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Best Indie & Rock in September 2024

in Baltimore

October 2024

Vance Joy at Merriweather Post Pavillion

Vance Joy

Celebrate a decade of musical magic with Vance Joy, the Australian singer-songwriter as he embarks on his special 10-year anniversary tour! Joy's debut album, Dream Your Life Away, released on September 5, 2014, introduced the world to his distinctive blend of folk-pop music, earning him critical acclaim and thousands of fans along the way. Now, celebrate the album that shot Joy into the limelight - with special guests like Grouplove and Local Natives.

America at Modell Performing Arts Center at the Lyric

America

Soft rock veterans America are back on the road, bringing their popular brand of vocals and acoustic guitar on their latest national tour. Having been inducted into the Vocal Hall of Fame in 2006, the band also have their own star on Hollywood Boulevard, recognizing them as an important contributor to the musical arts. Their 2006 album Here & Now saw the band collaborate with a new generation of artists including Ryan Adams, Ben Kweller, and Jim James among others.

Bowling For Soup at Rams Head Live

Bowling For Soup

If you need a dose of unpretentious, instantly catchy pop-punk, then there are few better bands to see than Bowling for Soup. The quintet formed in the 1990s, and spent much of the decade cultivating a small but loyal following as their contemporaries (Green Day et al) took over the world. Get ready to have fun with Bowling For Soup this year!

STRFKR at Rams Head Live

STRFKR

Oregon indie band STRFKR are heading out on an extensive US tour this year to support their album Parallel Realms' out March 1. The band kick things off in California this March, before ending their 4-month stint in Phoenix Arizona. With support from Ruth Radelet and Holy Wave this is shaping up to be one of the most electric tours of the year.

Yo La Tengo at Rams Head Live

Yo La Tengo

Since their debut in the mid-Eighties, this folk-indie rock band has flown under the mainstream radar but remains to this day a quintessentially critics band. Although they write and perform the majority of their material, they have garnered critical acclaim for performing cover songs. The trio's laid-back and multi-layered psychedelia exists somewhere between sleep and lucidity; dreamlike soundscapes quietly defy current pop music trends to form minimalistic yet exquisitely crafted songs. Their live shows are master classes in dynamic range with three-part harmonies that lull the audience before giving way to swathes of noisy, blissful guitar fuzz.