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
Three days in the Golden Gate Park fog, August 6 to 8, with indie, hip-hop and house music across San Francisco's biggest park. Lineup TBA.
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Outside Lands is San Francisco distilled into a festival: three August days in Golden Gate Park where Karl the Fog rolls over the polo field, the food and wine program is genuinely worth planning around, and the lineup splits its heart between indie rock, hip-hop, and house music. The 2026 edition runs 99 acts deep, with Charli xcx, The Strokes, The xx, and RÜFÜS DU SOL up top, the GRIZTRONICS b2b for the bass faithful, and an undercard stacked with the kind of left-field bookings (a Tokyo cult DJ, a Mexican folk jewel, the SF Gay Men's Chorus) that make the fog feel like atmosphere instead of weather. Bring layers. Seriously.
Expect pop, indie rock, alternative and R&B across 99 acts.
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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
Whispered minimalism that somehow fills a festival field, with intimacy at headline scale and 'Intro' still raising arm hair.
Indie electronicMinimal pop
The band that rebooted New York rock, with a deep catalog of deadpan cool, still untouchable live when the engine catches.
Indie rock
Emotional stadium-scale melodic house, sunset-slot perfection from the Australian trio, with 'Innerbloom' as the communal cry.
Melodic houseElectronic
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
Memphis crunk revival with a foghorn flow, where every set is a gym-class riot and 'F.N.F.' is still the roll-call anthem.
Rap
Unhinged Brooklyn art-rock that is yelping, swaggering, and critically adored, like the Stones reassembled by art students mid-fever.
Indie rockArt-rock
The Euphoria score come to life: falsetto gospel-pop maximalism and orchestral drama built by one of pop's most in-demand studio minds.
Alt-popOrchestral
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
Hardcore's joyful crossover kings, with dreamy interludes, stage dives, total communion, and a crowd that moves as one.
HardcoreAlt
Saxophone-wielding electro-funk: half of the GRIZTRONICS b2b with Subtronics, and a solo catalog of brass-blasted future-funk joy.
Funk-bassElectro-soul
Philadelphia riddim-dubstep heavyweight, all syncopated wobble and abrasive sound design, with a funk streak and a long-running tag-team with GRiZ.
DubstepBass
Isaac Brock's jittery, seasick guitar songs about the highway and the void, three decades of them, still unmistakable from the first yelp.
Indie rockAlternative rock
A novelist's eye for the specific detail, delivered in the warmest voice in the boygenius orbit, with 'Night Shift' still the slow-burn masterclass.
Indie rockSinger-songwriter
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
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
Songs that sound recorded live in a crowded room by accident: ragged, intimate, and completely singular, with a live band that pushes them even further loose.
alt-R&BAmericana-soul
Joe Keery's psych-pop project has vocoders, fuzz, and a genuine ear for a Tame Impala-shaped hook, and is well past the celebrity-side-project stage.
Psych-popIndie
This Never Happened boss, offering phone-free deep-house journeys that reward patience and melodic sets built as arcs rather than drops.
Deep houseMelodic
Two-minute drum'n'bass-pop confections from the internet's most influential songwriter-per-second, nostalgia sampled into something brand new, hooks gone before you can replay them.
UK garage-pop
Indie rock's tender institution: twenty-five years of songs that hurt nicely, from 'Transatlanticism' devastation to elder-statesman grace.
Indie rock
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
Technicolor disco-house with relentless fun, zero pretension, and hooks big enough to convert whoever wandered past the stage.
Disco-house
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
Slow-burn Atlanta R&B: heartbreak delivered with surgical calm, ballads that cut deeper for never raising their voice.
R&B
Anonymous collective making orchestral hip-hop spectacle. The mystery is the point, and the strings are real.
Alternative
German 'high-tech minimal' techno in a joker mask: precise, melodic, relentless, with marathon sets that build like clockwork machinery.
Minimal techno
The family ties run deep in elastic, unpredictable rap with pgLang polish and beat-switches that keep entire songs off balance in the best way.
Rap
A Bay Area collective that plays indie-pop like a soul revue, with R&B, classic rock and americana in the same set, communal by design.
Indie-popSoul
Club-circuit riser closing out Friday's undercard.
Electronic
Moroccan-Canadian vocal powerhouse with dramatic, belt-heavy pop and runs that stop scrollers mid-thumb, technique that turns ballads into main events.
