Maximalist internet-native synth-pop, with a live show built to match the density of the records, and lore, visuals, and hooks in equal supply.
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Capitol Hill Block Party 2026 Lineup
Three days on a fenced-off stretch of Pike and Broadway, with MUNA, Wet Leg and Disco Lines up top, and the neighbourhood's own clubs running sets until close.
Capitol Hill Block Party is expected back August 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 Capitol Hill Block Party 2026
Capitol Hill Block Party closes off a few blocks around Pike and Broadway in Seattle for three days each August and runs four stages inside them: the outdoor Main and Daydream stages, plus full bills inside Neumos and Barboza, the neighbourhood clubs the festival grew up around. 2026 is the first year it is 21+; the organisers say the change was made to rework the site layout, and every ticketholder needs a driver's licence or passport at the gate.
MUNA close Friday, Disco Lines close Saturday and Wet Leg close Sunday, with Magdalena Bay, a Tinashe DJ set and Parcels in the slots directly beneath them. Daydream is the discovery stage (Ninajirachi, Mallrat, Rochelle Jordan and Frost Children all play it), while Neumos and Barboza carry the deep undercard in half-hour and 45-minute slots, and keep going with after-hours DJ sets once the last billed act finishes. Set times for all 74 acts are published.
Expect alternative, pop, rock and hyperpop across 74 acts.
At a glance
- Dates
- –Friday to Sunday, three days
- Where
- Capitol Hill, Seattle, WA
- Lineup
- 74 acts
- Website
- Official site
Capitol Hill Block Party 2026 lineup & schedule: all 74 acts
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Life-affirming queer synth-pop with 'Silk Chiffon' joy and serious writing chops, and the best live banter in pop included.
Synth-pop
The R&B shapeshifter who went fully independent and got better for it, with mixtape-era instincts, dance-floor timing, and a catalogue deep enough to cherry-pick from all night.
R&BPop
Technicolor disco-house with relentless fun, zero pretension, and hooks big enough to convert whoever wandered past the stage.
Disco-house
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
Deadpan, hook-loaded post-punk: the Isle of Wight duo grown into a full-blast rock band, with 'Chaise Longue' just the opening joke.
Post-punkIndie rock
Girl Parallel
R&B/soul
Avery Cochrane
Pop
Zailee Haze
Alternative
Turned the maximalist IT GIRL into a whole persona with brash, sample-hungry club-pop delivered with the confidence of someone who never doubted it would land.
Dance-popHyperpop
Swedish electro-pop with a cold, glossy surface and real ache underneath: the Scandinavian tradition of hiding heartbreak inside a dancefloor banger.
Electro-pop
Sample-soul house on the rise, with warm, chopped-vocal grooves and a headphone producer's detail, soulful edits with an easy touch.
Melodic house
Absurdist synth-pop performance art that is bubbly, deranged and delightful, a show engineered to make a crowd grin and go 'what?' simultaneously.
Art-popElectronic
Sibling duo making fuzzy, playful alt-pop with internet-era intimacy, with lo-fi textures and hooks that sound DM'd directly to you.
Alt-pop
Los Angeles duo Justine Dorsey and Graham Epstein, making dreamy, Y2K-tinted trip-pop out of breezy synths and hushed vocals.
Indie popDream pop
The drag superstar behind the decks brings camp, pop edits, and pure joy, in a set built for singing along in sunglasses.
Dance-popDJ set
Glittering, game-engine electronic from Australia's most inventive young club producer: chiptune sparkle at rave pressure, drops that sparkle as hard as they hit.
ElectronicHyperpop
Sibling NYC hyperpop chaos agents, glitchy, funny, and relentless, with a live set that plays like a timeline scrolled at maximum speed.
HyperpopElectro
Makenna DeCaro
Sloane Motion
House
Oxis
Alternative
MGNA CRRRTA
New York electro-pop duo of Farheen Khan and Ginger Scott, pairing crunchy rhythmic bass lines with big 2010s-style EDM leads and a deliberately unserious streak.
Dance
Nickcheo
Dance
Dual-frontwoman indie rock that lovingly resurrects '90s alternative, with big fuzzy hooks, deadpan cool, and twin guitar harmonies built for radio that no longer exists.
Indie rock90s alt revival
Whatmore
Hip-hop
Jigitz
Dance
Gauzy London dream-pop: midnight-drive music, synths blurred to streetlight smears, soft-focus songs that glow in the dark.
Dream-pop
Globe-trotting soul-pop with a rich, agile voice over self-produced grooves, folding the percussion and texture of everywhere she's lived into modern R&B.
