ACL celebrates 25 years within the Reside Music Capital of the World with a large lineup over two weekends.
Mud off your cowboy boots and shine your belt buckle, as a result of Austin’s premier music competition is again this weekend with one of many largest digital music lineups in its historical past.
Austin Metropolis Limits returns to Zilker Park for its twenty fifth yr with two action-packed weekends: October 2-4 and Sept. 11. Whereas the occasion’s lineup at all times attracts wholesome debate and robust opinions, this yr’s invoice feels prefer it was curated for EDM aficionados.
The lineup glimmers with nostalgia and novelty alike, boasting the right cocktail of artists who outlined digital music for generations and younger synth-slingers who’re pushing style boundaries. And one factor’s for sure: it checks all of the containers.
Learn on to find 5 artists you may’t miss at ACL 2026. Tickets can nonetheless be bought by means of the competition’s web site.
Skrillex
Redefining a era can’t be simple, except you’re Sonny Moore. For the final 20 years, the dubstep icon has flown the flag of digital music and introduced the craft into the stratosphere for numerous producers.
Contemporary off his fifth studio album SOMA, Skrillex returns to Austin for the primary time in 12 years. Count on a high-energy mix of classic Skrillex and new tracks and flips certain to have festival-goers demanding a Weekend 2 encore.
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Mixing home, alt-dance and UK storage, Fcukers will bottle their uniquely underground sound to Tito’s Tent on Sunday of each weekends for units which might be certain to raise the power. Look to tracks like ‘if you happen to wanna social gathering, come over to my home’ and ‘Bon Bon’ as exemplars of the vibe they goal to ship.
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Levity
Levity are main the cost of a wave of younger, hungry dubstep and bass music producers. Contemporary off their debut Coachella look, the EDM.com Class of 2024 trio solely know one velocity, so strap in for an expertise greatest described as nuclear napalm in music kind. Tracks like ‘ONE FOR YOU’ (with Class of 2025 member ALLEYCVT) and ‘Pop Off‘ (with GRiZ) are a preamble of the soul-stirring forces to be skilled reside.
“Discovering different those that get pleasure from the identical music, that it makes them really feel the identical approach, is such an essential a part of coming to those reveals,” Levity’s John Hauldren informed us in a latest interview. “Being surrounded by those that get pleasure from the identical music, and having one thing that seems like house or household, as a result of perhaps you don’t have that in your life, is such an enormous a part of it.”
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One of many competition’s prime selectors, ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UK1MAT$U seamlessly blends disparate genres and types behind the decks, bringing new that means to experimental sound. From working development to working CDJs at Coachella, the Japanese DJ who was as soon as identified with mind most cancers will ship considered one of his signature DJ units with meticulous element. When his shirt comes off, it’s time to carry off.
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German DJ BUNT. received’t have a stage massive sufficient for the group that can congregate to expertise his infectious, visceral power. Count on huge progressive builds with emotive payoffs to be the cornerstone of this dance social gathering, the place tracks like ‘TRIPPIN’ and ‘Clouds’ will soundtrack open-air euphoria.
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