Greetings Rockers ’N’ Rollers! Baltimore’s own, Future Islands, concluded their 9-date Fountain Of Youth Tour in their hometown on May 28 at Pier Six Pavilion. The synth-pop indierock band relocated to Baltimore in 2008 from Greenville, North Carolina. Their current tour supported their May 22 album release, From a Hole in the Floor to a Fountain of Youth, a compilation album that is “a collection of deep cuts, rarities and live tracks.” Future Islands put on an amazing concert nearly filling the venue’s 4,600 capacity.
Harrisburg had plenty of great local artists the past month, including: The Martini Bros. opened the new McGrath’s Pub downtown 2nd Street on May 30, The Jellybricks free show at XL Live on June 5 with Very Fine Gentlemen and Seneca, and the label Rock Paper Records hosted a 15-year anniversary festival at Mechanicsburg’s Metropolis Collective on June 6 featuring numerous artists and bands: Bad Hints, Lebowskis, The Last Post, The Super High-Tech Jet Fighters, Edgewood, Brenton Garis, Corey Aiden among others.
Hersheypark Stadium held a free concert on June 13 to celebrate America’s 250th Anniversary. The night featured Chloe Flower, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts and the Avett Brothers featuring Mike Patton of Faith No More. South-African duo, The SoapGirls, have returned to America with over 30 tour dates. The two sisters recently played the Bowery Palace in NYC on June 21 and the Ottobar in Baltimore on June 24.
The highlight of this month, involved a trip to Denver, Colorado to visit the historical Red Rocks Amphitheatre. On June 17, Amyl and the Sniffers headlined the infamous Red Rocks with L7 and Dozen Party as support. The open-air amphitheatre opened in 1941 and is best recognized by two massive monoliths located in the hills of Morrison, Colorado. U2 brought great fame to Red Rocks in 1983 when they recorded a live concert. This list of artists is countless including; The Beatles, Johnny Cash, Jimi Hendrix, Bruce Springsteen, Depeche Mode, The Grateful Dead and most famously Widespread Panic with 72 appearances.
Danzig will undertake a brief tour of the U.S. in September around the band’s already announced appearance at Louder Than Life mid-month. The six-show run begins Sept. 11 at San Antonio and plays theaters in Houston, New Orleans, Nashville and Grand Prairie, Texas, before wrapping with an arena play at Anaheim Sept. 26. Danzig’s most recent show — also in Anaheim, at the House of Blues — was New Year’s Eve. The band had a brief tour in March 2025.
The Strokes are adding a hometown show to their global tour. The band from New York City announced a concert at Flushing Meadows Corona Park on Oct. 2, marking its first headline show in the city since 2023. The garage rock band are also bringing Beach House, TV on the Radio and Fcukers to support the memorable event, which will transform one of the Queen’s most iconic public spaces into a large open-air concert. The Strokes are currently on the road to promoting their upcoming seventh studio album, Reality Awaits, which will be released July 24. The band recenly performed at Philadelphia’s Mann Center on June 26 and Merriweather Post Pavilion on June 27.
Riot Fest has unveiled the lineup for 2026, featuring Tool, Twenty One Pilots, Pierce The Veil, Alanis Morissette, Rise Against, Social Distortion, Alkaline Trio, Bad Religion and more. The festival returns to Chicago’s Douglass Park Sept. 18-20 with more than 100 bands set to take the stage. The lineup also includes Nas, The All-American Rejects, The Format, Taking Back Sunday, Descendents, Pennywise, Bright Eyes, Mom Jeans, Morrissey, Iggy Pop, Elvis Costello & The Imposters, Pixies, Patti Smith and her band, Sugar, Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter, Twin Peaks, and many more.
After rocking Washington, D.C., June 13-14 with dozens of sets including Jimmy Eat World, Dance Gavin Dance, Third Eye Blind, New Found Glory, and Glassjaw, Vans Warped Tour has announced the beloved festival will return to the nation’s capital in 2027. Mark your calendars to June 19-20, 2027. The iconic fest will once again take place at Festival Grounds at RFK Campus. “It’s a pleasure to be back in Washington, D.C., bringing Vans Warped Tour back to the city,” Vans Warped Tour founder Kevin Lyman said. The 2027 edition will feature more than 100 artists spanning rock, pop punk, alternative, emo, hip-hop, ska and beyond.
Mere weeks after Kid Cudi removed M.I.A. from his Rebel Ragers Tour for making “offensive remarks,” the Sri Lankan artist is retaliating with a new lawsuit. Her team fired off a statement accusing Cudi of making “false allegations” against the “Paper Planes” singer. “Kid Cudi’s attempts to silence freedom of artistic expression and speech on his ‘Rebel Ragers Tour’ cannot go unchallenged.” M.I.A. is seeking $2.8 million from the Rebel Ragers Tour promoter and Live Nation. Attorneys for M.I.A. claim Live Nation agreed to pay her that amount “regardless of what she said on stage.” Kid Cudi kicked M.I.A. off the tour last month after she allegedly told a Dallas crowd, “I’ve been canceled for many reasons. I never thought I would be canceled for being a brown Republican voter,” and added that she wouldn’t perform her song “Illegal” because “there’s probably one in the crowd.”
