The 26 music events we’re most looking forward to in 2026

Music followers are nonetheless catching their breath from a busy 2025 – in any case, just a few years are greater than when there is a new Taylor Swift album.

However 2026 is simply across the nook, with a plethora of album releases, excursions, movies, books and different occasions lined as much as please followers of all tastes. Every little thing hasn’t been revealed but, however we all know sufficient to make an early decide from these 26 music moments we’re most wanting ahead to in ’26…

• Geddy Lee and Alex Lifeson’s sudden return to the highway to have fun their fiftieth anniversary – the primary tour in 10 years, and for the reason that dying of drummer Neil Peart – lands Aug. 26 and 28 at Little Caesars Enviornment, 2645 Woodward Ave., Detroit. 313-471-7000 or 313Presents.com. You’ll be able to heat up with the Rush Tribute Venture on February 20 at Fillmore Detroit (2115 Woodward Ave., 313-961-5451 or thefillmoredetroit.com), and with one other reunited Canadian trio of comparable classic, Triumph, which celebrates its personal golden anniversary on Could 30 on the Michigan Lottery Amphitheatre, 14900 Metro Parkway, Sterling Heights. 313-471-7000 or 313Presents.com.

• The Rolling Stones have confirmed the recording of a brand new album in 2026 as a follow-up to 2023’s Grammy Award-winning ‘Hackney Diamonds’, teaming up once more with producer Andrew Watt. Nevertheless, the group has made plans for a European tour this 12 months as a result of guitarist Keith Richards, normally probably the most enthusiastic Stone on the highway, can’t commit.

• Foo Fighters returns in an enormous method; the primary live performance right here since 2018 will happen on August 6 at Ford Area, the second date of the summer time stadium tour and the biggest live performance within the metro space up to now. It follows a brand new single, ‘Asking For a Pal’, with extra new materials anticipated earlier than the live performance.

• Alt-rock heroes My Chemical Romance will march The Black Parade 2026 into city on August 21 at Comerica Park, with Michigan-bred roc icon Iggy Pop opening. This shall be a part of MCR’s twentieth anniversary celebration of its third album, “The Black Parade,” a quadruple platinum hit that reached No. 2 on the Billboard 200.

• Madonna has confirmed she’s getting again into the swing of issues with ‘Confessions On a Dance Ground 2’, a follow-up to her platinum, dance (duh!) oriented album from 2005. Stuart Worth, her key collaborator on the earlier set, is alleged to be again on board this time.

• After being a part of Willie Nelson’s final pair of Outlaw Music Festivals in Pine Knob, Bob Dylan makes his first theater look within the metro space since 2017 on April 4 on the Masonic Temple Theater, 500 Temple St., Detroit. 313-548-1320 or themesonic.com.

• Oasis could also be taking a break after their triumphant reunion in 2025, however Britain shall be bringing loads of musical highlights within the new 12 months. Highlights embody Damned’s covers assortment “Not Like Everyone Else” (Jan. 23), new albums from the Buzzcocks (“Perspective Adjustment, Jan. 30), Kula Shaker (“Wormslayer, Jan. 30); “Brat” hitmaker Charli XCX’s “Wuthering Heights” soundtrack (Feb. 13); Coiffure Hundred (“Boxing the Compass,” March 20) and Joe Jackson (“Hope and Fury,” April 10). Squeeze’s Glen Tilbrook and Chris Difford, in the meantime, revisit the songs they wrote as youngsters in 1974 on “Trixies” (March 6). And do not forget Echo & the Bunnymen, who return to Fillmore Detroit, 2115 Woodward Ave., on June 16. Doorways at 7 p.m. 313-961-5451 or thefillmoredetroit.com.

• It’s going to be a last trip, albeit a protracted one, for the Huge 4 of 1 thrash metallic. Megadeth founder Dave Mustaine, who’s battling the debilitating hand situation Dupuytren’s contracture, says “Megadeth,” out Jan. 23, would be the quartet’s last album, although the farewell tour will possible final one other two or extra years earlier than the band reaches its everlasting relaxation.

• With Ok-pop hotter than ever because of “KPop Demon Hunters,” the market is prepared for the return of BTS. The members of the South Korean septet have all accomplished their necessary army service and, in keeping with group chief RA, have been engaged on new music that “shall be actually nice!!” Anticipate to listen to from it within the spring, with a world tour announcement anticipated quickly. Within the meantime, we’ll get a Ok-pop repair when Twice performs April 10 at Little Caesars Enviornment, 2645 Woodward Ave., Detroit. 313-471-7000 or 313Presents.com.

• The late Sylvia Moy, a Motown songwriter and producer who labored carefully with Stevie Marvel, is the topic of a brand new biography, “It is No Marvel,” by Margena A. Christian, out Feb. 10 from Da Capo Press.

• George Clinton shall be in the home when “Symphonic PFunk: Celebrating the Music of Parliament Funkadelic” burns down the mutha with symphonic preparations of the P-Funk classics, orchestrated by “Dancing With the Stars” music director Ray Chew – with visitor appearances from Nona Hendryx, Dwelling Color’s Vernon Reid and Rashaan Patterson – on Jan. 31 on the Detroit Opera Home, 1526 Broadway St. 313-237-7464 or detroitopera.org.

