Noise Pollution open their AC/DC run at House of Blues Anaheim

The San Diego tribute band plays the first of six listed dates in its most-played market on Friday, Nov. 13.

For a band that plays Orange County more than anywhere else in our records, Friday, Nov. 13, at House of Blues Anaheim is close to a home game. It also opens the run: it's the first of six dates we have listed for Noise Pollution between now and January.

The show: Noise Pollution: The Music of AC/DC at House of Blues, Anaheim, Friday, Nov. 13, 2026, 6:30 p.m. Tickets through Ticketmaster, where the night is billed as Noise Pollution: The AC/DC Experience. House of Blues holds 2,200.

Noise Pollution is a San Diego-based AC/DC tribute, and its pitch is completeness. The show covers both the Bon Scott and Brian Johnson eras, so you don't have to pick a side. The band bills itself as the most authentic AC/DC tribute touring the nation. That's promotional language, but the band has spent years backing it up on the road.

They marked a 10th-anniversary tour in 2025 with stops as far from home as New Ulm, Minnesota. This year's calendar has taken them to Sand Hollow Resort in Utah and the Radio Room in Greenville, South Carolina. Recent listings name Syd Ross on vocals and Nick Torri on lead guitar. Older listings show a different lineup, which is normal for a band that has been doing this for a decade.

After Anaheim, the run heads to Seattle on Nov. 20 and Louisville on Dec. 4, then picks back up in January with Tempe on Jan. 9, Wichita on Jan. 16 and Huntsville on Jan. 23.

AC/DC songs look simple on paper. Making them hit is the hard part.

That's the real test of a tribute night, and it's why a band like this either works or doesn't. The riffs are famous enough that everyone in the room knows when one is off. The singing is a full-throttle job from the first song to the last. The swagger can't be faked. A tribute act that has kept touring for more than ten years has, at minimum, convinced a lot of rooms full of AC/DC fans that it gets those things right.

There's also the setlist question every AC/DC fan argues about: Bon Scott or Brian Johnson. A band that plays both eras takes that argument off the table and lets the night run through the whole catalog.

House of Blues is a good size for it. At 2,200, it's big enough to feel like a rock show and small enough that you're not watching a speck on a stage. An AC/DC catalog in a room this size is exactly the kind of Friday that sounds better with friends who will shout the chorus of every song.

The 6:30 p.m. listing means an early start, so you can go straight from work or make a full night of it. If you've ever wished you'd seen these songs in a club instead of a stadium, this is the next best thing. Turn it up.

Sources: Noise Pollution – Tribute to AC/DC, San Diego (MZ Tribute Bands) (mztributebands.com); Noise Pollution media page (MZ / Overture) (mz.overturehq.com); Noise Pollution at The Liberty Theater (Ticket Tailor) (tickettailor.com); AC/DC tribute band Noise Pollution comes to State Street Theater (New Ulm Journal) (nujournal.com); Noise Pollution – The AC/DC Experience (Sand Hollow Resort) (sandhollowresort.com); Noise Pollution: The AC/DC Experience (Radio Room Greenville) (radioroomgreenville.com); Ticketmaster – Noise Pollution: The AC/DC Experience, Anaheim (ticketmaster.evyy.net)