5/10 Andrew WK 5/17 Sum 41 5/26 Bled Fest 5/29 Gin Blossoms 5/30 The Menzingers 6/1 New Found Glory 6/2 Soccer Mommy 6/3 Citizen 6/5 The Wonder Years 6/8 Marcy Playground / Local H 6/20 Homesafe 6/23 Three Stacks Festival (Against Me!) 6/29 Paramore 6/30 Buckcherry / P.O.D. / Lit / Alien Ant Farm 7/7 Arcade Fire 7/8 Gucci Mane 7/13 Weezer / Pixies 7/14 The Matches 7/18 Vans Warped Tour 7/20 Vans Warped Tour 7/28 Mo Pop Day 1 (Bon Iver) 7/28 Deafheaven 7/29 Mo Pop Day 2 (The National) 8/3 Ben Folds 8/4 Excellency Music Fest (Tiny Moving Parts) 8/14 311 / The Offspring 8/19 The Mighty Mighty Bosstones 8/25 Jeff Daniels 9/8 Car Seat Headrest 9/14 Riot Fest 9/15 Riot Fest 9/16 Riot Fest
5/5 - Protest the Hero 5/19 - Chvrches* 5/24 - Queens of the Stone Age/Royal Blood 5/26 - New Found Glory/Bayside 5/29 - Slayer/Lamb of God 5/30 - The Decemberists 5/31 - Andrew McMahon in the Wildnerness 6/3 - Field Trip Festival (Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Alvvays, Japandroids) 6/5 - PBTT/TWIABP 6/6 - The Wonder Years/Tigers Jaw/Tiny Moving Parts/Worriers 6/9 - Jack White 6/11 - Quiet Slang 6/12 - TDE Championship Tour 6/15 - Have Mercy performing The Earth Pushed Back 6/18 - Paramore* 6/23 - Arkells* 6/26 - Code Orange* 7/6 - Anthony Green performing Avalon 7/7 - Beck* 7/9 - Courtney Barnett 7/12 - Foo Fighters 7/14 - Weezer/Pixies/The Wombats 7/17 - Warped Tour 7/20 - Radiohead 7/22 - P!ATD 7/24 - Fleet Foxes 7/27 - Deafheaven 7/28 - Rise Against/AFI 8/4 - The National/Father John Misty/Julien Baker 8/5 - Arctic Monkeys 8/10 - The Gaslight Anthem performing The '59 Sound 8/18 - The Mighty Mighty Bosstones 8/28 - 311/The Offspring 9/2 - Mac Demarco 9/19 - Mastodon/Dinosaur Jr.* 9/20 - Frank Turner* 9/28 - James Bay* * - maybe
I'm seeing Hop Along this Thursday, then Turnstile/Touche and Power Trip/ Fury next week, then Boston Calling all 3 days later in the month
I have Phoebe Bridgers and slam dunk this month and am psyched for both. Can’t wait to see Phoebe live!
I’ve got Citizen/Oso Oso, Frank Turner/The Menzingers, and Radiohead so far. Hopefully Deafheaven and Death Cab/Charly Bliss too.
All Chicago area (unless stated otherwise): 5.4 Taking Back Emo - Emo cover band doing a tribute to Fueled By Ramen bands 5.8 Jimmy Eat World / Microwave / The Hotelier 5.12/13 Northern Invasion (upper WI) 5.25 Myles Kennedy 5.26 Otherwise (Coming to see one of the openers tbh) 6.5 New Found Glory / Bayside / Ryan Key 6.8 The Killers / Foster The People / Sir Sly (Indiana) 7.21 - Warped Tour (Tinley Park, IL) 7.23 Warped Tour (Milwaukee) 7.24 3 Doors Down / Collective Soul 7.25 Rage Tour 7.26 Taking Back Sunday / Coheed & Cambria / The Story So Far 7.27 Shinedown / Godsmack 7.28 Gin Blossoms / Tonic / Vertical Horizon 8.29 Breaking Benjamin / FFDP / Nothing More / Bad Wolves 10.26 The Goo Goo Dolls Oh man, July is going to be tough...
This is a good week for Nashville. Bad week for my wallet. Andrew McMahon was this past friday, and then Jimmy Eat World & Dashboard Confessional back to back next weekend.
St Vincent Frank Turner Arctic Monkeys Royal Blood (maybe...) Jimmy Eat World Taking Back Sunday / Coheed & Cambria Glassjaw Portugal. The Man
What I have tickets for: Warped Tour (Orlando) Fall Out Boy Coheed and Cambria/Taking Back Sunday What I plan on getting tickets to: The Wonder Years Paramore Panic! At the Disco Elton John
Last week was Andrew McMahon and Calexico, which rocked. The stuff I've got coming up isn't thaaat exciting, and usually shows are last minute decisions for me. Tix Confirmed: Red Wing Roots Fest (ft. Josh Ritter, Trampled By Turtles, I'm With Her, and other fantastic artists - July 13-15) Beyonce + Jay-Z On The Run II (East Rutherford, NJ - 8/2) On the fence about getting tix: Rhiannon Giddens (Richmond - 6/8) Lake Street Dive (Richmond - 7/2) Need to get tix: Parquet Courts (Richmond - 6/15) Hop Along (Charlottesville - 7/28) Death Cab (Charlottesville - 10/18)
Upcoming shows: Modest Mouse (5/22) Blink 182 (5/23) And a few others I’m planning on but haven’t bought tickets for yet
Queens of the Stone Age on Friday here in Rochester, and then seeing Meg Myers in NYC next month (June 18)
7/7 Harry Styles 8/12 Panic at the Disco 10/2 Fall Out Boy 10/27 Christina Aguilera I don't usually go to a lot of big shows so this will be an unusual few months for me!