When it comes to California music festivals, you can’t beat Los Angeles as a home base for some of the most hotly-anticipated events every single year. From world-famous Coachella to the more home-grown Joshua Tree Music Festival, we’re lucky to enjoy dozens of popular music festivals in and around Los Angeles.
As we hurtle towards summer 2024, many Californians are gearing up for an exciting 2024 festival season. Whether you’re seeking out a specific headliner or you just want to make the most of your weekend, we’re sure that these SoCal and LA music festivals will inspire some exciting new plans.
1. Coachella
The Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival kicked off in 1999 and grew into one of the world’s biggest and most popular music festivals, averaging 125,000 attendees per day. The event is an internationally recognized phenomenon famous for the hottest chart-topping headliners, cutting-edge fashion, large-scale art installations, pop-culture presence, and epic after-parties.
🗓️ Dates: Apr. 12-14, 19-21, 2024
🎤 Headliners: Lana Del Rey; Tyler, The Creator; Doja Cat
🪪 Age requirement: All ages
🎟️ Tickets: General admission passes cost between $499-599 plus fees, not including shuttle passes. VIP passes cost between $1,069-1,269, plus fees.
🌐 Learn more: Coachella 2024 festival guide
📍 Location: Indio, CA
2. Stagecoach
Stagecoach is considered the United States’ most renowned country music festival, coming in hot on the heels of Coachella at the same venue in Indio, CA. The three-day festival pulls out all the stops with a rustic flea market, the high-energy Honkytonk Dance Hall, delicious food and cooking demos from Guy Fieri’s Stagecoach Smokehouse, and performances from the fan-favorite Compton Cowboys, among many other attractions.
🗓️ Dates: Apr. 26-28, 2024
🎤 Headliners: Eric Church, Miranda Lambert, Morgan Wallen
🪪 Age requirement: All ages
🎟️ Tickets: General admission passes cost $549 + fees. Tickets are sold out, but you can still join the waitlist.
🌐 Website: Stagecoach Festival
📍 Location: Indio, CA
3. BeachLife Festival
BeachLife Festival is a celebration of SoCal coastal living, taking place right on the Redondo Beach waterfront with stunning sunset views over the water. The festival has a “made by Californians, for Californians” feel, but everyone is welcome to join the three-day seaside LA music festival with high-energy headliners.
🗓️ Dates: May 3-5, 2024
🎤 Headliners: Sting, Incubus, My Morning Jacket
🪪 Age requirement: All ages
🎟️ Tickets: Single-day GA tickets cost $179, single-day GA+ tickets cost $259. 3-day tickets are sold out except for VIP.
🌐 Website: BeachLife Festival
📍 Location: Redondo Beach, CA
4. Wonderfront
Plan a road trip down to San Diego for Wonderfront, a coastal music festival known for featuring the hottest breakout artists across seven different stages. Previously a November event, Wonderfront took a one-year hiatus and is now back for the springtime in what’s sure to be an unforgettable experience.
🗓️ Dates: May 10-12, 2024
🎤 Headliners: Kaytranada, JID, Weezer, Dominic Fike, Beck, Mt. Joy
🪪 Age requirement: All ages
🎟️ Tickets: Single-day GA passes cost $135 + fees. Three-day GA passes cost $329 + fees.
🌐 Website: Wonderfront Festival
📍 Location: San Diego, CA
5. Cruel World
Cruel World is a high-energy music festival in LA’s iconic Rose Bowl primarily focusing on new wave, punk, and alternative rock genres. Despite only being around for a couple of years, the festival has presented some memorable headliners including Siouxsie and Iggy Pop in 2023.
🗓️ Dates: May 11, 2024
🎤 Headliners: Duran Duran, Interpol, Blondie, Simple Minds, Placebo, Soft Cell, Adam Ant
🪪 Age requirement: All ages
🎟️ Tickets: GA passes cost $209 + fees, GA+ passes cost $299 + fees.
🌐 Website: Cruel World
📍 Location: Pasadena, CA
6. Joshua Tree Music Festival
Drive out to the desert for this iconic music festival that’s brought the party twice a year for over two decades. The event is all about “radical inclusion,” that is, a funky camp-out festival geared toward families and guests of all ages. You can expect an eclectic environment celebrating on-the-rise artists from a huge spectrum of genres.
🗓️ Dates: May 16-19, 2024
🎤 Headliners: Fantastic Negrito, Steve Poltz, Moon Hooch, Madison McFerrin
🪪 Age requirement: All ages
🎟️ Tickets: Single-day passes range between $65-100, four-day festival pass costs $270
🌐 Website: Joshua Tree Music Festival
📍 Location: Joshua Tree, CA
7. Just Like Heaven
Just Like Heaven brings big names in the indie and rock genres for a memorable spring day at Rose Bowl Stadium. Indie fans will be excited to see era-defining legends including The Postal Service, Phoenix, Death Cab For Cutie, Two Door Cinema Club, and Tegan & Sara.
🗓️ Dates: May 18, 2024
🎤 Headliners: The Postal Service, Phoenix, Death Cab For Cutie, The War On Drugs
🪪 Age requirement: All ages
🎟️ Tickets: GA passes cost $199 + fees
🌐 Website: Just Like Heaven Festival
📍 Location: Rose Bowl Stadium, Pasadena, CA
8. Lightning in a Bottle
Take a road trip up to Central California for an electronic-leaning music festival spanning five days this May. It’s presented by creative event collective The DoLaB, which produces popular experiences at the event including yoga classes, dance classes, sustainability talks, and a marketplace.
🗓️ Dates: May 22-27, 2024
🎤 Headliners: Skrillex, Labrinth, Lane 8, James Blake, M.I.A.
🪪 Age requirement: All ages
🎟️ Tickets: GA three-day pass costs $359, GA five-day pass costs $429
🌐 Website: Lightning in a Bottle
📍 Location: Buena Vista Lake, Kern County, CA
9. Day Trip Festival
The Day Trip Festival takes over the Long Beach waterfront for a two-day, 21+ LA music festival on the seaside. It all goes down on the historic waterfront alongside the RMS Queen Mary, a nearly 100-year-old ship that has been moored in Long Beach since 1967. Watch your favorite acts across two stages at the festival grounds, and then enjoy after-parties aboard the ship.
🗓️ Dates: June 22-23, 2024
🎤 Headliners: Kaskade, MK, Green Velvet, Cloonee, Mau P, Nicole Moudaber, Paco Osuna
🪪 Age requirement: 21+
🎟️ Tickets: Two-day GA passes cost $227.99
🌐 Website: Day Trip Festival
📍 Location: Queen Mary Waterfront, Long Beach, CA
10. HARD Summer
HARD Summer is an edgy LA music festival-bordering-on-rave. Performers range between hip-hop, pop, and EDM genres, all of whom present high-energy concerts throughout a sunny weekend in Hollywood Park across from SoFi Stadium.
🗓️ Dates: Aug. 3-4, 2024
🎤 Headliners: Disclosure, Rezzmau5, Jamie xx, Fisher + Chris Lake, Major Lazer
🪪 Age requirement: 18+
🎟️ Tickets: Single-day GA passes cost $149-159, two-day GA passes cost $202
🌐 Website: HARD Summer
📍 Location: Hollywood Park, Inglewood, CA