, 2026 · from Cultivate's live dataset
The venues
Ranked by shows on record. Genre focus comes from what each venue has actually booked.
The shape of the market
What else competes for the night
Fairs, festivals, sports and civic events pull the same crowd. Cultivate weighs each one by expected draw and scores every night in Los Angeles from 0 to 100 before you commit a date.
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
1 date on the calendar · very large draw
10 dates on the calendar · large draw
10 dates on the calendar · large draw
Breaking on Shazam
Shazam charts Los Angeles on its own: the songs people heard and wanted to know, this week. Cultivate reads that chart every day beside the venues in Los Angeles that could book the acts behind it, with the acts already on our record marked and their shows here counted.
Questions
Cultivate tracks 680 venues that book live music within 25 miles of Los Angeles, California, from bar stages to arenas, with about 1,195 shows in the last twelve months and 730 upcoming.
Saturday. In 2026, 461 shows fall on a Saturday, against 72 on a Monday, the quietest night. Friday and Saturday together account for 48% of the year's shows.
Rock leads with 34% of the shows that carry a genre, followed by Jazz / Blues at 15%. Genre comes from what venues actually book, not from how they describe themselves.
Whisky a Go Go in West Hollywood, with 117 shows on record and 59 upcoming. Booking contacts and exact capacities for every venue are available in the Cultivate console.
This is a sample of the Los Angeles data
The console has every venue, every act, the booking contacts, the Competition Grid and the Tour Planner, for Los Angeles and every other market in the country.