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Current conditions

#29 Moon Taxi

Wildcard • 12°TEMPERATURE

Moon Taxi grade out well because of agency relationship, shaky genre fit, returner sweet spot. There are no major penalty conditions dragging the profile down at the moment.

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Genre Fit

3/3

Agency

CAA

Last Shaky

2017

Festival Fronts

0

Booking outlook

Historical Shaky Knees performer awaiting current artist, touring, and genre-fit research.

Artist Bio

Moon Taxi is a progressive rock artist from Nashville,USA, formed in 2006. The project’s recorded work is commonly associated with progressive rock. The available discography runs from Melodica (2007) to Daybreaker (2015). Its profile belongs in the Shaky Forecast library as part of the wider map of artists under current and historical consideration.

Signal report

Why This Forecast Works

Researched through 2026-09-22. Unverified fields are intentionally left unresolved.

  • Historical appearances: 2013, 2017.
  • Research-only library record. It is intentionally excluded from scoring and the public Top 100 until current evidence is reviewed.
  • Researched through 2026-09-22. Unverified fields are intentionally left unresolved.
  • Batch 09 research cutoff: 2026-09-22.
  • Atlanta timing: NONE_FOUND
  • Current release/touring/festival research completed. Positive conditions are source-backed; absence statements mean no qualifying current/2027 evidence was verified in this pass.
  • Current-activity batch 01 research gaps now: Verify image credit/rights metadata; Expand the artist bio; Verify record label.
  • Research Batch 02 (PARTIAL): Management and current label structure were resolved; the official-site image has no explicit photographer or license metadata.
  • Research Batch 02 remaining fields: image_credit.

Forecast factors

Pressure Breakdown

This is the weighted case behind the ranking. It explains where the Forecast Index comes from without pretending the number is a literal probability.

  • Agency relationship+4

    CAA has a meaningful recent Shaky/C3 footprint.

  • Active Cycle+2

    Correlated activity evidence is bundled with diminishing returns: release (1), festival (1).

  • Shaky genre fit+3

    Historical Shaky Knees performer awaiting current artist, touring, and genre-fit research.

  • Returner sweet spot+3

    Moon Taxi last played in 2017, which sits in the ideal return window.

Forecast Index: 12

Routing map

Festival Fronts

  • No festival fronts are currently on the desk.

Release climate

Music Weather

Album

Highwave

Status

2026 Album

Release

Highwave

2027 Touring

No confirmed 2027 North American tour is currently on the desk

Highwave released March 6, 2026 under exclusive license to Ineffable Records.

Forecast Impact

+0 release-climate points

This profile does not currently receive any verified release-climate points.

Moon Taxi current-activity research
  • North American Tour (2026)Confirmed

    Official site lists October 2, 2026 in Harrisonburg, Virginia and Otherside of Paradise At Sea from November 3-7, 2026.

Historical conditions

Shaky History

Past appearances2013 · 2017

Receipts

Sources

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