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The 63 Most Anticipated Tours of 2024

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As festival season winds back around, the summer tour schedule is ramping up too, from superstars huge enough to move in their own orbit to bedroom-pop tinkerers dragged begrudgingly from their laptops and into outdoor mode. Among the headline names are Missy Elliott, who is heading out on her first-ever North American tour with Ciara, Busta Rhymes, and Timbaland in tow. There’s an indie extravaganza from Pixies, Modest Mouse, and Cat Power; the poetically pleasing joint tour from Alanis Morissette and Joan Jett; Bob Dylan’s final year of Rough & Rowdy Ways dates; and Adele’s belated conclusion of her Vegas residency (before she moves the operation to that other locus of showbiz opulence: suburban Munich). You can also catch Dead & Company for the last time ever—no, really this time—at the Las Vegas Sphere, plus Adrianne Lenker, Alvvays, Mitski, Janet Jackson, St. Vincent, Megan Thee Stallion, and dozens more—dive in below.

Adele is finally winding down her Las Vegas residency after a lengthy tenure that has, by her own admission, brought the concert-shy Tottenham superstar out of her shell. “This residency, these shows have changed my life. I desperately needed to fall back in love with performing live again, and I have,” she said in the announcement. “It’s just made me realize how much I really enjoy being on stage, that I’m bloody good at it and that it is 100% where I belong! So let’s go one last time before I turn into a showgirl forever!”

–Jazz Monroe

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Adele: Weekends With Adele

Adrianne Lenker

Big Thief leader Adrianna Lenker will embark on a tour to support her latest solo album, Bright Future , this summer. Following a performance at Knoxville at the Big Ears Festival this month, the dates kick off in Dublin and will take Lenker through Europe and North America, including stops in Los Angeles, Portland, Chicago, Boston, and more. The summer and fall tour will see opening performances from Ellie O’Neill, Twain, Steve Fisher, and Suzanne Vallie, plus Nick Hakim, who co-produced Bright Future .

–Eric Torres

Adrianne Lenker: Summer and Fall 2024 U.S. Tour

Alanis Morissette

Alanis Morissette will spend the summer touring North America with noteworthy companions Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and country singer Morgan Wade. The Triple Moon Tour begins in June in Phoenix, Arizona, and wraps up with a final show in August in Inglewood, California. Morissette is also the Sunday night headliner of Pitchfork Music Festival 2024 , on July 21, at Chicago’s Union Park.

–Boutayna Chokrane

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Before heading to Europe for the summer, Alvvays will spend the spring touring the United States. A second U.S. leg follows in August, and they’ll be accompanied by Auckland band the Beths . Their final show, featuring Mitski , will take place at Merriweather Post Pavilion, on August 31.

Alvvays: US Spring Tour 2024

Amen Dunes will follow his July 19 performance at Chicago’s Pitchfork Music Festival with summer concerts in the United States and Canada. He’ll be playing the shows in support of new album Death Jokes .

–Matthew Strauss

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Angel Olsen

In September, Angel Olsen will play solo shows in smaller American cities. She’ll also be playing deep cuts from her catalog that might not get as much shine at live shows. Joining Olsen for support on the Songs From the Archive Tour are Maxim Ludwig, Runo Plum, Kyle Ryan, and Greg Mendez.

Angel Olsen: Songs From the Archive Tour

Turns out 2022’s El Último Tour del Mundo wasn’t actually Bad Bunny’s last world tour. The Puerto Rican superstar is back on the road for the Most Wanted North American tour, in support of his October 2023 album, Nadie Sabe Lo Que Va a Pasar Mañana . The run began in February in Salt Lake City and concludes in May with three consecutive nights at Miami’s Kaseya Center. So far, the four-act show has surprised fans with guest artists like Young Miko, Bryant Myers, and Mora.

Bad Bunny: Most Wanted Tour

Belle and Sebastian

Belle and Sebastian had been due to tour shortly after releasing Late Developers in early 2023, but canceled when bandleader Stuart Murdoch ran into health issues . The rescheduled dates are now in the diary, with shows up and down North America supported by Haley Heynderickx or the Weather Station.

Belle and Sebastian: North American Tour Spring 2024

Bikini Kill

Punk icons Bikini Kill will hit the road starting this summer for a North American tour. It will follow the release of lead singer Kathleen Hanna’s memoir, Rebel Girl: My Life as a Feminist Punk , which hits shelves in May. The tour begins in Los Angeles this August and includes stops in San Francisco, Toronto, Brooklyn, and more, with support from Comet Gain, Big Joanie, Tropical Fuck Storm, Snoozers, and R.Aggs.

Bikini Kill: N America 2024 Tour

Since announcing his Madison Square Garden residency in December 2013, Billy Joel has kept it a steady engagement, only taking off 18 months for the pandemic. This year marks the end of Joel’s franchise with the venue, concluding with his 150th show on July 25. While the residency is coming to a close, Joel has no plans to retire, heading off to Cardiff for his one European show this year with Chris Isaak , followed by a series of U.S. shows with legends Sting and Rod Stewart . For one night only, he will also be joined by Stevie Nicks at Chicago’s Soldier Field on June 21.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse Set for Eddie Vedder’s Ohana Festival 2024

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Tyler, the Creator, the Killers, Sturgill Simpson, Post Malone, and More Performing at Outside Lands 2024

Jack Antonoff was busy in 2023—getting married and producing albums from Lana Del Rey and Taylor Swift —and he’s showed no signs of slowing down for 2024. His band, Bleachers , released a self-titled album in March, and he also produced the soundtrack for the first season of Apple TV+’s The New Look . And, after performing both weekends at the 2024 Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival , he and Bleachers will tour the country with Samia as an opener, perform at the Summer Sonic festival in Tokyo and Osaka, then head to Europe for a series of shows—before closing out the year with a soldout show in Madison Square Garden on October 4.

Bleachers: From the Studio to the Stage poster

The biggest pop-punk reunion of last year is ready to keep the momentum going into 2024. Blink-182 ’s classic trio—Mark Hoppus, Travis Barker, and Tom DeLonge—will bring One More Time... , their first new album together since 2011’s Neighborhoods , to the live stage for an extensive world tour . After kicking things off last month in Australia, Blink-182 will continue making their way across the globe, playing in South America, North America, and Europe nearly every month until the fall. Opening select shows are Rise Against, Pierce the Veil, Alexisonfire, and the Story So Far. Expect foul-mouthed banter, heavy nostalgia, and one massive reminder not to take yourself too seriously.

–Nina Corcoran

Blink-182: One More Time Tour

Bob Dylan was 80 when he started to tour behind 2020’s Rough and Rowdy Ways . Now 82, the revered bard is still celebrating his latest studio album with shows around the globe. With his latest round of dates spanning this spring, Dylan has been billing 2024 as the final year of the trek. And, in June, he will also accompany Willie Nelson & Family for their Outlaw Music Festival Tour ; the three-month run, which concludes on September 17 in Buffalo’s Darien Lake Amphitheater, will feature additional notable guests like Robert Plant & Alison Krauss , John Mellencamp , and Celisse.

Bob Dylan Tour poster

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band

The Boss and his band are back on the open road, with the peptic ulcer disease that forced him to postpone several 2023 dates in the rearview mirror. Having returned in March, Springsteen brought the formidable show across the United States all spring—with dates including two headline shows at London’s Wembley Stadium—before dipping into Europe and concluding with more North American stops later in the year.

Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band 2024 Tour

Built to Spill

Built to Spill released their influential second studio album, There’s Nothing Wrong With Love , back in 1994. To celebrate the indie-rock touchstone’s 30th anniversary this year, the band will perform it in full on a series of dates starting this summer through the fall. The dates begin in Boise—where Built to Spill originally formed—and will take the trio through Portland, Chicago, New York, and more major cities before wrapping up in Sacramento in September. The group will be joined by John McMahon, who tracked cello on the original recording of There’s Nothing Wrong With Love .

Built to Spill tour art

Charli XCX / Troye Sivan

Charli XCX and Troye Sivan famously have two big songs together, “ 1999 ” and “ 2099 ,” and they’re adding to their collaborative history with a joint tour called Charli XCX & Troye Sivan Present: Sweat Tour. The shows take place across North America in September and October.

Charli XCX & Troye Sivan Present: Sweat Tour

Dead & Company

For six weekends this spring, Dead & Company will return to the stage for a set of shows called Dead Forever at the Sphere in Las Vegas, set to feature “never-before-seen visual storytelling” using the venue’s enormous LED screen. The dates follow the band’s purported final tour last year, so this may be the final chance you have to catch the long-standing rock band.

Dead Forever – Live at Sphere

The Decemberists

The Decemberists will hit the road for a lengthy tour in support of their forthcoming ninth album, As It Ever Was, So It Will Be Again . The iconic Pacific Northwest indie rock band’s Peaceable Kingdom tour will see support from Chicago rock group Ratboys as well as Seattle folk group the Head and the Heart. Expect to see performances of songs like the 19-minute prog track “ Joan in the Garden ,” taken from the new LP.

The Decemberists tour poster

Diiv will kick off a North American tour behind their first new album in five years, Frog in Boiling Water , starting this summer. The dates begin in Santa Cruz and will take the rock band through major cities in the United States and Canada, including Seattle, Los Angeles, Philadelphia, Toronto, and more. Various artists are lined up as openers throughout the tour, including Sasami, Horse Jumper of Love, and Trauma Ray.

Diiv: Frog in Boiling Water Tour 2024

Foo Fighters

It’s going to be a busy summer in 2024 for Foo Fighters . Dave Grohl, Nate Mendel, Chris Shiflett, Pat Smear, Rami Jaffee, and new drummer Josh Freese have some May shows lined up in the South before heading to the United Kingdom in June, and, then, in July, they’ll be performing at Poland’s Open’er Festival, Denmark’s Roskilde, and Belgium’s Rock Werchter. It doesn’t end there—for the rest of the summer, they’ll be hitting stadiums and ballparks across the United States, wrapping up in Seattle’s T-Mobile Park on August 18. They’ll be joined by an array of support acts, including Alex G , the Pretenders , Amyl and the Sniffers , L7 , and more. The band’s latest album, But Here We Are , arrived last summer.

Foo Fighters: Everything or Nothing at All Tour

Future / Metro Boomin

Future and Metro Boomin have released two collaborative albums this year— We Don’t Trust You and We Still Don’t Trust You —and they’re going to stick together when they begin the We Trust You Tour in the summer. If you want to catch up on all the hubbub surrounding the tour, read Alphonse Pierre’s article “ A Power Ranking of Everyone in the Drake–Kendrick Lamar–Every Rapper Ever Battle Royale .”

Future & Metro Boomin: We Trust You Tour

When Green Day heads out on tour this year, the band will bring no shortage of support along. Joining the band on a series of European dates kicking off on May 30 in Monte do Gozo, Spain, are the Interrupters, Donots, the Hives , Nothing but Thieves, and Maid of Ace. After that, Green Day will tour North America with support from the Smashing Pumpkins , Rancid , and the Linda Lindas . The U.S. leg wraps up on September 28 in San Diego’s Petco Park, and, then, the band will head to South Africa for two stadium shows, featuring performances from the Offspring and Fokofpolisiekar. Green Day are on the road in support of their latest album Saviors (plus the 30th anniversary of Dookie and the 20th anniversary of American Idiot ).

Green Day: The Saviors Tour

Hotline TNT

Since October of last year, Brooklyn-based shoegazers Hotline TNT have been on the road in promotion of their album, Cartwheel . With the North American leg now behind them, they’re now gearing up for a European tour, which will conclude in August. Fans in Spain can anticipate three shows alongside Barcelona’s very own Heal. The band is also scheduled to perform at both the Governors Ball Music Festival in New York and Pitchfork Music Festival in Chicago.

Hotline TNT tour poster

Idles have so many shows in support of new album Tangk . Fresh off their European stint in March, the band is gearing up for their North American shows this May. June brings Idles back to Europe for a couple of performances before they return to the United States for September. But it doesn’t end there—catch Idles touring Mexico and Europe (again) to cap off 2024 before they kick off the new year with shows in New Zealand, Australia, and Japan.

Idles: World ’24 Tour

Iron & Wine

Iron & Wine’s Sam Beam has planned an extensive summer tour behind his upcoming album, Light Verse , the indie-folk artist’s first LP since 2017, which features contributions from Fiona Apple, keyboardist Tyler Chester, bassist Sebastian Steinberg, guitarist David Garza, violinist Paul Cartwright, and percussionists Griffin Goldsmith, Beth Goodfellow, and Kyle Crane. The set of dates starts in June in Milwaukee and will take Beam through North America, with two nights in Portland and Los Angeles and further stops in Chicago, Washington, D.C., New York, and more.

Iron & Wine: Light Verse 2024 Tour

Janet Jackson

Last year, Janet Jackson began her career-spanning Together Again Tour with opener Ludacris; now, the legendary pop star has enlisted Nelly to open the upcoming leg. Following a three-night opening run in Hawaii and a few dates in Japan and the Philippines, Jackson will then travel across North America through June and July, bringing her timeless pop-R&B and tenacious dance routines to cities like Chicago, Brooklyn, New Orleans, Toronto, and many more.

Janet Jackson: Together Again Summer 2024 Tour

Jennifer Lopez

If her latest album This Is Me…Now , movie musical This Is Me…Now: A Love Story , and documentary The Greatest Love Story Never Told didn’t satisfy your annual dose of Jennifer Lopez , you’re in luck, she’s also going on tour. Returning to the road for the first time since 2019, Lopez kicks off her tour in June in Orlando, closing out in Houston at the end of the summer.

Jennifer Lopez: This Is Me...Now the Tour

French duo Justice are readying Hyperdrama , their first new LP in nearly eight years. After dropping it on April 26, Xavier de Rosnay and Gaspard Augé will continue their current tour , stopping off at cities in Mexico, Spain, France, Portugal, the Netherlands, Switzerland, and Belgium. Their last concert on schedule is the Festival Cabaret Vert in the picturesque French commune of Charleville-Mézières on August 17.

–Madison Bloom

Justice: Live Tour

Justin Timberlake

Justin Timberlake ’s Forget Tomorrow World Tour, his first in five years, kicks off in Vancouver on April 29, wrapping up in Indianapolis on December 16. Coinciding with the tour, Timberlake dropped his sixth solo album, Everything I Thought It Was —his return after 2018’s Man of the Woods .

