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Kilby Block Party 2027 Lineup
Three days of indie and alternative at the Utah State Fairpark in Salt Lake City, with Deftones, The Strokes and Jungle at the top.
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About Kilby Block Party 2027
Kilby Block Party 2027 runs Friday May 14 to Sunday May 16 at the Utah State Fairpark in Salt Lake City, the festival that grew out of the small Kilby Court venue. Deftones headline Friday, The Strokes Saturday and Jungle Sunday, with Fontaines D.C., Slayyyter and Lil Yachty in the slot below each.
63 acts are named so far, and the middle of the bill is where the booking shows: IDLES, Spoon, Two Door Cinema Club, Weyes Blood, Kim Gordon, Julien Baker and Wednesday, then a long tail of punk and post-punk from Iceage, Sextile, Lip Critic and Prostitute. Salt Lake City's Choir Boy is on it. Only the top two rows have days so far, and there are no set times.
Expect indie rock, alternative, post-punk and punk across 63 acts.
At a glance
- Dates
- –Friday to Sunday, three days
- Where
- Utah State Fairpark, Salt Lake City, UT
- Lineup
- 63 acts
- Hours
- Gates open daily at 11:30am and each day runs until about 10:30pm.
- Ages
- All ages. Tickets are required for everyone over 2, and children under 2 get in free.
- Website
- Official site
Kilby Block Party 2027 lineup: all 63 acts
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The band that rebooted New York rock, with a deep catalog of deadpan cool, still untouchable live when the engine catches.
Indie rock
London production duo working in stacked falsetto and clipped disco guitar, with videos built around single-take dance routines.
Electronic
Dublin's poet-punks grown into arena-scale alt-rock: 'Romance' made them era-defining, swagger and melancholy in equal Irish measure.
Post-punkAlt-rock
Glitter-and-grit dance-pop: Y2K excess reborn as main-stage camp, played with total commitment to the fantasy.
HyperpopDance-pop
Atlanta's shape shifter, from bubblegum trap to a full psych rock detour, and never quite where you last left him.
Hip-hopPsych-rock
Nick Rattigan's bedroom recordings grew into something cinematic without losing the tape hiss, and the result is earnest, aching songs with the reverb turned all the way up.
Indie rockLo-fi
London group led by Alexis Taylor and Joe Goddard, pairing tender vocals with dancefloor synths on tracks like 'Over and Over' and 'Ready for the Floor'.
Electronic
Bristol post-punk built on solidarity and volume, with a live show closer to a group therapy riot, all sweat, hugs, and howled affirmations.
Post-punkPunk
Southern California's most efficient punk band has two-minute songs, enormous hooks, and sets that are over before you've settled in.
PunkEmoPower pop
Memphis songwriter who builds from spare guitar to cathartic crescendos, writing about faith, addiction and recovery with blunt candour.
Indie rockSinger-songwriter
Sonic Youth's icon in her uncompromising solo era, with trap-damaged noise and total cool, more experimental now than most bands ever manage.
Experimental rockNo wave
Philly's laconic guitar rambler, with hazy, endless-highway rock and songs that amble past the seven-minute mark like it's nothing.
Heartland psych
Upstate New York duo pairing Sarah Barthel's cool delivery with beats that hit considerably harder live, and 'When I'm Small' is still the entry point.
Electro-rockTrip-hop
Fuzz-forward LA alt-rock with Brian Aubert's androgynous yelp cutting through the swirl, and 'Lazy Eye' still the slow-burn standard.
Alt-rockShoegaze
Austin's most consistent band, with two decades of taut, groove-first indie rock and zero wasted notes.
Indie rock
Chicago garage-rock loyalty (loose, warm, hometown-beloved), with Grateful Dead ease at garage-band volume, the city's easiest hang.
Garage rock
Northern Irish trio whose Tourist History riffs still do the work, bright interlocking guitars built for a field at sunset.
