The Getty Center in Los Angeles is primed and ready for its annual summer concert series that takes place during select Saturday evenings on museum grounds.
The Off the 405 concert series welcomes museum guests and concertgoers the opportunity to tour the grounds, view exhibits and listen to a special DJ set in the courtyard before the main event kicks off in the evening.
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This year’s featured performers include New York-born poet Aja Monet, punk rock triad Hunx and His Punx, K-Pop band Leenalchi, experimental rock band Horse Lords, and critically acclaimed electronic artist Laurel Halo.
The collection of diverse and eclectic performers was an intentional decision made by Getty, as the program directors sought out “artists pushing at the edges of their forms.”
“…whether through poetry, reimagined cultural traditions, subversive camp, or structurally and sonically complex compositions,” said Sarah Cooper, performance programs specialist at Getty. “Together, they reflect Los Angeles as a city shaped by multiple diasporas and creative lineages, where experimental approaches to sound sit alongside bold reinterpretations of popular genres.”
What to know about the summer concert series at the Getty Center
These Saturday shows align with special late-night hours at the museum, in which the facility is open until 9 p.m.; Parking is also free at the Getty Center for those arriving after 6 p.m., although carpooling is still heavily encouraged. Concertgoers are also encouraged to bring a warm jacket or a blanket for those late-night shows.
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In addition to the usual food and drink fare available in the museum’s courtyard, the newly opened Trellis Bar & Lounge will be open with specialty food and cocktails for purchase.
While tickets for the concerts themselves are free, reservations are required. Getty Center officials said tickets will become available about three weeks before each concert and can be reserved online. Release dates for the tickets are available on the Getty’s online calendar.
Click here for a preview of each upcoming performance courtesy of the Getty Center.
“Off the 405” Lineup
Saturday, May 30 — aja monet
Brooklyn-born and Los Angeles-based, aja monet is a celebrated surrealist blues poet, vocalist, composer and a storyteller whose work dissolves the boundary between language and sound, transforming poetry into a fully realized musical experience. Returning with her first new music in three years, and arriving days after her Carnegie Hall debut, monet opens the 2026 “Off the 405” season with a performance grounded in musicianship and language for an evening that foregrounds voice, ensemble and the expansive possibilities of poetry in concert.
Saturday, June 13 — Hunx and His Punx
Hunx and His Punx are ecstatic campy fun, laced with a bite. The trio—Seth Bogart, Shannon Shaw (of Shannon & The Clams), and Erin Emslie—helped define a strain of early-2000s queer garage punk that’s as indebted to analog retro-trash aesthetics and girl-group harmonies as to riot grrrl and DIY noise. Their command of dark humor does the best any of us can in a weird, wild, heavy world—only with sharper hooks and better eyeliner. After more than a decade-long hiatus, Hunx and His Punx released the album “Walked Out on the World and Lived to Tell the Tale,” a jubilant celebration of chaotic glam and tender depravity.
Saturday, July 11 — LEENALCHI
LEENALCHI is a seven-piece band from Seoul drawing on pansori, Korea’s centuries-old tradition of musical folk storytelling, and channeling it through bass-driven grooves that might just as easily recall the Talking Heads. Their lineup is as singular as their sound: three singers, two bassists, drums, and keys—notably, no guitar. After winning multiple Korean Music Awards, LEENALCHI now take a major step onto the world stage with a new record forthcoming on Luaka Bop, the influential label founded by David Byrne known for championing eclectic, boundary-crossing music.
Saturday, July 25 — Horse Lords
Horse Lords are a Baltimore-born quartet whose music sits at the intersection of experimental minimalism, post-punk, and tightly wound rhythmic systems. Built from interlocking patterns, shifting meters, microtonal and just intonation, their sound advances with a structural clarity that feels architectural. The band has developed a distinctive approach in which guitars, saxophone, bass, and percussion operate less as solo voices than as parts of a larger rhythmic engine. Repetition becomes propulsion, as tightly calibrated patterns gradually shift and realign.
Saturday, Aug. 22 — Laurel Halo
Laurel Halo is a Detroit-born electronic composer, producer, and musician now based in Los Angeles. Her work draws from techno, ambient music, and musique concrète, often incorporating piano, synthesis, and field recordings into layered, exploratory structures. Across albums, DJ sets, and commissioned works, Halo has become known for treating electronic music less as genre than as a flexible compositional system. The music shifts easily between pulse and atmosphere while maintaining a distinct sense of structure and restraint.
The annual Off the 405 concert series has been taking place in various forms at the Getty Center since 2009. The 2026 concert series could potentially be the last before the Getty Center closes to the public in March 2027 for a yearlong rehab—its first major renovation project since the museum opened nearly 30 years ago.
The Getty Villa located in Pacific Palisades will remain open during the closure.
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