Rock festivals

Rock festivals in 2026

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

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  Louder Than Life 2026September 17–20, 2026 · Highland Festival Grounds, Louisville, KY39 Rock acts on the bill →
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  Aftershock 2026October 1–4, 2026 · Discovery Park, Sacramento, CA19 Rock acts on the bill →
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  Bourbon & Beyond 2026September 24–27, 2026 · Highland Festival Grounds at KY Expo Center, Louisville, KY15 Rock acts on the bill →
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  Riot Fest 2026September 18–20, 2026 · Douglass Park, Chicago, IL11 Rock acts on the bill →
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  Hulaween 2026October 22–25, 2026 · Spirit of the Suwannee Music Park, Live Oak, FL9 Rock acts on the bill →
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  Sick New World Texas 2026October 24, 2026 · Texas Motor Speedway, Fort Worth, TX8 Rock acts on the bill →
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  The Fest 2026October 23–25, 2026 · Gainesville, FL8 Rock acts on the bill →
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  Oceans Calling 2026September 25–27, 2026 · Ocean City Boardwalk, MD7 Rock acts on the bill →
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  Shaky Knees 2026September 18–20, 2026 · Piedmont Park, Atlanta, GA7 Rock acts on the bill →
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  Warped Tour Orlando 2026November 14–15, 2026 · Camping World Stadium Campus, Orlando, FL6 Rock acts on the bill →
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  Austin City Limits 2026October 2–11, 2026 · Zilker Park, Austin, TX5 Rock acts on the bill →
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  Sea.Hear.Now 2026September 19–20, 2026 · North Beach, Asbury Park, NJ5 Rock acts on the bill →
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  Borderland 2026September 18–20, 2026 · Knox Farm State Park, East Aurora, NY4 Rock acts on the bill →
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  Furnace Fest 2026October 10–11, 2026 · Sloss Furnaces, Birmingham, AL4 Rock acts on the bill →
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  All Things Go NYC 2026September 25–27, 2026 · Forest Hills Stadium, Queens, NY3 Rock acts on the bill →
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  Corona Capital 2026November 20–22, 2026 · Autódromo Hermanos Rodríguez, Mexico City, Mexico3 Rock acts on the bill →
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  Iron Blossom 2026September 19–20, 2026 · Midtown Green, Richmond, VA3 Rock acts on the bill →
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  Ohana 2026September 25–27, 2026 · Doheny State Beach, Dana Point, CA3 Rock acts on the bill →
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  All Things Go DMV 2026September 25–27, 2026 · Merriweather Post Pavilion, Columbia, MD2 Rock acts on the bill →
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  Country Calling 2026October 2–3, 2026 · Ocean City, MD2 Rock acts on the bill →
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  Darker Waves 2026November 14, 2026 · Huntington State Beach, Huntington Beach, CA2 Rock acts on the bill →
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  Strings & Sol 2026December 9–13, 2026 · Sapphire Resort & Spa, Puerto Morelos, Mexico2 Rock acts on the bill →

Who carries Rock this season

All 249 acts we have tagged Rock, 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 Rock acts who spent 2026 on the road. Go to more than one festival and you have probably seen a few of them already.

1. 1Die Spitz9Austin's instrument-swapping all-women punk-metal wrecking crew — everyone plays everything, and it all lands at full force.
2. 2Twenty One Pilots8Genre-agnostic arena duo — rap, ukulele, and existential dread with a devoted Clique, lore deep enough for a wiki.
3. 3Angine de Poitrine7Masked Saguenay duo who loop double-necked microtonal guitar into hypnotic, odd-metred math rock — 2026's strangest breakout story.
4. 4Cardinals7Cork's melodica-toting indie romantics — Fontaines-adjacent and rising fast, with a windswept, literary streak all their own.
5. 5The Warning6Three sisters from Monterrey out-rocking everyone — Mexico's hard-rock pride, a family band that grew into arena-grade virtuosity.
6. 6Coheed and Cambria5Sci-fi concept-rock saga with arena hooks — 'Welcome Home' indeed, the Amory Wars mythology powering some of modern prog's biggest singalongs.
7. 7Wunderhorse5Raw-nerve UK rock — Cobain-worn songwriting building a serious cult, intensity that reads as truth, a band critics keep underestimating upward.
8. 8Bush4Gavin 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.
9. 9Halestorm4Lzzy Hale's Grammy-winning powerhouse — the loudest voice in modern hard rock, delivered nightly with full-throttle sincerity.
10. 10S.G. Goodman4Kentucky drawl, punk heart — swampy Southern storytelling with teeth, farm-town detail delivered with DIY conviction.

