#2026-tour

#2026-tour

Wilco have announced a 2026 spring US tour. Each date will be "An Evening With" show, where they will play two full sets with an intermission in between. The run kicks off on April 23rd in Fort Wayne, Indiana, with other stops including New Orleans, Oklahoma City, and Albuquerque. Fans can get early access through an artist pre-sale (use code WILCOWORLD) beginning on Wednesday, January 28th at 10:00 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster and Wilco's website.

Billy Strings has announced that he's extending his 2026 headlining tour through this summer. The trek will stop in seven new cities, starting on July 14th in Roanoke, Virginia, and wrapping up on August 29th in Ionia, Michigan, just 40 minutes from his hometown of Lansing.

Modest Mouse are a little over a week away from the start of their first-ever cruise festival, Ice Cream Floats, and ahead of that they've announced new spring tour dates surrounding their sets at Kilby Block Party and Bonnaroo. The shows happen in select US cities in May and June, and you can see all dates below. There's no NYC show this time, but there's a New Haven, CT date at College Street Music Hall on June 3.

Silversun Pickups release their new album Tenterhooks on February 6 via New Machine Recordings, and they'll play it in full, along with some older favorites, at a release show that night at Los Angeles' The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever. Tickets to attend in person are sold out, but you can stream it live on VEEPS at 11:30 PM ET (8:30 PM PT) and tickets to watch are on sale now, or you can watch with an all-access subscription.

That was the case - by all accounts - regarding our summer tour last year with Spin Doctors and Gin Blossoms. We grew up with Spin Doctors as pups in the same litter... ours is a shared origin story. But working with Gin Blossoms was a first. Their music was everywhere when we were coming up, and yet only last summer did we have the opportunity to learn how fun it is playing with them - and to discover how much energy our three bands put out in combination.

After announcing late last year that she had a new album on the way, Tori Amos has revealed more details of In Times of Dragons. It's the follow up to 2021's Ocean to Ocean, and last year's soundtrack to her children's book Tori and the Muses, and it's due out May 1 via Universal/Fontana. You can see the cover art, created by photographer Kasia Wozniak and stylist Karen Binns, below.

Cameron Winter (photo via u/No_Win404 on Reddit) Geese will make their SNL debut this Saturday (1/24), and ahead of that, two members of the band played sets at a very intimate Queens show that benefitted Olive Grove Initiative, an NYC-based mutual aid group fundraising for families from Gaza. Guitarist Emily Green was on the bill at TV Eye on Monday night (1/19), along with @, fantasy of a broken heart, and Leo Paterniti, and the headliner, Chet Chomsky, wound up being Cameron Winter.

Staind's Aaron Lewis has announced a 2026 US solo tour. Or, as he's dubbed it, an "American Tour." The outing will see Lewis backed by his solo band the Stateliners. The extensive itinerary kicks off January 22nd in Quapaw, Oklahoma, with dates running all the way through mid-August. General ticket sales for select dates start Friday, January 16th, at 10 a.m. local time via Ticketmaster.

After wrapping up their recent massive tour, the Beths are itching to get back on the road; the indie-rock band just announced plans to headline the United States this summer. Check out the complete list of stops below. The Beths previously shared 2026 performance dates in Japan and New Zealand. Once those legs finish, the group will fly across the globe to bring Straight Line Was a Lie, their 2025 album, back to the States for a few festival sets and headlining concerts.

James Taylor has announced a 29-date 2026 tour with his All-Star band. Taylor's trek will take place this summer and fall, kicking off on April 26th in Highland, California, at the Yaamava Theater and concluding on September 26th in Hollywood, Florida, at Seminole Hard Rock Hotel & Casino. Along the way, he'll play shows in San Diego, Santa Barbara, Las Vegas, Atlantic City, Boston, Atlanta, and elsewhere. Check out the full list of tour dates below.

The lineup has been announced for the 2026 Rock the Country traveling festival tour, with Kid Rock, Creed, Jelly Roll, and Blake Shelton among the headlining acts playing various dates on the eight-city run. The festival will make two-day stops in Bellville, Texas (May 1-2); Bloomingdale, Georgia (May 29-30); Sioux Falls, South Dakota (June 27-28); Ashland, Kentucky (July 10-11, 2026); Anderson, South Carolina (July 25-26; Hastings, Michigan (August 8-9); Ocala, Florida (August 28-29); and Hamburg, NY (September 11-12).

