WORSHIP Take Drum n Bass to the Arenas: LA's Kia Forum Is Oct 23

Four of UK drum n bass' biggest names are about to play rooms this music has never headlined before.

WORSHIP, the collective of Sub Focus, Dimension, Culture Shock and 1991, is in the middle of a six-date North American arena run. It started October 9 at Factory Town in Miami, with a New York date at Brooklyn Storehouse on October 17. It's the group's fourth trip around the continent, after tours in 2020, 2023 and 2024.

The dates that matter for us

Los Angeles gets the Kia Forum on Friday, October 23. Vancouver follows at the PNE Forum on October 24. The run picks back up in Denver at CoBank Arena on November 12 and closes out the North American dates at San Francisco's Bill Graham Civic Auditorium on November 14. WORSHIP are set to be the first drum n bass act to headline the Kia Forum, Bill Graham Civic Auditorium, the PNE Forum and CoBank Arena.

How we got here

The arena run follows a big stretch: sets at Coachella and Ultra Music Festival this spring, and last year a sold-out Red Rocks Amphitheatre show where WORSHIP became the first drum n bass act to headline the venue. Here is the Red Rocks set:

The group also released a documentary, WORSHIP: MISSION AMERICA, about the push to bring the sound to bigger American rooms.

New to drum n bass?

Drum n Bass is fast, bass-heavy, breakbeat-driven music, usually somewhere around 170 to 180 BPM, that grew out of the UK jungle and rave scene in the early '90s. WORSHIP pulls together four producers and DJs who each built their own names before teaming up.

For anyone who has been in the room for the grassroots side of this music in the States, from warehouse nights to a Wednesday at your local bar, this is a milestone. The scene that was built one small room at a time is now selling arenas. Support your local night too. That is where the next arena headliner is playing right now.

Sources: Beatportal, EDM.com, We Rave You, WORSHIP official site