Boo! Did I scare ya? Spooky season has descended, so cleanse your palate from all those horror movies with some local indie rockers, a Stranger Things actor turned savvy songwriter (Finn Wolfhard, pictured above), and arena-filling It-girls. Here are this month’s can’t-miss concerts in Vancouver.

As always, head over to Concert Central for more Canadian tour announcements, show listings, recommendations and more.

Beth Orton with Kenny Stahl
Commodore Ballroom, October 4
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Onetime folktronica songwriter Beth Orton has shifted into a more expansive art rock sound with her past couple of albums, and she’ll bring this year’s The Ground Above to Vancouver.

The Zolas with cherry pick
The Pearl, October 7, 10
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Prepare to swoon: Vancouver’s own indie rockers the Zolas are celebrating the 10th anniversary of their 2016 album Swooner, and frontman Zach Gray recently told Exclaim! that they’ve also got “a new project recorded together. We’ll never stop.”

Status/Non-Status and By Divine Right with Uptights
Green Auto Body, October 8
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Even though Status/Non-Status and By Divine Right were founded a couple decades apart, these two Ontario indie rock groups still feel like a logical pairing.

Dumb Crush with Haleluya Hailu
The Cobalt, October 19
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Dumb Crush are absolute crushers live, and Vancouverites will have a chance to learn why Toronto crowds are dumbstruck by this post-punk trio.

Finn Wolfhard
Commodore Ballroom, October 20
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One of the best actor-turned-musicians anywhere, Strangers Things kid Finn Wolfhard is all grown up and on the cover of Exclaim! as he releases the stellar power pop album Fire from the Hip.

This Is Lorelei with Colin Miller
Hollywood Theatre, October 20
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“Just being in front of people with Water from Your Eyes, I just get to kind of chill out and stare at the ground and do cool guitar stuff. [With] Lorelei, I have to go up in front of the class and read my diary,” Nat Amos recently told Exclaim! Come hear a few pages from said diary!

Phoebe Bridgers with Alex G
Rogers Arena, October 24
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After a couple of quiet years, Pheobe Bridgers is absolutely everywhere right now. She’s in her first movie, her new album rules, and her Vancouver show is sure to be one of the music events of the month. 

Julia Jacklin with Jordan Patterson
Commodore Ballroom, October 27
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“Existence is super weird, and that’s why I love making music, because you get to make something that’s strange, these sounds, as a way to try to pin down the experience of being alive. That’s why you keep making music: because you’ll never achieve that,” Julia Jacklin told us of her new album The Gem. Come see her continue to chance the unknowable.

Begonia
Hollywood Theatre, October 28
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With magnetic stage presence and an even more commanding voice, Winnipeg’s Alexa Dirks will welcome Vancouver into her Fantasy Life.

beabadoobee with Wisp
Rogers Arena, October 28
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Spark up a baby doobie and vibe out to beabadoobee’s grungy pop tunes.