Festivals near Los Angeles

Between the Hollywood studios, the South Bay beaches and the valleys reaching toward the desert, Los Angeles has no off-season: it celebrates all year long, under a sun that turns every arena parking lot and stretch of coastline into a dance floor. The city carries in its DNA the punk born in Hermosa Beach and the hardcore fury of the SST label — a legacy that Sound And Fury still screams every summer — as much as the giant raves that tipped America toward electro, embodied by Hard Summer and its bass-soaked stages at the height of August.

Yet L.A. treats nostalgia as an art form too: in Pasadena, the Rose Bowl hosts Just Like Heaven Fest, an indie reunion that resurrects the guitars of the 2000s, while Beachlife Festival rolls out rock, surf and sunsets on the sand at Redondo Beach, and the pop-punk revival crashes a little further south at Warped Tour Long Beach. FestT computes your FestiScore — how closely a lineup matches your favorite artists — and keeps dates, headliners and ticketing up to date, from Downtown to the coast.