EDM festivals

30 festivals still to come with EDM on the bill, carrying 194 of the 347 EDM acts we track. Every act has a page: which festivals they play, what time they go on once the festival says, and what they sound like if the name is new to you.

Dance music at a festival arrives as one continuous mix, tracks blended so there is no gap to clap into. The low end travels through the ground before it reaches your ears. Builds stretch out, lights and smoke land on the drop at the same instant, and the whole field moves together.

These acts stack up after dark, in tents and side stages that keep running once the main field has emptied. Daytime slots lean softer, broken beats and vocals you can stand still to. Expect a person behind a table with a wall of screens above them, and a crowd facing the booth the whole time.

EDM festivals in 2026

Every bill still ahead of you with real EDM on it, deepest first. A festival needs at least 2 EDM acts to be here, so one stray booking on a bill about something else does not count.

Who carries EDM this season

All 347 acts we have tagged EDM, sorted six ways. The lists disagree with each other, and the names they disagree about are usually the ones worth hearing.

Booked the most in 2026

The EDM acts who spent 2026 on the road. Go to more than one festival and you have probably seen a few of them already.

  1. 1¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U14Osaka-born cult selector Yousuke Yukimatsu — genre-shredding DJ sets that went from viral clips to worldwide bookings, anything-goes technique with total joy.
  2. 2Hamdi13UK bass with a dancehall bounce — the sound of a soundsystem set rather than a festival drop, 'Skanka' the breakout.
  3. 3KETTAMA13Irish rave-house heat — big-room energy with underground credentials, breakbeats and pianos at full sprint, Galway-to-warehouse momentum fully underway.
  4. 4Zara Larsson11Swedish pop machinery at its shiniest — 'Lush Life' to main-character bangers, delivered with total command.
  5. 5Fcukers10NYC's buzziest indie-dance trio — baggy house grooves with downtown cool, like Madchester relocated to a Chinatown basement.
  6. 6Frost Children10Sibling NYC hyperpop chaos agents — glitchy, funny, and relentless, a live set that plays like a timeline scrolled at maximum speed.
  7. 7Ninajirachi10Glittering, game-engine electronic — Australia's most inventive young club producer, chiptune sparkle at rave pressure, drops that sparkle as hard as they hit.
  8. 8Snow Strippers10Lo-fi electroclash duo — distorted synths and detached vocals for the afterparty, Detroit cool for the post-everything generation.
  9. 9Boys Noize9Alex Ridha's brand of electro is abrasive by design — hardware-driven, distorted, and consistently ahead of whatever is fashionable, two decades running.
  10. 10horsegiirL9Berlin's masked 'farmcore' phenomenon — giddy barnyard-trance house played dead serious, 'My Barn My Rules' as manifesto.

Most upcoming bookings

Everything still ahead of us, for anyone with festivals left on the calendar.

  1. 1Levity7Trio riding the new melodic-bass wave — riddim with feelings, drops that aim at the chest and the heart at once.
  2. 2¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U6Osaka-born cult selector Yousuke Yukimatsu — genre-shredding DJ sets that went from viral clips to worldwide bookings, anything-goes technique with total joy.
  3. 3Hamdi6UK bass with a dancehall bounce — the sound of a soundsystem set rather than a festival drop, 'Skanka' the breakout.
  4. 4KETTAMA6Irish rave-house heat — big-room energy with underground credentials, breakbeats and pianos at full sprint, Galway-to-warehouse momentum fully underway.
  5. 5Taiki Nulight5UK bass house with garage in its bones — rolling, swung and bass-forward.
  6. 6A Little Sound4One of UK drum & bass's most in-demand vocalists, now fronting sets of her own.
  7. 7Fcukers4NYC's buzziest indie-dance trio — baggy house grooves with downtown cool, like Madchester relocated to a Chinatown basement.
  8. 8GRAVAGERZ4Heavy, riddim-leaning dubstep built for the low end and not much else.
  9. 9horsegiirL4Berlin's masked 'farmcore' phenomenon — giddy barnyard-trance house played dead serious, 'My Barn My Rules' as manifesto.
  10. 10LYNY4Textural, psychedelic bass music — heavy without being blunt about it.

