KATSEYE
The global girl group assembled through a televised search, built on K-pop discipline but writing for a Western pop chart.
Hinterland 2026 Lineup
Four days in an Iowa river valley with a lineup that punches far above the cornfields.
About Hinterland 2026
Hinterland is the rare festival whose setting does half the work: a natural amphitheater cut into an Iowa river valley in St. Charles, half an hour south of Des Moines, where the crowd spends the afternoon on a grass hillside and the sun goes down behind the stage. The 2026 edition runs four days and just 48 acts — a deliberately small bill by festival standards, and one of the most tightly curated in the country. KATSEYE, Lorde, Mumford & Sons, and Kali Uchis take a night each, and the rest reads like a critic's watchlist: Jane Remover and Ashnikko on Thursday, MUNA and Paris Paloma on Friday, a Format reunion on Saturday, Wet Leg and Geese closing out Sunday. Twelve acts a day means almost nothing worth seeing runs against something else you wanted.
Expect alt-pop, alternative, alt-r&b and synth-pop across 48 acts.
The headliners
- KATSEYE — The global girl group assembled through a televised search, built on K-pop discipline but writing for a Western pop chart.
- Lorde — Fifteen years of turning private, unglamorous feeling into pop architecture that everyone else spends the next decade copying — a generation's diarist at headline scale.
- Mumford & Sons — Banjo-driven crescendos that defined a decade of festival folk, now delivered with the electric guitars left plugged in — the singalongs never optional.
- 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.
Up-and-comers to catch early
- Jane Remover — Digicore's most restless mind, four reinventions deep and still only getting louder.
- Wisp — Shoegaze rediscovered by someone who found it online — and it holds up at festival volume.
- Nourished by Time — A one-man Baltimore synth-soul operation; melancholy you can dance to.
- Ninajirachi — Australia's sharpest young club producer, building sets like levels in a game.
- Audrey Hobert — Gracie Abrams's longtime co-writer out front on her own, and much funnier than the songs let on.
- Lipstick Homicide — Iowa's own, opening the weekend — the fastest twenty-five minutes of Thursday.
Other acts worth planning around
- The Format — Fifteen years dormant, back on a Saturday bill; expect the loudest singalong of the weekend.
- MUNA — The best pure-joy set on the lineup, and they know exactly where to put it in the night.
- Wet Leg — Two records in, now a genuinely loud rock band rather than a novelty from the Isle of Wight.
- Santigold — Fifteen years of pop dispatches that plenty of people have borrowed from and nobody has matched.
- CMAT — The funniest performer here, with the biggest voice on the bill attached.
- Leslie & The Ly's — An Iowa institution, and the strangest set anyone will see all weekend. Go.
- Geese — A band that treats every song as a chance to derail it live — never the same set twice.
- Quintron & Miss Pussycat — Homemade organ, drum machine, and puppet theatre; nothing else on this bill is remotely like it.
The lineup by day
- Thursday, July 30: KATSEYE, beabadoobee, ASHNIKKO, AUDREY NUNA, Oklou, Jane Remover + 6 more
- Friday, July 31: Lorde, MUNA, Snow Strippers, Paris Paloma, SOFIA ISELLA, Wisp + 6 more
- Saturday, August 1: Mumford & Sons, Jessie Murph, The Format, Santigold, CMAT, Julia Wolf + 6 more
- Sunday, August 2: Kali Uchis, Young Miko, Geese, Wet Leg, Suki Waterhouse, Samia + 6 more
Hinterland 2026 lineup FAQ
When is Hinterland 2026?
July 30 – August 2, 2026 — Thursday through Sunday.
Where does Hinterland take place?
Avenue of the Saints Amphitheater in St. Charles, Iowa, about thirty minutes south of Des Moines.
Who is headlining Hinterland 2026?
KATSEYE (Thursday), Lorde (Friday), Mumford & Sons (Saturday), and Kali Uchis (Sunday).
How many acts are playing Hinterland 2026?
48 acts across four days — twelve a day, which is what makes the weekend walkable.
Are Hinterland set times out?
Yes — every act's day and set time is on this page. Save the ones you want and they become your own running order.
How do I figure out which of the 48 acts I'd actually like?
Tell the finder at the top of this page a few bands you love — it'll match you with your must-see sets, with reasons why.
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beabadoobee
Fuzzy '90s-leaning indie-pop grown into lush, easy songcraft — from bedroom demos to Rick Rubin sessions without losing the diary-page intimacy.
ASHNIKKO
Blue-haired, cartoon-maximalist rap-pop that's funnier and nastier than the pop-punk it borrows guitars from — internet-bred provocation with genuine hooks underneath.
AUDREY NUNA
Sludgy, low-slung R&B where the rapping and the singing keep swapping places mid-verse — New Jersey cool with an experimentalist's disregard for genre lines.
Oklou
Gossamer French avant-pop — choral synths and whispered melody, songs that feel lit by candles and screens at once.
