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 […]
All Together Now 2026: Pulp, Kneecap, Disclosure and Underworld Lead the Lineup
Seven chapters in, and All Together Now is still making the rest of Ireland’s festival scene look ordinary. The Curraghmore Estate lineup for July 30 to August 2, 2026 is headlined by Pulp, Kneecap, Disclosure (DJ set), and Underworld — and that’s before you get to the 60-plus acts filling the other 17 stages across […]
Head In The Clouds 2026: KATSEYE, XG and Rich Brian Headline 10th Anniversary Lineup
Head In The Clouds is not a festival that needs to explain itself. For a decade now, 88rising’s flagship event has been the clearest proof that Asian-led music is not a niche – it’s a cultural force. The 10th edition lands at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California, on Saturday, August 8, 2026, and the […]
Darker Waves 2026: Morrissey, The Smashing Pumpkins and Simple Minds Lead Oceanfront Lineup
Look at this lineup and try not to feel something. Darker Waves is back, and after a two-year hiatus since its 2023 debut on the sand of Huntington Beach, the oceanfront post-punk and new wave festival is returning on Saturday, November 14, 2026 with a bill that reads like somebody raided your cool older sibling’s […]