{"id":2201192,"date":"2025-12-16T12:31:13","date_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:31:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/?p=2201192"},"modified":"2025-12-16T12:31:13","modified_gmt":"2025-12-16T12:31:13","slug":"indie-singers-2-rock-bands-announced-as-latest-musikfest-2026-headliners-entertainment-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/indie-singers-2-rock-bands-announced-as-latest-musikfest-2026-headliners-entertainment-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Indie singers, 2 rock bands announced as latest Musikfest 2026 headliners | Entertainment News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><\/p>\n<div id=\"article-body\" itemprop=\"articleBody\" false=\"\">\n                                <meta itemprop=\"isAccessibleForFree\" content=\"true\"\/><\/p>\n<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211;\u00a0ArtsQuest has\u00a0announced some more Musikfest 2026 headliners.<\/p>\n<p>Indie band AJR, as well as\u00a0Yellowcard and Taking Back Sunday, will perform at the music festival next August,\u00a0according to a news release from\u00a0ArtsQuest Monday.<\/p>\n<p>AJR will be coming to the Wind Creek Steel Stage at PNC Plaza on August 9, 2026, according to the news release.<\/p>\n<p>Yellowcard and Taking Back Sunday, with special guest The Click Five, will hit the Wind Creek Steel Stage at PNC Plaza on August 8, 2026, ArtsQuest said.<\/p>\n<p>Tickets are available for ArtsQuest Members on Monday, December 15 at 10 a.m. and for the general public on Friday, December 19 at 10 a.m. at <a rel=\"nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"http:\/\/ArtsQuest.org\">ArtsQuest.org<\/a>., according to the news release.<\/p>\n<div class=\"inline-asset inline-image layout-horizontal  subscriber-hide  tnt-inline-asset tnt-inline-relcontent tnt-inline-image tnt-inline-relation-child tnt-inline-presentation-default tnt-inline-alignment-default tnt-inline-width-default\">\n<figure class=\"photo layout-horizontal hover-expand letterbox-style-blur\"><span class=\"expand hidden-print\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-photo-target=\".photo-31784c37-0e8f-499e-b3e3-d7ad04e8bd39\" data-instance=\"#gallery-items-0eb2fac5-f3bd-4062-b864-d26a5d567d6b-photo-modal\" data-target=\"#photo-carousel-0eb2fac5-f3bd-4062-b864-d26a5d567d6b\"><br \/>\n                <span class=\"fas tnt-expand\"\/><br \/>\n            <\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"image\" data-toggle=\"modal\" data-photo-target=\".photo-31784c37-0e8f-499e-b3e3-d7ad04e8bd39\" data-instance=\"#gallery-items-0eb2fac5-f3bd-4062-b864-d26a5d567d6b-photo-modal\" data-target=\"#photo-carousel-0eb2fac5-f3bd-4062-b864-d26a5d567d6b\">\n<div itemprop=\"image\" itemscope=\"\" itemtype=\"https:\/\/schema.org\/ImageObject\">\n            <meta itemprop=\"width\" content=\"1920\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"height\" content=\"1080\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"contentUrl\" content=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/wfmz.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/3\/17\/31784c37-0e8f-499e-b3e3-d7ad04e8bd39\/69402b5ded10f.image.jpg?resize=1396%2C785\"\/><br \/>\n            <meta itemprop=\"url\" content=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/wfmz.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/3\/17\/31784c37-0e8f-499e-b3e3-d7ad04e8bd39\/69402b5ded10f.image.jpg?resize=1396%2C785\"\/><br \/>\n                        \n            <\/div>\n<div class=\"tnt-blurred-image\">\n             <img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/bloximages.newyork1.vip.townnews.com\/wfmz.com\/content\/tncms\/assets\/v3\/editorial\/3\/17\/31784c37-0e8f-499e-b3e3-d7ad04e8bd39\/69402b5ded10f.image.jpg?resize=200%2C113\" alt=\"\" aria-hidden=\"true\" loading=\"lazy\" height=\"113\" width=\"200\"\/>\n         <\/div><\/div><figcaption class=\"caption\">\n<p>                                <span class=\"caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Photo from ArtsQuest<\/p>\n<p>                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                        <span class=\"clearfix\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>For more exclusive ticket access and advance purchase opportunities, people can become an ArtsQuest Circle Donor.<\/p>\n<p>ArtsQuest says AJR is one of the biggest indie bands in the world.<\/p>\n<p>Since 2012, the multi-platinum indie pop trio\u2014Adam (bass, vocals), Jack (vocals, guitar) and Ryan (ukulele, piano, vocals)\u2014have generated billions of streams and earned one triple-platinum single, one double-platinum single, four platinum singles and one platinum album,\u00a0ArtsQuest says.<\/p>\n<p>2019\u2019s Neotheater marked their biggest first-week debut, bowing at #8 on the Billboard Top 200, #1 on the Top Alternative Albums Chart and #1 on the Top Rock Albums Chart,\u00a0according to the\u00a0news release.<\/p>\n<p>ArtsQuest says\u00a0Spotify ranked\u00a0\u201cSober Up\u201d (feat. 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            <span class=\"caption-text\"><\/p>\n<p>Photo from ArtsQuest<\/p>\n<p>                                <\/span><\/p>\n<p>                        <span class=\"clearfix\"\/><br \/>\n                    <\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n<p>After Neotheater, they released the 2020 platinum blockbuster \u201cBANG!\u201d, which cracked the Top 10 at three radio formats, peaking at No. 6 on the Top 40 chart, No. 2 on Alternative radio and No. 1 on Adult Pop and marked their first Top 10 entry on the Billboard Hot 100,\u00a0ArtsQuest says.<\/p>\n<p>Their latest album, The Maybe Man (AJR Productions\/Republic Records), was released in 2023.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>ArtsQuest says\u00a0Yellowcard released\u00a0Better Days<span>, its first album in nearly a decade, which was produced by blink-182\u2019s Travis Barker, who also played drums on every track.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span>Taking Back Sunday, who released their eighth studio album 152 in late 2023, often refer to themselves as the 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The new album features 10 new tracks.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n<p><em> \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em> \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.wfmz.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>BETHLEHEM, Pa. &#8211;\u00a0ArtsQuest has\u00a0announced some more Musikfest 2026 headliners. Indie band AJR, as well as\u00a0Yellowcard and Taking Back Sunday, will perform at the music festival next August,\u00a0according to a news release from\u00a0ArtsQuest Monday. AJR will be coming to the Wind Creek Steel Stage at PNC Plaza on August 9, 2026, according to the news release. 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