The Fest 12 extends to six days, announces initial lineup

The Fest 12 will be happening Oct. 31-Nov. 3 in Gainesville, FL and will feature performances from The Bouncing Souls, Braid, Boy Sets Fire, A Wilhelm Scream, The Dopamines, The Flatliners, Mean Jeans, The Menzingers, Mustard Plug, No Trigger, Off With Their Heads, Teenage Bottlerocket, Torche, Masked Intruder, Big D and the Kids Table, Code Orange Kids, I am the Avalanche, The Copyrights, Banner Pilot, Broadway Calls, Citizen, Calculator, Blacklist Royals, Crusades, Great Cynics, Heartsounds, Look Mexico, Luther, Restorations, Red City Radio, Smith Street Band, Elway, Sundials, Broadcaster and a bunch more, including reunion sets from The Draft and Ann Berreta. You can see the full lineup (so far) by clicking below.

In addition to the extended schedule in Gainesville--this will be the first year Fest is four days long there--the organizers have announced a special pre-Fest event in Ybor City, FL near Tampa on Oct. 29-30. More info on that is here. Fest passes go on sale May 4; you can read about those here.