Seasonal depressing hitting hard? Let live music be your salve. This year’s offerings include your requisite anniversary treks (Cat Power for The Greatest’s 20th; Belle and Sebastian’s twin 30th celebration for If You’re Feeling Sinister and Tigermilk); a pop star’s last hurrah—at least “for a long, long, long, long time (Ariana Grande); and an indie royalty team-up (a co-headlining run for collaborators/labelmates MJ Lenderman and Waxahatchee). You can learn more about those and many more in our rundown below.
Alabama Shakes
After more than seven years, Alabama Shakes have started to brush off the dust. In 2025, the band—who hadn’t put out any new music since 2015’s Sound & Color—shared the song “Another Life” and embarked on their first tour since 2017. Their return to the stage continues this year with another slate of North American shows set for the spring, including two nights at Red Rocks, plus a smattering of dates supporting country superstar Zach Bryan. —Walden Green
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Ariana Grande
Yes, it’s true: Ariana Grande said her upcoming shows—marking her first tour in seven years—are more of a “last hurrah.” On Amy Poehler’s podcast, Grande admitted another run “might not happen again for a long, long, long, long time.” Technically, she’s only playing 11 cities this summer before heading back to her Oscar-nominated career. But don’t view the two jobs as diverging routes. Instead, thank the Wicked films for getting Grande back on the tour bus at all, as the pop star credits working on the movie with “healing” her relationship to music and performing live. —Nina Corcoran
Autechre
Last year, Autechre visited North America for their first U.S. tour in a decade. They also played each show in pitch-dark (it was, by all accounts, a sensory overload.) Now the duo have plotted the TwentyTwentySix live tour, which includes similar gigs throughout Europe and Japan, and will conclude with Autechre’s biggest headline show to date: a set at London venue Magazine. —Nina Corcoran
Belle and Sebastian
Thirty years ago, Belle and Sebastian threw one of the decade’s strongest one-two punches in Tigermilk and If You’re Feeling Sinister. The Scottish indie-pop band is now honoring the anniversary of those LPs with a special tour where cities will be treated to two nights of music, trading off each full-album play before delivering a second set of “favorites.” Expect a rush of nostalgia for two of the decade’s best records and a renewed appreciation for these certified tentpoles of the genre. —Nina Corcoran
Black Eyes
Black Eyes, the experimental art-punk band from Washington, D.C., sound uncontrollable and borderline dangerous on their albums; close your eyes and you’re bumping elbows with them in their rehearsal space as they flail around. But if you live in North America, you could experience an even better scenario: Black Eyes live in concert. Ride the thrill of Hostile Design’s passionate wails and percussion overload when the group headlines eight shows to kick off the new year, making their way across California, Rhode Island, Quebec, Ontario, Pennsylvania, and Illinois with the same energy that once fueled their humble beginnings. —Nina Corcoran
Bob Dylan
Bob Dylan’s Rough and Rowdy Ways was an unlikely late-career triumph. Now, at 84, the mercurial singer-songwriter is a dozen legs into the tour behind the 2021 album, as it merrily proceeds into 2026. Dylan will lead his band on a survey of lesser-visited theaters and music halls across North America starting in the spring, balancing thoughtful new twists on his catalog with a gleeful determination to make it up as he goes along. —Jazz Monroe
Cardi B
Cardi B may not have stopped playing blockbuster concerts—she spent the seven years after Invasion of Privacy parlaying her massive breakout into world-conquering ubiquity—but the Little Miss Drama Tour is set to be her biggest adventure to date. The run behind her long-in-the-works album Am I the Drama? takes the unflappable rapper on a major trek around the nation’s arenas, including marquee shows at Madison Square Garden, Kia Forum, Chicago’s United Center, and dozens more venues. —Jazz Monroe
Cass McCombs
Cass McCombs writes the type of character studies that breathe with life in a live setting. The stories that populate his latest album, 2025’s Interior Live Oak, will take their turn in the spotlight when the singer-songwriter brings them on the road this year. After he makes his way across Switzerland, Turkey, England, and Ireland, McCombs returns to North America for over a dozen dates on his home turf. Joining him when he’s back are Chris Cohen and Hand Habits, who split the tour dates roughly in half. —Nina Corcoran
Cat Power
