With this year's incarnation of Caterwaul booked for June 5-7, 2026 in Minneapolis, the festival's organizers reveal another standout of the stacked lineup: Rye Coalition.
Hailing from Jersey City, New Jersey, the shapeshifting Rye Coalition stormed the scene in the '90s as a scrappy, sassy post-hardcore outfit, in league with the likes of Drive Like Jehu and Nation of Ulysses. The new millennium saw a radical reinvention, with the band leaning heavily into its classic rock and hard rock influences. Despite the playfulness of song titles such as "ZZ Topless," "Paradise by the Marlboro Light" and "Between I-Roc and a Hard Place," the transformed Rye Coalition of the early '00s rocked with power and conviction, finding a producer and champion in Dave Grohl, and landing tours with Foo Fighters, Queens of the Stone Age, and The Mars Volta. After two decades spent mostly out of the spotlight, the band will grace Caterwaul's stage in June for its first show in several years – a one-off, exclusive appearance from a group that has always marched to its own beat.
In addition to Rye Coalition, the Caterwaul team has announced ten other artists for the 2026 lineup so far, including:
Dazzling Killmen
Didjits
H.E.A.T.
Mike Watt + The Missingmen
Muscle
New Brutalism
Point Line Plane
Season to Risk
Stress Positions
Tongue Party
Founded in 2020, Caterwaul has established itself as an annual showcase of the noisy, iconoclastic fringes of rock. BrooklynVegan has hailed it as "a unique mix of noise rock, punk, metal, post-punk and beyond," while New Noise Magazine has named it "a gathering of some of the best underground bands existing today." In a city still reeling from tragedies connected to the federal government's heavy-handed immigration efforts, Caterwaul stands as a beacon of independent thought and countercultural action. This year's fest will take place entirely at Minneapolis venue Zhora Darling.
3-day festival passes are on sale now: https://ticketstripe.com/caterwaul2026
Stream Rye Coalition's latest release, a single consisting of covers of Shellac and Drive Like Jehu songs, here: https://ryecoalition.bandcamp.com/album/paid-in-full
Stand by for more lineup announcements, coming soon!
Photo of Rye Coalition, courtesy of the band
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