Alphabetical lists are for phone books. Here’s every major tour worth circling on your calendar this year, grouped by genre so you can skip to what you care most about. You’re welcome.
BIG POP / ARENA
Bruno Mars
Bruno Mars dropped his first solo album in a decade last month and is spending the rest of the year on the road to prove it wasn’t a fluke. The Romantic Tour launches in Las Vegas, where he’s basically a resident at this point. Anderson .Paak rides along at every date under his DJ alias, DJ Pee .Wee. Leon Thomas, Victoria Monét, and Raye each join for separate legs. It’s a lot of star power for one tour, but Mars has always known how to fill a room.
BTS
Every member of BTS finished mandatory South Korean military service, and tens of millions of K-pop fans held their collective breath waiting. Now the world’s biggest boy band (by some measures, the biggest ever) is back with a five-continent tour. If you care at all about participating in popular culture right now, this is the one.
Cardi B
Cardi B spent seven years after Invasion of Privacy conquering every room she walked into without releasing a proper follow-up. Now Am I the Drama? is out, and the Little Miss Drama Tour is her biggest run yet: arenas everywhere, Madison Square Garden, Kia Forum, United Center, dozens more. She did not come to play.
Florence and the Machine
Florence Welch has spent 15 years turning concerts into emotional exorcisms, and the Everybody Scream Tour is exactly what the name suggests. The run started February 6, wraps May 20, and features Mannequin Pussy, Rachel Chinouriri, CMAT, and Sofia Isella opening on various nights. Bring your voice. You’ll use it.
Rosalía
Rosalía’s new album Lux is an opera disguised as a pop record: four movements, 13 languages, classical passages, avant-garde detours. The tour matches the ambition. No openers. Arenas across Europe, North America, and South America. Every minute of stage time is hers, and she’s going to use all of it.
Lily Allen
Lily Allen is back with West End Girl, a semi-autobiographical record that airs out her dirty laundry with the confidence of someone who has absolutely nothing left to lose. The tour hits U.S. arenas as the weather warms up. Sardonic Britpop at arena scale is a specific thing, and she does it better than anyone.
Hayley Williams
Paramore’s singer had a solo tour booked in 2020 behind Petals for Armor. The pandemic killed it. Now, with Grammy-nominated album Ego Death at a Bachelorette Party in hand, she’s actually doing it. New York, Chicago, Philadelphia, Nashville, Los Angeles each get multiple nights. Do not assume you can wait on this one. History already taught that lesson once.
FKA twigs
An FKA twigs show is part concert, part performance art: modern dance, pole work, trapeze, vogue, sword fighting, take your pick. The Body High Tour brings Eusexua and Eusexua Afterglow to theaters and arenas across North America, Europe, and the UK this spring, with Yves Tumor, Eartheater, Tokischa, and Brutalismus 3000 supporting on various dates. Spectacular is an understatement.
PinkPantheress
After a limited North American run last year, PinkPantheress is back for a full month of U.S. and Canadian dates behind 2025 mixtape Fancy That and its remix companion Fancy Some More. Expect breakdancing DJs, club mashups, and a lot of plaid. She makes nostalgia feel like the future, which is a neat trick.
Summer Walker
Summer Walker released Over It in 2019, Still Over It in 2021, and Finally Over It in 2025. Apparently she’s still not done. A 19-show arena tour covers the whole trilogy. Fresh off two Grammy nominations for “Heart Of A Woman,” she’s bringing British-Nigerian singer Odeal and rapper Monaleo along for the ride.
R&B / SOUL / HIP-HOP
Jill Scott
Jill Scott has been gone for over a decade and To Whom This May Concern is the return you actually hoped for: funny, funky, and sharp. She’s going on a world tour behind it, and that Grammy-nominated ode to human life, “Beautiful People,” is going to wreck people live. Get the tickets.
Ari Lennox
After leaving J. Cole’s Dreamville label in 2025, the direction of Ari Lennox’s next record was anybody’s guess. Vacancy settled it fast. Her third album leads with that warm, buttery voice over slow grooves, and it works. Her first tour since 2022 launches in Seattle on April 12 and hits San Diego, Chicago, Toronto, and Brooklyn over two months.