In a just world, Chan Marshall would be appointed with a full touring orchestra, nothing less, for her 20th anniversary tour of The Greatest. While that seems unlikely, her longstanding connections to some of Memphis, Tennessee’s studio veterans—forged in large part during the 2006 album’s recording—mean Marshall’s sure to have an ace band backing her up when she plays it in full across North America in February and March, then Europe and the United Kingdom this fall. —Walden Green
David Byrne
David Byrne’s sprawling tour of theaters and music halls around the world descends on Europe and Australasia in the coming months, following last year’s North American stint behind Who Is the Sky? Expect bells-and-whistles orchestral shows full of the oddball jokes, elaborate choreographies, and technological thrills that have made the Talking Heads frontman’s recent live show the biggest boon of his solo career. —Jazz Monroe
Doja Cat
Each time I grow tired of Doja Cat’s online antics, one of her performances wins me back: the broadcast correspondent character she brought to the 2023 VMAs, the mud choreography at Coachella 2024, the syncopated laughter she broke out during last year’s Saturday Night Live rendition of “Aaahh Men!.” The edgelord popstar is one of our few remaining triple-threat entertainers; she can sing, rap, and navigate complicated choreo. Her Tour Ma Vie World Tour is sure to be brimming with charisma and probably create at least a few days of insufferable internet discourse. —Walden Green
Dry Cleaning
Dry Cleaning will shuffle across North America and Europe with their deadpan chronicles of modern absurdity and ennui this spring. Supported by the decidedly more emphatic YHWH Nailgun, the British post-punks are on the road behind Secret Love, their Cate Le Bon-produced new album. —Jazz Monroe
Earl Sweatshirt
Earl Sweatshirt kicked off his latest tour with an uncharacteristically bold statement concert, headlining Red Rocks Amphitheater with Denzel Curry, Freddie Gibbs, and several more in tow. The ensuing tour of North America has now wrapped, but Earl is taking the show—billed as the 3LWorldTour—to Europe in the coming months, backed by Sideshow and Jadasea as he makes his way from Finland across the European mainland and over to England in the midwinter. —Jazz Monroe
Florence and the Machine
For over 15 years, Florence Welch has been cultivating her live-concert experience to be a place for emotional liberation and musical catharsis: think collective scream-alongs, hopeful manifestations, and a resounding belief that good will trump evil. The decibel meter at Florence and the Machine’s upcoming tour is about to jump to its highest levels yet as Welch leads arena-sized crowds through the purged, confrontational commands of Everybody Scream. Their sprawling tour lasts more than three months—beginning on February 6 and lasting through May 20—and brings a handful of stellar artists on the road as openers, including Mannequin Pussy, Rachel Chinouriri, CMAT, and Sofia Isella. —Nina Corcoran
FKA twigs
An FKA twigs performance is always a production, liable to feature any combination of modern dance, pole work, trapeze, vogue, and sword fighting. It’s easy to stand agog, but twigs’ twin 2025 albums—Eusexua and Eusexua Afterglow—are made for movement. With the arrival of spring, she’ll bring her rave of the mind to theaters and arenas—including Madison Square Garden—in North America, Europe, and the United Kingdom, with support from Yves Tumor (they appeared in the music video for “Perfect Stranger”) and Eartheater (that’s her making whale sounds on Eusexua’s title track), plus Tokischa and Brutalismus 3000. —Walden Green
Hayley Williams
Paramore is a band and, these days, so is Hayley Williams. The alt-rock singer-songwriter with bonafide pop-star status originally booked a solo tour extravaganza back in 2020 in support of Petals for Armor, but the pandemic scrapped those plans. With her new Grammy-nominated album Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party tucked under her arm, Williams is ready to embark on a solo tour for real this time. With a handful of major cities locking in multiple nights apiece—New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Nashville, Los Angeles—and other locations getting one-night-only shows, it’s best to heed history’s reminder and not miss the chance to see Williams perform her solo material while you can. —Nina Corcoran
Heavenly
Heavenly, the band that followed C86 trailblazers Talulah Gosh, have reunited for the second time since their split in 1996. After playing a handful of shows to back a 2023 reissue campaign, Amelia Fletcher and her indie-pop cohort will now embark on a full tour of the United Kingdom and North America, with additional dates in Greece, France, and Spain. —Jazz Monroe
Ichiko Aoba
After years bubbling up to wider consciousness, Ichiko Aoba has become, in all likelihood, the world’s most in-demand purveyor of ineffably subtle ambient folk. After a 2025 tour of her native Japan, the beguiling singer-songwriter returns to North America and Europe in 2026 to level up her ever-growing itinerary behind the revelatory Luminescent Creatures. —Jazz Monroe
