Thirty years in, still performing the choreography and hitting the harmonies that sold a hundred million records — 'Everybody', 'I Want It That Way', and a field-wide singalong guaranteed.
BottleRock 2027 Lineup
Three days of music, wine and food at the Napa Valley Expo. Lineup TBA.
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About BottleRock 2026
BottleRock ran its usual Memorial Day weekend slot at the Napa Valley Expo, with 80 performances across three days. Lorde, Teddy Swims and Lil Wayne led Friday; Foo Fighters, LCD Soundsystem and Zedd took Saturday; Backstreet Boys, sombr and Ludacris closed Sunday.
BottleRock books wider than almost any festival its size, and 2026 was a good example: Chaka Khan, Men at Work, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Kool & The Gang and Rev Run of Run-DMC sharing a weekend with sombr, almost monday and Good Neighbours. Rilo Kiley's reunion sat in the middle of it.
The festival's other signature is the Silent Disco, which books names rather than filling a tent with a playlist. DJ Pauly D, Meredith Marks and Jess King all took slots in 2026.
Expect pop, hip hop, alternative and indie pop across 80 acts.
BottleRock 2026 lineup & schedule: all 80 acts
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Thirty years of Dave Grohl turning grief and volume into the most reliably cathartic rock show going — a hits catalog three hours deep, played like it's still a club gig.
The dance-punk philosopher kings — 'All My Friends' remains the great festival closer, and James Murphy its most self-aware master of ceremonies.
The most influential rapper of his generation, and still the most quotable — a mixtape run that rewired the whole genre.
The NZ art-pop auteur — brooding, minimal, and generation-defining, back on a headline stage where the whispered verses hit hardest.
Atlanta's fastest wit — twenty years of hits delivered with a showman's grin, from 'Southern Hospitality' to stadium-hosting polish.
Moody, reverb-soaked alt-pop from a Manhattan teenager who went from bedroom demos to festival bills — heartbreak at streaming scale.
A tattooed Georgian with a genuinely enormous soul voice, who covered his way to a following and then wrote the heartbreak records to match.
A classically trained producer whose precision-engineered pop-EDM defined mainstage sound for a decade — 'Clarity' still the gold standard.
Absolutely
Three brothers building maximalist, theatrical pop out of a bedroom studio — brass-band drops, confessional lyrics, and a live production that plays like a Broadway show about anxiety.
San Diego trio making relentlessly sunny guitar-pop that sounds exactly like the beach it came from — falsetto hooks, funky bass, and zero interest in being sad.
Early-'90s Atlanta collective who put southern, rural, spiritual concerns into hip-hop before anyone else did — 'Tennessee' and 'People Everyday' still radiate communal warmth.
'Good' still is — New Orleans alt-rock lifers with easy charm and a '90s catalog deeper than the one-hit tag suggests.
Dallas rapper with a booming, unhurried baritone over soul-sampled Texas production — heavyweight presence that made him one of the South's fastest risers.
Falsetto-led glam-pop with a '70s sheen and hooks built for a car stereo — 'Electric Love' plus a catalog slicker than its one-hit reputation.
Buffalo Traffic Jam
Gavin Rossdale's post-grunge outfit, whose mid-'90s singles have aged into genuine festival-crowd catnip — 'Glycerine' and 'Machinehead' still land like it's 1995.
Three decades of the fastest, most physically committed delivery in rap, and none of it has slowed down — a hits catalog that turns any field into a block party.
Every woman, one voice — funk and soul royalty whose catalog with Rufus and beyond never quits, still one of the great living instruments.
Moody LA pop with model-off-duty cool — smoky low-register vocals over sleek late-night production, noir mood sustained from first note to last.
Taylor Hawkins's covers band, carried on by its surviving members as a straight-ahead classic-rock revue — deep-cut rock joy played in his honor.
Melbourne's great indie-dance band — '80s synth textures with genuine songwriting under them, 'Lights & Music' still an instant floor-filler.
