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BottleRock 2027 Lineup
Three days of music, wine and food at the Napa Valley Expo. Lineup TBA.
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About BottleRock 2026
BottleRock ran its usual Memorial Day weekend slot at the Napa Valley Expo, with 80 performances across three days. Lorde, Teddy Swims and Lil Wayne led Friday; Foo Fighters, LCD Soundsystem and Zedd took Saturday; Backstreet Boys, sombr and Ludacris closed Sunday.
BottleRock books wider than almost any festival its size, and 2026 was a good example: Chaka Khan, Men at Work, Joan Jett and the Blackhearts, Kool & The Gang and Rev Run of Run-DMC sharing a weekend with sombr, almost monday and Good Neighbours. Rilo Kiley's reunion sat in the middle of it.
The festival's other signature is the Silent Disco, which books names rather than filling a tent with a playlist. DJ Pauly D, Meredith Marks and Jess King all took slots in 2026.
Expect pop, hip hop, alternative and indie pop across 80 acts.
At a glance
- Dates
- –Friday to Sunday, three days
- Where
- Napa Valley Expo, Napa, CA
- Ages
- A ticketed adult may bring up to one child 5 or under for free with a photocopy of a birth certificate or a valid passport or ID. All guests 6 and over need a paid wristband.
- Passes
- General Admission and VIP come as 3-day or 1-day passes, and Skydeck is 3-day only.
- Website
- Official site
BottleRock 2026 lineup & schedule: all 80 acts
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The NZ art-pop auteur is brooding, minimal, and generation-defining, back on a headline stage where the whispered verses hit hardest.
Art-pop
A tattooed Georgian with a genuinely enormous soul voice, who covered his way to a following and then wrote the heartbreak records to match.
SoulPopR&B
Thirty years of Dave Grohl turning grief and volume into the most reliably cathartic rock show going, with a hits catalog three hours deep, played like it's still a club gig.
Alt-rockPost-grunge
The dance-punk philosopher kings: 'All My Friends' remains the great festival closer, and James Murphy its most self-aware master of ceremonies.
Dance-punkElectronic
A classically trained producer whose precision-engineered pop-EDM defined mainstage sound for a decade, with 'Clarity' still the gold standard.
EDMElectro house
Thirty years in, still performing the choreography and hitting the harmonies that sold a hundred million records, with 'Everybody', 'I Want It That Way', and a field-wide singalong guaranteed.
PopBoy band
Atlanta's fastest wit, with twenty years of hits delivered with a showman's grin, from 'Southern Hospitality' to stadium-hosting polish.
Hip-hop
Moody, reverb-soaked alt-pop from a Manhattan teenager who went from bedroom demos to festival bills: heartbreak at streaming scale.
Alt-popBedroom pop
Falsetto-led glam-pop with a '70s sheen and hooks built for a car stereo, with 'Electric Love' plus a catalog slicker than its one-hit reputation.
Indie popGlam pop
Every woman, one voice: funk and soul royalty whose catalog with Rufus and beyond never quits, still one of the great living instruments.
FunkSoul
Taylor Hawkins's covers band, carried on by its surviving members as a straight-ahead classic-rock revue, with deep-cut rock joy played in his honor.
RockCovers
Heartthrob indie-pop with leather-jacket romanticism and pop craft, swooners engineered for the barricade and the long drive home.
Indie pop
A songwriter's songwriter who writes hits for everyone else, then plays his own with a full band and no cynicism.
PopHip hop
MELT
Pop
The Australian new-wave band behind one of the most recognisable flute riffs ever committed to tape, and Colin Hay's charm does the rest.
New waveRock
Meredith Marks
Mid-2000s British pop whose biggest single has had roughly three separate cultural afterlives, and 'Unwritten' refuses, gloriously, to die.
Pop
New Constellations
Pop
'Last Resort' to now, nu-metal survivors who never stopped filling fields, with Jacoby Shaddix still working every inch of stage.
Nu-metalAlt-rock
Penelope Road
Atlanta group that came together in 2022, working a guitar-led strain of indie rock.
Alternative
One third of Run-DMC, and one of the voices that made rap a stadium proposition in the first place: history behind the decks.
Hip hopOld school hip hop
A one-person band who builds whole songs live from loops: guitar, beatbox, trumpet, all stacked in front of you.
Psychedelic rockSinger-songwriter
Auckland's harmony-stacked power-pop treasures, with jazz-school chops, huge hearts, and 'Expert in a Dying Field' as proof of mastery.
Indie rockPower pop
The Paradox
Atlanta pop-punk band with an early 2000s sound, whose single 'Get the Message' reached number one on Billboard's Alternative Airplay chart.
Pop/rock
Naughty by Nature's frontman, whose delivery on the group's early singles still sets the bar for a hook, with 'Hip Hop Hooray' on demand.
