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12/02/2026Revealing the full Sónar 2026 lineup, stage-by-stage and artist-by-artist

All-night long hardware jams and ADHD club sets, dance-punk bands and cosmic gospel funk ensembles, every colour of house and every shade of techno, drum’n’bass originators and rave legends, immersive AV shows and queer takeovers, latin rhythms and UK mutations, breakbeat revivalists and trap innovators… The full Sónar 2026 lineup is here, with 65 new additions joining the acts already announced last November*.

Now unmasked, SBTRKT, one of the defining artists of the UK’s post-dubstep movement, debuts bold new material from his forthcoming album. Gospel meets ‘70s cosmic funk when Rush Hour-signed band Arp Frique & The Perpetual Singers take to the stage, and local icon Undo has prepared a new full-band live show. They join a diverse list of live performers that already included New York r&b original Kelis and Sónar favourites Modeselektor and WhoMadeWho.

Club Heart Broken founder MALUGI swaps eurotrance and speed garage cuts with Benwal, while nimino’s friendly, anthemic UK garage should be a crowd-pleaser. Carlita’s melodic, lysergic style contrasts with hi-NRG and nu-disco champion Cormac, and there’s plenty of classic house music with Queens’ very own Kilopatrah Jones; rising Berlin icon LOVEFOXY; and a special session from Ketiov and Fernanda Arrau, residents at Madrid queer institution CARBS. Repping the cross-cultural, high-energy sound of London are Arthi, Lady Shaka b2b Tash LC and local DJ Loli Zazou. There’s also afrobeats from Ghanaian-British duo Mina & Bryte, while Brazilian DJ Maz and Barcelona’s own Afri K play smooth, elegant afrohouse. They all join an already stacked DJ lineup featuring Sammy Virji, Chris Stussy, KETTAMA, MK (Mark Kinchen) b2b TSHA, Collen ‘Cosmo’ Murphy, and Gerd Janson b2b Marcel Dettmann. SonarClub: The biggest dancefloor in the world gets an upgrade

The world’s biggest dancefloor gets even better this year, with an upgraded sound system and lighting rig, plus new visual technology. That’s why we’ve packed the lineup with huge acts, stadium-sized AV shows and incredible DJs who’ll know exactly how to maximise its capabilities. Headlining the new additions are British rave crew The Prodigy, who’ll make their long-awaited Sónar debut on Saturday. In recognition of their outsized influence on the Andalusian breakbeat scene, Sevillan producers Ático Corp. and R.I.P. Bestia - appearing as UFC (Un Futuro Creíble) live - open for them. As previously announced, Friday is headlined by global grime star Skepta; opening for him is Manchester-based Basque selector Zuri. Sara Landry and Dom Dolla are two of the most in-demand DJs in contemporary dance music: they’re both preparing high-impact, big-room ready sets with added AV production. And don’t forget, we already announced a new AV show from Charlotte de Witte, plus Amelie Lens’s epic AURA. Rounding out the new names are Greek hardgroove revivalists ANNĒ & Sera J and versatile Ukrainian techno artist Daria Kolosova, who join DJ Gigola, Joy Orbison, Funk Tribu, and Ogazón. SonarCar, evolved: Speedy J presents STOOR Live SonarCar goes back to its roots in 2026, with a three-day takeover of the stage by STOOR Live. This is both a return to, and an evolution of, the ‘classic’ SonarCar all-night long DJ sessions.

Starting as a pandemic-era studio project led by Dutch techno icon Speedy J, STOOR has since evolved into one of electronic music’s most impressive and unique live concepts, with extended, collaborative and fully improvised hardware sessions that go on for upwards of 6 hours. For each session, Speedy J is joined by four different performers, and what happens after is entirely unrehearsed and unscripted; each night will be an unrepeatable, unique experience. This year’s takeover of SonarCar is the most ambitious iteration of the project yet, and the first time STOOR has taken over an entire festival stage for three days. Thursday’s opening session will feature Colin Benders, Nadia Struiwigh, Reeko, and .VRIL. On Friday, FJAAK, KiNK, and Nene H will appear; while on Saturday, Dasha Rush, Luke Slater, Mathew Jonson and Ø [Phase] all participate. SonarHall: from concert venue to club in minutes One of the biggest changes at Sónar 2026 is the new SonarHall. Our flagship indoor stage evolves this June with an extended schedule that runs deep into the night, and a technical setup that allows us to shift smoothly from concert hall to club. What that means for you is less pauses between acts - with DJs and hybrid sets in the centre of the room - and late-night club takeovers by BULTO and Glitterbox on Friday and Saturday.

