What We Think Will Be Great

Bon Iver North American tour

(8/31–10/19)

Bon Iver’s recently released i,i treks further into the electroacoustic mood of 2016’s

22, A Million. Catch front man Justin Vernon and his crew blowing minds in arenas this fall alongside a rolling list of openers including Feist, Sharon Van Etten, and Yo La Tengo.

Stereolab North American reunion tour

(9/16–10/26)

European indie-rock outfit Stereolab, known for wigged-out ’90s alt-rock highlights like 1996’s

Emperor Tomato Ketchup, has been on hiatus for a decade, but ringleaders Laetitia Sadier and Tim Gane got the band back together this year for a world tour to commemorate new reissues of the pristine back catalogue.

Brittany Howard, Jaime

(ATO Records; 9/20)

Alabama Shakes leader Brittany Howard is a once-in-alifetime talent: a great writer, an expressive singer, and a formidable blues-rock guitarist striking out on her own with this September’s Jaime, her first fulllength billed as a solo album.

Vagabon,

Vagabon

(Nonesuch Records; 10/18)

Cameroonian singersongwriter Laetitia Tamko chases the scrappy DIY guitar rock of 2017’s Infinite Worlds, her debut album as Vagabon, with October’s sophomore effort, anchored by the lead single “Flood Hands,” a robust dreampop tune that broke a bout of writer’s block and opened up Tamko’s sense of what was possible to do with the project.

The 1975 North American tour

(11/16–12/13)

If you can catch any of the ten dates in British pop group the 1975’s tour of the States this fall, you should. The band’s unruly deconstructions of pop, rock, and hip-hop are well worth braving the arenas hosting them in November and December.

Tame Impala

(Interscope; release date TBA)

Australian psych-rock one-man band Kevin Parker’s flagship

Tame Impala released new singles this year with the slick, funky “Patience” and “Borderline.” A new album seems imminent, and live dates in the summer and fall are not to be missed.