New Bedford's technical-punk lifers, stacking dizzying twin-guitar leads on top of full-throttle melodic hardcore. A Fest institution and one of its most reliable pits.
The Fest 2026 Lineup
Three days, dozens of downtown venues, and hundreds of punk bands: Gainesville's DIY institution, 24 years running.
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About The Fest 2026
The Fest (this year it's Fest 24) is Gainesville, Florida's beloved punk institution, and unlike almost every other festival on this site it isn't a field with four stages. It's a three-day takeover of downtown Gainesville, spreading hundreds of bands across a dozen-plus bars, clubs, and theaters within walking distance of each other. One wristband, a printed schedule, and a weekend of running between rooms: that's the whole ritual.
The sound is punk in the widest sense: melodic and skate punk, gruff Hot Water Music-style anthems, twinkly Midwest emo, third-wave ska, crossover thrash, folk-punk, and the occasional sludge or post-hardcore curveball. The 2026 bill leans hard on reunions and heavy hitters (PUP, Bouncing Souls, Lagwagon, The Flatliners, Sparta, Texas is the Reason, Samiam, A Wilhelm Scream) while giving huge chunks of the schedule to DIY bands, Gainesville locals, and the current ska and emo revivals.
With well over 300 acts, no single person can see it all, and that's the point. Fest rewards wandering: catching a band you've never heard in a half-full bar at 3pm is as much the experience as the marquee reunion at midnight. Use the finder below to point your weekend at the bands most worth your walking shoes.
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Asbury Park's forever-young punk anthem factory — thirty-odd years of gang vocals and open-hearted singalongs. Few bands turn a room into a family faster.
Fat Wreck royalty and skate-punk architects — Joey Cape's melodies over machine-gun drums. Three decades in, still one of the genre's tightest live acts.
Toronto's chaos-pop-punk stars — self-lacerating lyrics, unhinged energy, choruses built to be screamed back until throats give out. As big a name as this fest books.
Berkeley's bridge between 90s melodic punk and emo — Jason Beebout's ache over big, rolling hooks. Aging beautifully and criminally underrated.
Jim Ward's post-At the Drive-In vehicle, trading that band's spasms for soaring, melodic post-hardcore. A marquee draw and a rare Fest booking.
One of emo's foundational bands, gone almost as fast as they arrived — glassy guitars and yearning restraint. A reunion set that carries real historical weight.
Toronto punks who grew out of ska into gravel-throated, big-hearted melodic punk. A modern Fest cornerstone with a knack for the last-song-of-the-night singalong.
Miami's ska-punk agitators, welding horns to hardcore and unapologetically political lyrics. Loud, fast, and made for a downtown block that won't stay still.
Beloved and long-dormant Philly emo pioneers back from reunion — noodly twinkling guitars, yelped vocals, and pure basement-show joy that a whole generation of Midwest-emo revivalists learned from.
Detroit post-hardcore that lurches between whisper and full collapse. Long-dormant and much-mythologized, so a Fest set is a genuine event.
The Lawrence Arms' motormouth bassist-singer, solo and unfiltered — bar-stool wit and self-deprecation over rough acoustic punk, half gig and half stand-up set.
Philly's breakout ska-rocksteady crew, all vintage warmth and Brittany Luna's magnetic pipes. Leading the current ska revival and built for a dancing crowd.
Seattle's beer-soaked everyman punks, turning bars and day-jobs into gruff singalong anthems — songs about showing up when life is mid. Deeply Fest-coded.
Guadalajara art-rock outfit whose theatrical, cartoon-horror version of experimental pop can shift from lullaby to shriek inside a single bar.
Gainesville's own noodly, sad-but-warm emo — a hometown highlight who helped define the modern wave, equal parts twinkle and gut-punch. Expect a partisan crowd.
Fort Collins' punks-gone-country, led by ALL's Chad Price and Jon Snodgrass — whiskey-worn harmonies and heartland ache. Fest's morning-after soundtrack.
Fort Collins gruff-melodic punks with a literate, self-aware streak and choruses made for arms around shoulders — Colorado's contribution to the whiskey-punk canon.