SonarHall will still be the place where you’ll find genre-defying live acts at Sónar 2026. Daniel Avery appears with a full band, performing material from his latest, alt-rock inspired, album. The first act from this year’s AI & Music powered by S+T+ARTS programme is also announced today: Reinier Zonneveld performs live with R2, an AI he’s trained on his own music. YHWH Nailgun’s explosive blend of dance punk and noise rock is cathartic and euphoric, while UK club tricksters Two Shell have been teasing new material. Catalan artists Ani in the Hall and MERCÈ both debut new shows, inspired respectively by folklore and videogames. Swedish pop futurist Namasenda and electronic jazz wizards ROLROLROL - Brainfeeder acolyte Jameszoo and Niels Broos - are the final additions to lineup that already featured cult industrial and electronic group Cabaret Voltaire and 30drop’s new AV show.

Moving to the artists who’ll perform between sets in the centre of the room, French post-punk connoisseur The Hacker is charged with warming up for Cabaret Voltaire, while one of Barcelona’s best DJs, Oriana, handles the aftershow party. Spanish producer Beatrix Weapons performs live, and Takuya Nakamura plays a hybrid set of jazz and jungle on CDJs, trumpet and pads. Another Japanese artist, GOTH-TRAD specialises in heavy, distorted, slow-motion dub, while Enchufada’s Sónia Trópicos brings the warm sound of Lisboa to Sónar 2026. After the shows on Friday and Saturday night, SonarHall converts into a club that runs until 5am. Bogotá queer fetish night BULTO have curated Friday’s lineup: former Mamba Negra resident Amanda Mussi, plus their own Nina GGG and JESUZ X back-to-back Brooklyn-based Spaniard NE/RE/A. On Saturday night, iconic house and disco party Glitterbox takes the reins. Launched in 2015 by Defected Records, it’s famed for its hedonistic atmosphere and legendary Ibiza summer events. At Sónar 2026, they’ve invited one of the funkiest artists around, German super-producer Mousse T., plus Glitterbox residents and radio hosts Melvo Baptiste and Yasmin. SonarPark: Let’s go outside The home of global, hyperlocal and hyperconnected club music at Sónar, SonarPark heads outdoors this year, with an extended nighttime schedule - until 1:30am on Thursday and until 6am on Friday and Saturday - and redesigned stage with a bigger dancefloor.

Latin America’s growing importance in electronic music is much more than a post-pandemic trend. Amongst the new additions appearing at SonarPark are Colombia’s PETERBLUE and Mexican ‘slut techno’ - her words, not ours - activist Miss Bashful. Argentinian superproducer TAYHANA also returns to Sónar, this time together with sensual latin house artist MissLupe. Live From Earth’s Perra Inmunda trades in fast, hip-hop inspired latin house, while Venezuela's Tedesco is one of latincore’s - dark, fast techno with added bass and breaks - leading lights. Fukcnormal and Mecromina Club residents Fresquito, Mango and Edu Lindo are from Spain, but they draw inspiration from the same sources. Already announced and also appearing are Clementaum b2b LAZA and La Sofy. It’s hard to think of a moment when Spanish trap and r&b have felt this creative, innovative and diverse. Metrika is provocative, but she’s also a brutally honest voice on modern sexuality and mental health. She’ll be joined at SonarPark by Main Costa from Alicante, and Barcelona’s GlorySixVain. Also from Barcelona, the Cutemobb collective host a multi-MC showcase of hip-hop, r&b, trap and afrobeats, led by founding member LEÏTI. And Catalan artist TAWA’s raw experimentalism pulls from baile funk, rage rap and witch house.

Baby Pantera breaks fully with trap to embrace trance on his forthcoming album Desidia, which features Nick León and Mssingno. South Korean duo DPR CREAM & DPR ARTIC, members of K-pop supergroup DPR, exist in a world of their own, influenced by r&b, hip-hop and UK bass. A pair of DJs round out the new additions. Ciara Cuvé is the psytrance alter ego of Clara Cuvé, and Madrid artist Migal - who provided the music for the Sónar 2026 campaign - offers a fresh perspective on hardgroove techno and tribal house. They join a lineup that already included sessions from Boys Noize, DJ AYA, RONI, and Alba Franch. SonarLab: Bridging contemporary and classic club culture SonarLab evolves again this year, with a redesigned dancefloor and lighting rig to help you lose yourself to some of the best artists in dance music, and a lineup that embraces underground rave culture and forward-thinking electronic music.

