Tate McRae, MUNA, Wunderhorse Close Out Lollapalooza 2026 In Chicago

Tate McRae closes retired Lollapalooza pinch a headlining capacity connected time four. Sunday, August 2, 2026 astatine Grant Park successful Chicago, IL

Photo by Barry Brecheisen

“Lollapalooza!” emphasized popular prima Tate McRae early successful a show closing capacity Sunday nighttime connected shape successful Chicago. “What’s up?” she asked rhetorically of the crowd to rapturous applause arsenic Lolla 2026 neared its end.

While rainfall started Friday nighttime and continued Saturday, forcing a precocious commencement and amended schedule, Sunday went disconnected without a hitch successful Chicago’s Grant Park, pinch the show bookended by barren upwind contempt an astatine 1 constituent moreover much perchance menacing forecast.

How the show grounds were arsenic barren Sunday arsenic they were was mildly shocking, pinch Lollapalooza deserving of in installments for not only managing to safely shape the show but for pushing updated info retired successful a clear and timely manner, seldom a guarantee wrong the wide show realm.

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The guitar proved to beryllium a item Sunday successful Chicago pinch acts for illustration Wunderhorse and Turnstile turning successful immoderate of the weekend’s finest moments, sets that, successful immoderate cases, came to symbolize months of activity honing and good tuning the connected shape presentation.

“We’ve been readying this for six months,” said Surfing For Daisy drummer Steven Filippone backstage pursuing the group’s group Sunday. “You overgarment a image successful your caput and past it really happens? You’re conscionable for illustration what the hell? It’s difficult to put into words. It was awesome.”

Surfing for Daisy is simply a New Jersey-based replacement people group who tore done a brisk 40 infinitesimal capacity connected Lollapalooza’s BMI shape early successful the day connected Sunday.

“The group was electric,” said vocalist and guitarist Nick Francis. “I don’t deliberation we were expecting that galore group to beryllium there. Everybody’s sewage their small jitters. But you look up halfway done the group to spot a oversea of group and my power conscionable went crazy aft that. It was incredible.”

Drawing from caller singles for illustration “1952,” Surfing for Daisy made the astir of their Lollapalooza debut arsenic they proceed activity connected their sophomore afloat magnitude medium Echo the Madness, a cinematic, somewhat darker matter that will travel up their 2025 self-titled debut this September.

“It’s going to beryllium madness,” declared bassist Cameron Seidel. “I deliberation we’re leaning more, pinch the 2nd album, into for illustration a darker, folk/psychedelic type vibe. It’s decidedly going to beryllium darker than the first one,” explained keyboard subordinate and vocalist Kathryn McCarty. “I consciousness for illustration this 1 is much experimental. Dark folk. Emo folk. It’s gonna beryllium cool. We’re very excited astir this.”

And dissimilar astir artists, who person nary a free 2nd to drawback different performances earlier heading to the adjacent show, Surfing for Daisy sewage to instrumentality astir for a sec Sunday.

“We came consecutive successful from Wisconsin. But we are going to spot Wunderhorse,” added Francis. “Because Wunderhorse is my favourite band. Huge fan.”

Wunderhorse was a raucous item connected Sunday astatine Lollapalooza, yet wrapping up astir 15 minutes awkward of their scheduled 60 infinitesimal set.

“Rain” would’ve been an due summation to the Saturday capacity slate arsenic frontman Jacob Slater ripped into the standout from the group’s 2024 sophomore workplace effort Midas connected Sunday. “Chicago, convey you!” said Slater, turning correct to faceoff against guitarist Harry Fowler, pinch the group soon huddling astir drummer Jamie Staples during a scorching precocious interlude.

Drenched successful distortion, “July” took style arsenic a grungy dirge, giving measurement to the catchy, melodic early guitar hook of “Teal.”

Elsewhere connected the BMI shape this weekend, The Braymores offered up a rewarding group pursuing 1 of the week’s earliest aftershows Wednesday night.

“We had an awesome clip performing pinch Evening Elephants, they’re awesome guys. And Beat Kitchen is simply a venue that we’ve played much than immoderate other,” said guitarist Keegan Melaniphy pursuing the set. “So, it felt astonishing to beryllium capable to person an charismatic Lolla aftershow there."

Lollapalooza does a awesome occupation of annually showcasing the excitingly divers philharmonic sounds the metropolis of Chicago has to offer, pinch performances passim the play by acts for illustration 90s alt stalwarts Smashing Pumpkins, DJs Whethan and John Summit, rapper Freddie Gibbs, the Chicago Youth Symphony and more.

Indie rockers The Braymores represented the metropolis of Chicago while supporting their 2nd workplace medium When the Lights Went Out.

“No words tin picture this feeling, it was genuinely the champion time of our lives!” said drummer Russ Oren. “At first we were tense that cipher would come. But past for illustration 1,000 group spawned retired of obscurity and we had the champion time!” he said. “Keegan and I grew up coming to Lolla arsenic fans. So, to beryllium capable to yet play our location metropolis show felt insanely rewarding,” added vocalist and guitarist Matt Tilles. “Lolla is wherever I fell successful emotion pinch euphony and unrecorded capacity and our group felt for illustration it marked a awesome accomplishment for the set and each that we worked truthful difficult for complete these past 4 years.”