Kid Cudi
Kid Cudi’s first headlining run since 2022 is called the Rebel Ragers tour, which tells you everything. He’s bringing M.I.A. and Big Boi to every single date. Not select shows, every show. A-Trak, Me N Ü, and Dot Da Genius boost select stops further. This is not a subtle tour.
Freddie Gibbs
Fresh off his 2025 Alfredo run with the Alchemist, Freddie Gibbs couldn’t wait to get back out. The Gary, Indiana rapper kicks off a short solo run May 15, with electro-funk crooner Nourished By Time supporting the first five shows. Short but electric.
INDIE ROCK / ALT
MJ Lenderman and Waxahatchee
Two of indie Americana’s best right now, co-headlining a North American run starting in April. MJ Lenderman and Katie Crutchfield each play their own sets, and if they share the stage for “Right Back To It,” the song Lenderman played guitar and sang on from Tigers Blood. The room is going to fall apart in the best way. Inevitable billing that still somehow feels like a gift.
Mitski
The Mitski of 2026 is a different artist than the one who screamed into her fretboard at the NPR Tiny Desk. Her last tour was cinematic enough to become a concert film. Nothing’s Going to Happen to Me has the most elaborate visual world of any Mitski record, and extended residencies in New York, Los Angeles, and Sydney are built for production to match. Given what she can do with a table and some kneepads, that’s a serious promise.
Wilco
Yes, they tour constantly. No, that’s not a complaint. It’s a Wilco show. Jeff Tweedy and the band do a spring run through the southern U.S. before headlining two nights of their own Solid Sound Festival in Massachusetts in June. Bring your dad. Or just embrace the dad within. Either works.
Snail Mail
Lindsey Jordan has stayed busy since Valentine: founded a Baltimore festival, toured solo in 2023, played with Dinosaur Jr. last year. Now she’s back with a fresh North American run behind third album Ricochet. A decade on and off the road shows in every performance. She’s one of the best live acts in indie rock right now.
Band of Horses
Twenty years ago this month, Band of Horses released Everything All the Time and hit the ground running with “The Funeral” and “Our Swords.” Ben Bridwell is taking the band across the U.S. this spring to celebrate the anniversary. “This album made all of my dreams come true,” he said when the tour was announced. Hard not to root for that.
Black Country, New Road
Since losing Isaac Wood in 2025, the now-sextet released Forever Howlong and took it on the road. Now they’re back for a second North American run with Chicago trio Horsegirl opening. If you’ve listened to Live at Bush Hall and wondered when it would be your turn: here you go.
Joyce Manor
Nearly two decades in, Joyce Manor remains one of California’s best pop-punk bands. Their new album I Used to Go to This Bar is already self-aware enough to earn some goodwill, and they’re still as energetic live as they were starting out. Militarie Gun, Teen Mortgage, and Combat open on the spring North American run.
Kevin Morby
Kevin Morby is on the road for nearly three full months behind his new record: U.S., Canada, and over a dozen European cities, May 8 in Woodstock through July 18 in Munich. The new songs have warmth and sunshine baked in. Live, that’s going to feel good.
Ratboys
Julia Steiner found the name Singin’ to an Empty Chair from a therapy visualization exercise. What it produced was big indie rock songs about grief, reckoning, and self-examination. is going to sound even bigger live. The Chicago band is already mid-tour through North America, wrapping at home on April 18.
Underscores
Hyperpop’s most interesting voice is ready for her pop-star moment, and the “Do It” music video makes no secret of it. The Galleria North American Chapter tour kicks off in May behind new album U, with Umru in support. She earned this.
Grace Ives
Grace Ives got sober in California, rebuilt herself, and made Girlfriend. Her longest headline run yet spans North America, Europe, and the UK, with a release show in Los Angeles and a Brooklyn date at Music Hall of Williamsburg anchoring the home stretch. A real comeback story, told through genuinely great songs.
