Mad Cool

Mad Cool is a music festival held annually in Madrid, Spain, since 2016. It chiefly features pop, rock, and indie music, as well as various DJs and electronic music performers.

Mad Cool
Genre	pop · rock · indie · electro
Location(s)	Madrid, Spain
Years active	2016–present

The 2016 and 2017 festivals took place in the Caja Mágica. The organization then moved the festival to an open-air space in Valdebebas. Peak attendance happened in the 2018 edition, with 240,000 participants distributed along the three days of the festival (12–14 July), featuring a troubling first day due to agglomerations.^[1][2] In the 2020 edition, the daily maximum attendance was reduced to 60,000 by the organization, and the length was expanded to four full festival days.^[3]

Lineups

Mad Cool 2018

Acts performing at the festival have included:

• 2016 (16–18 June): The Who · Vetusta Morla · Editors · Garbage · Lori Meyers · The Prodigy · Die Antwoord · Jane's Addiction · Bastille · Band of Horses · Neil Young · Two Door Cinema Club · Biffy Clyro · Capital Cities.^[4]
• 2017 (6–8 July): Foo Fighters · Foals · Belle and Sebastian · The Lumineers · Green Day · Alt-J · Ryan Adams · Rancid · Cage the Elephant · Spoon · Kings of Leon · Wilco · M.I.A. · Foster the People · Moderat · Dinosaur Jr.^[5]
• 2018 (12–14 July): Pearl Jam · Tame Impala · Kasabian · Post Malone · Arctic Monkeys · Jack White · Massive Attack · Franz Ferdinand · Snow Patrol · Alice in Chains · Depeche Mode · Queens of the Stone Age · Nine Inch Nails · Dua Lipa · Underworld.^[6]
• 2019 (11–13 July): Bon Iver · Vampire Weekend · Ms. Lauryn Hill · The Chemical Brothers · Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds · Empire of the Sun · Iggy Pop · The National · Vetusta Morla · The Smashing Pumpkins · Vince Staples · Marina · Sharon Van Etten · Wolfmother · Miles Kane · The Cure · Prophets of Rage · Robyn · Gossip · Greta Van Fleet · Rosalía.^[7][8][9]
• 2020 (8-11 July): Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[10]
• 2021 (7–10 July): Cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic.^[10]
• 2022 (6–10 July): Metallica · Twenty One Pilots · Placebo · Imagine Dragons · The Killers · Muse · Kings of Leon · Pixies · Florence and The Machine · Carly Rae Jepsen · Wolf Alice · Yungblud · Deftones · St. Vincent · Foals · Leon Bridges · Sylvan Esso · Sigrid · Tove Lo · Alt-J · The War on Drugs · MØ · Jamie Cullum · Parcels · Royal Blood · Zara Larsson · Editors · Daytime TV · Nothing but Thieves · Phoebe Bridgers · Black Pumas.^[11]
• 2023 (6–8 July): Robbie Williams · Lizzo · Lil Nas X · Machine Gun Kelly · Queens of the Stone Age · The Black Keys · Sam Smith · Red Hot Chili Peppers · Liam Gallagher · M.I.A. · The Prodigy · Sigur Rós · The 1975 · Franz Ferdinand · Rina Sawayama · Paolo Nutini · Rüfüs Du Sol · Tash Sultana · Jacob Collier · Puscifer · Jamie xx · Years & Years · Sylvan Esso · Bombay Bicycle Club · Angel Olsen · The Driver Era · Men I Trust · Pixey
• 2024: (10-13 July): Dua Lipa · The Smashing Pumpkins · Pearl Jam · Avril Lavigne · Greta Van Fleet · Bring Me the Horizon · Sum 41
• 2025: (10–12 July): Muse^[12]· Nine Inch Nails · Olivia Rodrigo · Noah Kahan · Alanis Morissette · Gracie Abrams · Iggy Pop · Justice · Leon Bridges · Mother Mother · Circa Waves · Blondshell · Mark Ambor · Tanner Adell · Natalia Lacunza · almost monday · Kingfishr ^[13]