Pop
Hyperspeed UK power-pop with Ramones velocity and Strokes melody, two-minute songs played like the venue is on fire.
Power-pop punk
Bilingual pop-R&B riser with viral-choir pipes, whose Spanish-language moments became bigger than the songs and whose voice turned anthem-singing into a career.
PopR&B
Melbourne minimal-house groover on the rise, with sleek, rolling grooves from the city's flourishing club scene.
HouseIndie dance
'Beanie' broke him everywhere, with woozy, warm bedroom soul from Baton Rouge: falsetto sighs over underwater guitar.
bedroom R&B
Scrappy, hook-stuffed bedroom electro-pop with real wit: Brooklyn miniatures that do more in two minutes than most albums manage.
Electro-pop
Austin's instrument-swapping all-women punk-metal wrecking crew, where everyone plays everything and it all lands at full force.
PunkMetal
Smoky, cinematic electronica (Tom Waits filtered through a modular synth) with slow-burn grooves for desert highways.
ElectronicDesert blues-tronica
Melbourne house producer with crossover hooks, making club tools with pop DNA and festival bookings stacking fast.
Dance
Erykah Badu's secret weapon gone solo: a four-octave R&B comedian-virtuoso whose live show swings between gospel chops and stand-up bits.
R&BFunk
'Look At The Time' broke him overnight, and it comes with big-voiced Southern alt-rock, grunge shadows and arena aims.
RockAlt-rock
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
Fast-rising Denver bass producer with melodic drops that have teeth, riding the front of the dubstep scene's younger, wilder generation.
BassDubstep
UK garage revival heat with skippy drums and low-end pressure, two-step engineered for the new generation of dancefloors.
UK garageBass
West Virginia's gilded-age songbird: old-time, calypso, and honky-tonk swirled into something timeless, delivered in vintage lace and total command.
AmericanaOld-time
Hushed English folk with a river-water voice. Quietly one of the best writers of her generation, she turns small domestic details into devastating songs.
FolkIndie folk
Criminally consistent R&B auteur: 'Nasty' finally made the world match her freak, and a decade of underrated catalog is now vindicated.
R&BPop
Amsterdam's hard-trance revivalist, with acid lines and 150 BPM joy and rave classicism played with total exuberance.
TranceAcid techno
Cinematic Nova Scotia noir-pop with smoky, widescreen ballads and an old-Hollywood streak, torch songs delivered with movie-star poise.
Alternative
Osaka-born cult selector Yousuke Yukimatsu (genre-shredding DJ sets that went from viral clips to worldwide bookings) brings anything-goes technique with total joy.
TechnoDJ set
Half of 100 gecs behind the decks, bringing chaos engineering as a solo set, hyperpop's producer-in-chief running unfiltered.
HyperpopElectronic
Australian house heater, half of the HYPERBEAM b2b with OMNOM, with flip-happy edits and festival-scale bounce.
HouseTech house
Wonky, bass-heavy house from the other half of the HYPERBEAM b2b with Odd Mob, with edits engineered for double-takes.
HouseBass house
Emerging indie songwriter.
Pop
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
Grit-and-leather rock-soul riser.
Alternative
Fuzzy Bay-adjacent indie rock.
Indie rock
Hazy California duo (beachside indie-soul).
Alternative
Sprawling Michigan collective making horn-swelling, patient indie rock that earned an instant cult, with chamber-band arrangements and real payoff.
Indie rockCollective
Genre-hopping duo bringing club heat.
Alternative
Raw-nerve UK rock, with Cobain-worn songwriting building a serious cult, intensity that reads as truth, a band critics keep underestimating upward.
Rock
Playful UK garage-house with pitched-up vocals, rolling two-step drums, and a warm nostalgic streak that nods to the genre's late-'90s golden age while staying strictly dancefloor-first.
HouseUK garage
Los Angeles duo Justine Dorsey and Graham Epstein, making dreamy, Y2K-tinted trip-pop out of breezy synths and hushed vocals.
Indie popDream pop
Outsized feelings at outsized volume: BLUE SUPER LOVE pairs bratty pop hooks with blown-out synths and a whisper that keeps pulling the rug out.
Indie-popAlt-rock
Wry, conversational pop songwriting from Gracie Abrams's longtime collaborator turned solo act, with diaristic detail delivered with sharp comic timing.
PopSinger-songwriter
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
Brothers making breezy, jazz-flecked bedroom pop with soft chords, shuffling drums, and a sun-warmed melancholy built for headphones and golden hour.