F.Y.P
Houston's turn-of-the-millennium pop-punk hitmakers (of 'All My Fault' fame) — snotty, catchy, and pure late-'90s nostalgia from the blink-adjacent yearbook.
Mississippi ska with a horn section and a big voice — part of the modern ska class packing Fest dance floors.
Orange County's warm, melodic post-punk mainstays — Jeff Caudill's earnest hooks over ringing guitars, underrated for decades and built to last.
Gillian Carter
Gully Boys
Born from the ashes of Braid, Bob Nanna's hookier follow-up — sharp, wordy emo with real pop instincts. A reunion for the turn-of-the-millennium emo faithful.
Edmonton duo splicing oi! stomp with synth-lit post-punk and anthemic 80s gloss. One of the more distinctive sounds on the bill.
Vinnie Caruana's post-Movielife crew, trading in the kind of scarred, shout-along punk that lands hardest at 1am with your arm around a stranger.
Richmond crossover-thrash featuring Municipal Waste members — blistering, funny, and violently fast, thirty-song sets over before you catch your breath. The bill's designated whiplash.
Asheville twinkle-emo with heart-on-sleeve delivery — part of the genre's newest wave, and one of its most promising.
DC's frantic, horn-driven ska-punk revivalists — technical, self-aware, and relentlessly fun. Core to the new ska class Fest has embraced.
Birmingham's Lee Bains and the Glory Fires — sweat-soaked Southern rock with punk lungs and pointed politics. A cathartic, gospel-loud set.
Brooklyn gruff-melodic trio with big, aching choruses and an immigrant's-eye lyric sheet — made for the last-hour singalong slot, beers raised.
Grand Rapids' third-wave ska lifers, built for skanking. Relentlessly upbeat, horns blazing, zero cynicism — exactly the palate-cleanser a punk weekend needs.
The Goleta goofballs behind 'Van Halen' and the Buffy theme — power-pop-punk with a sitcom sense of humor. Reliably one of the weekend's most fun sets.
New Junk City
Atlanta band at the gruff, melodic end of punk — hoarse vocals and hooks built for basement singalongs.
Tempe-formed punk band with a horn section and a yelping frontman, turning satire and general civic disgust into fast, sweaty desert punk.
Epitaph-era skate-punk vets with pro-baseball roots and gruff, fast-melodic conviction — a deep-catalog set for the '90s SoCal-punk crowd.
Pittsburgh pop-punk survivors with a knack for shiny, earworm choruses — longtime road-dogs who still bring it, twenty-plus years deep.
Cleveland's literate gruff-melodic band, threading emo warmth through punk drive — understated, quietly essential, and beloved by everyone who's caught them.
Mid-nineties Harrisonburg band whose knotty, frantic hardcore fed the Virginia screamo scene that followed — long-scarce records, played live again decades later.
Allentown drums-and-keys duo — huge, earnest emo-pop from a deceptively small setup, married-couple chemistry included, huge sound from two chairs.
Michigan's gruff, dynamic melodic-hardcore torchbearers — quiet-loud swells and a hoarse howl. Kindred spirits to the Hot Water Music lineage that runs through Fest.
Chicago melodic-hardcore vets fronted by ER doctor Daryl Wilson — fast, tuneful, and still ferocious decades on, scene service in every sense.
Carbondale's Ramones-core standard-bearers — buzzsaw guitars, whoa-ohs, and airtight two-minute hits, pop-punk done exactly right, whoa-ohs guaranteed.
Chicago punk act in full squash-court regalia, delivering balaclava-clad comedy hardcore built around one absurd, committed character.
Austin's beloved late-'90s pop-punk/ska outfit, all sugar-rush hooks and horns — a nostalgia hit that still detonates live.
Richmond punk with an activist heart and huge, communal choruses — new-ish but already a natural Fest fit, solidarity as setlist.
Montreal's long-running traditional-ska party band. Horns, dance moves, and singalongs — a guaranteed good time on a sweaty Gainesville stage.
Dayton's snotty, fast pop-punk workhorses — hooks first, attitude close behind, and a release schedule that never sleeps.