Indie-rockIndie-pop
Asheville's country-gaze storytellers with lap steel, feedback, and busted-truck poetry, narrating the South's weird corners in high fidelity.
Country-gaze
Natalie Mering's project, a contralto voice set against orchestral pop arrangements that owe as much to 1970s AM radio as to the noise scene she came up in.
Indie
Raw-nerve UK rock, with Cobain-worn songwriting building a serious cult, intensity that reads as truth, a band critics keep underestimating upward.
Indie-rockAlt-rock
Annabelle Dinda
Philadelphia singer-songwriter moving between guitar and piano, with songs that keep the close, homemade intimacy of bedroom pop.
Alternative folk
Bradford Cox's solo outlet away from Deerhunter: looped guitars, drifting ambient haze and pop songs half-dissolved into reverb.
Indie rockDream-pop
AUXO.
Argentina's beloved indie-pop romantics, with silky, synthy heartache anthems that made them a fixture of Latin America's festival circuit.
Latin indie-pop
Bee Blackwell
Austin rock artist who moved from bedroom indie pop on TikTok to emo hooks, industrial production and horror-inspired storytelling.
EmoAlt-rock
Bonneville
Songwriter who traded early rootsy Americana for wry, satirical synth-pop on Loner, later turning more inward on The Art of Forgetting.
Alternative
Adam Klopp's falsetto over sax-flecked '80s pastiche that lands as sincere rather than kitsch: Salt Lake City synth-pop with a choirboy's ache, literally.
Dream-popSynth-pop
Cool Banana
Buenos Aires rapper who came up through the city's trap scene and swung hard toward punk and rock on 'Por cesárea'. Dark humour delivered with a sneer.
Hip-hop
Danish-Portuguese singer reviving late-'90s R&B production with an almost whispered delivery, soft-spoken songs with an uncanny period-perfect gloss.
Alt-R&B
LA psych-punk perpetual motion machine with relentless krautrock grooves and fuzz freakouts that never let the tempo sag.
Psych rockGarage
Gapyear
Salt Lake City band drawing on midwest emo and screamo, setting melodic emo songwriting against screamo's harsher, shouted edge.
Rock
Scrappy, hook-stuffed bedroom electro-pop with real wit: Brooklyn miniatures that do more in two minutes than most albums manage.
Electro-pop
Burlington's cracked-country rocker, with road-worn songs that lurch and soar, scuffed-up guitar poetry in the Lenderman school.
Indie rock
Heathers
Started as teenage hardcore and grew into something ragged and grand, with swaggering, unstable post-punk and a frontman who performs like the floor might give way.
Post-punkArt punk
Lillies
Brooklyn band with two drummers and a sampler, firing hardcore-punk shouting over chopped, rave-speed electronic beats.
PunkElectronic
Atlanta duo whose bedroom-folk beginnings curdled into something jagged and theatrical, with close-harmony sweetness undercut by lurching, deliberately unlovely guitars.
Indie rockArt-pop
Madra Salach
Alternative
Buffalo band led by Jonathan Donahue, whose 1998 album Deserter's Songs traded early noise for orchestral, fairy-tale psychedelia. Strings, saws and a fragile high voice.
Alternative
Olympic Deth
Punk
Aaron Maine's project, moving from scrappy guitar indie into the cool, sparse electronic pop of Pool, with deadpan vocals over muted drum machines.
Alternative
Detroit noise-punk provocation that is confrontational and magnetic, a live show that dares you to look away.
Post-punkNoise
Quiet Light
Austin songwriter and producer pairing folk intimacy with ambient collage production and pop hooks, behind 'Blue Angel Sparkling Silver 2'.
Indie popFolkElectronic
Sprawling Michigan collective making horn-swelling, patient indie rock that earned an instant cult, with chamber-band arrangements and real payoff.
Indie rockCollective
Rally
Chicago indie rock at its warmest: twangy, generous, quietly great, a band critics keep discovering all over again.
