Lollapalooza India 2027 Lineup: 9 Artists Worth Discovering Beyond the Headliners

Lollapalooza India has a stacked international lineup for its 2027 edition, but some of the best sets might come from names you haven't heard yet. The festival returns to Mumbai’s Mahalaxmi Race Course on January 23 and 24, 2027, with over 40 acts on the lineup. While names like Olivia Dean, Limp Bizkit, and Fontaines D.C. sit at the top of the poster, several artists further down are building real momentum of their own. Here are nine acts worth looking out for:

1. Calcutta Cowboy
   
   

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Born in Kolkata, West Bengal, and now based in Berlin, Calcutta Cowboy performs country music in a kurta and a Stetson, a pairing he treats as more than a gimmick. His debut EP, Brash and Broken, arrived in May 2026 and blends acoustic songwriting with indie folk and soft rock. Homegrown describes the record as a journey through self-doubt, romantic idealism, and personal growth, and it has drawn attention as an early entry in a small but growing Indian country music scene. His Lollapalooza India 2027 set is one of the more unusual bookings on this year's bill.

2. The Manganiyar Seduction
   
   

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Director Roysten Abel created this stage production in 2006, seating dozens of Manganiyar musicians from Rajasthan inside red-curtained cubicles that light up one by one as each performer joins the song. The repertoire draws on Sufi and folk traditions tied to a hereditary musical community based around Jaisalmer, Barmer, and Jodhpur. The show premiered in New Delhi and later played the Holland Festival in Amsterdam. According to The Nod Mag, Abel says the production stopped counting once it passed 500 performances worldwide. At Lollapalooza India 2027, it stands out as the festival's most theatrical booking, less a set than a spectacle.

3. Alain Johannes

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Before he became one of rock's more in-demand collaborators, Alain Johannes played guitar in a Los Angeles high school band alongside Flea and Hillel Slovak, who went on to found the Red Hot Chili Peppers. Johannes later founded the band Eleven and has since worked as a guitarist, songwriter, or producer with Queens of the Stone Age, Chris Cornell, PJ Harvey, Arctic Monkeys, and Them Crooked Vultures. His solo albums, including Spark and Hum, lean into blues rock and experimental textures. His Lollapalooza India 2027 appearance will be his first performance in the country.

4. Varijashree Venugopal
   
   

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A classically trained vocalist and flautist from Bengaluru, Karnataka, Varijashree Venugopal is credited with developing "Carnatic scat," a style that folds Carnatic vocal technique into jazz improvisation. Rolling Stone India reports that the approach earned her a Grammy Award nomination in the best global music performance category for "A Rock Somewhere," a Jacob Collier track that also features Anoushka Shankar. She has also performed with Snarky Puppy's Michael League and has been singing professionally since childhood, making her Lollapalooza India 2027 set one of the more critically credentialed bookings on the bill.

5. Rachel Chinouriri

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Rachel Chinouriri is a London, England, singer-songwriter's profile jumped after Sabrina Carpenter discovered her song "All I Ever Asked," which led Chinouriri to open dates on Carpenter's 2025 tour. Her debut album cracked the Top 20 of the U.K. albums chart and brought her two BRIT Award nominations, following an earlier Ivor Novello nomination for "Give Me a Reason." Her music sits at the intersection of indie pop and indie rock, built on direct, diary-like lyricism, and her Lollapalooza India 2027 slot marks her first show in the country.

6. Meewakching

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This five-piece from Imphal, Manipur, plays a strain of post-punk revival and neo-psychedelia the band cites as influenced by the Strokes and Radiohead. Their second album, Bildungsroman, released in 2025, includes lyrics in Meiteilon alongside spoken word drawn from a play by the late Arambam Somorendra. The band's full-length debut came out in 2021, and it has since built a following on the northeastern India festival circuit, a lineage that makes their booking one of the more distinct guitar-band entries on this year's Lollapalooza India bill.

7. Pinkshift
   
   

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The Baltimore, Maryland, trio broke through after its 2020 single "I'm Gonna Tell My Therapist on You" spread widely on Reddit, a moment that led to a deal with Hopeless Records. The band has since released two albums, Love Me Forever and Earthkeeper. Kerrang! gave Earthkeeper four out of five stars, calling out the way the band's pop-punk hooks carry real grunge weight rather than leaning on nostalgia alone. Their Lollapalooza India 2027 set brings that record to Mumbai for the first time.

8. Ecca Vandal

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Born in South Africa to Sri Lankan Tamil refugee parents and raised in Melbourne, Victoria, Ecca Vandal works across punk, hip-hop, and electronic production. Her self-titled 2017 debut, previewed in Rolling Stone Australia, included guest spots from Dennis Lyxzén of Refused and Sampa the Great across the record, alongside the single "Future Heroine." Her second album, Looking for People to Unfollow, followed in May 2026. Like Johannes, she'll be making her Lollapalooza India 2027 debut at the festival.

9. Isyana Sarasvati

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Trained as a soprano at Singapore's Nanyang Academy of Fine Arts and London's Royal College of Music, Isyana Sarasvati has built a catalog that moves from opera and pop into progressive rock, writing her own material throughout. The Indonesian artist made Forbes Asia's 30 Under 30 list in 2020 and Fortune Indonesia's 40 Under 40 list in 2023, recognition that extends well beyond her music career. Her Lollapalooza India 2027 booking marks a rare English-language spotlight for an artist whose fanbase has largely followed her career through Indonesian media.

Between a Rajasthani folk spectacle, a Grammy-nominated Carnatic vocalist, and a country singer from Kolkata performing an ocean away from home, the Lollapalooza India 2027 lineup has more range below its headliners than the poster alone suggests. As tickets move through their phased sale, these nine sets are a reasonable place to start building a schedule around the festival's four stages.

With the day-wise schedule now out, the real work starts: figuring out which of these nine overlaps with a headliner you don't want to miss. A few, like Alain Johannes and Ecca Vandal, are also making their India debut, which is its own kind of deadline. Worth checking the clash list before the tickets do.