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Lollapalooza is the big one: four days, eight stages, and the Chicago skyline rising behind Grant Park. The 2026 edition stacks 172 acts into pop's widest tent, with art-pop royalty and brat-era chaos up top, tech-house and K-pop taking over whole afternoons, and a small-print undercard that quietly holds next year's breakouts. Chicago threads itself through the weekend, from John Summit's hometown-hero main-stage set to The Smashing Pumpkins in their own backyard to the Chicago Youth Symphony Orchestra's traditional opener. It's a festival you navigate rather than simply attend, which is exactly why it pays to know your must-sees before you walk through the gates.
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Chicago's own tech-house superstar, bringing main-stage house music with hometown-hero energy and the biggest crossover run the genre has seen in years.
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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-pop
Chicago's alt-rock monument, with Mellon Collie-scale guitars at home in Grant Park and Corgan drama at full wingspan.
Alt-rock
Pop's reigning vanguardist and the brat era's architect, bringing club-pop chaos to the main stage as a decade of underground experiments finally cashes out at scale.
PopHyperpop
The UK's warmest new pop-soul voice, with effortless, jazz-schooled songwriting that's conquered charts on both sides of the Atlantic and charm fully intact live.
Pop-soulNeo-soul
BLACKPINK's coolest-in-the-room star gone solo, bringing sleek K-pop, R&B, and fashion-week poise at main-stage scale, with solo hits that stand on their own.
K-popR&B
Dancer-first pop stardom with precision choreography and inescapable hooks, delivered at full sprint with a dance captain's discipline.
Pop
Whispered minimalism that somehow fills a festival field, with intimacy at headline scale and 'Intro' still raising arm hair.
Indie electronicMinimal pop
Sydney pop-rock veterans who long outgrew their boy-band billing, with arena-sized hooks, real instruments, and a pop-punk past that still sneaks into the setlist.
Pop-rock
Dev Hynes's velvety art-R&B, with '80s soul textures, jazz chords, and quiet heartbreak from one of pop's most sought-after collaborators.
art-R&BIndie soul
Theatrical Aussie synth-pop royalty with headdresses, spectacle, and 'Walking on a Dream' euphoria, a duo that treats every festival set as full-scale cinematic ritual.
Synth-popElectro-pop
Moody, reverb-soaked alt-pop from a Manhattan teenager who went from bedroom demos to festival bills: heartbreak at streaming scale.
Alt-popBedroom pop
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
Drum and bass supergroup of Sub Focus, Dimension, Culture Shock and 1991, four UK producers trading tracks in one long, rolling back-to-back set built for big rooms.
Drum-and-bassElectronic
Swedish pop machinery at its shiniest, from 'Lush Life' to main-character bangers, delivered with total command.
PopDance-pop
UK alt-rock provocateur, theatrical, communal, and louder every year, with a fanbase that treats shows like family reunions.
Alt-rockPop-punk
Mosh-pit-summoning Philly superstar bringing melodic rage rap at festival scale, with a hits run that turns fields into trampolines.
Hip-hopRage
Anonymous collective making orchestral hip-hop spectacle. The mystery is the point, and the strings are real.
Alternative
Diplo's dancehall-electronic party machine is pure festival serotonin, with 'Lean On' and a dozen more global smashes in one set.
DancehallElectronic
Gangsta rap's most technically devastating voice, with cold-blooded bars over soul loops and 'Alfredo' and 'Bandana' as modern-classic proof.
Hip-hop
'Mutt' made him R&B's breakout craftsman, with a producer-writer's touch and a showman's voice, years of behind-the-scenes credits finally center stage.
R&B
Pusha T and Malice, reunited: coke-rap scripture over pristine beats, one of rap's great comebacks and a masterclass in brotherly chemistry.
Hip-hopCoke-rap
Monochrome California moodiness: 'Sweater Weather' and a decade of slow-burn alt-pop, reunited for a generation that streamed them into legend.
Alt-rockDark pop
Southern-gothic epics: hymn-like, haunted Americana that turns festival fields reverent, with the 'Preacher's Daughter' mythology unfolding at its own patient pace.
Southern gothicSlowcore-pop
Unhinged Brooklyn art-rock that is yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever.
Indie rockArt-rock
Technicolor disco-house with relentless fun, zero pretension, and hooks big enough to convert whoever wandered past the stage.
Disco-house
Life-affirming queer synth-pop with 'Silk Chiffon' joy and serious writing chops, and the best live banter in pop included.
Synth-pop
Midwest emo's chaotic favorites bring screamed choruses, absurd song titles, real feelings, and a crowd that knows every word including the yelps.
EmoPop-punk
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
Hardcore's joyful crossover kings, with dreamy interludes, stage dives, total communion, and a crowd that moves as one.
HardcoreAlt
Hyper-futurist K-pop with metallic drops, AI-avatar lore, and immaculate execution, and 'Next Level' and 'Supernova' proving experimental concepts can still conquer charts.
K-pop
EDM-pop juggernauts: the closers everyone knows every word to, 'Closer' included, obviously, a hits run that never left the radio.
EDM-pop
Rock
Los Angeles bass and UK garage, built for the sound-system end of the room, with an underground following and cosigns from Disclosure, Fred Again and Hamdi.
Dance
Helsinki group building weightless pop from processed vocals and glitching, homemade-sounding production, with sweetness and the edges left rough.
Indie pop
Moroccan-Canadian vocal powerhouse with dramatic, belt-heavy pop and runs that stop scrollers mid-thumb, technique that turns ballads into main events.
Pop
St Albans songwriter, better known to most as a screen actor, writing spare guitar songs under her own name.
Singer/songwriter
Houston-based duo of cousins Tanner and Sylas Morgan, first formed in Reno, mixing heavy bass music with hip-hop and rap vocals.
Dubstep
Atlanta group that came together in 2022, working a guitar-led strain of indie rock.
Alternative
Pop

