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Kilby Block Party 2026 Lineup
Kilby Block Party 2026 has already wrapped — but you can still dig through the lineup and find the acts you would have loved.
Three May days at the Utah State Fairpark — Lorde, The xx and Turnstile over one of the most tightly curated indie bills in the country.
About Kilby Block Party 2026
Kilby Block Party grew out of Kilby Court, a 100-capacity garage venue in Salt Lake City, and has become one of the most tightly curated indie bills in the country. The 2026 edition ran three days at the Utah State Fairpark with 70 acts, headlined by Lorde, The xx and Turnstile.
The programming is the reason to pay attention. Rather than buying a broad festival bill, Kilby books like a record shop staff-picks shelf — reunion sets from American Football and Grandaddy sitting next to Feeble Little Horse, YHWH Nailgun and Hotline TNT, with Father John Misty, Japanese Breakfast, Modest Mouse, Lucy Dacus and Blood Orange filling the middle. Very little of it overlaps with the amphitheatre circuit.
It also books its own scene properly. Utah acts including The Moss, Ritt Momney, The Kilans and Pixie & the Partygrass Boys played alongside the touring names, which is not something most festivals of this size still bother to do.
Expect indie rock, alternative, indie pop and post-punk across 70 acts.
The headliners
- Lorde — Three albums in three distinct modes, all of them built on the same trick — enormous emotional weight carried by very few notes.
- Turnstile — Baltimore hardcore that long ago stopped being only hardcore — one of the most joyful, physical live sets going, 'GLOW ON' communion nightly.
- The xx — Whispered boy-girl duets over almost nothing at all — a band whose defining quality is what they leave out, and the restraint still stuns.
Up-and-comers to catch early
- Feeble Little Horse — Pittsburgh noise-pop that keeps interrupting itself — sweet melodies shoved through a broken amp.
- YHWH Nailgun — New York experimental noise built on percussion that never settles — abrasive and genuinely thrilling.
- Hotline TNT — Blown-out shoegaze with actual pop songs underneath all the fuzz.
- This is Lorelei — Nate Amos writing straightforwardly beautiful songs after years of deliberately difficult ones.
- Die Spitz — Austin four-piece who swap instruments mid-set and play garage-punk like it might fall apart.
- Freak Slug — Woozy Manchester bedroom pop, sung like she's half-asleep and completely certain.
- The Moss — Provo-formed indie rock with a tropical lilt — one of the Utah scene's genuine breakout stories.
Other acts worth planning around
- Lorde — Three albums in three distinct modes, all built on carrying enormous weight with very few notes.
- The xx — Whispered duets over almost nothing at all — a band defined by what they leave out.
- Turnstile — Baltimore hardcore that stopped being only hardcore; one of the most physical live sets going.
- American Football — The 1999 album became the emo-revival blueprint, and the reunion turned out to have real songs in it.
- Grandaddy — Jason Lytle's fuzzy melancholy about obsolete machines and the people who loved them.
- Father John Misty — The lounge-lizard persona hasn't slipped in a decade, and the arrangements keep improving.
- Show Me the Body — New York hardcore built around a banjo run through a wall of distortion.
- Magdalena Bay — Maximalist internet-native synth-pop with a live show as dense as the records.
Kilby Block Party 2026 lineup FAQ
Who headlined Kilby Block Party 2026?
Lorde, The xx and Turnstile, across a 70-act bill.
When and where was Kilby Block Party 2026?
May 15–17, 2026, at the Utah State Fairpark in Salt Lake City.
What kind of festival is Kilby Block Party?
An indie festival that grew out of Kilby Court, a 100-capacity all-ages garage venue in Salt Lake City. The booking leans indie rock, shoegaze, emo and experimental pop, and it consistently books more adventurously than its size would suggest.
How many acts played Kilby Block Party 2026?
70, including reunion sets from American Football and Grandaddy and a substantial contingent of Utah artists.
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American Football
One album in 1999 that quietly became the emo-revival blueprint, and a reunion that turned out to have real songs in it.
Automatic
Minimalist LA synth-punk trio — icy grooves and motorik precision, like a security-camera feed of a party you're not cool enough to attend.
Bad Luck Brigade
Beach Bunny
Lili Trifilio's bright, fast guitar-pop about being twenty and miserable — the songs are far sharper than that sounds, with 'Prom Queen' still a viral touchstone.
Ben Kweller
A 2000s indie-pop lifer whose songs about very ordinary things have quietly outlasted most of the scene — power-pop craft worn as casually as a thrift-store tee.
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.
Blood Orange
Dev Hynes's soft-focus '80s R&B, built from collaborations and sounding like a late-night city drive — a producer-auteur whose melancholy has shaped a decade of pop.
Briston Maroney
Nashville guitar-pop with a rasp and a big chorus — festival-ready without being calculated about it, 'Freakin' Out on the Interstate' still the calling card.
Cardinals
Cork's melodica-toting indie romantics — Fontaines-adjacent and rising fast, with a windswept, literary streak all their own.
Caroline
Eight-piece London chamber-rock swells — patient, communal, and overwhelming, songs that gather like weather until the whole room is inside them.
Chalk
Belfast noise-dance — industrial techno pulse under post-punk vocals, engineered to blur the line between gig and rave.
Chanel Beads
Clap Your Hands Say Yeah
The blog-era success story, now essentially Alec Ounsworth solo, and that distinctive warble is undimmed — self-released indie history still touring on its own terms.
Dad Bod
Dehd
Chicago trio playing wide-open, echoing guitar songs with two voices trading off and a genuine sense of space — heartbreak surf-rock with room to breathe.
Die Spitz
Austin four-piece who swap instruments mid-set and play garage-punk like it might fall apart at any second — controlled chaos as a band philosophy.
