We've got the full Gridlock Festival lineup right here, right now

Look familiar? It’s Wolf Parade behind The Marquee Credit: c/o Wolf Parade (Semi-Precious Stone)

The full line-up for Halifax’s newest music explosion, Gridlock Festival, is out today and The Coast has it all right here, right now. From July 8 to July 10, Halifax is going to see some of the U.S. and Canada’s hottest electro-pop and rock bands play the Citadel High grounds, and Stillwell Beer as the bar sponsor. We previously announced the first half of the lineup, but we are STOKED to tell you the following bands and comedians will soon be here:

– Recently reunited Montreal indie-dogs Wolf Parade
– Toronto rockers Rural Alberta Advantage
– Coast critic’s top picks, Alabama slamma Waxahatchee
– The west coast’s best drone band Freak Heat Waves
– Edmonton’s super cool singer Calvin Love
– “Grungey slacker rock” duo SOLIDS
– Halifax’s favourite rock band WALRUS
– The new order of Adam Strangler
– Sackville sludge king Jon McKiel
– Halifax’s true songbird Kim Harris
– Smashing T.O. dream-duo Moon King

Plus, a comedy lineup that will include:

– Longtime Chicago stand-up (cc. MADtv) Matt Braunger
– San Francisco’s “funny gay comic” Casey Ley
– Halifax super freaks Cher Hann, Megan MacDowell and Ian Black

Weekend passes for Gridlock are ON SALE NOW and you can check out the rest of the pretty stellar lineup here, or at Gridlock’s site. It’s going to be a WET HOT HALIFAX SUMMER.