Justin Timberlake: The Forget Tomorrow World Tour

Kacey Musgraves

Kacey Musgraves kicks off her Deeper Well Tour this spring, hitting Europe with supporting act Madi Diaz . In September, the Texas-born artist begins the three-month U.S. leg in State College, Pennsylvania, concluding with two-nighters in Nashville. The North American shows will feature support acts Father John Misty , Lord Huron , and Nickel Creek .

Kacey Musgraves: Deeper Well World Tour

Psych-pop revivalists Khruangbin kicked off their latest tour with a performance at this year’s Coachella in April, and they’ll be trekking across North America and Europe for the rest of the year. The Houston trio, supporting new album A la Sala , has also tapped Hermanos Gutiérrez, John Carroll Kirby, Peter Cat Recording Co., Men I Trust, and Arooj Aftab as openers.

Khruangbin: A la Sala 2024 Tour

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard

The beloved and prolific Australian weirdos King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard are touring a lot this year in support of their latest album, The Silver Chord . After a successful string of March festival dates in South America, the band has dates slated for May with Grace Cummings across the United Kingdom and Europe. Then, the group will head to North America for shows in August, September, and November. Crowds in Forest Hills, New York, on August 17; Chicago, Illinois, on September 1; Quincy, Washington, on September 14; and Austin, Texas, on November 15 are also getting the band’s famous three-hour “marathon shows.”

–Boutayna Chokrane and Evan Minsker

King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard tour poster

LCD Soundsystem

LCD Soundsystem will hit the stage again with a new string of dates they’ve dubbed the Kinda Tour. The James Murphy–led dance-pop outfit will begin the tour in Guadalajara before traveling to Bend, Oregon; Seattle, Washington; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Chicago, Illinois. Later in the summer, LCD Soundsystem will also hit the road in the United Kingdom and Europe for select dates.

LCD Soundsystem: Kinda Tour 2024

After being hospitalized for a severe bacterial infection last year, Madonna made a full recovery, in a turn she has referred to as “ a fucking miracle .” As a result, the pop legend finally kicked off the initial leg of her rescheduled Celebration Tour last October. After a stretch of dates in England and Europe, Madonna brought her career-spanning show to North America, where she continued with dates in Toronto, Detroit, Montreal, New York, Chicago, Seattle, Las Vegas, Inglewood, Houston, Miami, and more until spring. She’s wrapping things up with a batch of concerts in Mexico City, before ending the tour with a free show in Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach on May 4.

Madonna: The Celebration Tour

Maggie Rogers

Singer-songwriter Maggie Rogers will embark on a tour behind her new album, Don’t Forget Me , starting this May with support from indie-pop artist the Japanese House. Starting in Charlotte, North Carolina, Rogers will play songs from the new LP in Cincinnati, Phoenix, San Diego, Milwaukee, and more North American cities. The singer will also hit the Lovin’ Life and Bonnaroo festivals on the way before she joins Coldplay to open a set of dates in Europe in late summer.

Maggie Rogers: The Don’t Forget Me Tour

Maxwell and Jazmine Sullivan are reuniting for a joint tour, following their 2008 run of dates together. The Maxwell-headlining Serenade Tour features opener October London, and gets started in Hollywood, Florida, on September 14. Maxwell and Sullivan will then wind through Tampa, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Atlanta, Nashville, Detroit, Houston, New Orleans, Oakland, and more, before wrapping up in Inglewood on October 27. The tour follows Maxwell’s Urban Hang Suite Cruise , a four-night ocean cruise that spanned February 10-14 of this year. Maxwell brought Robert Glasper, Ledisi, Gallant, Sabrina Claudio, Musiq Soulchild, and Leela James aboard for that event.

Maxwell: The Serenade Tour

Megan Thee Stallion

Megan Thee Stallion has had a monopoly on “ Hot Girl Summer ” for the past five years; she even trademarked the phrase in 2022. As the weather warms up in May, she’ll kick off the Hot Girl Summer Tour, a two month trek featuring support from Memphis rapper Glorilla . Megan will wind through the Midwest and Northeast before stopping over in cities down South and on the West Coast. After a few gigs in Europe and the United Kingdom, Megan will wrap up the tour in Washington, D.C., on July 27. Hotties welcome.

Megan Thee Stallion: Hot Girl Summer Tour

The crowd who spent a mid-July weekend watching Earl Sweatshirt , Noname , and more perform for free in Brooklyn at MIKE’s Young World festival in 2023 got a front-row seat to the rapper’s caring curation and accessible live experience. This year, MIKE took that energy on the road in support of his most recent solo album, Burning Desire . The Somebody Fine Me Trouble Tour began in Europe last February, before kicking off a U.S. leg in Philadelphia in April. MIKE will close things out with a hometown show at New York’s Webster Hall on May 25.

–Boutayna Chokrane and Hattie Lindert

MIKE: Somebody Fine Me Trouble Tour

Militarie Gun

The hardest working touring band in post-hardcore is dead set on maintaining that title in 2024. Los Angeles’ Militarie Gun started this year on the road for their North American headlining tour and won’t park the van until they’re done with their ever-expanding tour by the fall. They’re bringing Life Under the Gun , their long-awaited debut album, to life at venues and festival stages alike, with performances at Primavera Sound, Bonnaroo, Reading and Leeds, End of the Road, and Aftershock, plus additional music festivals scattered throughout this summer.

Militarie Gun: tour poster

Missy Elliott

For the first time in her long and legendary career, Missy Elliott will embark on a headlining tour of North America . Elliott is taking some friends along with her, including Ciara, Busta Rhymes, and Timbaland. Out of This World — The Missy Elliott Experience will open on July 4 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and then visit Seattle, Oakland, Las Vegas, Denver, Houston, Atlanta, Baltimore, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and more spots, before Elliott closes things out in Rosemont, Illinois, on August 22. Upon announcing the tour, Elliott confessed: “I had to do it big, and I had to do it with family!”

Out of This World — The Missy Elliott Experience

She may not be an outspoken artist online, but, behind the scenes, Mitski is making every word count. While TikTok was busy fawning over “ My Love Mine All Mine ,” Mitski was putting in the work to find a music venue that offers fair merch rates while still booking a place big enough to house her sizable fandom at each stop. The result of her efforts is a North American tour with multiple nights at theaters around the country in support of The Land Is Inhospitable and So Are We . Joining her along the way are openers Tamino, Sunny War, Julia Jacklin, and Sarah Kinsley.

Mitski tour poster

The National / The War on Drugs

On this joint headline jaunt, dubbed the Zen Diagram Tour, the masters of anthemic domesticity and mesmeric heartland synth-rock will traverse North America. The itinerary includes dates at Forest Hills Stadium in Queens, Greek Theatre in Berkeley, and Hollywood Bowl in Los Angeles. Support comes from Lucius , who recently joined Joni Mitchell for her performance of “Both Sides Now” at the 2024 Grammy Awards.

Zen Diagram Tour 2024

Neil Young & Crazy Horse

Neil Young & Crazy Horse are back in the saddle for a string of dates in April and May, supporting their second album in as many years, Fu##in’ Up . “We made this for the Horse lovers,” Young said in announcing the album. “I can’t stop it. The Horse is runnin’. What a ride we have.” Fetch the jodhpurs.

