October is the month the fall touring season stops arriving in trickles and simply lands. Gorillaz bring a new album and a hand-drawn animated world to the Bell Centre, The Smashing Pumpkins give Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness a full set of its own in the same room, Olivia Rodrigo books two nights there, and Sting strips four decades of songs down to a three-piece at Theatre St-Denis. At the other end of the scale, she’s green and After play Bar le Ritz PDB inside the same month, IAN SWEET heads to La Sotterenea, AJJ take over Cabaret Foufs three weeks into a world tour, and Castle Rat bring a medieval doom pageant to Theatre Beanfield.
There is a Canadian thread running through it too. Metric close out their entire co-headline run with Broken Social Scene and Stars at Place Bell, Cleopatrick headline Fairmount Theatre, and Allison Russell comes home to Theatre Beanfield with her third solo record. The Black Keys arrive at Place Bell with a Toronto roots songwriter from their own label opening. Add beabadoobee, Thundercat, Tricky, Igorrr, Cradle Of Filth and a Halloween night with Hot Mulligan, and the calendar barely leaves a gap. Here’s a glimpse of the outstanding concerts coming to Montreal this month. Which performances will you be attending?
Two Door Cinema Club
Two Door Cinema Club are back out behind Tourist History, the 2010 debut that Kitsuné Musique released and that carried “What You Know,” “Undercover Martyn” and “Something Good Can Work” out of Bangor, County Down. The Northern Irish trio of Alex Trimble, Sam Halliday and Kevin Baird are billing this run as the Tourist History 15th Anniversary Tour.
with STRFKR
Thursday, 1 October @ MTelus || BUY TICKETS HERE
Gorillaz
Gorillaz arrive on The Mountain Tour behind The Mountain, the ninth studio album from Damon Albarn and Jamie Hewlett’s virtual band and the first release on their own Kong label. Written after both men lost their fathers during its production, it draws heavily on Indian classical instrumentation and moves between English, Arabic, Hindi, Spanish and Yoruba. Deltron 3030 open in the full Del, Dan the Automator and Kid Koala configuration.
with Little Simz, Deltron 3030
Saturday, 3 October @ Bell Centre || BUY TICKETS HERE
she’s green
she’s green are a five-piece from Minneapolis who have been playing together since 2022, and whose dream pop moves from washed-out shoegaze guitars into full-group detonations. swallowtail, the seven-track EP they released in July on Photo Finish Records, is the record this tour supports.
with WITCHES EXIST, smush
Sunday, 4 October @ Bar le Ritz PDB || BUY TICKETS HERE
Steve Lacy
Steve Lacy is touring Oh Yeah?, his third album, released in July on RCA and advertised as “a record for guitar kids who love synths and synth kids who love guitars.” It is a rock and R&B record with breakbeat, psychedelia and trip hop in it, and guest turns from SZA, Erykah Badu and Cecile Believe. The Internet guitarist won Best Progressive R&B Album for Gemini Rights.
Tuesday, 6 October @ Place Bell || BUY TICKETS HERE
Metric
This is the last night of the All the Feelings Tour, a 34-date co-headline run that Metric have spent the summer sharing with Broken Social Scene and Stars. Metric are out behind Romanticize the Dive, their tenth album, released in April through Metric Music International and Thirty Tigers, made with Fantasies producer Gavin Brown and partly cut at Electric Lady in New York. Three Toronto bands finishing a continental tour in the Montreal area is a decent way to end a summer.
with Broken Social Scene, Stars
Wednesday, 7 October @ Place Bell || BUY TICKETS HERE
Teddy Swims
Teddy Swims, the Atlanta singer born Jaten Dimsdale, is on the UGLY Tour, an arena run that stretches from late September into November. He got here by way of YouTube covers and then “Lose Control,” a Diamond-certified single that spent 112 weeks on the Billboard Hot 100.
with St. Paul & The Broken Bones, MarcLo
Wednesday, 7 October @ Bell Centre || BUY TICKETS HERE
beabadoobee
beabadoobee brings the Powerlines Tour to Place Bell. Beatrice Laus was born in Iloilo City and raised in London, and her third album This Is How Tomorrow Moves, recorded at Shangri-La in Malibu with Rick Rubin and Jacob Bugden, gave her a first UK number one in 2024. Her return single this year, “All I Did Was Dream Of You” with The Marías, is the first release under a new Dirty Hit and Interscope partnership.
