Lorde
The NZ art-pop auteur — brooding, minimal, and generation-defining, back on a headline stage where the whispered verses hit hardest.
Lollapalooza 2026 Lineup
Four days and eight stages in Grant Park — pop titans on the marquee, and 170 acts deep in discoveries underneath.
About Lollapalooza 2026
Lollapalooza is the big one: four days, eight stages, and the Chicago skyline rising behind Grant Park. The 2026 edition stacks 172 acts into pop's widest tent — art-pop royalty and brat-era chaos up top, tech-house and K-pop taking over whole afternoons, and a small-print undercard that quietly holds next year's breakouts. Chicago threads itself through the weekend, from John Summit's hometown-hero main-stage set to The Smashing Pumpkins in their own backyard to the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra's traditional opener. It's a festival you navigate rather than simply attend — which is exactly why it pays to know your must-sees before you walk through the gates.
Expect pop, alternative, dance and electronic across 172 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.
- John Summit — Chicago's own tech-house superstar — main-stage house music with hometown-hero energy and the biggest crossover run the genre has seen in years.
- Charli xcx — Pop's reigning vanguardist — the brat era's architect bringing club-pop chaos to the main stage, a decade of underground experiments finally cashing out at scale.
- The Smashing Pumpkins — Chicago's alt-rock monument — Mellon Collie-scale guitars at home in Grant Park, Corgan drama at full wingspan.
- Olivia Dean — The UK's warmest new pop-soul voice — effortless, jazz-schooled songwriting that's conquered charts on both sides of the Atlantic, charm fully intact live.
- 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.
- Tate McRae — Dancer-first pop stardom — precision choreography and inescapable hooks, delivered at full sprint with a dance captain's discipline.
- The xx — Whispered minimalism that somehow fills a festival field — intimacy at headline scale, 'Intro' still raising arm hair.
Up-and-comers to catch early
- Audrey Hobert — Wry, conversational pop songwriting from Gracie Abrams's longtime collaborator turned solo act.
- Nettspend — Gen-Z underground rage rap: distorted, chaotic, and inexplicably magnetic.
- Chezile — "Beanie" broke him everywhere; woozy, warm bedroom soul from Baton Rouge.
- Waylon Wyatt — Teenage Arkansas country prodigy: porch-honest writing in the Zach Bryan lineage.
- Jim Legxacy — South London genre-blur: drill, indie, and R&B folded into diaristic collage.
- CORTIS — HYBE's youngest boy band: self-producing K-pop upstarts on a rocket trajectory.
Other acts worth planning around
- Little Simz — One of rap's sharpest pens, full stop: orchestral ambition and North London grit.
- Viagra Boys — Sweaty, saxophone-wielding Swedish post-punk satire; one of the best live bands on earth right now.
- YOASOBI — Japan's novel-into-song hitmakers; the live band goes harder than you'd expect.
- Ado — Japan's masked vocal phenomenon: a voice that swings from growl to glass-shatter.
- Wolf Alice — Mercury-winning UK alt-rock: whispered folk to full-throated fuzz in one set.
- Mustard — The West Coast's ratchet-era architect, with a DJ set stacked with his own hits.
- DJ Trixie Mattel — The drag superstar behind the decks: camp, pop edits, and pure joy.
The lineup by day
- Thursday, July 30: Lorde, John Summit, Sombr, Empire of the Sun, Wet Leg, Worship + 36 more
- Friday, July 31: Charli xcx, The Smashing Pumpkins, Lil Uzi Vert, YUNGBLUD, Major Lazer, Not For Radio + 38 more
- Saturday, August 1: Olivia Dean, JENNIE, The Neighbourhood, Ethel Cain, Disco Lines, Leon Thomas + 37 more
- Sunday, August 2: Tate McRae, The xx, Turnstile, beabadoobee, aespa, The Chainsmokers + 37 more
Lollapalooza 2026 lineup FAQ
When is Lollapalooza 2026?
July 30 – August 2, 2026 — Thursday through Sunday.
Where does Lollapalooza take place?
Grant Park, downtown Chicago, across eight stages.