Heartthrob indie-pop — leather-jacket romanticism with pop craft, swooners engineered for the barricade and the long drive home.
The Rhode Island DJ whose reality-television fame turned into a long-running big-room club career — a household name behind the decks.
Florida indie rock built for festival fields — 'August' euphoria, surging choruses, and a live energy that outruns the recordings.
Girl Tones
A London duo whose first single went everywhere before they had played a show — sunny, whistling indie-pop now proving itself the traditional way.
Izzy Escobar
Jess King
The blueprint for women fronting a rock band on their own terms, still playing it with total conviction — 'Bad Reputation' as mission statement.
A songwriter's songwriter who writes hits for everyone else, then plays his own with a full band and no cynicism.
Six decades of funk and disco standards that everyone in the field knows whether they realise it or not — 'Celebration' is simply the closer.
The Lovell sisters play slide guitar and harmony vocals with a Georgia blues fluency that took years to earn — roots-rock swagger, zero costume.
Hawaiian island reggae built on a genuinely soulful lead vocal — Maui warmth with country-soul phrasing.
A gravelled voice and songs shaped by a genuinely unusual upbringing playing prison ministry shows — redemption-arc folk with radio-sized choruses.
MELT
The Australian new-wave band behind one of the most recognisable flute riffs ever committed to tape — Colin Hay's charm does the rest.
Meredith Marks
Midnight Generation
Philly folk-rockers grown into amphitheater singalongs — warm, road-tested, communal, with 'Silver Lining' as the nightly high-water mark.
Mid-2000s British pop whose biggest single has had roughly three separate cultural afterlives — 'Unwritten' refuses, gloriously, to die.
New Constellations
Los Angeles duo splicing flamenco guitar into French-leaning disco-house — Iberian fretwork laid over four-on-the-floor.
'Last Resort' to now — nu-metal survivors who never stopped filling fields, with Jacoby Shaddix still working every inch of stage.
Writes plainspoken, grunge-tinged rock songs and has been quietly building a real catalogue away from the surname — the songs stand on their own.
Argentine trap star who came up through freestyle battles and returned from a long contractual silence intact — Córdoba's comeback king.
Penelope Road
Atlanta group that came together in 2022, working a guitar-led strain of indie rock.
One third of Run-DMC, and one of the voices that made rap a stadium proposition in the first place — history behind the decks.
Jenny Lewis's early-2000s indie band — sharp, sardonic songwriting that a whole generation grew up inside, 'Portions for Foxes' still perfect.
San Diego reggae-rock lifers, signed by Bradley Nowell and playing the same sunburnt groove ever since — beach-cruiser music, perfected.
Sydney folk trio with banjo, harmonies, and songs built for singing back at them — coastal warmth with real craft.
A one-person band who builds whole songs live from loops — guitar, beatbox, trumpet, all stacked in front of you.
Auckland's harmony-stacked power-pop treasures — jazz-school chops, huge hearts, and 'Expert in a Dying Field' proof of mastery.
An Oakland band that started busking in BART stations and still plays like the crowd is three feet away — second-line joy, coast edition.
Brighton outfit trading in sun-bleached late-sixties harmony rock — twin vocals, jangling guitars and a fondness for Laurel Canyon warmth.
Melbourne group dealing in hushed, reverb-soft folk built for late hours — patient songwriting that trusts quiet to do the work.
The Paradox
The Return of Jackie and Judy
Three sisters from Monterrey out-rocking everyone — Mexico's hard-rock pride, a family band that grew into arena-grade virtuosity.
Naughty by Nature's frontman, whose delivery on the group's early singles still sets the bar for a hook — 'Hip Hop Hooray' on demand.
Alec Shaw
Alicia Creti
Bettina Maureenji
Betty Taylor
DJ Umami
Melbourne's deadpan folk harmonists — three voices, one wicked sense of humor, close-harmony singing with a stand-up's timing.
Sixties-pop scaffolding with the reverb of a much later record — a clear, unhurried voice that makes a small room feel enormous.
