CONCERTS: Back in the groove
With a little luck, those shows by Motley Crue, Rage Against the Machine, the Doobie Brothers and Kenny Chesney — all originally planned for 2020 — actually might happen.
After a 2020 concert year that ended in early March and a 2021 season that began in July, we seem to be back in the groove.
The Pavilion at Star Lake has 20 shows planned so far, and would have opened this weekend with Foo Fighters were it not for the tragic loss of drummer Taylor Hawkins. Instead, it will start on June 2 with Brad Paisley, one of five country headliners at the Burgettstown venue. Of the 20 headliners, just two — The Lumineers and Morgan Wallen — are headlining the venue for the first time.
There are a total of five shows at the North Shore stadiums, including Chesney’s 11th headlining visit and first show there since 2018. Getting their first looks at PNC Park are Metallica, Motley Crue and Elton John, on a farewell tour that started four years and will run through 2023.
PPG Paints Arena, which had a busy start to 2022, will host the tour opener for Roger Waters, along with a Beatle and the first Rage Against the Machine show in Pittsburgh since 1997.
Stage AE Outdoors opened early with a sold-out Girl Talk show and will offer such highlights as Bon Iver, our own The Commonheart, the Avett Brothers and an indie package with Interpol and Spoon.
Here are the ticketed concerts in the larger venues:
Heinz Field
North Shore; ticketmaster.com.
June 11: Kenny Chesney/Dan + Shay/ Old Dominion/Carly Pearce
PNC Park
North Shore; ticketmaster.com.
Aug. 11: Billy Joel
Aug. 12: Motley Crue/Def Leppard/Poison/Joan Jett and the Blackhearts Aug. 14: Metallica
Sept. 16: Elton John
The Pavilion at Star Lake
Burgettstown; ticketmaster.com.
June 2: Brad Paisley/Tracy Lawrence June 15: The Lumineers
June 17: Train/Jewel/Blues Traveler
July 5: Backstreet Boys
July 6: Santana/Earth Wind & Fire July 9: The Doobie Brothers
July 12: Dead & Company
July 14: Thomas Rhett
July 16: Jimmy Buffett and the Coral Reefer Band
July 21: Morgan Wallen
July 22: Chicago/Brian Wilson July 31: The Outlaw Music Festival Tour with Willie Nelson & Family, ZZ Top, Gov’t Mule and Larkin Poe
Aug. 2: Rob Zombie/Mudvayne Aug. 6: Kid Rock/Foreigner
Aug. 10: Alice in Chains/Breaking Benjamin
Aug. 26: Jason Aldean/Gabby Barrett Aug. 28: Wiz Khalifa/Logic/DJ Drama/ 24kGoldn/C Dot Castro/Fedd the God Sept. 9: Shinedown/Jelly Roll Sept. 10: Styx/ REO Speedwagon/ Loverboy
Sept. 21: Five Finger Death Punch/The HU/Fire from the Gods
PPG Paints Arena
Downtown; ticketmaster.com.
June 18: Ringo Starr and His All-Starr Band
June 19: Maverick City Music X Kirk Franklin
July 6: Roger Waters
July 19: New Kids on the Block/Salt N Pepa/Rick Astley/En Vogue
July 20: Shawn Mendes/Dermot Kennedy
July 29: Rage Against the Machine/ Run the Jewels
Aug. 2: Machine Gun Kelly/Travis Barker/Willow
Aug. 31: Twenty One Pilots
Sept. 1: Michael Buble
Sept. 7: Rod Stewart/Cheap Trick
Wild Things Park
North Franklin, Washington County; www.washingtonwildthings.com.
July 19: Eli Young Band
Sept. 9-10: Four Chord Music Festival with Bad Religion/All Time Low/Jimmy Eat World/Descendents/Pennywise and more
Petersen Events Center
Oakland; ticketmaster.com. May 18: AJR
July 9: Big Time Rush
Mountain View Amphitheater
Harmar: MntViewAmp.com.
May 13: Hairball: The Bombastic Celebration of Arena Rock
May 21: Curtis & the Shakerz, David Granati Band, & The Shiners
June 25: Danny Seraphine
July 15: Get The Led Out
Sept. 9: Blue Oyster Cult
Hartwood Acres Park
Hampton; maplehousefest.com.
May 21: Maple House Festival with Jason Isbell, Black Pumas, Lake Street Dive, Elle King, Ghost Hounds
Hollywood Casino at the Meadows North Strabane; hollywoodmeadows.com.
May 14: Little River Band
June 24: Everclear
June 4: Robby Krieger Of The Doors
Stage AE Outdoors
North Shore; axs.com.
May 17: Halestorm/ Stone Temple Pilots/Black Stone Cherry
May 18: The Offspring/Radkey
May 28: The Commonheart
May 31: Russ
June 3: Pride on the Shore with Jessie J/Monique Heart/Pennywild/RAYE/VINCINT
June 4: Bon Iver/Bonny Light Horseman
June 5: Flume/ Magdalena Bay/ Chrome Sparks
June 8: Lord Huron
June 12: Wallows
June 21: Rex Orange County
June 22: My Morning Jacket/Indigo De Souza
June 25: The Clarks
June 26: Flogging Molly/The Interrupters/Tiger Army/The Skints
July 5: Dirty Heads/ SOJA/ Tribal Seeds
July 13: Third Eye Blind/Taking Back Sunday/Hockey Dad
July 16: The Cult/Black Rebel Motorcycle Club/Zola Jesus
July 19: Waterparks/Neck Deep/Mayday Parade/State Champs/Hot Mulligan/ Against The Current/The Summer Set/ Magnolia Park
July 25: Three Days Grace/Wage War/ Zero 9:36
Aug. 1: Coheed and Cambria/Dance Gavin Dance/Mothica
Aug. 8: Andrew Bird/Iron & Wine Aug. 15: Dispatch/O.A.R.