Neil Young & Crazy Horse: Love Earth Tour

Olivia Rodrigo

There are over 75 dates on Olivia Rodrigo ’s Guts World Tour , spanning Europe and North America. Opening for Rodrigo on select dates will be Chappell Roan (who also worked on Guts ), PinkPantheress , and Remi Wolf . The chaperoning parents of younger tri-state area fans are clearly taken into consideration, too, as the Breeders recently supported Rodrigo over four nights at Madison Square Garden. The pop star is also scheduled to perform four consecutive shows at the O2 in London, and will wrap up the blockbuster tour in August with four nights at Inglewood’s Kia Forum.

–Hattie Lindert

Olivia Rodrigo: Guts World Tour

Orville Peck

Country crooner Orville Peck recently released the new single “Cowboys Are Frequently Secretly Fond of Each Other,” a cover and collaboration with Willie Nelson that doubles as the first taste of a forthcoming duets album called Stampede . He’ll bring the new music on the road through North America starting in Asheville this May, with stops in Atlanta, Chicago, Toronto, Kansas City, and more. Peck has recruited various supporting acts to open, including Durand Jones, Jaime Wyatt, Debii Dawson, and others, but you can probably count on a few surprise appearances from artists who feature on Stampede to pop up along the way, too.

Orville Peck: Stampede Tour

When Pearl Jam announced their new album, Dark Matter , along with news of a world tour , it marked a first in the band’s long, storied career. That simultaneous reveal seemed to match the excitement and wild nature of the record itself, or at least its self-titled single. Onstage, while performing new material, cherry-picking classics, and breaking out deep cuts from their extensive catalog, Pearl Jam will bring that enthusiasm to nine countries over the course of the year. The tour begins on May 4 in Vancouver, British Columbia, and will last on through to November 21, where the band ends their long run in Sydney, Australia.

Pearl Jam: Dark Matter World Tour 2024

Peso Pluma is getting ready for a tour of North America with a brand new setlist. Following the Mexican star’s debut tour, the Éxodo Tour backs his 2023 breakout album, Génesis . The run begins in May and concludes in October, with stops in Montreal, Miami, and San Diego. Alongside the tour, he’s set to grace the stages at Chicago’s Sueños Festival, New York’s Governors Ball Music Festival, and Baja Beach Best in Rosarito Beach. –Boutayna Chokrane

Peso Pluma: Éxodo Tour

Pixies / Modest Mouse / Cat Power

The alt-rock gods unite in this triple bill of creature critters, an expansion of the outfits’ joint jaunt last summer. A newly Paz Lenchantin–less Pixies headline alongside Modest Mouse, with Chan Marshall’s Cat Power supporting. Reports from the first run suggest this is firmly cemented as a fan-pleasing legacy tour, and with nearly two dozen dates in the diary, they’ll have plenty of fans to please.

Pixies and Modest Mouse With Cat Power poster

PJ Harvey is pulling out all the stops for her first North American tour in seven years. She worked with theater director Ian Rickson and a crack team of designers for the new dates behind I Inside the Old Year Dying , enlisting a band of John Parish, Jean-Marc Butty, Giovanni Ferrario, and James Johnston. The run includes two nights apiece at New York’s Terminal 5 and the San Francisco Masonic, as well as concluding stop at the Greek Theatre in Los Angeles.

PJ Harvey: North American Tour 2024

The Postal Service / Death Cab for Cutie

Continuing their joint-headline tour, the Postal Service and Death Cab for Cutie are hitting the road in April, gracing stages across North America until May. Fans can catch select performances featuring Chicago indie rock band Slow Pulp . In August, the tour crosses over to Europe for a couple of shows, with supporting acts from Teenage Fanclub and the Kills . Plus, the Postal Service are expected to headline Pasadena’s Just Like Heaven Festival on May 18, playing 2003’s Give Up in its entirety. Death Cab celebrates their 20th anniversary of Transatlanticism with a full set at the festival, too.

The Postal Service & Death Cab for Cutie

Red Hot Chili Peppers

The shows Red Hot Chili Peppers have planned for 2024 include a diverse and long list of support. After their two May shows at the Tokyo Dome, the Red Hot Chili Peppers have lined up Kid Cudi , Ice Cube , Ken Carson , Otoboke Beaver , Seun Kuti , Wand , and Irontom to join them on select dates in North America. The band, who’s also headlining the Bonnaroo Music & Arts Festival on June 15, will close out a two-month run at Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre in St. Louis, Missouri, on July 30.

Red Hot Chili Peppers: Unlimited Love Tour 2024

Robert Plant / Alison Krauss

Robert Plant and Alison Krauss return to North America for the Can’t Let Go Tour, starting with a centennial celebration at Cain’s Ballroom in Tulsa, Oklahoma. Playing in amphitheaters, pavilions, opera houses, and other august venues, the duo will be joined by a band including JD McPherson—who also supports the dates—drummer Jay Bellerose, bassist Dennis Crouch, string musician Stuart Duncan, and Viktor Krauss on keys and guitar.

Can’t Let Go Tour 2024

The Rolling Stones

Forget about what you thought of Hackney Diamonds for a second: Do you want to go see the Rolling Stones play a stadium somewhere in North America? If you do, their upcoming dates from late April to mid-July have you covered. Among their plans are back-to-back shows at New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium, two nights at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium, and also a headlining spot at this year’s New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival. Will any special guests show up at these shows? Who knows, but the band did play a surprise release show with Lady Gaga last year, so anything can happen.

–Evan Minsker

The Rolling Stones: Stones Tour ’24 Hackney Diamonds

Shakira is gearing up for her Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour. The North American leg begins in November and stretches into December. Given the tour’s title, expect international dates behind Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran .

Shakira: Las Mujeres Ya No Lloran World Tour

Shoegaze quintet Slowdive are currently on tour behind their latest album, 2023’s Everything Is Alive . The UK band will continue to take the stage in support of the album across the United States until the end of May, with stops in Louisville, Dallas, New Orleans, and more cities along the way before wrapping up in Asheville.

Slowdive: 2024 North American Tour

St. Vincent

Following the release of her new album, All Born Screaming , St. Vincent will hit the road for a North American tour. Commencing on May 22 in Ventura, California, Annie Clark will course through cities in Canada and the Pacific Northwest before hitting denser locals like Los Angeles, Boston, Brooklyn, and Washington, D.C. Her final show on the trek will take place in Saint Paul, Minnesota, on September 20. Clark will be joined by Yves Tumor, Spoon, Eartheater, Momma, and Dorian Electra on select dates.

St. Vincent: All Born Screaming Tour

Stevie Nicks

Stevie Nicks’ upcoming tour dates kick off with a set at Lovin’ Life Music Festival in May, and it follows the Fleetwood Mac frontwoman’s previous run spanning the end of 2023 through earlier this year. Nicks will continue through various U.S. cities this summer, with shows lined up in Nashville, San Antonio, Denver, Indianapolis, and more. Plus, she has a special performance at Soldier Field in Chicago alongside Billy Joel in June.

