Why do we discover new music if not to feel a little spark of recognition, to decide it might be love, to search out the artist’s tour dates and spend a little too much money on tickets; to save the date, maybe entreat a friend to join; and finally to put on a massive winter coat and, when we finally arrive at a familiar local venue, wonder what to do with it as we watch that music brought to life? Below, selected by us here at Pitchfork, are some artists and shows where you might find such joy and fellowship in 2025. Prepare for audacious showmanship, borderline offensive stage banter, and very possibly a few punch-ups—or, if you didn’t get Oasis tickets, just having a really nice time at some concerts.
AC/DC
AC/DC continue to strike thunder into venues around the world on the Power Up tour, which brings them to North America this spring for the first time in nearly a decade. Catch the current lineup of Angus Young, Brian Johnson, Stevie Young, Matt Laug, and Chris Chaney at stadiums across the United States in April and May.
–Jazz Monroe
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Benjamin Booker
After laying low for most of the seven years since his last album, Witness, Benjamin Booker started quietly popping up on projects by billy woods and Armand Hammer. Now, the New Orleans-based musician’s comeback is in full swing. Booker soon drops a new record—the Kenny Segal–produced Lower—and his North American headlining tour with Segal will wrap up in March with a show in his adopted home of NoLa.
–Walden Green
Beth Gibbons
Beth Gibbons heads across the pond this spring for her first-ever North American solo tour and her first dates in the continent since her last shows with Portishead, in 2011. The dates behind her solo album, Lives Outgrown, start at Tennessee’s Big Ears Festival and conclude with twin dates at Coachella; sandwiched in the middle are several headline shows with support from her Domino labelmate Bill Ryder-Jones. After her North American dates, she has shows in the United Kingdom and Europe in the summer.
–Jazz Monroe
Beyoncé
Ten months have passed since Beyoncé released Cowboy Carter, but she is by no means ready to jump out of the saddle. This spring and summer, she brings the Album of the Year Grammy–winning album across the United States and Europe, with multiple nights apiece in New Jersey, Inglewood, Chicago, London, Houston, Atlanta, Paris, and Washington, D.C.
–Jazz Monroe
Billie Eilish
Billie Eilish’s Hit Me Hard and Soft: The Tour has been running for two months—and that’s just the beginning. The whopper trek will continue into late July of this year, after Eilish finished her North American leg last month. Following the holiday break, Eilish will pick back up with full force in Brisbane on February 18 and extensively tour Australia, before heading to Europe in April and May, playing in Stockholm, Oslo, Copenhagen, Amsterdam, Berlin, Krakow, Bologna, Paris, and Barcelona. Her final stretch will take place in the British Isles, with a closing show at Dublin’s 3Arena.
–Madison Bloom
Black Country, New Road
Black Country, New Road’s first studio album since the departure of singer Isaac Wood is coming on April 4, and, having spent much of the interim period on the road (as documented on 2023’s Live at Bush Hall), the sextet will bring its new Forever Howlong material back to North America in May before a dense tour schedule in Europe for the rest of the 2025. Read about the British group’s new era in “Black Country, New Road Head Into the Unknown.”
–Jazz Monroe
The Black Keys
The Black Keys had to cancel their arena tour last year, so Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney are looking for a course correction. Their newly announced No Rain No Flowers Tour will hopefully get the job done, as it takes the duo across the United States and Europe for a run of theater and festival shows supported by Hermanos Gutiérrez and the Heavy Heavy.
–Walden Green
Bright Eyes
Bright Eyes returned to the road behind Five Dice, All Threes this month, after cancelling shows last year citing Conor Oberst’s vocal problems. The lengthy run continues into is set to continue through spring, with shows across North America.
–Madison Bloom
Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
The Boss is back on the road, and rumors of his retirement were greatly exaggerated. “We’ve been around for 50 fucking years!” he told a Philadelphia crowd last year. “We ain’t doing no farewell tour bullshit!” He’ll be proving it all night in Europe this spring and summer, with dates in England, France, Germany, Czechia, Spain, and Italy.
–Jazz Monroe
Charli XCX
Brat Summer may be over, but the Brat era continues. Charli XCX is taking her blockbuster album out for another round in the coming months, visiting Australasia in the spring before an arena tour of North America starting in April. Catch her in Brooklyn, New York; Rosemont, Illinois; Minneapolis, Minnesota; and Austin, Texas, after her Coachella dates that month.