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Indie-pop quintet Heavenly will pair their already-announced 2026 tour with a new album, their first since 1996's Operation Heavenly. The band-original members Amelia Fletcher, Cathy Rogers, Peter Momtchiloff, and Rob Pursey, plus new drummer Ian Button- recorded Highway to Heavenly with producer Toby Burroughs. It will be released on February 27 via Fletcher and Pursey's label, Skep Wax.

With Christmas just days away, Damon Albarn stopped by BBC Radio to read Dr. Seuss' classic children's book, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Stream his rendition here, and listen to a preview below. Get Gorillaz Tickets Here Since its publication in 1957, How the Grinch Stole Christmas! has been adapted for TV, film, and as a 2007 musical. A live-action film starring Jim Carrey and directed by Ron Howard was released in 2000, followed by a CGI adaptation voiced by Benedict Cumberbatch in 2018.

The tour announcement comes roughly a month after War on Women released the new song "Precious Problem," which serves as the lead single from the band's first album in six years, Time Under Tension. The LP is set for release in 2026 via Smartpunk Records, with more details to be announced soon.

AFI went on their first headlining tour in three years this fall, in support of their goth-inspired new album Silver Bleeds the Black, and they've now announced a second leg of North American shows. This run sticks mostly to the western half of the US and Canada, starting in Seattle on April 15 and running through May 2 in Minneapolis. They'll also play both editions of Sick New World.

Ontario emo band Arm's Length released their second album There's A Whole World Out There in May, and they've announced a 2026 tour supporting it. They'll be joined for the shows by experimental mathcore-and-more band The Callous Daoboys, Normal, IL emo band Harrison Gordon, and their Pure Noise labelmates Super Sometimes. See all dates below. The NYC show is at Warsaw on April 25. Tickets to all dates go on sale Friday, December 12 at 10 AM local, with various presales starting today (12/9) at 12 PM local.

Montana indie rock greats Silkworm (Tim Midyett, Joel RL Phelps, Andrew Cohen and Jeff Panall) reunited for their first official shows in nearly 20 years back in September, and they've now announced a spring run of Midwest / East Coast dates that mark their most extensive tour in two decades. Dates kick off May 6 in Berwyn, IL and from there the band head to Columbus and Pittsburgh (with The Gotobeds), followed by East Coast shows with Come.

Tyler Childers is heading out on tour in 2026 in support of his most recent album, Snipe Hunter. Childers' Snipe Hunt trek kicks off on April 23rd and runs through October 3rd, stopping in cities like Dallas, Chicago, and Portland. Joining him for select dates are Jon Batiste, Wednesday, Evan Honer, and Scott T. Smith. See the full touring schedule below. Fans can sign up for an artist pre-sale here through Sunday, December 7th, at 11:59 p.m. ET.

AVTT/PTTN, the collaborative project of Scott and Seth Avett of The Avett Brothers and Mike Patton, will make their official live debut at Big Ears in March, but ahead of that they gave their first public performance on Tuesday night (11/25) in NYC. It was part of the Grammy Museum's "New York Evening" series, and happened at The Loreto Theater at The Sheen Center for Thought & Culture, where AVTT/PTTN played four songs off their new album and spoke with moderator Eric André.

Miri Tyler of DC punks Ekko Astral told us about five of her favorite bands from the DC-area, past and present: Ekko Astral's most recent album was 2024's Pink Balloons, one of our favorite albums of that year. They've released some singles since then, most recently last month's "horseglue," which takes them into noise rock territory. Watch the video for that below.

The Lemon Twigs are following up 2024's excellent A Dream is All We Know with a new 7″ single that will be out January 30 via Captured Tracks. "I've Got A Broken Heart" is pure jangly powerpop from Brian D'Addario, while b-side "Friday (I'm Gonna Love You)" is by his brother Michael D'Addario and gets just a little more psychedelic (hello electric sitar!). Both are certified earworms and you can listen below.