Another Todd C. vehicle — lo-fi, hyper-catchy, gone-in-90-seconds pop-punk, pure Recess Records energy and communal chant choruses.
San Diego punk lifers going since the early nineties — gravel-throated, self-deprecating songs about drinking and disappointment, played fast and loose.
The former Avail frontman turned gravel-road troubadour — punk conviction stripped down to an acoustic guitar and hollered truths, train-yard sincerity throughout.
Miami's masters of 'thunder-pop' — crushing, downtuned riffs that somehow float on major-key hooks. The heaviest, most physical set on the bill.
Todd Congelliere's San Pedro melodic-punk institution (Recess Records) — off-kilter hooks and DIY-lifer charm, the scene's connective tissue.
Baltimore's co-ed feminist hardcore — Shawna Potter's righteous fury over pummeling riffs, confrontational, necessary, and a Fest force.
Gainesville country-punk led by a strong voice and a barroom heart — the Sunday-morning end of the Fest spectrum, hangover-friendly and lovely.
St. Pete's horror-goofball pop-punk — fast, dumb-fun, and Ramones-simple, a Florida-scene good time in werewolf masks.
Atlanta band threading knotty, jazz-tinged guitar work through plainspoken confessional writing — emo with the arrangements pulled apart.
Gainesville gruff-melodic punk — a hometown act primed for a hometown crowd, singalongs pre-loaded and Fest-family energy guaranteed.
Venezuelan band bending post-hardcore into polyrhythm and tropical percussion, built on years of relentless DIY touring rather than industry backing.
0 Miles Per Hour
300 Usd
Adjust the Sails
Age of Kid
All I Hear Is Birds
ambretta
American Dream Survivors
Anchorite
Arcadia Grey
Arid Wave
Awful Din
Back East
Bad DOG
Bad, Bad Things
New Jersey gruff-melodic punk with earnest hooks and a road-worn heart — Menzingers-school singalongs for the beard-and-flannel faithful.
Bashful
Bat Boy
Beinn
Best Bear
Big Sad
Bike Tuff
Black Guy Fawkes
Blind Adam and The Federal League
Memphis indie rock built on jangling, unsettled guitars and openly anxious writing — the sound of a band that never quite fit the scenes around it.
The voice of Braid and Hey Mercedes, solo and intimate — foundational Midwest emo delivered up close, with the stories between songs part of the draw.
Bobby Edge Band
Boss' Daughter
Boston Marriage
boy clothes
Brave You
Brightr
Bronson Arm
Brook Pridemore
Brooklyn songwriter out of the anti-folk scene, pushing acoustic guitar and a shouted vocal toward folk punk.
Bumsy and The Moochers
Burnt Tapes
Caitlin Edwards
Huntsville's twinkly, sometimes-screamed emo — intricate and emotionally maximal, a cult name in the genre's online canon.
Canadian Rifle
Cape Crush
Ceramicats
Voice of ALL and Drag the River, going it alone — that unmistakable rasp over country-tinged punk, a songwriter's set from a scene lifer.
Chilled Monkey Brains
Chimes
Choke Up
Christy Costello & The CC Club
Clearance Bongwater Revival
Brooklyn band since 2016, writing melodic punk that leans into self-deprecation and worn-down honesty rather than anthems.
Common Sage
Confession Kids
Cooper!
Crucial Fix
Crush Fund
Cuni
Cutman
Nashville's moody, melodic emo — hazy guitars, heavy hearts, and slow-burn dynamics in the Balance and Composure school. A mid-day set for the introspective.
Damage Done
Days Spent
Dead Sea Lords
Dead Selves
Dear Cincinnati
Dear Maryanne
Orlando gruff-melodic punks with sharp, politically charged hooks — a Florida-scene stalwart with big-hearted songwriting and no patience for the powerful.
Asbury Park group pairing reverb-soaked surf guitar with bright pop hooks that turn out to be a lot bleaker than they first sound.
DFMK
Punk out of Tijuana, fast and melodic, sung mostly in Spanish and grounded in the border city's DIY circuit.
Direct Order'82
Dirty Rotten Revenge
Sacramento sisters churning out bratty, hooky garage-punk — fun, fast, and tight, with Ramones economy and sibling-locked harmonies.
