Caterwaul Festival 2026 Announces Mike Watt, Dazzling Killmen, & Stress Positions

Founded in 2020, Minneapolis music festival Caterwaul has established itself as an annual showcase of the noisy, iconoclastic fringes of rock, with past performers including the likes of Chat Pile, Flipper, Pissed Jeans, and Uniform.

BrooklynVegan has hailed Caterwaul as “a unique mix of noise rock, punk, metal, post-punk and beyond,” while New Noise Magazine has named it “a gathering of some of the best underground bands existing today.” In a city still reeling from tragedies connected to the federal government’s heavy-handed immigration efforts, Caterwaul stands as a beacon of independent thought and countercultural action.

With the fifth edition of Caterwaul confirmed for June 5th to 7th, 2026, at Minneapolis venue Zhora Darling, the festival’s organizers have revealed 10 of this year’s artists. In alphabetical order:

Dazzling Killmen
Didjits
H.E.A.T.
Mike Watt + The Missingmen
Muscle
New Brutalism
Point Line Plane
Season to Risk
Stress Positions
Tongue Party

Three-day festival passes are on sale now: http://ticketstripe.com/caterwaul2026

Stand by for more lineup announcements, coming soon.