with Wisp
Thursday, 8 October @ Place Bell || BUY TICKETS HERE
The Smashing Pumpkins
The Smashing Pumpkins are playing two sets on the Rats in a Cage Tour: one given over entirely to Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness, which passed its thirtieth anniversary, and one drawing from the rest of the catalogue, from Gish in 1991 through to Aghori Mhori Mei. Billy Corgan, James Iha and Jimmy Chamberlin opened the run in Columbus at the end of September with a thirty-two song setlist. Montreal is the only Quebec date on a twenty-seven show tour.
Friday, 9 October @ Bell Centre || BUY TICKETS HERE
Tricky
Tricky has spent thirty years refusing the trip hop label he helped invent, which has not stopped Maxinquaye from being the record everyone reaches for when they explain what came out of Bristol in 1995. Different When It’s Silent, released in July on False Idols, is his fifteenth album and his first in six years, and it is the first to lean predominantly on male vocals, supplied by Mitch Sanders.
Friday, 9 October @ Le Studio TD || BUY TICKETS HERE
The Linda Lindas
The Linda Lindas are the Los Angeles quartet of Eloise Wong, sisters Lucia and Mila de la Garza, and Bela Salazar, and Gotta Get Out is their third album: twelve songs in thirty-five minutes, released in August on Reprise after two records for Epitaph. “Closer,” cut with Hayley Williams, is the one that has been getting the attention. This Montreal stop sits inside their longest headline tour so far.
with adan diaz
Saturday, 10 October @ Fairmount Theatre || BUY TICKETS HERE
AJJ
AJJ formed in Phoenix in 2004 as Andrew Jackson Jihad, and Sean Bonnette and Ben Gallaty have anchored every version of the band since. Dirty Old Power, their ninth album, landed in late September and reunites them with John Congleton, who produced Christmas Island and The Bible 2. Montreal is an early stop on a world tour that runs into 2027.
with Greet Death
Monday, 12 October @ Cabaret Foufs || BUY TICKETS HERE
Cradle Of Filth
Cradle Of Filth have been welding black metal to symphonic arrangement since forming in Suffolk in 1991, and Dani Filth is still the constant. The Screaming of the Valkyries, their fourteenth album, came out on Napalm Records in March 2025, produced by Scott Atkins at Grindstone Studios. The support bill is unusually strong: Blackbraid, Black Satellite and Worm all play before them.
with Blackbraid, Black Satellite, Worm
Thursday, 15 October @ Theatre Beanfield || BUY TICKETS HERE
The Black Keys
The Black Keys bring the Peaches ‘N Kream World Tour ’26 to Place Bell behind No Rain, No Flowers, the thirteenth album from the Akron duo of Dan Auerbach and Patrick Carney, released in August 2025 through Easy Eye Sound and Warner. Worth arriving early for the opener: Jeremie Albino is a Toronto roots songwriter signed to Auerbach’s Easy Eye Sound, and Auerbach co-produced his record.
with Jeremie Albino
Friday, 16 October @ Place Bell || BUY TICKETS HERE
Cleopatrick
Cleopatrick are Luke Gruntz and Ian Fraser, a two-piece from Cobourg, Ontario who met in nursery school and have been making a very large noise for two people ever since. Fake Moon, released in March 2025 on Nowhere Special Recordings, is their second album, following Bummer in 2021 and the 2017 single “Hometown” that first got them onto American rock radio.
