Hardcore's joyful crossover kings, with dreamy interludes, stage dives, total communion, and a crowd that moves as one.
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Two October weekends in Zilker Park for ACL's 25th anniversary: most of the lineup plays both, weekend-only sets are marked.
Austin City Limits is expected back October 2027 (dates aren't announced yet). Until then, here's the full 2026 lineup and the acts you would have loved.
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Austin City Limits turns 25 in 2026, and the format that made it famous is intact: two October weekends in Zilker Park with the Austin skyline across the water, most of the lineup playing both weekends, and a bill that runs from pop's biggest names to the songwriter circuit the city is built on. The 128-act lineup leans wide rather than niche: Charli xcx and Lorde next to Kings of Leon and Twenty One Pilots, a heavyweight dance undercard, and a Texas streak that keeps Zilker feeling like Austin instead of Anywhere Festival, USA. Weekend-only acts are marked throughout this page, so double-check before you buy the other weekend's wristband for one set. Set times landed on August 17 across seven stages, and both weekends are on this page: an act booked twice is listed under each of its days, with that day's own stage and hour.
Expect pop, alternative, indie rock and alt-pop across 128 acts.
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Hardcore's joyful crossover kings, with dreamy interludes, stage dives, total communion, and a crowd that moves as one.
HardcoreAlt
Bass music's shape-shifting elder, from brostep infamy to festival-set transcendence, with reinvention as a permanent state.
BassElectronic
Pop's reigning vanguardist and the brat era's architect, bringing club-pop chaos to the main stage as a decade of underground experiments finally cashes out at scale.
PopHyperpop
Puerto Rico's coolest export: playful, effortlessly viral reggaeton delivered with a skater's shrug and charisma that needs no translation.
ReggaetonLatin trap
'Messy' made her unavoidable, with raw South London soul-pop, a busted-heart snarl and a voice that earns the Winehouse comparisons.
Alt-popSoul
The NZ art-pop auteur is brooding, minimal, and generation-defining, back on a headline stage where the whispered verses hit hardest.
Art-pop
Emotional stadium-scale melodic house, sunset-slot perfection from the Australian trio, with 'Innerbloom' as the communal cry.
Melodic houseElectronic
Unhinged Brooklyn art-rock that is yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever.
Indie rockArt-rock
Jungle-pop party duo with bilingual bangers and permanent grins, 'Purple Hat' chaos with actual guitar chops.
Dance-pop
Genre-agnostic arena duo (rap, ukulele, and existential dread) with a devoted Clique and lore deep enough for a wiki.
Alt-popRock
Whispered minimalism that somehow fills a festival field, with intimacy at headline scale and 'Intro' still raising arm hair.
Indie electronicMinimal pop
Tennessee arena-rock dynasty: 'Sex on Fire' still combusts on cue, with a garage-era back catalog for the faithful.
Rock
Mythic, incantatory folk-pop: 'Labour' made her the internet's feminist bard, and the deeper catalog keeps the incantation going.
Dark folk-pop
The internet's protest-folk bard writes a new topical song every week, with Dylan-grade wit aimed at whatever the news cycle just did.
FolkProtest
Amy Taylor might be the best frontperson alive right now. Aussie pub-punk voltage, all sprint and snarl, from a band that treats every stage like a title fight.
PunkPub-rock
The Killers' frontman stepping out solo with heartland-leaning synth-rock from one of the great arena voices of his generation.
Alternative
Banjo-house crossover with folk samples and organic textures and festival-sized drops, stomping the line between hoedown and main stage.
FolktronicaDance
The Euphoria score come to life: falsetto gospel-pop maximalism and orchestral drama built by one of pop's most in-demand studio minds.
Alt-popOrchestral
Cake-throwing EDM showman, pure crowd-service spectacle with two decades of Dim Mak hustle behind the confetti.
EDM
'Mutt' made him R&B's breakout craftsman, with a producer-writer's touch and a showman's voice, years of behind-the-scenes credits finally center stage.
R&B
EDM-pop juggernauts: the closers everyone knows every word to, 'Closer' included, obviously, a hits run that never left the radio.
EDM-pop
Hazy, vintage-toned dream-pop: cinematic sad-girl songs with a wink, screen-star mystique earning its music credentials.
Dream-pop
Jack Antonoff's sax-blasting Jersey heart: every set a Springsteen homage with confetti, played by pop's busiest producer like it's the only band that matters.
Pop-rock
Trio riding the new melodic-bass wave: riddim with feelings, drops that aim at the chest and the heart at once.
BassElectronic
Swedish heartbreak in slow motion, from 'I Follow Rivers' to sadcore chanteuse, a decade-plus of gorgeous ache.
Dream-popElectro-pop
Oregon folk-country riser, an earnest, streaming-era troubadour with a fanbase that found him one chorus at a time.
Country-folk
Dreamy LA synth-pop with velvet vocals gliding over neon retro-wave grooves, 'Fire for You' the breakout.
Alternative
Daft Punk-approved Aussie disco with immaculate grooves, live-band tightness, five-part harmonies over four-on-the-floor, played tight enough to pass a studio audit.
Disco-funkPop
Dev Hynes's velvety art-R&B, with '80s soul textures, jazz chords, and quiet heartbreak from one of pop's most sought-after collaborators.
art-R&BIndie soul
Motorik heartland rock: Springsteen refracted through a synth haze, transcendent live, 'Under the Pressure' as the long exhale.
Heartland rockIndie
Orlando songwriter whose breathless, repetition-heavy hook on 'iloveitiloveitiloveit' made it a Billboard Hot 100 hit and a UK number two.
Alternative
Smoky-voiced UK balladeer with big-room soul at 19, torch songs with an old head's control.
Pop
Throwing Copper made them inescapable in 1994 and the songs never really left. Ed Kowalczyk's clenched, searching delivery rides over guitar figures built to fill a field, with 'Lightning Crashes' still the moment a crowd goes quiet.
Alt-rockPost-grunge
Pop
Texas western-swing institution with more than fifty years keeping Bob Wills's songbook alive through Grammy-stacked musicianship; a Zilker rite.
Western swing
Bratty queercore bubblegum-punk: trashy, campy, joyous, a glitter-smeared garage party.
Garage punkQueercore
Pop
Moroccan-Canadian vocal powerhouse with dramatic, belt-heavy pop and runs that stop scrollers mid-thumb, technique that turns ballads into main events.
Pop
South Austin songwriter trading in what he calls indie rock lullabies: atmospheric guitar, quiet-to-loud builds, and a voice that stays conversational through all of it.
Indie rockIndie folk
Rock
Harlem blues guitar prodigy with big-band chops and old-school warmth, a young player with a veteran's poise.
Blues
Pop
Irish country-pop with a wicked sense of humor and a bigger voice, and a riotous live show that swings from comedy to gut-punch inside one chorus.
Alt-country-pop
Singer/songwriter
Pop
'Lost on You' has that whistle and that voice, a global word-of-mouth phenomenon with a rock lifer's catalog behind it.
Alt-popRock
Redlands, California singer and multi-instrumentalist folding psychedelic textures, R&B and jazz-leaning guitar into soulful indie rock.
Alternative
'Friday' survivor turned genuinely credible hyperpop artist, in a reinvention the internet actually respects.
Pop

