Focus Festival 2026: Subcarpați, Alternosfera and OCS Lead Sibiu’s Free Park Lineup
Focus Festival 2026 is going back to the park with a Romanian-first bill built for Sibiu rather than for a spreadsheet. The festival takes over Parcul Sub Arini from 4–7 June 2026, with Subcarpați, Alternosfera, Puya, Mihail, OCS, RATB & Orchestra, Rareș, Erika Isac, Vlad Corb, Andrew Dum, and Manuel Riva named in the first […]
NOS Alive 2026: Foo Fighters, Twenty One Pilots and Florence + The Machine Lead Lisbon Lineup
NOS Alive 2026 has dropped the kind of lineup that makes the Lisbon waterfront feel less like a festival site and more like a three-day argument over who gets to close your night. From 9 July to 11 July, Passeio Marítimo de Algés brings together Foo Fighters, Twenty One Pilots, Nick Cave & The Bad […]
Montreux Jazz Festival 2026: RAYE, PinkPantheress and Lewis Capaldi Lead 60th Edition Lineup
Sixty editions in, Montreux Jazz Festival is still booking like it has something to prove. From July 3–18, 2026, the Swiss institution returns to its refurbished convention-centre home with a bill that swings from RAYE, PinkPantheress and Lewis Capaldi to Sting, John Legend, Deep Purple, Moby and Vulfpeck. For a festival whose name still says […]
Electric Picnic 2026: Gorillaz, Fontaines D.C. and CMAT Lead a Huge EP26 Lineup
Electric Picnic has stopped pretending it is easing into 2026. With a second wave now on the board, the festival’s 28–30 August 2026 return to Stradbally already looks like one of the sharpest end-of-summer bookings anywhere in these islands. Gorillaz, Fontaines D.C. and CMAT were already enough to get people moving. Now add Djo, JADE, […]
Day Trip Festival 2026: Cloonee, Odd Mob and GORDO Lead Long Beach’s House Music Weekend
Day Trip Festival is at its best when it remembers exactly what it is: a sun-soaked, house-first weekender with no need to cosplay as an everything-festival. The 2026 edition does exactly that. Returning to the Queen Mary Waterfront in Long Beach on June 27–28, 2026, the Insomniac-run event has built a lineup around artists who […]
Newport Jazz Festival 2026: Herbie Hancock, Vulfpeck and Jon Batiste Lead a Dream Lineup
Newport Jazz Festival looked at the standard idea of a jazz lineup, laughed, and posted something much bigger for July 31 – August 2, 2026. The first thing you notice is the stature at the top: Herbie Hancock, Vulfpeck, the Jon Batiste Trio, Thundercat, Gary Clark Jr., Robert Glasper feat. Bilal & Ari Lennox, and […]
Seoul Jazz Festival 2026: Herbie Hancock, Janelle Monáe and Jon Batiste Lead Final Lineup
Seoul Jazz Festival just did the thing every major-city festival claims it can do and very few actually pull off. The final poster for the 2026 edition is absurdly stacked, moving from jazz royalty to art-pop spectacle to Korean indie essentials without ever feeling like a playlist assembled by committee. Set for May 22–24, 2026 […]
The Great Escape 2026: The Kooks, Kingfishr and Peaches Lead Brighton’s 20th Anniversary Bill
The Great Escape has never really behaved like a normal festival, and that is the whole point. Most events want to reassure you with a neat stack of obvious headliners and a map that tells you exactly where to stand. The Great Escape 2026 would rather hand Brighton over to 450+ emerging artists, scatter them […]
Meltdown Festival 2026: Harry Styles, Warpaint and Kamasi Washington Lead Southbank Centre’s 75th Anniversary Run
Meltdown Festival 2026 is not doing the lazy celebrity-curator thing. Harry Styles has lined up a Southbank Centre run that swings from Warpaint and Kamasi Washington to Yussef Dayes, Mulatu Astatke and James Murphy, which is a much better use of his clout than a tidy little branding exercise. Taking over the Southbank Centre in […]
Main Square Festival 2026: Katy Perry, Orelsan and Twenty One Pilots Lead Arras Lineup
Main Square Festival 2026 is the kind of lineup that makes a lot of other July weekends look underfed. Set for July 3–5, 2026 inside the Vauban citadel in Arras, France, this year’s bill leans hard into big singalong pop, French rap that actually moves a crowd, late-night electronic muscle, and a smart layer of […]