Death Cab for Cutie
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.
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 rock, electronic, punk and hip-hop across 38 acts.
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.
- Turnstile — Hardcore rebuilt with dream-pop textures and actual dance moves — the rare crossover that didn't cost them the pit, Grammy nods and all.
Up-and-comers to catch early
- Die Spitz — Austin four-piece who swap instruments mid-set and are getting very good very fast.
- Cain Culto — One of the newer names on the bill, worth a punt.
- Pixel Grip — Chicago EBM-pop with a genuinely commanding front presence.
- Oblé Reed — Seattle rapper on home ground.
- 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
- Turnstile — Hardcore's biggest crossover act, co-headlining.
- Death Cab for Cutie — A hometown headline slot — they formed an hour up the road.
- 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.
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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Turnstile
Hardcore rebuilt with dream-pop textures and actual dance moves — the rare crossover that didn't cost them the pit, Grammy nods and all.
Blood Orange
Dev Hynes's velvety art-R&B — '80s soul textures, jazz chords, and quiet heartbreak from one of pop's most sought-after collaborators.
Lucy Dacus
A novelist's eye for the specific detail, delivered in the warmest voice in the boygenius orbit — 'Night Shift' still the slow-burn masterclass.
Orville Peck
Masked baritone reworking outlaw country as high romance — reverb-drenched and completely committed, Orbison drama in fringe.
Chase & Status
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.
Bikini Kill
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.
De La Soul
Native Tongues cornerstone — sample-collage hip-hop that made room for humour and colour, '3 Feet High and Rising' still a genre-widening document.
Molchat Doma
Belarusian post-punk sung in Russian — drum machines, cold synths, and an unexpected second life online, Soviet-bloc gloom turned viral phenomenon.
Yves Tumor
Glam-rock theatre wired through noise and soul — a live show pitched somewhere between séance and rock show, and fully both.
Joey Valence & Brae
Beastie Boys energy for the TikTok era — relentless, giddy, all-caps fun, two friends rapping like the '80s never ended.
Sudan Archives
Violin, loop pedal, and R&B — Brittney Parks builds whole songs live from a single bowed phrase, fiddle traditions rewired for the club.
Atarashii Gakko!
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.
Peaches
Electroclash provocateur — filthy drum-machine minimalism and a live show designed to make you uncomfortable, then make you dance about it.
TOKiMONSTA
Brainfeeder-schooled producer whose beats stayed warm and melodic while the LA scene got colder — beat-scene royalty with a survivor's story.
Die Spitz
Austin's instrument-swapping all-women punk-metal wrecking crew — everyone plays everything, and it all lands at full force.
Goldie Boutilier
Cinematic Nova Scotia noir-pop — smoky, widescreen ballads with an old-Hollywood streak, torch songs delivered with movie-star poise.
Noname
Chicago rapper-poet delivering dense political writing in an almost conversational half-whisper, over live jazz — book-club radicalism at festival volume.
Silvana Estrada
Veracruz songwriter with a cuatro and one of the most arresting voices in Latin folk — jazz-schooled, heartbreak-fluent.
54 Ultra
Pixel Grip
Chicago trio making leather-clad EBM pop with a genuinely commanding front presence — club menace with pop instincts.
Cain Culto
W.I.T.C.H.
Zamrock originators, reactivated decades on — fuzz guitar and Zambian psych that predates most of its imitators, history alive and grooving.
Sextile
LA duo splicing goth-punk guitars into rave tempos — built for a sweaty room, not a seated one, eyeliner running by song three.
PawPaw Rod
Takuya Nakamura
Travis Thompson
Seattle-area rapper writing plainly about the suburbs he came up in — Burien pride with a workmanlike pen.
XCOMM
Anthers
Daughters of Venus
American Flats
Juliet Daniel
Aryana León
Bexley
Lucha Luna
Morgan Paris Lanza
Hannah Duckworth
