Indie rock's tender institution — twenty-five years of songs that hurt nicely, from 'Transatlanticism' devastation to elder-statesman grace.
Bumbershoot 2026 Lineup
Seattle's Labor Day institution, 53 years deep: Death Cab and Turnstile anchoring a weekend that also makes room for wrestling, short films and a mermaid.
Bumbershoot is expected back September 2027 (dates aren't announced yet). Until then, here's the full 2026 lineup and the acts you would have loved.
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About Bumbershoot 2026
Bumbershoot is 53 years old and still the least predictable major festival in the United States. It takes over the Seattle Center campus for Labor Day weekend, and the music is only part of it. The 2026 edition also promises wrestlers, fashion designers, short films, comedians, skateboarders and, per the festival's own count, one mermaid.
The music bill is sharper than that framing suggests. Death Cab for Cutie and Turnstile headline; Blood Orange, Lucy Dacus, Orville Peck and Chase & Status sit beneath them; and the middle of the bill (Bikini Kill, De La Soul, Yves Tumor, Sudan Archives, Molchat Doma, Peaches, W.I.T.C.H.) is about as broad as two days gets. Noname's set is billed as a tenth-anniversary performance of Telefone. Day splits haven't been published yet.
Expect hip-hop, rock, indie rock and electronic across 45 acts.
Bumbershoot 2026 lineup & schedule: all 45 acts
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Hardcore's joyful crossover kings — dreamy interludes, stage dives, total communion, and a crowd that moves as one.
Four Tokyo performers in school uniforms doing chaotic, precisely choreographed pop that refuses to sit still — equal parts idol group, dance troupe, and controlled demolition.
The band riot grrrl was built around — Kathleen Hanna's shriek, girls-to-the-front stage politics, and a legacy that reordered punk's whole power structure.
Dev Hynes's velvety art-R&B — '80s soul textures, jazz chords, and quiet heartbreak from one of pop's most sought-after collaborators.
Two decades of British drum-and-bass that keeps crossing into the charts without ever softening the low end — scene elders who never stopped moving with it.
Native Tongues cornerstone — sample-collage hip-hop that made room for humour and colour, '3 Feet High and Rising' still a genre-widening document.
Austin's instrument-swapping all-women punk-metal wrecking crew — everyone plays everything, and it all lands at full force.
Beastie Boys energy for the TikTok era — relentless, giddy, all-caps fun, two friends rapping like the '80s never ended.
A novelist's eye for the specific detail, delivered in the warmest voice in the boygenius orbit — 'Night Shift' still the slow-burn masterclass.
Belarusian post-punk sung in Russian — drum machines, cold synths, and an unexpected second life online, Soviet-bloc gloom turned viral phenomenon.
Masked baritone reworking outlaw country as high romance — reverb-drenched and completely committed, Orbison drama in fringe.
Electroclash provocateur — filthy drum-machine minimalism and a live show designed to make you uncomfortable, then make you dance about it.
Violin, loop pedal, and R&B — Brittney Parks builds whole songs live from a single bowed phrase, fiddle traditions rewired for the club.
Brainfeeder-schooled producer whose beats stayed warm and melodic while the LA scene got colder — beat-scene royalty with a survivor's story.
Glam-rock theatre wired through noise and soul — a live show pitched somewhere between séance and rock show, and fully both.
54 Ultra
American Flats
Anthers
Aryana León
Bexley
Cain Culto
Daughters of Venus
Cinematic Nova Scotia noir-pop — smoky, widescreen ballads with an old-Hollywood streak, torch songs delivered with movie-star poise.
Hannah Duckworth
Hard Maybe
Juliet Daniel
Lucha Luna
Meat Hair
Midpak
Morgan Paris Lanza
Noire Svlon
Chicago rapper-poet delivering dense political writing in an almost conversational half-whisper, over live jazz — book-club radicalism at festival volume.
Oblé Reed
Los Angeles singer working a vintage soul palette into loose, low-slung funk-pop — falsetto hooks delivered with unhurried swagger.
Chicago darkwave built for a warehouse — icy synth throb under commands delivered somewhere between seduction and threat, leather-clad and fully in control.
Sprawling Michigan collective — horn-swelling, patient indie rock that earned an instant cult, chamber-band arrangements with real payoff.
Seattle songwriter who drummed in Carissa's Wierd and Band of Horses before turning to spare, pedal-steel country of her own, sung low and unhurried.
