Rock bands

We track 390 Rock bands. 175 are booked at festivals still to come, most at Sonic Temple and Welcome to Rockville. 188 have tour dates on sale, 1794 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

188 Rock bands with dates on sale, soonest first. From Ticketmaster, refreshed daily.

Playing festivals next

Every festival still to come with Rock bands on the bill, soonest first. The Rock 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. 1Twenty One Pilots8Genre-agnostic arena duo (rap, ukulele, and existential dread) with a devoted Clique and lore deep enough for a wiki.
  2. 2Jelly Roll6Nashville's redemption story: rap-sheet honesty turned into tent-revival country-rock that fills stadiums with people who needed the message.
  3. 3blink-1825San Diego County pop punk, three chords fast and a dick joke between songs, with Travis Barker's drumming doing far more than the format requires.
  4. 4Muse5Paranoid space-opera rock at maximum scale, with riffs, falsetto and conspiracy concept albums built for the biggest possible stage.
  5. 5Brandi Carlile4Americana's reigning voice, with eleven Grammys of thunder and grace and a catalog that moves from whisper to belt like weather changing.
  6. 6Kings of Leon3Nashville's Followill family band, from the raw Southern garage rock of Youth & Young Manhood to the arena-sized 'Sex on Fire' and 'Use Somebody'. Ten albums in and still a brothers' operation.
  7. 7The String Cheese Incident3Colorado jam band with bluegrass roots stretched through funk, calypso and full-blown electronica, and costumes strongly encouraged.
  8. 8Angine de Poitrine2Masked Saguenay duo who loop double-necked microtonal guitar into hypnotic, odd-metred math rock, 2026's strangest breakout story.
  9. 9Dave Matthews Band2Violin, saxophone, and Matthews's rhythmic yelp make this a jam institution whose setlists still never repeat, and whose players still surprise each other nightly.
  10. 10Guns N' Roses2The classic-lineup reunion long outlasted anyone's expectations, and the three-hour sets still get through most of the canon, Slash solos and all.

Most places played

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

  1. 1Angine de Poitrine15Masked Saguenay duo who loop double-necked microtonal guitar into hypnotic, odd-metred math rock, 2026's strangest breakout story.
  2. 2Die Spitz12Austin's instrument-swapping all-women punk-metal wrecking crew, where everyone plays everything and it all lands at full force.
  3. 3The Beaches12Toronto's gang-of-girlfriends rock band, with 'Blame Brett' and unstoppable momentum, breakup revenge served with a smirk.
  4. 4The Warning8Three sisters from Monterrey out-rocking everyone, Mexico's hard-rock pride, a family band that grew into arena-grade virtuosity.
  5. 5Twenty One Pilots8Genre-agnostic arena duo (rap, ukulele, and existential dread) with a devoted Clique and lore deep enough for a wiki.
  6. 6Villanelle7London grunge trio playing loud, full-throttle guitar songs in the Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins mould, sung with a dry, sardonic British edge.
  7. 7Sleep Theory6New-generation alt-metal built on a soulful clean vocal and a very modern low end, and the format's next arena act in waiting.
  8. 8The Pretty Reckless6Taylor Momsen's grunge-blooded hard rock is smoky, heavy, and chart-topping, with more rock-radio #1s than most legacy acts.
  9. 9Wunderhorse6Raw-nerve UK rock, with Cobain-worn songwriting building a serious cult, intensity that reads as truth, a band critics keep underestimating upward.
  10. 10Brandi Carlile5Americana's reigning voice, with eleven Grammys of thunder and grace and a catalog that moves from whisper to belt like weather changing.