Rock
Madrid's blissed-out bedroom-pop futurist, Spain's new wave in full flight, with autotune used like watercolor and bedroom experiments gone continental.
Alt-popHyperpop
New age

Loud, cathartic fuzz-pop: diaristic verses that detonate into grunge-sized choruses built for shouting along, live-wire energy that made her a word-of-mouth favorite.
Indie rockFuzz-pop

Singer/songwriter
Los Angeles indie-rock trio fronted by Eytan Peled, whose 2026 single 'Self Aware' was their breakout.
Indie rock
UK-garage-inflected R&B with Kaytranada's favorite-vocalist energy and silk delivery over broken beats.
alt-R&BDance
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.
Alt-popFunk-pop
Sydney soul singer trading in sunlit, unhurried grooves his manager dubbed coastal soul. Debut album 'Give Me All Your Love' cracked the ARIA top 25 in 2025.
SoulIndie
Yes, that Finn Wolfhard. Scrappy, sincere indie rock beyond the Stranger Things shadow, garage-band instincts played without celebrity gloss.
Indie rock
Dallas collective folding soul, jazz and live-band looseness into their hip-hop, with group chemistry built for a stage rather than a studio.
Hip-hop
Attic-band indie rock with barefoot summer energy, loose, breezy Long Island guitar songs that built a word-of-mouth following from DIY beginnings.
Indie rock

