The NZ art-pop auteur — brooding, minimal, and generation-defining, back on a headline stage where the whispered verses hit hardest.
From Auckland, NZ · Sounds like Caroline Polachek, Robyn, Charli xcx, Phoebe Bridgers
Montreal's biggest weekend — three days of island stages on Parc Jean-Drapeau with the skyline across the Saint Lawrence.

Osheaga is Canada's biggest festival weekend and still one of the best-situated on earth: three days on Parc Jean-Drapeau's island stages, with the Saint Lawrence on every side and Montreal's skyline across the water. The 2026 edition — the festival's 19th — runs 89 acts deep, with Twenty One Pilots, Tate McRae, and Lorde up top and a bill that mirrors the city itself: anglo indie rock and UK post-punk, francophone pop and pan-African club nights, techno tents and Cree folk-pop. Come for the headliners, stay for the metro ride home with ten thousand new friends.
Expect indie rock, hip-hop, house and pop across 89 acts.
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The NZ art-pop auteur — brooding, minimal, and generation-defining, back on a headline stage where the whispered verses hit hardest.
From Auckland, NZ · Sounds like Caroline Polachek, Robyn, Charli xcx, Phoebe Bridgers
Dancer-first pop stardom — precision choreography and inescapable hooks, delivered at full sprint with a dance captain's discipline.
From Calgary, AB · Sounds like Ariana Grande, Sabrina Carpenter
Genre-agnostic arena duo — rap, ukulele, and existential dread with a devoted Clique, lore deep enough for a wiki.
From Columbus, OH · Sounds like Grandson, AJR, Panic! at the Disco, Waterparks
West London grime star gone festival-sized — melodic flexes, 'Ladbroke Grove' garage bounce, and a UK-rap versatility that moves between road and radio without strain.
From London, UK · Sounds like Stormzy, Dave, Skepta, Aitch
Belgium's techno figurehead — relentless, hypnotic peak-time sets that carried her from Antwerp warehouses to the genre's biggest global stages.
From Antwerp, BE · Sounds like Charlotte de Witte, Adam Beyer, Nina Kraviz, I Hate Models
London's elusive trio — murmured vocals and tangled guitars that made Matador come calling, with a mystique maintained by saying almost nothing in public.
From London, UK · Sounds like Sonic Youth, Deerhunter, The Velvet Underground, Yo La Tengo
Dev Hynes's velvety art-R&B — '80s soul textures, jazz chords, and quiet heartbreak from one of pop's most sought-after collaborators.
From London / NYC · Sounds like Solange, Frank Ocean, Toro y Moi, Sampha
Canadian duo blurring house music and moody guitar-band songwriting — church-dark grooves played live, splitting the difference between a DJ set and a rock show.
From Vancouver, BC · Sounds like ODESZA, RÜFÜS DU SOL, Lane 8, Disclosure
Pusha T and Malice, reunited — coke-rap scripture over pristine beats, one of rap's great comebacks and a masterclass in brotherly chemistry.
From Virginia Beach, VA · Sounds like Pusha T, Westside Gunn, Roc Marciano, Killer Mike
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.
From Dublin, IE · Sounds like Self Esteem, Kacey Musgraves
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.
From Sydney, AU · Sounds like MGMT, Cut Copy, Tame Impala
Yes, that Finn Wolfhard — scrappy, sincere indie rock beyond the Stranger Things shadow, garage-band instincts played without celebrity gloss.
From Vancouver, BC · Sounds like Car Seat Headrest, Wallows
Glasgow's art-school dance-punks — 'Take Me Out' still detonates a field two decades on, and the deep cuts still make people dance.
From Glasgow, UK · Sounds like Kaiser Chiefs, Bloc Party, The Killers, Interpol
Unhinged Brooklyn art-rock — yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever.
From Brooklyn, NY · Sounds like Black Midi, Parquet Courts, King Krule, The Rolling Stones
Atlanta's melodic-trap stylist — liquid flows and designer-drip anthems, delivered with barely a raised pulse and total control.
From Atlanta, GA · Sounds like Young Thug, Lil Baby, Future, Lil Uzi Vert
Dreamville's technician — one of rap's most gymnastic voices, devastating live, syllables stacked like a man showing off because he can.
From Atlanta, GA · Sounds like J. Cole, Kendrick Lamar, Denzel Curry, Cordae
One of rap's sharpest pens, full stop — orchestral ambition and North London grit, 'Sometimes I Might Be Introvert' the modern benchmark.
From London, UK · Sounds like Kendrick Lamar, Dave, Noname
Diplo's dancehall-electronic party machine — pure festival serotonin, 'Lean On' and a dozen more global smashes in one set.
From Los Angeles, CA · Sounds like Diplo, Skrillex
Vancouver's TikTok-resurrected art-rockers — quirky harmonies and a huge devoted crowd, a back catalog rediscovered by a generation that made it theirs.
From Vancouver, BC · Sounds like Cage the Elephant, Glass Animals
Philly folk-rockers grown into amphitheater singalongs — warm, road-tested, communal, with 'Silver Lining' as the nightly high-water mark.
From Philadelphia, PA · Sounds like The Lumineers, Caamp, The Head and the Heart
Iceland's stomp-and-holler exports — 'Little Talks' and a decade of widescreen indie-pop, hey!-shouts included, Icelandic warmth at singalong scale.
From Reykjavík, IS · Sounds like Mumford & Sons, The Lumineers, Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros, Florence + The Machine
Mythic, incantatory folk-pop — 'Labour' made her the internet's feminist bard, and the deeper catalog keeps the incantation going.
From Derbyshire, UK · Sounds like Florence + the Machine, Hozier
UK dance-pop craftsman — glossy, feel-everything disco-house built for golden hour, collaborator to half of pop's A-list.
From Reading, UK · Sounds like Disclosure, Purple Disco Machine, Duke Dumont, Jungle
Moody, reverb-soaked alt-pop from a Manhattan teenager who went from bedroom demos to festival bills — heartbreak at streaming scale.
From New York, NY · Sounds like The Neighbourhood, Conan Gray
Riddim-dubstep heavyweight — appearing in the GRIZTRONICS b2b with GRiZ, an hour of pure bass warfare with a funk streak.
From Philadelphia, PA · Sounds like Excision, Zeds Dead, Ganja White Night, GRiZ
Monochrome California moodiness — 'Sweater Weather' and a decade of slow-burn alt-pop, reunited for a generation that streamed them into legend.
From Newbury Park, CA · Sounds like Arctic Monkeys, LANY
Whispered minimalism that somehow fills a festival field — intimacy at headline scale, 'Intro' still raising arm hair.
From London, UK · Sounds like Beach House, Rhye, London Grammar, James Blake
Hardcore's joyful crossover kings — dreamy interludes, stage dives, total communion, and a crowd that moves as one.
From Baltimore, MD · Sounds like Scowl, Militarie Gun, Trapped Under Ice, Fugazi
Sweaty, saxophone-wielding Swedish post-punk satire — one of the best live bands on earth right now, 'Sports' shouted by thousands.
From Stockholm, SE · Sounds like IDLES, Fontaines D.C., The Fall
Deadpan, hook-loaded post-punk — the Isle of Wight duo grown into a full-blast rock band, 'Chaise Longue' just the opening joke.
From Isle of Wight, UK · Sounds like Dry Cleaning, Franz Ferdinand, Sleater-Kinney
Mercury-winning UK alt-rock — from whispered folk to full-throated fuzz in one set, Ellie Rowsell commanding every register.
From London, UK · Sounds like Foals, Florence + the Machine
Montreal indie rock institution — jittery, anthemic songs from two of Canada's best songwriters, home-field advantage included and audible.
From Montreal, QC · Sounds like Arcade Fire, Modest Mouse, Spoon
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.
From Tokyo, JP · Sounds like Ado, Kenshi Yonezu
Swedish pop machinery at its shiniest — 'Lush Life' to main-character bangers, delivered with total command.
From Stockholm, SE · Sounds like Dua Lipa, Tove Lo, Rina Sawayama, Anne-Marie

