International Pop Overthrow (or IPO, as it has affectionately become known) is a pop music festival which has been held for twenty-two straight years in Los Angeles. We have also held IPO for various years in Chicago, New York, Boston, San Francisco, Phoenix, Detroit, Atlanta, Portland, Nashville, Austin; Vancouver and Toronto, Canada; Stockholm, Sweden; as well as in Liverpool (at the world famous Cavern Club), and London, UK!  We even did a special limited edition IPO in Tel Aviv in 2017!

Due to an over-abundance of caution and to do our part in stemming the spread of the worldwide COVID-19 pandemic, and with a great deal of sadness, we had to forgo our entire 2020 season, which would have marked our 23rd straight year in LA, our 18th in Liverpool, and our 6th year in Stockholm.

We are therefore super excited to announce that we have (slowly, carefully, and safely) begun to hold the festival again, starting with 4 cities in late 2021, and have continued to do so throughout the past three years. Our first stop post-Covid was in Arlington, Texas; at each of our post-Covid stops, the warmth of the response to the festival’s return has been overwhelming, particularly at our triumphant return to Liverpool and The World Famous Cavern Club and Cavern Pub, where we just celebrated our 20th year of doing IPO there in May of 2024!

Our 2024 season also included our 25th IPO in LA (where the festival first began), and we look forward to many more great IPOs!! We hope you will join us, as it continues to become safer to do so.