Chicago indie rock four-piece formed in 2022 by former high school classmates, who built a following from open mics up; their second album is 'When the Lights Went Out'.
Alternative
Hyperspeed UK power-pop with Ramones velocity and Strokes melody, two-minute songs played like the venue is on fire.
Power-pop punk
Dark, cinematic bass and techno crossovers from the LA underground, where trap-schooled drops are recast in warehouse shadows.
ElectronicBass
Anthemic Irish folk-rock with banjo-driven singalongs built for fields, from Limerick lads on a steep national rise.
Folk-rock
Redlands, California singer and multi-instrumentalist folding psychedelic textures, R&B and jazz-leaning guitar into soulful indie rock.
Alternative
Warm Spanish-language indie-pop from Venezuela via Miami: breezy, guitar-led songs with café intimacy, easygoing charm that translates in any language.
Latin indie-pop
Genre-hopping duo bringing club heat.
Alternative
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
Genre-smashing Melbourne punk-rap with riffs, bars, and zero regard for lanes, delivered with a hardcore band's physicality.
Punk-rap
UK garage revival heat with skippy drums and low-end pressure, two-step engineered for the new generation of dancefloors.
UK garageBass
Country
The Philippines' biggest pop group, with precision choreography and a ferociously devoted fanbase: P-pop pride at global scale.
P-pop
Mythic, incantatory folk-pop: 'Labour' made her the internet's feminist bard, and the deeper catalog keeps the incantation going.
Dark folk-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
Alex Ridha's brand of electro is abrasive by design: hardware-driven, distorted, and consistently ahead of whatever is fashionable, two decades running.
ElectroTechno
Orlando songwriter whose breathless, repetition-heavy hook on 'iloveitiloveitiloveit' made it a Billboard Hot 100 hit and a UK number two.
Alternative
Irish folk trio with hushed three-part harmonies and homesick story-songs that have been quietly filling rooms far bigger than anyone expected.
Folk
Wry, conversational pop songwriting from Gracie Abrams's longtime collaborator turned solo act, with diaristic detail delivered with sharp comic timing.
PopSinger-songwriter
Belfast noise-dance with an industrial techno pulse under post-punk vocals, engineered to blur the line between gig and rave.
Noise-dancePost-punk
German 'high-tech minimal' techno in a joker mask: precise, melodic, relentless, with marathon sets that build like clockwork machinery.
Minimal techno
One of rap's sharpest pens, full stop, with orchestral ambition and North London grit, and 'Sometimes I Might Be Introvert' the modern benchmark.
Hip-hopUK rap
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
Alternative
Irish rave-house heat with big-room energy and underground credentials, breakbeats and pianos at full sprint, and Galway-to-warehouse momentum fully underway.
HouseRave
Lo-fi electroclash duo with distorted synths and detached vocals for the afterparty, Detroit cool for the post-everything generation.
ElectroclashHyperpop
Sweaty, saxophone-wielding Swedish post-punk satire (one of the best live bands on earth right now), with 'Sports' shouted by thousands.
Post-punk
Hip-hop
Dance