Hip hopEast coast hip hop
Three 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.
PopIndie pop
San Diego trio making relentlessly sunny guitar-pop that sounds exactly like the beach it came from, with falsetto hooks, funky bass, and zero interest in being sad.
Indie popSurf pop
Early-'90s Atlanta collective who put southern, rural, spiritual concerns into hip-hop before anyone else did, and 'Tennessee' and 'People Everyday' still radiate communal warmth.
Hip hopConscious hip hop
'Good' still is, and so are these New Orleans alt-rock lifers, with easy charm and a '90s catalog deeper than the one-hit tag suggests.
Alt-rock
Gavin Rossdale's post-grunge outfit, whose mid-'90s singles have aged into genuine festival-crowd catnip, as 'Glycerine' and 'Machinehead' still land like it's 1995.
Post-grungeAlternative rock
Three decades of the fastest, most physically committed delivery in rap, and none of it has slowed down, with a hits catalog that turns any field into a block party.
Hip hopEast coast hip hop
Moody LA pop with model-off-duty cool, featuring smoky low-register vocals over sleek late-night production, noir mood sustained from first note to last.
Pop
The Rhode Island DJ whose reality-television fame turned into a long-running big-room club career, and a household name behind the decks.
Dance
Florida indie rock built for festival fields, with 'August' euphoria, surging choruses, and a live energy that outruns the recordings.
Indie rock
The blueprint for women fronting a rock band on their own terms, still playing it with total conviction, with 'Bad Reputation' as mission statement.
RockPunk rock
Hawaiian island reggae built on a genuinely soulful lead vocal, with Maui warmth and country-soul phrasing.
Island reggaeR&B
Mexican outfit, active since 2015, reviving glossy eighties boogie and synth-funk with a strong dancefloor pull.
Funk
Writes plainspoken, grunge-tinged rock songs and has been quietly building a real catalogue away from the surname, and the songs stand on their own.
Alternative rockIndie folk
Jenny Lewis's early-2000s indie band, with sharp, sardonic songwriting that a whole generation grew up inside, and 'Portions for Foxes' still perfect.
Indie rockAlternative country
The Return of Jackie and Judy
Three sisters from Monterrey out-rocking everyone, Mexico's hard-rock pride, a family band that grew into arena-grade virtuosity.
Hard rock
Absolutely
Alternative
Dallas rapper with a booming, unhurried baritone over soul-sampled Texas production, and a heavyweight presence that made him one of the South's fastest risers.
Hip hopSouthern hip hop
Buffalo Traffic Jam
Folk
Melbourne's great indie-dance band, with '80s synth textures and genuine songwriting under them, and 'Lights & Music' still an instant floor-filler.
Indie danceSynth-pop
Girl Tones
Rock
A London duo whose first single went everywhere before they had played a show, now proving their sunny, whistling indie-pop the traditional way.
Indie pop
Izzy Escobar
Pop
Jess King
Singer/songwriter
Six decades of funk and disco standards that everyone in the field knows whether they realise it or not. 'Celebration' is simply the closer.
FunkDiscoSoul
The Lovell sisters play slide guitar and harmony vocals with a Georgia blues fluency that took years to earn: roots-rock swagger, zero costume.
Blues rockSouthern rock
A gravelled voice and songs shaped by a genuinely unusual upbringing playing prison ministry shows: redemption-arc folk with radio-sized choruses.
Indie folkAlternative
Philly folk-rockers grown into amphitheater singalongs, warm, road-tested, and communal, with 'Silver Lining' as the nightly high-water mark.
Indie folk-rock
Los Angeles duo splicing flamenco guitar into French-leaning disco-house: Iberian fretwork laid over four-on-the-floor.
Dance
Argentine trap star who came up through freestyle battles and returned from a long contractual silence intact. Córdoba's comeback king.
Latin trapReggaeton
San Diego reggae-rock lifers, signed by Bradley Nowell and playing the same sunburnt groove ever since. Beach-cruiser music, perfected.
Reggae rockSka punk
Sydney folk trio with banjo, harmonies, and songs built for singing back at them, bringing coastal warmth with real craft.
FolkIndie folk
An Oakland band that started busking in BART stations and still plays like the crowd is three feet away. Second-line joy, coast edition.
SoulBluesNew orleans
Brighton outfit trading in sun-bleached late-sixties harmony rock, with twin vocals, jangling guitars and a fondness for Laurel Canyon warmth.
Alternative
Melbourne group dealing in hushed, reverb-soft folk built for late hours, with patient songwriting that trusts quiet to do the work.
Singer/songwriter
Sixties-pop scaffolding with the reverb of a much later record, plus a clear, unhurried voice that makes a small room feel enormous.
