Capitol Hill Block Party 2026: Set Times and a Field Guide to the Dance Bill

Capitol Hill Block Party’s set times are out, and the weekend is already half spent. Friday is in the books. What’s left is tonight and Sunday, four stages running at once across the Pike/Pine blocks, and the most electronic bill CHBP has put up in its 28 years. The full official grid is at the bottom of this piece. Here’s the dance side of it, and where the last two days are worth planning around.

The fixed stuff first:

• Four stages: Main and Daydream outdoors, Neumos and Barboza indoors.
• Gates are 2 PM Friday and 1 PM Saturday and Sunday, per the festival’s FAQ.
• It’s a 21-and-over event. Daydream State moved the festival to 21+ in 2025, the first time in its run, and kept it there for 2026.
• Tickets are sold all-in rather than plus-fees: $159.65 for a single day, $312.11 for all three, with VIP at $210.47 and $461.28.
• Neumos and Barboza keep going after the outdoor stages shut down. Both run billed afters sets from around 11 PM to close on Friday and Saturday, and Neumos does it again Sunday.

The shift is worth naming. Daydream State, the company that now owns a chunk of Capitol Hill’s remaining independent venues, runs CHBP, and its 2026 pitch was a bill where DJs and electronic pop dominate. For a festival that spent most of its history as a rock showcase, that’s a real turn toward our beat. The schedule bears it out: the Daydream Stage is effectively a dance stage for three straight days, and it’s what closes the whole festival on Sunday night.

Tonight, the name at the top is Disco Lines. He takes the Main Stage at 10:40 and plays until close. He’s Thadeus Labuszewski, a Colorado producer who broke through the way a lot of this generation did: a 2020 remix of Taylor Swift’s “Love Story” that went viral on TikTok, then “Baby Girl” in 2022, then a deal with Arista and his own label, Good Good Records. His lane is the bright, tech-house-leaning end of festival dance music, and his is the set most of the lawn is there for. Tinashe plays the hour before him, 9 to 10, a DJ set off the long tail of “Nasty.” Those two back to back are the whole Saturday-night argument for the Main Stage.

The rest of tonight’s dance programming is early and indoors. Oxis opens the Daydream Stage’s real run at 3:20, which is the pick for anyone walking in at gates. Amber Mark holds the 7:30 slot on Main. RUB closes Neumos at 10:15, and then Barboza hands its last hour to DJ_Dave and MGNA CRRRTA playing DJ sets together from 11 PM, which is the one genuinely odd, worth-staying-for booking on the Saturday sheet.

Sunday is the better day for dance music, and it’s the one still fully ahead of you. Avalon Emerson brings ”& the Charm” to the Daydream Stage at 5:55, the dream-pop project from a DJ who spent years as a peak-time techno name. MPH closes that stage, and the festival, from 9 PM with UK garage. DJ_Dave opens the Main Stage at 2:45 building the whole set as live code on a screen while it plays, which is worth showing up at gates for even if you’ve never heard the records. Babymorocco at 4:30 and Lucy Bedroque at 7:20 fill in the stage between them.

Friday, for the record, was where the two biggest dance bookings landed. Ninajirachi played the Daydream Stage at 8:20. The Australian producer, born Nina Wilson, swept the 2025 ARIA Awards on the back of her debut album “I Love My Computer,” and describes her own sound as “dance music made in an ice cave.” nimino, the British producer Milo Evans, took the Main Stage at 5:15; his “I Only Smoke When I Drink” was one of 2024’s biggest dance records and put him on Ninja Tune’s Counter Records. Trixie Mattel DJ’d at 7:30. If you skipped Friday, those are the sets to be annoyed about.

Here is the part a national lineup writeup skips. Roughly 35 of the acts are local, more than half the bill, and that Seattle contingent is why CHBP still reads as a neighborhood festival and not a touring package parked on Pike for a weekend. Seattle DJ Fleetwood Snack got the 7 PM Friday slot at Neumos. MGNA CRRRTA played Main on Saturday afternoon and comes back for the Barboza afters the same night. The rest of the homegrown roster runs deep into the small print of the poster, and it’s the half we watch closest.

The full grid follows, all four stages and all three days. Save the drop below to your lock screen and you have the last two days in your pocket.