Indy
Jake Zimma
Khatumu
Malick Koly
Napa Valley Youth Symphony
Korean-American country-blues revivalist — National steel guitar and dust-bowl holler, prewar blues played like breaking news.
Saxophonist who performs in a full Bigfoot suit and plays it completely straight — funk and dance sets built around a horn, with an internet-sized audience behind them.
The Alive
The Chin Chins
The Rookie5
The Silverado Pickups
Zinadelphia
The headliners
Lorde — The NZ art-pop auteur — brooding, minimal, and generation-defining, back on a headline stage where the whispered verses hit hardest.
Teddy Swims — A tattooed Georgian with a genuinely enormous soul voice, who covered his way to a following and then wrote the heartbreak records to match.
Lil Wayne — The most influential rapper of his generation, and still the most quotable — a mixtape run that rewired the whole genre.
Foo Fighters — Thirty years of Dave Grohl turning grief and volume into the most reliably cathartic rock show going — a hits catalog three hours deep, played like it's still a club gig. Saturday headliner, three decades into being the most dependable rock band alive.
LCD Soundsystem — The dance-punk philosopher kings — 'All My Friends' remains the great festival closer, and James Murphy its most self-aware master of ceremonies. James Murphy's dance-punk institution, still the best-sounding band on any bill.
Zedd — A classically trained producer whose precision-engineered pop-EDM defined mainstage sound for a decade — 'Clarity' still the gold standard.
Backstreet Boys — Thirty years in, still performing the choreography and hitting the harmonies that sold a hundred million records — 'Everybody', 'I Want It That Way', and a field-wide singalong guaranteed. Thirty years in, still hitting the choreography and the harmonies.
sombr — Moody, reverb-soaked alt-pop from a Manhattan teenager who went from bedroom demos to festival bills — heartbreak at streaming scale. Went from bedroom recordings to a Sunday headline slot in barely two years.
Ludacris — Atlanta's fastest wit — twenty years of hits delivered with a showman's grin, from 'Southern Hospitality' to stadium-hosting polish.
Up-and-comers to catch early
almost monday — San Diego trio making relentlessly sunny guitar-pop that sounds like the beach it came from.
Good Neighbours — A London duo whose first single went everywhere before they had played a show.
The Beths — Auckland power-pop with the sharpest harmonies and the most anxious lyrics going.
Folk Bitch Trio — Melbourne three-part harmony singing, funny and unsparing in equal measure.
Other acts worth planning around
Rilo Kiley — Jenny Lewis's early-2000s indie institution, reunited.
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts — The blueprint for fronting a rock band on your own terms.
Chaka Khan — One of the great voices of the last fifty years, and no sign of it thinning.
Kool & The Gang — Six decades of funk and disco standards everyone knows whether they realise it or not.
Busta Rhymes — The fastest, most physically committed delivery in rap, undimmed.
The lineup by day
Friday May 22 through Sunday May 24.
Friday lineup (May 22)
Lorde, Teddy Swims, Lil Wayne, Papa Roach, Jon Bellion, Chaka Khan + 20 more
Saturday lineup (May 23)
Foo Fighters, LCD Soundsystem, Zedd, Rilo Kiley, AJR, Busta Rhymes + 21 more
Sunday lineup (May 24)
Backstreet Boys, sombr, Ludacris, Mt. Joy, Slightly Stoopid, BigXthaPlug + 21 more
BottleRock 2026 lineup FAQ
Who headlined BottleRock 2026?
Lorde, Teddy Swims and Lil Wayne on Friday; Foo Fighters, LCD Soundsystem and Zedd on Saturday; Backstreet Boys, sombr and Ludacris on Sunday.
When and where was BottleRock 2026?
May 22–24, 2026, at the Napa Valley Expo in Napa, California.
How many acts played BottleRock 2026?
80 performances across the three days.
What is the BottleRock Silent Disco?
A headphone stage that BottleRock books with actual names rather than a playlist. DJ Pauly D, Meredith Marks and Jess King all played it in 2026.
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