–Jazz Monroe
Circuit des Yeux
Circuit des Yeux’s Haley Fohr returned last year with the frenetic new song “God Dick,” and she’s playing the track and more from her catalog in both solo and full band appearances across Europe and North America during a run of shows that continues through spring 2025. Several dates will include a duo performance with fellow guitar experimentalist Bill Nace.
–Eric Torres
Dead & Company
Dead and Company can’t stop saying goodbye. This spring, they will bring a new show to Las Vegas Sphere with a two-month residency, which, we are once again led to believe, may be the last chance to catch this Grateful Dead postscript before the book finally closes.
–Jazz Monroe
Deafheaven
Deafheaven will return, in late March, with Lonely People With Power, the genre-blending black metal band’s first studio album in four years. They’ll back the Infinite Granite follow-up with a marathon across North America through spring with support from Gatecreeper and Trauma Ray, before hopping across the pond for a handful of European festival appearances.
–Jazz Monroe
Deftones
Fresh off of their fifth annual Dia de los Deftones festival, alt. metal legends Deftones will go on a proper tour this year. The trek launches on February 25, in Portland, Oregon, and continues with shows in Seattle, the band’s hometown of Sacramento, Inglewood, Las Vegas, New York, Philadelphia, and many more. Support acts include the Mars Volta and the Vein.fm side project Fleshwater.
–Madison Bloom
Denzel Curry
Denzel Curry has a marathon tour planned behind new album King of the Mischievous South, taking in Australia, North America, and Europe through half of 2025. After headlining his Miami hometown’s Rolling Loud festival last month, he heads Down Under in February before kicking off the North American leg in Phoenix, Arizona, in late March.
–Jazz Monroe
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Dua Lipa
Dua Lipa wants to convert the whole world to Radical Optimism. Her ongoing tour, which shares a title with her Future Nostalgia follow-up, spans a calendar year, with the next batch taking her to Australia, New Zealand, and Europe, before she returns to North America in the late summer. Her last two shows—for now—will take place at Seattle’s Climate Pledge Arena on October 15 and 16.
–Madison Bloom
Fabiana Palladino
After a series of singles for Jai Paul’s Paul Institute since 2017, Fabiano Palladino released her debut album last year, and, now, she has plotted her first North American tour. Dates include stops in New York, Philadelphia, and Chicago, as well as her first-ever Canadian shows, in Toronto and Montreal.
–Jazz Monroe
Father John Misty
Father John Misty was originally scheduled to tour behind his new album Mahashmashana until April 15, but he extended the run back in February. The updated schedule includes a second leg of the tour in July and August. The new shows primarily take place in North America, with a few shows in the UK. Lucinda Williams and Hamilton Leithauser will support on select dates.
–Madison Bloom
FKA twigs
FKA twigs would have been halfway through her North American Eusexua tour by now, but sadly she had to postpone the initial run of dates following a visa issue. “Today, I was informed that production did not fill out the correct paperwork in a timely manner for us to have our visas to come to the U.S.A. and perform,” she said in a video posted on March 25. Fortunately, she was able to reschedule her New York and Chicago dates; she’ll perform in New York on April 23 and 24, and Chicago on June 24 and 25. twigs is also readying her performance at Coachella Valley Music & Arts Festival later this month.
–Madison Bloom
Fontaines D.C.
The new era of Fontaines D.C. proceeds apace. The band returned, newly homed at XL Recordings, with the star-marking Romance last year—a stadium-sized record tailored to some of the biggest shows of the Irish group’s career. Catch them while you can on their lengthy North American jaunt this spring—just don’t wear your Oasis T-shirt.
–Jazz Monroe
Franz Ferdinand
Franz Ferdinand are on tour in support of this month’s The Human Fear—their first studio album in seven years. After a Scottish tour opener and South American stint, they head back east to Europe in February before greeting North American fans in Seattle, Vancouver, San Francisco, Kansas City, Minneapolis, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, and elsewhere.
–Madison Bloom
Friko
Chicago duo Friko released an expanded edition of Where We’ve Been, Where We Go From Here, and they kicked off a tour right before its release. Following their recent shows at the Paris and London editions of Pitchfork Music Festival, Friko will trek across North America, where Niko Kapetan and Bailey Minzenberger played a hometown show in Chicago last month before traversing the continent until late spring.
