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Hinterland 2027 Lineup
Three days on a grass hillside south of Des Moines, with Slayyyter, Phoebe Bridgers and Billy Strings each taking a night.
Tickets go on sale November 13 at 5:00 PM.
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About Hinterland 2027
Hinterland returns to St. Charles, half an hour south of Des Moines, for its twelfth year, July 30 to August 1, 2027. The festival now calls its grounds Roaming Hills, and it is back to three days after 2026's four. One name tops each night: Slayyyter on Friday, Phoebe Bridgers on Saturday and Billy Strings on Sunday.
The days split cleanly by sound. Friday is pop with an edge (Remi Wolf, Caroline Polachek, Ashe, Tiffany Day). Saturday leans indie and bedroom pop (Malcolm Todd, The Backseat Lovers, underscores, Westside Cowboy). Sunday turns country, with Zach Top, Stephen Wilson Jr., Avery Anna and Wade Forster before Billy Strings. Twenty-four acts are on the bill so far, each placed on a day.
Expect country, indie rock, alt-pop and pop across 24 acts.
At a glance
- Dates
- – Friday to Sunday, three days
- Where
- Roaming Hills, St. Charles, IA
- Lineup
- 24 acts
- On sale
- November 13 at 5:00 PM
- Website
- Official site
Hinterland 2027 lineup & schedule: all 24 acts
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Los Angeles songwriter with a near-whispered delivery and a gift for the devastating small detail, also a third of boygenius.
Indie rockIndie folk
Michigan-raised flatpicking guitarist who pulls traditional bluegrass into long, psychedelic jams, with Grammy-winning records and sets that stretch songs well past their written length.
Country
California pop songwriter behind the piano heartbreak of "Moral of the Story", writing cinematic ballads about the mess that follows the big romantic gesture.
PopIndie pop
Art-pop with a trained, acrobatic voice at the centre, swooping between yodels and choirboy clarity over glossy, strange production.
Art-popAlt-pop
Irish indie four-piece with harmony-rich guitar pop on a steep rise, carrying the Cranberries torch for a new generation.
Indie rock
judith
Bilingual alt-pop from a singer raised by Mexican and Honduran parents in a strict Midwestern church community, trading in sarcastic wordplay and good-girl-gone-defiant hooks.
PopAlt-pop
Funk-soaked alt-pop from Palo Alto, sung in a big elastic voice that never picks one color when six will do. 'Juno' and 'Big Ideas' are the albums.
Alt-popFunk
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
Yes, Dave's daughter, and a genuinely arresting voice striking her own path, closer to torch song than stadium rock.
Alt-rockSinger-songwriter
Emma Ogier
Houston songwriter who started writing as a teenager during the pandemic, with lyrics that move between abstract reflection and plainly spoken truths.
Singer/songwriter
Kentucky songwriter making intimate, confessional folk pop with an alt-country lean, his songs more about overthinking than hometown pride.
Country
Kinji
One-man Iowa bedroom-pop project of Cooper Kinjiro Sifert, who writes, plays and mixes everything himself: layered, self-harmonized downtempo with a pastoral, lo-fi haze.
Bedroom popIndie
Funk-flecked Gen-Z bedroom pop: 'Chest Pain (I Love)' and a fast-rising live rep, Steve Lacy instincts with his own snap.
Indie popR&B
Utah four-piece whose long, slow-building guitar songs ("Kilby Girl" first among them) swell from a mumble into a full-band roar.
Indie rockAlternative
Bay Area hyperpop auteur, glitchy, hooky and scene-defining, with 'Wallsocket' worldbuilding included and internet-native songwriting at its sharpest.
HyperpopAlt
Manchester's buzzy new guitar gang are scrappy, hook-first and rising fast on word of mouth, and the hype is earning itself.
Indie rock
Arizona-raised songwriter who broke through online, singing heartbreak country with a crack left in it.
Country
Boston hardcore named for the city's 617 area code and fronted by Austin Sparkman, carrying the local pit-first tradition from a 2024 debut on DAZE to a 2026 album on Roadrunner.
