Summer time music highlights of 2026

Summer time is the time to take pleasure in stay music, indoors and out. Scroll by our gallery of a few of 2026’s main musical acts, that includes photos by CBS Information photojournalist Jake Barlow and photographers Ed Spinelli and Kirstine Walton.   

Pictured: Bruce Springsteen carried out on the United Heart in Chicago for his Land of Hope and Desires American Tour, April 29, 2026.

The Lifeless Daisies

Legendary vocalist and bassist Glenn Hughes, previously of Trapeze, Deep Purple and Black Sabbath, introduced his supergroup The Lifeless Daisies to the Arcada Theatre in St. Charles, Unwell., Could 30, 2026, for a one-night-only engagement.

Along with Lifeless Daisies songs, they carried out Deep Purple classics comparable to “Smoke On the Water,” “May Simply Take Your Life,” and “Stormbringer,” and a canopy of Creedence Clearwater Revival’s “Lucky Son.”

The Lifeless Daisies

Doug Aldrich of The Lifeless Daisies, on the Arcada Theatre in St. Charles, Unwell., Could 30, 2026. 

Zakk Sabbath

The Black Sabbath tribute band Zakk Sabbath (fronted by longtime Ozzy Osbourne guitarist Zakk Wylde, with bassist Jim DeServio and drummer Jeff Fabb) opened for Wylde’s personal band Black Label Society, on the Hollywood On line casino in Joliet, Unwell., Could 16, 2026. Their Black Sabbath covers included “Kids of the Grave,” “Warfare Pigs,” and “Snowblind.”

Corrosion of Conformity

Guitarist and vocalist Pepper Kennan, of Corrosion of Conformity, carried out at Outset in Chicago, Could 14, 2026.

The band’s lead guitarist Woody Weatherman instructed CBS Information’ Jake Barlow that their latest album, “Good Man/Dangerous Man,” was the product of two totally different designs: “We take pleasure in enjoying guitar and writing songs and we [had] such an excellent time entering into numerous totally different instructions, [but] we discovered ourselves in the identical predicament,” he stated. “So we had wizard thought to try to break up it into two information, after which it gave us a bit bit extra freedom to maintain doing the instructions that we needed to. So, yeah, ‘Good Man/Dangerous Man,’ two separate worlds, we might drop these songs on this tiny universe or drop these into that different tiny universe, in order that’s sort of what we did. It seems like a throwback to the previous days. I might do it the identical manner once more.” 

Crobot

Crobot carried out on tour with Corrosion of Conformity, on the Outset in Chicago, Could 14, 2026. (Pictured: Brandon Yeagley.)

Triumph

The Canadian rock band Triumph carried out on the Allstate Area in Rosemont, Unwell., Could 13, 2026. (Pictured: guitarist Rick Emmett.) 

Triumph

Triumph’s Chicago tour cease was initially going to be in a smaller theater in Rosemont, Unwell.; it needed to be moved to the Allstate Area due to rising curiosity and ticket gross sales.

Drummer Gil Moore (pictured with Rick Emmett) instructed CBS Information’ Jake Barlow that the group’s first tour in 30 years took place because of the Edmonton Oilers, who performed Triumph’s music throughout the staff’s 2025 Stanley Cup run. “The followers pushed and pushed,” driving them to do the tour, Moore stated. “There would not be a fiftieth anniversary if it weren’t for his or her loyalty.”

Alter Bridge

The rock band Alter Bridge (pictured: Brian Marshall, Myles Kennedy and Mark Tremonti) performed the Salt Shed in Chicago, Could 6, 2026. At the moment on their What Lies Inside Tour, the band performed such hits as “Isolation,” “Ghosts of Days Gone By,” and “Hooked on Ache,” in addition to songs from their latest eponymous album, together with “Silent Divide,” “What Lies Inside,” and “Examined and In a position.”

Bruce Springsteen

Bruce Springsteen introduced his Land of Hope and Desires American Tour to Chicago’s United Heart on April 29, 2026. Along with Springsteen classics like “Born to Run,” “Born in the united statesA.,” “Hungry Coronary heart,” and “Lengthy Stroll House,” he additionally carried out “Streets of Minneapolis,” “As a result of the Night time” (a track he co-wrote with Patti Smith), and a canopy of Bob Dylan’s “Chimes of Freedom.”

Bruce Springsteen

Springsteen and the E Road Band had been joined on the tour by Tom Morello (Rage Towards the Machine). 

Cactus

Drummer Carmine Appice (pictured, heart) was one of many founding members of the ’70s rock band Cactus, which again within the day was known as “the American Led Zeppelin.” He introduced the band’s newest lineup to the Arcada Theater in St. Charles, Unwell., April 3, 2026, to advertise their album, “Temple of the Blues II.” They had been accompanied by the “Cactus All-Stars.”

Becoming a member of Appice had been (clockwise from higher left): Cactus regulars Artie Dillon and Ed Terry; Rob Caudill; Ron “Bumblefoot” Thal; Pat Travers; Dug Pinnick; Eric Gales; and Billy Sheehan.

Lamb of God

The heavy metallic band Lamb of God carried out on the Byline Financial institution Aragon Ballroom in Chicago, March 25, 2026. The live performance was a part of their North American Heaviest Tour of the Yr. (Pictured: Lead vocalist Randy Blythe.)

Corrosion of Conformity

Pictured: Bass participant Bobby Landgraf of Corrosion of Conformity. 

You should definitely observe us all through music summer time 2026 – and do not miss out on stay music your self!
     

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Edited by senior producer David Morgan.