–Madison Bloom
Gang of Four
Nearly half a century after their formation, Gang of Four are staging a valedictory tour this year. Appropriately called The Long Goodbye, the influential English post-punk band’s last North American tour will kick off in Massachusetts, in mid-April, and run through the end of May. “It’s been wonderful, but all things must end,” they said. “We want to go out with a bang and celebrate with our fans and friends.” Keeping to their word, the remaining members will play two sets each night: a full performance of their landmark 1979 debut album Entertainment!, plus deep cuts and fan favorites from across their catalog.
–Walden Green
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The Get Up Kids
To celebrate the 25th anniversary of Something to Write Home About, the Get Up Kids toured North America last fall, and the trek resumes this month. Shows will run through the spring, with support from Hot Rod Circuit and the Anniversary.
–Jazz Monroe
The Hard Quartet
Stephen Malkmus, Matt Sweeney, Jim White, and Emmett Kelly are keeping the Hard Quartet rolling into 2025. The indie-rock supergroup is following this month’s Australian leg with a sweep across the continent—in cities including New York, Chicago, Austin, Toronto, Los Angeles, and San Francisco—joined by Evischen and the Lifeguard side-project Sharp Pins.
–Jazz Monroe
Iron & Wine
Iron & Wine recently wrapped a European tour and is bringing the show Stateside in February. Sam Beam’s West Coast stretch is a short one, commencing in Reno and stopping in Inglewood, San Francisco, and Los Angeles, before he plays in other regions of the United States. Beam’s trek follows the release of Light Verse—the first Iron & Wine LP since 2017.
–Madison Bloom
Jack White
Jack White’s No Name Tour will chug on into 2025 with a hefty North American schedule appended to his modest batch of dates behind No Name in small clubs and ad hoc venues last year. He’ll play multiple nights in most cities on the itinerary, sticking to venues small enough to keep things feeling personable.
–Jazz Monroe
Jane Remover
Jane Remover has a busy 2025 planned, reviving the Venturing moniker for a mystery new album and plotting a new Jane Remover record, apparently called Revengeseekerz, leaning into the blown-out rap of their digicore days. As we await news of those records’ release, you can catch them on the the Turn Up or Die Tour, a jaunt across North America with Dazegxd, D0llywood1, and Lucy Bedroque.
–Jazz Monroe
Jamie xx
“This is gunna be funnn!” Jamie xx said upon announcing his intercontinental tour behind In Waves. The producer has already taken his act to cities in Asia and North and South America, and there are plenty more dates to come in the United States and mainland Europe.
–Madison Bloom
Japanese Breakfast
Nearly four (busy) years after her Japanese Breakfast album Jubilee, Michelle Zauner finally has a studio follow-up on the way. After the release of For Melancholy Brunettes (& Sad Women) in March, Zauner and her band will play Coachella, right before a major tour of North America and Europe, taking in venues including Brooklyn Paramount and Chicago’s Salt Shed.
–Jazz Monroe
Jessica Pratt
After a busy live schedule throughout most of last year to celebrate the release of Here in the Pitch, her standout fourth album, Jessica Pratt appears to be taking it easy when it comes to her 2025 tour plans. The entrancing singer-songwriter returns to the stage on March 26 at Treefort Music Fest and then journeys across the United States for a few more dates. From there, she will fly to Europe for Roskilde Festival and Bilbao BBK Live, both in July.
–Nina Corcoran
Julien Baker & Torres
Indie-rock artists Julien Baker and Torres are joining forces for Send a Prayer My Way, an upcoming collaborative country album that they’ve been considering since 2016. The duo will kick off a tour behind the LP with a special performance at Big Ears Festival in Knoxville, Tennessee, in March before trekking to other festival stops and cities across the United States through September.
–Eric Torres
Kendrick Lamar and SZA
Many years after the former Top Dawg Entertainment labelmates Kendrick Lamar and SZA first went on tour together, they’re joining forces once more for another leg. Cue the Grand National Tour, their upcoming run of live shows in stadiums across North America. The tour begins in Minneapolis on April 19 and lasts on through to June 18, when it will end in Washington, D.C. Along the way, the pair will perform in major cities like Houston, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Seattle, San Francisco, and Chicago. Consider it your best opportunity to hear their old collab “All the Stars.”
