Pitchfork Music Festival Paris 2026: a week of gigs from Montmartre to Bastille

The Pitchfork Music Festival Paris 2026, its 15th edition, runs from 2 to 8 November 2026 across about ten Paris venues, from Élysée Montmartre to Trabendo by way of Badaboum near Bastille. There is no single festival site: each night has its own venue and its own ticket, so you build your own week.

Monday 2 November opens big: Headache (producer Vegyn and poet Francis Hornsby Clark) at Élysée Montmartre, Iceage playing twice at Main Room, and DIIV at Badaboum, already sold out. On Tuesday 3, the festival's headline booking: Dragonflies, the new band of Dhani Harrison and Nigel Godrich, with The Strokes' Nick Valensi on guitar.

From Thursday 5 to Saturday 7 November, Pitchfork Avant-Garde spreads over seven small venues around Bastille with one wristband per night and around sixty new acts, including Lido Pimienta and PISS on Saturday. The nights carry on as club nights: the DH2 label at Badaboum on Thursday, Zorza then Cinthie at Trabendo on Friday and Saturday.

Tickets run from about €17 to €35 a night on DICE; the Avant-Garde wristband costs €28.25 for one night or €77.97 for all three. Several nights are already sold out. Collect the Avant-Garde wristband each evening from 6pm to 10:30pm at La Galerie du PopUp!, 14 rue Abel (12th). Set times are in the festival app. For Badaboum, take the Metro to Bastille (lines 1, 5, 8) or Ledru-Rollin (line 8).