The Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Concert Schedule
The 2025 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally Concert Schedule
As one of the largest motorcycle rallies in the world, Sturgis wouldn’t be complete without loud, exhilarating concerts from top musical performers. Each year, the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally features some of the biggest names in the music industry on the huge Buffalo Chip stage. Several performers take the stage throughout the week to deliver extraordinary concert experiences to hundreds of thousands of rally attendees. If you’re planning to stop by the 2025 Sturgis Motorcycle Rally, you’re in for a treat. The 2025 rally will include some of the most popular performers yet, with ten headliners taking the stage throughout the rally’s ten-day span. Read on to learn more about the 2025 Sturgis concerts and headliners you can expect to see this year.
Playing at the Sturgis Buffalo Chip:
Calling all Beer Drinkers & Hell Raisers! That Little Ol’ Band from Texas, ZZ Top, is returning to the Sturgis Buffalo Chip! They’re Bad, and they’re coming to rock the Buffalo Chip’s Official Sturgis Rally Kickoff. These classic rock megastars bring their legendary raunchy blues rock boogie to the Chip’s Wolfman Jack Stage on Friday, Aug. 1, 2025, and you’ll want to make sure you and your Cheap Sunglasses are close by when they do.
Wanna rock and roll all nite and party every day? You better KISS your other plans goodbye because the frontman of the “world’s ultimate rock band”, KISS, will light up the Sturgis Rally on Sunday, Aug. 3. KISS may have called it quits but Gene Simmons is far from done. The man with the tongue, the writer or co-writer of 105 KISS songs that sold more than 100 million albums and earned more Gold Album Record Awards than any American band in history, the singer of more than 100 KISS hits is bringing you some of the most popular hits during the Best Party Anywhere.
Prepare to be pummeled by a merciless mixture of fierce metallic grooves and aggressively catchy melodies when Five Finger Death Punch returns to annihilate the Buffalo Chip audience during the 85th anniversary of the Sturgis Motorcycle Rally. The Las Vegas heavy metallers will bring an adrenaline-packed evening to a climax from the legendary Wolfman Jack Stage on Monday, Aug. 4.
The Best Party Anywhere® is getting a little rowdier with three-time ACM Entertainer of the Year and Grammy nominee Jason Aldean on the 85th Annual Sturgis Rally lineup on Tuesday, Aug. 5! With 28 no. 1 singles, 18 billion streams, and more than 20 million albums sold, he’s sure to light up the night with chart-topping country-rock hits like “My Kinda Party,” “Big Green Tractor,” “Dirt Road Anthem,” “She’s Country,” “Try That In A Small Town,” and much more.
Hey, hey, you wanna see a rockstar? Then get ready for one of the top-requested bands when Nickelback returns to the Buffalo Chip stage for the first time in 20 years—where they once recorded a live album packed with tracks like "Animals," "Savin' Me," "Someday" and more. This night will have you screaming, “This is How You Remind Me of a damn good time!”
If you’ve been craving something new, well—“This is the New Sh**.” Prepare for a show that will shake the very foundation of the Sturgis Rally! For the first time ever, Marilyn Manson is bringing his spectacle to the Largest Music Festival in Motorcycling®. Give yourself over as the Antichrist Superstar himself baptizes you in a torrent of gothic grooves like “The Dope Show,” “Personal Jesus,”“Tainted Love,” and “The Beautiful People”—as well as blistering new tracks from One Assassination Under God – Chapter 1. This isn’t just another concert—it’s an experience, a reckoning, a rite of passage.
Your goosebumps will have goosebumps when 8x platinum-selling act Stone Temple Pilots brings you the blend of crunching riffs, candied melodies and psychedelic flair that made you fall in love with STP in the ‘90s. Sing along to signature hits like "Plush," "Creep," "Big Empty," "Vasoline," "Interstate Love Song," and "Big Bang Baby," as well as tracks from their most recent sonic adventure “Perdida.”
Playing at the Iron Horse Saloon:
CLUTCH shares more in common with The Grateful Dead, Rush, and the Allman Brothers than their heavy riffs and heady twists-of-phrase might suggest. Because like those bands, the supporters who adore CLUTCH are there for the experience, community, and authentic connection. The foursome from Germantown, Maryland, isn’t bound by trends. Across 13 studio albums and assorted releases since 1991, they’ve earned a reputation as one of the best around.
The Bombastic Celebration of Arena Rock. IT'S LIKE 20 CONCERTS IN ONE NIGHT! A band puts on a concert - Hairball puts on an event! Hairball is a Rock & Roll experience you won't soon forget. The lights, sound, smoke, fire, bombs, and screaming hoards of avid fans...to merely call it a concert would be like calling Mount Rushmore a roadside attraction!
Continuing a wild ride from humble beginnings in Gadsden, Alabama to the forefront of popular culture, Yelawolf certainly has a lot to say. The Nashville-based multiplatinum chart-topping artist, entrepreneur, and Slumerican Founder has consistently asserted himself as an outlier and outlaw without comparison. He catalyzed his breakthrough via Radioactive (rated a coveted “4.5-out-of-5 stars” by The Source). The gold-certified Love Story bowed at #3 on the Billboard 200 highlighted by platinum singles “Till It’s Gone” and “Best Friend” [feat. Eminem].
Playing at Full Throttle Saloon:
The ground started shaking in Sacramento, CA, in 1984; gold country that would soon be producing some platinum. They started out as City Kidd, until a suggested name change to TESLA, honoring the eccentric inventor Nikola Tesla who pioneered all things electrical. Their 1986 platinum debut album, Mechanical Resonance, included Top 40 hits “Modern Day Cowboy” and “Little Suzi.” 1989’s double-platinum The Great Radio Controversy included hits “Heaven’s Trail (No Way Out)” and “Love Song.”
Emerging out of Chicago at the turn of the century with an insidious, infectious, and inimitable vision without comparison, Disturbed have quietly dominated hard rock on their own terms. They make the kind of music that pushes you to hold on tighter, fight harder, and persevere forever. It’s why they’ve quietly claimed a place at the forefront of 21st century rock with record-breaking success, sales of over 17 million-plus units, nearly 8 billion streams, and sold out shows around the globe.
Formed in 1991, Jackyl roared onto the scene with a high-octane blend of hard rock and Southern rock, carving out their own unapologetic space in American rock history. Their self-titled debut album, released in 1992 under Geffen Records, went double platinum and delivered smash hits like “The Lumberjack,” “I Stand Alone,” and “Down on Me.”
Of course, it wouldn’t be a bike rally, and it certainly wouldn’t be Sturgis without rides. Here are the top scheduled Sturgis rides in 2025 so far