* Noah Kahan will have some fun in the sun with Mumford & Sons, Caamp, Role Model, flipturn, Gigi Perez, Sam Barber, Leif Vollebekk, Goldford and Cassandra Coleman as part of the third-annual Out of the Blue festival, which will descend Jan. 8-11, 2026, at Moon Palace Resort in Riviera Cancún, Mexico. Tickets go on sale July 23 and include ocean-view or swim-up luxury accommodations, round-trip airport transfers, unlimited top-shelf beverages and all-inclusive gourmet dining and 24-hour room service.
Out of the Blue is the first 2026 show for Kahan, who is working on the follow-up to his 2022 breakthrough album, Stick Season. He will play a handful of North American festivals this fall, beginning Sept. 12 at Rock the Runway in London, Ontario.
* Filmmaker and writer Cameron Crowe will induct My Morning Jacket into the Austin City Limits Hall of Fame during the group’s free Aug. 1 performance for the venerable PBS-televised concert series. Highlights from the show will air during the 51st season of Austin City Limits, which will premiere in October. My Morning Jacket joins Willie Nelson, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Kris Kristofferson, Bonnie Raitt and Wilco among the artists inducted into the ACL Hall of Fame since 2014.
“MMJ has the rarest kind of mastery. Their songs explode with passion and feeling on stage and in the studio,” says Crowe of the band, who he’s featured on the soundtracks to such films as Elizabethtown (they also acted in the movie). “They’ve long been one of my favorite bands. I can’t wait for a chance to see them play again on the ACL stage.”
* Chicago instrumental titans Tortoise will hit the road this fall in support of their first new album since 2016’s The Catastrophist, an as-yet-unannounced and untitled affair that will be their debut for International Anthem/Nonesuch after more than 30 years on hometown indie label Thrill Jockey. Dates begin Oct. 18 at the Broad in Los Angeles and include a special Nov. 11 show with the Chicago Philharmonic at the city’s the Auditorium.
At the latter, Tortoise will debut material from the upcoming album while backed by a live orchestra for the first time. This spring, the group released the new single “Oganesson” and a subsequent remix EP with contributions from Broken Social Scene, Saul Williams, Makaya McCraven and Heba Kadry.
In related news, fellow Chicago experimental music veteran Sam Prekop will release a new electronic music album, Open Close, on Sept. 26 through Thrill Jockey. Prekop plays with Tortoise drummer John McEntire in the Sea & Cake, and together the pair released the acclaimed 2022 album Sons Of.
Tortoise (photo: Heather Cantrell).
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