Most upcoming bookings

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

1. 1Twenty One Pilots5Genre-agnostic arena duo — rap, ukulele, and existential dread with a devoted Clique, lore deep enough for a wiki.
2. 2Angine de Poitrine3Masked Saguenay duo who loop double-necked microtonal guitar into hypnotic, odd-metred math rock — 2026's strangest breakout story.
3. 3Circa Survive3Anthony Green's art-punk flagship, reunited — soaring, strange, and beloved, with a fanbase that treats these songs as sacred text.
4. 4Coheed and Cambria3Sci-fi concept-rock saga with arena hooks — 'Welcome Home' indeed, the Amory Wars mythology powering some of modern prog's biggest singalongs.
5. 5Hail The Sun3A drummer-vocalist fronting frantic, jazz-inflected post-hardcore that changes direction every eight bars — Chico's contribution to the Swancore canon.
6. 6Jet3'Are You Gonna Be My Girl' — Aussie garage swagger, reunited, with enough riff-rock singles to keep the tank full.
7. 7Leftover Salmon3Colorado's original slamgrass band, three decades of bluegrass picking spliced with Cajun, zydeco and jam-band sprawl.
8. 8My Morning Jacket3Jim James's reverb-drenched howl over southern rock that keeps drifting into something cosmic and unhurried — jam-scene trust earned two hours at a time.
9. 9Sleep Theory3New-generation alt-metal built on a soulful clean vocal and a very modern low end — the format's next arena act in waiting.
10. 10The War on Drugs3Motorik heartland rock — Springsteen refracted through a synth haze, transcendent live, 'Under the Pressure' as the long exhale.

Most headline slots

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

1. 1Twenty One Pilots8Genre-agnostic arena duo — rap, ukulele, and existential dread with a devoted Clique, lore deep enough for a wiki.
2. 2Angine de Poitrine2Masked Saguenay duo who loop double-necked microtonal guitar into hypnotic, odd-metred math rock — 2026's strangest breakout story.
3. 3Brandi Carlile2Americana's reigning voice — eleven Grammys of thunder and grace, with a catalog that moves from whisper to belt like weather changing.
4. 4Dave Matthews Band2Violin, saxophone, and Matthews's rhythmic yelp — a jam institution whose setlists still never repeat, and whose players still surprise each other nightly.
5. 5Guns N' Roses2The classic-lineup reunion long outlasted anyone's expectations, and the three-hour sets still get through most of the canon — Slash solos and all.
6. 6Jack White2The White Stripes' architect, still committed to analog friction — old amps, unrehearsed setlists, and a guitar tone like a blown speaker.
7. 7Morrissey2The Smiths' voice, complicated as ever — when he shows, nothing else sounds like it, and the songbook remains untouchable.
8. 8Muse2Paranoid space-opera rock at maximum scale — riffs, falsetto and conspiracy concept albums built for the biggest possible stage.
9. 9My Morning Jacket2Jim James's reverb-drenched howl over southern rock that keeps drifting into something cosmic and unhurried — jam-scene trust earned two hours at a time.
10. 10Ty Segall2Garage rock's most prolific fuzz dealer — a new album every time you blink, and the live band hits harder than any of them.

