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Currently On Tour
What it's actually like to see each artist live. 274 guides and counting.
Beyoncé
On TourR&B · Cowboy Carter Tour 2025
A three-hour, 34-40 song showcase of live vocal performance and emotional precision, where 70,000 women sit down during ballads and the parking lot stays silent for ten minutes after the show ends because nobody is ready to leave yet.
Bad Bunny
On TourLatin · DeBí TiRAR MáS FOToS World Tour 2025-2026
The biggest house party on the planet, held in a stadium. 50,000 people singing every verse in Spanish at full volume while a camera-shaped lanyard around your neck flashes colors you didn't choose, and after "Mónaco" a countdown introduces a song that will never be performed again on this tour. Only your city gets it.
Kendrick Lamar
On TourHip-Hop · Grand National Tour
At the 2024 "Pop Out" show in Los Angeles, Kendrick performed "Not Like Us" five times consecutively because the crowd refused to let him move on. By the fifth run-through, the entire stadium was spitting the lyrics in unison, and he was smiling through it. This is what a Kendrick Lamar concert looks like: 50 songs over nearly three hours with SZA, a Buick GNX rolling out as his entrance, stadium production built for 50,000-plus fans, and a crowd that doesn't attend passively.
Chappell Roan
On TourPop · Visions of Damsels and Other Dangerous Things 2025-2026
A different elaborate drag-inspired costume at every show, a theme the crowd dresses to match, the YMCA of this generation spelled out in arm choreography during "HOT TO GO!," and a "Pink Pony Club" closer that makes 40,000 people cry in unison. This is a queer community party disguised as a pop concert.
Zach Bryan
On TourCountry · With Heaven On Tour 2026
No backing tracks, no pyro, no video walls. Just string lights, a full band playing everything live, a crowd that sings deep album cuts at stadium volume, and a 15-minute "Revival" encore where every musician gets a solo.
Metallica
On TourMetal · M72 World Tour 2026
Two nights in your city, zero repeated songs, and James Hetfield's downpicking hand driving every riff while fire columns erupt on every chorus of "Fuel" and synchronized pyro turns the bridge of "One" into a battlefield you feel in your chest from Row 30.
Iconic Venues
Seating intel, parking strategy, and the stuff the venue website won't tell you.
Red Rocks Amphitheatre
Morrison, CO · Amphitheater
The only naturally occurring amphitheater where the acoustics are so perfect you can hear a whisper from the stage, carved into red sandstone 6,450 feet above sea level in a canyon outside Denver.
Madison Square Garden
New York, NY · Arena
The World's Most Famous Arena built its reputation on precision: steep upper bowl sections place row 1 of the 200s closer to the stage than row 20 of most arenas' lower bowls, direct subway access literally opens into MSG's basement, and 150 consecutive months of Billy Joel shows shaped the acoustic engineering. You walk in knowing you're in a legendary room.
Sphere
Las Vegas, NV · Arena
A 366-foot tall spherical building wrapped in 580,000 square feet of programmable LED makes the building itself the primary visual element. The venue design means sightlines and the concert experience vary more dramatically by section than at any other arena you've attended.
The Ryman Auditorium
Nashville, TN · Theater
The Mother Church of Country Music. A 2,362-capacity wooden-pew theater built as a sacred tabernacle in 1892, famous as the original home of the Grand Ole Opry (1943–1974), known for acoustics so naturally perfect that touring musicians cite it as one of the best-sounding venues in America.
Hollywood Bowl
Los Angeles, CA · Amphitheater
The only hilltop amphitheater in a major city where the entire experience is shaped by BYOB picnic culture, bench seating compression, marine layer cooling, and the eternal question: are benches worth $28 when orchestra seats cost $85?
Forest Hills Stadium
Forest Hills, NY · Stadium
A former US Open tennis stadium converted into a 13,000-seat concert venue in residential Queens, where the steep grandstand geometry puts the back row closer than the front row of most arenas. Built in 1923, closed for concerts, then fought through a neighborhood legal battle in 2025 to reclaim its license. No parking allowed. No BYOB alcohol. Don't expect a generic arena experience.
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This Month in Concert History
September moments that changed a live show, from our artist guides.
Metallica ’91
35 years ago
Half a million Soviets, admission free
At the free Monsters of Rock festival, the Moscow City Police Department put the Tushino Airfield crowd at nearly half a million by the evening, months before the Soviet Union dissolved. Uniformed soldiers and police posted at the front to control the crowd gave up after a few songs, stripping off their gear and, as one attendee recalled, ending up "out there headbanging and having a good time."
Turning points →
Sep 3System of a Down ’01
25 years ago
The free Toxicity show that became a riot
A free Toxicity release show on September 3, 2001 in a Schrader Boulevard parking lot drew far more than the site's roughly 5,000 capacity on Labor Day, and was canceled before the band played a note. Fans stormed the stage, causing around $30,000 in property damage.
Turning points →
Sep 30The Fray ’06
20 years ago
Sold-out hometown headline at Red Rocks
The Denver band played a sold-out headline set at Red Rocks Amphitheatre to a mostly college-aged crowd, a homecoming that guitarist Joe King called "the highlight of our career" and that moved them from opening slots and clubs to headlining the region's marquee amphitheater as "How to Save a Life" broke.
Turning points →
Festival Guides
Multi-day logistics, camping tips, and what it's really like on the grounds.
Bonnaroo
Manchester, TN · 4-day camping
A 700-acre Tennessee farm where four camping tiers, 10-plus stages, and 80,000 fans build a temporary city around the Centeroo arch every June. The festival has run on this same Manchester farm since 2002, and the only way to do it is to drive in, camp, and stay.
Lollapalooza Chicago
Chicago, IL · 4-day urban
A four-day, eight-stage music festival in downtown Chicago's Grant Park where ~115,000 fans a day fill a lakefront spine of stages stretched between the T-Mobile and Bud Light headliner ends, the CTA Red Line is the only sensible way in or out, and August storms are a near-certainty over the four days.
Fresh from Still Ringing
Concert news & culture. Issues on Wednesdays, deep cuts on Thursdays.
Deep CutAug 27, 2026
Why Concert Ticket Fees Are So High (And Always Will Be)
The service fee was never an add-on to your concert ticket. It's the actual price, and the low number on the poster was always just the advertisement.
The Number
$9.5 billion
Combined gross for the top 100 worldwide touring artists in 2024, an all-time record. The very top of the pyramid has never been richer, the same season three mid-size festivals in this issue folded.
From: Bonnaroo Cancels 2027, and the Phone Problem →
Concert Law
No. 13 · The canon
The phone up for the whole song is someone who already left the room.
From: Bonnaroo Cancels 2027, and the Phone Problem →
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