Lala Lala
After I Want the Door to Open in 2022, Lillie West went off-grid. She spent time in the high desert of Taos, hiked eight hours through Icelandic snow, rebuilt. Heaven 2 is existential synth-pop for the depressed digital age, and she’s bringing it to North America now. Worth paying attention to.
Fcukers
The New York duo of Shanny Wise and Jackson Walker Lewis make deadpan downtown Manhattan indie and are skipping New York entirely on their debut headlining tour (except a slot at Governor’s Ball). San Francisco, Denver, Boston: they’re doing the country a favor. Catch them before the venues get bigger.
Model/Actriz
They dropped a surprise EP called Swan Songs this week alongside announcing tour dates for last year’s Pirouette. Three new tracks and a batch of spring U.S. dates before heading to Europe in early fall. Their desire for drama and noise is inexhaustible. That’s not a complaint.
The Beths
New Zealand’s premier indie-pop hook machine is back in the U.S. for the second year running this June, fresh off a spring run through Australasia. Still touring behind last year’s Straight Line Was a Lie, the quartet opens their U.S. run at Governors Ball in New York, works down the East Coast, and cuts into the Midwest before heading to Europe later in the year. Four people making the most joyful noise in indie rock right now.
The New Pornographers
The New Pornographers are touring their follow-up to 2023’s Continue as a Guest with Okkervil River’s Will Sheff joining on the road. Their first album and tour since drummer Joe Seiders was arrested and removed from the band on child pornography charges. Charley Drayton rerecorded the drum parts on the new record. The music moves forward.
Gelli Haha
Angel Abaya’s first ever headlining run is an invitation into the neon funhouse of 2025 breakthrough Switcheroo. The tour opens this week at the Roxy in L.A. and includes stops at Treefort Music Festival in Boise and Kilby Block Party in Salt Lake City. She’s the kind of artist who makes venues feel alive.
INDIE FOLK / SINGER-SONGWRITER
Perfume Genius
Last year’s Glory tour was full band, modern dance, big production. The 2026 Duo Tour strips all of that away: just Mike Hadreas and longtime creative partner Alan Wyffels, East Coast and Midwest dates only. “I miss a lot of those older songs and how intense they could be with just the two of us,” Hadreas said. That intimacy is going to hit hard.
Bill Callahan
Bill Callahan takes his My Days of 58 core band (guitarist Matt Kinsey, tenor saxophonist Dustin Laurenzi, and drummer Jim White) on the road this spring, preceded by a solo warmup hitting record stores along the East Coast. The album deals with health and mortality. The live setup is small enough to let none of that get lost.
Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit
After last year’s solo tour, Isbell is back with the 400 Unit in tow for 2026. Expect a mix of Weathervanes cuts and songs from 2025 acoustic record Foxes in the Snow, partially inspired by his split from Amanda Shires. The 400 Unit makes everything hit harder.
Cass McCombs
Cass McCombs writes character studies that breathe best live, and Interior Live Oak is full of them. After a run through Switzerland, Turkey, England, and Ireland, he returns to North America for over a dozen dates, with Chris Cohen and Hand Habits splitting support duties. Essential for anyone who takes songwriting seriously.
Ichiko Aoba
Ichiko Aoba is quietly the most in-demand ambient folk artist alive right now. After touring Japan in 2025, she returns to North America and Europe behind the remarkable Luminescent Creatures. Small venues, complete attention required.
José González
The Argentinian-Swedish guitarist’s new record Against the Dying of the Light is exactly the kind of album you want playing during a long walk outside. The tour starts in Boston on April 21 before heading west. Pastoral guitar in an era of noise and chaos. It lands differently right now.
Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore
Two of the best ambient artists working today, a vocalist/producer and a harpist, finally made a joint album, Tragic Magic, and are touring it through North America and Europe into mid-April. They describe it as “musical telepathy.” That’s not hype. It’s accurate.
POST-PUNK / NOISE / EXPERIMENTAL
ADULT.
Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller have been making synth-punk together for over 25 years, and Kissing Luck Goodbye sounds like they’re still hungry. The tour kicks off April 10 in Pittsburgh. “The chaos is what they want,” they sing on “R U 4 $ale.” They mean it.