Most places played

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

1. 1Die Spitz8Austin's instrument-swapping all-women punk-metal wrecking crew — everyone plays everything, and it all lands at full force.
2. 2Twenty One Pilots8Genre-agnostic arena duo — rap, ukulele, and existential dread with a devoted Clique, lore deep enough for a wiki.
3. 3The Warning6Three sisters from Monterrey out-rocking everyone — Mexico's hard-rock pride, a family band that grew into arena-grade virtuosity.
4. 4Angine de Poitrine5Masked Saguenay duo who loop double-necked microtonal guitar into hypnotic, odd-metred math rock — 2026's strangest breakout story.
5. 5Cardinals5Cork's melodica-toting indie romantics — Fontaines-adjacent and rising fast, with a windswept, literary streak all their own.
6. 6Coheed and Cambria5Sci-fi concept-rock saga with arena hooks — 'Welcome Home' indeed, the Amory Wars mythology powering some of modern prog's biggest singalongs.
7. 7Wunderhorse5Raw-nerve UK rock — Cobain-worn songwriting building a serious cult, intensity that reads as truth, a band critics keep underestimating upward.
8. 8Halestorm4Lzzy Hale's Grammy-winning powerhouse — the loudest voice in modern hard rock, delivered nightly with full-throttle sincerity.
9. 9Sleep Theory4New-generation alt-metal built on a soulful clean vocal and a very modern low end — the format's next arena act in waiting.
10. 10The Word Alive4Phoenix metalcore fronted by Telle Smith, alternating clean choruses with breakdowns and drifting toward electronics as the years pass.

Most favorited by readers

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

1. 1Twenty One PilotsGenre-agnostic arena duo — rap, ukulele, and existential dread with a devoted Clique, lore deep enough for a wiki.
2. 2The BeatlesLiverpool four-piece who went from Hamburg club residencies to studio-only psychedelia in seven years, and broke up in 1970.
3. 3The MenzingersScranton punk band writing about getting older badly: old apartments, old friends, drinking. Choruses designed to be shouted back.
4. 4blink-182San Diego County pop punk, three chords fast and a dick joke between songs, with Travis Barker's drumming doing far more than the format requires.
5. 5Bob DylanSix decades of touring and a habit of rearranging his own songs until the audience only recognises them a verse in. Now mostly behind the piano.
6. 6Bruce SpringsteenNew Jersey songwriter of working-life epics, backed by the E Street Band across shows that run three hours and change setlist nightly.
7. 7Fiona ApplePiano-driven songwriting built on percussion, scraped vocals and lines that land like accusations. Records arrive years apart and sound like nothing else out that year.
8. 8My Morning JacketJim James's reverb-drenched howl over southern rock that keeps drifting into something cosmic and unhurried — jam-scene trust earned two hours at a time.
9. 9Pearl JamThe grunge band that turned into a lifelong touring institution — Vedder's baritone over guitars that still sound like 1991 when they want to.
10. 10Roger Clyne & The PeacemakersArizona band carrying on from the Refreshments, desert bar-rock with mariachi horns and a devoted crowd that follows them to Mexico.

Most saved to a plan

The Rock acts people are building a Saturday around.

1. 1ISTABrooklyn collective throwing a cosmic dance party — garage grit, fuzzed-out disco shimmer, and deep-groove psychedelia from a many-limbed live band.
2. 2CVCChurch Village Collective — Welsh good-time rock with '70s harmonies, guitar-solo swagger, and a bar-band looseness played at festival scale.
3. 3Angine de PoitrineMasked Saguenay duo who loop double-necked microtonal guitar into hypnotic, odd-metred math rock — 2026's strangest breakout story.
4. 4Jet'Are You Gonna Be My Girl' — Aussie garage swagger, reunited, with enough riff-rock singles to keep the tank full.
5. 5Ron GalloWiry garage-punk provocateur — caustic wit, scuzzy riffs, and restless reinvention from record to record, never the same band twice.
6. 6Mac DeMarcoThe gap-toothed prince of jangly slacker-pop — cigarette ballads and pure charm, goofball stage antics over genuinely tender songwriting.
7. 7OK GoThe treadmill-video geniuses — power pop with engineering-degree stagecraft, confetti physics included, and songs that hold up without the treadmills.
8. 8Twenty One PilotsGenre-agnostic arena duo — rap, ukulele, and existential dread with a devoted Clique, lore deep enough for a wiki.
9. 9Ty SegallGarage rock's most prolific fuzz dealer — a new album every time you blink, and the live band hits harder than any of them.
10. 10Ultra LightsPunchy Atlanta garage-pop — singalong nihilism, clingy guitar hooks, and a swaggering lean into Aussie trash rock, made for sweaty rooms.

