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Hinterland 2026 Lineup
Four days in an Iowa river valley with a lineup that punches far above the cornfields.
Hinterland 2026 has already wrapped, but you can still dig through the lineup and find the acts you would have loved.
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About Hinterland 2026
Hinterland is the rare festival whose setting does half the work: a natural amphitheater cut into an Iowa river valley in St. Charles, half an hour south of Des Moines, where the crowd spends the afternoon on a grass hillside and the sun goes down behind the stage. The 2026 edition runs four days and just 48 acts (a deliberately small bill by festival standards, and one of the most tightly curated in the country). KATSEYE, Lorde, Mumford & Sons, and Kali Uchis take a night each, and the rest reads like a critic's watchlist: Jane Remover and Ashnikko on Thursday, MUNA and Paris Paloma on Friday, a Format reunion on Saturday, Wet Leg and Geese closing out Sunday. Twelve acts a day means almost nothing worth seeing runs against something else you wanted.
Expect alt-pop, alternative, indie rock and hip-hop across 48 acts.
At a glance
- Dates
- – Thursday to Sunday, four days
- Where
- Avenue of the Saints Amphitheater, St. Charles, IA
- Lineup
- 48 acts
- Website
- Official site
Hinterland 2026 lineup & schedule: all 48 acts
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The NZ art-pop auteur is brooding, minimal, and generation-defining, back on a headline stage where the whispered verses hit hardest.
Art-popSynth-pop
Banjo-driven crescendos that defined a decade of festival folk, now delivered with the electric guitars left plugged in. The singalongs are never optional.
Folk rockIndie folk
Velvet-toned bilingual soul that drifts between doo-wop pastiche and perreo without ever raising its voice, with 'Telepatía' cool as a permanent state.
Neo-soulReggaeton
Warm-hearted indie folk on the undercard.
Alternative
Sibling NYC hyperpop chaos agents, glitchy, funny, and relentless, with a live set that plays like a timeline scrolled at maximum speed.
HyperpopElectro
Digicore prodigy turned noise-pop auteur, abrasive and gorgeous at once, with walls of distortion hiding devastating melody.
Glitch-popShoegaze
Gossamer French avant-pop with choral synths and whispered melody, songs that feel lit by candles and screens at once.
Ethereal pop
Duo Beats
Hip-hop
Sludgy, low-slung R&B where the rapping and the singing keep swapping places mid-verse, with New Jersey cool and an experimentalist's disregard for genre lines.
Alt-R&BHip-hop
Iowa punk with the tempo pinned and the melodies sharper than the fuzz lets on, backed by Midwest DIY-scene devotion earned over years.
PunkPop-punk
Blue-haired, cartoon-maximalist rap-pop that's funnier and nastier than the pop-punk it borrows guitars from, with internet-bred provocation and genuine hooks underneath.
Alt-popHip-hop
Fuzzy '90s-leaning indie-pop grown into lush, easy songcraft, going from bedroom demos to Rick Rubin sessions without losing the diary-page intimacy.
Indie pop90s alt
Bedroom-made synth-soul that sounds like a lost '80s major-label record found on a warped cassette, and Baltimore's finest recent export.
Alt-R&BSynth-pop
Chicago darkwave built for a warehouse, with icy synth throb under commands delivered somewhere between seduction and threat, leather-clad and fully in control.
DarkwaveEbm
Saint Avangeline
Alternative
Crooked Torus
Alternative
Shoegaze revived by someone who found it online, with vocals buried so far in the wash they read as another guitar.
ShoegazeDream-pop
Viral dark art-pop with spoken-word menace over strings, Gen Z's gothic conscience with a scalpel for a pen.
Dark art-pop
Sarah Tonin
Singer/songwriter
Mythic, incantatory folk-pop: 'Labour' made her the internet's feminist bard, and the deeper catalog keeps the incantation going.
Dark folk-pop
Iowa's gem-sweater laureate turning regional-craft-fair aesthetics into a genuinely committed electro-rap spectacle, bedazzled and completely straight-faced.
Electro-popComedy
Lo-fi electroclash duo with distorted synths and detached vocals for the afterparty, Detroit cool for the post-everything generation.