Dance
Sugar-rush club music: Jersey club drums and glittering hyperpop melody, engineered for maximum serotonin per minute.
Hyper-danceElectronic
Minimalist LA synth-punk trio with icy grooves and motorik precision, like a security-camera feed of a party you're not cool enough to attend.
Post-punkSynth
Wry Leeds post-punk gone disco: talk-sung satire you can dance to, Britain narrated mid-groove, grooves with a permanent smirk.
Post-punkArt-rock
Grammy-nominated melodic house veterans in their warm, patient era, with journey-built sets, pop-writing pasts, and melodic arcs that breathe.
Melodic house
Lo-fi electroclash duo with distorted synths and detached vocals for the afterparty, Detroit cool for the post-everything generation.
ElectroclashHyperpop
Veracruz songwriter with a cuatro and one of the most arresting voices in Latin folk, jazz-schooled and heartbreak-fluent.
Latin-folkSinger-songwriter
Berlin melodic-house romantic, the hot-air-balloon Cercle set guy, whose gorgeous live performances turn synth washes into genuine emotional events.
Melodic houseProgressive house
Feel-good house edits gone huge, with crowd-pleasing flips built for hands-up moments and a set of zero pretension and full commitment.
House
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

The city's own: 300 voices strong, a Golden Gate Park tradition and a tearjerker, with show tunes to protest anthems in one set.
Choral
Rising electronic producer on the Bay bill.
Electronic
Twenty-two and playing it like a lounge veteran, with live-band pop, sixties-psych colour, and a voice built for a room three times the size.
PopFunk
Oklahoma synth-funk duo with velvet grooves, zero pretension, and chillwave warmth with actual pocket, made for golden-hour sway.
Indie funk-pop
Anthemic young alt band.
Alternative
Brisbane warehouse techno with breakbeats and big-room adrenaline, Australia's rave revival at full charge, breaks with zero brakes.
TechnoRave
Redlands, California singer and multi-instrumentalist folding psychedelic textures, R&B and jazz-leaning guitar into soulful indie rock.
Alternative
Soulful singer-songwriter riser.
Pop
Lo-fi guitar-R&B moods gone viral, from Pittsburgh bedroom loops with a late-night glow, viral moods with real guitar underneath.
alt-R&BBedroom
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
Irish folk trio with hushed three-part harmonies and homesick story-songs that have been quietly filling rooms far bigger than anyone expected.
Folk
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 revival
Cello-trained Istanbul selector with sun-drenched, organic house that folds Mediterranean color into long, golden-hour sets: jet-set warmth with classical bones.
Melodic houseWorld-disco
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
Anthemic Irish folk-rock with banjo-driven singalongs built for fields, from Limerick lads on a steep national rise.
Folk-rock
Gauzy London dream-pop: midnight-drive music, synths blurred to streetlight smears, soft-focus songs that glow in the dark.
Dream-pop
Alex Ridha's brand of electro is abrasive by design: hardware-driven, distorted, and consistently ahead of whatever is fashionable, two decades running.
ElectroTechno
Sibling NYC hyperpop chaos agents, glitchy, funny, and relentless, with a live set that plays like a timeline scrolled at maximum speed.
HyperpopElectro
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
'Sweet Disposition' forever. Melbourne's festival-euphoria specialists have returned, delay pedals at the ready, euphoria delivered on schedule.
Indie rock
Sibling harmony machine with 'soft rock' sounds, church-honed vocals, and viral charm, their family blend polished to studio-grade smoothness.
Soft rockSoul
Ukrainian melodic-techno force: sleek, driving, globally streamed, with sets polished into cinematic arcs, a livestream-era star proven on real floors.
Progressive houseMelodic techno
Charli xcx, Turnstile, Subtronics, GRiZ, Labrinth, GloRilla + 29 more
The Strokes, The xx, Djo, PinkPantheress, Dijon, Ethel Cain + 26 more
RÜFÜS DU SOL, Baby Keem, Empire of the Sun, Death Cab for Cutie, Disco Lines, Mariah the Scientist + 26 more
August 7–9, 2026 (Friday through Sunday).
Golden Gate Park, San Francisco. Pack layers. The fog is part of the experience.
Charli xcx, The Strokes, The xx, and RÜFÜS DU SOL.
99 acts across three days, on five music stages plus the Duboce Triangle DJ annex.
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