The 2026 edition of Outside Days — formerly known as Outside Festival — will bring a trio of the biggest indie acts of the 2000s to Denver this spring.

Death Cab for Cutie, My Morning Jacket and The Flaming Lips will need little introduction for millennial listeners. They’re also joined by another sizable name of the later 2000s: Cage The Elephant, who broke out with 2008’s “Ain’t No Rest For the Wicked.”

Also in the lineup are a few bands that have broken out in the last decade— Japanese Breakfast, Tash Sultana and Goth Babe — as well as Dawes, known for 2009’s “When My Time Comes.”

The festival will be held on the Auraria Campus west of downtown May 28-31. It has been hosted in Civic Center Park for the past two years, but is moving due to construction in the park.

The headliners are

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