Pop
Pop
Electronic
Anthemic young alt band.
Alternative
Hip-hop
UK hardcore with baggy Britpop swagger: working-class catharsis that turned the scene's head, then everyone else's.
HardcoreBritpop
Pop
Breezy bedroom-pop hooks from the 'Backyard Boy' breakout, all grown up, with TikTok-era beginnings matured into proper songcraft.
Bedroom pop
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
Textural, psychedelic bass music that is heavy without being blunt about it.
Electronic
Narcotic dream-pop duets with slow-motion romance in the Cigarettes After Sex register, candlelit vocals over slow-blooming guitar.
Alternative
Alternative
Kiwi brothers making slinky, falsetto-led alt-funk: Auckland groove-pop polished to a late-night sheen, with basslines that do most of the flirting.
Alt-popFunk-pop
Self-producing K-pop hitmakers (formerly (G)I-DLE) and swaggering concept queens who write their own statements and back them with hooks.
K-pop
Singer-songwriter pairing a swooning falsetto with retro guitar-pop that recalls late-'70s and '80s radio. Found his audience through viral short-form video clips.
Alternative

Dance
Pop
Vancouver's TikTok-resurrected art-rockers have quirky harmonies and a huge devoted crowd, and a back catalog rediscovered by a generation that made it theirs.
Indie rock
UK breakout with a smoky retro-soul voice and diaristic pop instincts, bringing old-soul phrasing to new-school subjects.
Pop-soul
Yes, that Finn Wolfhard. Scrappy, sincere indie rock beyond the Stranger Things shadow, garage-band instincts played without celebrity gloss.
Indie rock
UK bass and garage that is clean, physical, and dancefloor-first, with drops of surgical timing and low-end pressure and without a wasted bar.
UK garageBass
Alternative
Modern pop-punk standard-bearers, gruff, fast, and beloved, with Walnut Creek's chip-on-shoulder anthems in full stride, pits and singalongs in equal measure.
Pop-punk
Liverpool heaviness that swings between crushing metalcore and gorgeous shoegaze drift, with Deftones lineage carried somewhere genuinely new.
MetalcoreShoegaze-metal
Gossamer French avant-pop with choral synths and whispered melody, songs that feel lit by candles and screens at once.
Ethereal pop
Indie pop
Hazy, vintage-toned dream-pop: cinematic sad-girl songs with a wink, screen-star mystique earning its music credentials.
Dream-pop
Grammy-nominated house duo with greasy basslines and instant grooves, 'On My Mind' the calling card, grooves greasy enough to require napkins.
House
Glitter-and-grit dance-pop: Y2K excess reborn as main-stage camp, played with total commitment to the fantasy.
HyperpopDance-pop

Indie pop
The West Coast's ratchet-era architect, with a DJ set stacked with his own hits ('Not Like Us' included), a decade of radio in an hour.
Hip-hopWest Coast
Teenage underground lightning rod, making blown-out, deliberately abrasive rage rap with a following that materialised almost entirely online.
Rage rapUnderground
Berlin's masked 'farmcore' phenomenon (giddy barnyard-trance house played dead serious), with 'My Barn My Rules' as manifesto.
HouseTrance-pop
Korean-American country-blues revivalist with National steel guitar and dust-bowl holler, prewar blues played like breaking news.
Country blues

