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Primavera Sound 2026 Lineup
Barcelona's tastemaker summit by the sea: The Cure, Gorillaz and The xx over a bill that runs shoegaze to hyperpop, with My Bloody Valentine's long-awaited return.
Primavera Sound 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 Primavera Sound 2026
Primavera Sound is Barcelona's tastemaker summit: three June days at the seaside Parc del Fòrum where the booking philosophy is simply 'everything good, at once'. The 2026 edition paired its headliners by night: Doja Cat and Massive Attack on Thursday, The Cure and Skrillex on Friday, The xx and Gorillaz on Saturday.
The signature move was everywhere underneath: My Bloody Valentine's long-awaited return alongside Slowdive for a full shoegaze axis, Ethel Cain and Big Thief for the quiet devastation, Knocked Loose and Viagra Boys for the noise, Bad Gyal for the hometown dembow, and a club wing that ran Peggy Gou, Carl Cox and Fcukers straight into the small hours. The 36 acts tracked here are the top of a much deeper bill.
Expect pop, post-punk, shoegaze and indie rock across 36 acts.
At a glance
- Dates
- –Thursday to Saturday, three days
- Where
- Parc del Fòrum, Barcelona, Spain
- Lineup
- 36 acts
- Website
- Official site
Primavera Sound 2026 lineup: all 36 acts
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Bristol's trip-hop architects, bringing 'Teardrop' dread and LED-wall politics to one of live music's heaviest atmospheres.
Trip-hopElectronic
Bass music's shape-shifting elder, who went from brostep infamy to festival-set transcendence, with reinvention as a permanent state.
BassElectronic
Goth's beating heart, with three-hour sets, Robert Smith's undimmed voice, and a catalog that swings from despair to 'Friday I'm in Love'.
Post-punkGoth
Damon Albarn's animated universe is a genre-omnivorous hits machine and guest-star carousel, two decades of cartoon cover for some of pop's best songwriting.
Alt-popHip-hop hybrid
Whispered minimalism that somehow fills a festival field, with intimacy at headline scale and 'Intro' still raising arm hair.
Indie electronicMinimal pop
Catalonia's dembow provocateur: Auto-Tuned dancehall glamour made for the club at 3 a.m.
ReggaetonPop
Reinvented from short-form-video ubiquity into a genuinely well-made art-pop project, with breathy vocals, early-2000s dance production, and co-signs from pop's most discerning corners.
PopDance-pop
Loveless made the loudest beautiful music ever recorded. Earplugs mandatory, transcendence likely.
Shoegaze
Adrianne Lenker's trembling songcraft in band form, and the most quietly devastating live act in indie rock.
Indie folkIndie 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
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
Josh Tillman's lounge-lizard prophet act, with gorgeous orchestration, acid wit, and a crooner's delivery that sells every barbed line.
Indie folkChamber pop
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
Belfast's bilingual rap provocateurs, with republican mischief, mosh-pit energy, real bars, and a film's worth of mythology already.
Irish rap
Kentucky hardcore built on the meanest two-step riffs going, with Bryan Garris's shriek cutting clean over the top: heaviness that crossed over without softening.
HardcoreMetalcore
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
'Messy' made her unavoidable, with raw South London soul-pop, a busted-heart snarl and a voice that earns the Winehouse comparisons.
Alt-popSoul
The gap-toothed prince of jangly slacker-pop, with cigarette ballads and pure charm, goofball stage antics over genuinely tender songwriting.
Slacker rockSoft rock
Electra Heart's creator, a decade on, brings theatrical art-pop with cult-classic devotion behind it.
Pop
Seoul-born, Berlin-forged selector whose '(It Goes Like) Nanana' made her house music's biggest global fashion-crossover star.
HouseTechno
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-garageBedroom-pop
Shoegaze's gentlest giants, with Souvlaki haze reborn for a generation that found them on the internet.
ShoegazeDream-pop
Sweaty, saxophone-wielding Swedish post-punk satire (one of the best live bands on earth right now), with 'Sports' shouted by thousands.
Post-punk
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
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
Deep house project with a long club pedigree and a vocal commitment to sustainability in dance music, playing melodic, percussive sets built for open air.