All 249 Rock acts

Die SpitzTwenty One PilotsAngine de PoitrineCardinalsThe WarningWunderhorseCoheed and CambriaBushHalestormS.G. GoodmanSleep TheoryThe Word AliveAlabama ShakesAmira ElfekyBrandi CarlileCatch Your BreathCirca SurviveCongress the BandCruz Beckham and the BreakersDrop Dead, GorgeousDrowning PoolHail The SunJack WhiteJetLeftover SalmonMy Morning JacketPalaye RoyalePrimer 55Rain City DriveSawyer HillSnotStory of the YearThe BeachesThe Pretty RecklessThe Red Clay StraysThe War on DrugsThousand BelowTom MorelloTy SegallWolfmotherZakk SabbathAlien Ant FarmAllah-LasBig GiganticBreaking BenjaminBuckcherryCounting CrowsDaughtryDave Matthews BandDead Poet SocietyDemon HunterDopeEgo Kill TalentEgypt CentralEscape The FateFozzyGodsmackGuns N' RosesHootie & the BlowfishHouse of ProtectionI See StarsIll NiñoKOYOLarkin PoeMac DeMarcoMarilyn MansonMen at WorkMorrisseyMuseMushroomheadNOBROOK GoOruãOseesPoppyPowerman 5000Railroad EarthSalivaScary Kids Scaring KidsSoilSouth ArcadeStaindState ChampsThe AtarisThe Marcus King BandUltra LightsViolent Vira10 Years40 Below SummerA Skylit DriveAdelitas WayAlice CostelloeAlter BridgeAmerican Hi-FiAnderson from CrazyheadAndy Frasco & The U.N.Arrows in ActionBand-MaidBarão VermelhoBlack PanteraBlackberry SmokeBlues TravelerBoDeansBooze & GloryBrian Fallon & The PainkillersBrothers OsborneCaitlin Krisko & The BroadcastCandleboxCapital InicialCheap TrickCherry BombChevelleChevy MetalCKYClutchCVCDaniel Donato's Cosmic CountryDavid Lee RothDemi LovatoDiamanteDinosaur Pile-UpDogstarDorothyEagles of Death MetalEarshotEddie Vedder & FriendsEggyElderElectric SixElton JohnElvis Costello & The ImpostersEquipmentEyes Set To KillFive Finger Death PunchFlawFlyleaf with Lacey SturmFoxy ShazamFraming HanleyGet ScaredGin BlossomsGooseGuavatronHARDYHe Is LegendHeathen ApostlesHinderHootie and the BlowfishHothouse FlowersInfinity SongISTAJarod ClemonsJason Isbell and the 400 UnitJelly RollJoan Jett and the BlackheartsJoan OsborneJohn FogertyJourneyJust SurrenderKarina RykmanKasabianKings of LeonKnuckle PuckLacey SturmLake MaliceLast TrainLee BainsLike Moths To FlamesLittle FeatLPLucille KlementMany EyesMarc ValentineMark MasefieldMemphis May FireMik PyroMorgan NaglerNeil YoungNick LoweNonpointO.A.R.OTHERWISEPalette KnifePatti SmithPaulinho MoskaPearl JamPinkshiftPop EvilPopes of ChillitownReturn to DustRicky WarwickRod StewartRodeo BoysRon GalloScott YoderShinedownShinyribsSick PuppiesSimple MindsSpokenStatus GreenSTS9StyxTaper's ChoiceTedeschi Trucks BandTerrorvisionTexas Hippie CoalitionThe Alternate RoutesThe CourettesThe DrownsThe Fall of TroyThe FratellisThe Funeral PortraitThe GodfathersThe Magic NumbersThe Mars VoltaThe RasmusThe RestartsThe Saw DoctorsThe String Cheese IncidentThe StunningThe Union UndergroundThe WallflowersThe Warren Haynes IncidentThe WildThe WildheartsThom DonovanThose Damn CrowsThumperTijuana PanthersTopsTorcheTravis TrittTwin PeaksUncle LuciusünlocoVan MorrisonWill Hoge and his Rock and Roll BandWilliam Shatner & The *uckersWoe, Is MeWolves At The Gateblink-182Bob DylanBruce SpringsteenFiona AppleRoger Clyne & The PeacemakersThe BeatlesThe MenzingersThe ReplacementsU2

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