Dance
Gauzy, nostalgic dream-rock that is exactly what the name promises: Mazzy Star haze for a new decade.
Dream-rock
'Beanie' broke him everywhere, with woozy, warm bedroom soul from Baton Rouge: falsetto sighs over underwater guitar.
bedroom R&B
Dance
London grunge trio playing loud, full-throttle guitar songs in the Nirvana and Smashing Pumpkins mould, sung with a dry, sardonic British edge.
Rock
Country
Hip-hop
Chinese producer whose sets fold melodic, regionally inflected motifs into festival-scale electronic music, and one of the more widely travelled names from China's dance scene.
Dance
Wonky, bass-heavy house from the other half of the HYPERBEAM b2b with Odd Mob, with edits engineered for double-takes.
Dance
Austin's instrument-swapping all-women punk-metal wrecking crew, where everyone plays everything and it all lands at full force.
PunkMetal
South London genre-blur: drill, indie, and R&B folded into diaristic collage, homemade and heartsore in equal measure.
Alt-rapUK

Country
Cinematic Nova Scotia noir-pop with smoky, widescreen ballads and an old-Hollywood streak, torch songs delivered with movie-star poise.
Alternative
Sibling NYC hyperpop chaos agents, glitchy, funny, and relentless, with a live set that plays like a timeline scrolled at maximum speed.
HyperpopElectro
HYBE's youngest boy band: self-producing K-pop upstarts on a rocket trajectory, writing and arranging their own material from debut.
K-pop
Bouncy, bass-heavy tech house built for peak hour by an Anaheim producer who came over from trap and bass, with Hypnosis his breakout single.
Tech house
Mercury-winning UK alt-rock: from whispered folk to full-throated fuzz in one set, with Ellie Rowsell commanding every register.
Alt-rock

R&B/soul
Silky retro-modern R&B with a writer's restraint: every note placed, nothing oversung, late-night soul with a craftsman's patience.
R&BSoul
Left a YouTube career behind to make genuinely ambitious, orchestral experimental rap about death and dissolution, one of the internet's great reinventions.
Art-popExperimental rap
Dual-frontwoman indie rock that lovingly resurrects '90s alternative, with big fuzzy hooks, deadpan cool, and twin guitar harmonies built for radio that no longer exists.
Indie rock90s alt
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.
Electronic-pop

Americana
Smoky-voiced UK balladeer with big-room soul at 19 and torch songs with an old head's control, a debut voice that sounds decades deep.
Pop
Perth indie-rock with aching hooks: Australia's biggest new guitar band, with 'Booster Seat' devotion at full volume.
Indie rock
Sleek, funny, funk-forward R&B on the rise, with bounce-first records, a comic's pen, and grooves polished for late-night replay.
R&B
Sun-soaked tech house on the rise, with California grooves tuned for pool decks and peak hour alike.
Tech house
Absurdist pop-rap entrepreneurship with 'edamame' energy and meme-fluent hooks, shockingly great live from a performer who takes the joke completely seriously.
Comedy rapPop-rap
UK R&B songwriter with quiet-storm control, bringing hushed vocals and late-night restraint, with minimal production leaving all the room for the voice.
Hip-hop
Emerging indie songwriter.
Pop
Classically trained cellist turned bass heavyweight who sings on her own emotionally raw records, with trap-sized drops carrying genuinely vulnerable songwriting underneath.
ElectronicBass
Backflipping former pipefitter with a howl, delivering raw-nerve folk-country redemption songs with gymnastic stage energy and zero polish where it counts.
FolkCountry
Chicago's own youth symphony bringing full orchestral firepower to Grant Park: a Lolla tradition, and reliably one of the weekend's most disarming sets.
Orchestral
The drag superstar behind the decks brings camp, pop edits, and pure joy, in a set built for singing along in sunglasses.
Dance-popDJ set

Alternative
Dance
Los Angeles songwriter pairing pop hooks with country storytelling, whose breakout 'Boston' spread from TikTok to the Billboard Hot 100.
Singer/songwriter

Rock
DJ and producer of driving melodic techno and house, shaped by early European trance and the underground raves of Oakland.
Dance