JADE
If Jade Thirlwall could pack a puppet show, three costume changes, and aerial suspension into her four-minute performance at the 2025 BRIT Awards, imagine what she can do with the stage all to herself. Thirlwall’s live shows in support of her solo debut, That’s Showbiz Baby!, have been every bit as gaudy, glittery, and extravagant as the album itself, and she’ll stage another run across North America and Europe in February and March. —Walden Green
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
Following last year’s intimate solo tour—plus a rare one-off appearance with his old band Drive-By Truckers—Jason Isbell will be joined by his usual backing crew, the 400 Unit, on the road in ‘26. No word on the set list yet but we’re predicting a mix of songs from the 400 Unit’s last project, 2023’s Weathervanes, along with cuts from Isbell’s Foxes in the Snow, his stirring 2025 acoustic album partially inspired by his split from Amanda Shires. —Alex Suskind
Jeff Tweedy
Bob Dylan isn’t the only artist on a never-ending tour. Outside of COVID, Jeff Tweedy has spent some portion of every year on the road dating back to at least the late ‘90s. For the first half of 2026, the Wilco frontman is at it again, continuing last year’s tour supporting his sprawling 2025 triple-album, Twlight Override. Joining him on select dates are Liam Kazar, Sima Cunningham, and Macie Stewart. —Alex Suskind
Joyce Manor
California’s long lineage of pop-punk bands who rile up teens to scream along to every word is in good hands with Joyce Manor. Though they’re nearly two decades into their career—mind you, they aren’t trying to hide it, especially by titling their upcoming album I Used to Go to This Bar—Joyce Manor are as energetic onstage as ever. Catch them this spring as they make their way across North America with openers Militarie Gun, Teen Mortgage, and Combat. —Nina Corcoran
Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore
Julianna Barwick and Mary Lattimore are two of our preeminent ambassadors for ambient loveliness. The vocalist/producer and harpist collaborated on Barwick’s last solo album, 2020’s Healing is a Miracle, and more recently the Adult Swim single “Canyon Lights,” so when they announced a joint LP, what was most surprising was the fact it took this long. The duo’s accompanying live dates in North America and Europe, which run from February through mid-April, promise the same “musical telepathy” Barwick said they captured on Tragic Magic. —Walden Green
Lady Gaga
When her commitment to going big dovetailed with a renewed appreciation for her signature traits, Lady Gaga had to follow through with a tour that capitalized on her extravagance. Cue the Mayhem Ball, the pop star’s eighth concert tour, where Lady Gaga rises from a sand pit populated with skeletons, scales up a dress the size of a multi-story apartment building, and unravels the longest gown train a bride could ever dream of. This year, Lady Gaga brings the multi-act theatrical performance to Japan, Canada, and back to the United States for a bonus lap. —Nina Corcoran
Lily Allen
Main-character syndrome isn’t as hard to swallow when you set it to the tune of West End Girl’s sardonic, breezy Britpop. On her semi-autobiographical new album, Lily Allen airs out all of her dirty laundry, and the fresh scent that weaves between the fabrics suggests she feels much better after doing so. As such, expect catharses big and small for those in her arena-sized audiences when she brings her smash hit LP across England, Scotland, Wales, Ireland, and the U.S. right as the weather starts to warm up. Who’s to say you won’t spot Madeline or Alfie in the crowd, too?—Nina Corcoran
Little Feat
Launched in 1971 by former Mothers of Invention singer-guitarist Lowell George alongside keyboardist Bill Payne, bassist Roy Estrada, and drummer Richie Hayward, Little Feat would go on to release 18 studio albums across more than five decades—including their 1973 breakthrough effort Dixie Chicken and their rollicking 1978 live album, Waiting for Columbus. Now the veteran rockers will play those groovy, funkified blues one last time before closing up shop for good. The band’s aptly titled Last Farewell Tour kicks things off in Ft. Lauderdale before moving across the South and Midwest then finally wrapping it up in Webster, Massachusetts. —Alex Suskind
Mclusky
The Mclusky reunion is in full swing. The Welsh hardcore greats return to North America in the spring bearing songs from their early years as well as their reunion efforts. As frontman Andrew Falkous puts it, “Nostalgia—which is a powerful drug, it turns out—brought us back to your shores just a couple of years ago. Some people got to remember what they were like when they were 20—their hopes, their dreams, their fully operational knee joints. Now we all get a chance to break free from nostalgia, to prove to ourselves that we’re more than the cast of cocoon sporting telecasters.” Still, expect no more than a sprinkling of five or six songs from their latest album, The World Is Still Here and So Are We; “that’s the magic number for ‘new,’” Falkous reassures us. —Jazz Monroe
