The heaviest end of North American bass music, staged with a wall of subs and a light rig that does half the assault.
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Four nights in Sherwood Forest at the Double JJ Resort in Rothbury, Michigan, where bass, house and jam bands share six stages and the sets run until four in the morning.
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Electric Forest 2026 ran Thursday June 25 through Sunday June 28 at the Double JJ Resort in Rothbury, Michigan, across six stages: Ranch Arena, Sherwood Court, Tripolee, The Observatory, Honeycomb and Center Stage. The Tripolee and Observatory ran past three in the morning most nights, and Eli Brown and Claude VonStroke both closed the Tripolee at four.
The Ranch Arena carried the weekend's biggest sets: Excision late on Thursday, GRiZ after midnight on Friday, Chris Lake closing Saturday, and Kaskade and ILLENIUM on Sunday. The String Cheese Incident, the band most tied to this festival, played Saturday evening as The Shebongle Shebang with Shpongle, and Shpongle then played its own late set at Sherwood Court.
Three stages were handed over for a night each: Trippy Bee Records took The Observatory on Thursday, Bassrush ran the Tripolee on Saturday, and Honeycomb was the Pride stage the same day. Several acts played twice, among them GRiZ, who came back on Sunday for a daylight Chasing the Golden Hour set, and LSDREAM, who opened the Ranch Arena with LIGHTCODE before a late set at Sherwood Court.
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The heaviest end of North American bass music, staged with a wall of subs and a light rig that does half the assault.
DubstepBass
Belgian duo trading in wobbling, psychedelic dubstep with a genuinely distinctive low-end signature, where the wobble is the brand and the argument.
DubstepBass
Michael Angelakos's falsetto over maximalist synth-pop makes euphoric music about genuinely difficult things, and 'Sleepyhead' is still a serotonin spike.
Indie popSynth-pop
Saxophone-wielding electro-funk: half of the GRIZTRONICS b2b with Subtronics, and a solo catalog of brass-blasted future-funk joy.
Funk-bassElectro-soul
Colorado jam band with bluegrass roots stretched through funk, calypso and full-blown electronica, and costumes strongly encouraged.
JamBluegrass-fusion
Black Book Records boss and one of house music's most reliable groove engineers, making bassline-first tech house that fills every dancefloor it touches.
HouseTech-house
One of American dance music's steadiest hands: two decades of melodic, unapologetically emotional progressive house, from blog-era classics to stadium residencies.
Progressive houseElectronic
The defining voice of melodic bass: emotional, arena-scaled drops built around real songwriting, sad songs engineered for fireworks.
Melodic-bassFuture-bass
Australian house heater, half of the HYPERBEAM b2b with OMNOM, with flip-happy edits and festival-scale bounce.
HouseTech house
Bristol techno muscle that is dark, driving, and huge, from a producer who crossed from tech-house into the hard stuff and doubled down.
TechnoHouse
New York producer Sajeeb Saha, whose breakout 'Indian Summer' set the template for his lush, wistful melodic electronica. The Cure to Loneliness pushed that sound toward indie songcraft.
Electronic
Benjamin David's project, pairing his own soft vocals with warm, slow-building melodic electronica.
Dusty, hip-hop-rooted electro-soul that would sound at home on a boom-bap record if you slowed it down, with Atlanta sample-craft in the Pretty Lights lineage.
Electro-soulHip-hop
The trio who effectively invented halftime: drum and bass slowed to a swaggering crawl, with sound design that rewards headphones and necks alike.
HalftimeBass
Grammy-nominated house duo with greasy basslines and instant grooves, 'On My Mind' the calling card, grooves greasy enough to require napkins.
House
Trio riding the new melodic-bass wave: riddim with feelings, drops that aim at the chest and the heart at once.
BassElectronic
London drum and bass producer on RAM Records, whose Becky Hill collaboration 'Afterglow' carried his melodic, chart-ready rollers well beyond the scene.
Drum-and-bass
Drum & bass royalty, the Ram Records founder whose double-drop mixing largely defined what a D&B set sounds like.
Electronic
Swedish project built on pitched-up vocal hooks, 'Runaway (U & I)' being the one that defined the sound and never really left.
Dance-popElectronic
The producer most responsible for UK garage's current mainstream moment, with bouncy, gleeful sets that are impossible to stand still to, flip after flip after flip.
UK-garageBassline
Founder of San Francisco's Dirtybird label, whose bouncy, bass-heavy take on tech house and 'Who's Afraid of Detroit?' shaped a whole corner of club culture.
Scottish producer who signed to XL as a teenager on the strength of his Escapism EPs, later stepping up to sing on the disco-tinged viral hit 'Assumptions'.
Electronic
Compton house music: baritone talk-sung cool over four-on-the-floor bounce, with G-funk swagger walked straight onto the dancefloor.
HouseWest Coast rap
A prodigy who grew into a genuine songwriter, with dense, sample-stacked electropop that has an unusually bright emotional register, joy engineered live.
ElectropopFrench house
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
London producer William Phillips, a Grammy-winning co-writer of Sam Smith's 'Stay With Me', making wistful melodic electronica built around chopped vocal samples.
Chicago's future-bass wunderkind, grown into a versatile electro-pop craftsman, with collabs across pop's whole spectrum and festival sets played with pop fluency.
ElectronicFuture bassDance-pop
Bass music with metal's aggression baked in, heavy, dark, and increasingly vocal-led, with Boise drops of blast-furnace weight.
DubstepMetal-bass
Weaponised trap built for a festival's loudest twenty minutes, with bright, brutal drops from one of the sharpest young producers in American bass.
BassTrapElectronic
Plays guitar and screams over his own dubstep, the metal/bass crossover taken entirely seriously, pits and drops in equal measure.
DubstepMetal
Two String Cheese members improvising entire electronic sets live, with nothing pre-written, and dubstep and house conjured on the spot, never repeated.
LivetronicaDubstep
Psychedelic bass wrapped in a cosmic mythology of its own making, swinging between euphoric melody and very heavy low end.
Bass
Bay Area hyperpop auteur, glitchy, hooky and scene-defining, with 'Wallsocket' worldbuilding included and internet-native songwriting at its sharpest.
HyperpopAlt
A Broadway-honed Telecaster player pushing honky-tonk into long-form psychedelic territory, with country chops and a jam band's appetite for the unknown.
Cosmic countryJam
Border-raised songwriter refusing to pick a genre: punk, rap, and shoegaze inside a single track, stitched together with pop instincts.
Alt-rockGenre-fluid
Genre-agnostic selector moving between breaks, house, and hip-hop in a single set, with turntablist chops under the party instincts.
HouseBreaks
Queens-born, Korean-American producer and DJ who murmurs in Korean and English over deadpan house, the approach behind 'Raingurl' and 'With a Hammer'.
Swings between crushing riddim and full melodic bass, often inside the same set, with mammoth branding and matching drops.
DubstepMelodic-bass
Sibling NYC hyperpop chaos agents, glitchy, funny, and relentless, with a live set that plays like a timeline scrolled at maximum speed.
HyperpopElectro
This Never Happened boss, offering phone-free deep-house journeys that reward patience and melodic sets built as arcs rather than drops.
Deep houseMelodic
Detroit electric violinist building improvised pieces from live loops and effects, drifting between ambient meditation and experimental noise.
Dubstep
Electronic
Younger-generation jam band with real songcraft under the improvisation: melodic, patient jams that reward staying for the full set.
JamIndie rock
Coachella Valley DJ collective known for twice-weekly streamed sets and on-mic jokes, playing tech house with detours into drum and bass and dubstep.
Dance
Dance
Rock
Mexican outfit, active since 2015, reviving glossy eighties boogie and synth-funk with a strong dancefloor pull.
Funk
Manchester singer Adio Marchant, formerly of Kid British, whose soft, melancholic vocal carries alt-R&B songs and a run of electronic features.

Los Angeles producer working the heavy, high-impact end of bass music, with sets built around hard-hitting drops.
Dubstep
DJ and producer of driving melodic techno and house, shaped by early European trance and the underground raves of Oakland.
Dance
Gauzy London dream-pop: midnight-drive music, synths blurred to streetlight smears, soft-focus songs that glow in the dark.
Dream-pop
American duo working the heavy, low-slung end of bass music, built around abrupt switch-ups rather than steady momentum.
Electronic
Producer-songwriter making dance music that keeps one foot firmly in pop structure, with melodic drops and verse-chorus bones.
ElectronicIndie-pop
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
Denver band formed in 2022, stretching bluegrass instrumentation into loose, improvisation-heavy sets.
Country
Brooklyn duo making disco-leaning indie dance, built to sound like an ’80s Walkman carried into the present.
Dance
Chicago rapper and producer who is also a working visual artist, pairing woozy, psychedelic-leaning beats with a restless DIY streak.
Hip-hop
Dark, cinematic bass and techno crossovers from the LA underground, where trap-schooled drops are recast in warehouse shadows.
ElectronicBass
Fast-rising Denver bass producer with melodic drops that have teeth, riding the front of the dubstep scene's younger, wilder generation.
BassDubstep
Brothers making breezy, jazz-flecked bedroom pop with soft chords, shuffling drums, and a sun-warmed melancholy built for headphones and golden hour.
Dance
NYC tech house that is punchy and playful, peak-time tools with remix-radar ubiquity, reliability with personality.
Tech house
Los Angeles duo running cosmic country and West Coast rock through disco and balearic edits, long guitar solos left intact.
Electronic
Live From Earth co-founder making rowdy, meme-literate club tracks: ghetto-tech cheek at Berlin volume, club chaos with a grin.
TechnoGhetto-tech
A British producer with a knack for the hook that turns a tech-house groove into something people sing.
HouseTech-house
Dubstep
Los Angeles singer with a full-throated belt built for house records, fronting club tracks live instead of leaving the vocal on the track.
Dance
Joseph Kechter’s Colorado project, collaging gospel and soul samples over futuristic synths and experimental bass frequencies.
Dance
Italian-born, London-based DJ with a monthly show on Rinse FM. Her sets lay rap vocals over UK bass, grime, garage and jungle, opening around 140 BPM and finishing near 170.
Dance
Berklee-bred horn-pop that's tighter and sweeter than a band this young has any right to be. Boston funk with genuine pop songcraft up front.
FunkSoul-pop
Jump-up drum and bass with an unusually funky low end: rave weaponry with actual swing.
Drum-and-bass
UK dubstep act with a garage swing, built on deep basslines and off-kilter rhythms. The breakout was ‘Papi Riddim’.
Dubstep
Electronic
Dubstep
Sound-design-first bass that is glitchy, precise and genre-fluid, the kind of set that exists to show off what a sound system can actually do.
BassElectro
San Francisco bass producer working the heavy, aggressive end of dubstep, with sets built on grinding low end and relentless drops.
Dance

Ambient
Dance
Singer-songwriter whose cosmic, soaring 'Jericho' spread virally on TikTok. Theatrical vocal runs over moody, spacious alt-R&B production.
Accra-born multidisciplinary artist blending Ghanaian roots, electronics and performance art into hypnotic, ritualistic live shows.
Alternative
Jam band from Point Pleasant, New Jersey, together since 2017, stretching tightly written rock songs into long improvised passages.
DJ and producer working a loose, groove-led strain of house built for long stretches rather than peaks.
House

Masked dubstep duo who built a following on SoundCloud-only drops, trading in choppy, off-kilter bass tunes.
Dubstep
New York-born, DMV-based producer who came up on flips of pop and R&B hits, now writing melodic dubstep of arpeggiated synths and wonky bass.
DubstepBass
Producer and DJ blending wonky bass with soulful grooves and psychedelic textures, with releases on Bassrush, Cyclops and Morflo.
Dubstep
Big-voiced confessional pop with a bedroom-recording intimacy that writes about wanting things badly and doesn't dress it up.
PopAlt-R&BBedroom pop
House
Dance
LSE-grad-turned-dance-pop-star with chatty, clever club-pop that sounds like a group chat set to four-on-the-floor, wit-first songs with genuine club instincts.
Dance-pop
Hazy California duo (beachside indie-soul).
Alternative
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
Dubstep
House
Electronic
Hip-hop
Australian producer making some of the heaviest and most precise riddim going, with surgical drops and zero wasted motion.
DubstepRiddim
Greensboro, North Carolina producer who moved from techno into gritty, heavy bass music, built around strong vocals and real songwriting.
Dance
Moody melodic electronic with live-instrument warmth, Vancouver atmosphere in the ODESZA lineage and drops that glow rather than strike.
Electronic
House
Bay Area producer making textural, emotionally pitched bass music that is heavy when it wants to be and weightless when it matters.
Experimental-bass

Dance
Dance

Hip-hop
Funk
Dublin band bending neo-soul and funk into something scruffier and more Irish than either genre expects: jagged, jazzy, and completely their own.
Neo-soulAlt-R&B

Sapporo-born, San Francisco-based producer making melodic, emotional deep house, with soft piano lines and wistful synths laid over a steady pulse.
Canadian band of brothers playing feel-good funk-rock sing-alongs, with a live show that tends to end with the singer riding the crowd.
FunkSoulRock

Rock
German DJ and producer working the organic end of house, with warm, melodic sets built on hand percussion and slow-building grooves.

Dubstep
Bristol producer working the chopped-vocal end of UK garage, from classic speed garage swing to the newer stutter house sound.
Dance
Wonky, bass-heavy house from the other half of the HYPERBEAM b2b with Odd Mob, with edits engineered for double-takes.
HouseBass house
Toronto multi-instrumentalist making hazy, psychedelic R&B, with close ties to the city's crossover jazz and hip-hop production circles.
UK garage revival heat with skippy drums and low-end pressure, two-step engineered for the new generation of dancefloors.
UK garageBass
Producers folding funk grooves and disco swing into bright, sample-happy house, built for the part of the night when the room loosens up.
Dance
Mary Lattimore · Harp, twice, and the quietest sets of the weekend.Excision, Ganja White Night, ODD MOB, Eli Brown, Shauhin Davari, Dixon's Violin + 28 more
Passion Pit, GRiZ, Mild Minds, Jai Wolf, Daily Bread, Ivy Lab + 34 more
The String Cheese Incident, Chris Lake, Sam Gellaitry, Channel Tres, Madeon, Rochelle Jordan + 34 more
KASKADE, ILLENIUM, LSDREAM (+LIGHTCODE), Underscores, Daniel Donato's Cosmic Country, Jean Dawson + 25 more
Thursday June 25 through Sunday June 28, 2026.
At the Double JJ Resort in Rothbury, Michigan. The festival's wooded centre is called Sherwood Forest.
The Ranch Arena headliners were Excision on Thursday, GRiZ on Friday, Chris Lake on Saturday, and Kaskade and ILLENIUM on Sunday. The String Cheese Incident played Saturday evening.
Six: Ranch Arena, Sherwood Court, Tripolee, The Observatory, Honeycomb and Center Stage.
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Electric Forest is expected back in June 2027; the festival has not announced the 2027 dates yet. The 2026 lineup stays on this page until it does.
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