Don't Panic
Doom Scroll
Double Jointed
Drosera
Drought
Easy Money, Inc.
Chad Matheny's brainy, restless indie-folk project — science-teacher lyrics and lo-fi urgency, songs like field recordings from a collapsing future. A left-field Fest gem.
Toledo band working the twinkling, wordy end of Midwest guitar music, with the scrappy energy of records made among friends rather than in studios.
Evening Standards
Excuse Me, Who Are You?
Fat Heaven
Feeble Strength
Feversleep
Five Hundred Bucks
Flagman
Flowers for Emily
For Dear Life
Freezing Cold
Fresh Pots!!
future forms
Gab De La Vega
Gazee
Ghost Chant
Ghost Rat
Glazed
Good Teal
Gottlieb
Gun Died Laughing
Southern California ska with sunny keys and a charismatic frontperson — pure feel-good, third-wave optimism with real songcraft.
Hawgs
Heart & Lung
Heavy Lag
Hell Beach
Her Head's On Fire
Hew
Hey! TV Boy!
Philadelphia emo with a pop-punk backbone, built on plainspoken diaristic lyrics about anxiety, doubt and self-repair.
HLLLYH
Hoist the Colors
Home Boys
Long-running Chicago-via-Phoenix melodic punks — gruff, fast, and criminally slept-on, lifers with a record collection's worth of craft.
Horsewhip
Hospital Job
Houseghost
Human Issue
Hyperdog
i.liedtomyself
Ill Star
Bay Area hardcore with a metallic edge and a vocalist who does not let up — pit fuel from the scene's deep bench.
Innerlove
Jackie + The Mosquito Bites
Jared Knapik
Jen Pop
Joker's Republic
Essex County ska punk, together since 2017, working the upstroke-and-shout end of the northern New Jersey circuit.
Jonathan Francis
Jumpstarted Plowhards
Kiss the Scientist
Kitty Kitty Meow Meow
La Versión Extendida de las Cosas
Lamonta
Leg Biters
Legitimate Business
Liquid Limbs
Little Low
Lockslip
Logan Greene
Loris
Madison Bloodbath
Makeup Remover
Mass Panic
Matt Pless
Maxwelltheband
Measurement
Medians
Mega Infinity
Memory Entry
Middle-Aged Queers
Middle-Out
Mike & The Nerve
The Ergs! drummer-turned-frontman, a walking encyclopedia of pop-punk hooks — prolific, beloved, and seemingly playing five sets everywhere at Fest.
Miller Lowlifes
Minorcan
Model Martel
Molly McGuire
MooseCreek Park
Long Island band formed in 2021, working a scrappy alternative sound out of the island's long DIY lineage.
Moral Less Right
Myles Bullen
Mystery Band
New Eagles
New Forms
Nick and The Adversaries
Night Mayor
DC/Baltimore chaotic hardcore fronted by Maha Shami — searing, political, and cathartic, carrying the region's screamo lineage forward.
Montreal's swaggering party-punk force — riff-first, cowbell-friendly, and built to blow the roof off. One of the weekend's most kinetic sets.
Nomore
Octopoulpe
Off Day
New Brunswick basement-scene band trading in short, scrappy songs that pair twinkly guitar figures with genuine post-hardcore bite.
Oh the Humanity!
Oh Ya and the You Betchas
One Fall
Orange Blossom Trail
Orbiter
Orca
Queer honky-tonk out of Brooklyn — pedal steel, piano and plainspoken songwriting that puts gay life at the center of country tradition.
Columbus outfit playing twinkly, wordy Midwest emo at pop-punk speed — tapped guitar figures and self-deprecating jokes in equal measure.
Panthro U.K. United 13
Pink Slip
Pinkish
Pity Party
Pollyanna
Pony
Porch Coffin
Pressure Set
Pressure Wheel
Pretty Bitter
Psychic Death
Pwrup
Quiet Fear
Reconciler
Atlanta group working the melodic end of punk — gruff, heart-on-sleeve songs about getting older without getting quieter.
