Sónar Festival annonces immersive lineup in Barcelona

Sónar returns to Barcelona in 2026 for its 33rd edition, taking place from 18 to 20 June. Over more than three decades, the festival has become one of Europe’s most important meeting points for electronic music, club culture and digital creativity, without losing its ability to look forward. As in previous years, the programme will also include Sónar+D, Sónar Kids and OFFSónar, expanding the event beyond the main festival and bringing talks, technology, family activities and parties into different parts of the city. It is a format that keeps Barcelona involved not just as a backdrop, but as part of the festival itself.

The main festival will be held at Fira Gran Via, with all three days taking place in a single venue. Thursday will run from 5pm to 3am, while Friday and Saturday will continue until 7am, giving the event a long, nocturnal rhythm from the very beginning. This format gives Sónar 2026 a compact but intense shape: several stages, extended hours and a programme that can move naturally from early evening live performances to harder late-night sets, without forcing the audience to cross the city between venues. Everything is built to keep the focus on sound, movement and the flow of the night.

Among the first names announced are The Prodigy, Modeselektor, Skepta, Charlotte de Witte, Amelie Lens, Boys Noize, Daniel Avery, Dom Dolla, Two Shell, Wata Igarashi, Goldie b2b Doc Scott ft Medic MC, Addison Groove, SBTRKT, Cabaret Voltaire and Namasenda. It is a bill that does not sit in one lane. Instead, it moves between legacy acts, club institutions, current festival names and artists working closer to the edges of pop, bass and experimental electronics. The result is a line-up built less around one sound than around different ways of using volume, rhythm and stage presence.

Thursday 18 June opens with Boys Noize, Cabaret Voltaire, Chris Stussy, Daniel Avery live, The Hacker, KETTAMA, Lady Shaka b2b Tash LC, MALUGI b2b Benwal, Mina & Bryte and Speedy J presents STOOR Live. The first day also features Alba Franch, Arp Frique & The Perpetual Singers, Clementaum b2b LAZA, Fukcnormal, Loli Zazou, Metrika, Oriana, La Sofy and MERCÈ presents SHOW SIMULATOR. It sets the tone with a mix of electro, techno, house, live electronics and club mutations, opening the festival with names that can work both for focused listening and for direct dancefloor impact.

Friday 19 June stretches until the morning with one of the largest programmes of the festival. Charlotte de Witte, Addison Groove, Goldie b2b Doc Scott ft Medic MC, Kelis, Nia Archives, SBTRKT live, Skepta, Sammy Virji, Sara Landry, MK b2b TSHA, Daria Kolosova, GOTH-TRAD and Reinier Zonneveld presents R2 are among the names scheduled for the second day. The line-up suggests a night that moves quickly between bass pressure, techno, grime, garage, drum and bass and peak-time club music, with enough contrast to keep the pace changing from one stage to another.

The Friday line-up also includes Amaliah b2b Pangaea, DJ AYA, Baby Pantera, Beatrix Weapons, Cormac, Cutemobb, DJ Gigola, Funk Tribu, Kilopatrah Jones, Miss Bashful, RONI, TAYHANA & MissLupe, YHWH Nailgun and Zuri. With BULTO Takeover and another STOOR Live session from Speedy J, the night expands beyond the most visible names and gives space to faster, rougher and less predictable corners of club music. This is where Sónar often works best: not only in the headline slots, but in the clashes, discoveries and sudden changes of temperature between one set and the next.

Saturday 20 June closes the festival with The Prodigy, Modeselektor live, Amelie Lens presents AURA, Dom Dolla, FJAAK x Kittin live, Gerd Janson b2b Marcel Dettmann, Joy Orbison, Two Shell, Wata Igarashi live, WhoMadeWho live, Namasenda, Carlita, Akua, Ciara Cuvé and Takuya Nakamura. It is the day with the strongest sense of scale and physical impact, moving from big live performances to sharp club sets and late-night techno without losing the festival’s wider musical range. Having The Prodigy and Modeselektor on the same closing day gives the programme a particularly heavy, direct energy.

The final day also brings 30drop, Ático Corp. & R.I.P. Bestia, CARBS, Colleen 'Cosmo' Murphy, Danielle b2b Ryan Elliott, DPR CREAM & DPR ARTIC, Main Costa, DJ MARIA., Mercromina Club, nimino, Ogazón, SALOME, Sónia Trópicos, TAWA, Tedesco and Undo live. Across three days, Sónar 2026 places electronic music history and today’s club language side by side, without turning either into nostalgia. Barcelona will once again host a festival built around movement, volume, technology and change, with a programme wide enough to attract different generations but focused enough to keep its identity clear.

For more information on Sónar Festival, as well as tickets and further announcements, visit here.