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$25 Concert Tickets?! Our Top Summer Shows for Concert Week

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For a lot of people, summer means heading to the beach, getting some sun and treating yourself to ice cream. But for some of us, the best part of summer is going to the biggest, coolest concerts in town, where you can scream-sing along to your favorite tunes, throw up the devil horns for an especially rockin’ solo, and maybe also treat yourself to some ice cream. Listen: it never tastes better than right after you’ve had your face melted.

The most epic summer ever needs the most epic soundtrack ever, right? That’s why we’ve partnered with LiveNation to launch Concert Week from May 4–9. We’ve got $25 tickets to some of the summer’s awesomest shows on the planet. Below, we’ve highlighted 10 of our favorite shows featured on Groupon this week. Click on the link next to your faves to see if you can grab $25 tickets to a show near you!

Wanna see what else is available in your city? Click here to see Concert Week deals near you.

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1

Pitbull with Iggy Azalea

Mr. Worldwide is keeping it inside the United States in 2022 for his “Can’t Stop Us Now” Tour, plotting 50+ stops in support of an upcoming album, “Timeless.” Expect high-energy, reggaeton-inspired hip-hop and pop from Pitbull’s full catalogue, featuring massive top-40 hits like “Timber” and “Give Me Everything.”

2022 shows include: Raleigh (July 28), Philadelphia (Aug. 2), Boston (Aug. 9), San Antonio (Sept. 9) and more.

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2

Dierks Bentley

Wondering what a Dierks Bentley show is like? His tour’s name — the “Beers On Me Tour” — should give you a clue. You’ll hear lots of country sing-a-longs (including favorites like “What Was I Thinking?” and “Drunk on a Plane”) and maybe even a classic cover. Dierks has been known to trot out his own rendition of Charlie Daniels’s “Devil Went Down to Gerogia” and even Shania Twain’s “Man! I Feel Like a Woman.”

2022 shows include: Atlanta (June 4), San Francisco (July 28), Portland, ME (Aug. 11), Jacksonville (Aug. 28), and more.

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3

Backstreet Boys

We’d say “Backstreet’s back,” but . . . did they ever really leave? In 2020, Howie, Nick, AJ, Kevin and Brian had to cut short their “DNA” tour due to the pandemic, and shows rescheduled for 2021 were also canceled. But now that it’s 2022, they decided to quit playing games with our hearts and are finally relaunching their tour — it’s one of two massive, can’t-miss boy band concerts this summer (hint, the other one is at #7 on this list).

2022 shows include: Austin (June 13), Portland (Aug. 22), Ottawa (Sept. 1), Nashville (Sept. 8)

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4

Santana with Earth, Wind & Fire

Legendary Mexican-American fret-shredder Carlos Santana pulled off one of music’s most dramatic comebacks with 1999’s “Smooth,” which won approximately 87,342 awards (and is now stuck in your head for the rest of the day). But there’s more to Santana’s career than “Smooth” — it spans more than 25 albums over 50+ years. Co-headlining is equally famed R&B/soul/funk supergroup Earth, Wind & Fire, a Rock and Roll Hame of Fame act with timeless hits “September” and “Shining Star.”

2022 shows include: Denver (June 29), Cincinnati (July 9), Syracuse (Aug. 17), Tampa (Aug. 27) and more.

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5

Wiz Khalifa & Logic

Speaking of megahits, few songs in the last decade were as massive as Wiz Khalifa’s 2015 single, “See You Again,” written for the “Furious 7” soundtrack as a tribute to Paul Walker and reaching #1 not just in America, but also in the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand and Germany. The rapper has worked with everyone from Snoop Dogg and Bruno Mars to T-Pain and Lil’ Wayne, and just dropped a new collab, “Full Court Press,” with mash-up artist Girl Talk.

2022 shows include: Phoenix (July 30), Dallas (Aug. 7), Brooklyn (Aug. 16), Hartford (Aug. 20) and more.

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6

Train, Jewel & Blues Traveler

If you discovered music around the late ’90s and early 2000s . . . this is the show for you. Headlined by pop-rockers Train (of “Drops of Jupiter” fame), the “AM Gold” tour will not only promote Train’s newest album, it’ll bring together some of the turn-of-the-millennium’s biggest acts. That includes singer-songwriter Jewel, best known for “Who Will Save Your Soul” and “You Were Meant for Me,” and jolly improvisational-rockers Blues Traveler.

2022 shows include: Camden (June 14), Chicago (July 15), Albuquerque (July 23), Seattle (Aug. 2) and more.

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7

New Kids On The Block

That other huge boy-band tour? Yep, it’s NKOTB. ‘Nuff said. OK, we’ll say a little more: the pop act, who took at 14-year hiatus in 1994, has now been reunited (and hangin’ tough) for 14 years. Hear ’em perform their classics, “Step By Step,” “You Got It (the Right Stuff)” and a bunch more.

2022 shows include: Detroit (June 24), Atlanta (July 7), Orlando (July 10), Pittsburgh (July 19) and more.

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8

Slipknot

Depending on your constitution, a Slipknot live show is the stuff of legend, nightmares, or both. They’re highly kinetic and chaotic — worthy of two live albums, and not one, but five DVDs documenting the feral madness of their concerts. The pride of Des Moines (check out their second album, “Iowa”), Slipknot deploys a brand of heavy metal that is especially aggressive, extreme and visceral, and their live spectacle pairs the music with creepy costumes and intense pyrotechnics. Better call a babysitter!

2022 shows includes: Grand Rapids (June 2), Colorado Springs (June 9), Las Vegas (June 17) and more.

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9

Halsey

If you love genre-bending, imaginative music, you have to check out Halsey. The New Jersey singer, who gained popularity organically via social media, started her career with ear-wormy, synth-pop bops. But her more recently work, including last year’s “If I Can’t Have Love, I Want Power” (produced in part by Trent Reznor of Nine Inch Nails), shows an artist incorporating grunge and punk elements — and unafraid of exploring deeper topics, including feminism and misogyny.

2022 shows include: New York (June 11), Los Angeles (June 21), Milwaukee (July 2) and more.

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10

KoRn x Evanescence

Believe it or not, KoRn is approaching 30 years of existence. Considered one of the most-important figures of the mid-’90s nu-metal movement, KoRn hit it big with the 1998 single “Freak on a Leash,” which introduced much of the world to everything that makes KoRn stand out: its blend of rap and rock, its sludgy distortion, and its aggressive, slapping, detuned bass. They’re joined here by goth-rockers Evanescence, which carried KoRn’s nu-metal torch in the early 2000s with a massive hit, “Bring Me To Life.”

2022 shows include: Denver (Aug. 16), Indianapolis (Aug. 24), Charlotte (Aug. 31) and more.

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