Pixies, Halsey, David Byrne, and Jon Batiste: Cruïlla unveils full line-up for 2026 music festival

Barcelona’s Cruïlla music festival announced its full line-up on Wednesday with Pixies, David Byrne, Halsey, and Faithless as the headliners of next year’s edition.

The festival will also see Jon Batiste, The Black Crowes, The Hives, Two Door Cinema Club, and Rigoberta Bandini during the four-day event held at Parc del Fòrum.

"While most of the festivals create ephemeral communities that just join in and then leave and all of them are unknown to each other, Cruïlla strengthens the already existing community," Jordi Herruela, director of the festival, said during the line-up announcement.

"Cruïlla consolidates a unique urban identity; it resembles more of a local festivity than a large music festival," he added before announcing the several artists. For him, being at the music festival, "you feel like being at home."

"We do not want to be the largest festival in Barcelona, we always run away from looking to break records, we are an antidote to the FOMO (fear of missing out)," he said.

The music festival had already announced acts such as the Pixies, David Byrne, and Two Door Cinema Club. 

In mid-December, the event released the full line-up earlier than usual, which used to be in January.

Among the new headliners, there is Halsey, who returns to stages to honor the 10th anniversary of her work 'Badlands.' Reneé Rapp will debut in Spain, proving why she is one of the artists with the most international projection in the pop industry.

Garbage will perform their last concert in Barcelona at Cruïlla before ending their career. 

Ezra Collective will also be part of the 2026 line-up of Cruïlla music festival, as well as Jon Batiste, who will perform in the Catalan capital for the first time ever. He became internationally renowned for his role as music director on the US late-night talk show The Late Show with Stephen Colbert.

From Italy, Jovanotti will transport the public at the Parc del Fòrum to one of his macro parties and shows with a strong commitment to sustainability and social awareness. This will be his first concert in Spain.

The Hives, Pixies, Faithless, The Black Crowes, Suede, Polo & Pan, Meute, and Mind Enterprises, and Two Door Cinema Club are among the other global artists performing at the event.

One of the main elements that Jordi Herreula highlighted in the line-up during the presentation is the mix of national and international artists, as well as of established and emerging musicians.

From Catalonia, there will be artists such as Rigoberta Bandini, Els Pets, who will play as part of their 40th anniversary tour, Alizz, Mishima, Mazoni, La Ludwig Band, Svetlana, and Dan Peralbo i El Comboi.

Other national artists are Sen Senra, Zahara Rave, Chiquita, Movida, Parquesvr, and Ultraligera.

Halsey, Reneé Rapp, and Sen Senra will headline the event on Wednesday. On Thursday it will be the turn for Pixies, Garbage, Suede, and Mishima. Meanwhile, on Friday, David Byrne, The Black Crowes, Bomba Estéreo, Meute, and Ezra Collective will take the stages during the third night of the festival.

Saturday will see headliners such as Faithless, The Hives, Rigoberta Bandini, Two Door Cinema Club, Jovanotti, and Jon Batiste.

The music festival will be held between July 8 and 11 at the Parc del Fòrum venue, in the same area where the city's largest festival, Primavera Sound, takes place a few weeks earlier.

Tickets have been on sale for weeks. After the first headliners were announced, prices increased from €120.

Cruïlla's last edition wrapped after a torrential rain changed its schedule on the last day. Around 82,000 spectators attended the event.