It’s nary concealed that fans proceed to azygous retired their desire for an immersive acquisition arsenic a awesome tie for destination festivals successful 2026. Brands person noticed and firm activations person go a bigger and bigger portion of a take your ain escapade Lollapalooza experience.

In an effort to simply meet fans wherever they are, Hawaiian brewer Kona brought not conscionable their flagship Kona Big Wave aureate ale but a half pipe, celebrating the matrimony of euphony and skate civilization adjacent Grant Park’s picturesque Buckingham Fountain passim Lollapalooza weekend.

“Skateboarding and euphony person ever been intertwined,” said X Games medalist Braden Hoban. “Lollapalooza is 1 of the fewer places wherever you tin bask both,” he said. “I emotion being portion of experiences that create genuine connections,” added Olympian and back-to-back X Games golden medalist Mariah Duran. “It was unthinkable to play a portion successful Kona Big Wave bringing the first skate ramp to Lollapalooza and celebrating skateboarding’s passion, productivity and consciousness of community.”

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While Kona Big Wave offered skateboarding, brew and camaraderie, T-Mobile’s Club Magenta offered immoderate fans a covered respite from first rainfall and past mud Friday nighttime and Saturday.

Touting a bar, comfortable seating, charging stations and different exclusive opportunities and perks, Club Magenta provided a raised, nonstop sightline to the T-Mobile main shape connected Grant Park’s southbound end, 1 which hosted headlining performances passim the play by New Zealand vocalist songwriter Lorde, English popular prima Charli XCX, British vocalist Olivia Dean and Canadian vocalist and dancer Tate McRae.

Last year, Club Magenta hosted a astonishment capacity by rapper Isaiah Rashad and this twelvemonth amazed fans pinch a DJ group by artist, shaper and character Leon Thomas, pursuing a 45 infinitesimal main shape set.

“Alright, earlier we play this song, we gotta say, ‘F–k Trump and f–k ICE!’” said MUNA vocalist Katie Gavin connected shape Sunday astatine Lollapalooza, starring an awesome telephone and consequence pinch a monolithic Sunday assemblage arsenic she group up “Big Stick” from the group’s precocious released 4th workplace medium Dancing connected the Wall.

While the set is known for their unsocial marque of incredibly catchy, indelibly-crafted electro pop, Dancing connected the Wall, “Big Stick” successful particular, finds the set addressing late-stage capitalism and tumultuous times successful America via their songwriting this clip around.

“Artists are virtually conscionable people. So, we’re besides experiencing the world,” explained Gavin backstage anterior to the group’s 3rd Lollapalooza performance. “We unrecorded successful L.A. And the play of clip that we were penning the album, we saw the wildfires and the penetration of the metropolis by ICE. So, location were a batch of things that were tapping america into really galore group are suffering,” she said. “Our friend wrote a portion astir the medium that I really appreciated. Because he benignant of talked astir really it is simply a grounds astir emotion - but it addresses nine and suffering successful society. Because, often, that benignant of suffering tin really get successful the measurement of group being capable to link pinch each different - because they’re successful pain. We are ever talking astir emotion and connection. So, I deliberation it conscionable was a earthy point for us.”

Synths rang successful “One That Got Away” pinch Josette Maskin connected acoustic guitar and Naomi McPherson connected keys for “So What." Gavin, who hails from Chicago’s northbound suburbs, stood arms crossed arsenic she took banal of the hometown crowd during a moving connected shape infinitesimal Sunday astatine Lollapalooza.

“I’m sad that we missed Charli and Lorde. But excited to spot Turnstile!” said McPherson Sunday. “This is our third time playing this festival. It’s conscionable nice,” added Maskin. “Because, I think, successful this business, you tin consciousness very stifled. But it’s conscionable beautiful to spot really overmuch we’ve grown arsenic a set and really overmuch we’ve grown arsenic friends and arsenic people. I retrieve playing this show for the first time. And emotion truthful frightened and truthful overwound by the thought that this was going to make aliases break our career. And now we get to play the main shape present and it feels really comfortable. And I’m conscionable grateful to still beryllium doing this pinch my champion friends.”

Tate McRae wrapped up Lollapalooza 2026 pinch 1 of the weekend’s astir extravagantly choreographed performances. While drenched successful autotune astatine times, Sunday’s group wasn’t wholly devoid of authentic moments.

“Hi, you guys! My sanction is Tate McRae and I’m truthful excited to beryllium backmost successful Chicago!” declared McRae connected shape Sunday. “I emotion it here. It’s 1 of my favourite places. I’ve done Lolla doubly earlier but this is my first clip headlining - which is crazy!” said McRae, mounting up “Tit For Tat” arsenic pyro and sparks exploded overhead.

Fan phones successful the aerial lit up the show expanse arsenic McRae offered up “Dear God” astir halfway through, her backing dancers striking a airs arsenic the opus concluded. McRae sent retired “cut my hair” to the girls while offering up a peculiarly impassioned preamble to “you collapsed maine first” later.

“This really makes maine consciousness nostalgic,” she began. “It was Lollapalooza and it was my 2nd festival. Now there’s 100,000 of you,” marveled McRae. “I started this successful my chamber erstwhile I was a child. But if it weren’t for those embarrassing videos I put retired successful mediate school, I wouldn’t beryllium present pinch you. So, if you cognize it, singing it!”