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iHeartRadio ALTer EGO festival 2026 is set to be held on January 17, 2026, at the Kia Forum in Los Angeles, California. The upcoming festival will feature performances by Green Day, Twenty One Pilots as well as Sublime, Cage The Elephant and more.
Presale for the festival starts on October 21, 2025, at 10:00 am PST and will run through October 23 at 10:00 am PT while tickets last. There will also be a VIP sale from October 23, 2025 at 10:00 am PT. To get these VIP tickets, sign up as a ALT VIP member by creating an iHeartRadio account, then log in, search for ALT987fm newsletter under newsletter settings and opt in. General onsale will follow on October 24, 2025 at 12:00 pm PT.
iHeartRadio ALTer EGO 2026's lineup was announced via iHeartRadio's Instagram page on October 14, 2025:
iHeartRadio ALTer EGO festival 2026 lineup
iHeartRadio ALTer EGO festival 2026 lineup is as follows:
- Green Day
- Twenty One Pilots
- Cage The Elephant
- Sublime
- Good Charlotte (first La show in 10 years)
- Myles Smith
- Gigi Perez
- Almost Monday
The festival will be hosted by The Woody Show. In a press statement, iHeartRadio’s Woody talked about their hosting of the upcoming festival:
"If it were a lesser lineup you’d need a stronger host, but look at this list of performers- it’s incredible. I can’t wait to see all these bands, and help guide a full house at the Forum through what’s going to be an insane experience!"
In another press statement, the program director for ALT 98.7 as well as senior vice president of rock and alternative for iHeartMedia, Lisa Worden stated:
"This year’s iHeartRadio ALTer EGO brings together a powerhouse lineup that reflects the full diversity of Alternative and Rock with absolute legends like Green Day and Twenty One Pilots mixed in with breakout artists like Myles Smith, Gigi Perez, and Almost Monday."
Worden continued:
"We are honored to have such a brilliant collection of artists on the show this year. Sublime has had the No. 1 song at Alternative radio for the past four weeks eclipsing their previous No. 1 singles, Good Charlotte will play their first show in Los Angeles in over 10 years and Cage the Elephant is fresh off a U.S. tour with Oasis. All of these artists are ready to bring it! We cannot wait."
iHeartRadio ALTer EGO has previous featured performances by artists such as Fontaines D.C, The 1975, as well as Sum 41, Last Dinner Party and Dashboard Confessional. The festival's upcoming edition will be its 8th edition overall, having been first held in 2018.
Alter Ego is one of the many festivals run by iHeart Radio. The other festivals that are part of the iHeart Radio roster include iHeartRadio Music Festival, the earliest festival of the roster, having been founded in 2011. There is also the iHeartRadio Country Festival, which started out in 2014. In the same year, iHeartRadio Fiesta Latina was also founded.
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iHeart Radio also runs the Jingle Ball, which was originally founded by WHTZ, a station owned by the larger company. The Jingle Ball was first named as KIIS-FM Jingle Ball, but was changed to iheartRadio Jingle Ball in 2011.
The Jingle Ball is currently aired by ABC. iHeartRadio is a subsidiary of iHeartMedia, which was founded by Lowry Mays and Red McCombs originally as Clear Channel Communications Inc.
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