Lagwagon Added As Headliner As The Fest 24 Expands To More Than 330 Bands

Florida’s beloved independent music gathering The Fest has revealed another massive wave of artists for its 2026 edition, bringing the total lineup to more than 330 bands.

Set to take place October 23-25 in Gainesville, FL, The Fest 24 has now added 220 more acts to an already stacked bill. Among the latest additions is veteran punk outfit Lagwagon, who join previously announced headliners The Bouncing Souls and Pup.

The Bouncing Souls and Pup will each perform two sets during the weekend, while the newly expanded lineup also includes appearances from Texas Is The Reason, Bear Vs. Shark, Sparta, Torche, Iron Reagan, Mustard Plug, Zeta, Gillian Carter, Nerf Herder, A Wilhelm Scream, The Flatliners, and many more.

Several artists will be performing special sets celebrating landmark releases and anniversaries. Highlights include Algernon Cadwallader marking the 20th anniversary of the band, Nerf Herder performing How To Meet Girls in celebration of its 25th anniversary, Small Brown Bike performing Dead Reckoning, Dikembe playing Chicago Bowls, Gillian Carter performing Of Suffocation, Punchline revisiting 37 Everywhere, and Signals Midwest performing At This Age.

The festival’s comedy lineup is scheduled to be announced on June 26.

Among the newly announced artists are Home Front, Mustard Plug, Pulley, Samiam, Sleepytime Trio, Catbite, Fenix TX, Gameface, Kill Lincoln, MakeWar, NOBRO, War On Women, World’s Greatest Dad, Palette Knife, Ogbert The Nerd, Initiate, Spaced, School Drugs, Rodeo Boys, Swiss Army Wife, PONY, and many others spanning punk, hardcore, emo, ska, indie rock, and alternative music.

Three-day passes for The Fest 24 are available now.

The full lineup currently stands at more than 330 artists, making this one of the largest editions of the festival to date.

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Full Lineup

Headliners & Featured Performances

• The Bouncing Souls (performing two sets)
• Lagwagon
• PUP (performing two sets)
• A Wilhelm Scream
• Against All Authority
• Algernon Cadwallader (20th anniversary set)
• Bear Vs. Shark
• Hey Mercedes
• Home Front
• Mustard Plug
• Nerf Herder (Everything Fireworks 25th anniversary set)
• Pulley
• Samiam
• Sleepytime Trio
• Small Brown Bike (Dead Reckoning performance)
• Sparta
• Texas Is The Reason
• The Flatliners
• The Impossibles
• The Planet Smashers
• Torche

Special Album & Anniversary Performances

• Algernon Cadwallader — 20th Anniversary Set
• Nerf Herder — Everything Fireworks 25th Anniversary Performance
• Small Brown Bike — Dead Reckoning
• Dikembe — Chicago Bowls
• Gillian Carter — Of Suffocation
• Punchline — 37 Everywhere
• Signals Midwest — At This Age

Additional Artists

• Brendan Kelly
• Catbite
• Dead Bars
• Descartes A Kant
• Dikembe
• Drag The River
• Elway
• F.Y.P.
• Fenix TX
• Flying Raccoon Suit
• Gameface
• Gillian Carter
• Gully Boys
• Iron Reagan
• Kerosene Heights
• Kill Lincoln
• Lee Bains
• MakeWar
• New Junk City
• Playboy Manbaby
• Punchline
• Signals Midwest
• Slingshot Dakota
• The Bollweevils
• The Copyrights
• The Eradicator
• The Iron Roses
• The Raging Nathans
• The Underground Railroad To Candyland
• Tiltwheel
• Tim Barry
• Toys That Kill
• War On Women
• Whiskey & Co.
• Wolf-Face
• You Vandal
• Zeta