Who is headlining Lollapalooza 2026?
Lorde, Charli xcx, The Smashing Pumpkins, John Summit, Tate McRae, The xx, Olivia Dean, and JENNIE.
How many acts are playing Lollapalooza 2026?
172 acts over four days — one of the deepest bills of any 2026 US festival.
What days do specific acts play?
Every act's day is already on this page — expand the full lineup below or check the day-by-day breakdown.
How do I figure out which of the 172 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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John Summit
Chicago's own tech-house superstar — main-stage house music with hometown-hero energy and the biggest crossover run the genre has seen in years.
Sombr
Moody, reverb-soaked alt-pop from a Manhattan teenager who went from bedroom demos to festival bills — heartbreak at streaming scale.
Empire of the Sun
Theatrical Aussie synth-pop royalty — headdresses, spectacle, and 'Walking on a Dream' euphoria, a duo that treats every festival set as full-scale cinematic ritual.
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.
Worship
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.
5 Seconds of Summer
Sydney pop-rock veterans who long outgrew their boy-band billing — arena-sized hooks, real instruments, and a pop-punk past that still sneaks into the setlist.
KETTAMA
Irish rave-house heat — big-room energy with underground credentials, breakbeats and pianos at full sprint, Galway-to-warehouse momentum fully underway.
Viagra Boys
Sweaty, saxophone-wielding Swedish post-punk satire — one of the best live bands on earth right now, 'Sports' shouted by thousands.
Audrey Hobert
Wry, conversational pop songwriting from Gracie Abrams's longtime collaborator turned solo act — diaristic detail delivered with sharp comic timing.
Snow Strippers
Lo-fi electroclash duo — distorted synths and detached vocals for the afterparty, Detroit cool for the post-everything generation.
Boris Brejcha
German 'high-tech minimal' techno in a joker mask — precise, melodic, relentless, with marathon sets that build like clockwork machinery.
Paris Paloma
Mythic, incantatory folk-pop — 'Labour' made her the internet's feminist bard, and the deeper catalog keeps the incantation going.
Little Simz
One of rap's sharpest pens, full stop — orchestral ambition and North London grit, 'Sometimes I Might Be Introvert' the modern benchmark.
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.
Boys Noize
Berlin electro-techno institution — heavy, distorted, and club-ruining in the best way, with credits that run from underground 12-inches to pop's A-list.
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.
MPH
UK garage revival heat — skippy drums and low-end pressure, two-step engineered for the new generation of dancefloors.
Amble
Irish folk trio — hushed three-part harmonies and homesick story-songs that have been quietly filling rooms far bigger than anyone expected.
Kingfishr
Anthemic Irish folk-rock — banjo-driven singalongs built for fields, Limerick lads on a steep national rise.
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.
Haute & Freddy
Bella Kay
Marlon Funaki
DEVAULT
Dark, cinematic bass and techno crossovers from the LA underground — trap-schooled drops recast in warehouse shadows.
SB19
The Philippines' biggest pop group — precision choreography and a ferociously devoted fanbase, P-pop pride at global scale.
Ecca Vandal
Genre-smashing Melbourne punk-rap — riffs, bars, and zero regard for lanes, delivered with a hardcore band's physicality.
Bad Nerves
Hyperspeed UK power-pop — Ramones velocity with Strokes melody, two-minute songs played like the venue is on fire.
Asha Banks
Faouzia
Moroccan-Canadian vocal powerhouse — dramatic, belt-heavy pop with runs that stop scrollers mid-thumb, technique that turns ballads into main events.
Evening Elephants
Pearly Drops
BIXBY
Penelope Road
Know Good
Elizabeth Nichols
KLO
The Braymores
CHALK
Belfast noise-dance — industrial techno pulse under post-punk vocals, engineered to blur the line between gig and rave.
Simon Grossmann
Warm Spanish-language indie-pop from Venezuela via Miami — breezy, guitar-led songs with café intimacy, easygoing charm that translates in any language.
Kim Theory
Charli xcx
Pop's reigning vanguardist — the brat era's architect bringing club-pop chaos to the main stage, a decade of underground experiments finally cashing out at scale.
