Gainesville punk festival The Fest returns from October 24-26, and the initial lineup is here and it’s already looking as stacked as ever. In the big font there’s Propagandhi (whose first album in 8 years comes out in May), Dillinger Four, Jeff Rosenstock (two sets), RX Bandits (two sets, including one playing The Resignation), Laura Jane Grace & the Mississippi Medicals, Banner Pilot, the recently-reunited Coalesce, AJJ, Shelter (celebrating 30 years of Mantra), 7Seconds, and Dead To Me.
There’s also lots of cooler stuff in the smaller font like The Dopamines (two sets), Drug Church, The Casket Lottery, Toys That Kill, F.Y.P., The Spits (two sets), Catch 22, Pool Kids, Tim Barry (of AVAIL), Brendan Kelly (of The Lawrence Arms), the recently-reunited Good Luck, Pet Symmetry, Gouge Away, the back-in-action Young Widows, Chris Farren, Meat Weave, Direct Hit!, JER, Dikembe, Paint It Black offshoot Open City, Zeta, Spy, the recently-reunited We Were Skeletons, Omnigone, Joystick, Gillian Carter, The Holy Ghost Tabernacle Choir, Oceanator, Michael Cera Palin, Kerosene Heights, Worlds Greatest Dad, and still much more.
The next wave of bands will be announced on June 6. Tickets go on sale April 25 at 10 AM EST.
Here’s the poster with the full initial lineup:
