Festival Hub: The Fest

The Scene: This independent multiple-venue festival that celebrates underground music has been rocking Gainsville for nearly two decades. The numbers speak for themselves at The Fest: 300+ artists, 4 stages, 18 venues, and more than 50 professional wrestlers.

The Fest 2024: December 31, 2024

This lineup has not been posted yet.

The Fest 2023: October 27-29, 2023

AGAINST ALL AUTHORITY
ALL
BRAID
BRENDAN KELLY
CHRIS GETHARD
CLOUD NOTHINGS
DESCENDENTS
DILLINGER FOUR
DIRECT HIT!
EVE 6
FOLLY
FREE THROW
GEL
GORILLA BISCUITS
GWAR
I AM THE AVALANCHE
JER
JEROMES DREAM
LAURA JANE GRACE
LESS THAN JAKE
LUCERO
MUSTARD PLUG
NO TRIGGER
PRINCE DADDY AND THE HYENA
PUNK
QUICKSAND
SAETIA
SAMIAM
SMOKING POPES
SPARTA
STRIKE ANYWHERE
TAKING MEDS
THE BOLLWEEVILS
THE FEST
THE PIETASTERS
THE WONDER YEARS
THURSDAY
TIM BARRY
WE ARE THE UNION
ZETA

The Fest 2022: October 28-30, 2022

Anti-Flag
La Dispute
The Bouncing Souls
Cursive
The Menzingers
Hot Water Music
Comeback Kid
The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die
The Suicide Machines
The Flatliners
Into It. Over It.
Chuck Ragan
Mustard Plug
Piebald
Samiam
Iron Chic
Algernon Cadwallader
Tsunami Bomb
The Pietasters
Avail
Kyle Kinane
Cobra Skulls
Against All Authority
Pet Symmetry
Tim Barry
Big Bird
Broadway Calls
Dikembe
The Copyrights
Meat Wave
Their / They’re / There
Paint It Black
The Ergs
No Trigger
Pkew Pkew Pkew
Slingshot Dakota
Worriers
Perspective, A Lovely Hand to Hold
Chris Farren
The Jukebox Romantics
The Dopamines
War on Women
Toys That Kill
Homeless Gospel Choir
Annabel
Dollar Signs
Audio Karate
Jon Snodgrass
Methadones
The Sonder Bombs
The Holy Mess!
Signals Midwest
Demons
Franz Nicolay
Bad Cop/Bad Cop
The Bollweevils
Folly
Zeta
Kill Lincoln
City of Caterpillar
Brendan Kelly
F.Y.P.
Joystick
Timeshares
Mobina Galore
Carpenter
Ann Beretta
The Underground Railroad to Candyland
MakeWar
Niiice
Dan Vapid and the Cheats
Kali Masi
Chris Gethard
Short Fictions
Scowl
Sunsleeper
Thank You, I’m Sorry
Moonraker
Bong Mountain
Callous Daoboys
Typesetter
Abraskadabra
Taking Meds
City Mouse
Harmony Woods
Tiltwheel
Restraining Order
Twelve Hour Turn
Gillian Carter
Cliffdiver
Grey Matter
Intervention
Billy Liar
Jer
Pohgoh
Catbite
The Best of the Worst
A Vulture Wake
Caithlin De Marrais
Dead Bars
Dark Thoughts
Jonah Ray
Rebuilder
Rational Anthem
Devon Kay & the Solutions
Save Ends
Palomino Blond
Superbloom
Cheem
Hit Like a Girl
Wolf-face
Crushed
Max Stern
Sarchasm
Expert Timing
debt neglector
Bashful
Brightr
Public Serpents
Flying Raccoon Suit
Worn in Red
Noise Complaint
Rundown Kreeps
Tightwire
Boardroom Heroes
Errortype 11
Dan Vapid
Dfmk
Errortype:11
Kid You Not
Eichlers
Omnigone
Boss’ Daughter
Terminal Bliss
Reconciler
The Upfux
The Darling Fire
Virginity
Braceface
Paige Beller
Empty Atlas
DISSIDENTE
postage
The Eradicator
Clown Sounds
Thirsty Guys
Middle-Aged Queers
Madison Turner
Horsewhip
American Thrills
Dry Socket
Lone Wolf
Cardboard Box Colony
Velour Academy
SHIIVA
Night Witch
SPELLS
Onlinedrawing
Tierney Tough
Joystick
Devon Kay
Flying Racoon Suit
The Butts
Protagonist
Male Patterns
Telepathic Lines
Menagramo
Max Stern
After the Fall
Panic Problem
The Punk Cellist
Royal Dog
84 Tigers
Bitter Branches

The Fest 2021: October 29-31, 2021

Hot Water Music
Frank Turner
Gorilla Biscuits
The Lawrence Arms
Murder by Death
The Wonder Years
Sparta
Good Riddance
Torche
Teenage Bottlerocket
Strike Anywhere
Modern Life is War
Comeback Kid
Tim Barry
Planes Mistaken for Stars
A Wilhelm Scream
The Appleseed Cast
Red City Radio
Boradway Calls
Sheer Mag
Mock Orange

