Punk festivals

17 festivals still to come with Punk on the bill, carrying 150 of the 277 Punk 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.

Punk sets run short and loud, often thirty minutes with almost no gap between songs. Expect distorted guitars pushed past clean, drums that sit on a fast two-beat, and vocals shouted more than sung. On a big stage the low end gets thin and the crowd noise fills the space, so the rhythm section does the heavy lifting.

These acts tend to land mid-afternoon on side stages, where the sun is hard and the pit opens up within the first minute. People shove, circle, and lift each other over the barricade, and the front rows leave soaked. Stand ten meters back and you get the songs without the bruises. Sing-alongs happen without being asked for.

Punk festivals in 2026

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

Who carries Punk this season

All 277 acts we have tagged Punk, 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 Punk acts who spent 2026 on the road. Go to more than one festival and you have probably seen a few of them already.

  1. 1Turnstile15Hardcore's joyful crossover kings — dreamy interludes, stage dives, total communion, and a crowd that moves as one.
  2. 2Die Spitz9Austin's instrument-swapping all-women punk-metal wrecking crew — everyone plays everything, and it all lands at full force.
  3. 3Hot Mulligan9Midwest emo's chaotic favorites — screamed choruses, absurd song titles, real feelings, and a crowd that knows every word including the yelps.
  4. 4A Day To Remember5The pop-punk/metalcore hybrid blueprint — mosh-call breakdowns and sugar-rush hooks in equal measure, delivered with beach balls, confetti cannons, and total arena confidence.
  5. 5Amyl and The Sniffers5Amy Taylor might be the best frontperson alive right now — Aussie pub-punk voltage, all sprint and snarl, from a band that treats every stage like a title fight.
  6. 6Ecca Vandal5Genre-smashing Melbourne punk-rap — riffs, bars, and zero regard for lanes, delivered with a hardcore band's physicality.
  7. 7Hot Milk5Manchester co-fronted pop-punk with a sneer inherited directly from Britpop — dual vocals, big choruses, bigger attitude.
  8. 8Rise Against5Chicago's melodic-hardcore conscience — two decades of fists-up anthems delivered with undimmed conviction, 'Savior' still closing rooms.
  9. 9AFI4Hardcore kids who became goths and then a genuinely huge rock band — Davey Havok's full-commitment melodrama riding a catalog that runs from East Bay punk to 'Miss Murder'-era anthems.
  10. 10All Time Low4Maryland pop-punk heroes — two decades of fast, funny, chorus-first anthems, and 'Dear Maria' hits different in home waters.

Most upcoming bookings

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

  1. 1Bad Religion4Forty-plus years of polysyllabic melodic punk — three-part harmonies over an unwavering political line, still the genre's reigning intellectuals.
  2. 2Hot Mulligan4Midwest emo's chaotic favorites — screamed choruses, absurd song titles, real feelings, and a crowd that knows every word including the yelps.
  3. 3A Day To Remember3The pop-punk/metalcore hybrid blueprint — mosh-call breakdowns and sugar-rush hooks in equal measure, delivered with beach balls, confetti cannons, and total arena confidence.
  4. 4AFI3Hardcore kids who became goths and then a genuinely huge rock band — Davey Havok's full-commitment melodrama riding a catalog that runs from East Bay punk to 'Miss Murder'-era anthems.
  5. 5Bowling For Soup3Texas pop-punk comedians with better songwriting chops than the joke suggests — twenty-five years of hooks hiding under the punchlines.
  6. 6Cartel3Atlanta pop-punk lifers — 'Chroma' still hits like 2005, a front-to-back scene classic that never needed a follow-up to justify the devotion.
  7. 7Codefendants3Fat Mike's genre-agnostic side project — punk, rap, and folk stitched into something genuinely odd, with Ceschi's rapid-fire verses at the center.
  8. 8Jutes3Toronto artist who moved from rap features into full pop-punk, and sounds more at home there — emo-rap roots showing through the power chords.
  9. 9Set It Off3Theatrical pop-rock with orchestral flourishes and a frontman who can genuinely belt — Broadway instincts at Warped velocity.
  10. 10Sleeping with Sirens3Kellin Quinn's falsetto-fronted post-hardcore — Warped Tour royalty matured, with the high notes fully intact and scene-era devotion still filling rooms.

Most headline slots

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

  1. 1Turnstile6Hardcore's joyful crossover kings — dreamy interludes, stage dives, total communion, and a crowd that moves as one.
  2. 2LCD Soundsystem2The dance-punk philosopher kings — 'All My Friends' remains the great festival closer, and James Murphy its most self-aware master of ceremonies.
  3. 3Olivia Rodrigo2Gen-Z's laureate of the breakup — SOUR bedroom confessionals grown into GUTS pop-punk stadium catharsis.

