We’re a little less than six months away from Sea.Hear.Now but we can already feel the sand in our toes, the sun on our back and the music in our ears.
Asbury Park’s annual festival — which returns to North Beach on Sept. 19-20 — just announced their 2026 slate of performers and, per usual, has us all kinds of excited.
Notable names atop this year’s bill include too-cool-for-school garage rockers The Strokes, folksy hitmakers Mumford and Sons, ’90s vets Goo Goo Dolls, anti-authoritarian party-starters The Offspring and R&B queen Chaka Khan.
They’ll be joined by The War on Drugs, Pixies, Moby, Fontaines D.C. and The All-American Rejects.
Rounding out the two-day lineup are Shaggy, Men At Work, Ziggy Marley, Susanna Hoffs of The Bangles and Sonic Youth member Kim Gordon.
In total, 30 acts (exactly 15 per day) are scheduled to rock Springsteen‘s home in late September.
On top of all the exciting artists set to take the stage, Sea.Hear.Now also brings in professional surfers, numerous art installations and, of course, the iconic Stokehenge, which is “an area dedicated to murals painted on wooden walls by local artists” Live For Live Music noted in their exhaustive 2024 recap of the festivities.
They also shared that food options included BBQ, pizza, tacos, banh mi, burgers and vegan dishes.
“The crowd was, as promised, pretty mellow,” Mr. Hipster wrote in an honest account of last year’s S.H.N. “The grounds, as promised, were super-clean and well organized. Even the outhouses were of the fancier variety with flushing mechanisms and everything. There were water stations with plenty of spigots to fill and re-fill your bottles…all the folks working the festival could not be nicer.”
Passes become available first for through a pre-sale that starts Thursday, March 26 at 10 am EST through Ticketmaster but are available now on trusted secondary market sites like StubHub and Vivid Seats.
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Sea.Hear.Now tickets
All single and multi-day Lollapalooza dates along with links to buy tickets can be found below.
Sea.Hear.Now 2026 lineup
You probably noticed that we mentioned there are 30 acts on this year’s bill. To make sure you’re up to date, here’s each and every one of them, presented via Sea.Hear.Now’s calming poster:
Huge music festivals in 2026
Even though we’re still a ways out from Easter, many of this year’s major festivals have generously already gifted us with their sweet, sweet 2026 lineups. Below, you’ll find just five we’re already drooling about.
| Can’t-miss 2026 music festivals |
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| Coachella Music and Arts Festival April 10-12 and April 17-19 at Empire Polo Field in Indio, CA Sabrina Carpenter, Justin Bieber, Turnstile, Sombr, The Strokes |
| BottleRock Music Festival May 22-24 at the Napa Valley Expo in Napa Valley, CA Backstreet Boys, Foo Fighters, Lorde, LCD Soundsystem, Lil Wayne |
| Bonnaroo Music and Arts Festival June 11-14 at the Manchester Farm in Bonnaroo, TN The Strokes, Skrillex, Noah Kahan, Turnstile, Teddy Swims |
| Hinterland Music Festival July 30 through Aug. 2 at the Avenue of the Saints Amphitheater in Saint Charles, IA Lorde, Mumford and Sons, The Format, Geese, Suki Waterhouse |
| Bourbon and Beyond Sept. 24-27 at the Kentucky Exposition Center in Louisville, KY Mumford & Sons, Foo Fighters, Chris Stapleton, Dave Matthews Band, Kacey Musgraves |
Need even more live music in your life? Take a look at our list of all the biggest artists on tour in 2026 to find the show that makes the most sense for you.