Black Eyes
Experimental art-punk from Washington D.C. that sounds borderline dangerous on record. Close your eyes and you’re jammed into their rehearsal space while they flail. Eight North American shows across California, Rhode Island, Quebec, Ontario, Pennsylvania, and Illinois. The live show is even better than the albums, which is saying something.
Dry Cleaning
Dry Cleaning’s deadpan chronicles of modern absurdity hit differently backed by a full band. The British post-punks are on the road behind Secret Love, their Cate Le Bon-produced new record, with YHWH Nailgun supporting. North America and Europe this season.
Lip Critic
New York electronic punk that treats identity theft as the premise for an entire album. Theft World is as unhinged as it sounds, and live those monologued hardcore earworms are going to be something. Bejalvin and Flatwounds support on the spring North American run.
Mclusky
The Welsh hardcore legends are back for another North American run behind The World Is Still Here and So Are We. Frontman Andrew Falkous promises no more than five or six new songs per night. “That’s the magic number for ‘new,’” he says. The rest of the set is the catalog that made them legends in the first place. Fine by everyone.
Sunn O)))
The ushers hand out ear protection. Do not wave it off like a rookie. The drone-metal kings kick off their North American trek in Phoenix this April. The volume alone is an experience. Prepare accordingly.
The Messthetics and James Brandon Lewis
Fugazi’s rhythm section plus a post-bop saxophonist equals something that defies easy description. The April-May run behind Deface the Currency hits both coasts and closes at D.C.’s Black Cat. Funk and hardcore and punk and jazz all at once, in venues usually reserved for only one of those things.
American Football
Before LP4 was even officially confirmed, American Football had already laid out an extensive tour, a thank-you to a reverent international fanbase, they’ve maintained for 20-plus years. Mei Seimones, Ian Sweet, Marconi Union, and Afternoon Bike Ride support on select dates. A dollar from every ticket goes to Safe Passage International and the Illinois Coalition for Immigration & Refugee Rights.
ELECTRONIC / DANCE / CLUB
Oklou
Oklou somehow translated her insular, cloistered Choke Enough productions into an otherworldly stage show, and those who missed the initial run can see for themselves this spring. After Australasia, she hits the U.S. starting with Coachella in April, runs through Terminal 5 in New York in May, then heads to Primavera in Barcelona and Porto. Rare artist.
Smerz
The Norwegian duo’s Big City Life gets a second spring run. After Australia and New Zealand, they sweep through European and North American theaters, concert halls, one opera house in Toronto, and reportedly a bowling alley in Cleveland. Summer brings Primavera dates and support slots on Robyn’s Sexistential Tour. The stage show is impeccably chic.
Avalon Emerson & the Charm
Playing dream-pop songs on festival stages taught Avalon Emerson something: those songs needed more bass. Written Into Changes finds a middle ground in ’90s big beat, and she’s bringing it to Europe and California this spring. The DJ sets fill rooms. The new record is built to match.
Fakemink
The UK underground’s most talked-about voice has a Frank Ocean cosign, a Gucci runway walk, and a Dante’s Inferno-inspired album called Terrified on the way. The North American and European tour opens with two Coachella dates and closes at Poland’s CLOUT Festival. First chance for most international fans to see him outside of Instagram Live.
LEGACY / CLASSIC ACTS
Bruce Springsteen
The E Street Band is still out here doing it: hours-long shows, sold-out venues, Stevie Van Zandt solos that feel like the first time every time. The Land of Hope and Dreams Tour hits coast to coast: two nights at Kia Forum in Inglewood and four around New York at Madison Square Garden, Barclays Center, and UBS Arena. Nobody does this at this scale anymore.
Bob Dylan
At 84, Bob Dylan is a dozen legs deep into the Rough and Rowdy Ways tour and still going. The 2026 leg hits lesser-visited theaters and music halls across North America, balancing new arrangements of old songs with whatever he decides to do on a given night. Nobody knows what they’re going to get. That’s part of the deal.