Aug. 16: Dashboard Confessional/Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness/Cartel Aug. 18: The Kid Laroi
Aug. 19: The Avett Brothers
Aug. 20: Lauv/Hayley Kiyoko
Aug. 22: Anthrax/Black Label Society Aug. 23: LANY/Surfaces
Sept. 2: Jake Owen
Sept. 6: Interpol/Spoon/The Goon Sax
Stage AE Indoors
North Shore; axs.com.
May 13: Hot Chip
May 15: Earthgang
May 17: Big D and the Kid’s Table May 23: Asking Alexandria/Nothing More/Atreyu/Eva Under Fire
May 27: The Head and the Heart/Jadebird
May 29: Slick Rick/Rakim & DJ Jazzy Jeff/Big Daddy Kane, more
June 24: The Band Camino/renforshort/Games We Play
June 28: Mt. Joy/Madison Cunningham
June 29: Puscifer/Moodie Black July 1: Bowling for Soup/Less Than Jake/The Aquabats
July 8: Joe Russo’s Almost Dead July 15: Maren Morris/Brent Cobb July 21: Big Gigantic/MEMBA/Young Franco/Covex
July 24: PJ Horton
July 27: Lucy Dacus/Samia
Aug. 5: Charli XCX
Aug. 7: Collective Soul/Switchfoot Aug. 17: Shovels & Rope
Aug. 30: Heilung
Sept. 8: Jamey Johnson
Sept. 12: Jungle/Paul Cherry
Sept. 13: IDLES
Sept. 22: Goo Goo Dolls/Blue October
Heinz Hall
Downtown; pittsburghsymphony.org. June 22: Ben Folds
Sept. 19: The National
Roxian
McKees Rocks; ticketmaster.com.
May 14: Ryan Hurd
May 19: Iration
June 1: New Found Glory
June 3: Thrice/Bayside
June 4: mxmtoon
June 5: Thy Art is Murder/ After the Burial
June 11: Bastille
June 21: Tash Sultana
June 23: Mandy Moore
June 24: Motion City Soundtrack June 27: As I Lay Dying
June 29: Garbage
July 24: Tim Heidecker
July 28: mewithoutyou
Thunderbird Music Hall
Lawrenceville; thunderbirdmusichall.com.
May 13: The Band of Heathens
May 15: Good Riddance
May 16: Midlake
May 22: Slayyter
June 8: We Were Promised Jetpacks June 9: Sue Foley
June 12: !!!
June 18: The Dip
June 21: Slenderbodies
June 23: Marco Benevento
June 24: Thank You Scientist
June 25: Strand of Oaks
July 6: The Wrecks
July 22-23: Cabinet
The Palace Theatre Greensburg; thepalacetheatre.org.
May 22: The Spinners/Fifth Dimension
June 6: Trace Adkins
June 15: Sonic Slam
June 17: Kenny Wayne Shepherd June 19: George Thorogood and the Destroyers
June 29: Happy Together Tour with The Turtles, The Association, The Grass Roots and more
July 19: Psychedelic Furs/X
July 26: Hanson
Aug. 4: Scotty McCreery
Aug. 9: Ted Nugent
Mr. Smalls
Millvale; ticketweb.com.
May 18: Bad Cop Bad Cop/Homeless Gospel Choir
May 19: Built to Spill
May 22: King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard/Jess Cornelius
May 23: Battles
May 24: The Afghan Whigs
May 25: Nothing, Nowhere
June 11: Tune-Yards
June 20: Crown the Empire
June 24: Dean Lewis
June 29: Failure
July 16: STRFKR
July 19: F—d Up
Aug. 2: MUNA
Aug. 4: City Morgue
Aug. 5: Northlane
Aug. 16: Murder by Death
Sept. 7: Snail Mail
Sept. 9: Front 242
Sept. 15: Ezra Furman
Sept. 23-24: They Might Be Giants
Carnegie Music Hall
Oakland; eventbrite.com. Sept. 6: Crowded House
Carnegie of Homestead Music Hall
Munhall; librarymusichall.com. June 18: Corinne Bailey Rae June 26: The Zombies
July 8: Howard Jones/Midge Ure
Jergels
Marshall; jergels.com.
May 13: All That Remains
May 15: Cold
May 18: Suicide Silence, Carnifex, Lorna Shore, Upon A Burning Body, more May 24: Jackyl
May 25: The Gilmour Project
May 26: Neighbor
June 4: Steve Earle & the Dukes June 5: The Music of Cream
June 7: Tab Benoit
June 9: Saving Abel
June 10: Puddle of Mudd
June 11: We Three
July 12: ABC
July 13: Asia ft. John Payne
July 23: Stryper
July 24: 10,000 Maniacs
Aug. 28: Stabbing Westward
Sept. 7: Buckcherry
Sept. 18: Quiet Riot
Crafthouse Stage & Grill
Whitehall; crafthousepgh.com. May 12: Dave Hause
June 5: Rivers of Nihil June 10: Stitched Up Heart June 13: Voivod
June 26: The Queers
July 5: China Crisis
July 10: Darkest Hour
July 13: Hed Pe
July 18: Decrepit Birth Aug. 9: Goatwhore/Incantation Sept. 20: Modern English
Hard Rock Cafe
Station Square; eventbrite.com. May 26: Christian Death June 17: Dirt Monkey
July 14: The Little Mermen The Oaks Theater
July 24: Adrian Belew