On Monday, the Madrid Mad Cool Festival presented the programming of its 2026 edition, which will take place from July 8 to 11, with top artists such as Foo Fighters, Florence + The Machine, Lorde and Nick Cave.
The Black Crowes, Moby, Pulp, The War On Drugs, Wolf Alice Pixies, Halsey, Teddy Swims and South Korea’s Jennie, who just released her solo debut alongside K-pop band Black Pink, will also be part of this lineup which, unlike this year, will have another day.
The organizers have confirmed this It’s the festival’s 10th anniversary Since its first edition in 2016, in the face of what will effectively be its ninth installment, they have deployed a series of important organizational innovations.
Mad Cool Festival 2026 poster.
There will be a new capacity 55,000 people dailylower than in 2025, which has also reduced its overall daily capacity for the comfort of attendees, and the venue, which will be Iberdrola Music for the fourth year, will be entered an hour later to combat the July summer heat in Madrid.
Equally important is that there will be a redistribution of the stages, with one of the large stages disappearing, with more space available in the rest, restaurant and transportation areas, as well as more water points, bathrooms and bars.
The idea about programming, by increasing the supply to another day, is Designate days to make it more consistent In terms of musical tastes and better distribution in schedules.
Day one, Wednesday 8 July, will feature Foo Fighters, Moby, The War On Drugs, Wolf Alice, The Last Dinner Party, The Waring, Jenny Beth and more.
On Thursday, July 9, the most decisive pop party will be Florence + The Machine, Jennie, Lorde, Teddy Swims, Zara Larsson, Rene Rapp, Charlie Puth, The Blaze DJ, CMAT and the Spanish La Paloma, among others.
On Friday, July 10, music will be presented by artists such as Twenty One Pilots, Kings of Leon, Pixies, Halsey, A Perfect Circle, Interpol, Sigrit, and Holly Humberstone.
Finally, on Saturday 11 July, the finale will be more alternative rock, with Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Pulp, David Byrne, Kasabian, The Vaccines and Matt Berninger, singer of The National, but also The Black Crowes, among others.
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