Imagine it or not, Taylor Swift’s return isn’t the one musical occasion on the horizon this fall. Right here’s what we’re most excited to see, learn and take heed to within the months forward.
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Neil Younger and the Chrome Hearts on the Hollywood Bowl (Sept. 15)
The veteran rocker will wrap his newest world tour — ostensibly booked behind June’s “Talkin to the Timber” album — with a sure-to-be-shaggy gig on the Hollywood Bowl. The Chrome Hearts are Spooner Oldham on organ, Micah Nelson on guitar, Corey McCormick on bass and Anthony LoGerfo on drums. — Mikael Wooden
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9 Inch Nails on the Kia Discussion board (Sept. 18 and 19)
At any time when 9 Inch Nails returns to the street, a beloved meme circulates of Trent Reznor riling up his crowd: “Having a superb time? Able to occasion? Properly, that was the final guys. Incorrect band. We’re right here to have a nasty time. (Synthesizer enjoying.)” By these requirements, this summer season goes to be an especially dangerous time for devotees of NIN’s industrial rock. The band has a brand new album of types out Sept. 19 in “Tron: Ares,” the most recent movie rating from Reznor and his companion Atticus Ross. Then their “Peel It Again” tour hits the Discussion board for 2 nights; the band appears to be like to be enjoying within the spherical for some experimental passages earlier than firing on all cylinders with its new (and previous) drummer, Josh Freese, who they swapped in from Foo Fighters simply days earlier than the tour began. Most intriguingly, the Future Ruins Music and Arts Pageant on the Los Angeles Equestrian Middle on Nov. 8 will spotlight avant-garde movie music from Cristobal Tapia de Veer, Hildur Guðnadóttir, John Carpenter and Questlove, amongst many others. — August Brown
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Cardi B, “Am I the Drama?” (Sept. 19)
One signal of how lengthy Cardi B has been getting ready her sophomore studio album: The final monitor on the LP is “WAP,” her blockbuster collaboration with Megan Thee Stallion that topped Billboard’s Sizzling 100 … again in the summertime of 2020. — MW
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Mariah Carey, “Right here for It All” (Sept. 26)
Recent off receiving the Video Vanguard Award at MTV’s VMAs, Carey will launch her first studio LP since “Warning” in 2018. “Right here for It All” marks her reunion with the veteran document exec L.A. Reid, who served as government producer on the album (as he did on Carey’s smash 2005 comeback, “The Emancipation of Mimi”). — MW
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Laufey at Crypto.com Enviornment (Sept. 26 and 27)
This younger pop-jazz singer from Iceland shot a live performance film final yr on the Hollywood Bowl; now she’s doubling down with two adopted-hometown reveals at Crypto.com Enviornment simply as her album “A Matter of Time” is garnering substantial Grammy buzz. — MW
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Tate McRae on the Kia Discussion board (Sept. 26 and 27 and Nov. 8)
The primary pop women have been increasing their portfolios of late. After displaying off a limber pop sound on 2023’s “Suppose Later” that made full use of her dance presents, McRae proved her endurance with this yr’s “So Near What,” which topped the Billboard 200 by pulling from a wealthy seam of Y2K R&B and membership jams. But she scored her first No. 1 single with the Morgan Wallen collab “What I Need.” No matter you consider Wallen — and McRae’s younger, queer fan base had ideas — the track confirmed that McRae’s Alberta roots might drop proper right into a pop-country setting. — AB
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Lionel Richie, “Actually” (Sept. 30)
Between his judging gig on “American Idol” and his position because the principal narrator of Netflix’s hit “We Are the World” doc, Richie hasn’t precisely made it laborious of late to listen to his tales of the previous days. Nonetheless, he’s promised to inform all on this memoir, which he’ll focus on onstage Oct. 6 on the Orpheum Theatre. — MW
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Taylor Swift, “The Lifetime of a Showgirl” (Oct. 3)
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Dua Lipa on the Kia Discussion board (Oct. 4, 5, 7 and eight)
Lipa has discovered a formidable second life as a public mental together with her improbable guide membership, Service95. (This month’s suggestion: Helen Garner’s “This Home of Grief,” a true-crime meditation on the inscrutability of intent and the boundaries of empathy.) However on the heels of final yr’s (unfairly!) slept-on “Radical Optimism,” the singer returns to SoCal for 4 nights on the Discussion board, the place that document’s beautiful catalog of disco-funk effervescence will hopefully get its due on the dance ground. — AB
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Sleep Token at Crypto.com Enviornment (Oct. 11)
Sleep Token is by some measures the largest heavy rock band on the earth proper now. Its Could LP “Even in Arcadia” demolished streaming data for a steel act, reaching nicely past the style’s cantankerous core fan base, which has combined emotions about Sleep Token’s pop chart success, to say the least. (Nobody is extra skeptical concerning the band’s new fame than its cryptically nameless entrance individual Vessel: “Proper foot within the roses, left foot on a landmine,” he sings in “Caramel,” “They will sing the phrases whereas I cry into the bass line.”) The band’s high-drama reside reveals are the place Sleep Token actually shines, although, as on this return to L.A. for a set that lastly gives the size its runic masks, robes and necrotic physique paint have at all times known as for. — AB
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Lorde on the Kia Discussion board (Oct. 18)
Simply as her era has, by all accounts, sobered up and gone sexless, Lorde returned this yr with a defiant album concerning the giddy rush of partying and the scary ramifications of a physique in the hunt for pleasure. “Virgin” pulls her again to the experimental electro-pop many followers have been hoping for after the comparatively complacent “Photo voltaic Energy,” and the album is brimming with startling meditations on being pregnant scares, familial inheritance and the malleability of gender. — AB
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“Depeche Mode: M” (Oct. 28)
Is there any deeper love in music than that between Mexicans and gothic Brits? Depeche Mode has been the topic of a number of nice live performance movies (particularly 1989’s “Depeche Mode: 101,” which captures a Rose Bowl present from the attitude of the band’s ecstatic L.A. fan tradition). However “Depeche Mode: M” is completely different and poignant, utilizing its 2023 “Memento Mori” tour to drill down into particularly Mexican conceptions of demise and remembrance within the wake of the demise of co-founder Andy “Fletch” Fletcher. The movie is a deep act of respect to the rites of one of many group’s most passionate fan bases, whose practices helped Fletcher’s survivors come to grips with the thriller of demise in their very own band. — AB
“The Beatles Anthology” (Nov. 26)
Thirty years after the Beatles-nostalgia equipment kicked into excessive gear with the discharge of 1995’s sprawling multimedia “Anthology” sequence, the largest band in pop historical past is increasing that franchise by including a ninth episode to the much-loved eight-part documentary. (The brand new installment, which can stream on Disney+, is alleged to incorporate behind-the-scenes footage of, uh, the Beatles engaged on the unique “Anthology.”) On Nov. 21, the group can even drop a fourth quantity within the “Anthology” album sequence, this one with 13 beforehand unreleased rarities. — MW
