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Daily Email - Friday - 10/17/2025

October 17, 2025

Happy spooky szn, San Diego. If your costume isn’t picked and your plans aren’t locked, this email’s gonna save your Halloween soul. Start by entering to win the ultimate Halloween escape: Austin’s Freakend throwdown with Stereolab, Viagra Boys, and Machine Girl. You’ll get VIP, hotel, and flight money. That’s a $1,500 Halloween on our dime. All you have to do is sign up for DoMORE to enter!*

JUST ANNOUNCED

  • Ever screamed your feelings into a snowy void while holding a banjo? Close enough: The Rural Alberta Advantage hits Casbah on 2/7.

  • You were gonna end the year with a bang anyway – might as well let RL Grime handle it. He’s taking over NOVA on 12/31. This dude basically invented Halloween trap and now he’s blessing New Year’s too? Yep.

  • Calling all dancing queens (and kings and thems): Gimme Gimme Disco is landing at House of Blues on 11/28. This ABBA-inspired party sells out in every city it touches. And yes, you will lose your voice to “Super Trouper.”

  • The Get Up Kids frontman, Matt Pryor, is going solo at Soda Bar on 2/27. Expect tears, beer, and at least one dude whisper-yelling “HOLIDAY” with his whole chest.

  • Plus, other just-announced shows from Goldfish, City Of The Sun, Dry Cleaning, YHWH Nailgun, Starcrawler, Plague Vendor, and more!

HOW TO DO HALLOWEEN IN SAN DIEGO

Photo: @hauntedtrailbp

Want to make your Halloween actually slap this year? Click through for our full San Diego Halloween guide: from rooftop parties to jump-scare walk-throughs, weird bar crawls to cute pumpkin patches. This list is scary good. (Sorry, had to.)

ON HALLOWEEN NIGHT

🎃 Nightmare on Normal 2025

Halloween @ University Ave (5PM)

No Halloween plans? Fix it. Nightmare on Normal is San Diego’s go-to for freaky fun: a costume contest with real prizes, DJs you’ll actually dance to, and enough wild outfits to make your camera roll illegal. It’s one hell of a ride.

🪦 Graveyard Festival

Halloween @ Lane Field Park (3PM)

If you’re not afraid of losing your soul (or your voice), the Graveyard Festival is calling. Think massive stages rising out of the darkness, otherworldly art, and 50+ DJs summoning the night with bone-rattling bass. Bring your weirdest self.

🕸️ The Creepy Creeps, Mistress 77, Wild Wild Wets, Scary Pierre

Halloween @ Casbah (8:30PM)

Need something loud, local, and lovingly deranged? This night of punk and garage chaos features The Creepy Creeps and friends thrashing through Halloween like it owes them money. Costumes encouraged. Duh!

👻 San Diego Halloween Film Fest

Halloween @ Cinema Under The Stars (7PM)

Your Netflix queue could never. The San Diego Halloween Film Fest is serving a lineup of cult flicks, indie horror, and spine-tingling shorts you won’t see anywhere else. Show up in costume. You might even meet your next haunted situationship in the popcorn line.

🕷️ Galantis

Halloween @ NOVA (10PM)

What’s better than a Galantis show? A Halloween blowout with full production, wall-to-wall crowd energy, and setlists built to leave you drained in the best way. You’re not just going out – you’re clocking in.

LOCALS ONLY

  • $7,500 in costume prizes, a stacked dance floor, and just enough chaos to keep things interesting – Boo Bash is your Halloween night move.

  • Looking for something wholesome tonight? Lakeside’s Halloween Festival has hawk demos, followed by crafts, games, and costumes till 7pm. Easy win for the whole fam.

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  • Jazz Funk Band @ Brick By Brick

  • Rock Choir @ The Magnolia

  • Country Bluegrass Show @ Quartyard

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Haunt you later, freaks.