Twenty One Pilots, Gorillaz and the Strokes are set to headline this year’s Shaky Knees Music Festival, which returns to Piedmont Park in Midtown Sept. 18-20. The lineup was announced Tuesday morning.
Other notable performers include Wu-Tang Clan, LCD Soundsystem, Blood Orange, Turnstile, Geese, Japanese Breakfast and Santigold. More than 50 acts will perform on four stages throughout the three-day event.
Going down September 18th-20th in Atlanta’s Piedmont Park, the longtime rock festival will also feature Fontaines D.C., Pierce the Veil, Jimmy Eat World, Blood Orange, Japanese Breakfast, Violet Grohl (which, as of now, marks her first confirmed festival appearance as a solo artist), Knocked Loose, Santigold, Hot Mulligan, Taking Back Sunday, Peach Pit, Wolf Alice, Ben Howard, Jet, Coheed & Cambria, Fcukers, OK Go, Snow Strippers, The Rapture, Psychedelic Porn Crumpets, American Hi-Fi, Cardinals, Geordie Greep, Alice Phoebe Lou, Cartel, Cruz Beckham, and many more.
Tickets for Shaky Knees 2026 will first be available via a lowest-price pre-sale taking place on Thursday, February 26th at 9:00 a.m. EST to 10:00 a.m. EST; fans can sign up for the SMS pre-sale list on Shaky Knees’ official website to gain access to the sale. After the pre-sale ends, any remaining tickets will go on sale for the general public here.