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CRANKiT ENTERTAINMENT is your front-row source for live music promotion, festival announcements, artist news, and the concert events worth building a weekend around. From massive multi-day rock and country festivals to packed venue shows and one-off special events, we spotlight the shows worth showing up for — and connect fans straight to tickets, lineups, and everything in between.
We cover the biggest names in live music — Brantley Gilbert, Parmalee, NICKELBACK, Jason Aldean, Aaron Lewis, Bret Michaels, Blake Shelton, Papa Roach, Luke Combs, Morgan Wallen, Jelly Roll, Bailey Zimmerman, Lainey Wilson, Dan + Shay, Ella Langley, Luke Grimes, and dozens more. Wait, did we mention the HUGE NEWS for FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE! Our Artists page links directly to official sites, tour dates, and social channels so the freshest info is always one click away.
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Concert Spotlight · This Sunday
Shinedown: Dance, Kid, Dance Act II
📅 Sunday, July 26, 2026 — 7:00 PM · 📍 Spectrum Center, Charlotte, NC
Charlotte, it’s almost showtime. Shinedown brings the Dance, Kid, Dance Act II World Tour to Spectrum Center for one massive arena night in Uptown. With a record-breaking run of #1 Mainstream Rock singles — “Second Chance,” “Sound of Madness,” “Simple Man” — the Jacksonville rockers deliver one of the most powerful live shows in the game.
ON THE BILL
⚡ Shinedown
⚡ Skillet
⚡ From Ashes To New
Doors open one hour before showtime. Tickets and VIP upgrade add-ons are on sale now — don’t wait on this one.
Get Tickets 🎟️Festival Spotlight · Country
VOA Country Music Fest
📅 August 6–9, 2026 · 📍 West Chester, OH
Four days of live country in the Heart of it All. The Voices of America Country Music Fest returns to West Chester, Ohio with a bill built for legends and hitmakers alike — from arena-filling headliners to the next wave of Nashville stars.
HEADLINERS
🤠 Brad Paisley
🤠 Rascal Flatts
🤠 Blake Shelton
Also featuring: Jordan Davis, Scotty McCreery, Lee Brice, Dustin Lynch, Tyler Hubbard, LeAnn Rimes, Easton Corbin, Rodney Atkins, Ashley Cooke, LOCASH and more. Weekend passes, hotel packages, and buy-now-pay-later options are available now.
Get Tickets 🎟️Festival Spotlight · Small Town Series
Rock The Country — Hastings, MI
📅 August 8–9, 2026 · 📍 Barry Expo Center, Hastings, MI
Rock The Country brings big-stage firepower to America’s small towns — and the Hastings stop delivers a heartland triple threat.
ON THE BILL
🎤 Kid Rock
🎤 Jason Aldean
🎤 Brantley Gilbert
Festival Spotlight · 20th Anniversary
Rocklahoma XX
📅 September 4–6, 2026 · 📍 Rockin’ Red Dirt Ranch, Pryor, OK
Twenty years of campground chaos, pit anthems, and red dirt sunrises — and Rocklahoma is celebrating with the most explosive lineup in its history. America’s longest-running destination rock festival returns to Pryor, Oklahoma over Labor Day Weekend with three nights of heavy-hitting headliners and 40+ acts, kicked off by the Thursday Night Throwdown on September 3, hosted all weekend by SiriusXM’s Eddie Trunk.
HEADLINERS
🎸 Friday: Godsmack
🎸 Saturday: Papa Roach — first Rocklahoma since 2015
🎸 Sunday: Slayer — celebrating 40 years of Reign In Blood
Also featuring: Stone Temple Pilots, Hollywood Undead, Yelawolf, Buckcherry, Slaughter, Black Stone Cherry, The Pretty Reckless, Black Label Society and 40+ more. Weekend passes, VIP packages, camping, and premium experiences are on sale now — with Rock Now, Pay Later options through Affirm.
Get Passes 🎟️Festival Spotlight · Rock & Metal
Louder Than Life 2026
📅 September 17–20, 2026 · 📍 Highland Festival Grounds at KY Expo Center, Louisville, KY
America’s Largest Rock & Metal Festival returns to Louisville with a bill that has to be seen to be believed — five monster headliners, a farewell run, a U.S. exclusive, and 150+ artists across four days of pure sonic destruction.
HEADLINERS
⚡ My Chemical Romance
⚡ Iron Maiden
⚡ Tool
⚡ Limp Bizkit
⚡ Pantera — their ONLY U.S. show
Also featuring: Megadeth on their farewell tour, BABYMETAL, Gojira, The Prodigy, Sublime, Papa Roach, A Day To Remember, Danzig, Danny Elfman, Skillet and 150+ more. Weekend and 2-day passes, camping, and hotel packages are on sale now.