–Nina Corcoran
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard
King Gizzard & the Lizard Wizard seemingly never stop touring, and the marathon continues this spring and summer. After a trek across Europe, the Australian oddballs will embark on a U.S. tour including two nights at New York’s Forest Hills Stadium.
–Jazz Monroe
Kraftwerk
For some reason, Tony Hawk leads a choreographed skateboarding sequence in a half-pipe in the promotional video for Kraftwerk’s new tour. The huge North American run extends the 50th anniversary of their landmark album Autobahn, celebrations of which dropped in last year with a Los Angeles residency. The multimedia shows combine music, visuals, and performance art, but, as far as we know, no kickflips.
–Jazz Monroe
Kylie Minogue
Kylie Minogue is hitting the road behind her brand new album Tension II—the sequel to 2023’s Tension. The pop icon will get warmed up in February with several dates in her home country of Australia, before jetting off to cities in Thailand, Japan, and Taiwan. She’ll follow that with a tour of North America in the spring, performing in Toronto, New York, Boston, Atlanta, Phoenix, Seattle, Denver, Los Angeles, and more.
–Madison Bloom
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Lady Gaga
This fall, Lady Gaga brings the Mayhem Ball to North America and Europe. For those seeking chaotic Gaga magic without the bustle of impersonal big venues, don’t fret. Gaga has touted the itinerary—which includes New York’s Madison Square Garden, Chicago’s United Center, and the London O2—as being admirably low-key. “I wanted to create a different kind of experience—something more intimate—closer, more connected—that lends itself to the live theatrical art I love to create,” she said. Leave your binoculars at home, then, and prepare to get up close and personal with Gaga as she eschews the world’s biggest stadiums in favor of—well, the world’s biggest arenas. —Jazz Monroe
LCD Soundsystem
LCD Soundsystem are readying a truncated tour of the South that includes five dates in Texas (three concerts in Austin and two in Dallas), as well as stops in New Orleans and Atlanta. Following June festival slots at Primavera Sound Barcelona and Paris’ Bois de Vincennes (We Love Green), James Murphy and co. will commence an eight-night residency at London’s O2 Academy Brixton, which takes place between June 12 and June 22.
–Madison Bloom
Lucy Dacus
To coincide with Forever Is a Feeling, Lucy Dacus’ fourth LP and first new solo album since 2021’s Home Video, the singer and songwriter will soon embark on a North American tour. With opening support from Muna’s Katie Gavin and Saddest Factory artist Jasmine.4.T, the Forever Is a Feeling Tour will make stops in Philadelphia, Chicago, New York, Nashville, and many more cities before wrapping up in Los Angeles in May. Dacus has also partnered with the nonprofit Plus1 so that $1 per ticket goes to providing relief and longterm recovery support for those impacted by the Los Angles wildfires.
–Eric Torres
Magdalena Bay
Magdalena Bay dropped their debut album, the glittering Mercurial World, back in 2021. The experimental pop artists Mica Tenenbaum and Matthew Lewin have since released the pop sci-fi odyssey Imaginal Disk, and the attendant Imaginal Mystery Tour will continue through the first half of the year.
–Eric Torres
Max Richter
Max Richter recently set off on a continent-spanning tour behind In a Landscape. It runs until May 2025, with the North American leg taking place in the spring. The post-minimalist composer and pianist will be accompanied on those dates by the American Contemporary Music Ensemble.
–Boutayna Chokrane
Metallica
Enter the third year of Metallica’s mammoth M72 tour. This spring, the metal greats have invited Pantera, Suicidal Tendencies, Limp Bizkit, and Ice Nine Kills to support select dates, as they play multiple nights apiece in Toronto, Nashville, Philadelphia, and Denver, among others cities.
–Jazz Monroe
MIKE
New York producer and rapper MIKE has planned a long run of dates for his upcoming #AOTC Tour. MIKE—whose upcoming album Showbiz! arrives this month—will start off in Dublin in February before hitting several more European cities. The rapper will then tour North America starting in Philadelphia in April, with further stops in Miami, Houston, Los Angeles, and elsewhere.
–Eric Torres
MJ Lenderman
For an artist who seemingly lives on the road, the maverick singer-songwriter (and Wednesday bandmate) MJ Lenderman has a knack for observing the sort of characters you usually only meet after spending way too long in the same place. His companionable album Manning Fireworks is full of them, and he will bring along the full cast of benign slackers and small-time jerks for a sprawling tour that takes in much of North America and a few cities in the UK. Stick around long enough and you might find yourself on the next record.