Stevie Nicks: Live in Concert

Taylor Swift

The hottest concert ticket of 2023—subject of the biggest concert film of all time—continues its reign throughout 2024. Taylor Swift ’s Eras Tour is crisscrossing the globe. After spending February in Japan and Australia, and March in Singapore, the pop star is taking five before she heads to Europe and the United Kingdom from May to August, with supporting act Paramore . The shows return to North America from October until December, joined by Gracie Abrams, and with multiple dates in Miami Gardens, Indianapolis, and Toronto. If you’ve read through this paragraph, you might have noticed: that’s most of the months!

Taylor Swift | The Eras Tour

After the release of her latest album, What an Enormous Room , Mackenzie Scott spent January to April on the road. Torres started the year with January dates across the United States with Aisha Burns. For the first two weeks of February, she was in Europe and the United Kingdom for a bunch of shows and then returned to the United States in late March for shows alongside Liza Anne. The indie rock singer-songwriter has a couple of shows planned for July featuring supporting acts from Lindsay Lou and Fruit Bats .

Torres: 2024 Tour

After a successful two-year residency in Las Vegas, Usher gears up for a nationwide tour, celebrating his 30-year career. The Past Present Future Tour begins in August in Washington, D.C., spanning 24 cities including Dallas, Atlanta, and Vancouver. Fans can anticipate a tour through Usher’s discography, mixed with tracks from his latest album, Coming Home .

Usher: Past Present Future Tour

Waxahatchee

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Heart — the pioneering band that melds Nancy Wilson’s shredding guitar with her sister Ann’s powerhouse vocals — is hitting the road this spring for a world tour that Nancy Wilson describes as “the full-on rocker size.”

NEW YORK -- Heart — the pioneering band that melds Nancy Wilson’s shredding guitar with her sister Ann’s powerhouse vocals — is hitting the road this spring and fall for a world tour that Nancy Wilson describes as “the full-on rocker size.”

“I’ve been strengthening. I’ve got my trainer,” she says. “You go one day at a time and you strengthen one workout session at a time. It’s a lot of work, but it’s the only job I know how to do.”

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers who gave us classic tracks like “Magic Man,” “Crazy on You” and “Alone” will be playing all the hits, some tracks from of their solo albums — like Ann Wilson's “Miss One and Only” and Nancy Wilson's “Love Mistake” — and a new song called “Roll the Dice.”

“I like to say we have really good problems because the problem we have is to choose between a bunch of different, really cool songs that people love already,” says Nancy Wilson.

Like “Barracuda,” a sonic burst which first appeared on the band’s second album, “Little Queen” and is one of the band’s most memorable songs.

“You can’t mess with ‘Barracuda.’ It’s just the way it is. It is great. You get on the horse and you ride. It’s a galloping steed of a ride to go on. And for everybody, including the band."

The tour kicks off Saturday at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, South Carolina, and will hit cities including Atlanta, Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Detroit, as well as the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado. International dates include stops in London, Oslo, Berlin, Stockholm, Montreal and Glasgow.

The band's Royal Flush Tour will have Cheap Trick as the opening act for many stops, but Def Leppard and Journey will join for three stadium dates in Cleveland, Toronto and Boston this summer.

Ann and Nancy Wilson will be filled out by Ryan Wariner (lead and rhythm guitar), Ryan Waters (guitars), Paul Moak (guitars, keyboards and backing vocals), Tony Lucido (bass and backing vocals) and Sean T. Lane (drums).

The tour is the first in several years for Heart, which was rocked by a body blow in 2016 when Ann Wilson’s husband was arrested for assaulting Nancy’s 16-year-old twin sons. Nancy Wilson says that's all in the past.

“We can take any kind of turbulence, me and Ann, and we’ve always been OK together,” she says. “We’re still steering the ship and happy to do it together. So we’re tight.”

The new tour will take them to Canada, which was warm to the band when they were starting out as what Nancy Wilson calls “a couple of chicks from Seattle.” She recalls Vancouver embracing Heart, and touring in one van across Canada in the dead of winter on two lane highways.

The Wilson sisters broke rock's glass ceiling in the '70s and Nancy Wilson says they only had male influences to look to, like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Moody Blues.

Now she says she looks out and loves seeing generations of female rockers. “You have boygenius and you have Billie Eilish and you have Olivia Rodrigo and so many amazing women — Maggie Rogers and Sheryl Crow, who calls us her big influence. And then Billie Eilish might have Sheryl Crow as her influence. So it’s a really nice legacy to pass along. I like to say we’re the OG — the original gangsters — of women and rock.”

Heart has made it into the Rock Hall, won Grammys, sold millions of albums and rocked hundreds of thousands of fans but Nancy Wilson has one place she'd still like to shine.

Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of their debut album, “Dreamboat Annie,” which was the same year that “Saturday Night Live” started. “So we’re actually kind of putting it out there — Heart never played on ‘Saturday Night Live.’ But what about the 50th birthday party with Heart?”

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Iconic 1970s rock band AC/DC are heading on tour in 2024

Rock legends AC/DC have announced a world tour coming this summer , eight years after their last.

Since forming in 1973, the band have recorded some of the greatest rock anthems of all time, including Highway To Hell, Dirty Deeds Done Dirt Cheap and Whole Lotta Rosie.

It’s been nearly a decade since the band’s last proper tour, Rock Or Bust, which they performed in 2015 and 2016.

Now, the band announced their Power Up tour via X, unveiling details of where and when fans can expect to see them play this year.

The rock gods will be taking their latest tour, named after their 2020 album, to a whopping 11 countries across Europe from May to August this year.

Fans will be able to find AC/DC in Germany, Italy, Spain, the Netherlands, Austria, Switzerland, England, Slovakia, Belgium, France and Ireland this summer.

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The line-up will consist of vocalist Brian Johnson, guitarists Angus and Stevie Young, drummer Matt Laug and Chris Chaney on bass.

Chaney will be stepping in for Cliff Williams, who retired in 2016 – aside from his brief return at last year’s Power Trip festival.

The line-up will also be absent founding member Malcolm Young, who died in 2017 and drummer Phil Rudd, who currently lives in New Zealand.

Former frontman Bon Scott died in 1980, while the band’s original drummer, Colin Burgess, died last December .

We are thrilled to finally announce the ‘POWER UP’ European Tour. Angus, Brian, Stevie, and Matt will be joined by Chris Chaney to carry the torch for Cliff. (1/2) pic.twitter.com/VTVMKdweNX — AC/DC (@acdc) February 12, 2024

Exciting news for fans of classic rock – however, some fans were left disappointed at apparently being left out in the cold.

‘Disappointed American fans, where you at,’ commented @ONEWILDNIGHT below the band’s announcement.

‘You’re not touring England. You’re doing London. Do somewhere up north, do Manchester, Leeds, somewhere like that. Also, do Scotland,’ said @TheChrisWray.

AC/DC on their Power Trip tour

‘Scotland is where the band’s heart is at. Why no Scotland?’ asked @Richard56830586.

Formed by Glasgow-born brothers Angus and Malcolm Young – along with fellow Scotsman Bon Scott – the band are often credited among some of the country’s greatest exports.

Emigrating to Australia as children, it was there that the band was founded – although it seems Power Up won’t be performing there either.

They were inducted into the prestigious Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 2003 and placed 73rd in Rolling Stone’s 500 greatest albums of all time with Back In Black.