Rent Strike
Lansing, Michigan punk band trading in loud, scrappy, heart-on-sleeve songs — basement-show energy that survives the move to bigger rooms.
rubes
Ryan Cassata & The Top Surgeons
Sad Snack
English folk-punk troubadour with a big heart and a bigger singalong — solo, disarming, and beloved across the punk circuit.
Sandcrawler
sawpaw
New Jersey outfit dealing in short, blunt songs with nothing padded out — hardcore at its most economical.
Seagulls
secondSELF
Seeker
Athens, GA punk with fuzz, hooks, and dual vocals — high-energy, road-tested, and built for the late-night slot.
shitstorm
Shrug Dealer
Skeletizer
Slackrr
Sleep Club
Sleep in.
Smelter
Milwaukee third-wave ska vets, still skanking after all these years — horns up, irony nowhere in sight.
Sooza
Sorry Sweetheart
Buffalo hardcore with NYHC bounce and a frontwoman who commands the pit — Fest's dose of full-contact energy, delivered with a grin.
Spaceman Bob
Spare Kid
Spells
Spoil
Bay Area duo threading giddy, lopsided indie rock through fuzz and abrupt tempo turns — short songs that end before they outstay the hook.
Nashville ska-core with a political edge and hardcore muscle under the horns — skanking and moshing given equal time.
Stunner
Suck Brick Kid
Summerbruise
Indianapolis band working the Midwest emo lineage since 2017 — knotty guitar lines, self-deprecating lyrics and choruses built for a room shouting along.
Luca Prodan's Buenos Aires group, who spliced post-punk and reggae into Argentine rock across six years before his death in 1987 — foundational, and still argued about.
Sunday Morning
Supersonic (Oasis Cover Set)
Supertwin
Sweet Gloom
Swiss Army Wife
Sybris
Teddy DuChamp's Army
Teen Agers
The Albert Square
The Bad Ups
The Barbed Wires
New Brunswick ska-core with crust in its veins — fast, dark, and rowdy, horns over hardcore drums.
The Bomb That Will Bring Us Together
The Boy Detective
The Caution Children
The Cherry Bombs
The Crosses
The Doomstompers
The Dreaded Laramie
The Effigies
the feat
The Ghost You Know
The Joytraders
The Low Blow
The Mermers
The Moms
The Overjoyed
The Slow Retreat
The Strange Ones
The Subjunctives
Tampa gruff-punk vets — bar-band heart and worn-in singalongs, longtime Fest family with the crowd to prove it.
The Valterra Dragons
Atlanta crew playing scrappy, acoustic-scarred punk with a gang-vocal streak — road-worn songs about getting by.
the yaupon holly
Thrull
Thunderclap
Tides
Tightwire
Time Thieves
Tired Radio
Title Holder
Tombstonehead
Trash The Rental
TrashWorldFL
trustfall
Punchy Atlanta garage-pop — singalong nihilism, clingy guitar hooks, and a swaggering lean into Aussie trash rock, made for sweaty rooms.
Vic Bondi And His Issues
Walking Blue
Watts
winded
Wired Up
Won't Stay Dead
Woolbright
Wordplay
Worlds Scariest Police Chases
Worse Off
Worst Party Ever
The headliners
A Wilhelm Scream — New Bedford's technical-punk lifers, stacking dizzying twin-guitar leads on top of full-throttle melodic hardcore. A Fest institution and one of its most reliable pits. Technical melodic-hardcore lifers and a Fest institution; reliably one of the wildest pits.
Bouncing Souls — Asbury Park's forever-young punk anthem factory — thirty-odd years of gang vocals and open-hearted singalongs. Few bands turn a room into a family faster. Thirty years of forever-young punk anthems; few sets turn a crowd into a family faster.The Flatliners — Toronto punks who grew out of ska into gravel-throated, big-hearted melodic punk. A modern Fest cornerstone with a knack for the last-song-of-the-night singalong.
Lagwagon — Fat Wreck royalty and skate-punk architects — Joey Cape's melodies over machine-gun drums. Three decades in, still one of the genre's tightest live acts. Fat Wreck skate-punk architects, still one of the tightest live acts in the genre.