Alternative
Indy
Indie pop
Khatumu
Singer/songwriter
Malick Koly
Rock
The Chin Chins
The Rookie5
Alicia Creti
R&B/soul
Bettina Maureenji
Worldwide
DJ Umami
Hip-hop
Melbourne's deadpan folk harmonists: three voices, one wicked sense of humor, and close-harmony singing with a stand-up's timing.
FolkHarmony
Jake Zimma
Alternative
Saxophonist who performs in a full Bigfoot suit and plays it completely straight, with funk and dance sets built around a horn and an internet-sized audience behind them.
Dance
California rock band grown out of the teen metal outfit The Helmets, mixing classic heavy riffs with punk drive on singles like Mud and Burnt.
Alternative
Zinadelphia
Pop
Alec Shaw
Pop
Betty Taylor
Indie rock
Napa Valley Youth Symphony
Korean-American country-blues revivalist with National steel guitar and dust-bowl holler, prewar blues played like breaking news.
Country blues
The Silverado Pickups
Rock
The headliners
Lorde · The NZ art-pop auteur is brooding, minimal, and generation-defining, back on a headline stage where the whispered verses hit hardest.
Teddy Swims · A tattooed Georgian with a genuinely enormous soul voice, who covered his way to a following and then wrote the heartbreak records to match.
Lil Wayne · The most influential rapper of his generation, and still the most quotable, with a mixtape run that rewired the whole genre.
Foo Fighters · Thirty years of Dave Grohl turning grief and volume into the most reliably cathartic rock show going, with a hits catalog three hours deep, played like it's still a club gig. Saturday headliner, three decades into being the most dependable rock band alive.
LCD Soundsystem · The dance-punk philosopher kings: 'All My Friends' remains the great festival closer, and James Murphy its most self-aware master of ceremonies. James Murphy's dance-punk institution, still the best-sounding band on any bill.
Zedd · A classically trained producer whose precision-engineered pop-EDM defined mainstage sound for a decade, with 'Clarity' still the gold standard.
Backstreet Boys · Thirty years in, still performing the choreography and hitting the harmonies that sold a hundred million records, with 'Everybody', 'I Want It That Way', and a field-wide singalong guaranteed. Thirty years in, still hitting the choreography and the harmonies.
sombr · Moody, reverb-soaked alt-pop from a Manhattan teenager who went from bedroom demos to festival bills: heartbreak at streaming scale. Went from bedroom recordings to a Sunday headline slot in barely two years.
Ludacris · Atlanta's fastest wit, with twenty years of hits delivered with a showman's grin, from 'Southern Hospitality' to stadium-hosting polish.
Up-and-comers to catch early
almost monday · San Diego trio making relentlessly sunny guitar-pop that sounds like the beach it came from.
Good Neighbours · A London duo whose first single went everywhere before they had played a show.
The Beths · Auckland power-pop with the sharpest harmonies and the most anxious lyrics going.
Folk Bitch Trio · Melbourne three-part harmony singing, funny and unsparing in equal measure.
Other acts worth planning around
Rilo Kiley · Jenny Lewis's early-2000s indie institution, reunited.
Joan Jett and the Blackhearts · The blueprint for fronting a rock band on your own terms.
Chaka Khan · One of the great voices of the last fifty years, and no sign of it thinning.
Kool & The Gang · Six decades of funk and disco standards everyone knows whether they realise it or not.
Busta Rhymes · The fastest, most physically committed delivery in rap, undimmed.
The lineup by day
Friday May 22 through Sunday May 24.
Friday lineup (May 22)
Lorde, Teddy Swims, Lil Wayne, Papa Roach, Jon Bellion, Chaka Khan + 20 more
Saturday lineup (May 23)
Foo Fighters, LCD Soundsystem, Zedd, Rilo Kiley, AJR, Busta Rhymes + 21 more
Sunday lineup (May 24)
Backstreet Boys, sombr, Ludacris, Mt. Joy, Slightly Stoopid, BigXthaPlug + 21 more
BottleRock 2026 lineup FAQ
Who headlined BottleRock 2026?
Lorde, Teddy Swims and Lil Wayne on Friday; Foo Fighters, LCD Soundsystem and Zedd on Saturday; Backstreet Boys, sombr and Ludacris on Sunday.
When and where was BottleRock 2026?
May 22–24, 2026, at the Napa Valley Expo in Napa, California.
How many acts played BottleRock 2026?
80 performances across the three days.
What is the BottleRock Silent Disco?
A headphone stage that BottleRock books with actual names rather than a playlist. DJ Pauly D, Meredith Marks and Jess King all played it in 2026.
When will the BottleRock 2027 lineup be announced?
Not yet. Last year the festival announced its lineup on January 13, 2026. The 2027 lineup goes up on this page as soon as it is out.
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