Get Passes 🎟️Festival Spotlight · Bourbon, Food & Music
Bourbon & Beyond 2026
📅 September 24–27, 2026 · 📍 Highland Festival Grounds at KY Expo Center, Louisville, KY
The World’s Largest Bourbon, Food & Music Festival pours it on for 2026. Four days in Louisville where Kentucky’s finest bourbon and world-class culinary experiences meet one of the strongest music lineups of the fall.
HEADLINERS
🥃 Foo Fighters
🥃 Mumford & Sons
🥃 Chris Stapleton
🥃 Dave Matthews Band
Also featuring: Queens of the Stone Age, Kacey Musgraves, The Red Clay Strays, Hootie & the Blowfish, Goose, Foster the People, Jason Isbell and the 400 Unit, Counting Crows and many more. Passes, camping, and hotel packages are on sale now with flexible after-pay options.
Get Passes 🎟️Festival Spotlight · East Coast Canada
YQM Country Fest
📅 August 27–29, 2026 · 📍 Moncton/Dieppe, NB
Canada’s east coast gets its country weekend. YQM Country Fest brings three days of live country to Moncton/Dieppe, New Brunswick — with Parmalee hitting the stage Friday, August 28.
Get Tickets 🎟️Festival Spotlight · Small Town Series
Rock The Country — Ocala, FL
📅 August 28–29, 2026 · 📍 Florida Horse Park, Ocala, FL
Rock The Country’s Florida stop stacks certified legends at the Florida Horse Park — two days of country under the Ocala sky.
ON THE BILL
🎤 Brooks & Dunn
🎤 Blake Shelton
🎤 Lauren Alaina
Festival Spotlight · Small Town Series
Rock The Country — Hamburg, NY
📅 September 11–12, 2026 · 📍 Erie County Fairgrounds, Hamburg, NY
Western New York gets a genre-crossing bill as Rock The Country lands at the Erie County Fairgrounds — country, rock, and hip-hop under one small-town sky.
ON THE BILL
🎤 Kid Rock
🎤 Gavin Adcock
🎤 Nelly
🎤 Josh Ross
Festival Spotlight · Rock & Metal · West Coast
Aftershock 2026
📅 October 1–4, 2026 · 📍 Discovery Park, Sacramento, CA
The West Coast’s biggest rock weekend goes bigger than ever — 140+ bands across 5 stages, and for the first time in Aftershock history, on-site camping.
HEADLINERS
⚡ Thursday: My Chemical Romance — Black Parade 20th anniversary set
⚡ Friday: Limp Bizkit
⚡ Saturday: Pierce The Veil
⚡ Sunday: Tool
Also featuring: Queens of the Stone Age, The Offspring, Sublime, A Day To Remember, BABYMETAL, Wu-Tang Clan and 130+ more.
Get Passes 🎟️Stadium Tour
AC/DC — Power Up Tour
📅 July 11 – September 29, 2026 · 18 North American stadium dates
Opened at Bank of America Stadium in Charlotte and thunders through San Antonio, Denver, Vancouver, Atlanta, Houston, St. Louis, Toronto, and East Rutherford before wrapping September 29 at Lincoln Financial Field in Philadelphia. The Pretty Reckless opens every date.
Tour Dates →Tour · 50th Anniversary · Carolinas Date!
Iron Maiden — Run For Your Lives Tour
📅 August 29 – September 29, 2026 · with Megadeth & Anthrax
Fifty years of Maiden, with the setlist drawn from the first nine albums only — the final leg before the band’s 2027 touring hiatus. Highlights include Toronto (Aug 29–30), Boston, a Louder Than Life headline (Sep 17), Los Angeles, and a San Antonio finale at the Alamodome. Carolinas date: September 12 at PNC Music Pavilion, Charlotte.
Tour Dates →Stadium Tour
Foo Fighters — Take Cover Tour
📅 August 4 – September 26, 2026 · with Queens of the Stone Age
A 12-city stadium run kicking off August 4 at Rogers Stadium in Toronto, hitting Soldier Field (Aug 8), Nissan Stadium (Aug 15), Ford Field, Fargo, Philadelphia, DC, and Vancouver before wrapping September 26 at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas — plus a Bourbon & Beyond headline September 24. The band is touring 12th album Your Favorite Toy with new drummer Ilan Rubin.
Tour Dates →Tour · Final Dates
Morgan Wallen — Still The Problem Tour
📅 Final stretch — through August 1, 2026
The Still The Problem Tour enters its last lap: Michigan Stadium in Ann Arbor July 24–25, then the grand finale August 1 in Philadelphia. Rotating openers across the run include Brooks & Dunn, HARDY, Ella Langley, Thomas Rhett, and Gavin Adcock.
