Hopefully your shopping is about done and you can begin to kick back and relax with your feet perched on the old Yulelog. This is a good week to do it, culminating in what is the longest night of the year.

December 21st is the Winter Solstice, so enjoy all that extra time of darkness out on the town beneath the lights. The 21st is also my birthday so if you see me out and about -- buy me a drink. Or three.

December 15th

Dizzy Wright and Rittz co-headline The Winner's Circle tour with special guests EKOH and Whitney Peyton. Tickets for this show at the 1720 are $20.95. Check out this video and review of EKOH we did here at LA on Lock back in 2017.

The Forum in LA hosts The Jonas Brothers along with Bebe Rexha and Jordan McGraw. Tickets start at $42.

December 16th

Sneak off to Santa Monica to hear Inbar Starr play at the Hotel Casa del Mar. Tickets appear to be free for the show but check out the review I did for Inbar’s single “Used To Know You Better” before you go.

The UK’s Lee Brown will be at The Peppermint Club in West Hollywood. Tickets start at $15 with various table service packages also available.

December 17th

Check out Maria Escoda at the Songwriter Happy Hour at Harvelle’s Santa Monica. Free show running from 5:30 to 7:30 with a two drink minimum.

Waterparks will headline with De’Wayne Jackson, and Kitten as the opening acts at the House of Blues in Anaheim. Tickets start at $25.

December 18th

I have been waiting a while to catch Rainne’s live set, so this show at Limerick’s Tavern in DTLA along with Justin Klunk is one to see.

LA’s Shrine Expo Hall will play host to DaBaby and Stunna 4 Vegas with tickets ranging from $39.50 to $49.50.

December 19th

Hit The Cinema Bar in Culver City to catch Down The Hatch and The Nukeproofs rocking out with no cover charge.

Shoreline Mafia with OHGEE$y and Fenix Flexin at The Globe Theatre with tickets running from $20 to $25.

December 20th

Catch Portland rapper, Young Lit Hippy at Ashley’s on Fourth in Long Beach. I was unable to find information on ticket prices so check with the venue.

If you are skipping the holidays altogether and have money to burn, you can splurge on tickets to see My Chemical Romance at the Shrine Expo in LA. Good luck finding a ticket for this show for less than a grand. Yes, that is $1,000. Actually a little more as the cheapest ticket I found was $1,031 via Vivid Seats.

December 21st

Hey, hey it’s my Birthday and I could ring it in down at Saint Rocke in Hermosa Beach with some old fashioned rock and roll as laid down by The Blasters and Rockabilly Queen, Rosie Flores. Tickets for that show would set me back $18, but I’d spend at least double on that drinking Sailor Jerry and Coke unless a bunch of y’all show up to take care of me.

Or I can help take care of others by attending the show at The Observatory in Santa Ana where 100% of all proceeds will be donated to The Last Prisoner Project, a nonprofit granting clemency, expungement and reentry to nonviolent cannabis prisoners. Eric Rachmany headlines with The John Dank Show, and Ted Bowne also performing. Tickets range from $29 to $98.

Get out and enjoy yourself with some live music and if you have shows you’d like to recommend (or a birthday present) hit me on twitter @traviserwin and I will check them out.