Lorde
The NZ art-pop auteur — brooding, minimal, and generation-defining, back on a headline stage where the whispered verses hit hardest.
Governors Ball 2026 Lineup
Governors Ball 2026 has already wrapped — but you can still dig through the lineup and find the acts you would have loved.
Three June days in Flushing Meadows — Lorde, Stray Kids and A$AP Rocky over a bill that ran pop, K-pop, indie and rap across the city's own festival.
About Governors Ball 2026
Governors Ball ran three June days at Flushing Meadows Corona Park with a tight 60-act bill — twenty artists a day, and almost no filler. Lorde and Baby Keem headlined Friday, Stray Kids and Kali Uchis Saturday, A$AP Rocky and Jennie Sunday.
The 2026 booking leaned hard into the overlap between pop, K-pop and internet-native indie. KATSEYE and Jennie represented one side of that, Snow Strippers, 2hollis and Jane Remover another, with Blood Orange, Wet Leg, Japanese Breakfast and Amyl and The Sniffers holding the middle.
Gov Ball also keeps doing something most festivals its size have dropped: booking local youth programmes onto the actual bill. School of Rock Queens, School of Rock New York and Kids Rock for Kids all played.
Expect indie rock, alternative, pop and indie pop across 60 acts.
The headliners
- Lorde — The NZ art-pop auteur — brooding, minimal, and generation-defining, back on a headline stage where the whispered verses hit hardest.
- Baby Keem — The family ties run deep — elastic, unpredictable rap with pgLang polish and beat-switches that keep entire songs off balance in the best way.
- Stray Kids — K-pop's most self-produced group — noisy, maximalist records written and arranged largely in-house, stadium-scale chaos by design.
- Kali Uchis — Velvet-toned bilingual soul that drifts between doo-wop pastiche and perreo without ever raising its voice — 'Telepatía' cool as a permanent state.
- A$AP Rocky — Harlem's most style-conscious rapper, always a couple of years ahead of the room — cloud-rap haze, chopped-and-screwed detours, and high-fashion swagger folded into records that set trends instead of chasing them.
- Jennie — BLACKPINK's coolest-in-the-room star gone solo — sleek K-pop, R&B, and fashion-week poise at main-stage scale, with solo hits that stand on their own.
Up-and-comers to catch early
- Audrey Hobert — Sharp, funny, conversational pop from a songwriter who arrived fully formed.
- Flowerovlove — Sunlit, unbothered indie-pop from someone who started very young and never got cynical.
- Hemlocke Springs — Lopsided, brilliant synth-pop made after abandoning a graduate degree.
- Wisp — Bay Area shoegaze that went from a single viral track to a real catalogue very fast.
- Lexa Gates — New York rapper-singer with a low, unhurried delivery and a diaristic streak.
- Hannah Jadagu — Texas-raised, New York-based indie pop recorded with a deliberate bedroom looseness.
- Radio Free Alice — Brooklyn indie rock with an unusually well-developed sense of dynamics.
Other acts worth planning around
- Lorde — Friday headliner — enormous emotional weight carried by very few notes.
- Stray Kids — K-pop's most self-produced group, headlining Saturday.
- A$AP Rocky — Harlem's most style-conscious rapper, closing the festival.
- Jennie — The Blackpink member's solo turn, co-headlining Sunday.
- Kali Uchis — Bilingual neo-soul that drifts between Spanish and English mid-song.
- KATSEYE — The global girl group that broke out of a reality-show format into something genuinely good.
- Blood Orange — Dev Hynes's soft-focus 80s R&B, built from collaborations.
- Amyl and The Sniffers — Melbourne punk with one of the most physical frontpeople working.
The lineup by day
Friday June 5 through Sunday June 7, twenty acts per day.
- Friday, June 5: Lorde, Baby Keem, KATSEYE, Pierce the Veil, Mariah the Scientist, The Dare + 14 more
- Saturday, June 6: Stray Kids, Kali Uchis, Major Lazer, Blood Orange, Wet Leg, Amyl and The Sniffers + 14 more
- Sunday, June 7: A$AP Rocky, Jennie, Dominic Fike, Geese, Clipse, Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist + 14 more
Governors Ball 2026 lineup FAQ
Who headlined Governors Ball 2026?
Lorde and Baby Keem on Friday, Stray Kids and Kali Uchis on Saturday, and A$AP Rocky and Jennie on Sunday.
When and where was Governors Ball 2026?
June 5–7, 2026, at Flushing Meadows Corona Park in Queens, New York.
How many artists played Governors Ball 2026?
60 — twenty per day across the three days.
Does Gov Ball book local acts?
Yes. Alongside the touring bill, School of Rock Queens, School of Rock New York and Kids Rock for Kids all played in 2026.
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Baby Keem
The family ties run deep — elastic, unpredictable rap with pgLang polish and beat-switches that keep entire songs off balance in the best way.
KATSEYE
The global girl group assembled through a televised search, built on K-pop discipline but writing for a Western pop chart.
Pierce the Veil
Flamenco-flecked guitar runs and Vic Fuentes's impossible upper register, back after a long, mythologised absence — 'King for a Day' pandemonium assured.
Mariah the Scientist
Slow-burn Atlanta R&B — heartbreak delivered with surgical calm, ballads that cut deeper for never raising their voice.
The Dare
Harrison Patrick Smith's sleazy, deliberately retro dance-punk — the sound of 2007 Lower East Side, revived without irony and with a better suit.
Del Water Gap
Heartthrob indie-pop — leather-jacket romanticism with pop craft, swooners engineered for the barricade and the long drive home.