Country
UK breakout with a smoky retro-soul voice and diaristic pop instincts, bringing old-soul phrasing to new-school subjects.
Pop-soul
Gauzy London dream-pop: midnight-drive music, synths blurred to streetlight smears, soft-focus songs that glow in the dark.
Dream-pop
Two acoustic guitars, metal souls: percussion, shred, and joy, thrash riffs reborn as flamenco fireworks.
AcousticFlamenco-metal
Alternative
Aching London indie, reverb-soaked and devotional, with falsetto choruses for closed eyes.
Indie rock
Feel-good house edits gone huge, with crowd-pleasing flips built for hands-up moments and a set of zero pretension and full commitment.
House
'Calico' proved him one of pop's finest quiet craftsmen: BROCKHAMPTON's secret melodist gone pastoral, all pedal steel and patience.
Indie popSinger-songwriter
Osaka-born cult selector Yousuke Yukimatsu (genre-shredding DJ sets that went from viral clips to worldwide bookings) brings anything-goes technique with total joy.
TechnoDJ set
Lo-fi electroclash duo with distorted synths and detached vocals for the afterparty, Detroit cool for the post-everything generation.
ElectroclashHyperpop

Praise & worship

Alternative
Rock
Singer/songwriter
Alternative
Pop
West Texas country-folk with a novelist's eye. Time Ain't Accidental turned a breakup into wide-open desert songs, and Plains put her harmonies next to Waxahatchee's.
AmericanaCountry
Gauzy, nostalgic dream-rock that is exactly what the name promises: Mazzy Star haze for a new decade.
Dream-rock
Self-described "western space grunge" with heavy alt-rock riffs colliding with red-dirt country swagger, breaking out off the viral hit Sad in Carolina.
Alt-rockCountry-grunge
Los Angeles songwriter pairing pop hooks with country storytelling, whose breakout 'Boston' spread from TikTok to the Billboard Hot 100.
Singer/songwriter

Americana
Soulful singer-songwriter riser.
Pop
Breezy bedroom-pop hooks from the 'Backyard Boy' breakout, all grown up, with TikTok-era beginnings matured into proper songcraft.
Bedroom pop
Nashville pop-country charmer with big-tent warmth, Orville Peck-adjacent glamour and a showman's polish.
Country
Bay Area hyperpop auteur: glitchy, hooky, scene-defining, 'Wallsocket' worldbuilding included.
HyperpopAlt
Wry, conversational pop songwriting from Gracie Abrams's longtime collaborator turned solo act, with diaristic detail delivered with sharp comic timing.
PopSinger-songwriter
Hazy California duo (beachside indie-soul).
Alternative
Brassy, retro-cinematic indie pop where 'My Type' still swings, with a horn section and a matinee-idol grin.
Indie pop
Confident, queer-forward pop with a party streak, plus Kesha-school hooks and swagger.
Pop
Percussive art-pop with attitude to burn, where whip-crack delivery meets choreography-grade live command, Tel Aviv beats with global swagger.
Alt-popElectronic
NYC's buzziest indie-dance trio, with baggy house grooves and downtown cool, like Madchester relocated to a Chinatown basement.
Dance
Dance
Folk
Pompadoured Chicago romantics with a Roy Orbison croon over Smiths jangle, retro-pop drama sung completely straight.
Indie rockRetro-pop
Hip-hop
Melbourne post-punks who are wiry, literate, buzzing, in the great Australian art-school tradition, sharp songs delivered with nervous energy.
Post-punk
American Idol alum with an ethereal, aching voice, and hushed, cinematic singer-songwriter material.
Singer/songwriter

Psychedelic
Kentucky drawl, punk heart: swampy Southern storytelling with teeth, farm-town detail and DIY conviction.
Southern rockFolk
R&B/soul

Folk-rock
'Unwritten' is having its renaissance: feel the rain on your skin, ironically then sincerely.
Pop

