Gov’t Mule rang in 2026 with a New Year’s Eve stand at the Beacon Theatre in New York on Wednesday (12/31) for a New Years Run that included a totally different show at the venue the night before (12/30) and an opening salvo in Schenectady on 12/28.
While all the gigs were sizzling, led by legendary guitarist Warren Haynes on guitar and lead vocals, Matt Abts on drums and percussion, Danny Louis on keyboards, guitar, trumpet and backing vocals, and Kevin Scott on bass, it was the NYE concert that took it to the next level.
As MTV continues to distance itself from the music, one of the groups the channel helped launch (and vice versa) continues to roll on.
Duran Duran is wrapping up the US leg of their 2025-2026 tour in style, selling out arenas, earning rave reviews, and plastering smiles on the faces of their longtime fans.
Seeing your favorite band on New Years Eve is such a treat and since 1989 Phish fans have been lucky recipients as the group has followed in the footsteps of their biggest influence, the Grateful Dead, who also like to ring in the New Year on stage in trippy fashion.
Phish began their NYE gigs in Boston in 1989 and continued in 1990, and 1992. They did them in Worcester, MA in 1991 and 1993, Big Cypress, FL in 1999, and Miami, FL in 2014.
The Liverpudlian trio, The Wombats, formed in the early 2000s after singer and guitarist Matthew Murphy met bassist Tord Øverland-Knudsen and drummer Dan Haggis while studying at the Liverpool Institute for Performing Arts (LIPA).
Their breakthrough came with 2007's A Guide to Love, Loss & Desperation, and like the olympics follow-up LPs every four years from This Modern Glitch (2011) and Glitterbug (2015) helped grow their fanbase. It also didn't hurt that singles “Let’s Dance to Joy Division” and “Greek Tragedy” were embraced by UK and US audiences.
Taylor Swift closed the Eras Tour in 2024 with a final show that took place over a year ago (12/8/2024) at BC Place Stadium in Vancouver that ran for nearly two full years.
But as you can see from our Top 10 list of setlists, the popularity of that finale is stronger than ever with thousands of Swifties clicking the set each day.
Christmas came early this year as some of the biggest acts announced they will hit the road in 2026 to bring audiences around the world the music we all love.
Some of these announcements we blogged about the minute they were confirmed. The best way for you to get the info as fast as we write it is to bookmark this URL (https://www.setlist.fm/news/tour-dates) and refresh that bad boy a few times a day.
What began as a humble all-ages live music venue in Anaheim, California in the late 1990s under the name Public Storage Coffee Lounge evolved into Chain Reaction, a go-to spot for emo and alternative music just behind the Orange Curtain.
The first show we have in our database there is AFI in 1998. Sadly on Friday the Chain will host its final show.
At this time of the year we look forward by looking back.
Last week we listed which albums will hit their 20th anniversaries next year. Today we will peer back even further to records that will celebrate their 30th anniversary in 2026.
Is there anything better than going to a show, loving what you're hearing and seeing, singing along to your favorite songs, and then out of the blue the band announces someone else who you love... and they waltz on to the stage and together they make beautiful music together?
The surprise guest appearance is a fun part of live concerts we even have a category for it because we want to remember those moments forever.
As we have done with Top Setlists of 2025 and Top 10 Festivals here are the Top Ten Tours of this year derived by how many setlist fans like you clicked on the sets of those tours.
If you think about it, this is the most democratic and reasonable way to determine popularity: by how much you click around and investigate the sets.
Slash quietly pieced together a private, invitation-only show at the Capitol Theatre in Port Chester, NY on Thursday (12/11), amassing a supergroup billed as The Dirty Bats.
The Guns N' Roses guitar hero led the band and singers from Anthony Kiedis, Bruno Mars, Eddie Vedder, and Brandi Carlile through a litany of classic rock covers from Led Zeppelin to Queen to the Allman Brothers to Nirvana.
Cover songs are a way for the audience to hear a new twist on an old chestnut, a way for a band to pay tribute to their idols, and a good way to bond with an audience on a song everyone is a fan of.
Here are some of the best covers of 2025, some of which came from unlikely artists.