Jane Remover
Digicore prodigy turned noise-pop auteur — abrasive and gorgeous at once, walls of distortion hiding devastating melody.
Frost Children
Sibling NYC hyperpop chaos agents — glitchy, funny, and relentless, a live set that plays like a timeline scrolled at maximum speed.
Porch Light
Warm-hearted indie folk on the undercard.
Pixel Grip
Chicago darkwave built for a warehouse — icy synth throb under commands delivered somewhere between seduction and threat, leather-clad and fully in control.
Nourished by Time
Bedroom-made synth-soul that sounds like a lost '80s major-label record found on a warped cassette — Baltimore's finest recent export.
Lipstick Homicide
Iowa punk with the tempo pinned and the melodies sharper than the fuzz lets on — Midwest DIY-scene devotion earned over years.
Duo Beats
Lorde
Fifteen years of turning private, unglamorous feeling into pop architecture that everyone else spends the next decade copying — a generation's diarist at headline scale.
MUNA
Life-affirming queer synth-pop — 'Silk Chiffon' joy with serious writing chops, and the best live banter in pop included.
Snow Strippers
Lo-fi electroclash duo — distorted synths and detached vocals for the afterparty, Detroit cool for the post-everything generation.
Paris Paloma
Mythic, incantatory folk-pop — 'Labour' made her the internet's feminist bard, and the deeper catalog keeps the incantation going.
SOFIA ISELLA
Viral dark art-pop — spoken-word menace over strings, Gen Z's gothic conscience with a scalpel for a pen.
Wisp
Shoegaze revived by someone who found it online — vocals buried so far in the wash they read as another guitar.
Saint Avangeline
Ninajirachi
Glittering, game-engine electronic — Australia's most inventive young club producer, chiptune sparkle at rave pressure, drops that sparkle as hard as they hit.
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.
Leslie & The Ly's
Iowa's gem-sweater laureate turning regional-craft-fair aesthetics into a genuinely committed electro-rap spectacle — bedazzled and completely straight-faced.
Sarah Tonin
Crooked Torus
Mumford & Sons
Banjo-driven crescendos that defined a decade of festival folk, now delivered with the electric guitars left plugged in — the singalongs never optional.
Jessie Murph
A rasp built for heartbreak, dragging country songwriting through trap drums and open-wound honesty — genre lines treated as suggestions.
The Format
Nate Ruess before fun. — horn-flecked, sincere power-pop that reunion crowds have waited fifteen years to hear, and sing accordingly.
Santigold
Genre-collapsing alt-pop pioneer — 'L.E.S. Artistes' to now, always ahead, new wave and dancehall in one voice.
CMAT
Irish country-pop with a wicked sense of humor and a bigger voice — a riotous live show that swings from comedy to gut-punch inside one chorus.
Julia Wolf
Moody, guitar-flecked alt-pop with a whisper-to-hook delivery — quiet verses that detonate into choruses, diary-page lyrics under the gloss.
Waylon Wyatt
Teenage Arkansas country prodigy — porch-honest writing in the Zach Bryan lineage, wise beyond the birth certificate.
Amble
Irish folk trio — hushed three-part harmonies and homesick story-songs that have been quietly filling rooms far bigger than anyone expected.
Buffalo Traffic Jam
The Brook & The Bluff
Four-part harmony and clean guitar tone — indie rock that would rather groove than shout, Birmingham blend at golden hour.
Quintron & Miss Pussycat
Homemade organ-and-drum-machine racket paired with puppet theatre, and neither half is the gimmick — New Orleans outsider genius, decades running.
Derry & the Dirty Dishes
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.
Young Miko
Puerto Rico's coolest export — playful, queer, effortlessly viral reggaeton, delivered with a skater's shrug and charisma that needs no translation.
Geese
Unhinged Brooklyn art-rock — yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever.
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.
Suki Waterhouse
Hazy, vintage-toned dream-pop — cinematic sad-girl songs with a wink, screen-star mystique earning its music credentials.
Audrey Hobert
Wry, conversational pop songwriting from Gracie Abrams's longtime collaborator turned solo act — diaristic detail delivered with sharp comic timing.
Samia
Devastatingly specific lyrics — the kind that name a brand or a street — sung with unnerving composure, and screamed back by devoted crowds.
Haute & Freddy
Genre-hopping duo bringing club heat.
Gouge Away
Post-hardcore that knows exactly when to stop shouting — dynamics doing the damage the volume can't, Pixies nerve inside hardcore muscle.
Die Spitz
Austin's instrument-swapping all-women punk-metal wrecking crew — everyone plays everything, and it all lands at full force.
Jeffery Lewis
A comic-book artist's approach to songwriting — rambling, funny, illustrated narratives that outstay their welcome on purpose, and win you over anyway.
Koo Koo
Deadpan dance-party songs for children that adults keep showing up to anyway — matching tracksuits, full commitment, zero cynicism.