ElectroclashHyperpop
Life-affirming queer synth-pop with 'Silk Chiffon' joy and serious writing chops, and the best live banter in pop included.
Synth-pop
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
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.
ElectronicHyper-pop club
Irish folk trio with hushed three-part harmonies and homesick story-songs that have been quietly filling rooms far bigger than anyone expected.
Folk
Teenage Arkansas country prodigy with porch-honest writing in the Zach Bryan lineage, wise beyond the birth certificate.
Country
Derry & the Dirty Dishes
Children's music
Moody, guitar-flecked alt-pop with a whisper-to-hook delivery: quiet verses that detonate into choruses, with diary-page lyrics under the gloss.
Alt-pop
Homemade organ-and-drum-machine racket paired with puppet theatre, and neither half is the gimmick. New Orleans outsider genius, decades running.
Garage punkSwamp-tech
Irish country-pop with a wicked sense of humor and a bigger voice, and a riotous live show that swings from comedy to gut-punch inside one chorus.
Alt-country-pop
Genre-collapsing alt-pop pioneer, from 'L.E.S. Artistes' to now, always ahead, with new wave and dancehall in one voice.
Alt-popNew wave
Nate Ruess before fun. Horn-flecked, sincere power-pop that reunion crowds have waited fifteen years to hear, and sing accordingly.
Indie-popPower-pop
A rasp built for heartbreak, dragging country songwriting through trap drums and open-wound honesty, with genre lines treated as suggestions.
Country-popAlt-R&B
Four-part harmony and clean guitar tone make for indie rock that would rather groove than shout, a Birmingham blend at golden hour.
Indie-popBlue-eyed soul
Buffalo Traffic Jam
Folk
Genre-hopping duo bringing club heat.
Alternative
Devastatingly specific lyrics (the kind that name a brand or a street) sung with unnerving composure, and screamed back by devoted crowds.
Indie rockSinger-songwriter
Wry, conversational pop songwriting from Gracie Abrams's longtime collaborator turned solo act, with diaristic detail delivered with sharp comic timing.
PopSinger-songwriter
Deadpan dance-party songs for children that adults keep showing up to anyway, with matching tracksuits, full commitment, and zero cynicism.
KidsDance-pop
Hazy, vintage-toned dream-pop: cinematic sad-girl songs with a wink, screen-star mystique earning its music credentials.
Dream-pop
A comic-book artist's approach to songwriting: rambling, funny, illustrated narratives that outstay their welcome on purpose, and win you over anyway.
AntifolkIndie rock
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
Unhinged Brooklyn art-rock that is yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever.
Indie rockArt-rock
Puerto Rico's coolest export: playful, effortlessly viral reggaeton delivered with a skater's shrug and charisma that needs no translation.
ReggaetonLatin trap
Austin's instrument-swapping all-women punk-metal wrecking crew, where everyone plays everything and it all lands at full force.
PunkMetal
Post-hardcore that knows exactly when to stop shouting, with dynamics doing the damage the volume can't, Pixies nerve inside hardcore muscle.
Post-hardcoreNoise rock
The headliners
KATSEYE · The global girl group assembled through a televised search, built on K-pop discipline but writing for a Western pop chart.
Lorde · The NZ art-pop auteur is brooding, minimal, and generation-defining, back on a headline stage where the whispered verses hit hardest.
Mumford & Sons · Banjo-driven crescendos that defined a decade of festival folk, now delivered with the electric guitars left plugged in. The singalongs are never optional.
Kali Uchis · Velvet-toned bilingual soul that drifts between doo-wop pastiche and perreo without ever raising its voice, with 'Telepatía' cool as a permanent state.
Up-and-comers to catch early
Jane Remover · Digicore's most restless mind, four reinventions deep and still only getting louder.
Wisp · Shoegaze rediscovered by someone who found it online, and it holds up at festival volume.
Nourished by Time · A one-man Baltimore synth-soul operation; melancholy you can dance to.
Ninajirachi · Australia's sharpest young club producer, building sets like levels in a game.
Audrey Hobert · Gracie Abrams's longtime co-writer out front on her own, and much funnier than the songs let on.