The Smashing Pumpkins
Chicago's alt-rock monument — Mellon Collie-scale guitars at home in Grant Park, Corgan drama at full wingspan.
Lil Uzi Vert
Mosh-pit-summoning Philly superstar — melodic rage rap at festival scale, with a hits run that turns fields into trampolines.
YUNGBLUD
UK alt-rock provocateur — theatrical, communal, and louder every year, a fanbase that treats shows like family reunions.
Major Lazer
Diplo's dancehall-electronic party machine — pure festival serotonin, 'Lean On' and a dozen more global smashes in one set.
Not For Radio
Zara Larsson
Swedish pop precision — big voice, bigger choruses, Stockholm songcraft at maximum gleam, pop engineering at its cleanest.
Freddie Gibbs
Gangsta rap's most technically devastating voice — cold-blooded bars over soul loops, with 'Alfredo' and 'Bandana' as modern-classic proof.
Suki Waterhouse
Hazy, vintage-toned dream-pop — cinematic sad-girl songs with a wink, screen-star mystique earning its music credentials.
i-dle
Self-producing K-pop hitmakers (formerly (G)I-DLE) — swaggering concept queens who write their own statements and back them with hooks.
Mustard
The West Coast's ratchet-era architect — a DJ set stacked with his own hits ('Not Like Us' included), a decade of radio in an hour.
Oklou
Gossamer French avant-pop — choral synths and whispered melody, songs that feel lit by candles and screens at once.
horsegiirL
Berlin's masked 'farmcore' phenomenon — giddy barnyard-trance house played dead serious, 'My Barn My Rules' as manifesto.
The Story So Far
Modern pop-punk standard-bearers — gruff, fast, and beloved, Walnut Creek's chip-on-shoulder anthems in full stride, pits and singalongs in equal measure.
Loathe
Liverpool heaviness that swings between crushing metalcore and gorgeous shoegaze drift — Deftones lineage carried somewhere genuinely new.
Nettspend
Gen-Z underground rage — distorted, chaotic, and inexplicably magnetic, the sound of the internet's id at full volume.
SIDEPIECE
Grammy-nominated house duo — greasy basslines and instant grooves, 'On My Mind' the calling card, grooves greasy enough to require napkins.
Skye Newman
UK breakout with a smoky retro-soul voice and diaristic pop instincts — old-soul phrasing on new-school subjects.
NOTION
UK bass and garage — clean, physical, dancefloor-first, drops with surgical timing and low-end pressure without a wasted bar.
RØZ
Balu Brigada
Kiwi brothers making slinky, falsetto-led alt-funk — Auckland groove-pop polished to a late-night sheen, with basslines that do most of the flirting.
LYNY
Mother Mother
Vancouver's TikTok-resurrected art-rockers — quirky harmonies and a huge devoted crowd, a back catalog rediscovered by a generation that made it theirs.
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.
Slayyyter
Glitter-and-grit dance-pop — Y2K excess reborn as main-stage camp, played with total commitment to the fantasy.
Claire Rosinkranz
Breezy bedroom-pop hooks from the 'Backyard Boy' breakout, all grown up — TikTok-era beginnings matured into proper songcraft.
54 Ultra
High Vis
UK hardcore with baggy Britpop swagger — working-class catharsis that turned the scene's head, then everyone else's.
Finn Wolfhard
Yes, that Finn Wolfhard — scrappy, sincere indie rock beyond the Stranger Things shadow, garage-band instincts played without celebrity gloss.
Avello
partyOf2
The Army, The Navy
Love Spells
Ella Red
Paloma Morphy
Day We Ran
IVRI
Ella Boh
Bradeazy
Emi Grace
BENO
Chicago Made
Valencia Grace
Whitney Whitney
Olivia Dean
The UK's warmest new pop-soul voice — effortless, jazz-schooled songwriting that's conquered charts on both sides of the Atlantic, charm fully intact live.
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.
The Neighbourhood
Monochrome California moodiness — 'Sweater Weather' and a decade of slow-burn alt-pop, reunited for a generation that streamed them into legend.