Most headline slots

The names printed in the biggest type, trusted to send everyone home.

  1. 1Skrillex8Bass music's shape-shifting elder — from brostep infamy to festival-set transcendence, reinvention as a permanent state.
  2. 2Tiësto6The elder statesman of big-tent dance music — trance godfather turned arena-house fixture, still detonating 'The Business'-sized hooks three decades in.
  3. 3Calvin Harris4Scotland's biggest pop export from behind a DJ booth: fifteen years of chart-defining dance singles, from 'Feel So Close' to the Funk Wav collaborations.
  4. 4Alesso3Swedish-house heir — euphoric progressive anthems polished to a stadium shine.
  5. 5David Guetta3The producer who welded French house to American pop radio and never really stopped — a career built on the festival-sized chorus.
  6. 6DJ Snake3Paris-born hit machine — 'Turn Down for What' to 'Taki Taki', festival main stages are his natural habitat.
  7. 7Illenium3The defining voice of melodic bass — emotional, arena-scaled drops built around real songwriting, sad songs engineered for fireworks.
  8. 8RÜFÜS DU SOL3Emotional stadium-scale melodic house — sunset-slot perfection from the Australian trio, 'Innerbloom' as the communal cry.
  9. 9Steve Aoki3Cake-throwing EDM showman — pure crowd-service spectacle, two decades of Dim Mak hustle behind the confetti.
  10. 10Four Tet2Kieran Hebden's glowing folk-tronic universe — patient builds that hit like revelation, two decades of textures that make dance music feel handmade.

Most places played

Whose year reads like a world tour that happened to be made of festivals.

  1. 1Zara Larsson11Swedish pop machinery at its shiniest — 'Lush Life' to main-character bangers, delivered with total command.
  2. 2¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U10Osaka-born cult selector Yousuke Yukimatsu — genre-shredding DJ sets that went from viral clips to worldwide bookings, anything-goes technique with total joy.
  3. 3Fcukers10NYC's buzziest indie-dance trio — baggy house grooves with downtown cool, like Madchester relocated to a Chinatown basement.
  4. 4Hamdi10UK bass with a dancehall bounce — the sound of a soundsystem set rather than a festival drop, 'Skanka' the breakout.
  5. 5KETTAMA10Irish rave-house heat — big-room energy with underground credentials, breakbeats and pianos at full sprint, Galway-to-warehouse momentum fully underway.
  6. 6horsegiirL9Berlin's masked 'farmcore' phenomenon — giddy barnyard-trance house played dead serious, 'My Barn My Rules' as manifesto.
  7. 7Ninajirachi9Glittering, game-engine electronic — Australia's most inventive young club producer, chiptune sparkle at rave pressure, drops that sparkle as hard as they hit.
  8. 8Snow Strippers9Lo-fi electroclash duo — distorted synths and detached vocals for the afterparty, Detroit cool for the post-everything generation.
  9. 9Frost Children8Sibling NYC hyperpop chaos agents — glitchy, funny, and relentless, a live set that plays like a timeline scrolled at maximum speed.
  10. 10MPH8UK garage revival heat — skippy drums and low-end pressure, two-step engineered for the new generation of dancefloors.

Most favorited by readers

The EDM people here actually listen to, booked or not.