Tickets →Residency · Las Vegas
Metallica — “Life Burns Faster” Sphere Residency
The first metal band in history with a full Sphere residency — running the No Repeat Weekend format, where Thursday and Saturday shows feature completely different setlists inside the most immersive venue on Earth.
Info →Residency · Las Vegas
Eagles — Sphere Residency
The legends continue their Las Vegas Sphere run with dates in September and November — Hotel California inside the most immersive venue ever built.
Dates →Co-Headline Stadium Tour
Luke Bryan + Jason Aldean — Double Down Tour
Two of country’s biggest hitmakers go all in — the co-headlining stadium expansion kicks off in August, including a stop at Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas.
Tickets →Tour · New Album Out Now
Aaron Lewis & The Stateliners — 2026 American Tour
The new album Give My Country Back is out now on Big Machine (released July 17), and the American Tour runs through fall. August stops: Sacramento (8/7), Coachella (8/9), Roswell (8/12), Canyon TX (8/13), Mulvane KS (8/15), Red Bank NJ (8/20), and Washington PA (8/21).
Tour Dates →Stadium Season Watchlist
More Big Runs On The Radar
🎸 Guns N’ Roses — stadium dates through mid-September, including Busch Stadium in St. Louis on August 16 · gunsnroses.com
🎤 Post Malone & Jelly Roll — the Big Ass Stadium Tour, one of the hottest tickets of 2026 · postmalone.com
🤠 Luke Combs — My Kinda Saturday Night Tour with guests including Dierks Bentley, The Script, and Thomas Rhett · lukecombs.com
🎶 Zach Bryan — major venue dates continuing through 2026 · ticketmaster.com
Artist Spotlight · New Album July 24
Brantley Gilbert — Sins of the Father + The Real American Tour
BG Nation, mark it: the new album Sins of the Father arrives Friday, July 24 — and the Real American Tour carries it coast to coast. Upcoming highlights include the Rock The Country stop in Hastings, MI (Aug 8) alongside Kid Rock and Jason Aldean, then a western swing through Henderson NV (8/14), Indio CA (8/15), and Lake Tahoe (8/16), followed by Rio Rancho NM (9/4), Colorado Springs (9/5), and Loveland CO (9/6).
Tour Dates →Artist Spotlight · Confirmed 2026 Dates
Kid Rock — Rock The Country 2026
The American Badass brings the party to two Rock The Country stops this year: August 8 at the Barry Expo Center in Hastings, MI, and September 12 at the Erie County Fairgrounds in Hamburg, NY.
Tour Dates →Artist Spotlight · Carolinas Date Aug 1!
Parmalee — Summer Run
North Carolina’s own — the most-played band on country radio with five #1 singles and a billion-plus streams — keeps the wheels turning: August 1 at the Alabama Theatre at Barefoot Landing in North Myrtle Beach, SC, August 8 at The Edge Pavilion in Laughlin, NV, and August 28 at YQM Country Fest in Moncton/Dieppe, NB.
Tour Dates →Artist Spotlight · On Tour
HARDY — The COUNTRY! COUNTRY! Tour
HARDY’s arena-and-amphitheater run behind new album COUNTRY! COUNTRY! rolls on with a rotating crew of Cameron Whitcomb, Tucker Wetmore, Mitchell Tenpenny, Muscadine Bloodline, and Jake Worthington, plus McCoy Moore on every date. Coming up: Cheyenne Frontier Days (7/24), Michigan Stadium with Morgan Wallen (7/25), the Iowa State Fair (8/13), Boots On The Bend (8/14–15), and HARDY Halloween (Oct 29–30).
Tour Dates →Artist Spotlight · New Album Sept 18
Riley Green — Cowboy As It Gets Tour + That’s Just Me
Fresh off a sold-out Bridgestone Arena, Riley Green has extended the biggest headlining tour of his career through fall — all leading to fourth album That’s Just Me, out September 18, previewed by “My Way” (performed during his acting debut on the Yellowstone spinoff Marshals) and “Think As You Drunk.” The fall leg opens September 10 in Denver and runs through Albuquerque, Long Beach, LA, Austin, and St. Pete before a December 10 finale at Resorts World Theatre in Vegas, with Randy Houser, Kashus Culpepper, Hannah McFarland, Justin Moore, Drake White, Mackenzie Carpenter, and Zach John King on select dates.
Tour Dates →Artist Spotlight · New Single Out Now
Bailey Zimmerman — Different Night Same Rodeo Tour + “The Climb”
Country’s fastest-rising voice keeps charging: new single “The Climb” is out now, and the Different Night Same Rodeo Tour — behind the smash sophomore album featuring “Backup Plan” with Luke Combs — runs through 2026 with the Ohio State Fair in Columbus (8/7), September DNSR dates across the U.S., a late-August UK festival stop, and an Australian tour October 10–18.
Tour Dates →WHO’S READY?!