Most favorited by readers

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

  1. 1blink-182San Diego County pop punk, three chords fast and a dick joke between songs, with Travis Barker's drumming doing far more than the format requires.
  2. 2The MenzingersScranton punk band writing about getting older badly: old apartments, old friends, drinking. Choruses designed to be shouted back.
  3. 3Twenty One PilotsGenre-agnostic arena duo (rap, ukulele, and existential dread) with a devoted Clique and lore deep enough for a wiki.
  4. 4Bruce SpringsteenNew Jersey songwriter of working-life epics, backed by the E Street Band across shows that run three hours and change setlist nightly.
  5. 5Fiona ApplePiano-driven songwriting built on percussion, scraped vocals and lines that land like accusations. Records arrive years apart and sound like nothing else out that year.
  6. 6The BeatlesLiverpool four-piece who went from Hamburg club residencies to studio-only psychedelia in seven years, and broke up in 1970.
  7. 7U2Four Dubliners who have been playing together since school, built on The Edge's delay-soaked guitar and Bono's arms-wide delivery. Stadium scale since the mid-eighties.
  8. 8Bob DylanSix decades of touring and a habit of rearranging his own songs until the audience only recognises them a verse in. Now mostly behind the piano.
  9. 9Dave Matthews BandViolin, saxophone, and Matthews's rhythmic yelp make this a jam institution whose setlists still never repeat, and whose players still surprise each other nightly.
  10. 10John MayerPop songwriter and serious blues guitarist, from 'Gravity' and the Continuum era to long-form jamming with Dead & Company. Radio hooks with extended solos to match.

Most saved to a plan

The Rock bands people are building a Saturday around.

  1. 1Twenty One PilotsGenre-agnostic arena duo (rap, ukulele, and existential dread) with a devoted Clique and lore deep enough for a wiki.
  2. 2Dave Matthews BandViolin, saxophone, and Matthews's rhythmic yelp make this a jam institution whose setlists still never repeat, and whose players still surprise each other nightly.
  3. 3ISTABrooklyn collective throwing a cosmic dance party with garage grit, fuzzed-out disco shimmer, and deep-groove psychedelia from a many-limbed live band.
  4. 4Jet'Are You Gonna Be My Girl' and Aussie garage swagger, reunited, with enough riff-rock singles to keep the tank full.
  5. 5GuavatronFlorida jam quartet leaning into the psychedelic, synth-heavy end of the improvisational spectrum, with space-funk explorations and dancefloor drive.
  6. 6My Morning JacketJim James's reverb-drenched howl over southern rock that keeps drifting into something cosmic and unhurried, with jam-scene trust earned two hours at a time.
  7. 7Angine de PoitrineMasked Saguenay duo who loop double-necked microtonal guitar into hypnotic, odd-metred math rock, 2026's strangest breakout story.
  8. 8Counting CrowsAdam Duritz rewriting his own lyrics live every night means the songs never quite settle into their recorded shape, which is exactly the appeal three decades in.
  9. 9CVCChurch Village Collective (Welsh good-time rock with '70s harmonies, guitar-solo swagger, and a bar-band looseness played at festival scale).
  10. 10EggyYounger-generation jam band with real songcraft under the improvisation: melodic, patient jams that reward staying for the full set.

All 390 Rock bands

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

Angine de PoitrineDie SpitzThe BeachesVillanelleThe WarningTwenty One PilotsCardinalsSouth ArcadeWunderhorseClutchJelly RollPoppySleep TheoryThe Pretty Recklessblink-182Brandi CarlileCirca SurviveCoheed and CambriaMuseThe War on Drugs

Alabama ShakesBushCongress the BandDrowning PoolEscape The FateHalestormHARDYI See StarsJetMarilyn MansonRain City DriveS.G. GoodmanThe Marcus King BandThe Red Clay StraysThe Word AliveThousand BelowAlice In ChainsAll Them WitchesAllah-LasAmira ElfekyBig GiganticBreaking BenjaminBrothers OsborneBuckcherryCatch Your BreathCruz Beckham and the BreakersDaniel Donato's Cosmic CountryDeine CousineDirty HoneyDrop Dead, GorgeousEggyHail The SunHouse of ProtectionJack WhiteKings of LeonLeftover SalmonMy Morning JacketNickelbackPalaye RoyalePowerman 5000Primer 55Sawyer HillSlash feat. Myles Kennedy & The ConspiratorsSnotSoilSteel PantherStory of the YearThe AtarisThe String Cheese IncidentTom MorelloTX2Ty SegallZakk Sabbath

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Other genres

EDM 529Indie 496Alternative 453Pop 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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