Nobody within the digital dance music scene headlines a pageant fairly like Calvin Harris, and Austin is about to seek out out what that appears like.
The chart-topping dance music celebrity has headlined sufficient festivals to fill a Michael Jordan-esque spotlight reel, however his reserving on the 2026 Coca-Cola Sips & Sounds Music Competition appears like a real inflection level for the Austin occasion. He joins Christina Aguilera atop the invoice for its fourth version, set for March 13-14 towards the backdrop of the downtown skyline alongside the lakefront Auditorium Shores.
Regardless of what X-Tina informed us again in 1999, this genie will definitely be again within the bottle. Calvin Harris is without doubt one of the only a few EDM artists who can credibly shut a significant multi-genre pageant on identify recognition alone, and except he miraculously headlines ACL, it’ll possible be some time earlier than followers in Austin can expertise a set like this once more.
Aguilera, whose vocal status precedes each room she enters, headlines Sips & Sounds on Friday night time earlier than Harris closes the pageant on Saturday. Collectively they anchor a 16-act lineup that additionally consists of Main Lazer Soundsystem, Grouplove, Ravyn Lenae and Foster The Folks, the lattermost of whom have emerged as unlikely darlings of the digital music neighborhood.
Foster The Folks frontman Mark Foster and keyboardist Isom Innis traded the band’s indie-pop pulpit for a DJ sales space again in February 2025, swapping their sunny pageant aesthetic for the laser-swathed partitions of an deserted warehouse in Atlanta, the place they delivered one of many 12 months’s most surprising DJ units. They’ll ditch the decks within the Reside Music Capital of the World, after all, and follow their tried-and-true full band efficiency, however who’s complaining? For those who don’t need to sing ‘Pumped Up Kicks’ and ‘Sit Subsequent to Me’ below the solar with glowing lake views, this pageant may not be for you.
In the meantime, Coca-Cola returns with branded activations and native meals distributors woven all through the grounds of Sips & Sounds, together with a dedication to 100% recyclable packaging for all onsite drinks.
You should purchase tickets to the pageant right here and take a look at the total lineup under.
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