More Artists Confirmed

• Arcadia Grey
• Banquets
• Big Sad
• Blind Adam & The Federal League
• Blvck Hippie
• Bob Nanna
• Boss’ Daughter
• camping in alaska
• Cape Crush
• Choke Up
• Christy Costello & The CC Club
• Cold Wrecks
• Common Sage
• Confession Kids
• Cutman
• Daisyhead
• Debt Neglector
• DFMK
• Dog Party
• Don’t Panic
• Drosera
• Drought
• Emperor X
• Equipment
• Excuse Me, Who Are You?
• Fat Heaven
• Flagman
• Freezing Cold
• Glazed
• Half Past Two
• Heart & Lung
• Heavy Lag
• Hell Beach
• Hit Like A Girl
• Horace Pinker
• Hospital Job
• Houseghost
• Initiate
• Innerlove
• Jumpstarted Plowhards
• Little Low
• LOVE LETTER
• Lung
• Madison Bloodbath
• Matt Pless
• Middle-Aged Queers
• Middle-Out
• Mikey Erg
• MooseCreek Park
• Mr. Tim
• NØ MAN
• NOBRO
• Oh The Humanity
• One Fall
• oolong
• Panthro U.K. United 13
• Pity Party
• Pollyanna
• PONY
• Pressure Wheel
• Quiet Fear
• Reconciler
• Rent Strike
• Rodeo Boys
• Sam Russo
• School Drugs
• Seagulls
• Shehehe
• Shitstorm
• sleep in.
• Smelter
• Sooza
• Sorry Sweetheart
• Spaced
• Spells
• Summerbruise
• Sunday Morning
• Sweet Gloom
• Swiss Army Wife
• Teddy DuChamp’s Army
• Teen Agers
• The Best Of The Worst
• The Caution Children
• The Crosses
• The Dreaded Laramie
• The Effigies
• The Moms
• The Tim Version
• Tides
• Tightwire
• Tired Radio
• Vic Bondi And His Issues
• Won’t Stay Dead
• Woolbright
• World’s Greatest Dad
• Worlds Scariest Police Chases
• Worst Party Ever
• 0 Miles Per Hour
• 300 USD
• Adjust The Sails
• Age Of Kid
• All I Hear Is Birds
• Ambretta
• American Dream Survivors
• Anchorite
• Arid Wave
• Awful Din
• Back East
• Bad Dog
• Bad, Bad Things
• Bashful
• Bat Boy
• Beinn
• Best Bear
• Bike Tuff
• Black Guy Fawkes
• Bobby Edge Band
• Boston Marriage
• Boy Clothes
• Brave You
• Brightr
• Bronson Arm
• Brook Pridemore
• Bumsy And The Moochers
• Burnt Tapes
• Caitlin Edwards
• Canadian Rifle
• Ceramicats
• Chilled Monkey Brains
• Chimes
• Clearance Bongwater Revival
• Cooper!
• Crucial Fix
• Crush Fund
• Cuni
• Damage Done
• Days Spent
• Dead Sea Lords
• Dead Selves
• Dear Cincinnati
• Dear Maryanne
• Dentist
• Direct Order ’82
• Dirty Rotten Revenge
• Doom Scroll
• Double Jointed
• Easy Money, Inc.
• Evening Standards
• Feeble Strength
• Feversleep
• Five Hundred Bucks
• Flowers For Emily
• For Dear Life
• Future Forms
• Gab De La Vega
• Gazee
• Ghost Chant
• Ghost Rat
• Good Teal
• Gottlieb
• Gun Died Laughing
• Hawgs
• Her Head’s On Fire
• HEW
• Hey! TV Boy!
• HLLLYH
• Hoist The Colors
• Human Issue
• HYPERDOG
• i.liedtomyself
• Ill Star
• Jackie + The Mosquito Bites
• Jared Knapik
• Jen Pop
• Joker’s Republic
• Jonathan Francis
• Kiss The Scientist
• Kitty Kitty Meow Meow
• La Versión Extendida De Las Cosa
• Lamonta
• Leg Biters
• Legitimate Business
• Liquid Limbs
• Lockslip
• Logan Greene
• Loris
• Makeup Remover
• Mass Panic
• Maxwelltheband
• Measurement
• Medians
• Mega Infinity
• Memory Entry
• Mike & The Nerve
• Miller Lowlifes
• Minorcan
• Model Martel
• MOLLY MCGUIRE
• Moral Less Right
• Myles Bullen
• New Eagles
• New Forms
• Nick And The Adversaries
• Night Mayor
• Nomore
• Octopoulpe
• Off Day
• Ogbert The Nerd
• Orange Blossom Trail
• Orbiter
• Orca
• Paisley Fields
• Palette Knife
• Pink Slip
• Pinkish
• Porch Coffin
• Pressure Set
• Pretty Bitter
• Psychic Death
• PWRUP
• Rubes
• Ryan Cassata & The Top Surgeons
• Sad Snack
• Sandcrawler
• SecondSelf
• Seeker
• Shrug Dealer
• Skeletizer
• Slackrr
• Sleep Club
• Something To Do
• Spaceman Bob
• Spare Kid
• Spoil
• Stuck Lucky
• Stunner
• Suck Brick Kid
• SUMO
• Supersonic
• Supertwin
• Sybris
• The Albert Square
• The Bad Ups
• The Barbed Wires
• The Bomb That Will Bring Us Together
• The Boy Detective
• The Cherry Bombs
• The Doomstompers
• The Feat
• The Joytraders
• The Low Blow
• The Mermers
• The Overjoyed
• The Slow Retreat
• The Strange Ones
• The Subjunctives
• The Valterra Dragons
• The Wild
• the yaupon holly
• Thrull
• Thunderclap
• Time Thieves
• Title Holder
• Tombstonehead
• Trash The Rental
• TrashWorldFL
• Trustfall
• Ultra Lights
• Watts
• Winded
• Wired Up
• Wordplay
• Worse Off
• Fresh Pots!!

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