Hardcore
Nick Carpenter's project out of Alaska, pairing wry, confessional lyrics with lo-fi indie that leans country one minute and rock and roll the next.
Indie folkIndie rock
Liberian-born, Chattanooga-raised songwriter making what he calls Afro-Appalachian folk: soft-spoken banjo songs about displacement and hope.
Indie folkFolk
Former boxer and biochemist turned country songwriter, writing grunge-shaded Americana about grief and Indiana, delivered with a scientist's precision and a fighter's heart.
CountryAmericana
Rodeo cowboy from Winton in outback Queensland who still ropes and steer-wrestles between gigs, singing plainspoken Australian country about the life he lives.
Country
The 90s-country revival in one pompadour, with pure Keith Whitley-school neotraditionalism that made retro the hottest sound in Nashville.
Country
The headliners
Slayyyter · Glitter-and-grit dance-pop: Y2K excess reborn as main-stage camp, played with total commitment to the fantasy. Friday's headliner, with glossy, loud dance-pop.
Phoebe Bridgers · Los Angeles songwriter with a near-whispered delivery and a gift for the devastating small detail, also a third of boygenius. Saturday's headliner.
Billy Strings · Michigan-raised flatpicking guitarist who pulls traditional bluegrass into long, psychedelic jams, with Grammy-winning records and sets that stretch songs well past their written length. Closing the weekend on Sunday with long bluegrass jams.
Up-and-comers to catch early
- judith · Bilingual alt-pop full of sarcastic wordplay, on Friday.
- Kinji · An Iowa one-man bedroom-pop project, layered and hazy, on Saturday.
Violet Grohl · A striking rock voice stepping out on her own, on Friday.
Wade Forster · An Australian rodeo cowboy turned country singer, on Sunday.
Other acts worth planning around
Caroline Polachek · Art-pop and a remarkable voice, on Friday.
Zach Top · Nineties-style country, second on Sunday.
The lineup by day
Friday lineup (July 30)
Slayyyter, Remi Wolf, Caroline Polachek, Ashe, Tiffany Day, Florence Road + 2 more
Saturday lineup (July 31)
Phoebe Bridgers, Malcolm Todd, The Backseat Lovers, underscores, Joshua Slone, Emma Ogier + 2 more
Sunday lineup (August 1)
Billy Strings, Zach Top, Stephen Wilson Jr., Avery Anna, Mon Rovîa, Wade Forster + 2 more
Hinterland 2027 lineup FAQ
When is Hinterland 2027?
Friday July 30 to Sunday August 1, 2027.
Where is Hinterland?
At Roaming Hills in St. Charles, Iowa, about 30 minutes south of Des Moines.
Who is headlining Hinterland 2027?
Slayyyter on Friday, Phoebe Bridgers on Saturday and Billy Strings on Sunday.
When do Hinterland 2027 tickets go on sale?
Friday, November 13, 2026, through Front Gate Tickets. The presale opens at 11am Central with codes sent to people who signed up.
Who plays Friday at Hinterland 2027?
Friday, July 30: Slayyyter, Remi Wolf, Caroline Polachek, Ashe, Tiffany Day, Florence Road, plus 2 more acts.
Who plays Saturday at Hinterland 2027?
Saturday, July 31: Phoebe Bridgers, Malcolm Todd, The Backseat Lovers, underscores, Joshua Slone, Emma Ogier, plus 2 more acts.
Who plays Sunday at Hinterland 2027?
Sunday, August 1: Billy Strings, Zach Top, Stephen Wilson Jr., Avery Anna, Mon Rovîa, Wade Forster, plus 2 more acts.
Are Hinterland 2027 set times out yet?
Not yet. The lineup is split by day below, and set times are still to come. The alert on this page emails you when they're out.
When is Hinterland 2028?
Not announced yet. This page carries Hinterland 2027 and will carry the 2028 edition as soon as the festival announces it.
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