Ethel Cain
Southern-gothic epics — hymn-like, haunted Americana that turns festival fields reverent, the 'Preacher's Daughter' mythology unfolding at its own patient pace.
Disco Lines
Technicolor disco-house — relentless fun, zero pretension, hooks big enough to convert whoever wandered past the stage.
Leon Thomas
'Mutt' made him R&B's breakout craftsman — a producer-writer's touch with a showman's voice, years of behind-the-scenes credits finally center stage.
Clipse
Pusha T and Malice, reunited — coke-rap scripture over pristine beats, one of rap's great comebacks and a masterclass in brotherly chemistry.
Geese
Unhinged Brooklyn art-rock — yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever.
Alison Wonderland
Emotional bass music from one of dance's most beloved live presences — raw, diaristic vocals over heavyweight drops, delivered like a confession at festival volume.
DJ Trixie Mattel
The drag superstar behind the decks — camp, pop edits, and pure joy, a set built for singing along in sunglasses.
bbno$
Absurdist pop-rap entrepreneurship — 'edamame' energy and meme-fluent hooks, shockingly great live from a performer who takes the joke completely seriously.
KWN
Sienna Spiro
Max Styler
Sun-soaked tech house on the rise — California grooves tuned for pool decks and peak hour alike.
Spacey Jane
Perth indie-rock with aching hooks — Australia's biggest new guitar band, 'Booster Seat' devotion at full volume.
Wolf Alice
Mercury-winning UK alt-rock — from whispered folk to full-throated fuzz in one set, Ellie Rowsell commanding every register.
Whethan
Chicago's future-bass wunderkind, grown into a versatile electro-pop craftsman — collabs across pop's whole spectrum, festival sets with pop fluency.
CORTIS
HYBE's youngest boy band — self-producing K-pop upstarts on a rocket trajectory, writing and arranging their own material from debut.
Cameron Whitcomb
Backflipping former pipefitter with a howl — raw-nerve folk-country redemption songs delivered with gymnastic stage energy and zero polish where it counts.
AYYBO
Bouncy, bass-heavy tech house built for peak hour — San Diego swagger engineered for the biggest room available.
Khamari
Silky retro-modern R&B with a writer's restraint — every note placed, nothing oversung, late-night soul with a craftsman's patience.
Quadeca
YouTube rapper turned genuine experimentalist — ghostly, orchestral, self-produced worlds that critics had to take seriously.
Momma
Dual-frontwoman fuzz-rock resurrecting the '90s — big hooks, deadpan cool, and twin guitar harmonies straight from the alt-rock golden age.
Frost Children
Sibling NYC hyperpop chaos agents — glitchy, funny, and relentless, a live set that plays like a timeline scrolled at maximum speed.
Goldie Boutilier
Die Spitz
Austin's instrument-swapping all-women punk-metal wrecking crew — everyone plays everything, and it all lands at full force.
Lucy Bedroque
OMNOM
Jim Legxacy
South London genre-blur — drill, indie, and R&B folded into diaristic collage, homemade and heartsore in equal measure.
Chezile
'Beanie' broke him everywhere — woozy, warm bedroom soul from Baton Rouge, falsetto sighs over underwater guitar.
Jae Stephens
Sleek, funny, funk-forward R&B on the rise — bounce-first records with a comic's pen, grooves polished for late-night replay.
Ryman
Villanelle
Sunday (1994)
Gauzy, nostalgic dream-rock — exactly what the name promises, Mazzy Star haze for a new decade.
MC4D
Chace
Calder Allen
Nat Myers
Korean-American country-blues revivalist — National steel guitar and dust-bowl holler, prewar blues played like breaking news.
INK
Peace Control
The Creekers
Next of Kin
Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra
Chicago's own youth symphony bringing full orchestral firepower to Grant Park — a Lolla tradition, and reliably one of the weekend's most disarming sets.
Tate McRae
Dancer-first pop stardom — precision choreography and inescapable hooks, delivered at full sprint with a dance captain's discipline.
The xx
Whispered minimalism that somehow fills a festival field — intimacy at headline scale, 'Intro' still raising arm hair.