Friday is dedicated to the continuing influence of the UK hardcore continuum, from jungle to bass music. Representing legendary label Metalheadz, Goldie b2b Doc Scott ft Medic MC should be unmissable for anyone who considers themselves a fan of drum’n’bass. Addison Groove helped introduce footwork to dubstep circles: he explores the full spectrum of UK bass music and techno. Amaliah b2b Pangaea play the kind of fluid, bass-driven house and techno that exploded in the UK in the early 2010s (call it post-dubstep, if you must). Mysterious duo ⌭ IceMorph ⌬ - of online collective CloudCore - are downloading the internet’s most unconventional club music direct to the dancefloor, and Madrid DJ Olivia Babe’s esoteric mixing style compares positively to already-announced Japanese sensation- and SonarMix author - riria.

Saturday’s lineup showcases artists who are reshaping and refining techno. German ravers FJAAK meet electroclash pioneer Kittin for a collaborative live set. Herrensauna resident SALOME plays acid and electro with plenty of spiky breaks, while Akua’s raw, minimal, and intense style is inspired by techno’s 90s pioneers. Wata Igarashi returns to Sónar for another mind-bending live set. His deep, textured productions have inspired Japan’s next great techno artist DJ MARIA., who was announced in November together with SonarMix contributor ISA and Danielle b2b Ryan Elliott. Sónar+D, rebooted at Llotja de Mar A reminder that we’ve rebooted Sónar+D for 2026, with a new venue in the centre of Barcelona, Llotja de Mar. There’ll be more news on the programme coming soon, but today we’ve put the Sónar+D 2-Day Ticket on sale. For just €25, you’ll get access to both days of activities on Thursday 18th and Friday 19th June. Reminder: if you’ve already bought a SonarPass+D, access to Llotja de Mar is included with your ticket. Simplified ticketing and affordable prices Every year, we try to make Sónar accessible to as many people as possible. This year, with everything taking place in one venue, we’ve simplified our ticket structure and maintained prices at 2025 levels. All types of ticket for Sónar 2026 are now on sale over at our tickets page. Remember that the price listed is the price you’ll pay, with no additional fees or surprises. We’ve also made Day Tickets for our opening day on Thursday - which now runs until 3am - more affordable, and teamed up with European Youth Card and the Spanish Bono Cultural initiatives to offer discounts for younger audiences. *Unfortunately, ascendant vierge and Julianna Barwick & Mary Lattimore will not appear at Sónar 2026. Replacement acts are included in this announcement.

26/03/2026The programme for Sónar+D 2026 is an invitation to change our relationship with technology

After previously announcing the new home for Sónar+D, Llotja de Mar, today we unveil this year’s programme alongside more details about ‘our event like no other’. Reactivating the majestic neo-classical building in the centre of Barcelona with a two-day programme on 18th and 19th June, Sónar+D 2026 - now managed entirely by non-profit organisation Fundación Sónar - is an invitation to think critically, constructively, and optimistically about what comes next, at a moment when the distance between present and future has never felt closer. In a world where instant digital communication is the norm, AI is part of our daily lives, and we’re all ‘users’, it’s time to move from passive consumption of technology to active engagement with it.Sónar+D 2026 responds to this challenge with a programme that falls under three themes: ‘Al & Music’, ‘Beyond the Screen’, and ‘Digital Gardens and Dark Forests’.

Sónar+D 2026 lineup 18.19 June | 10am - 9pm | Llotja de Mar AI & Music powered by S+T+ARTS Anna Xambó | François Pachet | Google DeepMind & Daito Manabe | Magda Polo Pujadas (Grup EKHO) & Miquel Àngel Pujana (IDIBELL) | Nao Tokui | Rob Clouth  Beyond the Screen Luca Cingolani aka Outer | desilence | Eneritz Tejada | The Glad Scientist | Internet2 | Keiken | Mónica Rikić | niceaunties | Roxanne Harris  Digital Gardens and Dark Forests 0xSalon | Chia Amisola | Eugene Healey | Joana Moll | Mario Santamaría | Mindy Seu | Yancey Strickler   Performances AI Performance Playground* | dadabots* | Evicshen | Fitnesss & Riusforza | Ignasi Terraza & Philippe Salembier* | Shoeg
* AI & Music powered by S+T+ARTS  Exhibition
Arts Korea Lab | AUSGANG studio | Superbe | Volvox Labs | + more to be announced   Communities+DBarcelona Music Tech Hub | The Generative Art Museum | + more to be announced This year’s edition features a typically multidisciplinary programme of talks, panels, workshops, exhibitions, and performances that dissolves the boundaries between thought, action and experimentation. Designed to be experienced as a separate event or together with Sónar 2026 at Fira Gran Via, this year is the most accessible edition to date, with affordably-priced standalone tickets on sale for the first time.   Heading towards a Post-AI reality  AI & Music powered by S+T+ARTS returns to Sónar+D for a third year running. This year, the focus shifts to the frictions we’re encountering as the music sector moves towards a post-AI world. Looking beyond the AI bubble, we’re asking how musicians and researchers are adapting to a new reality where AI use is second nature, and how they’re preparing for what comes next.    This year, for the first time, Sónar+D opens with a concert. On Thursday morning at the brand-new Stage+D, celebrated Catalan jazz pianist Ignasi Terraza performs a duet with an AI system developed by UPC researcher Philippe Salembier; the latest iteration of the Piano & AI project, which first appeared at AI and Music S+T+ARTS Festival in 2021