Melody’s Echo Chamber
Just before 2025 came to an end, French chanteuse Melody Prochet dawned her psych-pop cloak to release Unclouded, her first new Melody’s Echo Chamber album in three years. Its swirling indie-pop hooks and jammy prog-rock ideas are practically written with the vision of people dancing around you, their hands raised in the air. If the mood’s just right, that will be a reality when Melody’s Echo Chamber go on tour this spring. Expect dreamy vibes brought to life by even dreamier music. –Nina Corcoran
My Chemical Romance
Of course My Chemical Romance were going to give The Black Parade the melodramatic fanfare it deserved for its anniversary. That celebration began last summer with an over-the-top run of stadium shows boasting themed outfits and unique openers at each stop; now it’s continuing through most of 2026 in North and South America, Europe, and Asia. Everyone from Iggy Pop to the Breeders are slated to kick things off before the band brings their 2006 opus to life through set dressings about fascism, greed, and resisting oppression. —Nina Corcoran
MJ Lenderman and Waxahatchee
It’s a joint billing that feels inevitable yet still surprising, given just how thoroughly booked MJ Lenderman and Katie Crutchfield find themselves these days. The crown prince and princess of indie Americana will co-headline a run of North American dates in the spring, each performing their own sets and, one hopes, joining up for the songs Lenderman played guitar and sang on from Waxahatchee’s 2024 album Tigers Blood. If you catch me sobbing in the crowd when they sing “Right Back To It” together—no you didn’t. —Walden Green
Neko Case
For nearly three decades, Neko Case’s voice has drawn constant comparisons to natural phenomena—tough and tender as tree roots, wild as a cyclone. As Case continues touring Neon Grey Midnight Green across North America, fellow New Pornographer Dan Bejar will play a solo Destroyer set at select dates, making for a heady counterpart to her untamable presence. Just be sure to maintain a safe distance from the speakers, or you’re liable to get blown away. —Walden Green
The New Pornographers
The New Pornographers will be joined by Okkervil River’s Will Sheff on this run of shows accompanying the as-yet-unannounced follow-up to 2023’s Continue as a Guest. It will be their first album and tour since the shocking arrest, imprisonment, and dismissal of drummer Joe Seiders on child pornography charges. His live replacement has not yet been confirmed, but Charley Drayton rerecorded Seiders’ parts on the forthcoming album.—Jazz Monroe
Nine Inch Nails
Who among us doesn’t want to watch Trent Reznor sweat and writhe around, enveloped in fog machine smoke, as he bangs on various synthesizers and drum machines? If you missed the chance to experience this for yourself last year, Nine Inch Nails are extending their 2025 Peel It Back Tour with more than 20 new shows across North America in February and March. —Walden Green
Oklou
Against the odds, Oklou has found a way to translate her gorgeously cloistered and insular Choke Enough productions into an otherworldly stage show. Those who missed the initial run behind the record can see for themselves as the French singer-producer expands into 2026, starting in Australasia before announcing her U.S. arrival with Coachella shows in mid-April. Dates across the country lead to her Terminal 5 concert in New York in May, followed by European appearances at Primavera and its Porto edition. —Jazz Monroe
Peaches
Lace up your furry knee-highs and throw that jumbo tube of Astroglide in your bag: Peaches is following up her first album in more than a decade with what promises to be one of the year’s most raucous stages shows. The No Lube So Rude Tour will hit 27 dates across North America, with openers Model/Actriz and Cortisa Star in tow. Even better news: A dollar from each ticket sale goes to Trans Justice Funding Project. “When the world is friction, lube isn’t a luxury. It’s a necessity,” Peaches said in a statement. “It’s how you turn that friction into pleasure, into power, into pride.” —Alex Suskind
Perfume Genius
Since his earliest boy-and-a-piano performances, Mike Hadreas’ artistry has only grown in scope and ambition. Last year’s tour in support of his latest Perfume Genius album, Glory, featured a full band and elements of modern dance drawn from his work with choreographer Kate Wallich. But in 2026, Hadreas is going back to basics. The Duo Tour will see him joined by his longtime creative and life partner, Alan Wyffels, for a series of stripped-down shows across the East Coast and Midwest. “I miss a lot of those older songs and how intense they could be with just the two of us,” Hadreas said in a press release. “We’re excited to go back there.” —Walden Green
