The Ultimate Guide To San Diego Concerts, Comedy & Music Events For The Rest Of 2026

San Diego's 2026 live music calendar is, without exaggeration, one of the strongest the city has ever seen. Stadiums, amphitheaters, waterfront spots, intimate venues, and outdoor festival grounds are all packed with acts spanning every genre imaginable. There's legacy rock, modern pop, alt-indie, hip-hop, country, jazz, comedy, Broadway, and everything in between. Here is the ultimate list to…

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M.I.A. Sues Kid Cudi For Kicking Her Off Tour

Earlier this month, M.I.A. was removed from Kid Cudi’s Rebel Ragers tour after reportedly delivering a series of politically charged onstage comments. She's now suing Cudi for ousting her from the tour. The 33-date tour was expected to pay her $2.8 million, and her contract allegedly granted her full creative control over her set. On Friday, May 29, M.I.A. filed a complaint in a California…

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M.I.A. Kicked Off Kid Cudi Tour Over Onstage Political Rants

M.I.A.'s descent into right-wing absurdity is nothing new. Back in 2022, she compared Alex Jones' lies about the Sandy Hook mass shooting to "every celebrity pushing vaccines." In 2024, she went on the far-right conspiracy theorist's show to launch apparel that supposedly blocks 5G signals. Last month, she dropped her "gospel" album _M.I.7_ and introduced a new clothing line, this one designed to…

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Kid Cudi Fires M.I.A. From His Tour After She Is Booed During Republican Rant: ‘I Won’t Have Someone on Tour Making Offensive Remarks’

Kid Cudi has announced that he fired M.I.A. as one of the openers on his Rebel Ragers Tour. The move comes after a viral rant she made on May 2 during the Dallas date at the Dos Equis Pavilion, where she was booed during a monologue, which included lines like, “I’ve been canceled for many […]

Kid Cudi is Far Too Underrated

Is it just me, or is everyone waiting for their invitation to Honolulu just to—according to Kid Cudi, get that Maui Wowie? To be honest, I had no idea what that meant at first, but after tying together some context clues and common sense, I think I can confidently say that I know exactly what […]

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Yeat’s New Album ADL (A Dangerous Lyfe / A Dangerous Love) Features Elton John, Grimes, 070 Shake, & Many More

Last Friday Yeat shared "Let King Tonka Talk," a single featuring a beat from 100 gecs' Dylan Brady and a few lines rapped by one Kylie Jenner, aka King Kylie. Today, the California-born rapper took a full ad spread out of the _New York Times_ to announce his new album is arriving this Friday. It appears to be a double album called _ADL (A Dangerous Lyfe / A Dangerous Love)_ , and there are many…

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Kid Cudi Shares New EP HAVE U BN 2 HEAVEN @ NITE

Kid Cudi is back. A few days ago Cudi announced a new EP titled HAVE U BN 2 HEAVEN @ NITE. It was created over the past 10 days, with Cudi streaming the recording process on Twitch, calling the episodes “Someone Cooked Here.” Now those four songs are packaged into a self-released EP full of…

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Kid Cudi’s First Solo Art Exhibition Sets a New Creative Standard

In Paris, the trailblazing rapper steps into a new era as Scotty Ramon with "Echoes of the Past" at Ruttkowski;68 Portrait of Scotty Ramon, credit Nils Muller For nearly two decades, Scott Mescudi has held a place in contemporary culture as Kid Cudi, a recording artist whose work recalibrated the emotional register of hip-hop. In […]

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