King Princess
Swaggering queer pop-rock auteur — torch-song vocals, glam guitar, and arena-sized hooks about messy love, '1950' still the calling card.
flipturn
Florida indie rock built for festival fields — 'August' euphoria, surging choruses, and a live energy that outruns the recordings.
Audrey Hobert
Wry, conversational pop songwriting from Gracie Abrams's longtime collaborator turned solo act — diaristic detail delivered with sharp comic timing.
Turnover
Left pop-punk behind for warm, hazy dream-pop and never looked back — one of the cleaner reinventions in the scene.
The Beths
Auckland's harmony-stacked power-pop treasures — jazz-school chops, huge hearts, and 'Expert in a Dying Field' proof of mastery.
Arcy Drive
Attic-band indie rock with barefoot summer energy — loose, breezy Long Island guitar songs that built a word-of-mouth following from DIY beginnings.
Confidence Man
Absolutely
Whatmore
Old Mervs
Perth duo — punchy, sunburnt indie rock in the great Australian garage tradition, mates-first energy and hooks to match.
The Backfires
School of Rock Queens
Kids Rock for Kids
Stray Kids
K-pop's most self-produced group — noisy, maximalist records written and arranged largely in-house, stadium-scale chaos by design.
Kali Uchis
Velvet-toned bilingual soul that drifts between doo-wop pastiche and perreo without ever raising its voice — 'Telepatía' cool as a permanent state.
Major Lazer
Diplo's dancehall-electronic party machine — pure festival serotonin, 'Lean On' and a dozen more global smashes in one set.
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.
Wet Leg
Deadpan, hook-loaded post-punk — the Isle of Wight duo grown into a full-blast rock band, 'Chaise Longue' just the opening joke.
Amyl and The Sniffers
Amy 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.
Ravyn Lenae
A featherweight soprano over warm, live-band R&B — Chicago's most distinctive voice in the genre, 'Love Me Not' finally making it official.
Snow Strippers
Lo-fi electroclash duo — distorted synths and detached vocals for the afterparty, Detroit cool for the post-everything generation.
2hollis
Self-produced digital pop that sounds built in a bedroom and mixed for an arena — glassy synth arpeggios, blown-out drums, and melodies engineered for compulsive replay.
Thee Sacred Souls
San Diego trio playing sweet-soul ballads with a period accuracy that never tips into pastiche — lowrider-slow romance, brand new and timeless.
Spacey Jane
Perth indie-rock with aching hooks — Australia's biggest new guitar band, 'Booster Seat' devotion at full volume.
Jane Remover
Digicore prodigy turned noise-pop auteur — abrasive and gorgeous at once, walls of distortion hiding devastating melody.
Wisp
Shoegaze revived by someone who found it online — vocals buried so far in the wash they read as another guitar.
Midnight Generation
Flowerovlove
Joyce Cisse's sunlit, unbothered indie-pop — the sound of someone who started making records very young and never got cynical.
Radio Free Alice
Melbourne post-punks — wiry, literate, buzzing, in the great Australian art-school tradition, sharp songs delivered with nervous energy.
Villanelle
Chanpan
Jade LeMac
Jimmyboy
A$AP Rocky
Harlem's most style-conscious rapper, always a couple of years ahead of the room — cloud-rap haze, chopped-and-screwed detours, and high-fashion swagger folded into records that set trends instead of chasing them.
Jennie
BLACKPINK's coolest-in-the-room star gone solo — sleek K-pop, R&B, and fashion-week poise at main-stage scale, with solo hits that stand on their own.
Dominic Fike
Florida songwriter splicing guitar-pop, rap cadences, and a genuinely odd melodic sense — '3 Nights' opened the door; the weirder stuff kept people inside.
Geese
Unhinged Brooklyn art-rock — yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever.
Clipse
Pusha T and Malice, reunited — coke-rap scripture over pristine beats, one of rap's great comebacks and a masterclass in brotherly chemistry.
Freddie Gibbs & The Alchemist
Gibbs's precision over Alchemist's dusty, soul-sampled loops — one of rap's most reliable pairings, 'Alfredo' chemistry recreated live.
Japanese Breakfast
Michelle Zauner writes about joy and grief with the same precision, over arrangements that keep getting more ambitious — gong hits and all.
Hot Mulligan
Midwest emo's chaotic favorites — screamed choruses, absurd song titles, real feelings, and a crowd that knows every word including the yelps.
Holly Humberstone
Bruised, cinematic alt-pop — Grantham's bedroom-to-BRIT-Award story, small-town detail sung in a fog of reverb, intimacy that scales to festival fields.
Fcukers
NYC's buzziest indie-dance trio — baggy house grooves with downtown cool, like Madchester relocated to a Chinatown basement.
Rachel Chinouriri
British indie-pop with a sharp lyrical edge — bright arrangements carrying much darker subject matter, Croydon storytelling on the rise.
Khamari
Silky retro-modern R&B with a writer's restraint — every note placed, nothing oversung, late-night soul with a craftsman's patience.
BETWEEN FRIENDS
Sibling duo making fuzzy, playful alt-pop with internet-era intimacy — lo-fi textures and hooks that sound DM'd directly to you.
Slayyyter
Glitter-and-grit dance-pop — Y2K excess reborn as main-stage camp, played with total commitment to the fantasy.
Hemlocke Springs
Gleefully off-kilter synth-pop — the med-school-dropout-to-viral-star pipeline, '80s drama sung with total abandon, homemade pop that sounds like nobody else's.
Lexa Gates
Evening Elephants
After
Club-circuit electronic project.