Lipstick Homicide · Iowa's own, opening the weekend: the fastest twenty-five minutes of Thursday.
Other acts worth planning around
The Format · Fifteen years dormant, back on a Saturday bill; expect the loudest singalong of the weekend.
MUNA · The best pure-joy set on the lineup, and they know exactly where to put it in the night.
Wet Leg · Two records in, now a genuinely loud rock band rather than a novelty from the Isle of Wight.
Santigold · Fifteen years of pop dispatches that plenty of people have borrowed from and nobody has matched.
CMAT · The funniest performer here, with the biggest voice on the bill attached.
Leslie & The Ly's · An Iowa institution, and the strangest set anyone will see all weekend. Go.Geese · A band that treats every song as a chance to derail it live, never the same set twice.
- Quintron & Miss Pussycat · Homemade organ, drum machine, and puppet theatre; nothing else on this bill is remotely like it.
The lineup by day
Thursday lineup (July 30)
KATSEYE, beabadoobee, ASHNIKKO, AUDREY NUNA, Oklou, Jane Remover + 6 more
Thursday set times (12 sets)
- Porch Light · Main
- Frost Children · Main
- Jane Remover · Main
- Oklou · Main
- Duo Beats · Miniland
- AUDREY NUNA · Main
- Lipstick Homicide · Miniland
- ASHNIKKO · Main
- beabadoobee · Main
- KATSEYE · Main
- Nourished by Time · Campfire
- Pixel Grip · Campfire
Friday lineup (July 31)
Lorde, MUNA, Snow Strippers, Paris Paloma, SOFIA ISELLA, Wisp + 6 more
Friday set times (12 sets)
- Saint Avangeline · Main
- Crooked Torus · Miniland
- Wisp · Main
- SOFIA ISELLA · Main
- Sarah Tonin · Miniland
- Paris Paloma · Main
- Leslie & The Ly's · Miniland
- Snow Strippers · Main
- MUNA · Main
- Lorde · Main
- Between Friends · Campfire
- Ninajirachi · Campfire
Saturday lineup (August 1)
Mumford & Sons, Jessie Murph, The Format, Santigold, CMAT, Julia Wolf + 6 more
Saturday set times (12 sets)
- Amble · Main
- Waylon Wyatt · Main
- Derry & the Dirty Dishes · Miniland
- Julia Wolf · Main
- Quintron & Miss Pussycat · Miniland
- CMAT · Main
- Santigold · Main
- The Format · Main
- Jessie Murph · Main
- Mumford & Sons · Main
- The Brook & The Bluff · Campfire
- Buffalo Traffic Jam · Campfire
Sunday lineup (August 2)
Kali Uchis, Young Miko, Geese, Wet Leg, Suki Waterhouse, Samia + 6 more
Sunday set times (12 sets)
- Haute & Freddy · Main
- Samia · Main
- Audrey Hobert · Main
- Koo Koo · Miniland
- Suki Waterhouse · Main
- Jeffery Lewis · Miniland
- Wet Leg · Main
- Geese · Main
- Young Miko · Main
- Kali Uchis · Main
- Die Spitz · Campfire
- Gouge Away · Campfire
Hinterland 2026 lineup FAQ
When is Hinterland 2026?
July 30–August 2, 2026 (Thursday through Sunday).
Where does Hinterland take place?
Avenue of the Saints Amphitheater in St. Charles, Iowa, about thirty minutes south of Des Moines.
Who is headlining Hinterland 2026?
KATSEYE (Thursday), Lorde (Friday), Mumford & Sons (Saturday), and Kali Uchis (Sunday).
How many acts are playing Hinterland 2026?
48 acts across four days: twelve a day, which is what makes the weekend walkable.
Are Hinterland set times out?
Yes. Every act's day and set time is on this page. Save the ones you want and they become your own running order.
How do I figure out which of the 48 acts I'd actually like?
Tell the finder at the top of this page a few bands you love, and it'll match you with your must-see sets, with reasons why.
When is Hinterland 2027?
Hinterland is expected back in July 2027; the festival has not announced the 2027 dates yet. The 2026 lineup stays on this page until it does.
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