• Nation troubadour Zach Bryan, who set an attendance report at Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor final September, has been releasing particular person songs since “The Nice American Bar Scene” got here out in 2024. Now we get to listen to his sixth studio set, ‘With Heaven On Prime’, when it is launched on January 9.

• Sole surviving Monkees member Micky Dolenz will have fun the group’s sixtieth anniversary with a efficiency March 5 on the Royal Oak Music Theater, 318 W. Fourth St. 248-399-2980 or royaloakmusictheatre.com.

• The Fillmore Detroit is dwelling to various nation artists on their solution to the highest like Stephen Wilson Jr. would be the headliner on March 11, adopted by Ernest two days later. 2115 Woodward Ave. Doorways at 7pm 313-961-5451 or thefillmoredetroit.com.

• Florence + the Machine by no means disappoints, and after delivering among the best albums of 2025, “Emotional Scream,” the British group will make some noise April 13 at Little Caesars Enviornment, 2645 Woodward Ave., Detroit. 313-471-7000 or 313Presents.com.

• Swedish pop singer Zara Larsson is clearly on an enviornment observe, so see her up shut and private whilst you can on March 17 on the Royal Oak Music Theater, 318 W. Fourth St. 248-399-2980 or royaloakmusictheatre.com.

• Award-winning movie director Baz Luhrmann crowns The King once more. He follows up the 2022 biopic “Elvis” with “EPiC: Elvis Presley in Live performance,” based mostly on unseen footage he found whereas engaged on its predecessor. The movie premiered on the Toronto Worldwide Movie Pageant in September and can hit theaters on February 20.

• It has been a dramatic eight years for New Yorker and Rihanna placing strain on A$AP Rocky. After being acquitted of a gun cost final 12 months, he returns with a brand new album, “Do not Be Dumb,” on Jan. 16 and performs on NBC’s “Saturday Night time Reside” the next evening.

• The metro space’s theater scene will see various debuts this 12 months (together with “The Outsiders,” “& Juliet” and “Suffs”), however the first half of the 12 months schedule is stuffed with returning, confirmed favorites, together with: “Monty Python’s Spamalot,” Jan. 27-31 on the Fisher Theater; “The Phantom of the Opera,” Feb. 4-15, Detroit Opera Home; “The Lion King,” Mach April 12-5, Detroit Opera Home;” “Mamma Mia!”, March 24-29, Fisher Theater; and “Hamilton,” April 29-Could 17, Fisher Theater. broadwayindetroit.com for everybody.

• The primary weekend of February shall be huge at Orchestra Corridor, when the Detroit Symphony Orchestra world premieres “Omar” – based mostly on the 1831 memoir of Omar ibn Saidi – by Pulitzer Prize winners Rhiannon Giddens and Michael Abels, earlier than being joined by the Paradise Theater Huge Band for Wynton Marsalis’ “Swing Symphony.” The performances will happen at 8:00 PM, 6:00 PM and seven:00 PM and on February 8 at 3:00 PM. 3711 Woodward Ave., Detroit. 313-576-5111 or dso.org.

• “The Handmaid’s Story” returns to the stage when Poul Rudgers and Paul Bentley’s adaptation of Margaret Atwood’s novel – which preceded the TV sequence – opens March 1, 5 and seven on the Detroit Opera Home, 1526. Broadway St. Atwood himself will seem for a dialog on January 26. 313-237-7464 or detroitopera.org.

• The award-winning musical adaptation of Meat Loaf’s “Bat Out of Hell,” by the late composer Jim Steinman, was canceled right here in 2018 however returns for one evening solely on April 8 on the Fox Theater, 2211 Woodward Ave., Detroit. 313-471-7000 or 313Presents.com.

• The Detroit Symphony Orchestra’s Northern Lights Pageant, that includes violinist Johan Dalene, presents three performances of Scandinavian classics April September 11 at Orchestra Corridor, 3711 Woodward Ave., Detroit. 313-576-5111 or dso.org.

• British singer Yungblud had a banner 2025 along with his fourth album, “Idols,” his rendition of Black Sabbath’s “Adjustments” for the Again to the Starting live performance final July and his “One Extra Time” EP with Aerosmith in November. All that may make him a sizzling ticket on Could 1 when he returns to the Michigan Lottery Amphitheater, 14900 Metro Parkway, Sterling Heights. 313-471-7000 or 313Presents.com.

• 4 Non Blondes has been inactive since 1992, however we nonetheless hear “What’s Up?” with nice regularity. The group has a brand new album deliberate for 2026, whereas Linda Perry, who has written and produced hits for quite a few different artists, additionally has her personal solo album, ‘It Dies Right here’, deliberate.

• Rock en Español supergroup Mana, which obtained its first Rock and Roll Corridor of Fame nomination final 12 months, will make its second-ever metro look Nov. 1 at Little Caesars Enviornment, 2645 Woodward Ave., Detroit. 313-471-7000 or 313Presents.com.