–Jazz Monroe
Mogwai
Mogwai return with a new album, The Bad Fire, this month, a few years after scoring their first UK No. 1 with As the Love Continues. The Scottish post-rock honchos will back the LP with a tour of Europe, Asia, and North America, which keeps them busy through May 2025, wrapping up in time for festival season.
–Jazz Monroe
Mount Eerie
Phil Elverum is bringing his Mount Eerie project on the road in support of Night Palace, his first solo album as Mount Eerie in six years. The new tour dates start in Vancouver, British Columbia, on February 13, and bring him across North America in two legs: a winter run and a spring stretch. The tour is set to end on April 20, in Washington, D.C. Opening that first leg of the tour are Ragana, while Hana Stretton and Precious Bane join Elverum for the latter half. Alan Sparhawk will perform at two concerts sandwiched in between.
–Nina Corcoran
Mustafa
To celebrate finally releasing his long-awaited first LP, Dunya, Mustafa will bring his storied folk songs to fans around the world this year. Dubbed his debut world tour, the singer-songwriter and poet will perform live in cities in North America, Europe, and Africa across two separate legs. The Lost in the Dunya tour begins on February 11 in San Francisco, California, and comes to an end on May 25 in Port Sudan, Sudan. The Canadian-Sudanese singer’s tales of facing death, violence, and grief with love, resilience, and friendship are a balm in recorded form and even more powerful live.
–Nina Corcoran
My Bloody Valentine
Who knows how long we’ll be waiting for My Bloody Valentine’s long-promised follow-ups to m b v, but fans of the amorphous shoegaze band finally have something firm to clutch on to: four live dates in the UK and Ireland. After a prelude announcement last year of a sole Dublin concert set for November, Kevin Shields and the band have booked a three-date stint in London, Manchester, and Glasgow later the same month. —Jazz Monroe
My Chemical Romance
Nearly 20 years after its release, The Black Parade is getting the anniversary treatment live onstage this summer courtesy of My Chemical Romance. The emo and pop-punk band are playing their third album in full, with all of its concept melodrama and marching band fanfare, in stadiums across North America, from the opening show in Seattle on July 11 on through to the tour closer in Tampa on September 13. A unique slate of openers for each of the 10 dates includes Devo, Pixies, Violent Femmes, Death Cab for Cutie, Idles, and 100 Gecs, among others.
–Nina Corcoran
Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds
This spring, for the first time since 2018, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds will tour North America. The majestic stage show behind Wild God comes to Boston in mid-April before winding across the continent’s arenas, theaters, and music halls—including Brooklyn’s Barclays Center and two nights at Chicago’s Salt Shed—and concluding in San Francisco’s Bill Graham Civic Auditorium a month later.
–Jazz Monroe
Nine Inch Nails
In the five years since their last albums, Ghosts VI: Locusts and Ghosts V: Together, Nine Inch Nails have taken a back seat as Trent Reznor and Atticus Ross extended their impressive film-score résumés. Now, as they prepare to follow their Golden Globe–winning Challengers score with a soundtrack to Tron: Ares, they’ve reconvened with the band for a monster run of dates in North America and Europe.
–Jazz Monroe
Nubya Garcia
London jazz artist Nubya Garcia released her sophomore album, Odyssey, last September. She’s been on tour since, and after a string of shows in Asia and Australia, the saxophonist will take her shapeshifting, orchestral songs on the road in Europe and North America.
–Eric Torres
Oasis
“Not long now kids are we all excited,” Liam Gallagher posted on X at the end of 2024, proving you’re not the only one counting down the days until the very-real Oasis reunion. The perpetually feuding brothers set aside their beef to plot dozens of massive tour dates around the world this summer and extending on into the fall. Beginning with two shows in Cardiff, Wales, on July 4 and 5, Oasis will play stadiums and arenas across the United Kingdom, Ireland, North America, Australia, and South America—their first shows together as a full band since 2009.
