Indie bands

We track 496 Indie bands. 222 are booked at festivals still to come, most at Primavera Sound and Big Ears. 210 have tour dates on sale, 1682 shows in all.

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Who to know

Ranked by festivals still to come, then tour dates, then every booking we have on record.

On tour now

210 Indie bands with dates on sale, soonest first. From Ticketmaster, refreshed daily.

Playing festivals next

Every festival still to come with Indie bands on the bill, soonest first. The Indie festival guide ranks them by how deep they book.

Most headline slots

The names printed in the biggest type, trusted to send everyone home.

  1. 1Lorde15The NZ art-pop auteur is brooding, minimal, and generation-defining, back on a headline stage where the whispered verses hit hardest.
  2. 2Fontaines D.C.14Dublin's poet-punks grown into arena-scale alt-rock: 'Romance' made them era-defining, swagger and melancholy in equal Irish measure.
  3. 3sombr9Moody, reverb-soaked alt-pop from a Manhattan teenager who went from bedroom demos to festival bills: heartbreak at streaming scale.
  4. 4The Strokes9The band that rebooted New York rock, with a deep catalog of deadpan cool, still untouchable live when the engine catches.
  5. 5Phoebe Bridgers6Los Angeles songwriter with a near-whispered delivery and a gift for the devastating small detail, also a third of boygenius.
  6. 6The Hayley Williams Show6Paramore's singer in her solo work, trading the band's guitar punch for looser, stranger songs built around the same unmistakable voice.
  7. 7The xx6Whispered minimalism that somehow fills a festival field, with intimacy at headline scale and 'Intro' still raising arm hair.
  8. 8Geese5Unhinged Brooklyn art-rock that is yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever.
  9. 9FKA twigs3A dancer first, which shows: her records are built like choreography, all negative space and sudden violence in the low end.
  10. 10Stereolab3Motorik repetition welded to lounge-pop sweetness, with vintage Moog drone, Lætitia Sadier's bilingual cool, and a back catalogue that half of modern indie has quietly been mining for thirty years.

Most places played

Whose year reads like a world tour that happened to be made of festivals.

  1. 1Geese18Unhinged Brooklyn art-rock that is yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever.
  2. 2Fontaines D.C.16Dublin's poet-punks grown into arena-scale alt-rock: 'Romance' made them era-defining, swagger and melancholy in equal Irish measure.
  3. 3sombr16Moody, reverb-soaked alt-pop from a Manhattan teenager who went from bedroom demos to festival bills: heartbreak at streaming scale.
  4. 4Angine de Poitrine15Masked Saguenay duo who loop double-necked microtonal guitar into hypnotic, odd-metred math rock, 2026's strangest breakout story.
  5. 5Lorde15The NZ art-pop auteur is brooding, minimal, and generation-defining, back on a headline stage where the whispered verses hit hardest.
  6. 6The Beaches12Toronto's gang-of-girlfriends rock band, with 'Blame Brett' and unstoppable momentum, breakup revenge served with a smirk.
  7. 7Wet Leg10Deadpan, hook-loaded post-punk: the Isle of Wight duo grown into a full-blast rock band, with 'Chaise Longue' just the opening joke.
  8. 8The Strokes9The band that rebooted New York rock, with a deep catalog of deadpan cool, still untouchable live when the engine catches.
  9. 9After8Los Angeles duo Justine Dorsey and Graham Epstein, making dreamy, Y2K-tinted trip-pop out of breezy synths and hushed vocals.
  10. 10Flipturn8Florida indie rock built for festival fields, with 'August' euphoria, surging choruses, and a live energy that outruns the recordings.

Most favorited by readers

The Indie bands people here actually listen to, booked or not.

  1. 1Fontaines D.C.Dublin's poet-punks grown into arena-scale alt-rock: 'Romance' made them era-defining, swagger and melancholy in equal Irish measure.
  2. 2Phoebe BridgersLos Angeles songwriter with a near-whispered delivery and a gift for the devastating small detail, also a third of boygenius.
  3. 3GeeseUnhinged Brooklyn art-rock that is yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever.
  4. 4Sylvan EssoAmelia Meath's plainspoken hooks over Nick Sanborn's modular synth pulses: Durham electronic pop that clicks in a club and still sings in a field.
  5. 5The StrokesThe band that rebooted New York rock, with a deep catalog of deadpan cool, still untouchable live when the engine catches.
  6. 6Wet LegDeadpan, hook-loaded post-punk: the Isle of Wight duo grown into a full-blast rock band, with 'Chaise Longue' just the opening joke.
  7. 7Big ThiefAdrianne Lenker's trembling songcraft in band form, and the most quietly devastating live act in indie rock.
  8. 8MJ LendermanAsheville guitarist whose deadpan, Crazy Horse-leaning songs about wasted afternoons made Manning Fireworks one of 2024's most loved rock records.
  9. 9The BethsAuckland's harmony-stacked power-pop treasures, with jazz-school chops, huge hearts, and 'Expert in a Dying Field' as proof of mastery.
  10. 10AJRThree brothers building maximalist, theatrical pop out of a bedroom studio, with brass-band drops, confessional lyrics, and a live production that plays like a Broadway show about anxiety.

Most saved to a plan

The Indie bands people are building a Saturday around.

  1. 1GeeseUnhinged Brooklyn art-rock that is yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever.
  2. 2HorsegirlYoung Chicago trio channeling '80s and '90s indie, with deadpan harmonies over jangling guitar pop and Sonic Youth homework turned into something their own.
  3. 3Truth ClubRaleigh's own knotty indie rock, with trembling, wiry guitars and confessional intensity that snaps from whisper to burst, homegrown and critically adored.
  4. 4Cate Le BonWelsh art-pop's crooked genius, with angular, elegant songs bent at fascinating angles, and a home-turf hero on any Welsh bill.
  5. 5Soccer MommyDiaristic indie rock that pairs '90s alt guitar crunch with unguarded, quietly devastating songwriting: Sophie Allison's ache in high fidelity.
  6. 6Third Eye BlindSemi-charmed alt-rock perfection: a greatest-hits set with no skips, doot-doot-doots at maximum participation, Jenkins still selling every word.
  7. 7Cor de LuxOuter Banks post-punk dream-pop with politically charged atmospherics shot through with garage and progressive fury, coastal isolation turned up loud.
  8. 8Dry CleaningDeadpan spoken-word over wiry post-punk: Florence Shaw's found-text poetry is delivered motionless while the band churns behind her.
  9. 9earNew York electronic duo making IDM-inspired collage pop, all buzzing bass, clipped blips and icy, close-miked vocals.
  10. 10King PrincessSwaggering queer pop-rock auteur with torch-song vocals, glam guitar, and arena-sized hooks about messy love, and '1950' is still the calling card.

All 496 Indie bands

Sized by how many of the festivals we track have booked each act.

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Other genres

EDM 529Alternative 453Rock 390Pop 365Punk 317Hip-Hop 309Folk and Americana 287House 267Metal 261Country 252R&B and Soul 226Hardcore 135Techno 134Dubstep and Bass 124Bluegrass 99Latin 96Jazz 76Emo 66Shoegaze and Dream Pop 62Trance 52Psychedelic 47Reggae and Dancehall 37Blues 32Drum & Bass 32Hardstyle and Hard Dance 22

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