Most places played

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

  1. 1Turnstile13Hardcore's joyful crossover kings — dreamy interludes, stage dives, total communion, and a crowd that moves as one.
  2. 2Die Spitz8Austin's instrument-swapping all-women punk-metal wrecking crew — everyone plays everything, and it all lands at full force.
  3. 3Hot Mulligan8Midwest emo's chaotic favorites — screamed choruses, absurd song titles, real feelings, and a crowd that knows every word including the yelps.
  4. 4A Day To Remember5The pop-punk/metalcore hybrid blueprint — mosh-call breakdowns and sugar-rush hooks in equal measure, delivered with beach balls, confetti cannons, and total arena confidence.
  5. 5Amyl and The Sniffers5Amy Taylor might be the best frontperson alive right now — Aussie pub-punk voltage, all sprint and snarl, from a band that treats every stage like a title fight.
  6. 6Ecca Vandal5Genre-smashing Melbourne punk-rap — riffs, bars, and zero regard for lanes, delivered with a hardcore band's physicality.
  7. 7Rise Against5Chicago's melodic-hardcore conscience — two decades of fists-up anthems delivered with undimmed conviction, 'Savior' still closing rooms.
  8. 8All Time Low4Maryland pop-punk heroes — two decades of fast, funny, chorus-first anthems, and 'Dear Maria' hits different in home waters.
  9. 9Cartel4Atlanta pop-punk lifers — 'Chroma' still hits like 2005, a front-to-back scene classic that never needed a follow-up to justify the devotion.
  10. 10Confidence Man4Australian four-piece playing dance-pop as full choreographed comedy — costume changes, deadpan bits, and one of the best live shows on any bill anywhere.

Most saved to a plan

The Punk acts people are building a Saturday around.

  1. 1Mannequin PussyPhilly band swinging between shoegaze tenderness and full-throated hardcore, often inside one song — catharsis with total dynamic control.
  2. 2Long ReliefRaleigh DIY lifers channeling their hometown's Superchunk legacy — big-hearted, noisy, punk-tinged indie rock played with scene-elder generosity.
  3. 3Panic ShackCardiff's funniest, fiercest punks — group-chat energy with riffs, in-jokes sharpened into anthems, the funniest serious band in Wales.
  4. 4BANGZZRiot-grrrl-lineage garage punk out of Durham — fast, funny, furious feminist anthems, loud and economical, that won over Kathleen Hanna herself.
  5. 5MotocrossedCharlotte DIY ferals — country-tinged balladry that curdles without warning into feedback-worshiping noise, theremin and singing saw included, chaos as craft.
  6. 6SprintsDublin garage-punk catharsis — Karla Chubb turns anxiety into anthems, every chorus a controlled explosion, the city's loudest catharsis specialists.
  7. 7Nana GrizolElephant 6-adjacent Athens folk-punk — horn-flecked, big-hearted anthems of queer joy and radical tenderness, community sung into being.
  8. 8BALACLAVABeer-soaked NYC synth-punk — gain-cranked, neck-twisting party tunes with sugary earworm hooks buried deep in the scuzz, built for sweaty basement abandon.
  9. 9Sailor HoneymoonSeoul garage-punk cool — bratty hooks with art-scene bite, international underground buzz well earned, the city's coolest new export.
  10. 10D. Sablu"Elvis tunes on acid" — New Orleans drum-machine rock 'n' roll grown into a breakneck, electrified full band, Suicide's pulse with a Bourbon Street leer.

