The biggest events coming up in music

Believe it or not, Taylor Swift's return isn't the only musical event on the horizon this fall. Here's what we're most excited to see, read and listen to in the months ahead.

- BY MIKAEL WOOD AND AUGUST BROWN

SEPT. 15

NEIL YOUNG AND THE CHROME HEARTS

Hollywood Bowl

The veteran rocker will wrap his latest world tour — ostensibly booked behind June's “Talkin to the Trees” album — with a sure-to-be-shaggy gig at the Hollywood Bowl. The Chrome Hearts are Spooner Oldham on organ, Micah Nelson on guitar, Corey McCormick on bass and Anthony LoGerfo on drums. - Mikael Wood

SEPT. 18-19

NINE INCH NAILS

The Forum

Whenever Nine Inch Nails returns to the road, a beloved meme circulates of Trent Reznor riling up his crowd: “Having a good time? Ready to party? Well, that was the last guys. Wrong band. We're here to have a bad time. (Synthesizer playing.)” By those standards, this summer is going to be an extremely bad time for devotees of NIN's industrial rock. The band has a new album of sorts out Sept. 19 in “Tron: Ares,” the latest film score from Reznor and his partner Atticus Ross. Then their “Peel It Back” tour hits the Forum for two nights; the band looks to be playing in the round for some experimental passages before firing on all cylinders with its new (and old) drummer, Josh Freese, who they swapped in from Foo Fighters just days before the tour started. Most intriguingly, the Future Ruins Music and Arts Festival at the Los Angeles Equestrian Center on Nov. 8 will highlight avant-garde film music from Cristobal Tapia de Veer, Hildur Guðnadóttir, John Carpenter and Questlove, among many others. August Brown

SEPT. 19

CARDI B.

'AM I THE DRAMA?'

One sign of how long Cardi B has been preparing her sophomore studio album: The last track on the LP is "WAP," her blockbuster collaboration with Megan Thee Stallion that topped Billboard's Hot 100... back in the summer of 2020.- M.W.

SEPT. 26

MARIAH CAREY, 'HERE FOR IT ALL'