The lineup for Denmark's beloved, non-profit music, art, and culture festival is building toward its 53rd edition, and the most recent additions have your JBTV team counting the hours until we can charge out into a mud-soaked field to forget where we are entirely. With the festival taking place between June 28th and July 5th, 2025, Roskilde promises a pilgrimage, not less, a sonic pilgrimage where industrial legends rub shoulders with the pop provocateurs of tomorrow.
On one side of the lineup, you have Nine Inch Nails, Trent Reznor's monolithic brain-achingly intense project that has been skull-fucking and mind-crushing since the '90s. Back and better than ever, Nine will translate their signature mix of beauty and brutality to the Danish stage, inevitably bringing more than a few converts into the fold.
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On the other end? The Florida-born rapper and performance dynamo Doechii is buoyed by international success, and Roskilde's going all in on her. And why not? With her genre-jumping exuberant energy and fearless lyrics, she ain't just breaking molds, but she's melting them.
And then there's the UK's emerging alt-pop siren, Lola Young, whose voice is causing a storm across social media and streaming charts. She's raw, soulful, and eager to begin putting her stamp on a world audience. These are a collection of names, according to Roskilde's Head of Music, Thomas Sønderby Jepsen, who are shaping up to be the future, and he could be right.
"Roskilde Festival is not only about presenting the best music of today," Jepsen says. "It's also about providing a vision of the future for our participants." With more than 200 acts on the bill, that future seems as vibrant and unpredictable as ever.
In addition to the new heavy-hitters, the other previously announced names registered to peak on the giant orgy of sound, sight and senses are Olivia Rodrigo, Stormzy, Arca, beabadoobee, Schoolboy Q, Wet Leg, Shaboozey, Fontaines D.C., Lambrini Girls, Beth Gibbons and the elusive horsegiirL.
Whether you're there to shout your heart out in unison to pop-punk heartbreak anthems, zoning out to glitch techno surrealism, or just breaking your next favourite band to a broader audience before they can sweep the world, there's something for you at Roskilde.
Roskilde is a 100% non-profit endeavor, which means every sweaty dance and sing-along goes towards something bigger. Tickets are selling quickly, with complete festival passes available for DKK 2,520 (approximately €336) and a two-day pass for DKK 2,070 (approximately €288), both excluding charges.
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