Tickets for Power Up go on sale February 16 from acdc.com . Those about to rock, we salute you.

AC/DC full 2024 tour dates

17 Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Veltins Arena 21 Gelsenkirchen, Germany, Veltins Arena 25 Reggio Emilia, Italy, RCF Arena 29 Seville, Spain, La Cartuja Stadium

5 Amsterdam, The Netherlands, Johan Cruyff Arena 9 Munich, Germany, Olympic Stadium 12 Munich, Germany, Olympic Stadium 16 Dresden, Germany, Messe 23 Vienna, Austria, Ernst Happel Stadium 26 Vienna, Austria, Ernst Happel Stadium 29 Zurich, Switzerland, Letzigrund Stadium

3 London, England, Wembley Stadium 7 London, England, Wembley Stadium 13 Hockenheim, Germany, Ring 17 Stuttgart, Germany, Wasen 21 Bratislava, Slovakia, Old Airport 27 Nuremberg, Germany, Zeppelinfeld 31 Hannover, Germany, Messe

9 Dessel, Belgium, Festivalpark Stenehei 13 Paris, France, Hippodrome Paris Longchamp 17 Dublin, Ireland, Croke Park

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Rock trailblazer Heart reunites for a world tour and a new song

FILE - Nancy Wilson, left, and Ann Wilson, right, of the band Heart perform as Heart is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the Nokia Theatre on Thursday, April 18, 2013 in Los Angeles. Heart — the pioneering band that melds Nancy Wilson’s shredding guitar with her sister Ann’s powerhouse vocals — is hitting the road this spring for a world tour that Nancy Wilson describes as “the full-on rocker size.” (Photo by Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - Nancy Wilson, left, and Ann Wilson, right, of the band Heart perform as Heart is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the Nokia Theatre on Thursday, April 18, 2013 in Los Angeles. Heart — the pioneering band that melds Nancy Wilson’s shredding guitar with her sister Ann’s powerhouse vocals — is hitting the road this spring for a world tour that Nancy Wilson describes as “the full-on rocker size.” (Photo by Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - Nancy Wilson, left, and Ann Wilson of Heart perform on opening night of the Heartbreaker Tour at the Cruzan Amphitheater in West Palm Beach, Fla., June 17, 2013. Heart — the pioneering band that melds Nancy Wilson’s shredding guitar with her sister Ann’s powerhouse vocals — is hitting the road this spring for a world tour that Nancy Wilson describes as “the full-on rocker size.” (Photo by Jeff Daly/Invision/AP, File)

FILE - Nancy and Ann Wilson of the classic rock band Heart perform in concert at the American Music Theater on Monday, March 24, 2014, in Lancaster, Pa. Heart — the pioneering band that melds Nancy Wilson’s shredding guitar with her sister Ann’s powerhouse vocals — is hitting the road this spring for a world tour that Nancy Wilson describes as “the full-on rocker size.” (Photo by Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP, File)

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NEW YORK (AP) — Heart — the pioneering band that melds Nancy Wilson’s shredding guitar with her sister Ann’s powerhouse vocals — is hitting the road this spring and fall for a world tour that Nancy Wilson describes as “the full-on rocker size.”

“I’ve been strengthening. I’ve got my trainer,” she says. “You go one day at a time and you strengthen one workout session at a time. It’s a lot of work, but it’s the only job I know how to do.”

The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers who gave us classic tracks like “Magic Man,” “Crazy on You” and “Alone” will be playing all the hits, some tracks from of their solo albums — like Ann Wilson’s “Miss One and Only” and Nancy Wilson’s “Love Mistake” — and a new song called “Roll the Dice.”

FILE - Nancy Wilson, left, and Ann Wilson of Heart perform on opening night of the Heartbreaker Tour at the Cruzan Amphitheater in West Palm Beach, Fla., June 17, 2013. Heart — the pioneering band that melds Nancy Wilson’s shredding guitar with her sister Ann’s powerhouse vocals — is hitting the road this spring for a world tour that Nancy Wilson describes as “the full-on rocker size.” (Photo by Jeff Daly/Invision/AP, File)

Nancy Wilson, left, and Ann Wilson perform on opening night of the Heartbreaker Tour in West Palm Beach, Fla., June 17, 2013. (Photo by Jeff Daly/Invision/AP, File)

“I like to say we have really good problems because the problem we have is to choose between a bunch of different, really cool songs that people love already,” says Nancy Wilson.

Like “Barracuda,” a sonic burst which first appeared on the band’s second album, “Little Queen” and is one of the band’s most memorable songs.

“You can’t mess with ‘Barracuda.’ It’s just the way it is. It is great. You get on the horse and you ride. It’s a galloping steed of a ride to go on. And for everybody, including the band.”

The tour kicks off Saturday at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, South Carolina, and will hit cities including Atlanta, Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Detroit, as well as the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado. International dates include stops in London, Oslo, Berlin, Stockholm, Montreal and Glasgow.

The band’s Royal Flush Tour will have Cheap Trick as the opening act for many stops, but Def Leppard and Journey will join for three stadium dates in Cleveland, Toronto and Boston this summer.

Ann and Nancy Wilson will be filled out by Ryan Wariner (lead and rhythm guitar), Ryan Waters (guitars), Paul Moak (guitars, keyboards and backing vocals), Tony Lucido (bass and backing vocals) and Sean T. Lane (drums).

The tour is the first in several years for Heart, which was rocked by a body blow in 2016 when Ann Wilson’s husband was arrested for assaulting Nancy’s 16-year-old twin sons. Nancy Wilson says that’s all in the past.

“We can take any kind of turbulence, me and Ann, and we’ve always been OK together,” she says. “We’re still steering the ship and happy to do it together. So we’re tight.”

The new tour will take them to Canada, which was warm to the band when they were starting out as what Nancy Wilson calls “a couple of chicks from Seattle.” She recalls Vancouver embracing Heart, and touring in one van across Canada in the dead of winter on two lane highways.

FILE - Nancy and Ann Wilson of the classic rock band Heart perform in concert at the American Music Theater on Monday, March 24, 2014, in Lancaster, Pa. Heart — the pioneering band that melds Nancy Wilson’s shredding guitar with her sister Ann’s powerhouse vocals — is hitting the road this spring for a world tour that Nancy Wilson describes as “the full-on rocker size.” (Photo by Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP, File)

The Wilsons at the American Music Theater on Monday, March 24, 2014, in Lancaster, Pa. (Photo by Owen Sweeney/Invision/AP, File)

The Wilson sisters broke rock’s glass ceiling in the ‘70s and Nancy Wilson says they only had male influences to look to, like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Moody Blues.

Now she says she looks out and loves seeing generations of female rockers. “You have boygenius and you have Billie Eilish and you have Olivia Rodrigo and so many amazing women — Maggie Rogers and Sheryl Crow, who calls us her big influence. And then Billie Eilish might have Sheryl Crow as her influence. So it’s a really nice legacy to pass along. I like to say we’re the OG — the original gangsters — of women and rock.”

Heart has made it into the Rock Hall, won Grammys, sold millions of albums and rocked hundreds of thousands of fans but Nancy Wilson has one place she’d still like to shine.

Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of their debut album, “Dreamboat Annie,” which was the same year that “Saturday Night Live” started. “So we’re actually kind of putting it out there — Heart never played on ‘Saturday Night Live.’ But what about the 50th birthday party with Heart?”