–Nina Corcoran
Panda Bear
February will usher in Sinister Grift, the first new Panda Bear album since 2019’s Buoys. The Animal Collective member plans to bring that new material on the road when he joins Toro y Moi for a North American tour at the top of the year. After launching the leg in Minneapolis on February 6, they make their way across major cities in the United States and Canada before ending their tour on May 16. Panda Bear won’t stop there, though. He’s got solo dates in Spain and Portugal in March, as well as more North American and European dates that extend into the summer.
–Nina Corcoran
Pearl Jam
Eddie Vedder and the crew are sticking it out on the road a year after releasing Dark Matter last year. Stay tuned for one-off treats at the arena shows, such as last year’s surprise rendition of “Rockin’ in the Free World” with Steve Van Zandt, Watt, and Glen Hansard, or their cover of Bruce Springsteen’s “No Surrender” shortly afterwards.
–Jazz Monroe
Perfume Genius
On Glory, Mike Hadreas’ upcoming seventh studio album as Perfume Genius and the follow-up to 2022’s Ugly Season, the singer and songwriter has brewed up what he calls his “most directly confessional” set of songs yet. He’ll bring the Blake Mills–produced LP to stages during a North American trek in May and June, with stops in Atlanta, Brooklyn, Seattle, Chicago, and more. Urika’s Bedroom will support on select dates.
–Eric Torres
Post Malone
Post Malone’s country era is now in full swing, and he announced his 2025 tour in typically cowboy-ish fashion. Long before the lineup typically launches, he leaked news of an apparent Coachella headline set by listing dates in Indio, California, the weekends of the festival. That was soon confirmed—the festival released its lineup a day later—but if you can’t make it to the desert, you can find Posty, Jelly Roll, and Sierra Ferrell at stadiums around North America right through to the summer.
–Jazz Monroe
Refused
Now that Refused have seen a swell of new fans following the resurgence of “New Noise,” their lasting hit-turned-Pavlovian stressor in The Bear, the Swedish post-hardcore greats are going out on top with a farewell tour of North America this spring. Starting March 21, in Brooklyn, and ending April 10, in Sacramento, these dates take place nearly a year after frontperson Dennis Lyxzén recovered from a heart attack back. Joining them for the farewell tour are New York ’90s greats Quicksand.
–Nina Corcoran
Rilo Kiley
In early 2025, Rilo Kiley delighted fans by announcing their first concert in 17 years—a reunion show at Pasadena’s Just Like Heaven festival. The good news kept coming, with a North American reunion tour slated to begin in May. But the demand was clearly bigger; the quartet of Jenny Lewis, Blake Sennett, Pierre de Reeder, and Jason Boesel are now planning to play over a dozen new dates in September, with shows in Boston, Nashville, Philadelphia, Atlanta, and more. “It couldn’t have happened any sooner,” Lewis said of the band’s reunion. “It feels like now is the time to share that joy and love with each other and with everyone else.”
–Madison Bloom
Scissor Sisters
Jake Shears has spent his time since Scissor Sisters’ heyday performing on Broadway and releasing solo records. Now, he has reconvened the old band (minus co-frontperson Ana Matronic), and will bring along support act Allison Goldfrapp for a tour of the United Kingdom—long home to most of the U.S. band’s biggest fans. “It’s the 20th anniversary of our debut album, so it really feels like the right time to revisit all the intense excitement of that moment,” Shears said in a press release.
–Jazz Monroe
Sharon Van Etten
The return of Sharon Van Etten in 2025 is tied to a new project and gothic new-wave direction. Joined by new bandmates under the name Sharon Van Etten & the Attachment Theory, she’s putting out a self-titled album and hitting the road to give songs like “Afterlife” and “Southern Life (What It Must Be Like)” room to breathe onstage. Their North American tour begins on February 1, in Westerly, Rhode Island, and lasts until May 21, where they end their run in Los Angeles. Opening various concerts along the way are She Keeps Bees, Nabihah Iqbal, and Love Spells.
–Nina Corcoran
Sleigh Bells
Looking to get your eardrums blasted out? Sleigh Bells’ forthcoming tour might be the place for you. Last month, the noise-pop pioneers shared the single “Wanna Start a Band?,” their first new music in almost four years, and, in May, they’ll kick off a run of North American shows with stops in most major cities.
–Walden Green
Soccer Mommy
It’s only natural that Soccer Mommy would bring Evergreen, an album exploring loneliness and nature, snaking through the mountains and rivers of North America on tour. Her live shows start on January 22 in Atlanta, Georgia, and will bring Sophie Allison and her band across the United States and Canada through March. On April 26, they land in Lisbon for a European leg of the tour that wraps in Warszaw on May 22.