Indie rock
Fuzzy garage-punk with blown-out guitars and short, loud songs.
PunkGarage
Rocket
Alternative
Roo Nostalgia
Hip-hop
Seeking the Sun
Rock
LA duo splicing goth-punk guitars into rave tempos, built for a sweaty room, not a seated one, eyeliner running by song three.
Post-punkElectro-punk
Stage Fright
Johan Duncanson's long-running group of murmured vocals over fuzzy guitars and drum machines, with 'Pet Grief' and 'Clinging to a Scheme' as high points and a pointed political streak in later records.
Pop
Tokyo Tea Room
Indie pop
Truman Sinclair
Los Angeles songwriter and producer, formerly of the farwest emo band Frat Mouse, whose homemade debut album is American Recordings.
EmoFolk
Victoryland
Julian McCamman's project with producer Dan Howard; My Heart Is A Room With No Cameras In It drew Pitchfork comparisons to The New Pornographers.
Rock
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
Chicago band led by Julien Ehrlich and Max Kakacek, built on Ehrlich's fragile falsetto and warm, horn-flecked soft rock ever since 'No Woman'.
Alternative
Montreal indie rock institution with jittery, anthemic songs from two of Canada's best songwriters, home-field advantage included and audible.
Indie rock
The headliners
Deftones · The band that dragged heaviness toward dream-pop: Chino Moreno's croon-to-scream over guitars tuned for atmosphere as much as impact. Heavy guitars pulled toward dream-pop, with Chino Moreno moving from croon to scream, on Friday.
The Strokes · The band that rebooted New York rock, with a deep catalog of deadpan cool, still untouchable live when the engine catches. Deadpan New York rock with a deep catalog, on Saturday.
Jungle · London production duo working in stacked falsetto and clipped disco guitar, with videos built around single-take dance routines. Stacked falsetto and clipped disco guitar, closing Sunday.
Up-and-comers to catch early
Westside Cowboy · Scrappy, hook-first Manchester guitar band.
Lip Critic · Two drummers and a sampler, hardcore shouting over rave-speed electronics.
Greg Freeman · Cracked country rock from Burlington, songs that lurch and then soar.
Choir Boy · Falsetto over sax-flecked 80s synth-pop, the Salt Lake City act on the bill.Racing Mount Pleasant · A Michigan collective making patient, horn-swelled indie rock.
Other acts worth planning around
Fontaines D.C. · Dublin post-punk grown into arena alt-rock.
IDLES · Loud, communal Bristol post-punk.
Weyes Blood · A contralto voice over orchestral 70s-style pop.
Kim Gordon · Noisy, trap-damaged experimental rock from her uncompromising solo run.
Kilby Block Party 2027 lineup FAQ
When is Kilby Block Party 2027?
Friday May 14 to Sunday May 16, 2027.
Where is Kilby Block Party held?
The Utah State Fairpark in Salt Lake City.
Who is headlining Kilby Block Party 2027?
Deftones headline Friday, The Strokes Saturday and Jungle Sunday.
How many acts are playing?
63 acts are named so far.
Are day-by-day lineups or set times published?
Partly. The headliners and the next row have days (Fontaines D.C. on Friday, Slayyyter on Saturday, Lil Yachty on Sunday), but the rest of the bill has no day yet and there are no set times.
Is Kilby Block Party all ages?
Yes. Everyone over 2 needs a ticket, and children under 2 get in free. Gates open daily at 11:30am and each day runs until about 10:30pm.
How do I work out which acts I'd like?
Type a few artists you already love into the search at the top of this page and you'll get ranked matches, with reasons.
What time does Kilby Block Party 2027 start and end?
Gates open daily at 11:30am and each day runs until about 10:30pm.
When is Kilby Block Party 2028?
Not announced yet. This page carries Kilby Block Party 2027 and will carry the 2028 edition as soon as the festival announces it.
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