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.
- Hot Water Music
- The Bouncing Souls
- Streetlight Manifesto
- Matt and Kim
- Superchunk
- Joyce Manor
- Ted Leo and the Pharmacists
- Cloud Nothings
- Cursive
- Fucked Up
- The Flatliners
- Mustard Plug
- Scream
- You Blew It!
- Big D and the Kids Table
- A Wilhelm Scream
- Riverboat Gamblers
- Planet Smashers
- The Copyrights
- Bad Cop/Bad Cop
- Further Seems Forever
- Mean Jeans
- Chris Gethard
- pg.99
- City of Caterpillar
- Tim Barry
- Brendan Kelly
- Restorations
- Broadway Calls
- Kill Lincoln
- Doc Hopper
- Gameface
- Single Mothers
- Dikembe
- Candy Hearts
- MakeWar
- Walter Mitty and his Makeshift Orchestra
- Carly Cosgrove
- J. Robbins Band
- Codeseven
- Rozwell Kid
- Apes of the State
- Zeta
- Dollar Signs
- Caravels
- Omnigone
- Bad Operation
- Flying Raccoon Suit
- Teenage Halloween
- Michael Cera Palin
- Pohgoh
- Kerosene Heights
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