R&BSoul-pop
Grace Shaw writes featherweight pop that hits harder than its volume suggests, with half-whispered hooks, hip-hop-schooled rhythm, and an eye for the small devastating detail.
Indie popBedroom pop
UK-garage-inflected R&B with Kaytranada's favorite-vocalist energy: silk delivery over broken beats, two-step rhythms under velvet vocals.
Alt-R&BUK-garage
Instant Crush
Alternative
Cal State Football Stadium
Alternative
Builds the set from scratch on stage, writing code as the track plays and projecting it for the room, with algorave practice turned into an actual dance set.
Live codingElectronic
Rainbow Jackson
Pop
Genre-hopping duo bringing club heat.
Alternative
Internet-native club pop with the gloss cranked past the point of taste: Eurodance, trance and rap ad-libs fed through a blown-out speaker.
HyperpopClub
Comedian and rapper in equal measure. The jokes are real and so, annoyingly, are the songs, beats from rap's A-list included.
Hip-hopComedy-rap
Techno DJ turned dream-pop bandleader, with DJ-Kicks grace rebuilt at song scale and club-honed instincts smoothed into gauzy, sophisticated pop.
Dream-popElectronic
Lucy Bedroque
Hip-hop
UK garage revival heat with skippy drums and low-end pressure, two-step engineered for the new generation of dancefloors.
UK garageBass
Give Me The Money
Metal
Camille Cano
Pop
Emi Pop
Rock
Fleetwood Snack
Hardcore
Clover
Pop
Lovely Colours
Rock
Drew Martin
Singer/songwriter
Casi
Alternative
Glass Egg
Alternative
Dark Chisme
House
Tiny Monsters
Rock
Rose Peak
Rock
Samara Lennoxx
Pop
The Floor Is Not Lava
Pop/rock
slone
Alternative
Kenshi Killzzz
Easy listening
Poached
Alternative
The Requisite
Rock
Pink Steam
Punk
Vika & The Velvets
J.Henry
Hip-hop
Bazaar
Alternative
RUB
Alternative
Chorus-drenched guitars and vocals mixed into the haze, a dream pop that sounds like it was recorded through a window.
Dream popShoegaze
Glam-schooled songwriting with a theatrical streak: velvet melodies, a dandy's delivery, and hooks that would have charted in 1972.
Glam rockBaroque pop
dsrt flwr
A high, unguarded voice over guitar figures that keep folding back on themselves, in small-town songwriting that never reaches for a bigger gesture than it needs.
Indie folkSinger-songwriter
Plugged In!
Comedy
Rodney Tristan
R&B/soul
Middle Names
Alternative
Work Wife
Indie rock
Henry Mansfield
Rock
Clouds of the West
Rock
Fatal Femmes
Seattle six-piece formed at Berklee by singer Zoey Gulotta, playing femme-fronted rock with synth and baritone sax under vocals that swing from belting to screams.
The headliners
Magdalena Bay · Maximalist internet-native synth-pop, with a live show built to match the density of the records, and lore, visuals, and hooks in equal supply. Friday's sub-headliner, with a live show as dense as the records.
MUNA · Life-affirming queer synth-pop with 'Silk Chiffon' joy and serious writing chops, and the best live banter in pop included. Friday's closer, and the festival's biggest singalong by some distance.
Tinashe (DJ Set) · The R&B shapeshifter who went fully independent and got better for it, with mixtape-era instincts, dance-floor timing, and a catalogue deep enough to cherry-pick from all night. Not a live show, but a Saturday-night DJ set drawing on a very deep catalogue.
Disco Lines · Technicolor disco-house with relentless fun, zero pretension, and hooks big enough to convert whoever wandered past the stage. Closes Saturday, and the only main-stage set built purely for dancing.
Parcels · 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. Five-part harmonies over four-on-the-floor, in the slot immediately before Wet Leg on Sunday.
Wet Leg · Deadpan, hook-loaded post-punk: the Isle of Wight duo grown into a full-blast rock band, with 'Chaise Longue' just the opening joke. Sunday's closer, grown from a deadpan two-piece into a full-blast rock band.
Up-and-comers to catch early
Mallrat · Featherweight Australian pop that hits much harder than its volume suggests.
Gelli Haha · Deliberately silly, deliberately physical art-pop: one of the more unpredictable live propositions here.
Frost Children · Playing twice on Friday: a Daydream set, then the Neumos afters as a DJ set.
babymorocco · Club pop with the gloss cranked well past taste, in the mid-afternoon Sunday sun.
Aliyah's Interlude · An early Friday main-stage slot for the IT GIRL persona.
Night Tapes · London dream-pop, well suited to a golden-hour second-stage slot.
Scott Yoder · Glam-schooled Seattle songwriting, opening the last day at Barboza.
Other acts worth planning around
Zack Fox · Comedian and rapper, in the Sunday teatime slot where that combination works best.
DJ Trixie Mattel · An hour-long Friday main-stage DJ set, which is exactly the kind of booking this festival makes.
The lineup by day
Friday lineup (August 7)
Magdalena Bay, MUNA, Avery Cochrane, Aliyah's Interlude, nimino, Between Friends + 18 more
Friday set times (24 sets)
- Girl Parallel · Daydream Stage
- Avery Cochrane · Main Stage
- Zailee Haze · Daydream Stage
- Aliyah's Interlude · Main Stage
- Otha · Daydream Stage
- nimino · Main Stage
- Give Me The Money · Barboza
- Camille Cano · Neumos
- Gelli Haha · Daydream Stage
- Between Friends · Main Stage
- Emi Pop · Barboza
- Fleetwood Snack · Neumos
- After · Daydream Stage
- DJ Trixie Mattel · Main Stage
- Clover · Barboza
- Lovely Colours · Neumos
- Ninajirachi · Daydream Stage
- Magdalena Bay · Main Stage
- Drew Martin · Barboza
- Casi · Neumos
- Frost Children · Daydream Stage
- Glass Egg · Barboza
- MUNA · Main Stage
- Dark Chisme · Neumos
Saturday lineup (August 8)
Tinashe (DJ Set), Disco Lines, Sloane Motion, MGNA CRRRTA, Momma, Jigitz + 21 more
Saturday set times (27 sets)
- Makenna DeCaro · Daydream Stage
- Sloane Motion · Main Stage
- Oxis · Daydream Stage
- MGNA CRRRTA · Main Stage
- Tiny Monsters · Neumos
- Rose Peak · Barboza
- Nickcheo · Daydream Stage
- Momma · Main Stage
- Samara Lennoxx · Neumos
- The Floor Is Not Lava · Barboza
- Whatmore · Daydream Stage
- Jigitz · Main Stage
- slone · Barboza
- Kenshi Killzzz · Neumos
- Night Tapes · Daydream Stage
- Poached · Barboza
- Amber Mark · Main Stage
- The Requisite · Neumos
- Pink Steam · Barboza
- Mallrat · Daydream Stage
- Tinashe (DJ Set) · Main Stage
- Vika & The Velvets · Neumos
- J.Henry · Barboza
- Rochelle Jordan · Daydream Stage
- RUB · Neumos
- Bazaar · Barboza
- Disco Lines · Main Stage
Sunday lineup (August 9)
Parcels, Wet Leg, Instant Crush, DJ_Dave, Haute & Freddy, Zack Fox + 17 more
Sunday set times (23 sets)
- Instant Crush · Main Stage
- Cal State Football Stadium · Daydream Stage
- DJ_Dave · Main Stage
- Rainbow Jackson · Daydream Stage
- Haute & Freddy · Main Stage
- Beach Vacation · Neumos
- babymorocco · Daydream Stage
- Scott Yoder · Barboza
- Zack Fox · Main Stage
- John-Robert · Neumos
- dsrt flwr · Barboza
- Avalon Emerson & The Charm · Daydream Stage
- Plugged In! · Neumos
- Rodney Tristan · Barboza
- Parcels · Main Stage
- Lucy Bedroque · Daydream Stage
- Middle Names · Barboza
- Work Wife · Neumos
- Henry Mansfield · Barboza
- Wet Leg · Main Stage
- MPH · Daydream Stage
- Clouds of the West · Neumos
- Fatal Femmes · Barboza
Capitol Hill Block Party 2026 lineup FAQ
When is Capitol Hill Block Party 2026?
Friday August 7 through Sunday August 9, 2026.
Where is it held?
On closed streets in the Capitol Hill neighbourhood of Seattle. The main entrance is at East Pike Street and 12th Avenue, with a second entrance at East Pine Street and 10th Avenue.
Is Capitol Hill Block Party all ages?
No. 2026 is a 21+ event (a change from previous years) and security checks a driver's licence or passport before entry.
Who is headlining Capitol Hill Block Party 2026?
MUNA close Friday, Disco Lines close Saturday and Wet Leg close Sunday.
Are set times published?
Yes. All 74 acts have a day, a stage and a set time across the Main, Daydream, Neumos and Barboza stages.
Is there parking?
There is no designated festival parking. The festival recommends the Link light rail, the bus, or a rideshare drop-off.
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 Capitol Hill Block Party 2027?
Capitol Hill Block Party is expected back in August 2027; the festival has not announced the 2027 dates yet. The 2026 lineup stays on this page until it does.
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