PinkPantheress
PinkPantheress is returning Stateside. Following a very limited North American run of her An Evening with PinkPantheress concert series last year, the British producer and pop star will return to the United States and Canada for a full month of shows in support of her 2025 mixtape, Fancy That, and its remixed companion project, Fancy Some More? Expect breakdancing DJs, club-ready mashups, and lots and lots of plaid. —Walden Green
Ratboys
Julia Steiner found the name for Ratboys’ new album, Singin’ to an Empty Chair, from a visualization technique that her therapist encouraged her to try out. It’s insular and private in practice, but what it yielded—big indie-rock songs about reckoning with what’s lost, addressing a loved one held at bay, examining herself without flinching—will sound even brighter live. Good thing Ratboys are heading out on a lengthy tour soon; the Chicago band will perform across North America for nearly two months straight, beginning in Detroit on February 25 and ending in their hometown of Chicago on April 18. –Nina Corcoran
Rosalía
Rosalía pulled out all the stops when creating her new album Lux—arranging the LP into four movements, singing in 13 languages, incorporating classical and avant-garde passages—and she’s doing the same on her upcoming tour, too. The Spanish singer and global superstar is setting her sights high on this upcoming spring leg in support of her fourth album, as she’s bringing her vision to arenas in Europe, North America, and South America. No wonder she plans to start the shows promptly and with no openers; that full onstage time will be spent bringing her new opus to life in all its grandeur. —Nina Corcoran
Super Furry Animals
Back in September, Super Furry Animals announced their first tour in a decade. The Welsh melody merchants kick things off in May, bringing their psych-pop blazers and splendorous baroque-pop to venues around the United Kingdom and Ireland. No shows further afield have yet been announced, but the handful of dates—which wrap with two nights at London’s Brixton Academy—take the band right up to the start of festival season. —Jazz Monroe
Sudan Archives
On her latest album as Sudan Archives, Brittney Parks is a techno Terminator sent back in time to annihilate the dancefloor. Kicking off later this month, Parks’ tour in support of The BPM will see her cross North America twice over before wrapping up with a hometown show at Los Angeles’ Fonda Theatre on February 20. —Walden Green
Tori Amos
There are musicians who bite their tongues to avoid alienating fans or making headlines, and then there’s Tori Amos. Over 45 years into her career, the singer-songwriter remains tricky to pin down in sound or style, except for one consistent facet of her musicianship: using the platform to speak out. Amos’ sprawling tour this spring will fill rooms with new songs about “the fight for democracy over tyranny,” the core theme of her upcoming album In Times of Dragons, and should land with as much fiery passion as her past piano epics about a crisis of faith or overcoming gendered trauma. She may have soundtracked her own children’s book just last year, but that doesn’t mean Amos has softened her bite or the toothy imprint it leaves behind. —Nina Corcoran
“Weird Al” Yankovic
Parody is an artform that’s being lost to time, in part due to cheap attempts to replicate it and others overcomplicating it entirely. Leave it to “Weird Al” Yankovic to remind us how it’s done and give us another opportunity to appreciate it up close. His stellar Bigger & Weirder Tour got a massive expansion that stretches the dates from May on through to October. Don your brightest Hawaiian shirt, eat a UHF Twinkie hotdog, and relish the blitz of his accordion pastiches and nonstop costume changes. —Nina Corcoran
Westerman
Westerman continued to expand his off-piste sophistipop universe with November’s A Jackal’s Wedding, presenting an aesthetic as in tune with pop tricksters like Dijon or Bon Iver as more natural contemporaries like Nilüfer Yanya. After a smattering of shows on both sides of the Atlantic around the album, a new run of dates begins in Europe in February before a return for a proper North American jaunt—including shows in Brooklyn, Chicago, Toronto, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C. —Jazz Monroe
Zach Bryan
Zach Bryan is gunning for that indie cred. Among the openers set for With Heaven on Tour are golden-boy guitarist MJ Lenderman, alt-R&B innovator Dijon, and Alabama Shakes, who are mounting their comeback (see above) after nearly a decade. Then again, if you find yourself forgetting that Bryan is one of country music’s biggest stars, simply consult the run of dates, which spans from March 7 to October 10—more than half the calendar year. —Walden Green
