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Syd Brings the Beard Tour to the Tabernacle on November 24

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1 hour ago

November 4, 2026

Syd performing live on stage, singing into a microphone under spotlights

Syd performing live on stage. Photo courtesy of Syd (official Instagram).

Syd’s Beard Tour plays the Tabernacle on Tuesday, November 24, a late November stop on the 22 date North American run behind her third solo album, with no opener announced and none needed.

Atlanta’s R&B fall gets its centerpiece on Tuesday, November 24, when Syd headlines the Tabernacle on the Beard Tour. The 22 date North American run opened in Vancouver on November 7 and closes at the Wiltern in Los Angeles on December 16, passing through Camp Flog Gnaw on the way, and it is built entirely around the strongest solo record of her career.

That record is Beard, her third solo album, released July 17 through Free Lunch and Warner Records, her first LP in four years and one she co-produced herself. The collaborator list reads like a roll call of modern soul: Raphael Saadiq, Big Sean, Rodney Jerkins, James Fauntleroy and Van Hunt all appear across its 12 tracks. The album folds in “GMFU,” first released as a standalone single in September 2025, produced by Jerkins with Saadiq on bass, here in a version featuring Big Sean, and it was led by “Callin,” featuring Blu June. Earlier single “Die For This,” from July 2025, was her first new song in over three years and started the whole campaign.

Syd’s standing in the culture is larger than any single billing: co-founder of The Internet, and a GRAMMY winning songwriter whose credits include Beyoncé’s “Plastic Off the Sofa.” But a Beard show is a different proposition from the résumé. No opener is announced for the Atlanta date, just Syd, the band and a room that has hosted every kind of music Atlanta loves. Tuesday night at the Tabernacle belongs to her alone.

Yebba Brings Her First Ever Headlining Tour to the Coca-Cola Roxy on November 12

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6 hours ago

November 4, 2026

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Yebba live on the Jean Tour. Photo by Yebba.

Yebba’s Jean Tour plays the Coca-Cola Roxy on Thursday, November 12, a late stop on the Arkansas singer’s first ever headlining run, built around the album she named for her grandmother.

Some voices take years to get the room they deserve. On Thursday, November 12, Yebba headlines the Coca-Cola Roxy at The Battery, on the closing nights of the Jean Tour, and the headline billing itself is the story: this is her first ever headlining tour, five years after her debut album was supposed to launch one.

That album was Dawn, in 2021, and the pandemic kept Yebba from touring it properly. The new record is Jean, her second studio album, released March 6 through RCA Records and named in honor of her late grandmother. Written across five years in Arkansas, Dallas and New York’s Electric Lady Studios, Jean runs 14 tracks of the songwriting that has made other artists seek her out for a decade: the gospel raised phrasing, the sudden turns from whisper to full cry. The lead single, “Yellow Eyes,” was her first solo release in two and a half years, and it announced an artist done waiting. Her collaboration run tells the same story from the other side: “Die Trying,” with Drake and PARTYNEXTDOOR, became her first Billboard Hot 100 entry last year, peaking at number 21.

The fall leg of the tour opened in Toronto in late October and closes in Miami on November 16, with Astyn Turr opening the fall dates and singing backing vocals in Yebba’s own set. Atlanta sees the show four nights from the end of the run, in the Roxy’s big, clean sounding room, which is exactly the setting this voice and this material have been pointed at since the beginning.