Dance
Geese's frontman gone solo, with a cracked, theatrical voice over piano songs that wander somewhere unexpected.
Alternative
Oh yes, oh yes! Techno's most beloved ambassador, three decades deep and still the happiest man behind three decks.
TechnoHouse
NYC's buzziest indie-dance trio, with baggy house grooves and downtown cool, like Madchester relocated to a Chinatown basement.
Indie danceHouse
Neapolitan techno marathon man, famous for sets that outlast the sunrise.
Techno
Bilious, very funny queer punk that names names: thirty seconds into the set someone is already in the crowd, and nobody is being spared.
PunkPost-punk
Galway four-piece dealing in gauzy, low-slung shoegaze with a persistent undertow of dread: Irish gloom in slow motion.
ShoegazeIndie rock
Brighton's ritualistic folk-punk coven with violin, drums, and wild-eyed harmony, part gig and part rite, folk horror you can dance to.
Folk-punkArt
Barnett brothers' art-rock project, which traded post-punk austerity for bassoons, taiko drums and choral arrangement, and is composition as much as band.
Alternative
Deadpan Brooklyn experimentalism: Matador-signed art-rock puzzles that groove, absurdist and airtight at once, strangeness with a beat you can trust.
Experimental indie
The headliners
Doja Cat · Pop's most unpredictable shapeshifter: rap technician, internet troll and arena performer in the same body.
Massive Attack · Bristol's trip-hop architects, bringing 'Teardrop' dread and LED-wall politics to one of live music's heaviest atmospheres.
The Cure · Goth's beating heart, with three-hour sets, Robert Smith's undimmed voice, and a catalog that swings from despair to 'Friday I'm in Love'.
Skrillex · Bass music's shape-shifting elder, who went from brostep infamy to festival-set transcendence, with reinvention as a permanent state.
The xx · Whispered minimalism that somehow fills a festival field, with intimacy at headline scale and 'Intro' still raising arm hair.
Gorillaz · Damon Albarn's animated universe is a genre-omnivorous hits machine and guest-star carousel, two decades of cartoon cover for some of pop's best songwriting.
Up-and-comers to catch early
Cameron Winter · Geese's frontman gone solo troubadour: the most praised songwriting debut of the cycle.
NewDad · Galway gauze: shoegaze that translates perfectly to a seaside dusk.
The New Eves · Brighton's folk-punk ritualists, less a set than a happening.
Lambrini Girls · UK punk's loudest new agitators.
Water From Your Eyes · Deadpan Brooklyn art-pop: wrong-footed rhythms, right instincts.
Fcukers · Baggy house made by indie kids. Barcelona at 3 a.m., answered.
Other acts worth planning around
My Bloody Valentine · Earplugs mandatory, transcendence likely: the return the site was built for.
Slowdive · The gentler half of the shoegaze axis: haze with a heartbeat.
Ethel Cain · Southern-gothic hymns that turn a festival field reverent.
Little Simz · One of rap's sharpest pens, with a live band to match the ambition.
Viagra Boys · Saxophone, sweat and satire. One of the best live bands on earth.
Addison Rae · The poptimist litmus test, and the set held up.
Carl Cox · Techno's happiest ambassador on a rock festival's bill.
Primavera Sound 2026 lineup FAQ
Who headlined Primavera Sound 2026?
Doja Cat and Massive Attack on Thursday, The Cure and Skrillex on Friday, and The xx and Gorillaz on Saturday.
When was Primavera Sound 2026?
June 4–6, 2026: Thursday through Saturday in Barcelona.
Where does Primavera Sound take place?
Parc del Fòrum, on the Mediterranean waterfront at the northeast edge of Barcelona.
Did My Bloody Valentine play Primavera 2026?
Yes. Their long-awaited return was one of the bill's biggest stories, with Slowdive on the same lineup for a full shoegaze reunion.
How many acts played Primavera Sound 2026?
Primavera's full program runs far larger; LineupScout tracks the 36 top-billed acts from the 2026 edition.
How do I find the acts I'd have liked?
Type a few artists you love into the finder at the top of this page. It matches them against this lineup and explains each pick.
When is Primavera Sound 2027?
Primavera Sound is expected back in June 2027; the festival has not announced the 2027 dates yet. The 2026 lineup stays on this page until it does.
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