Festivals:
Foals, Savages and more added to the Mad Cool Festivalline-up
Slowdive, Jagwar Ma and SBTRKT are also amongst the acts headed to Madrid.
A new wave of acts have been added to the line-up for Madrid’sMad Cool Festival, which takes place in July.
Foals and Savages are amongst the new names added, alongside90s shoegaze pioneers Slowdive, psych-poppers Jagwar Ma, and electronic outfitFloating Points. Meanwhile, masked producer SBTRKT will be playing a DJ set.
The new additions to the bill also include Catfish and theBottlemen, Benjamin Booker, Cage the Elephant, Quique Gonzalez, UNKLE, Anna ofthe North, and Star Slinger.
All the new acts join headliners Green Day and Foo Fighters,as well as Alt-J, Machinedrum, Wolf Alice, Kings of Leon and Belle andSebastian, who were announced last year.
Mad Cool Festival takes place between 6th-8th July at CajaMágica in Madrid. See all of the acts announced on the poster below. Tickets are on sale now.
More like this
Florence + The Machine, Jehnny Beth, (Joy Anonymous) & more join Open’er 2026 line-up
The bill for this year’s edition of the Polish festival just keeps on getting bigger.
8th April 2026

Jehnny Beth: Violent Delights
Moving away from the more collaborative focus of her early career, on second solo album ‘You Heartbreaker, You’, Jehnny Beth is stripping things back in every sense.
8th October 2025

Jehnny Beth - You Heartbreaker, You
4 Stars
Presenting the contrast between machinery and primal urge
27th August 2025

Yannis & The Yaw share new live album ‘Onstage’
The new six-track record is out now digitally, and will be released on vinyl this November.
4th August 2025
Festival special! Featuring Wolf Alice, Kasabian, Lykke Li, Marmozets, Genesis Owusu and more.





