10 must-see L.A. concerts this holiday season

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This year, the holidays in L.A.offer the gift of live music that will allow us all to excite or escape our out-of-town relatives when they come to the West Coast.

We’ve dug up a little something for everyone — from K-pop fans to alt-rock lovers and R&B/hip-hop nerds.Enjoy our guide to 10 must-see concerts to enjoy from post-Thanksgiving through the top of 2026.The only guide you need for holiday entertainment.Iluka, Moroccan Lounge, Dec.

4This Aussie expat to L.A.has found a sweet spot of desert-country twang, exuberantly melodic songwriting and rock sass that pairs well with her witchy, suffer-no-fools feminism ( “Crucify Me” has this banger of a chorus: “You love to crucify me / But I’m way too hot to die”).

Her new piano-brooder of a single, “Hard to Love Me,” hits right in the Adele-shaped hole in pop balladry right now.This release show for her album “The Wild, the Innocent and the Raging” — funny Springsteen riff, that — could be the start of something much bigger.

— August BrownKIIS-FM Jingle Ball, Intuit Dome, Dec.5The Top 40 radio station’s annual holiday concert features plenty of the year’s big hitmakers, including Alex Warren, Audrey Hobert, Jessie Murph, Reneé Rapp, Leon Thomas and Zara Larsson.

But the real draw is probably a rare appearance by Ejae, Audrey Nuna and Rei Ami — better known as the voices behind “Golden,” the chart-topping pop smash from Netflix’s “KPop Demon Hunters” that was just nominated for a Grammy Award for song of the year.Also on the bill: Conan Gray, Feid, Jackson Wang, the Kid Laroi and Sean Paul.

— Mikael WoodBen Folds, Blue Note, Dec.11Fresh off his resignation from the Kennedy Center after, well, all of that, Folds is returning to a more hospitable venue in the new L.A.

outpost of the jazz club Blue Note.Folds released the delightfully titled Christmas album “Sleigher” last yea...