All 277 Punk acts

TurnstileDie SpitzHot MulliganEcca VandalAmyl and The SniffersA Day To RememberHot MilkRise AgainstAFIAll Time LowBad ReligionCartelConfidence ManSet It OffSimple PlanSleeping with SirensSublimeThe All-American RejectsThe OffspringThe Story So FarBowling For SoupCodefendantsIce Nine KillsJutesLambrini GirlsLCD SoundsystemMagnolia ParkMannequin PussyMayday ParadeMotion City SoundtrackNew Found GloryNova TwinsPanic ShackShow Me The BodyThe Wonder YearsWe The KingsYellowcardAlkaline TrioBad Cop Bad CopBaysideBuzzcocksDaisy GrenadeFranz FerdinandHoney RevengeIggy PopInitiateJoyce ManorKennyHooplaMariachi El BronxMxPxNOBROOlivia RodrigoOrigami AngelPeachesPlain White T'sPUPSailor HoneymoonShowing TeethSocial DistortionTeen Jesus and the Jean TeasersThe Academy Is...The DareThe FlatlinersThe HivesThe Iron RosesThe New EvesThe RaptureThe Starting LineThe UndertonesTim BarryViolent FemmesWinona FighterWorking Men's ClubYungblud4Ft Fingers999A Wilhelm ScreamAgainst All AuthorityAmerican Hi-FiAnti Nowhere LeagueAs It IsAu PairsBabasBALACLAVABANGZZBanquetsBar Stool PreachersBeach BunnyBeauty School DropoutBikini KillBite Me BambiBlack FlagBlyth PowerBob VylanBouncing SoulsBratmobileBrendan KellyBroadsideCancer BatsCapstanCarolina DuranteCatbiteCeremonyChad PriceChannel 3ChelseaChoking SusanChoncyChron GenCock SparrerCockney RejectsCold CaveCold WrecksCreeperCRICKETSCult ManiaxCulture ShockD. SabluDead BarsDead PonyDead To MeDeadlineDebt NeglectorDescendentsDestroy BoysDie Toten HosenDirtbox DiscoDischargeDog PartyDrag the RiverEaterElwayFat, Evil ChildrenFenix TxFerocious DogFireworksFlying Raccoon SuitForeign LegionGamefaceGBHGimp FistGirlfriendsGlittererGoldbladeGuerilla TossGuttermouthHagar the WombHalf Past TwoHeadstone HorrorsHome FrontHorace PinkerHunx and His PunxI Am the AvalancheIceageIDLESIron ReaganJanus StarkJoan Jett and the BlackheartsJoão Gordo & Asteroides TrioJohnny MopedKid KapichiKill LincolnLagwagonLee BainsLess Than JakeLIGHT ASYLUMLipstick HomicideLitterbugLong ReliefLos FastidiosM.A.T.B. (fka Miranda and The Beat)M.D.C.Machine Gun KellyMaid of AceMakeWarMarky RamoneMenaceMeryl StreekMikabombMikey ErgMillie Manders & The Shut UpMom JeansMotocrossedMustard PlugNana GrizolNerf HerderNILENØ MANNOAHFINNCENotsensiblesOgbert the NerdOne Way SystemOtoboke BeaverParanoid VisionsPatois CounselorsPenetrationPennywisePulleyPunchlinePVAQuintron & Miss PussycatReel Big FishRehashRemember SportsRezillosRiskee and the RidiculeRon GalloRubella BalletRumkicksRuts D.C.Sam RussoSamiamSave FerrisSchool DrugsScowlSet Your GoalsSex PistolsSextileSham 69SheheheSick on the BusSignals MidwestSincere EngineerSkidsSlaughter & The DogsSomething to DoSon Rompe PeraSpecial DutiesSpiritual CrampSplodgenessaboundsSprintsStand AtlanticStephen EgertonSteve Ignorant Band Crass SetStiff Little FingersStuck LuckySubhumansThe Baby SealsThe Best of the WorstThe BollweevilsThe BoysThe BusinessThe CopyrightsThe DamnedThe Devil Makes ThreeThe DickiesThe EradicatorThe Front BottomsThe Good, The Bad and The ZuglyThe HotknivesThe ImpossiblesThe KidsThe Mary WallopersThe MeffsThe MobThe OutcastsThe Planet SmashersThe Raging NathansThe SelecterThe StranglersThe Suicide MachinesThe Summer SetThe Tim VersionThe TreasuryThe Underground Railroad to CandylandThe WildheartsTijuana PanthersTiltwheelTotal ChaosToys That KillTV Smith & The Bored TeenagersUK SubsWar On WomenWolf-FaceYalla MikuYou VandalZeta

Punk festivals: common questions

What festivals have the most Punk in 2026?

The Fest 2026 (60 Punk acts), Warped Tour Orlando 2026 (34 Punk acts), Riot Fest 2026 (31 Punk 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 Punk booking.

Where can I see Punk live in 2026?

17 festivals still to come have Punk on the bill. The next is Louder Than Life 2026, September 17–20, 2026 at Highland Festival Grounds, Louisville, KY, with 13 Punk acts playing.

Which Punk artists are playing the most festivals in 2026?

Turnstile (15), Die Spitz (9), Hot Mulligan (9), A Day To Remember (5), Amyl and The Sniffers (5). Counted per festival across the whole season, finished bills included.

How many Punk acts are playing festivals in 2026?

277 Punk acts appear on the lineups we track, across 17 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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