PUP — Toronto's chaos-pop-punk stars — self-lacerating lyrics, unhinged energy, choruses built to be screamed back until throats give out. As big a name as this fest books. About as big as Fest books: Toronto's chaos-pop-punk stars turn any room into a sweaty, screamed-back singalong.
Samiam — Berkeley's bridge between 90s melodic punk and emo — Jason Beebout's ache over big, rolling hooks. Aging beautifully and criminally underrated.
Sparta — Jim Ward's post-At the Drive-In vehicle, trading that band's spasms for soaring, melodic post-hardcore. A marquee draw and a rare Fest booking. Jim Ward's post-At the Drive-In vehicle; a marquee draw and a rare Fest booking.
Texas is the Reason — One of emo's foundational bands, gone almost as fast as they arrived — glassy guitars and yearning restraint. A reunion set that carries real historical weight. A foundational emo band reuniting, a set that carries real historical weight.
Up-and-comers to catch early
Catbite — Philly's breakout ska-rocksteady crew leading the current revival: pure dance-floor joy.
Kill Lincoln — DC's frantic, horn-driven ska-punk; core to the new ska class Fest has embraced.MakeWar — Brooklyn gruff-melodic trio built for the last-hour, arm-around-a-stranger singalong.
NOBRO — Montreal's swaggering party-punk: one of the most kinetic sets you'll catch all weekend.
Home Front — Edmonton duo splicing oi! stomp with synth-lit post-punk; one of the bill's most distinctive sounds.
Spaced — Buffalo hardcore with NYHC bounce and a frontwoman who owns the pit.
Kerosene Heights — Asheville twinkle-emo riding the genre's newest wave, heart fully on sleeve.
Dead Bars — Seattle's beer-soaked everyman punks, about as Fest-coded as a band can get.
Other acts worth planning around
Torche — Miami's 'thunder-pop': the heaviest, most physical set on the whole bill.
Iron Reagan — Municipal Waste members playing blistering, funny crossover thrash: the weekend's whiplash.
Tim Barry — Avail's frontman solo and acoustic; a quieter Fest ritual that still ends in full-throated singing.
The lineup by day
Friday lineup (October 23)
A Wilhelm Scream, The Flatliners, PUP, Algernon Cadwallader, Home Front, Pulley + 96 more
Friday set times (102 sets)
- Won't Stay Dead · Loosey's
- Five Hundred Bucks · First Magnitude Brewing Co.
- Ghost Rat · The Bull
- Moral Less Right · Loosey's
- Debt Neglector · First Magnitude Brewing Co.
- Oh the Humanity! · Heartwood
- Tired Radio · Vivid Music Hall
- Hyperdog · The Atlantic
- Bad DOG · The Bull
- The Cherry Bombs · Loosey's
- Fenix Tx · Heartwood
- Hoist the Colors · First Magnitude Brewing Co.
- MooseCreek Park · Depot Village
- New Forms · The Backyard
- MakeWar · Vivid Music Hall
- Home Boys · The Atlantic
- Off Day · The Bull
- winded · Loosey's
- Cold Wrecks · Heartwood
- Bike Tuff · First Magnitude Brewing Co.
- The Slow Retreat · Bazaar47
- Walking Blue · Depot Village
- Spoil · The Backyard
- Catbite · Bo Diddley Plaza
- Wolf-Face · Heartwood
- Hit Like A Girl · The Wooly
- Tightwire · Vivid Music Hall
- Night Mayor · The Atlantic
- Gazee · Loosey's
- Leg Biters · The Bull
- The Raging Nathans · First Magnitude Brewing Co.
