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Bumbershoot 2026 Lineup
Seattle's Labor Day institution, 53 years deep: Death Cab and Turnstile anchoring a weekend that also makes room for wrestling, short films and a mermaid.
Bumbershoot is expected back September 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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About Bumbershoot 2026
Bumbershoot is 53 years old and still the least predictable major festival in the United States. It takes over the Seattle Center campus for Labor Day weekend, and the music is only part of it. The 2026 edition also promises wrestlers, fashion designers, short films, comedians, skateboarders and, per the festival's own count, one mermaid.
The music bill is sharper than that framing suggests. Death Cab for Cutie and Turnstile headline; Blood Orange, Lucy Dacus, Orville Peck and Chase & Status sit beneath them; and the middle of the bill (Bikini Kill, De La Soul, Yves Tumor, Sudan Archives, Molchat Doma, Peaches, W.I.T.C.H.) is about as broad as two days gets. Noname's set is billed as a tenth-anniversary performance of Telefone. Day splits haven't been published yet.
Expect hip-hop, rock, indie rock and electronic across 45 acts.
At a glance
- Dates
- –Saturday to Sunday, two days
- Where
- Seattle Center, Seattle, WA
- Lineup
- 45 acts
- Website
- Official site
Bumbershoot 2026 lineup & schedule: all 45 acts
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Indie rock's tender institution: twenty-five years of songs that hurt nicely, from 'Transatlanticism' devastation to elder-statesman grace.
Indie rock
Austin's instrument-swapping all-women punk-metal wrecking crew, where everyone plays everything and it all lands at full force.
PunkMetal
Electroclash provocateur with filthy drum-machine minimalism and a live show designed to make you uncomfortable, then make you dance about it.
ElectroclashElectro-punk
Beastie Boys energy for the TikTok era: relentless, giddy, all-caps fun, two friends rapping like the '80s never ended.
RapPunk-rap
The band riot grrrl was built around, with Kathleen Hanna's shriek, girls-to-the-front stage politics, and a legacy that reordered punk's whole power structure.
Riot-grrrlPunk
A novelist's eye for the specific detail, delivered in the warmest voice in the boygenius orbit, with 'Night Shift' still the slow-burn masterclass.
Indie rockSinger-songwriter
Belarusian post-punk sung in Russian, with drum machines, cold synths, and an unexpected second life online: Soviet-bloc gloom turned viral phenomenon.
Post-punkDarkwave
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
Two decades of British drum-and-bass that keeps crossing into the charts without ever softening the low end, scene elders who never stopped moving with it.
Drum and bassElectronic
Four Tokyo performers in school uniforms doing chaotic, precisely choreographed pop that refuses to sit still, equal parts idol group, dance troupe, and controlled demolition.
J-popArt-pop
Violin, loop pedal, and R&B: Brittney Parks builds whole songs live from a single bowed phrase, with fiddle traditions rewired for the club.
Experimental-R&B
Native Tongues cornerstone and sample-collage hip-hop that made room for humour and colour, with '3 Feet High and Rising' still a genre-widening document.
Hip-hopAlt-rap
Glam-rock theatre wired through noise and soul, with a live show pitched somewhere between séance and rock show, and fully both.
Experimental-rockArt-pop
Masked baritone reworking outlaw country as high romance, reverb-drenched and completely committed, with Orbison drama in fringe.
CountryOutlaw-country
Brainfeeder-schooled producer whose beats stayed warm and melodic while the LA scene got colder. Beat-scene royalty with a survivor's story.
ElectronicBeat-music
Hard Maybe
XCOMM
Punk
Seattle-area rapper writing plainly about the suburbs he came up in, with Burien pride and a workmanlike pen.
Hip-hop
Meat Hair
Cain Culto
Kentucky artist blending left-field pop and hip-hop with the salsa, bluegrass and church music he grew up on, in songs that take aim at faith and politics.
Alternative rap
Chicago darkwave built for a warehouse, with icy synth throb under commands delivered somewhere between seduction and threat, leather-clad and fully in control.
DarkwaveIndustrial-pop
Bexley
Rock
Veracruz songwriter with a cuatro and one of the most arresting voices in Latin folk, jazz-schooled and heartbreak-fluent.
Latin-folkSinger-songwriter
Aryana León
Pop
Juliet Daniel
Pop
Anthers
Rock
Seattle songwriter who drummed in Carissa's Wierd and Band of Horses before turning to spare, pedal-steel country of her own, sung low and unhurried.
Oblé Reed
Hip-hop
Noire Svlon
Takuya Nakamura
Electronic
Los Angeles singer working a vintage soul palette into loose, low-slung funk-pop, with falsetto hooks delivered with unhurried swagger.
R&B/soul
American Flats
Rock
Zamrock originators, reactivated decades on, with fuzz guitar and Zambian psych that predates most of its imitators, history alive and grooving.
ZamrockPsych-rock
LA duo splicing goth-punk guitars into rave tempos, built for a sweaty room, not a seated one, eyeliner running by song three.