–Nina Corcoran
St. Vincent
Annie Clark has added dates to her tour behind the Grammy-winning St. Vincent album All Born Screaming. In addition to her April run, Clark will play a string of European and UK concerts in May, June, and July before returning Stateside to play a handful of arena shows as well as perform at the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland on August 29.
–Madison Bloom
Ty Segall
Ty Segall is kicking off a North American tour ahead of his next album Possession, which arrives May 30. The prolific rocker will hit the road April 4, playing KiMo Theatre in Albuquerque, before stopping over in Austin, Nashville, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Chicago, Omaha, Boise, and more. He’ll hit the West Coast for a bit in May and October—he even has a gig in Big Sur at the Henry Miller Memorial Library. His last stop will take place on October 18 at Sacramento’s Crest Theatre. Segall’s longtime collaborator and pal Mikal Cronin will support on select dates.
–Madison Bloom
Tyler Childers
Rustin’ in the rain no more, Tyler Childers is seeing in the spring with an expansive tour of North America that will keep him on the road all through summer. Support on the run—which includes two nights apiece at New York’s Forest Hills Stadium and Nashville’s Geodis Park—comes courtesy of the Hold Steady, Deer Tick, Wynonna, and S.G. Goodman, among others.
–Jazz Monroe
Tyler, the Creator
Unless you caught Tyler, the Creator on a shipping container in one of four cities or during his blowout set at his own Camp Flog Gnaw Carnival, your first opportunity to see him perform Chromakopia is fast approaching. The boundlessly creative rapper is bringing his show around North America, Europe, and Oceania nearly all year long. From the opening date in St. Paul, Minnesota on February 4 to the final concert in Perth, Australia, on September 4, Tyler, the Creator will be rounding out the shows with openers Lil Yachty and Paris Texas. Whether or not he’ll be feeling “Noid” from all the attention is up in the air.
–Nina Corcoran
The Weather Station
On January 17, the Weather Station returns with her first album in three years, Humanhood. Soon after, she’s bringing those songs to life onstage with an extensive, nearly nonstop tour. The Weather Station will begin the tour in England. From there, she performs in major cities across Europe and then makes her way to the United States and Canada, ending her route, in Toronto, on June 6.
–Nina Corcoran
The Weeknd
Hurry Up Tomorrow is here, but the dead of night stretches on for Abel “The Weeknd” Tesfaye, whose After Hours Til Dawn Tour powers through to daybreak with a new batch of stadium dates this spring and summer. As he prepares to put to bed the trilogy that began with After Hours, the Weeknd is bringing Playboi Carti and Mike Dean on a run that stretches from May to September with shows at some of North America’s biggest venues, including New Jersey’s MetLife Stadium and Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium.
–Jazz Monroe
“Weird Al” Yankovic
Everyone’s favorite accordion player is getting bigger and weirder in 2025 and you’re invited to watch. “Weird Al” Yankovic is taking over North America on a huge headline tour this summer, promising to merge his crowd-pleaser parodies and superfan deep cuts for a show overflowing with wild set design, costume changes, and plenty of props. Beginning with a headlining residency at the Venetian Theatre, in Las Vegas, the tour extends all the way to September 25, where Yankovic concludes the Bigger & Weirder Tour in Florida. “With twice as many players on stage, everything is going to sound twice as good!” he promises.
–Nina Corcoran
Wilco
Wilco has an itinerary planned throughout North America for this April and May. The tour includes several dates featuring special guest Waxahatchee, who will join the Chicago rock group’s stops in Miami Beach, Houston, Nashville, and Atlanta, among other cities. Wilco also have a run of performances in South America, the United Kingdom, and Europe lined up for this summer following their North American set.
–Eric Torres
Youth Lagoon
Not even two years after Heaven Is a Junkyard, Youth Lagoon is returning with a new album and a tour to ring it in. Trevor Powers plans to bring live renditions of Rarely Do I Dream to major cities across North America this spring, including Portland, Seattle, Los Angeles, Austin, Philadelphia, Brooklyn, Toronto, and Chicago. He’s going out on a high note with a set at Salt Lake City music festival Kilby Block Party on May 16.
–Nina Corcoran