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.
From New York, NY · Sounds like Jorja Smith, Mahalia
Irish folk trio — hushed three-part harmonies and homesick story-songs that have been quietly filling rooms far bigger than anyone expected.
From Ireland · Sounds like Hozier, Dermot Kennedy, Noah Kahan
Toronto's teenage alt-pop riser — bedroom-written songs with pop-punk teeth and a diarist's eye for adolescent detail.
From Toronto, ON · Sounds like Olivia Rodrigo, Gracie Abrams, Girl in Red, Renee Rapp
Toronto's genre-splicing club force — dancehall, jungle, and R&B collide in her JELLY parties and productions, remapping the dancefloor around diasporic bass.
From Toronto, ON
Sibling duo making fuzzy, playful alt-pop with internet-era intimacy — lo-fi textures and hooks that sound DM'd directly to you.
From Los Angeles, CA · Sounds like BENEE, Wallows
Hushed English folk with a river-water voice — quietly one of the best writers of her generation, turning small domestic details into devastating songs.
From Ripon, UK · Sounds like Laura Marling, Lizzy McAlpine
Berlin's gabber-punk duo — screamed German vocals over pummeling club tempos, equal parts rave, hardcore show, and performance-art provocation.
From Berlin, DE · Sounds like Sara Landry, I Hate Models, Boys Noize