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Pearl Jam Announces New Album and 2024 World Tour as Eddie Vedder Declares Band Has Made Its 'Best Work'

Pearl Jam will release its 12th album 'Dark Matter' in April, before a world tour kicks off the following month

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A new Pearl Jam era is in full effect!

On Tuesday, the iconic rock band announced its 12th album Dark Matter , released its title track as the lead single and unveiled dates for a massive world tour kicking off this summer.

Produced by Andrew Watt, the album was crafted last year over a three-week stint at Shangri-La Studios in Malibu, California — and vocalist Eddie Vedder is extremely proud of the project.

"We’re at this time in our lives when you could do it or you could not do it, but we still care about putting something out there that is meaningful and we hopefully think is our best work," said Vedder, 59, during a recent private listening event at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, per a press release. "No hyperbole, I think this is our best work."

Dark Matter was crafted with Watt, Vedder, bass player Jeff Ament, guitarists Stone Gossard and Mike McCready as well as drummer Matt Cameron. According to the band, writing and recording as a unit made for a streamlined creative process, resulting in a special album.

"We felt like we were about to make a really important record," said Ament, 60, at the event. "A lot of that had to do with the atmosphere Andrew set up."

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Watt, 33, a Grammy-winning producer, has become one of modern rock music's tastemakers. Over the past five years, he's worked on albums by rock stars including Ozzy Osbourne , The Rolling Stones and Iggy Pop as well as rock-influenced efforts by pop artists like Miley Cyrus , Post Malone and 5 Seconds of Summer.

"He has encyclopedic knowledge of our history, not only as a band and how we wrote songs, but as players," added Ament of Watt. "He could pinpoint things we did on old songs to the point where I was like, ‘What the f--- is he talking about?’ His excitement was contagious. He’s a force."

He then expressed appreciation for the producer. "I just want to say thanks for keeping us on track. I couldn’t be prouder of us as a band," said Ament. "I feel so grateful for the fans, but mostly for my brothers and these people I’ve made music with."

Dark Matter will be released on April 19, shortly before Pearl Jam launches a 2024 world tour across nine continents. Kicking off May 4 in Vancouver, the band will play shows in cities including Las Vegas, Los Angeles, Seattle, London, Barcelona, Chicago, New York, Philadelphia and Boston before wrapping in Sydney on Nov. 21.

Opening acts will include Deep Sea River and Glen Hansard at various North America dates, The Murder Capital in the United Kingdom and Europe, Richard Ashcroft in Dublin and London as well as Pixies in Australia and New Zealand.

Tickets for Pearl Jam's upcoming tour went on presale for the band's Ten Club members on Monday, while all other fans can register to purchase general tickets vis Ticketmaster by Feb. 18 at 11:59 p.m. local time for Europe, U.K., Australia and New Zealand shows and 11:59 p.m. PT for North America shows.

See below for Pearl Jam's 2024 Dark Matter World Tour dates.

May 04 - Vancouver, BC - Rogers Arena

May 06 - Vancouver, BC - Rogers Arena

May 10 - Portland, OR - Moda Center

May 13 - Sacramento, CA - Golden 1 Center

May 16 - Las Vegas, NV - MGM Grand Garden Arena

May 18 - Las Vegas, NV - MGM Grand Garden Arena

May 21 - Los Angeles, CA - Kia Forum

May 22 - Los Angeles, CA - Kia Forum

May 25** - Napa Valley, CA - BottleRock Festival

May 28 - Seattle, WA - Climate Pledge Arena

May 30 - Seattle, WA - Climate Pledge Arena

Jun 22 - Dublin, IE - Marlay Park

Jun 25 - Manchester, UK - Co-op Live

Jun 29 - London, UK - Tottenham Hotspur Stadium

Jul 02 - Berlin, DE - Waldbühne

Jul 03 - Berlin, DE - Waldbühne

Jul 06 - Barcelona, ES - Palau Sant Jordi

Jul 08 - Barcelona, ES - Palau Sant Jordi

Jul 11** - Madrid, SE - Mad Cool Festival

Jul 13** - Lisbon, PT - NOS Alive Festival

Aug 22 - Missoula, MT - Washington-Grizzly Stadium

Aug 26* - Indianapolis, IN - Ruoff Music Center

Aug 29 - Chicago, IL - Wrigley Field

Aug 31 - Chicago, IL - Wrigley Field

Sep 03 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden

Sep 04 - New York, NY - Madison Square Garden

Sep 07 - Philadelphia, PA - Wells Fargo Center

Sep 09 - Philadelphia, PA - Wells Fargo Center

Sep 12 - Baltimore, MD - CFG Bank Arena

Sep 15 - Boston, MA - Fenway Park

Sep 17 - Boston, MA - Fenway Park

Nov 08 - Auckland, NZ - Go Media Stadium Mt Smart

Nov 13 - Gold Coast, AU - Heritage Bank Stadium

Nov 16 - Melbourne, AU - Marvel Stadium

Nov 21 - Sydney, AU - Giants Stadium

* Rescheduled date from 2022

** Festival dates are already on sale

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Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band are back. After a lengthy hiatus, The Boss and the E Street Band will return to the road next February. It is the group’s first tour since 2017. The world tour kicks off with a string of to-be-announced US arena dates, followed by European stadium shows beginning on April 28 in Barcelona and a second North American tour leg starting in August.

For ticketing information, please visit  brucespringsteen.net .

“After six years, I’m looking forward to seeing our great and loyal fans next year,” Springsteen said. “And I’m looking forward to once again sharing the stage with the legendary E Street Band. See you out there, next year — and beyond.”

The planned European stops are Barcelona, Dublin, Paris, Ferrara, Rome, Amsterdam, Landgraaf, Zurich, Düsseldorf, Gothenburg, Oslo, Copenhagen, Hamburg, Vienna, Munich and Monza. Additional cities and shows in the UK and Belgium will be announced at a later date.

These 2023 dates will mark the first live shows for Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band since their 14-month, worldwide River Tour. The River Tour was named 2016’s top global tour by both Billboard and Pollstar. The trek wrapped up in February of 2017 in Australia.

Bruce Springsteen and The E Street Band last reconnected to perform on Saturday Night Live in December 2020, where they launched live versions of two songs from their most recent studio album Letter To You (Columbia Records), which reached #1 in eleven countries and marked the band’s first time recording live together in decades.

Last year, Springsteen unveiled his never-before-released The Legendary 1979 No Nukes Concerts film, collaborated with President Barack Obama on the book Renegades: Born In The USA and reprised his record setting show Springsteen On Broadway to help reopen New York City theaters last summer.

The E Street Band is Roy Bittan on piano and synthesizer, Nils Lofgren on guitar and vocals, Patti Scialfa on guitar and vocals, Garry Tallent on bass, Stevie Van Zandt on guitar and vocals, and Max Weinberg on drums, along with Soozie Tyrell on violin, guitar and vocals, Jake Clemons on saxophone, and Charlie Giordano on keyboards.

Jake Clemons is the nephew of original E Street Band saxophonist Clarence Clemons. Jake was welcomed into the group following the death of Clarence in 2012. Jake Weinberg, son of E Street Band drummer Max Weinberg, is the drummer of metal titans Slipknot .