The Fest 2019: November 1-3, 2019

A Vulture Wake
A WILHELM SCREAM
Able Baker Fox
Adult Mom
After The Fall
Against Me!
Airstream Futures
AJJ
Almost People
Alright
American Pinup
American Steel
Amuse
Answering Machine
Arms & Hearts
Arms Aloft
Articles
Assholeparade
Astpai
Attagirl
Attic Salt
Audio Karate
BAD COP/ BAD COP
Bad Waitress
Baggage
Bangzz
Barely Civil
Bedspin
Big Nothing
Bike Tuff
Billy Liar
Bitemarks
Blis
Bob Nanna
Bong Mountain
Bonsai Trees
Boss’ Daughter
Bossfight
Boston Marriage
Bravely
Brendan Kelly
Brett Newski
Bricheros
Bullets to Broadway
Caffiends
Calicoco
Canadian Rifle
Captain Asshole
Career Suicide
Carpool
Catbite
Ceramicats
Chloe Hawes
Choke Up
Choked Up
Chotto Ghetto
Chris Fox
Cicala
City Mouse
Coffee Project
Cold Wrecks
Colour Design
Cool Grandma
Cory and Kristy Call
DAG NASTY
Damage Done
Danny Hughes
David Dondero
Dead Bars
Death of a Nation
Debt Neglector
Demons
Destroy Orbison
Devon Kay and the Solutions
DFMK
Dial Drive
Dikembe
Dirty Rotten Revenge
Divided Heaven
Divine Feed
Doll Baby
Dollar Signs
Dowsing
Dozier
DUSK
Eat Defeat
Elders
Electro Maggot
Elway
Expert Timing
Fat Heaven
Forever Unclean
Foxy Dads
Frameworks
FRESH
Future Teens
Gallows Bound
Get Married
Ghost Party
Gillian Carter
GILT
Gimme
Go Betty Go
Golden Pelicans
Good Friend
Gouge Away
Grade
Graf Orlock
Great Grief
Greg Laraigné
GUERILLA POUBELLE
Gutless
Half My Home
Harmony Woods
Heart Attack Kids
Heartsounds
Heat Rash
Heck Yes
Hell & Back
Hey, Chels
Hit Like A Girl
Hodera
Holy Pinto
Horrible Girl & The Hot Mess
Horrible Things
Hospital Job
Hot Knife
Hunger Anthem
Huntingtons
In The Meantime
In The Stone
Invaluable
Iron Reagan
J. Robbins
Jason Guy Smiley
Jawbox
Jawbreaker
Joyce Manor
Juan Richardo Yilo
Jukebox Romantics
Kepi Ghoulie
Kid You Not
Kill Lincoln
Lara Hope & the Ark-Tones
Late Bloomer
Laura Jane Grace
Lee Bains III & the Glory Fires
Leg Biters
Less Than Jake
Life In Vacuum
Light This City
Liquid Limbs
Little Teeth
Local Drags
Lone Wolf
Lost Love
Machinist
Madison Turner
Make War
Mariachi El Bronx
Mark Rose
Masked Intruder
Meatwound
Mercy Music
Michael Kane & The Morning Afters
Mike Frazier
Mike Llerena & The Nerve
Mikey Erg
Milk Teeth
Minimum Rage
Mush
Nervous Dater
Nervus
New Junk City
Night Surf
Night Witch
NIghtmarathons
No More
No Sugar
No Trigger
Oceanator
Odd Robot
Off With Their Heads
Oh The Humanity
OOF!
Orbiter
Origami Angel
Padfoot
Paige Beller
Pale Lips
Palomino Blond
Perspective, a lovely hand to hold
PeZ
Pink Spiders
Pity Party
Planes Mistaken For Stars
Poblano
Pohgoh
Pool Kids
Post Teens
Postage
Problem Daughter
Protagonist
PYRE
Quiet Fear
Radon
Ramona
Rational Anthem
Ray Rocket
Rebuilder
Reconciler
Rehasher
Russian Girlfriends
Rutterkin
S.M.N.
Sammy Kay
Save Ends
Screaming Females
Se Vende
Seagulls
Secret Spirit
Sensual World
Shark Anatomy
Shea Birney
Shehehe
Signals Midwest
Skatune Network
Sleepless
Slingshot Dakota
Smartbomb
SOFX
Sorry! We Are Silly
Spanish Love Songs
Sports Reference
SPRAYNARD
Squirtgun
Stanis
Starter Jackets
State Faults
Stiff Little Fingers
Still Alive
Stunner
Such Gold
Suck Brick Kid
Sunshine State
Superhaunted
Supertwin
Surrounder
Taking Meds
Talk Me Off
Tea Leaf
Teen Agers
Teen Divorce
Teenage Bottlerocket
Teenage Bubblegums
Teenage Halloween
Telethon
Television Supervision
The Bombpops
THE BRONX
The Butts
The Casket Lottery
The Copyrights
The Cryptkeeper Five
The Dodges
The Dollyrots
The Dopamines
The Duppies
The Enablers
The Eradicator
the Handsome Scoundrels
The Heat Tape
The Lillingtons
The Lippies
THE LUCKY EEJITS
The Mermers
The Pauses
The Penske File
The Raging Nathans
The Randy Savages
The Run Up
The Studs
The Weak Days
The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die
Thunderclap
Tightwire
Tiltwheel
Tim Barry
Timeshares
Too Many Daves
Torche
Transkam
Tsunami Bomb
Typesetter
Uberyou
Vacancy
Walt Hamburger
War on Women
We Were Sharks
Weakened Friends
Weighdown
Werecats
Western Settings
Wet Nurse
Whiskey & Co.
Wilderness Dreams
Will Varley
Wolf-Face
Wolves & Wolves & Wolves & Wolves
Woolbright
Worlds Greatest Dad
Worlds Scariest Police Chases
Worriers
Wounded Touch
Year of the Fist
You Vandal
Youth League