American Football

PJ Harvey, Angel Olsen, Arab Strap, Ride, The Avalanches, American Football, Mitski, Dirty Projectors, Danny Brown, Thurston Moore Group, and more to play the Chicago festival.

Single-day tickets go on sale today too.

American Football have other tour dates coming up, including the just-announced Netherlands festival Best Kept Secret with Radiohead, Arcade Fire, and more…

This week’s show featured tracks by Future Islands, Mac DeMarco, Pixies, The xx, Cloud Nothings, Bleached, Ty Segall, Sampha, Austra, New Order, Thursday, Pinegrove and more.

Last year, influential emo vets American Football returned with their first album in 17 years, American Football (LP2), which we named one of the best albums of the year. On saturday, they played it in full in NYC.

Also: Chance the Rapper, Kaytranada, Aesop Rock, Charles Bradley, Car Seat Headrest, Mount Kimbie, Thee Oh Sees, Foxygen, The Hotelier, White Lung, and more.

Also check out lists from label co-founder Will Miller and label employee Karl Kuehn (who fronts Museum Mouth).

From indie rock to hip hop, R&B to metal, pop and punk, here are the albums we loved most this year.

He’s also touring Europe in 2017 with Laura Stevenson (who tours the US on her own after that).

Joan of Arc’s upcoming tour has a very exciting new date added.