Your Creative Calendar: 74 Things To Do, See, And Hear In June

Let that post-Memorial Day weekend malaise melt away with an exhaustive list of everything cool coming out this month. June will be bookended by big-ticket horror movies, The Conjuring 2 and The Shallows, with a DVR queue-crushing slate of new shows premiering in between, including Cameron Crowe’s first stab at television, the rock-centric show, Roadies. (Not to be confused with another rock-centric show, Dennis Leary’s Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, which returns the same week.) So throw on some jorts, fire up Netflix on your nearest device, and dive right into your creative calendar for June 2016.

Movies In Theaters

• Me Before You, opens June 3rd.
• Popstar: Never Stop Never Stopping, opens June 3rd.
• The Conjuring 2, opens June 10th.
• Now You See Me 2, opens June 10th.
• Warcraft, opens June 10th.
• Central Intelligence, June 17th.
• Finding Dory, opens June 17th.
• Independence Day: Resurgence, opens June 24th.
• The Shallows, opens June 24th.
• Hunt for the Wilderpeople, opens June 24th.
• The Neon Demon, opens June 24th.
• Swiss Army Man, opens June 24th.

Movies To Watch At Home

• Urge, opens June 3rd.
• Clown, opens June 3rd.
• A Texas Ranger, opens June 3rd.
• Bo Burnham: Make Happy, opens June 3rd.

Albums You Should Hear

• Paul Simon – Stranger To Stranger, out on June 3rd.
• Tegan and Sara – Love You To Death, out on June 3rd.
• The Kills – Ash & Ice, out on June 3rd.
• Diarrhea Planet – Turn To Gold, out on June 10th.
• Fitz & the Tantrums – Fitz & the Tantrums, out on June 10th.
• Garbage – Strange Little Birds, out on June 10th.
• Nick Jonas – Last Year Was Complicated, out on June 10th.
• Peter Bjorn and John – Breakin’ Point, out on June 10th.
• The Monkees – Good Times, out on June 10th.
• Neko Case, k.d. lang, and Laura Veirs – case/lang/veirs, out on June 17th.
• Neil Young – Earth, out on June 17th.
• Red Hot Chili Peppers – The Getaway, out on June 17th.
• Swans – The Glowing Man, out on June 17th.
• Cassius – Ibifornia, out on June 24th.
• Deerhoof – The Magic, out on June 24th.
• DJ Shadow – The Mountain Will Fall, out on June 24th.
• Hot Hot Heat – Hot Hot Heat, out on June 24th.
• Rae Sremmurd – Sremmlife 2, out on June 24th.
• The Avett Brothers – True Sadness, out on June 24th.

Things To Watch On Your TV (Or Your Computer)

• The Night Shift, premieres June 1st on NBC.
• Comedy Bang! Bang!, premieres June 3rd on IFC.
• Outcast, premieres June 3rd on Cinemax.
• Feed the Beast, premieres June 5th on AMC.
• Angie Tribeca, premieres June 6th on TBS.
• UnReal, premieres June 5th on Lifetime.
• Casual, premieres June 7th on Hulu.
• 70th Annual Tony Awards, premieres June 12th on CBS.
• Are You the One?, premieres June 13th on MTV.
• BrainDead, premieres June 13th on CBS.
• Uncle Buck, premieres June 14th on ABC.
• Wrecked, premieres June 13th on TBS.
• Another Period, premieres June 15th on Comedy Central.
• Comedians in Cars Getting Coffee, premieres June 16th on Crackle.
• The Pistol Shrimps, premieres June 16th on Seeso.
• Check It Out! With Dr. Steve Brule, premieres June 17th on Adult Swim.
• Decker: Unclassified, premieres June 17th on Adult Swim.
• Orange Is the New Black Trailer, premieres June 17th on Netflix.
• Mother, May I Sleep With Danger?, premieres June 18th on Lifetime.
• The Jim Gaffigan Show, premieres June 19th on TV Land.
• Greenleaf, premieres June 21st on OWN
• American Gothic, premieres June 22nd on CBS.
• Any Given Wednesday with Bill Simmons, premieres June 22nd on HBO.
• Roadies, premieres June 26th on Showtime.
• Night Train with Wyatt Cenac, premieres June 30th on Seeso.
• Sex&Drugs&Rock&Roll, premieres June 30th on FX.

Books to Read

• End of Watch by Stephen King, out on June 7th.
• Grunt: The Curious Science of Humans at War by Mary Roach, out on June 6th.
• But What If We’re Wrong?: Thinking About the Present As If It Were the Past by Chuck Klosterman, out on June 6th.
• How to Ruin Everything: Essays by George Watsky, out on June 13th.
• The Girls by Emma Cline, out on June 13th.
• Barkskins by Annie Proulx, out on June 13th.
• I’m Just a Person by Tig Notaro, out on June 13th.
• 18 and Life on Skid Row by Sebastian Bach, out on June 28th.
• Dating Tips For The Unemployed by Iris Smyles, out on June 28th.

Events

• Make Music Day, on June 21st, finds Philip Glass playing with nineteen students from New York City public schools and the premiere of Shimmer, a new 45-minute work by Brian Chase of the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, scored for 16 (or more) Zildjian cymbals, arranged in a circle in Madison Square Park.
• The Coney Island Mermaid Parade is June 18th this year. It offers attendees the rare opportunity to see mermaids walking on land.
• The Brooklyn Film Festival is June 3rd-12th this year. This year’s feature films include the intriguingly-titled Bad Vegan and The Teleportation Machine.
• I don’t drink coffee, but I hear a lot of people do. They might be interested in CoffeeCon on June 4th.

[Photo Mash Up: Adriana C. Sánchez for Fast Company, Source Photos: Wrecked: Francisco Roman, courtesy of TBS; Uncle Buck: Nicole Wilder, courtesy of ABC; Swiss Army Man: courtesy of A24 Films; Pistol Shrimps: courtesy of Tribeca Film Festival; Orange is the New Black: JoJo Whilden, courtesy of Netflix; Now You See Me 2: Jay Maidment, courtesy of Summit Entertainment; Me Before You: Alex Bailey, courtesy of Warner Bros.; Finding Dory: courtesy of Pixar/Disney; Independence Day: Resurgence: courtesy of 20th Century Fox; Feed the Beast: Frank Ockenfels, courtesy of AMC; The Shallows: Vince Valitutti, courtesy of Sony Pictures Entertainment; The Conjuring 2: Matt Kennedy, courtesy of Warner Bros.; Central Intelligence: Claire Folger, courtesy of Warner Bros.; Comedy Bang! Bang!: Roger Snider, courtesy of IFC; Braindead: Jeff Neumann, Michael Parmelee, courtesy of CBS; Another Period: Robyn Von Swank, courtesy of Comedy Central; Angie Tribeca: Tyler Golden, courtesy of TBS; 70th Annual Tony Awards: Jason Bell, courtesy of CBS]