Tonight was supposed to be a evening filled with slow-burning rock ballads crafted by lo-fi bedroom rocker, Youth Lagoon. Unfortunately due to the inclement weather from last week, the show was postponed, then canceled. Now it looks to be just another so-so Monday night, watching the disappointingly average crime mystery, Alcatraz (really J.J. Abrams), and drowning our sorrows with a six-pack of Fat-Tire. After that initial sigh of disappointment however, we got to thinking. What were some of the most heart-breaking/out-of-left-field/you've-gotta-be-kidding me concert cancellations of all time? After all, this type of thing happens all the time. There has got to have been something a little more disappointing than some under-the-radar indie rock show that never happened. Here's what we've found.

6. Johnny Cash Tribute Concert - 1/9/08 - To mark the 40th anniversary of Johnny Cash's famous prison concert at Folsom State Penitentiary, promoters planed a tribute show to be staged in the very same cafeteria where he first made a name for himself back in 1968. The show was to include some of his original backup musicians and to be streamed on the Internet. However, citing problems with media access and security concerns, prison officials scraped the idea.
5. Kings of Leon - 8/1/11 - No strangers to cancelling shows, KOL's most recent string of cancellations happened during the summer of last year. 11 songs into their Dallas show, lead singer Caleb Followill announced that he was too hot, and left the stage never to come back out. Not nearly as funny as in 2010, when the band has to cancel a show due to pigeon poop, but still pretty funny.


4. Bob Dylan - 1963 - Bob Dylan cancelled his appearance on the Ed Sullivan show in February of 1963 because the producers of the show wouldn't let him play "Talking John Birch Paranoid Blues."  Ed Sullivan was notoriously conservative and had also tried to censor The Doors & The Beatles. When The Doors ended up performing their song without the approved changes, they were banned for life from the show.

3. The Latin Grammy's - 9/11/01 - The 2nd annual Latin Grammy's were scheduled for that fateful night in Los Angeles back in 2011. For obvious reasons, the awards ceremony never happened. Other popular acts to be cancelled following the attacks include Aerosmith, Maxwell, Tool, Cake and Ben Folds.



2. Paul Anka, Thelonious Monk - 11/23/63 - Like 911, the JFK assignation was another moment where the world seemed to stand still. In New York City, the Thelonious Monk Nonet reunion at Lincoln Center never went down, while in Warsaw Poland, Canadian jazz doo-wop crooner, Paul Anaka, also had to cancel. Last November, 48 years after the assassination, Paul Anaka returned to Poland to perform that missed show.


1. Metallica - 10/29/11 - Metallica's first ever concert in India was suppose to be a glorious occasion. Instead, because of a proper security barricade in the front of the stage, the band had to postpone their date in the city of Guragon. Upset with the news that they might have to wait a few more days for "Enter Sandman" the fans rushed the stage and rioted. Honestly, what's more metal than that!?