David Byrne
David Byrne’s tour behind Who Is the Sky? comes back to North America before heading to Europe again: orchestral bells-and-whistles shows full of odd jokes, elaborate choreography, and genuine technological spectacle. His solo live show has become the best thing he’s done since Talking Heads. That’s not faint praise.
Belle and Sebastian
Tigermilk and If You’re Feeling Sinister both turn 30 this year, and Belle and Sebastian are celebrating the right way: two nights per city, each playing one full album before a second set of fan favorites. Thirty years of those records’ influence on indie pop is hard to overstate. Seeing both played front to back is the kind of thing you tell people about.
Devo
Several years into a farewell marathon, Devo shows no signs of actually leaving. The latest batch of dates includes more co-headlines with the B-52’s, this time bringing the pairing to the UK, plus another North American run straddling Coachella in April. At some point this becomes their job description.
Alabama Shakes
More than seven years between records and Alabama Shakes sound like they never left. “Another Life” landed in 2025 and their first tour since 2017 picked right back up. This spring brings more North American dates including two nights at Red Rocks, plus select support slots on Zach Bryan’s massive run. The comeback is real.
Tori Amos
Forty-five years into her career, Tori Amos is still biting. The European spring leg behind In Times of Dragons features new songs about the fight for democracy over tyranny and arrives with the same fire as her best piano records. She soundtracked a children’s book last year. She has not gone soft.
Super Furry Animals
Super Furry Animals announced their first tour in a decade back in September, and the Supacabra run finally kicks off in May across the UK and Ireland, wrapping with two nights at London’s Brixton Academy. No international dates announced yet. Psych-pop at its most playful, back where it belongs.
WU LYF
WU LYF hasn’t toured in 14 years and has a new album, A Wave That Will Never Break, out April 10, for the first time in 15. The European leg is already underway and U.S. dates are coming. This is not a nostalgia run. They have something to say.
Little Feat
Launched in 1971, Little Feat is closing up shop for good with the aptly named Last Farewell Tour. Dixie Chicken, Waiting for Columbus, 18 studio albums across five decades. It’s a catalog worth honoring. The run started in Fort Lauderdale and moves through the South and Midwest before finishing in Webster, Massachusetts. A real ending.
Heavenly
Heavenly, the band that followed C86 trailblazers Talulah Gosh, have reunited a second time since their 1996 split. After backing a 2023 reissue campaign, Amelia Fletcher and her indie-pop crew are doing a full run: UK, North America, plus dates in Greece, France, and Spain. For the faithful, this is not something to miss.
Melody’s Echo Chamber
Melody Prochet dropped Unclouded just before the end of 2025, the first new Melody’s Echo Chamber record in three years, swirling with indie-pop hooks and jammy prog-rock ideas. The EU/UK and U.S. tour dates this spring are the first chance to see what that sounds like live. Expect people dancing with their hands in the air.
Peaches
Peaches is back with her first album in over a decade and the No Lube So Rude Tour: 27 North American dates, Model/Actriz and Cortisa Star opening, a dollar from every ticket going to Trans Justice Funding Project. “When the world is friction, lube isn’t a luxury,” she said. One of the most reliably wild live acts alive.
WILD CARDS
Flea
After nearly 50 years as rock’s most recognizable bassist, Flea is going back to his roots as a jazz trumpet player. His first solo album Honora is out later this month and the tour follows. The album features Thom Yorke, Nick Cave, Bright Eyes’ Nate Walcott, and Jeff Parker. Whether any of them show up live is unknown. That mystery alone is worth the price.
Zach Bryan
Zach Bryan is gunning for indie credibility on With Heaven on Tour: MJ Lenderman, Dijon, and Alabama Shakes are all opening at various points. The run started March 7 and goes through October 10. More than half the calendar year. Country music’s biggest current star doing something interesting with the platform. Worth noting.
King Tuff
Vermont-raised, California-built garage rock fixture Kyle Thomas has a new album called Moo and a tour called the Moo Tour. It kicks off in Brooklyn this April. Straightforward, fun, and exactly what it says on the tin.