This year’s AI & Music Open Forum features multidisciplinary artist Rob Clouth; AI researcher François Pachet, previously of Sony and Spotify; artist and researcher Nao Tokui, founder of AI instrument company Neutone; and Anna Xambó, Head of the Computational Sonic Arts Lab at Queen Mary University London’s Centre for Digital Music (C4DM); plus other special guests who’ll appear throughout the programme. This is a chance to hear different perspectives on the push-and-pull relationship between musicians and AI; later in the day, we invite you to go deeper with individual talks by François Pachet, Nao Tokui, and Anna Xambó upstairs in the new Àgora+D. And a familiar face at Sónar+D, Magda Polo Pujadas is joined by genome specialist Dr. Miquel Àngel Pujana from biomedical research lab IDIBELL to explain how they’ve used DNA sequences to make music. Already announced as part of the Sónar lineup at Fira Gran Via are AI-powered live shows by Daito Manabe and Reinier Zonneveld presents R2. On Friday before his show, we’ve invited Daito Manabe to Llotja de Mar to talk to Google DeepMind’s Jeff Chang (who also produces progressive house as JC++) about how he’s used DeepMind’s musical tools to build his new set. Later that day, the AI Performance Playground participants take over Àgora+D for a collaborative show, after three days spent preparing between Llotja de Mar and LaSalle-URL’s IASLab. And after opening with an AI-driven performance, Sónar+D 2026 closes with one: on Friday evening anarchic hacker duo dadabots invite the audience to take part in their generative audio assault by providing live prompts.

Beyond the Screen – the return of humanity and physicality to digital culture The screen – from smartphones to gigantic LED displays – has been the defining creative medium of the past decade. The dominant trend has been for higher-definition visuals, with more elaborate and artificially perfect details. But the backlash has also grown in volume, which is why we’ve invited a host of creatives that are injecting physicality and humanity back into the digital world through creative use of code and thoughtful design.

On Thursday Singapore-based artist and designer niceaunties explains how she’s reimagining the ‘auntie’ in her surreal, fantasy- and kawaii-influenced creations. We’ve also invited artist collective Keiken (Japanese for “experience”) - who bring speculative futures to life through various games, films, installations and performances - to explain the art of worldbuilding, and lead a workshop, Perception Game, that invites participants to reconsider how they connect with what’s around them.

We’ve asked playful visual designer and coder Internet2 to take us through The Wishlist, a workshop that examines our fear of being listened to by our own devices for advertising purposes. Visual artists should bookmark a pair of workshops by desilence and The Glad Scientist that teach participants how to get the most out of industry-standard tools like TouchDesigner and re-think their creative workflows. And as part of the TIMES programme, Luca Cingolani aka Outer explains how he uses generative AI to create live visuals, inspired by his work on ‘The Talk’ last year.

We’ve also programmed a trio of activities that blur the lines between lecture, performance, and demonstration, in true Sónar+D style. Accompanied on stage by a robot and surrounded by cameras, Catalan artist Mónica Rikić explores thorny questions about the care sector’s use of robotics. Live-coding musician Roxanne Harris projects her own algorithms behind her as she performs, and another creative coder/musician, Eneritz Tejada, integrates the body into her work, using wearable technology she builds herself.

Digital Gardens and Dark Forests – alternative futures for the Internet In 2026, the future of the web hangs in the balance: what began as a liberated space for personal expression is now dominated by corporations, guided by metrics, and driven by commercial interests. These days, we’re all ‘users’, but why does it feel like we’re the ones being used? This year Sónar+D looks at how different actors are plotting an escape from the current model of the internet. Whether they’re creating private communities free from corporate digital surveillance, or cultivating their own idiosyncratic corners of digital space, many of them are looking at the internet's past to shape its future.

