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Organizers of the reimagined Underground Music Showcase today revealed the lineup for the 2026 summer festival, featuring a mix of touring headliners and more than 150 local acts with a focus on genre diversity.<\/p>\n

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The 25-year-old festival, which last year left the Baker neighborhood on South Broadway and is setting up in the River North Art District for the first time, will feature more than 200 performances across multiple indoor and outdoor stages in RiNo, said festival director Keanan Stoner.<\/p>\n

It\u2019s one of the festival\u2019s largest lineups to date, according to Stoner, who\u2019s also co-founder of Two Parts, the company that co-owns The UMS with (as of earlier this year) the RiNo Business Improvement District. The BID\u2019s board has also pledged $250,000 annually for UMS title sponsorship for the next three years, which will shore up the fest\u2019s estimated $1.4 million budget \u2014 and which brings the BID\u2019s overall investment to $1 million, including an additional $250,000 stake in the UMS\u2019s ownership.<\/p>\n

Weekend passes for the July 24-26 event start at $95 and are on sale at undergroundmusicshowcase.com, with presale passes currently at $88.50 online. The event is ADA accessible, and some shows (i.e., the ones not at 21-and-up bars) are all ages. Five dollars of each ticket\u2019s fees go directly to the RiNo Business Improvement District to support creatives within the district, organizers added.<\/p>\n

This year\u2019s lineup includes 160 local bands, and national headliners with sizeable followings, including 54 Ultra, slenderbodies, Goldie Boutilier, Kaash Paige, Tommy Newport, Charlotte Sands, MAVI, Twin Shadow, King Mala, Deb Never, The Droptines and Bad Nerves.<\/p>\n

A full lineup is available on The UMS website (see above).<\/p>\n

\u201cRiNo has always had a really strong connection to Denver\u2019s independent music culture, so bringing UMS into the district feels natural in a lot of ways,\u201d Stoner wrote in an email to The Denver Post. \u201cThe neighborhood already has this mix of longtime venues, creative spaces and underground energy that aligns really well with the spirit of the festival.\u201d<\/p>\n

RiNo, formerly known as the warehouse district, spans the Five Points, Cole and Globeville\/Elyria-Swansea neighborhoods with a mix of more than 100 breweries, restaurants, galleries, venues, boutiques and other businesses. Even before its revival, the gritty area in the early-to-mid 2000s began hosting the Larimer Lounge, Meadowlark Lounge, The Walnut Room, Rhinoceropolis and Orange Cat DIY spaces, and other venues that laid the groundwork for its current incarnation.<\/p>\n

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The RiNo BID and Stoner are promoting RiNo as a highly walkable area, just like the fest\u2019s former South Broadway corridor. The UMS is set up like a music festival, such as South by Southwest, where a day or weekend pass gets you into everything.<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe\u2019re working hard to keep the footprint navigable and the experience recognizable to longtime UMS fans, while also building in more opportunities for exploration and surprise throughout the weekend,\u201d Stoner said. \u201cPeople are going to discover a lot of spaces, venues and experiences they may not have encountered otherwise.\u201d<\/p>\n

The UMS faces competition this year in the form of Blucifer\u2019s First Rodeo, an upstart indie-music fest featuring more than 200 local bands that will launch at former UMS venues along South Broadway, July 23-26. While some local music fans and artists have cast it as the anti-UMS, Blucifer\u2019s organizers have said it\u2019s not meant as counter-programming, but rather another place to discover and celebrate new music.<\/p>\n

Their weekend will feature \u201cdecentralized support and promotion of cool events happening that weekend, whether we\u2019re booking them or not,\u201d organizers wrote online. (See bluciferfest.com for more.)<\/p>\n

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\u201cWe absolutely think Denver has room for more than one multi-venue music festival because every neighborhood and every event brings a different energy and experience,\u201d Stoner said. \u201cUMS has evolved a lot over the years, but the core idea has always stayed the same \u2014 connecting people through live music, whether that\u2019s in a packed club, a DIY venue or a larger outdoor stage setting.<\/p>\n

\u201cWe\u2019ve seen festivals come and go over the years, but ultimately, more opportunities for artists to perform, get paid and grow audiences is a good thing for the scene as a whole,\u201d he added. \u201cThere are always more great local acts than we can fit into one lineup, so more platforms for artists only strengthen Denver\u2019s music community.\u201d<\/p>\n

The UMS this year was booked by artists, venue owners and programmers who come from different corners of the music world, such as\u00a0Dan Segal, Bruce Trujillo, DNA Picasso, Ariadnee Ziady and Cass Ivey, Stoner said. <\/p>\n

Two Parts has owned The UMS for several years, and last year produced its\u00a0final event with nonprofit partner Youth on Record\u00a0(YOR), which owned a 30% stake. As a music education organization, YOR ultimately said costs were too high to sustain the festival, forcing it to divest and refocus on its core mission, according to executive director Jami Duffy.<\/p>\n

Stoner estimates up to 10,000 per day could attend this year\u2019s UMS.<\/p>\n

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