With 2024 coming to an end, one needs something to look forward to in 2025. The good news for music fans is that there are a lot of fantastic tours ready to roll. No matter where you live in North America (and, likely, Australia), you are going to find a show you want to see.
Five bands that we at AudioPhix are super-psyched to see next year follow, but there is a load of other tours to check out. Rod Stewart will be on the road for a bit. So will Motley Crue. Bruce Springsteen seems to stay on the road, but he will be back in 2025 as well.
Basically, just Google your favorite bands, and one or a few of them will be on tour. You might have to travel a little way, however. For some of the musical acts that follow, though, they will come to you.
Five rock tours not to be missed in 2025
Metallica
Metallica has not ever taken a lot of time off, but they have not toured since 2022. Good news, Metallica fans! The band will be a bit of everywhere in 2025. The band plays a gig in Los Angeles in December, but the tour begins in full in April in Las Vegas. After leaving the United States in June, the band travels to Australia and New Zealand in November.
Oasis
In 2025, Oasis will literally do a world tour, the first run of gigs since 2009. They will begin in July in the UK, cross to North America in August, and go back to the UK in September for a couple of dates before going to Australia and South America for most of November.
AC/DC
Hard rock icons AC/DC have not toured in nearly a decade. This was mostly due to vocalist Brian Johnson's medical issues, but the boys from Down Under are back next year. The dates will run from April 10 in Minneapolis through May 28 in Cleveland, Ohio. One is nearly guaranteed to have fun at one of the band's shows.
Jack White
White is bombastic live. His White Stripes shows were legendary and he brings the same kind of energy as a solo performer. He starts his shows in Australia and New Zealand in December but comes back to North America in February. He will then wind all around Canada and the United States (with, oddly, four shows in Japan in March) with the final gig on May 24 in Portland, Oregon.
Elvis Costello
Costello is not going to do the same kind of show as the rest of the musical artists on this list, of course, but that does not mean he will not be any less impactful. He is arguably one of the three best songwriters of the last 50 years. His tour will keep him in the Northeast mainly, but he will do one show in Michigan before three in Chicago. The run of shows lasts from February 19 through March 14.