  1. 1Sylvan EssoAmelia Meath's plainspoken hooks over Nick Sanborn's modular synth pulses: Durham electronic pop that clicks in a club and still sings in a field.
  2. 2LCD SoundsystemThe dance-punk philosopher kings — 'All My Friends' remains the great festival closer, and James Murphy its most self-aware master of ceremonies.
  3. 3NinajirachiGlittering, game-engine electronic — Australia's most inventive young club producer, chiptune sparkle at rave pressure, drops that sparkle as hard as they hit.
  4. 4Daniel Avery (Live)The 'Drone Logic' architect live — strobe-lit techno with a shoegaze heart, walls of texture that blur the line between club and gig.
  5. 5FcukersNYC's buzziest indie-dance trio — baggy house grooves with downtown cool, like Madchester relocated to a Chinatown basement.
  6. 6RÜFÜS DU SOLEmotional stadium-scale melodic house — sunset-slot perfection from the Australian trio, 'Innerbloom' as the communal cry.
  7. 7Daft PunkFrench house duo in robot helmets, chopping disco and filtered funk into 'Around the World' and 'One More Time.' The pyramid show changed live electronic staging.
  8. 8Four TetKieran Hebden's glowing folk-tronic universe — patient builds that hit like revelation, two decades of textures that make dance music feel handmade.
  9. 9Jon HopkinsTrained pianist who builds techno out of damaged textures and then lets it collapse into ambient drift. Longtime collaborator of Brian Eno.
  10. 10JungleLondon production duo working in stacked falsetto and clipped disco guitar, with videos built around single-take dance routines.

Most saved to a plan

The EDM acts people are building a Saturday around.

  1. 1Four TetKieran Hebden's glowing folk-tronic universe — patient builds that hit like revelation, two decades of textures that make dance music feel handmade.
  2. 2FcukersNYC's buzziest indie-dance trio — baggy house grooves with downtown cool, like Madchester relocated to a Chinatown basement.
  3. 3The Beta BandScotland's beloved kitchen-sink psychedelicists, reunited — 'Dry the Rain' at last, and the High Fidelity scene made flesh.
  4. 4TrickyTrip-hop's shadow king — the whispered menace of 'Maxinquaye' live, Bristol paranoia thickened by three decades.
  5. 5Daniel Avery (Live)The 'Drone Logic' architect live — strobe-lit techno with a shoegaze heart, walls of texture that blur the line between club and gig.
  6. 6SmerzNorwegian duo's icy avant-pop — classical strings meet club unease, beauty kept deliberately off-balance, fashion-week cool with conservatory bones.
  7. 7LoneTechnicolor rave nostalgia — breakbeats bathed in VHS sunshine, hardcore's golden era remembered warmer than it ever actually sounded.
  8. 8Marie Davidson (Live)Montreal's deadpan club philosopher — 'Work It' irony at 130 BPM, electro-club critique you can sweat to.
  9. 9Nara's RoomNoisy pop-rock led by Nara Avakian — clever sampling, trip-hop undercurrents, and Y2K production that feels futuristic and nostalgic at once.
  10. 10SettingDurham trio (Nathan Bowles, Jaime Fennelly, Joe Westerlund) spinning shimmering acoustic-electronic drone — patient, radiant improvisation that rewards surrender.

All 347 EDM acts

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EDM festivals: common questions

What festivals have the most EDM in 2026?

Portola 2026 (32 EDM acts), III Points 2026 (25 EDM acts), Lost Lands 2026 (25 EDM acts). We count the acts on each published lineup rather than going by how a festival bills itself, so this is the depth of the actual EDM booking.

Where can I see EDM live in 2026?

30 festivals still to come have EDM on the bill. The next is Lost Lands 2026, September 18–20, 2026 at Legend Valley, Thornville, OH, with 25 EDM acts playing.

Which EDM artists are playing the most festivals in 2026?

¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U (14), Hamdi (13), KETTAMA (13), Zara Larsson (11), Fcukers (10). Counted per festival across the whole season, finished bills included.

How many EDM acts are playing festivals in 2026?

347 EDM acts appear on the lineups we track, across 30 festivals still to come. Each one has a page with its dates, stages and set times wherever the festival has published them.

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