The Strokes, Gorillaz, Twenty One Pilots Lead

The Strokes, Gorillaz, Wu-Tang Clan, and more will head to Atlanta later this fall for the 2026 Shaky Knees festival.

The three-day event is set to run Sept. 18 through 20 at Atlanta’s Piedmont Park. The Strokes will headline night one on Friday; Twenty One Pilots will top the bill on Saturday; and Gorillaz will close out the festival on Sunday.

The packed lineup primarily leans towards rock, punk, and its various offshoots. Turnstile, Fontaines D.C., and Geese will all take the stage on night one, while night two will boast additional sets from Pavement, Pierce the Veil, the Prodigy, Taking Back Sunday, and Jimmy Eat World. Along with Gorillaz and Wu-Tang Clan, Sunday will feature LCD Soundsystem, Modest Mouse, Japanese Breakfast, and Santigold.

Other acts set to appear at Shaky Knees include Hot Mulligan, Ben Howard, Blood Orange, Wolf Alice, the Rapture, Geordie Greep, Knocked Loose, Fcukers, American Hi-Fi, Jet, Coheed and Cambria, and Violet Grohl.

A presale for Shaky Knees is set to begin Feb. 26 at 9 a.m. ET, and fans can register for access now. A public on-sale will follow if any tickets remain. Full information is available on the festival’s website.

For the Strokes, Shaky Knees is one of several big festivals the New York band is slated to play this year, along with Coachella and Bonnaroo. While the band has been playing live pretty regularly over the past few years, they haven’t released a new album since 2020’s The New Abnormal.

As for the fest’s other headliners, Twenty One Pilots released their most recent album, Breach, last September, while Gorillaz are set to drop their new record, The Mountain, on Feb. 27.

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