Singer/songwriter


Alternative

Folk
R&B/soul
Brothers making breezy, jazz-flecked bedroom pop with soft chords, shuffling drums, and a sun-warmed melancholy built for golden hour.
Dance

Alternative
Latin
Wry, glossy indie-pop from 2026's buzziest new writer-performer, with hooks polished enough for radio and lyrics sharp enough to sting.
Indie pop
Louisville R&B with hushed, heartfelt writing, bringing Summer Walker-school intimacy with a gospel undertow.
R&B/soul
Austin's HBCU jazz ensemble bringing student big-band firepower to the festival stage.
Newcastle, Australia group dealing in loose, sun-warmed guitar pop, with jangling hooks and easy harmonies and a coastal looseness to them.
Alternative
TikTok-launched pop balladeer with big feelings and bigger streaming numbers.
Pop

Tender queer folk-pop storytelling: hushed, confessional songs that turn small intimacies into gut-punches.
Folk-pop

R&B/soul
Moody LA pop with model-off-duty cool, and smoky low-register vocals over sleek late-night production.
Pop
Alternative
Hyperspeed UK power-pop with Ramones velocity and Strokes melody, two-minute songs played like the venue is on fire.
Power-pop punk
Scrappy, hook-stuffed bedroom electro-pop with real wit: Brooklyn miniatures that do more in two minutes than most albums manage.
Electro-pop
Pop
'Sedona' and campfire-rock warmth from the Indiana border: loose, nostalgic Americana with harmonies to spare.
AmericanaIndie rock

Oklahoma band pushing Red Dirt songwriting toward heartland rock, with a frontman's plainspoken storytelling carried by a loud, road-tested band.
Country
Both weekends are listed. An act booked on both appears under each of its days (54 of the 128 acts play twice), so a Weekend 2 day is a full day here, not a list of the acts you'd miss on Weekend 1. Fridays and Sundays run to nearly the same clock both weekends, with two moves: on Weekend 2 Faouzia plays American Express at 2:45 rather than Miller Lite at 1:45, and Paris Paloma plays at 5:15 rather than 3:15. The Saturdays differ. Rain delayed the October 3 gates to 2 PM, so that day's afternoon sets start later and run shorter, Night Tapes play BeatBox at 4:25 rather than T-Mobile at 1:00, and the two sets booked before 1 PM came off the schedule; from 5:15 PM on, only BeatBox changed. October 10 keeps the original Saturday clock, with LeTrainiump opening BeatBox at 2:00, Arcy Drive on Miller Lite at 5:15 and Ryan Beatty on BeatBox at 5:30. Acts marked Weekend 1 or Weekend 2 only play that weekend alone.
Charli xcx, Skrillex, Turnstile, Labrinth, The Chainsmokers, Leon Thomas + 24 more
RÜFÜS DU SOL, Lorde, Lola Young, Young Miko, Bleachers, Lykke Li + 23 more
Twenty One Pilots, The xx, Geese, SOFI TUKKER, Parcels, The War on Drugs + 25 more
Charli xcx, Kings of Leon, Turnstile, Labrinth, The Chainsmokers, Leon Thomas + 24 more
RÜFÜS DU SOL, Lorde, Lola Young, Young Miko, Bleachers, Lykke Li + 25 more
Twenty One Pilots, The xx, Geese, SOFI TUKKER, Parcels, The War on Drugs + 25 more
Two weekends: October 2–4 and October 9–11, 2026, for the festival's 25th anniversary.
Zilker Park, Austin, TX (across the river from downtown).
Charli xcx, Lorde, Twenty One Pilots, Kings of Leon, Skrillex, RÜFÜS DU SOL, Turnstile, The xx, Young Miko, Lola Young, Geese, and SOFI TUKKER anchor the two weekends.
128 acts across the two weekends: 53 play both, 37 are Weekend 1 only and 38 are Weekend 2 only.
53 of the 128 acts play both weekends; the other 75 are marked Weekend 1 or Weekend 2 only on this page. Check before choosing your weekend.
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Yes. The full schedule for all seven stages was published on August 17, 2026, and both weekends are on this page. An act playing both is listed under each of its days with that day's own stage and time; four of them move between the weekends.
Austin City Limits is expected back in October 2027; the festival has not announced the 2027 dates yet. The 2026 lineup stays on this page until it does.
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