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Bass Canyon 2026 is officially back at The Gorge Amphitheatre in Washington for three days of extremely loud bass music from August 14-16.
Excision is bringing the headbangers back to one of the most dramatic outdoor venues in North America, with The Gorge’s giant Columbia River views sitting behind enough sub-bass to rearrange your internal organs.
The lineup is already official, and it’s deep: Excision, ILLENIUM, SLANDER, SVDDEN DEATH presents VOYD, Ganja White Night, NGHTMRE, ATLiens, Crankdat, Ray Volpe, Virtual Riot, Sullivan King, Wooli, Of The Trees, Tape B, ALLEYCVT and a long list of bass-heavy names are coming with them.
Basically, subtlety has once again not been invited.
➜ The real story: Bass Canyon isn’t just a festival with camping attached. It’s basically a temporary bass-music civilization built on the edge of a canyon, with Excision supplying the soundtrack and The Gorge doing most of the flexing.
Tickets are on sale now. The current three-day Tier 3 price is $379.75 for General Admission and $549.85 for VIP.
There’s also a separate Thursday pre-party on August 13, camping beginning August 12 and a full Bass Canyon 2026 app with set times, maps and personalized schedules already live.
So at this point, Bass Canyon 2026 isn’t really waiting for an announcement. It’s waiting for everyone to get to Washington.
Bass Canyon 2026 takes place Friday, August 14 through Sunday, August 16 at The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington.
Amphitheatre doors open at 2 PM Friday through Sunday.
If you’re camping, the weekend starts noticeably earlier. The Bass Canyon campgrounds open Wednesday, August 12 at 1 PM.
Then there’s Thursday.
The official Bass Canyon pre-party happens inside the festival grounds Thursday, August 13 after dark and is built around surprise B2B2B2B2B sets from artists playing the weekend.
It requires its own ticket, so showing up at the campground early doesn’t automatically get you into the Thursday event.
Bass Canyon itself is 18+, as are the campgrounds and Thursday pre-party. You have to be 21 to purchase or drink alcohol.
Re-entry is allowed throughout the main festival weekend, which is especially useful at a camping festival where your temporary home is sitting right outside.
Get the latest directly from the official Bass Canyon website.
Bass Canyon has never had much interest in pretending it isn’t a bass festival.
The 2026 lineup starts with Excision and moves aggressively outward through dubstep, riddim, drum and bass, melodic bass, experimental bass and basically anything capable of making a giant stack of speakers look nervous.
Excision is once again doing more than simply headlining his own festival.
The weekend includes multiple Excision appearances, including a standard Excision set, his downtempo Detox set and a B2B with SLANDER.
ILLENIUM is also part of the weekend with a B2B performance with Dabin.
Other major lineup names include SVDDEN DEATH presents VOYD, Ganja White Night, NGHTMRE, ATLiens, Crankdat, Ray Volpe, Virtual Riot, Sullivan King, Wooli, Of The Trees, Tape B, ALLEYCVT, Adventure Club and Space Laces.
The lineup keeps going with Pegboard Nerds, Mersiv, Dion Timmer, Borgore, Calcium, Culture Shock, Eazybaked, Emorfik, INZO, Jkyl & Hyde, Kill Safari, Level Up, HEYZ, TYNAN, ROSSY, Phrva, Sumthin Sumthin, DENNETT, Luci and more.
There are also sunset sets from Ganja White Night, ATLiens and Mersiv, which feels appropriately dramatic when you remember that this entire festival happens on a cliff overlooking the Columbia River.
Drum and bass has a real presence too. Brownies & Lemonade’s DNBNL is bringing a stage takeover, while names like Culture Shock widen the festival beyond an endless sequence of dubstep drops.
That variety matters because Bass Canyon has been pushing beyond a one-note definition of bass music.
You can still spend an entire weekend getting completely flattened by dubstep if that’s the mission, but melodic, experimental, freeform and drum and bass sounds increasingly sit inside the same universe.
The Bass Canyon 2026 app is live now with set times, maps, vendor information and the ability to create your own schedule.
Get the latest lineup directly from the official Bass Canyon lineup page.
Bass Canyon sells three-day General Admission and VIP festival passes, with the current ticket inventory sitting at Tier 3.
The current three-day General Admission price is $379.75.
GA gets you into Bass Canyon Friday through Sunday, includes amphitheatre re-entry throughout the weekend and comes with a collectible festival wristband.
The current three-day VIP price is $549.85.
VIP includes everything in GA, then adds a dedicated VIP festival entrance, express lines at the merchandise booth and festival attractions, VIP viewing areas at both stages and a VIP-only bar for guests 21+.
It also adds air-conditioned washrooms, shade and misting, a VIP concierge, select beauty-bar services, an exclusive gift and branded high-fidelity earplugs.
Those earplugs might be the most Bass Canyon-specific VIP perk imaginable.