Genre-smashing Melbourne punk-rap — riffs, bars, and zero regard for lanes, delivered with a hardcore band's physicality.
From Melbourne, AU · Sounds like Nova Twins, Ho99o9, Amyl and The Sniffers, Rico Nasty
Hannah Judge's bedroom-built indie rock — wry, fuzzed-out, and quietly anxious, small songs with hooks that refuse to leave.
From Ottawa, ON · Sounds like Alvvays, Snail Mail, Sidney Gish
Montreal soul voice — intimate, bilingual R&B delivered with jazz-club poise and late-night restraint, songs that hush a room into leaning closer.
From Montreal, QC
Berlin's masked 'farmcore' phenomenon — giddy barnyard-trance house played dead serious, 'My Barn My Rules' as manifesto.
From Berlin, DE · Sounds like Sarah Bonito, Kim Petras, A. G. Cook, Marlon Hoffstadt
Feel-good house edits gone huge — crowd-pleasing flips built for hands-up moments, a set with zero pretension and full commitment.
From United States · Sounds like Disco Lines, John Summit
South London genre-blur — drill, indie, and R&B folded into diaristic collage, homemade and heartsore in equal measure.
From London, UK · Sounds like Wesley Joseph, Dijon, Berwyn, Jean Dawson
Irish rave-house heat — big-room energy with underground credentials, breakbeats and pianos at full sprint, Galway-to-warehouse momentum fully underway.
From Galway, IE · Sounds like Skin on Skin, Mall Grab, Sammy Virji, Cloonee
Anthemic Irish folk-rock — banjo-driven singalongs built for fields, Limerick lads on a steep national rise.
From Limerick, IE · Sounds like Mumford & Sons, Noah Kahan

Funk-flecked Gen-Z bedroom pop — 'Chest Pain (I Love)' and a fast-rising live rep, Steve Lacy instincts with his own snap.
From Los Angeles, CA · Sounds like Steve Lacy, Dominic Fike
Oregon folk-country riser — earnest, streaming-era troubadour with a fanbase that found him one chorus at a time.
From Bend, OR · Sounds like Zach Bryan, Noah Kahan
Filipino-Canadian pop craftsman — hooks first, feelings close behind, Toronto polish on diary-page pop, earworms with genuine warmth underneath.
From Toronto, ON
Montreal's roving SMS-only party turned collective — pan-African club sounds, moonlit, a whole scene distilled into one set.
From Montreal, QC

UK garage revival heat — skippy drums and low-end pressure, two-step engineered for the new generation of dancefloors.
From UK · Sounds like Sammy Virji, Interplanetary Criminal

Anonymous collective making orchestral hip-hop spectacle — the mystery is the point, and the strings are real.
Australian house heater — half of the HYPERBEAM b2b with OMNOM, flip-happy edits with festival-scale bounce.
From Brisbane, AU · Sounds like OMNOM, John Summit
Gossamer French avant-pop — choral synths and whispered melody, songs that feel lit by candles and screens at once.
From Paris, FR · Sounds like Caroline Polachek, A. G. Cook, Erika de Casier, Sega Bodega

French techno veteran — acid-flecked grooves from a free-party lifer, rave roots audible in every squelch.
From Paris, FR · Sounds like Adam Beyer, Chris Liebing, Carl Cox, Charlotte de Witte
Hazy California duo — beachside indie-soul.
Viral dark art-pop — spoken-word menace over strings, Gen Z's gothic conscience with a scalpel for a pen.
From Los Angeles, CA · Sounds like Ethel Cain, Chelsea Wolfe, Lana Del Rey, Billie Eilish
French techno on the big-room end — driving, melodic, precise, engineered for the main-stage laser budget.
From France · Sounds like Charlotte de Witte, Adam Beyer, Reinier Zonneveld
Perth indie-rock with aching hooks — Australia's biggest new guitar band, 'Booster Seat' devotion at full volume.
From Perth, AU · Sounds like Hippo Campus, Vance Joy
Montreal's sunniest synth-pop — francophone disco warmth from Jules Henry's beach-party project, SPF-rated grooves, Montreal summer bottled.
From Montreal, QC
Cree and Salish singer weaving Indigenous roots into warm folk-pop and R&B — powwow-honed vocals in a new frame.
From Saddle Lake Cree Nation, AB
The drag superstar behind the decks — camp, pop edits, and pure joy, with folk-album credentials in the back pocket.
From Milwaukee, WI
Toronto pop-rock quartet — glossy, sentimental, and huge with the TikTok-indie crowd, harmonies engineered for the closing montage.
From Toronto, ON · Sounds like The Band CAMINO, COIN, LANY, Hippo Campus
Moody melodic electronic with live-instrument warmth — Vancouver atmosphere in the ODESZA lineage, drops that glow rather than strike.
From Vancouver, BC · Sounds like ODESZA, Flume
Montreal rapper repping the city's anglo hip-hop underground — homegrown bars from the 514, scene-carrying energy included.
From Montreal, QC
Québec's franco-pop charmer — playful, synth-kissed chanson for the home crowd, delivered with a wink, francophone pop's brightest grin.
From Montreal, QC
Polish techno provocateur — fast, hard, and gleefully irreverent, rave intensity with an internet-native sense of humor.
From Warsaw, PL · Sounds like I Hate Models, Charlotte de Witte, SPFDJ, Nina Kraviz
Raw-nerve UK rock — Cobain-worn songwriting building a serious cult, intensity that reads as truth, a band critics keep underestimating upward.
From London, UK · Sounds like Fontaines D.C., Sam Fender, Nirvana, The Murder Capital
July 31 – August 2, 2026 — Friday through Sunday.
Parc Jean-Drapeau on Montreal's Île Sainte-Hélène — a quick ride from downtown on the metro's yellow line.
Twenty One Pilots (Friday), Tate McRae (Saturday), and Lorde (Sunday).
89 acts across three days and multiple island stages.
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