Alternative
Philly street-corner brass-funk party that's impossible not to dance to, a second line that took over the city.
Brass-funk
Pop
Hip-hop
NYC tech house that is punchy and playful, peak-time tools with remix-radar ubiquity, reliability with personality.
Tech house
Los Angeles duo Justine Dorsey and Graham Epstein, making dreamy, Y2K-tinted trip-pop out of breezy synths and hushed vocals.
Indie popDream pop
Velvet-toned R&B intimacy from the Kehlani school, with plush late-night vocals and an internet-native fanbase that sings every ad-lib.
R&B
Asbury Park band that started on a porch, playing high-energy alternative folk rock with psychedelic edges; second album is Echo The Madness.
Folk
Yes, that Beckham: a scrappy young rock band earning its stripes on the small-print circuit, with famous-family curiosity doing the marketing.
Rock
Deadpan Brooklyn experimentalism: Matador-signed art-rock puzzles that groove, absurdist and airtight at once, strangeness with a beat you can trust.
Experimental indie
Slovak pop singer with a club producer's sense of drama, writing hooks that sound built for a strobe.
PopElectronic
Liverpool DJ-producer pushing bassline-flecked house, Merseyside heat in the garage revival's slipstream, with club momentum rising fast.
Dance
Teenage Arkansas country prodigy with porch-honest writing in the Zach Bryan lineage, wise beyond the birth certificate.
Country
Chicago alt-country charmers who are loose, warm, and unhurried, with twang-flecked songs and a next-door intimacy, porch-light music in city clothes.
Country-indie
Globe-trotting soul-pop with a rich, agile voice over self-produced grooves, folding the percussion and texture of everywhere she's lived into modern R&B.
R&BSoul-pop
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
Raw-nerve UK rock, with Cobain-worn songwriting building a serious cult, intensity that reads as truth, a band critics keep underestimating upward.
Rock
French-touch house with a permanent grin, featuring filtered disco loops and rubber-band basslines in the proud national tradition.
French house
Brooklyn R&B veteran of the purple-haired era, sharper than ever, with sleek vocals and a decade of industry survival behind them.
R&B
Japan's novel-into-song hitmakers: 'Idol' broke every record, and the live band goes harder than you'd guess, J-pop precision with rock muscle.
J-pop
Oxnard bedroom balladry: '70s soft-soul romance on vintage keys, one-man-band craft with a crooner's patience.
Retro-soulBedroom pop
Warm-hearted indie folk on the undercard.
Alternative
UK house classicist with 'Ocean Drive' sunsets guaranteed, and 'Need U (100%)' and a decade of chart-house craft behind them.
House
Little Mix's Jade gone gloriously weird, where 'Angel of My Dreams' announced a real pop auteur, camp and chaos with A-list polish.
Pop
Houston rap firecracker: funny, ferocious, and hometown-proud, with punchlines that hit like haymakers and Houston pride in every ad-lib.
Rap
Pop
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
UK underground rap's internet-native riser, with lo-fi menace and offhand melody built for the timeline, low-lit tracks that travel by repost.
Hip-hop
Moody melodic electronic with live-instrument warmth, Vancouver atmosphere in the ODESZA lineage and drops that glow rather than strike.
Electronic
Japan's masked vocal phenomenon, an anonymous silhouette with a voice that swings from guttural growl to glass-shattering belt, performing chart-conquering J-pop from behind a screen.
J-pop
Lorde, John Summit, Sombr, Empire of the Sun, Wet Leg, Worship + 36 more
Charli xcx, The Smashing Pumpkins, Lil Uzi Vert, YUNGBLUD, Major Lazer, Not For Radio + 38 more
Olivia Dean, JENNIE, The Neighbourhood, Ethel Cain, Disco Lines, Leon Thomas + 37 more
Tate McRae, The xx, Turnstile, beabadoobee, aespa, The Chainsmokers + 37 more
July 30–August 2, 2026, Thursday through Sunday.
Grant Park, downtown Chicago, across eight stages.
Lorde, Charli xcx, The Smashing Pumpkins, John Summit, Tate McRae, The xx, Olivia Dean, and JENNIE.
172 acts over four days, one of the deepest bills of any 2026 US festival.
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