In all fairness to 2016 (Paul McCartney) and 2017 (U2), this year is shaping up to be my best concert season yet. And if you’re asking if I count concerts I work, I do, unless I didn’t see the show because I was too busy ejecting people. Selected openers in parenthesis.

Here’s what I’ll be seeing and updating this year. May alone is worth this post.

C = Comedy

UPDATE: I didn’t rank shows until COVID

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January

King Tuff

Sublime w/ Rome

February

Dropkick Murphys

March

Quinn XCII

Metric (July Talk)

C. Tape Face

Demetri Martin

April

Muse (Walk the Moon)

Telekinesis (SONTALK)

Tesla

Rick Springfield

May

DMX

Lucius (Pure Bathing Culture)

Snow Patrol (We Are Scientists, Ryan McMullan)

Glenn Hughes of Deep Purple

The Who

Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls (Shovel & Rope, Trapper Schoepp)

Caroline Rose (Kississippi)

MGMT (Warpaint)

The Cult

Local Natives (Middle Kids)

Hozier

June

Paul McCartney

Trampled By Turtles

Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit (Father John Misty, Jade Bird)

Josh Groban

The National (Courtney Barnett)

The Beths

Flora Cash

The Lonely Island (T-Pain)

Bon Iver (Lord Huron, Julien Baker)

July

Johnnyswim

C. Patton Oswalt

Heart Bones

Kurt Vile

MoPop Day 1 (Vampire Weekend, Lizzo, King Princess, Wallows)

Nas

August

Beach House

Off With Their Heads (Single Mothers)

Hellyeah (Nonpoint, Sleep Signals)

Queen + Adam Lambert

September

Titus Andronicus (Control Top)

The Head and the Heart

STRFKR

Blackberry Smoke (The Record Company)

Strand of Oaks

PUP (Potty Mouth, Illuminati Hotties)

October

Orville Peck (The Bobby Tenderloin Universe)

The Black Keys (Modest Mouse)

C. Theo Von

Andy Grammer (Ben Rector)

C. Jay & Silent Bob Reboot

Titus Andronicus (Partner)

November

C. Chelsea Handler

Wilco

C. Jim Breuer

C. Lewis Black

Anamanaguchi

Blues Traveler

Third Eye Blind

C. Steve-O

Ski Mask the Slump God

December

C. Tom Segura

Chevelle

Damien Escobar