III POINTS 2026: MIAMI IN THREE DIMENSIONS
Thirteen years in the making, Miami’s most boundary-pushing festival returns with a lineup that blurs the lines between underground culture, electronic music, and everything in between.
MIAMI, FLORIDA — OCTOBER 16–17, 2026
Miami has never been a city that fits neatly into one category. It’s electronic music and Latin rhythms, warehouse parties and luxury nightlife, experimental art and commercial excess. Somewhere in the middle of all that, a festival emerged that understood the beauty of bringing different worlds together.
Enter III Points.
Returning October 16–17 to Mana Wynwood, the festival enters another chapter in its ongoing relationship with Miami’s cultural identity. With 294 artists, 13 stages, and two days of programming spread across a five-city-block venue, the 2026 edition is built around a simple idea: music doesn’t need to stay in its lane.
And neither should the people listening to it.
FROM WYNWOOD’S CREATIVE UNDERGROUND TO A MIAMI INSTITUTION
First launched in 2013, III Points was born out of a Miami that was rapidly evolving. Wynwood was becoming a cultural destination, electronic music was finding new audiences, and artists, musicians, and creatives were reshaping the city’s identity beyond its familiar nightlife reputation.
Over the years, III Points developed a reputation for assembling lineups that refuse to follow a single formula. Previous editions have featured influential acts such as Justice, LCD Soundsystem, DARKSIDE, Arca, and Massive Attack, establishing the festival as a meeting point for electronic music, experimental sounds, hip-hop, and alternative culture.
Rather than treating these genres as separate audiences, III Points places them in conversation with one another.
That philosophy remains central to the festival today. Its identity isn’t defined by a single sound, but by the possibility of discovering something unexpected between sets, stages, and entire musical worlds.
THE 2026 LINEUP: NO SINGLE SOUND DEFINES THE EXPERIENCE
This year’s roster is a reminder of just how wide the festival’s musical reach has become.
Electronic music fans can look forward to Four Tet, Underworld, Charlotte de Witte, Adam Port, PAWSA, Honey Dijon, KETTAMA, Vintage Culture, Marco Carola, and Seth Troxler, alongside an extensive selection of artists representing house, techno, bass, and experimental electronic music.
But the programming doesn’t stop at the dance floor.
Live performances from Blood Orange, Parcels, Men I Trust, Kelela, Flying Lotus, and Tricky introduce a different dimension to the weekend, while hip-hop legends Lil’ Kim, GZA, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony, and Danny Brown bring distinct perspectives from across generations of the genre.
There’s also room for the unconventional. Experimental and alternative acts such as Sunn O))), Machine Girl, Jane Remover, Purity Ring, and horsegiirL contribute to a lineup that moves between heavy, hypnotic, unpredictable, and downright strange.
And that’s precisely the point.
III Points isn’t asking attendees to commit to one scene. It’s inviting them to move between them.
THIRTEEN STAGES. THIRTEEN DIFFERENT WORLDS.
The festival’s stage programming makes that philosophy tangible.
Mind Melt, the main stage, brings together an eclectic mix of electronic heavyweights, live acts, and artists operating outside conventional genre boundaries.
Sector 3 leans into alternative music, hip-hop, experimental electronics, and left-field sounds, creating space for performances that might feel worlds apart on paper but make sense within the festival’s larger vision.
For those looking for heavier dance-floor energy, RC95 brings bass and hard dance to the forefront, with artists including Charlotte de Witte, 999999999, VTSS, KI/KI, and ¥ØU$UK€ ¥UKIMAT$U.
Meanwhile, S3QUENC3 focuses on house and techno, featuring Honey Dijon, Shanti Celeste, Jacques Greene, Tiga, HAAi, Daphni, and Roman Flügel.
Elsewhere, the Isotropic stage brings together names such as Marco Carola, Franky Rizardo, Max Dean, and Sosa, while III Points Radio, in collaboration with WVUM 90.5, offers another connection to the local and independent music ecosystem.
