BETHLEHEM, Pa. – ArtsQuest has announced some more Musikfest 2026 headliners.
Indie band AJR, as well as Yellowcard and Taking Back Sunday, will perform at the music festival next August, according to a news release from ArtsQuest Monday.
AJR will be coming to the Wind Creek Steel Stage at PNC Plaza on August 9, 2026, according to the news release.
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.
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 ArtsQuest.org., according to the news release.
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ArtsQuest says AJR is one of the biggest indie bands in the world.
Since 2012, the multi-platinum indie pop trio—Adam (bass, vocals), Jack (vocals, guitar) and Ryan (ukulele, piano, vocals)—have generated billions of streams and earned one triple-platinum single, one double-platinum single, four platinum singles and one platinum album, ArtsQuest says.
2019’s 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, according to the news release.
ArtsQuest says Spotify ranked “Sober Up” (feat. Rivers Cuomo) among the “Best Rock Songs of the 2010s,” while Apple Music included “Weak” on its “Best Alt Songs of the 2010s.”
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After Neotheater, they released the 2020 platinum blockbuster “BANG!”, 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, ArtsQuest says.
Their latest album, The Maybe Man (AJR Productions/Republic Records), was released in 2023.
ArtsQuest says Yellowcard released Better Days, its first album in nearly a decade, which was produced by blink-182’s Travis Barker, who also played drums on every track.
Taking Back Sunday, who released their eighth studio album 152 in late 2023, often refer to themselves as the “luckiest guys you will meet,” ArtsQuest said in its news release. The new album features 10 new tracks.