Saturday, 17 October @ Fairmount Theatre || BUY TICKETS HERE
IAN SWEET
IAN SWEET is the project of Jilian Medford, who has put out five albums under the name since Shapeshifter in 2016. Shiverstruck, released in July on Polyvinyl, was recorded at Maze Studios in Atlanta with producer Ben H. Allen and written while Medford was living in New York. By her own account the lyrics took more work than anything she has done: “The writing was the heart of everything and had to feel really grounded.”
with Meg Elsier
Saturday, 17 October @ La Sotterenea || BUY TICKETS HERE
Igorrr
Igorrr is the project of French musician Gautier Serre, who has spent twenty years running black metal, baroque music, breakcore and trip hop through the same machine. Amen, his fifth album, arrived on Metal Blade in September 2025 and is the darkest thing he has made. The live band carries two vocalists, JB Le Bail and Marthe Alexandre, plus drums, guitar and bass.
with Secret Chiefs 3
Sunday, 18 October @ MTelus || BUY TICKETS HERE
Castle Rat
Castle Rat formed in Brooklyn in 2019 and play doom metal entirely in character, led by Riley Pinkerton as the Rat Queen and rounded out by the Count, the Druid and the Plague Doctor. The stage show runs to a recurring nemesis, the Rat Reaperess. The Bestiary, thirteen tracks recorded by Randall Dunn and released in September 2025 through King Volume and Blues Funeral, was funded by a Kickstarter that raised $139,000 in thirty-seven minutes.
with Unto Others, Wraith Knight
Monday, 19 October @ Theatre Beanfield || BUY TICKETS HERE
Thundercat
Thundercat is on the Distracted AF Tour behind Distracted, his fifth album, released on Brainfeeder in April. Stephen Bruner came up in a family of session musicians and then in Suicidal Tendencies before It Is What It Is won him a Grammy, and the new record pulls in Tame Impala, Lil Yachty, Mac Miller, Willow Smith, A$AP Rocky, Channel Tres and The Lemon Twigs without ever losing the bass playing underneath.
with TiaCorine
Tuesday, 20 October @ MTelus || BUY TICKETS HERE
Olivia Rodrigo
Olivia Rodrigo plays the Bell Centre on the Unraveled Tour, an 86-show run supporting You Seem Pretty Sad for a Girl So in Love, released in June on Geffen. The tour takes its name from a repeated line in “The Cure,” the album’s second single. Wolf Alice open, and a second Montreal night follows on 22 October.
with Wolf Alice
Wednesday, 21 October @ Bell Centre || BUY TICKETS HERE
Allison Russell
Allison Russell grew up in Montreal and studied at Dawson College before Po’ Girl, Birds of Chicago and Our Native Daughters, so this is a homecoming as much as a tour stop. In The Hour of Chaos, her third solo album, came out in July on Fantasy with guests on ten of its eleven tracks. She has eight Grammy nominations and one win, for “Eve Was Black.”
with AHI
Friday, 23 October @ Theatre Beanfield || BUY TICKETS HERE
Sting
The 3.0 Tour is Sting reduced to a trio, with longtime guitarist Dominic Miller and drummer Chris Maas, reworking Police songs and solo deep cuts through a three-piece arrangement. The live document of it, STING 3.0 LIVE, includes “Be Still My Beating Heart” in a live version for the first time. He returns to Theatre St-Denis the following night, 27 October.
with Chance Emerson
Monday, 26 October @ Theatre St-Denis || BUY TICKETS HERE
After
After are Graham Epstein and Justine Dorsey, a Los Angeles duo who took their name from a 2003 visual novel and who file somewhere between synth-pop, trip hop and chillwave. Fell Asleep in the Sun, out in September on Mom + Pop, is their debut album after two EPs, and the band describe it as “a true journey through city streets, treacherous oceans, crowds of strangers, patches of sunlight, dark tunnels, and snowy peaks.”
with Silverdeer
Thursday, 29 October @ Bar le Ritz PDB || BUY TICKETS HERE
Hot Mulligan
Hot Mulligan get Halloween at MTelus, which feels about right for a Lansing, Michigan five-piece who have spent a decade writing emo songs with titles that read like text messages. The Sound a Body Makes When It’s Still, their fourth album, came out on Wax Bodega in August 2025. One Step Closer take direct support, with Riley! and Wakelee opening.
with One Step Closer, Riley!, Wakelee
Saturday, 31 October @ MTelus || BUY TICKETS HERE
Twenty-three shows is a selection, not the month. Our full concert calendar carries everything coming through Montreal, October included, and new dates go up as they are announced.
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