Turnstile
Hardcore's joyful crossover kings — dreamy interludes, stage dives, total communion, and a crowd that moves as one.
beabadoobee
Fuzzy '90s-leaning indie-pop grown into lush, easy songcraft — from bedroom demos to Rick Rubin sessions without losing the diary-page intimacy.
aespa
Hyper-futurist K-pop — metallic drops, AI-avatar lore, and immaculate execution, with 'Next Level' and 'Supernova' proving experimental concepts can still conquer charts.
The Chainsmokers
EDM-pop juggernauts — the closers everyone knows every word to, 'Closer' included, obviously, a hits run that never left the radio.
MUNA
Life-affirming queer synth-pop — 'Silk Chiffon' joy with serious writing chops, and the best live banter in pop included.
Hot Mulligan
Midwest emo's chaotic favorites — screamed choruses, absurd song titles, real feelings, and a crowd that knows every word including the yelps.
YOASOBI
Japan's novel-into-song hitmakers — 'Idol' broke every record; the live band goes harder than you'd guess, J-pop precision with rock muscle.
Ado
Japan's masked vocal phenomenon — an anonymous silhouette with a voice that swings from guttural growl to glass-shattering belt, performing chart-conquering J-pop from behind a screen.
JADE
Little Mix's Jade gone gloriously weird — 'Angel of My Dreams' announced a real pop auteur, camp and chaos with A-list polish.
Eli Brown
Bristol techno muscle — dark, driving, and huge, a producer who crossed from tech-house into the hard stuff and doubled down.
Duke Dumont
UK house classicist — 'Ocean Drive' sunsets guaranteed, with 'Need U (100%)' and a decade of chart-house craft behind them.
Fakemink
Dombresky
French-touch house with a permanent grin — filtered disco loops and rubber-band basslines in the proud national tradition.
Monaleo
Houston rap firecracker — funny, ferocious, and hometown-proud, with punchlines that hit like haymakers and Houston pride in every ad-lib.
Adéla
Riordan
Wunderhorse
Raw-nerve UK rock — Cobain-worn songwriting building a serious cult, intensity that reads as truth, a band critics keep underestimating upward.
Amber Mark
Globe-trotting soul-pop — a rich, agile voice over self-produced grooves, folding the percussion and texture of everywhere she's lived into modern R&B.
Westend
NYC tech house — punchy, playful peak-time tools with remix-radar ubiquity, reliability with personality.
Destin Conrad
Velvet-toned R&B intimacy from the Kehlani school — plush late-night vocals with an internet-native fanbase that sings every ad-lib.
INJI
LSE-grad-turned-dance-pop-star — chatty, clever club-pop that sounds like a group chat set to four-on-the-floor, wit-first songs with genuine club instincts.
Waylon Wyatt
Teenage Arkansas country prodigy — porch-honest writing in the Zach Bryan lineage, wise beyond the birth certificate.
Water From Your Eyes
Deadpan Brooklyn experimentalism — Matador-signed art-rock puzzles that groove, absurdist and airtight at once, strangeness with a beat you can trust.
Los Retros
Oxnard bedroom balladry — '70s soft-soul romance on vintage keys, one-man-band craft with a crooner's patience.
Vandelux
Moody melodic electronic with live-instrument warmth — Vancouver atmosphere in the ODESZA lineage, drops that glow rather than strike.
New Constellations
Cruz Beckham and the Breakers
Yes, that Beckham — scrappy young rock band earning its stripes on the small-print circuit, with famous-family curiosity doing the marketing.
The Bends
AFTER
Whatmore
Porch Light
Easy Honey
Jackie Hollander
Stella Lefty
Justine Skye
Brooklyn R&B veteran of the purple-haired era, sharper than ever — sleek vocals with a decade of industry survival behind them.
Will Swinton
Sunshine
Case Oats
Chicago alt-country charmers — loose, warm, and unhurried, twang-flecked songs with a next-door intimacy, porch-light music in city clothes.
Surfing For Daisy
Snacktime
Philly street-corner brass-funk party — impossible not to dance, a second line that took over the city.
