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The Weeknd is the most streamed artist on the planet.<\/span><\/p>\n The Weeknd This year\u2019s widely panned TV series The Idol<\/i>, which Tesfaye co-created and starred in, doesn\u2019t seem to have turned off the legion of followers who are living for the Weeknd, with his current tour a global smash (it recently broke the London Stadium\u2019s attendance record with 160,000 concertgoers across two nights). Mega hits, mega fans and, for some reason, Tesfaye wearing a chrome mask: these will be the blockbuster pop music events to beat. Your move, Taylor Swift.<\/p>\n Are they not men? Gerald Casale, Josh Hagar, Mark Mothersbaugh and Bob Mothersbaugh performing in Sweden earlier this year.<\/span>Credit: <\/span>Photo by Rune Hellestad<\/cite><\/p>\n Devo Founding members Gerald Casale, Bob Motherbaugh and Mark Motherbaugh will be celebrating Devo\u2019s half-century by bringing their Goodbye to 50 years of De-Evolution<\/em> farewell tour Down Under for their final Australian shows.<\/p>\n Devo will also whip out Whip It <\/i>and the rest of their satirical art-pop classics at the Good Things festival on December 3, where they\u2019ll be performing alongside the likes of Fall Out Boy and Limp Bizkit. Will they open for themselves at their headline gigs as fake Christian soft rock group Dove (the Band of Love), as they did earlier in their career? There\u2019s only one way to find out.<\/p>\n Raucous rockers Bad\/\/Dreems deliver music with a message.<\/span>Credit: <\/span> <\/cite><\/p>\n Bad\/\/Dreems Known for blistering live shows, the four-piece will be showcasing their excellent new album, Hoo Ha!<\/i>, which tackles racism, toxic masculinity and the failure of Australia\u2019s education institutions to adequately teach Aboriginal history. It\u2019s the band\u2019s most acclaimed album to date, debuting in the ARIA top 10 and scoring a nomination for Best Rock Album at the 2023 ARIA Awards, slated for November 15.<\/p>\n Bad\/\/Dreems will be playing as part of Crowbar Sydney\u2019s birthday celebrations week, with other artists appearing including US alt-rockers Highly Suspect, English punks GBH, Perth punks Miles Away and acclaimed Sydney singer-songwriter Ruby Fields.<\/p>\n Lee Fields\u2019 career was revived by the soul revival of the early aughts.<\/span>Credit: <\/span> <\/cite><\/p>\n Lee Fields After working with the likes of Kool and the Gang, B.B. King and Bobby Womack, disco effectively killed Fields\u2019 career by the \u201980s, forcing him into a stint as a real estate agent before the soul revival of the early aughts introduced him to a new generation of listeners.<\/p>\n Now with several old-school soul albums under his belt including last year\u2019s Sentimental Fool<\/i>, Fields and his band The Expressions will be bringing some classic soul vibes to Sydney this month, ably supported by Melbourne funk group Surprise Chef.<\/p>\n Multi-talented Tkay Maidza is back in Australia for a series of headline shows.<\/span>Credit: <\/span> <\/cite><\/p>\n Tkay Maidza Following on from 2016 debut album Tkay<\/i> and a trio of EPs released between 2018 and 2021 titled Last Year Was Weird<\/i>, the third volume of which won an ARIA award for Best Soul\/R&B Release in 2021, Maidza is back on the scene with anticipated new LP Sweet Justice. <\/i><\/p>\n With recent single Silent Assassin <\/i>featuring Aussie electronic producer Flume being nominated for Best Hip-Hop\/Rap Release at the 2023 ARIA Awards and her international profile deservedly on the rise, don\u2019t expect the multi-talented Maidza\u2019s winning streak to end any time soon.<\/p>\n Which gigs are you looking forward to seeing this month? Pop titans of the moment (Sam Smith, Post Malone, Bebe Rexha, Joji), or perhaps those of yesteryear (Belinda Carlisle, Robbie Williams, The Corrs)? If genre hopping is your thing, you may be drawn to some indie and alternative rock (a Bloc Party\/Interpol double bill, Paramore, Suicidal Tendencies, Kristen Hersh, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, Supergrass\u2019s Gaz Coombes), a touch of dance (US DJ and producer Theo Parrish, the \u201cSummer Dance\u201d series featuring Todd Terje and Adam Pits) or some old school R&B and hip-hop (the Fridayz Live festival with Kelly Rowland, Boyz II Men and Flo Rida). Let us know in the comments.<\/b><\/p>\n
<\/b>Accor Stadium, November 24, 25, 27
<\/b>Is Abel Tesfaye, aka the Weeknd, the \u201cworld\u2019s most popular artist\u201d, as Guinness World Records recently dubbed him? The stats certainly back it up: the 33-year-old Canadian singer has sold more than 75 million records worldwide and has more than 100 million monthly listeners on Spotify, making him the most-streamed artist on the planet.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
<\/b>Darling Harbour ICC Theatre, November 26
<\/b>With a name derived from the prescient concept that humanity is de-evolving rather than the other way around, American new wave legends Devo have been successfully skewering mankind\u2019s foibles for 50 years.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
<\/b>Crowbar Sydney, November 26
<\/b>Spiritual successors to politically charged, working-class pub bands like Midnight Oil and Goanna, Adelaide\u2019s Bad\/\/Dreems excel at delivering raucous rock music with something important to say.<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
<\/b>Sydney Opera House Studio, November 27
<\/b>After releasing his first single in 1969, Lee Fields was nicknamed \u201cLittle J.B.\u201d thanks to his style and voice being similar to James Brown, with the soul music survivor even providing additional vocals for the 2014 James Brown biopic Get On Up. <\/i><\/p>\n<\/p>\n
<\/b>UNSW Roundhouse, November 28
<\/b>After high-profile tour support slots for pop titans Lizzo, Dua Lipa and Billie Eilish, Zimbabwean-born, Australian-raised and Los Angeles-based rapper, singer and producer Tkay Maidza is back in Australia for a series of headline shows.<\/p>\nMost Viewed in Culture<\/h2>\n
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