This Spring Music Trend Is Making Aging Millennials Oh-So-Very Happy

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Retro band music and legacy acts are popping this season, and elder millennials are singing along with the nostalgia. Tours, reunions, new releases and even two classic rock legends’ return to Spotify are signaling that Spring 2024 will be a season of '80s and '90s-era easy listening for the millennials and Gen Xers who first embraced the sounds. Here’s what’s worth buying a ticket to, and giving a streaming listen, in the coming months.

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Touring Artists

Who doesn’t love a feel-good sing-along with your favorite songs from back in the day? These musical artists are giving their fans face time this spring—and while there will be new music, we are counting on the hits.

New Releases

Legacy acts are releasing new albums, and they run all over the genre map, from grunge to soul to pure pop (and ahem, we’ll all be poised for your see-though tops, Lenny Kravitz). The pick of the litter for the once and potentially future chart-toppers are Pearl Jam (April 16), Linkin Park (April 12), New Kids on the Block (May 17), Kravitz (May 24), Sheryl Crow (March 29) and Bon Jovi (June 7).

Now Streaming

Music industry giants Joni Mitchell and Neil Young, both favorite additions to classic rock playlists, have returned to Spotify after pulling their catalogs off the platform in protest of Covid-19 skeptics. Meanwhile, Mitchell fans are pre-ordering Traveling: On the Path of Joni Mitchell by award-winning NPR music journalist Ann Powers.

Just don’t call what these musicians are doing “a comeback,” since these acts never really went away. And stay tuned—it’s too soon to predict if the music is going to hit big (like pop punk band Sum 41, who hit number one on the alternative charts for the first time since 2001) or get a critical dismissal (sorry, Justin Timberlake).

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