- Spaceman Bob · Bazaar47
- i.liedtomyself · Depot Village
- Choke Up · Heartwood
- TrashWorldFL · The Backyard
- Direct Order'82 · The Atlantic
- Excuse Me, Who Are You? · The Wooly
- Home Front · Bo Diddley Plaza
- Elway · Vivid Music Hall
- Pity Party · Loosey's
- Ceramicats · The Bull
- Punchline · Heartwood
- HLLLYH · Bazaar47
- Awful Din · Depot Village
- Days Spent · The Backyard
- Dead Sea Lords · The Atlantic
- Arcadia Grey · The Wooly
- Crucial Fix · The Bull
- Dentist · Loosey's
- Hew · Heartwood
- The Flatliners · Bo Diddley Plaza
- The Eradicator · Vivid Music Hall
- 300 Usd · Bazaar47
- Kiss the Scientist · Depot Village
- Playboy Manbaby · Heartwood
- Memory Entry · The Backyard
- The Strange Ones · The Atlantic
- Worst Party Ever · The Wooly
- Crush Fund · Loosey's
- Orange Blossom Trail · The Bull
- Little Low · Heartwood
- Bashful · Bazaar47
- Brendan Kelly · Vivid Music Hall
- Cape Crush · Depot Village
- Algernon Cadwallader · Bo Diddley Plaza
- Heavy Lag · The Atlantic
- Watts · The Backyard
- Descartes a Kant · Heartwood
- Pony · The Wooly
- Best Bear · Loosey's
- Mike & The Nerve · The Bull
- secondSELF · Bazaar47
- Woolbright · Heartwood
- boy clothes · Depot Village
- The Bollweevils · Vivid Music Hall
- Quiet Fear · The Backyard
- Psychic Death · The Atlantic
- Camping in Alaska · The Wooly
- Zeta · Heartwood
- Time Thieves · Loosey's
- trustfall · The Bull
- PUP · Bo Diddley Plaza
- Shrug Dealer · Bazaar47
- Flowers for Emily · Depot Village
- The Barbed Wires · The Atlantic
- Toys That Kill · Vivid Music Hall
- Emperor X · The Wooly
- Measurement · Loosey's
- Horsewhip · The Backyard
- Suck Brick Kid · Bazaar47
- Porch Coffin · Depot Village
- Hawgs · The Atlantic
- Pulley · Vivid Music Hall
- Equipment · The Wooly
- Worse Off · Loosey's
- Don't Panic · Bazaar47
- Drought · The Backyard
- Freezing Cold · Depot Village
- rubes · The Atlantic
- A Wilhelm Scream · Vivid Music Hall
- NØ MAN · The Backyard
- Glazed · Depot Village
Saturday lineup (October 24)
Bouncing Souls, Lagwagon, PUP, Texas is the Reason, Against All Authority, Bear Vs. Shark + 132 more
Saturday set times (140 sets)
- Canadian Rifle · The Backyard
- The Dreaded Laramie · Bo Diddley Plaza & Loosey's
- Mikey Erg · University Club
- Pressure Set · The Backyard
- Sunday Morning · Heartwood
- Double Jointed · Depot Village
- Reconciler · University Club
- Anchorite · Bazaar47
- Gully Boys · Bo Diddley Plaza
- Dear Maryanne · Heartwood
- Pity Party · Loosey's
- Spells · The Backyard
- Tim Barry · The Bull
- Pink Slip · Depot Village
- the yaupon holly · Bazaar47
- Cuni · Heartwood
- Miller Lowlifes · University Club
- Hey Mercedes · Bo Diddley Plaza
- worlds greatest dad · Heartwood
- Fresh Pots!! · Loosey's
- Sleep Club · The Atlantic
- Dead Bars · The Bull
- Chilled Monkey Brains · Depot Village
- Human Issue · Bazaar47
- Bad, Bad Things · University Club
- New Junk City · The Wooly
- Pollyanna · Heartwood
- Bear Vs. Shark · Bo Diddley Plaza
- Elway · The Bull
- Initiate · Vivid Music Hall
- Sweet Gloom · Loosey's
- The Ghost You Know · The Atlantic
- Legitimate Business · Depot Village
- Lockslip · Bazaar47
- Slingshot Dakota · Heartwood
- Trash The Rental · University Club
- The Underground Railroad to Candyland · The Backyard
- Worlds Scariest Police Chases · The Wooly
- Tightwire · The Bull & Loosey's
- Gillian Carter · Vivid Music Hall
- Tired Radio · Loosey's
- Bronson Arm · The Atlantic
- Summerbruise · Heartwood
- Mass Panic · