The voice and pen behind Big Thief, playing her own songs: close finger-picked guitar and lyrics that notice everything.
FORM Arcosanti 2026 Lineup
Three days at Arcosanti's concrete desert arcology, capped at 2,500 people, with Lorde, Turnstile and Blood Orange in the amphitheater and sets that mostly follow one another.
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About FORM Arcosanti 2026
FORM takes over Arcosanti, the experimental desert town north of Phoenix, for three days in October. It is small on purpose: 2,500 attendees, no VIP areas, and a running order where sets mostly follow one another between the Amphitheater and the Vaults instead of clashing. Arcology tours, yoga, hikes, pool parties and workshops run alongside the music; this page covers the music bill.
Lorde closes Friday after Adrianne Lenker, Blood Orange and Geese, and Zack Fox and Dylan Brady keep the Vaults going until 2 AM. Saturday builds through Dominic Fike on the Sunset Stage and Kamasi Washington to a late run of Avalon Emerson, a Disclosure DJ set and Ben UFO. Turnstile close the Amphitheater on Sunday, with Seun Kuti & Egypt 80, Rusowsky and a Tinashe DJ set before them and Fifi finishing at the Vaults. Set times for all 40 acts are published. The Fresh Finds Stage carries the newer names through the afternoons, and Envelop hosts two spatial-sound sets.
Expect electronic, experimental, alternative and techno across 40 acts.
FORM Arcosanti 2026 lineup & schedule: all 40 acts
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Dev Hynes's velvety art-R&B — '80s soul textures, jazz chords, and quiet heartbreak from one of pop's most sought-after collaborators.
Unhinged Brooklyn art-rock — yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever.
The NZ art-pop auteur — brooding, minimal, and generation-defining, back on a headline stage where the whispered verses hit hardest.
Florida songwriter splicing guitar-pop, rap cadences, and a genuinely odd melodic sense — '3 Nights' opened the door; the weirder stuff kept people inside.
Tenor saxophonist who made spiritual jazz a big-stage sound, with a large band, choir-scale arrangements and solos that take their time.
Guy and Howard Lawrence on the decks, playing the UK garage and vocal house their own crossover records grew out of.
Hardcore's joyful crossover kings — dreamy interludes, stage dives, total communion, and a crowd that moves as one.
Scott Hansen's sunlit instrumental electronica, here as a DJ set: warm synths, unhurried grooves and a designer's ear for mood.
Mack Keane
Singer-songwriter making smooth, jazz-inflected soul with an unhurried, late-night feel and a voice kept close to the mic.
Jacob Alon
Scottish singer-songwriter with a high, fragile voice and intricate fingerstyle guitar. The debut album In Limerence came out in 2025.
Self-produced spiritual soul — prickly, gorgeous, sui generis, chopped loops and layered self-harmonies that answer to nobody.
Vancouver-raised producer and singer with a full, low alto, writing post-genre songs that swing between club beats and electric-guitar confessionals.
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.
NYC's buzziest indie-dance trio — baggy house grooves with downtown cool, like Madchester relocated to a Chinatown basement.
Comedian and rapper in equal measure — the jokes are real and so, annoyingly, are the songs, beats from rap's A-list included.
Half of 100 gecs behind the decks — chaos engineering as a solo set, hyperpop's producer-in-chief running unfiltered.
GENA
Danish artist building weightless guitar-pop out of processed tones and near-whispered melody — uncanny-valley beauty rendered in high definition.
Alec Duckart's hushed, close-miked indie folk. The 2023 debut Guard Dog is quiet guitar and plain-spoken sadness.
Los Angeles pianist and producer whose own records drift into new age and soft tropical keyboard textures, with session credits including Solange.
NYC's most confrontational new band — spasmodic percussion-punk that levels rooms in twenty-minute bursts, and nothing else sounds like it.
A low, unhurried contralto over spare guitar — folk songwriting with the patience to let a room go completely quiet.
ear
Bedroom-made synth-soul that sounds like a lost '80s major-label record found on a warped cassette — Baltimore's finest recent export.
Bay Area hyperpop auteur — glitchy, hooky, scene-defining, 'Wallsocket' worldbuilding included, internet-native songwriting at its sharpest.
American DJ who spent a decade on widescreen club techno, then made a synth-pop record under her own name and kept doing both.
The selector's selector — Hessle Audio's omnivorous ear, no productions needed; a world-class reputation built purely on what he plays and how.
Ambient guitarist and producer who co-founded Envelop, the spatial-audio venue, and builds slow, shimmering drones for its speaker arrays.
Pianist and composer who leads the ensemble Bing & Ruth, writing slow, sustained piano music; recent records pair him with guitarist Steve Gunn.
Two ambient players together: Barwick's looped, wordless vocal layers drifting over Lattimore's pedal harp.
Quiet Light
Austin songwriter and producer pairing folk intimacy with ambient collage production and pop hooks, behind 'Blue Angel Sparkling Silver 2'.
George Lewis Jr.'s project: big-hearted synth-pop with a leather-jacket swagger, from the 2010 debut Forget onward.
Los Angeles duo Justine Dorsey and Graham Epstein, making dreamy, Y2K-tinted trip-pop out of breezy synths and hushed vocals.
Pop songs submerged and left there — vocals dissolving into blur, structure implied rather than stated.
Fela Kuti's youngest son fronts his father's old band, keeping Afrobeat long, horn-heavy and pointedly political.
SEES00000
Madrid's blissed-out bedroom-pop futurist — Spain's new wave in full flight, autotune used like watercolor, bedroom experiments gone continental.
The R&B shapeshifter who went fully independent and got better for it — mixtape-era instincts, dance-floor timing, and a catalogue deep enough to cherry-pick from all night.
Fifi
The headliners
Adrianne Lenker · The voice and pen behind Big Thief, playing her own songs: close finger-picked guitar and lyrics that notice everything. A solo set at 6:30 PM Friday, the start of the Amphitheater's evening run.
Blood Orange · Dev Hynes's velvety art-R&B — '80s soul textures, jazz chords, and quiet heartbreak from one of pop's most sought-after collaborators. Dev Hynes at 8:25 PM Friday, between Adrianne Lenker and Lorde in the Amphitheater.
Disclosure (DJ Set) · Guy and Howard Lawrence on the decks, playing the UK garage and vocal house their own crossover records grew out of. A 90-minute DJ set at the Vaults from 10:30 PM Saturday, before Ben UFO plays until 2 AM.
Dominic Fike · Florida songwriter splicing guitar-pop, rap cadences, and a genuinely odd melodic sense — '3 Nights' opened the door; the weirder stuff kept people inside. The only act on the Sunset Stage, 5:45 to 7:15 PM Saturday.
Geese · Unhinged Brooklyn art-rock — yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever. Friday at the Vaults, 9:30 PM, in the slot between Blood Orange and Lorde.
Kamasi Washington · Tenor saxophonist who made spiritual jazz a big-stage sound, with a large band, choir-scale arrangements and solos that take their time. An hour in the Amphitheater from 7:15 PM Saturday, straight after Dominic Fike.
Lorde · The NZ art-pop auteur — brooding, minimal, and generation-defining, back on a headline stage where the whispered verses hit hardest. Friday's closer in the Amphitheater, 10:30 PM.
Turnstile · Hardcore's joyful crossover kings — dreamy interludes, stage dives, total communion, and a crowd that moves as one. Sunday's closer: a 90-minute Amphitheater set from 8:00 PM.
Up-and-comers to catch early
keiyaA · Chicago experimental soul at the Vaults, 4:10 PM Friday.
Searows · Hushed Portland folk on the Fresh Finds Stage, 1:30 PM Saturday.
YHWH Nailgun · New York noise rock at the Vaults, 2:50 PM Saturday.
Annahstasia · Folk and soul carried by a deep, low voice, 3:40 PM Saturday in the Amphitheater.
Nourished by Time · Baltimore synth R&B, 5:00 PM Saturday in the Amphitheater.
The lineup by day
Friday lineup (October 9)
Adrianne Lenker, Blood Orange, Geese, Lorde, Dylan Brady, Fcukers + 7 more
Friday set times (13 sets)
- Tycho (DJ Set) · Vaults
- Mack Keane · Fresh Finds Stage
- Jacob Alon · Amphitheater
- keiyaA · Vaults
- Sophia Stel · Fresh Finds Stage
- MGNA Crrrta · Fresh Finds Stage
- Adrianne Lenker · Amphitheater
- Fcukers · Vaults
- Blood Orange · Amphitheater
- Geese · Vaults
- Lorde · Amphitheater
- Zack Fox · Vaults
- Dylan Brady · Vaults
Saturday lineup (October 10)
Disclosure (DJ Set), Dominic Fike, Kamasi Washington, Annahstasia, Avalon Emerson, Ben UFO + 9 more
Saturday set times (15 sets)
- Tycho (DJ Set) · Envelop
- GENA · Fresh Finds Stage
- ML Buch · Amphitheater
- Searows · Fresh Finds Stage
- John Carroll Kirby · Amphitheater
- YHWH Nailgun · Vaults
- Annahstasia · Amphitheater
- ear · Vaults
- Nourished by Time · Amphitheater
- Dominic Fike · Sunset Stage
- Kamasi Washington · Amphitheater
- Underscores · Vaults
- Avalon Emerson · Vaults
- Disclosure (DJ Set) · Vaults
- Ben UFO · Vaults
Sunday lineup (October 11)
Turnstile, After, Christopher Willits, David Moore, Fifi, James K + 7 more
Sunday set times (13 sets)
- Christopher Willits · Envelop
- David Moore · Vaults
- Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore · Amphitheater
- Quiet Light · Fresh Finds Stage
- Twin Shadow · Amphitheater
- After · Fresh Finds Stage
- James K · Vaults
- Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 · Amphitheater
- SEES00000 · Vaults
- Rusowsky · Amphitheater
- Tinashe (DJ Set) · Vaults
- Turnstile · Amphitheater
- Fifi · Vaults
FORM Arcosanti 2026 lineup FAQ
When is FORM Arcosanti 2026?
Friday October 9 through Sunday October 11, 2026.
Where is FORM held?
At Arcosanti, the experimental arcology town near Mayer, Arizona, north of Phoenix. Camping is on site, and the festival says car camping is included this year.
Who is headlining FORM Arcosanti 2026?
Lorde closes Friday and Turnstile closes Sunday, with Blood Orange, Geese, Adrianne Lenker, Kamasi Washington, Dominic Fike and a Disclosure DJ set at the top of the bill.
Are set times out for FORM Arcosanti 2026?
Yes. The festival has published a schedule for each day, and every act card here shows its day, stage and time. There are five stages: the Amphitheater, the Vaults, the Fresh Finds Stage, the Sunset Stage and Envelop.
How big is FORM?
The festival caps attendance at 2,500.
Is there more than music?
Yes. Arcology tours, morning yoga, guided hikes, pool parties with daytime DJs, hands-on workshops and site-specific art run all weekend. They are not listed as acts on this page.
Where do I get FORM tickets?
Through Ticketmaster, linked from the festival's own site. The festival lists its glamping and RV packages as sold out.
How do I work out which acts I'd like?
Tell the finder at the top of this page a few bands you love. It'll match you with the acts on this lineup you shouldn't miss, with reasons why.
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