Post-punkElectro-punk
Midpak
Cinematic Nova Scotia noir-pop with smoky, widescreen ballads and an old-Hollywood streak, torch songs delivered with movie-star poise.
Alternative
Sprawling Michigan collective making horn-swelling, patient indie rock that earned an instant cult, with chamber-band arrangements and real payoff.
Indie rockCollective
Hannah Duckworth
Alternative
Chicago rapper-poet delivering dense political writing in an almost conversational half-whisper, over live jazz: book-club radicalism at festival volume.
Hip-hopJazz-rap
Morgan Paris Lanza
R&B/soul
Lucha Luna
Seattle duo formed in 2025, mixing Latin percussion, heavy bass, punk vocals and reggaeton flows; their album is BRILLA BRILLA.
Latin
Daughters of Venus
Rock
Suzzallo
54 Ultra
Singer-songwriter pairing a swooning falsetto with retro guitar-pop that recalls late-'70s and '80s radio. Found his audience through viral short-form video clips.
Alternative
The headliners
Death Cab for Cutie · Indie rock's tender institution: twenty-five years of songs that hurt nicely, from 'Transatlanticism' devastation to elder-statesman grace. A hometown headline slot: they formed an hour up the road.
Turnstile · Hardcore's joyful crossover kings, with dreamy interludes, stage dives, total communion, and a crowd that moves as one. Hardcore's biggest crossover act, co-headlining.
Up-and-comers to catch early
Die Spitz · Austin four-piece who swap instruments mid-set and are getting very good very fast.
Pixel Grip · Chicago EBM-pop with a genuinely commanding front presence.
Goldie Boutilier · Theatrical, country-tinged pop from a performer who commits fully.
PawPaw Rod · Slinky, groove-led songwriting that translates well to a festival field.
Other acts worth planning around
Bikini Kill · Riot grrrl's originators, from Olympia, playing in-state.
Noname · Billed as a tenth-anniversary performance of Telefone.
W.I.T.C.H. · Zamrock originators, reactivated: a rare booking anywhere in America.
Yves Tumor · The most unpredictable live proposition on the bill.
Molchat Doma · Belarusian post-punk whose second life online turned them into a festival draw.
The lineup by day
Saturday lineup (September 5)
Turnstile, Blood Orange, Lucy Dacus, Chase & Status, Bikini Kill, Molchat Doma + 16 more
Saturday set times (22 sets)
- Hard Maybe · Fisher
- XCOMM · Mural
- Travis Thompson · Fisher
- Meat Hair · Upper Courtyard
- Cain Culto · Mural
- Pixel Grip · Fisher
- Bexley · Upper Courtyard
- Silvana Estrada · Mural
- Die Spitz · Fisher
- Aryana León · Upper Courtyard
- Peaches · Mural
- Joey Valence & Brae · Fisher
- Juliet Daniel · Upper Courtyard
- Bikini Kill · Mural
- Lucy Dacus · Fisher
- Anthers · Upper Courtyard
- Molchat Doma · Mural
- Sera Cahoone · Upper Courtyard
- Blood Orange · Fisher
- Oblé Reed · Upper Courtyard
- Chase & Status · Mural
- Turnstile · Fisher
Sunday lineup (September 6)
Death Cab for Cutie, Orville Peck, De La Soul, Yves Tumor, Sudan Archives, Atarashii Gakko! + 16 more
Sunday set times (22 sets)
- Noire Svlon · Fisher
- Takuya Nakamura · Mural
- PawPaw Rod · Fisher
- American Flats · Upper Courtyard
- W.I.T.C.H. · Mural
- Sextile · Fisher
- Midpak · Upper Courtyard
- Goldie Boutilier · Mural
- Racing Mount Pleasant · Fisher
- Hannah Duckworth · Upper Courtyard
- Noname · Mural
- Atarashii Gakko! · Fisher
- Morgan Paris Lanza · Upper Courtyard
- Sudan Archives · Mural
- De La Soul · Fisher
- Lucha Luna · Upper Courtyard
- Yves Tumor · Mural
- Daughters of Venus · Upper Courtyard
- Orville Peck · Fisher
- TOKiMONSTA · Mural
- Suzzallo · Upper Courtyard
- Death Cab for Cutie · Fisher
Bumbershoot 2026 lineup FAQ
When is Bumbershoot 2026?
September 5–6, 2026 (Labor Day weekend).
Where is Bumbershoot held?
Across the Seattle Center campus in Seattle, Washington.
Who is headlining Bumbershoot 2026?
Death Cab for Cutie and Turnstile top the music bill.
How many acts are playing?
38 music acts, alongside the festival's arts, comedy and film programming.
Are day-by-day lineups published?
Not yet: day splits haven't been announced. This page will show them as soon as they are.
How do I work out which acts I'd like?
Type a few bands you already love into the search at the top of this page and you'll get ranked matches from this lineup, with reasons.
When is Bumbershoot 2027?
Bumbershoot is expected back in September 2027; the festival has not announced the 2027 dates yet. The 2026 lineup stays on this page until it does.
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