LA duo splicing goth-punk guitars into rave tempos — built for a sweaty room, not a seated one, eyeliner running by song three.
Veracruz songwriter with a cuatro and one of the most arresting voices in Latin folk — jazz-schooled, heartbreak-fluent.
Suzzallo
Takuya Nakamura
Seattle-area rapper writing plainly about the suburbs he came up in — Burien pride with a workmanlike pen.
Zamrock originators, reactivated decades on — fuzz guitar and Zambian psych that predates most of its imitators, history alive and grooving.
XCOMM
The headliners
Death Cab for Cutie — Indie rock's tender institution — twenty-five years of songs that hurt nicely, from 'Transatlanticism' devastation to elder-statesman grace. A hometown headline slot: they formed an hour up the road.
Turnstile — Hardcore's joyful crossover kings — dreamy interludes, stage dives, total communion, and a crowd that moves as one. Hardcore's biggest crossover act, co-headlining.
Up-and-comers to catch early
Die Spitz — Austin four-piece who swap instruments mid-set and are getting very good very fast.
Pixel Grip — Chicago EBM-pop with a genuinely commanding front presence.
Goldie Boutilier — Theatrical, country-tinged pop from a performer who commits fully.
PawPaw Rod — Slinky, groove-led songwriting that translates well to a festival field.
Other acts worth planning around
Bikini Kill — Riot grrrl's originators, from Olympia, playing in-state.
Noname — Billed as a tenth-anniversary performance of Telefone.
W.I.T.C.H. — Zamrock originators, reactivated: a rare booking anywhere in America.
Yves Tumor — The most unpredictable live proposition on the bill.
Molchat Doma — Belarusian post-punk whose second life online turned them into a festival draw.
The lineup by day
Saturday lineup (September 5)
Turnstile, Blood Orange, Lucy Dacus, Chase & Status, Bikini Kill, Molchat Doma + 16 more
Saturday set times (22 sets)
- Hard Maybe · Fisher
- XCOMM · Mural
- Travis Thompson · Fisher
- Meat Hair · Upper Courtyard
- Cain Culto · Mural
- Pixel Grip · Fisher
- Bexley · Upper Courtyard
- Silvana Estrada · Mural
- Die Spitz · Fisher
- Aryana León · Upper Courtyard
- Peaches · Mural
- Joey Valence & Brae · Fisher
- Juliet Daniel · Upper Courtyard
- Bikini Kill · Mural
- Lucy Dacus · Fisher
- Anthers · Upper Courtyard
- Molchat Doma · Mural
- Sera Cahoone · Upper Courtyard
- Blood Orange · Fisher
- Oblé Reed · Upper Courtyard
- Chase & Status · Mural
- Turnstile · Fisher
Sunday lineup (September 6)
Death Cab for Cutie, Orville Peck, De La Soul, Yves Tumor, Sudan Archives, Atarashii Gakko! + 16 more
Sunday set times (22 sets)
- Noire Svlon · Fisher
- Takuya Nakamura · Mural
- PawPaw Rod · Fisher
- American Flats · Upper Courtyard
- W.I.T.C.H. · Mural
- Sextile · Fisher
- Midpak · Upper Courtyard
- Goldie Boutilier · Mural
- Racing Mount Pleasant · Fisher
- Hannah Duckworth · Upper Courtyard
- Noname · Mural
- Atarashii Gakko! · Fisher
- Morgan Paris Lanza · Upper Courtyard
- Sudan Archives · Mural
- De La Soul · Fisher
- Lucha Luna · Upper Courtyard
- Yves Tumor · Mural
- Daughters of Venus · Upper Courtyard
- Orville Peck · Fisher
- TOKiMONSTA · Mural
- Suzzallo · Upper Courtyard
- Death Cab for Cutie · Fisher
Bumbershoot 2026 lineup FAQ
When is Bumbershoot 2026?
September 5–6, 2026 (Labor Day weekend).
Where is Bumbershoot held?
Across the Seattle Center campus in Seattle, Washington.
Who is headlining Bumbershoot 2026?
Death Cab for Cutie and Turnstile top the music bill.
How many acts are playing?
38 music acts, alongside the festival's arts, comedy and film programming.
Are day-by-day lineups published?
Not yet: day splits haven't been announced. This page will show them as soon as they are.
How do I work out which acts I'd like?
Type a few bands you already love into the search at the top of this page and you'll get ranked matches from this lineup, with reasons.
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