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April 28 – Barcelona, Spain – Estadi Olímpic May 5 – Dublin, Ireland – RDS Arena May 7 – Dublin, Ireland – RDS Arena May 13 – Paris, France – La Défense Arena May 18 – Ferrara, Italy – Parco Urbano G. Bassani May 21 – Rome, Italy – Circo Massimo May 25 – Amsterdam, Netherlands – Johan Cruijff ArenA June 11 – Landgraaf, Netherlands – Megaland June 13 – Zurich, Switzerland – Stadion Letzigrund June 21 – Düsseldorf, Germany – Merkur Spiel Arena June 24 – Gothenburg, Sweden – Ullevi July 26 – Gothenburg, Sweden – Ullevi July 30 – Oslo, Norway – Voldsløkka July 11 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Parken July 13 – Copenhagen, Denmark – Parken July 15 – Hamburg, Germany – Volksparkstadion July 18 – Vienna, Austria – Ernst Happel Stadion July 23 – Munich, Germany – Olympiastadion July 25 – Monza, Italy – Prato della Gerascia, Autodromo di Monza

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Entertainment, rock trailblazer heart reunites for a world tour and a new song.

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FILE - Nancy Wilson, left, and Ann Wilson, right, of the band Heart perform as Heart is inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame during the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame Induction Ceremony at the Nokia Theatre on Thursday, April 18, 2013 in Los Angeles. Heart the pioneering band that melds Nancy Wilsons shredding guitar with her sister Anns powerhouse vocals is hitting the road this spring for a world tour that Nancy Wilson describes as the full-on rocker size. (Photo by Danny Moloshok/Invision/AP, File)

NEW YORK – Heart — the pioneering band that melds Nancy Wilson’s shredding guitar with her sister Ann’s powerhouse vocals — is hitting the road this spring and fall for a world tour that Nancy Wilson describes as “the full-on rocker size.”

“I’ve been strengthening. I’ve got my trainer,” she says. “You go one day at a time and you strengthen one workout session at a time. It’s a lot of work, but it’s the only job I know how to do.”

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The Rock & Roll Hall of Famers who gave us classic tracks like “Magic Man,” “Crazy on You” and “Alone” will be playing all the hits, some tracks from of their solo albums — like Ann Wilson's “Miss One and Only” and Nancy Wilson's “Love Mistake” — and a new song called “Roll the Dice.”

“I like to say we have really good problems because the problem we have is to choose between a bunch of different, really cool songs that people love already,” says Nancy Wilson.

Like “Barracuda,” a sonic burst which first appeared on the band’s second album, “Little Queen” and is one of the band’s most memorable songs.

“You can’t mess with ‘Barracuda.’ It’s just the way it is. It is great. You get on the horse and you ride. It’s a galloping steed of a ride to go on. And for everybody, including the band."

The tour kicks off Saturday at the Bon Secours Wellness Arena in Greenville, South Carolina, and will hit cities including Atlanta, Boston, Baltimore, Pittsburgh, Milwaukee, Cleveland, Detroit, as well as the New Orleans Jazz and Heritage Festival and Red Rocks Amphitheater in Morrison, Colorado. International dates include stops in London, Oslo, Berlin, Stockholm, Montreal and Glasgow.

The band's Royal Flush Tour will have Cheap Trick as the opening act for many stops, but Def Leppard and Journey will join for three stadium dates in Cleveland, Toronto and Boston this summer.

Ann and Nancy Wilson will be filled out by Ryan Wariner (lead and rhythm guitar), Ryan Waters (guitars), Paul Moak (guitars, keyboards and backing vocals), Tony Lucido (bass and backing vocals) and Sean T. Lane (drums).

The tour is the first in several years for Heart, which was rocked by a body blow in 2016 when Ann Wilson’s husband was arrested for assaulting Nancy’s 16-year-old twin sons. Nancy Wilson says that's all in the past.

“We can take any kind of turbulence, me and Ann, and we’ve always been OK together,” she says. “We’re still steering the ship and happy to do it together. So we’re tight.”

The new tour will take them to Canada, which was warm to the band when they were starting out as what Nancy Wilson calls “a couple of chicks from Seattle.” She recalls Vancouver embracing Heart, and touring in one van across Canada in the dead of winter on two lane highways.

The Wilson sisters broke rock's glass ceiling in the '70s and Nancy Wilson says they only had male influences to look to, like Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, the Beatles, the Rolling Stones and the Moody Blues.

Now she says she looks out and loves seeing generations of female rockers. “You have boygenius and you have Billie Eilish and you have Olivia Rodrigo and so many amazing women — Maggie Rogers and Sheryl Crow, who calls us her big influence. And then Billie Eilish might have Sheryl Crow as her influence. So it’s a really nice legacy to pass along. I like to say we’re the OG — the original gangsters — of women and rock.”

Heart has made it into the Rock Hall, won Grammys, sold millions of albums and rocked hundreds of thousands of fans but Nancy Wilson has one place she'd still like to shine.

Next year will mark the 50th anniversary of their debut album, “Dreamboat Annie,” which was the same year that “Saturday Night Live” started. “So we’re actually kind of putting it out there — Heart never played on ‘Saturday Night Live.’ But what about the 50th birthday party with Heart?”

Mark Kennedy is at http://twitter.com/KennedyTwits

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Japanese Rockers The GazettE Launching World Tour in Los Angeles

One of the leading visual rock bands from Japan, The GazettE, is kicking off their four-continent world tour on April 30 at The Wiltern in Los Angeles. The tour is in support of the band's ninth…

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One of the leading visual rock bands from Japan, The GazettE, is kicking off their four-continent world tour on April 30 at The Wiltern in Los Angeles. The tour is in support of the band’s ninth album, conveniently titled Ninth .

The GazettE are considered to be part of the second generation of visual rock (called visual-kei in Japan) bands. The movement was started in the late 80s by X Japan and other famous acts include L’Arc-en-Ciel, Glay, Luna Sea and Dir en grey. The genre emphasizes outlandish, often historically-related costumes, and fast, heavy metal-esque music. Visual rock has attracted fans of Japanese animation (anime) due to its wild outfits and arresting visuals.

The GazettE debuted in 2002 and their last seven full length albums have all placed in the top ten of the country’s Oricon charts. The new long player, to be released on June 13, tells stories from the band’s entire career.

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The 16 dates announced for the 2019 world tour include stops in North and South America, Europe and Asia. The band plans to wrap things up with a post-tour show at Yokohama Arena on September 23.

will drop a new digital single called “Pray” on May 13, which will be featured as the theme song in the Japan version of the upcoming movie “Godzilla: King of the Monsters.”” image=”9289571″]

Vocalist and band leader Ruki told Billboard he’s looking forward to playing in different parts of the world. “There are, of course, differences in the environment and sound between shows in Japan and other countries, but I think in recent years there is no difference in a greater sense. Each show has its own atmosphere, generates different amounts of excitement, and feels great.”

Ruki added, “I wonder how our latest album, Ninth , will sound to foreign fans. I hope they’ll find it even more exciting than before. And, in addition I hope our new fans who are seeing us live for the first time will to want to come again.”

The GazettE will play Dallas on May 4 and New York on May 6. More details can be found here .

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