Aftershock 2026 by Danny Wimmer Presents returns to Discovery Park in Sacramento on October 1–4, 2026, the West Coast’s largest rock, punk, and metal festival.

We used Booking Agent Info’s music industry directory to research the booking agencies behind this year’s lineup.

What stands out is that Aftershock isn’t only a rock festival bill this year it includes several hip-hop acts, and they’re not random additions. The choices skew toward artists whose sound and audience overlap with rock and metal crowds: Ice-T, Three Six Mafia, $uicideboy$, and Wu-Tang Clan.

Sound Talent Group leads the pack with 24% of the lineup. STG has been the #1 agency across every major rock festival announced this year that we’ve tracked, incl. Louder Than Life (another DWP event) and Inkcarceration. They booked names like Black Label Society, Set It Off, Killswitch Engage, and more.

IAG follows with 16%. They booked Stone Temple Pilots, Sevendust, Limp Bizkit, and others.

CAA sits at 9%, they booked acts like My Chemical Romance, Pierce The Veil, Wu-Tang Clan.

UTA is also at 9%, backing acts like Wage War, From Ashes To New, and Starset.

The Kirby Organization comes in at 7%, booking RED, The Union Underground, The Violent Hour, and others.

33 & West holds 6% with bookings like Cavalera Conspiracy, Brujeria, and Soulfly.

Wasserman is also at 6%, and WME matches that at 6%, including heavyweight placements like TOOL, Queens of the Stone Age, and Ice-T.

Pinnacle Entertainment lands at 3% (Haywire, PeelingFlesh, Psychostick), while Dynamic Talent International and Reliant Talent each hold 2%.

Dynamic with I Set My Friends On Fire, Alesana, Oleander, and Reliant with Horse The Band, Emery, and Hawthorne Heights.

11% of the lineup was booked by a variety of other agencies and artists who handling bookings in-house.