Drugdealer
Dry Cleaning
Florence Shaw talks rather than sings, over a rhythm section far too good to be background — deadpan and oddly moving.
Ethan Regan
Father John Misty
Josh Tillman's lounge-lizard persona hasn't slipped in a decade, and the orchestral arrangements keep getting better — irony and sincerity in permanent, gorgeous tension.
Feeble Little Horse
Pittsburgh noise-pop that keeps interrupting itself — sweet melodies shoved through a broken amp, engineered to fall apart beautifully.
Fightmaster
Flipturn
Florida indie rock built for festival fields — 'August' euphoria, surging choruses, and a live energy that outruns the recordings.
Folk Bitch Trio
Melbourne's deadpan folk harmonists — three voices, one wicked sense of humor, close-harmony singing with a stand-up's timing.
Freak Slug
Xenya Genovese's woozy, guitar-led bedroom pop, sung like she's half-asleep and completely certain — Manchester cool at a whisper.
Gelli Haha
Absurdist synth-pop performance art — bubbly, deranged, delightful, a show engineered to make a crowd grin and go 'what?' simultaneously.
Glom
Buzzy indie newcomer on the Merriweather bill.
Gonk
Grandaddy
Jason Lytle's fuzzy synth-and-guitar melancholy about obsolete machines and the people who loved them — 'The Sophtware Slump' still quietly prophetic.
Hannah Cohen
Hayley Williams
Away from Paramore, looser and stranger — the voice is the same, the arrangements considerably weirder, solo records made for headphones over barricades.
Hotline TNT
Will Anderson's blown-out shoegaze with actual pop songs underneath all the fuzz — proof the revival has songwriting legs.
Jane Remover
A restless producer who has already burned through several genres, each time convincingly — digicore to shoegaze without a wasted step.
Japanese Breakfast
Michelle Zauner writes about joy and grief with the same precision, over arrangements that keep getting more ambitious — gong hits and all.
Jill Whit
KennyHoopla
Post-punk-inflected alt-rock with a genuine 2005 dance-punk streak, and much heavier live than on record — new-core energy with real nostalgic craft.
Kevin Morby
Loose-limbed, Dylan-shaped American songwriting, delivered like he has all the time in the world — road-dog albums that keep quietly stacking up.
The Kilans
The Last Dinner Party
Theatrical London five-piece who arrived fully formed — corsetry, harpsichord flourishes, and songs big enough to justify both, 'Nothing Matters' the proof.
Lorde
Three albums in three distinct modes, all of them built on the same trick — enormous emotional weight carried by very few notes.
Lucy Dacus
A novelist's eye for the specific detail, delivered in the warmest voice in the boygenius orbit — 'Night Shift' still the slow-burn masterclass.
Lyn Lapid
Maryland songwriter with a light touch and unusually sharp lyrics about being observed online — bedroom pop with a producer's ear.
Magdalena Bay
Maximalist internet-native synth-pop, with a live show built to match the density of the records — lore, visuals, and hooks in equal supply.
Melody's Echo Chamber
Melody Prochet's French psych-pop, layered and slightly disorienting in the best way — kaleidoscope production around featherweight melodies.
Modest Mouse
Isaac Brock's jittery, seasick guitar songs about the highway and the void — three decades of them, still unmistakable from the first yelp.
The Moss
Provo-formed indie rock with a tropical lilt, and one of the Utah scene's genuine breakout stories — breezy hooks with island warmth.
Mustard Service
Nadezhda
NewDad
Galway four-piece dealing in gauzy, low-slung shoegaze with a persistent undertow of dread — Irish gloom in slow motion.
Old Mervs
Perth duo — punchy, sunburnt indie rock in the great Australian garage tradition, mates-first energy and hooks to match.
Pattie Gonia
A drag queen and environmental organizer whose sets are equal parts performance, choir, and outdoor-access advocacy — camp with a cause.
Pixie & the Partygrass Boys
Provoker
Bay Area darkwave with a slick, sinister R&B undertow — goth music you can actually move to, horror-movie romance included.
Quadeca
Left a YouTube career behind to make genuinely ambitious, orchestral experimental rap about death and dissolution — one of the internet's great reinventions.
Rachael Jenkins
Ritt Momney
Jack Rutter's Salt Lake bedroom project, which went unexpectedly viral and then made the interesting record anyway — the cover paid for the experiments.
Show Me the Body
New York hardcore built around a banjo run through a wall of distortion — genuinely unlike anything else, and heavier than it has any right to be.
Smerz
Norwegian duo making sparse, club-adjacent pop that keeps dissolving just as it settles — unease as an aesthetic.
Snail Mail
Lindsey Jordan's guitar playing is the real draw — clean, unhurried lines under lyrics about wanting more than you got.
Sports
Oklahoma synth-funk duo — velvet grooves, zero pretension, chillwave warmth with actual pocket, made for golden-hour sway.
Starr 67
This is Lorelei
Nate Amos writing straightforwardly beautiful songs after years of deliberately difficult ones — Water From Your Eyes' other half, unmasked.
Tops
Montreal soft-pop with a late-'70s AM-radio warmth and Jane Penny's unhurried delivery on top — soft-focus songs with sneaky staying power.
Turnstile
Baltimore hardcore that long ago stopped being only hardcore — one of the most joyful, physical live sets going, 'GLOW ON' communion nightly.
Wilbere
Wild Nothing
Jack Tatum's reverb-soaked '80s indie-pop, which has aged much better than the chillwave label it arrived with — 'Shadow' still shimmering.
Wombo
The xx
Whispered boy-girl duets over almost nothing at all — a band whose defining quality is what they leave out, and the restraint still stuns.
YHWH Nailgun
New York experimental noise built on percussion that never settles into a groove — abrasive, spasmodic, and genuinely thrilling live.