Making Time ∞ 2026 announces Kim Gordon, Smerz, Bicep, Daphni and more

Making Time ∞ has detailed its 2026 lineup, giving 20 May another strong festival-news item for the experimental, electronic and indie-adjacent world. The festival returns to Fort Mifflin in Philadelphia from 18 to 20 September with around 120 performers.

Headliners and highlighted acts include Skee Mask, Bicep, Kim Gordon, Theo Parrish, Smerz and Daphni, with Los Thuthanaka, Dagmar Zuniga, Avalon Emerson & The Charm and a Lot Radio showcase also named in the Pitchfork report.

What makes Making Time ∞ interesting is how it refuses a clean genre identity. It is not just an electronic festival, not just an indie festival, and not just a legacy-underground gathering. It is a place where experimental music, dance culture, art-rock energy and left-field performance can sit together inside a historically loaded venue.

Kim Gordon brings post-Sonic Youth noise, art and anti-pop force. Smerz bring strange Norwegian club-pop intimacy. Bicep and Daphni bring bigger electronic gravity. Theo Parrish and Skee Mask give the lineup serious underground dance credibility. For an indie music digest, this story matters because festivals like Making Time show where the edges of indie culture now live: in hybrid spaces where guitar mythology, club history and experimental sound all share the same weekend.