Last time Yancey Strickler came to Sónar+D it was to talk about Kickstarter, the platform he co-founded in 2009; these days, he’s helping artists and creators re-take control of the internet. He opens Stage+D on Friday with The Theory of The Internet, an interactive lecture. The day before on the same stage, New Zealander brand consultant and educator Eugene Healey responds to an age of digital entropy with Social Media: A Fight With a God We Cannot Name, a talk that examines how algorithms have fragmented the media, short-circuited our attention spans, and dissolved mass culture. Catalan artist Joana Moll won Barcelona’s Premi Ciutat for Digital Culture in 2025 for The User and The Beast, which delivers a history of telecommunications to the audience in a way they won’t expect. And author, designer and technologist Mindy Seu brings her latest book The Sexual History of the Internet to life, with a participative collective reading.

Since 2020, online community 0xSalon have been hosting experimental events and critiquing digital culture. They bring FAU0X Salon, a card game inspired by tarot and RPGs (role-playing games), to Sónar+D. Chia Amisola is a product designer for Figma by day, and a web artist by night. The Filipino artist looks back to a time where the web still felt personal and handmade, (remember GeoCities?). We’ve invited her to explain how we can carry that spirit into the present in a talk, and to lead a workshop that teaches us how to cultivate our own tiny corners of the internet.

Multidisciplinary artist Mario Santamaría made his name with ‘guided tours’ of the internet that visited servers and fibre-optic cables. At Sónar+D he heads down literal and metaphorical rabbit holes, as he introduces us to the world of ‘zombie infrastructure’, the obsolete pipelines and tunnels under our feet. Performances that go beyond music In another Sónar+D tradition, Each day at Llotja de Mar closes with a mini-programme of performances These experimental, confrontational shows go beyond music, questioning our relationship with technology and reasserting the physical nature of live performance.

Sound artist, experimental performer and instrument maker Evicshen is part of a long tradition of confrontational noise acts. Her physical, sonically abrasive performances turn the whole room into a stage, often using home-made instruments that function like prosthetics. She’s joined on Thursday by another performance artist, Fitnesss, whose muscular, physical presence is complemented by Spanish dancer and choreographer Riusforza in a brand-new, unique show that they’re developing especially for Sónar+D 2026.

On Friday before dadabots there’ll be a special show from pioneering Catalan experimental producer Shoeg, using a chain of controllers, synthesisers and motion sensors.

A first look at the Exhibition and Communities programme

The full programme for Expo+D - including exhibits selected through this year’s Open Call (now closed) - will be revealed in the next few weeks but three items are revealed today. Brooklyn studio Volvox Labs bring Astral Twin to the courtyard of Llotja de Mar, while Belgian studio Superbe’s interactive installation from0 uses sound, movement and visuals to reflect on the versatility of language.

Arts Korea Lab also return to Sónar+D for the third year running, with an exhibition showcase and presentation session. Berlin creative studio AUSGANG are also involved at Llotja de Mar, preparing a special intervention at Àgora+D using their distinctive mix of tentacle-like cables and neon lighting.
This year Sónar+D also heads to Fira Gran Via for the very first time, with specially commissioned digital art installations located within the main Sónar venue. More details will be announced very soon. There’ll also be a series of activities that give the floor to local creative and technological actors: Communities+D. The full programme will be announced soon, but today we can announce our friends at Barcelona Music Tech Hub return with another Startups Pitch Session, as well as frequent Sónar+D collaborators The Generative Art Museum for a Creative Coding Barcelona meetup. The most accessible Sónar+D to date: standalone tickets on sale for the first time

This year, there are more ways than ever to attend Sónar+D.

New this year are Sónar+D 2-Day Tickets and Day Tickets, which offer standalone access to the programme at Llotja de Mar. And if you want to combine Sónar+D 2026 with Sónar 2026 at Fira Gran Via, you can still grab a SonarPass+D. All tickets are available at the Sónar 2026 tickets page here.
SonarBus shuttle services will run from Llotja de Mar to Fira Gran Via, ensuring quick transfers from one venue to another for anyone who wants to attend both events.

Last call for the 2026 AI & Music Performance Playground A final reminder: applications for the 2026 AI & Music Performance Playground close this Sunday, 29th March, at midnight CEST. Head here to find out more and apply to take part in a three-day hacklab on 17th, 18th and 19th June as part of Sónar+D.