Local mainstays Death Cab for Cutie will headline the 2026 edition of Seattle’s Bumbershoot Arts & Music Festival alongside Turnstile when the event returns to Seattle Center over the Sept. 5-6 Labor Day weekend.
The lineup will also feature Japanese Breakfast, Blood Orange, Chase & Status, Bikini Kill, De La Soul, Yves Tumor, Orville Peck, Sudan Archives, Pixel Grip, Die Spitz, ATARASHII GAKKO!, TOKiMONSTA, Noname (celebrating the 10th anniversary of Telefone) and Molchat Doma, among many others. A variety of ticket types are on sale now through the Bumbershoot web site.
In a first, attendees can take advantage of a relaxed open-container policy allowing them to enjoy alcoholic beverages across the festival footprint.
For Death for Cutie, the Bumbershoot appearance is its first since 2016 and a return to the first major festival the Ben Gibbard-led band ever played back in 1999. The group’s new album, the John Congleton-produced I Built You a Tower, will be released June 5 through ANTI-.
This will also be Turnstile’s biggest headlining show to date in Seattle, although the Baltimore-reared hardcore band did open for blink-182 in 2023 at the city’s Climate Pledge Arena.
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