Tom Morello is bringing “a non-partisan celebration day of peace, love, justice and music” this October to Merriweather Post Pavilion in Columbia, Maryland. The guitarist and singer announced Power To The People Festival, a single-day event that features special performances by Bruce Springsteen, Foo Fighters, Dave Matthews, Joan Baez, Jack Black and many more. The event features nearly two dozen acts performing on two stages. Other acts include Dropkick Murphys, Cypress Hill, Killer Mike, Serj Tankian of System Of A Down, Brittany Howard, The Linda Lindas and Taylor Momsen.
Farm Aid will make its debut in Virginia Beach, Virginia, in September, with an announcement inviting fans to “soak up the ocean air, enjoy incredible music and celebrate the farmers growing our food.” Board artists Willie Nelson, Neil Young (& The Chrome Hearts), John Mellencamp, Dave Matthews (& Tim Reynolds), Margo Price and Nathaniel Rateliff are set to take the stage. The festival is set for Sept. 26 at Veterans United Home Loans Amphitheater at Virginia Beach. Along with the board members, the event will feature performances from The Turnpike Troubadours, Lukas Nelson, Mike Campbell & The Dirty Knobs, Jesse Welles, Sierra Ferrell, Mon Rovîa, I’m With Her, Amythyst Kiah, Lily Meola and Chris Pierce. Nelson, Young and Mellencamp organized the first Farm Aid concert in 1985 “to raise awareness about the loss of family farms and to raise funds to keep farm families on the land” – and since then Farm Aid has raised more than $90 million “to promote a strong and resilient family farm system of agriculture.”
Fresh off a performance at Roots Picnic, hip-hop icon JAŸ-Z announced upcoming performances in Paris and Southern California. Jigga will perform at Stade de France Sept. 10 and at Inglewood, California’s SoFi Stadium Oct. 23. Those shows follow three July concerts at Yankee Stadium in New York.
Seven-time Grammy Award-winning artist, Alanis Morissette announces“Butterfly with a Machete,” a continuation of her sold-out Las Vegas residency from fall 2025. The limited-run shows Nov. 5,6,10 and 11, will be held at YouTube Theater in Los Angeles – the venue’s first residency. The shows are produced, performed and co-written by Morissette. Like her songs, no topic is off-limits. During her performance, Morissette dives deeply into some of the most harrowing moments of her life, while also shining a spotlight on some of the most joyous.
Robert Plant with his new band Saving Grace, celebrating their new album of the same title, have announced a fall tour, “Up The Sharp End,” with 16 stops in the U.S. Midwest and West Coast, kicking off in September. The Saving Grace album was six years in the making, with Plant and the group “exploring the evolution of roots music both vintage and modern.” The project began at Plant’s home on the Welsh borderlands in 2019. The Weekend continues to pile on to his record-breaking “After Hours Til Dawn Stadium Tour.” The global already surpassed 7.5 million tickets sold and $1 billion in global gross, making “After Hours Til Dawn” the highest-grossing tour by a male solo artist. The record-breaking trek, which began in 2022, has visited North America, Europe, the U.K., Latin America and Australia. The Weekend announced in May that his tour will conclude in Asia this fall. The final leg, which originally announced 11 stadium dates and has since expanded to 17 shows due to overwhelming demand.
Clive Davis, the record company lawyer who became one of the music industry’s most powerful figures, launching or resurrecting the careers of such superstars as Janis Joplin, Whitney Houston, Carlos Santana and Alicia Keys, died on June 22, at the age of 94.
Oliver Tree, an electronic pop singer known for popular songs “Miss You” and “Life Goes On,” died June 14 in a helicopter collision over Rio de Janeiro, Brazil. He was 32. Two helicopters collided and all six people aboard the aircrafts were killed. One of the helicopters crashed on a car dealership parking lot, which ignited a fire. Oliver Tree and popular Argentine YouTuber Gaspi, whose real name was Gaspar Prim, were two of five people who died in one of the helicopters. The other aircraft only carried its pilot. Tree recently performed shows in Latin America, including a concert in Mexico City and another in Buenos Aires. Tree’s biggest hit, “Miss You,” amassed nearly 800 million streams on Spotify, and “Life Goes On” isn’t far behind with 708 million.
A 51-year-old Connecticut man fell to his death from an upper deck of Madison Square Garden during a Goose concert on June 20. Police did not say how far the man fell, but said he was in Section 300. They identified him as Paul Kueker of Niantic, Connecticut. The rock band Goose stated the band was “reeling” from the tragedy. Goose played a concert the following day in Central Park and said all proceeds from the show would go toward a charitable fund providing support and resources for their fans. “We considered whether or not we were going to play and came to the decision that the best thing we can do right now is bring our community together, lean on one another, and offer a space for healing. So let’s be kind to each other tonight and remember our friend.”
JULY CONCERTS: Rick Springfield – Grantville Hollywood Casino July 10. Bret Michaels – Grantville Hollywood Casino July 11. The Swisher Sweets – Harrisburg XL Live July 17. Timmy’s Creepshow – Harrisburg Ted’s Bar & Grill July 18. Joe Russo – Harrisburg Riverfront Park July 19. The After Hours – Harrisburg Italian Lake July 26. Lake Street Dive – Harrisburg Riverfront Park July 31. The Super High-Tech Jet Fighters – Harrisburg Capital City Music Hall July 31.
