New Colossus Festival Announces 1st Wave of Bands for 2026

The 6th edition of the New Colossus Festival will be held on March 3-8 next year at various venues in New York’s Lower East Side. The first wave of artists that will be playing was released this week and there are a load on the list that we are already looking forward to checking out. It’s a great chance to discover some great new bands as we’ve done over the last three years that we’ve attended.

There are a lot of UK bands that we love that have been confirmed including Adult Leisure, Krooked Tongue, Oswald Slain, Spyres (check out our interview from the festival two years ago), The Cavs and The Slates.

We also need to figure out how to find time to also see Bonnie Trash, Diary. Pleasure Pill, Runner and The Sewing Club and that’s just from the first set. There will be more bands added as we get closer to the festival so make sure to follow the festival on Instagram and Twitter to hear about them. Also check out the website to get tickets once they are released.

A good way to decide which bands you’ll want to see is by listening to the festival playlist which is updated as new artists are added to the lineup.