The result is a festival that doesn’t rely on one headliner or one defining moment. The experience is spread across the grounds, rewarding the people willing to explore.
THE UNDERGROUND IS PART OF THE HEADLINE
One of the most interesting aspects of III Points is how it places established international artists alongside local talent, emerging selectors, and independent creative communities.
Miami’s underground has always depended on more than the artists on a poster. It’s the promoters building nights from scratch, the independent radio stations giving new sounds a platform, the DJs developing audiences in intimate rooms, and the communities that keep showing up long after the hype moves elsewhere.
III Points makes room for those connections through its stage partnerships and local programming.
Grand Central, featuring Poplife and Miami Community Radio, and III Points Radio, featuring WVUM 90.5, are examples of how the festival connects its larger production to the city’s music networks.
These collaborations matter because Miami’s sound isn’t imported wholesale from elsewhere. It’s constantly being developed, remixed, and reinterpreted by the people who live here.
For a festival operating at this scale, keeping those local connections visible is part of what makes the experience feel rooted in its surroundings.
SATELLITE: WHEN THE FESTIVAL TAKES OVER THE CITY
If the main festival is the centerpiece, III Points Satellite is the reminder that Miami’s music culture doesn’t begin and end at the gates of Mana Wynwood.
Running October 13–20, Satellite expands the experience across more than 20 Miami venues, with over 150 artists participating in a citywide series of events.
The concept brings the festival into the clubs, rooms, and spaces that contribute to Miami’s nightlife throughout the year. Instead of limiting the experience to two days, Satellite creates a wider cultural program that connects different audiences and venues across the city.
It’s also an opportunity to discover artists in different environments. A performer experienced on a festival stage can feel entirely different in a smaller room, where the distance between the DJ, the music, and the crowd becomes much less significant.
This is where the broader III Points ecosystem becomes particularly interesting. The festival isn’t simply importing a lineup into Miami; it’s using that lineup to activate the city around it.
And the celebrations don’t end when the festival closes.
THE AFTERHOURS HAVE THEIR OWN STORY
Miami’s relationship with electronic music has always extended beyond conventional schedules. The city has developed a global reputation for marathon dance floors, late-night sets, and parties that continue long after the original event has ended.
For 2026, III Points Satellite includes a particularly ambitious finale at Club Space.
Beginning Sunday, October 18, the festival’s closing event is billed as a 33-plus-hour marathon, extending through Tuesday, October 20.
The announced lineup includes Honey Dijon, Marco Carola, Seth Troxler, Ben Sterling, Tiga, Sosa, and Adam Ten b2b Mita Gami, among others.
It’s an appropriately Miami conclusion: an event that transforms a festival weekend into an extended encounter with the city’s club culture.
For electronic music devotees, the afterhours aren’t an afterthought. They’re part of the culture itself.
WHY III POINTS STILL MATTERS
Music festivals are everywhere. Massive productions, carefully curated brand partnerships, and increasingly elaborate stages have become familiar features of the global festival circuit.
What makes III Points worth watching is its willingness to embrace contradiction.
It can bring techno and experimental metal into the same weekend as alternative pop, hip-hop, and live electronic music. It can spotlight internationally recognized performers while creating room for local artists and independent radio. It can operate on a massive scale without restricting its identity to one genre or audience.
That approach feels especially relevant in Miami, a city whose cultural identity has always been shaped by movement between languages, communities, sounds, and influences.
The most interesting part of III Points may not be any individual performance. It may be the moment someone arrives for one artist and leaves having discovered three more, each from a completely different corner of music.
For its 2026 edition, III Points is once again making a case for curiosity as a reason to show up.
Thirteen stages. Hundreds of artists. A citywide extension that carries the experience beyond the festival grounds.
Miami doesn’t have one sound.
And for two days in October, III Points is giving the city plenty of room to prove it.
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III Points 2026 takes place October 16–17 at Mana Wynwood in Miami, Florida. III Points Satellite runs October 13–20 across Miami.
Official lineup and festival information: iiipoints.com