Dates: Now through July 30
Price: $30-$294.50
Opening Acts: The Fray, Lenny Kravitz, Florence and the Machine, Interpol, Carney, Arcade Fire
Why You Should Go: Now that Bono has recovered from emergency back surgery (which forced the Irish rockers to postpone the U.S. leg of their tour last year), the Biggest Band in the World is back to business as usual -- which means inspiring live shows and new material. At their recent tour launch at the 80,000-person Invesco Stadium in Denver, U2 offered a "powerful, meticulously paced set," wrote SPIN. Bono "gyrated and pranced about the stage like a teenager," and even commented on his surgery: "Now I'm Bono 2.0!"
Rihanna With Cee-Lo and B.o.B.
Dates: Now through July 24
Price: $28.95-$315.28
Opening Acts: J. Cole
Why You Should Go: She's dominated the charts over the past year with three No. 1 singles, two of her own ("Only Girl (In the World)" and "What's My Name?"), and one as a guest on Eminem's "Love The Way You Lie." At her tour kickoff last summer, RiRi "could do no wrong," wrote SPIN. Her stage was decorated with crash test dummies and a salvaged '57 Cadillac, and the Barbadian star played drums and a gleaming black Flying V guitar. She even "celebrated the climax of 'Hard' by hopping onto the giant gun of a life-size, cotton-candy army tank, and then gyrating until the inevitable explosion." Still not hot enough? Cee Lo and B.o.B. will split dates as featured acts!
Wiz Khalifa
Dates: Now through August 5
Price: $35-$43.99
Opening Acts: Big Sean, Chevy Woods
Why You Should Go: Because anything called the Rolling Papers Tour is sure to be a high time, right? Rap's new Weed King, who hit No. 1 in late 2010 with the Pittsburgh Steelers Super Bowl anthem "Black and Yellow" from his debut Rolling Papers, surely brings the party -- but he's "much more than some stoned and silly dude relying on weed puns to elevate pedantic hooks," SPIN wrote of his tour launch this spring. "He's a naturally easygoing performer, a main stage rapper… he seemed like a star ready for even bigger stages."
Black Lips
Dates: Now through August 5
Price: $20-$30.60
Opening Acts: Cerebal Ballzy
Why You Should Go: Indie rock's baddest bad boys are back with their most polished album yet, the Mark Ronson-produced Arabia Mountain. "Without the extra layers of dirt, the band's songwriting skills are plain as day," we wrote in our seven-out-10 album review. But that doesn't mean the Atlanta natives sold out their wild ways: "[On Arabia Mountain they're howling about molested superheroes and E. coli-ridden steak," and at their appearance on the Bruise Cruise in the Caribbean, Jared Swilley even chucked his bass overboard.
Mumford & Sons
Dates: Now through June 18
Price: $40-$47.50
Why You Should Go: These four London lads -- on the cover of SPIN's June issue -- are leading the new Americana movement and soared to No. 2 with their million-selling debut LP, Sigh No More. Their bluegrass sounds and straight-to-the-heart lyrics are born arena-ready; their Coachella set -- "the biggest gig we've ever had," frontman Marcus Mumford said from the stageo -- "could be taken as a confirmation of their ascension to superstar status," SPIN wrote. "[But] the quartet were as humble and earnest as ever -- they frequently reminded the crowd how much they appreciated their support and refrained from any rock star hot-dogging." Instead, "they stormed with passion and precision through up-tempo acoustic guitar and banjo bashers."
Fucked Up
Dates: Now through July 3
Price: $12-$19.60
Opening Acts: JEFF The Brotherhood
Why You Should Go: This Toronto hardcore six-piece's new LP, David Comes to Life, is already a fierce competitor for 2011's 'Best Of the Year' lists. SPIN awarded the LP, their sixth, a rare nine-out-of-10 rating: "[It's] an 80-minute odyssey of flailing and howling that could be the most epic punk album ever," we wrote. Their chaotic live shows are equally urgent: Bare-chested frontman Damian Abraham (does he even own a shirt?) usually goes shirtless and bashes his head until it squirts blood, then rolls in the mud. Just like at SPIN's SXSW Party!
Lil Wayne
Dates: July 13 through September 11
Price: $32-$116.55
Opening Acts: Rick Ross, Keri Hilson, Far East Movement
Why You Should Go: Weezy loves the smell of freedom so much he extended his first post-prison tour through summer. Now off drugs and bulging with prison muscles, the man born Dwayne Michael Carter, Jr., is in the best shape of his career -- and his performances are better for it. At the kickoff in March, Wayne "made it clear that he's no longer inmate #02616544L," we wrote. "He acted out skits with his backup dancers. He told jokes. And, yes, he rapped, very, very well. But one thing he didn't do was dwell on the eight months he just spent on Rikers Island.
Death Cab for Cutie
Dates: Now through August 26
Price: $35-$56.80
Opening Acts: The Lonely Forest, the Head and the Heart, Frightened Rabbit
Why You Should Go: Indie rock's mopiest vets are all grown up -- three of the four are now married, some with kids -- and are embracing the sound of settling on their expansive seventh full-length album, Codes and Keys. Frontman Ben Gibbard, having left Seattle for Los Angeles and his new bride, Zooey Deschanel, "finally escaped 'a maze of a thousand rainy days,' as he puts it, [and] mostly dispenses with his trademark jitters, leaning into Death Cab's tuneful guitar-band thrum with confidence." Their career-spanning headlining set at Washington State's Sasquatch Fest their "sound was so clear and tastefully mixed that it became the measuring stick for the weekend," we wrote.
Arctic Monkeys
Dates: Now through August 11
Price: $28-$47.20
Opening Act: The Vaccines
Why You Should Go: With their fourth album, Suck It and See, Britpop's Next Big Thing have "hit a remarkable mid-career groove that most bands their age will never see," we wrote in our eight-out-of-10 review. The songwriting is sharper than past efforts — "the title track may be the loveliest thing they've ever recorded." At their raucous tour kickoff in Washington, DC, this May, frontman Alex Turner and Co. proved that while they "may not be the kind of guys who look good on the dance floor, their jolting, heady music can rock-and-roll one handsomely," we wrote.
Flaming Lips
Dates: Now through September 10
Price: $41.75-$90
Opening Acts: Weezer, Primus, Yeasayer
Why You Should Go: The Oklahoma psych-rockers are the ultimate live band -- seeing them in action is an experience, man, even without chemical assistance. To wit: Wayne Coyne rolling like a gerbil in a giant bubble; dancers in Teletubby costumes; confetti canons; mind-bending graphics with video cameras projecting close ups of the band. And this summer the quartet are playing their benchmark 1999 album, The Soft Bulletin, a tasteful layer cake of classic rock instrumentation, symphonic orchestrations, and electronic beats and synths.
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