Electric Forest returns to the Double JJ Resort in Rothbury, Michigan on June 25-28, 2026, and the lineup that Insomniac and Madison House have built for this year is one of the deepest the festival has put forward in a decade. Where EDC Las Vegas builds upward into a kineticFIELD owl mainstage and a half-million-person field, Electric Forest builds inward — string lights woven through northern hardwood canopy, stages tucked into the trees, the production rebuilt around a forest that has been the festival's host since 2011. It's the most physically distinctive major electronic festival on the American calendar, and the 2026 bill is built to match the venue. Six headliners are confirmed on the upper bill. Illenium returns to Sherwood Forest in a slot the festival has been pointing toward for the better part of a year. Excision brings the heaviest production weight on the bill and the only fully-built bass mainstage moment of the weekend. Kaskade — fresh off his Saturday-night kineticFIELD set at EDC Las Vegas 2026 — keeps moving through the American festival circuit in form. GRiZ plays twice across the weekend, the festival's longest-running headliner relationship and one of the few acts that gets a double bill. Chris Lake brings the house-music backbone the back-third of any Forest night is built on. The String Cheese Incident anchors the jam-band heritage the festival was founded around. The depth chart below the headliners is where Electric Forest separates itself from a standard EDM festival. Lane 8 returns. Galantis is on the bill. Madeon brings what the lineup notes describe as "his signature magic" — code, in practice, for the full Pixel Empire show. Andy C is on the drum-and-bass tip. Sullivan King and Wilkinson carry the bass and drum-and-bass bridge. Ivy Lab is locked in. Daily Bread, Vincent Antone — the producer set the catalog community has been waiting on — and the newly reunited EOTO are on the early-set bill that Forest regulars build their schedules around. Two book-end moments are worth flagging now. Bob Moses are performing a full club set, not the duo-with-band show — meaning a longer DJ-format presentation pulled from a decade of releases. LSDream returns to a Forest stage after a public hiatus. Aron Magner from The Disco Biscuits is teaming with Cloudchord for DEADTRONICA — the Grateful Dead-influenced electronic project that has been one of the most interesting one-off collaborations to come out of the post-2024 jamtronica wave. Passion Pit, on the indie-electronic edge of the bill, will play a set the festival is positioning as a nostalgia moment. And then there is the Shaq b2b T-Pain bass DJ set, which is exactly what it sounds like, will sell out a stage on its own, and is precisely the kind of one-night-only billing the Forest is built to host. What makes Electric Forest different from EDC Las Vegas, Ultra, or HARD Summer is the geography. Sherwood Forest — the late-night-into-dawn art installation that gives the festival its name — is a fully walkable wonderland of light installations, hidden stages, and acoustic intervention pieces that runs from dark until sunrise across all four nights. The mainstages (Ranch Arena, Sherwood Court, Tripolee, The Forest) are arranged so that crowd flow moves through the forest itself rather than past it, and the festival's reputation for not feeling like a stadium event despite its 50,000-person capacity comes from that decision. Tickets remain available through select tiers — three-day passes, four-day passes, GA Plus, VIP, and a small allocation of glamping bundles. Pricing is in line with the 2025 edition. Tracking the lineup additions: Insomniac typically drops a "Phase 2" or surprise addition six weeks before doors, which would land in mid-May for this year's run. We'll be tracking it. Rockstarr Media will be on the ground for the full four-night run, with daily dispatches from inside Sherwood Forest, headliner reviews from Ranch Arena, and a one-night-only Shaq b2b T-Pain set review filed as fast as the wifi from a Michigan campground will allow. Doors open Thursday June 25, 2026. The first headliner sets land Friday night. Sherwood lights up at dusk. We'll see you in the trees.