The Thursday pre-party is separate from both GA and VIP.
The current Thursday Entry + Pre-Party add-on is $73.41 per person. You’ll still need a regular festival wristband to attend, and the pre-party ticket doesn’t include camping.
Camping is also sold separately from festival admission.
That’s worth repeating because Bass Canyon has several moving parts: festival admission gets the person into Bass Canyon, a camping pass gets the vehicle or camping group into its campsite and the Thursday ticket gets the individual person into the pre-party.
They aren’t interchangeable.
Get current availability from the official Bass Canyon tickets page.
For a lot of people, camping isn’t an optional side quest at Bass Canyon. It’s half of the festival.
The Gorge campgrounds open Wednesday, August 12 at 1 PM, giving campers four nights on site before everyone has to clear out by noon Monday, August 17.
Standard Camping is currently listed at $193.
Standard sites are approximately 15 by 25 feet and can fit one vehicle and a four-to-six-person tent. They also include access to free showers, portable toilets, wash stations and The Pivot area for vendors and supplies.
You only need one camping pass per campsite or vehicle group, not one camping pass per person.
Everyone staying at the campsite still needs their own Bass Canyon festival admission wristband.
There’s a strict six-person limit per campsite, and groups bringing multiple vehicles need a camping pass for each vehicle.
Bass Canyon also offers a whole ladder of upgraded camping experiences.
Premier Camping has larger spaces, private restrooms, better Gorge views and shuttle access, although 2026 Premier inventory is already sold out.
Front Yard Camping, which puts campers close to the amphitheatre entrance, is also sold out.
Terrace Camping adds some of the best views, concierge services, private shuttles, air-conditioned restrooms and morning coffee and pastries. That’s sold out too.
Then things escalate into RV camping and full glamping setups, including new Vineyard options with air conditioning, housekeeping, breakfast, concierge service and dedicated golf-cart transportation.
At that point you’re technically still camping, but your tent has Wi-Fi, housekeeping and a concierge, so the definition is doing some heavy lifting.
Get current options from the official Bass Canyon camping page.
The obvious thing about Bass Canyon is the sound.
The less obvious thing, until you actually see it, is the location.
The Gorge Amphitheatre sits above the Columbia River in central Washington, with enormous canyon walls, open sky and one of those views that looks suspiciously like somebody replaced the festival background with a desktop wallpaper.
It’s several hours from Seattle, which changes the vibe of the entire event.
This isn’t a city festival where everybody disappears back into hotels, apartments and different neighborhoods at closing time. A huge portion of the audience stays together at the Gorge campgrounds.
That creates the thing Bass Canyon has leaned into since its beginning: a reunion vibe built around the Pacific Northwest bass community.
The festival launched in 2018 as an Excision-curated counterpart to Lost Lands, giving the West Coast and Pacific Northwest their own major destination bass festival.
Excision’s connection to the region matters too. The Canadian producer comes from Kelowna, British Columbia, making The Gorge relatively close to home compared with most giant American festival destinations.
The result feels less like somebody dropped a touring festival onto a scenic venue and more like the event grew around the location.
And because the amphitheatre allows festival re-entry throughout the weekend, you can move between the festival and campground instead of treating the gate like a one-way portal.
Bass Canyon knows exactly who it’s for.
That sounds simple, but it’s increasingly rare in a festival world where a lot of events are trying to book every possible genre and every possible audience at once.
Bass Canyon starts with bass music and goes deeper instead of wider.
That lets the lineup move between giant artists and smaller underground names without losing the basic identity of the weekend.
The production is part of it too.
Excision has built his career around enormous visual production, heavy sound systems and performances designed to turn electronic music into something closer to a science-fiction action sequence.
Put that in front of The Gorge at sunset and subtle restraint was never going to be the outcome.
The camping community completes the equation.
You arrive early, build a tiny neighborhood with your friends, spend three days bouncing between dubstep, drum and bass and melodic bass, then somehow attempt to pack everything back into the same car Monday morning.
It’s loud, remote, dusty, spectacular and probably not the place to test whether you’re secretly a light sleeper.
That’s also exactly why people keep coming back.
Bass Canyon 2026 takes place Friday, August 14 through Sunday, August 16 at The Gorge Amphitheatre in George, Washington. Campgrounds open Wednesday, August 12, and the separate Thursday pre-party takes place August 13.
The Bass Canyon 2026 lineup includes Excision, ILLENIUM, SLANDER, SVDDEN DEATH presents VOYD, Ganja White Night, NGHTMRE, ATLiens, Crankdat, Ray Volpe, Virtual Riot, Sullivan King, Wooli, Of The Trees, Tape B, ALLEYCVT, Adventure Club, Space Laces and many more.
As of August 13, the current official Tier 3 three-day General Admission price is $379.75 and VIP is $549.85. The separate Thursday pre-party add-on is currently $73.41, and camping is sold separately.
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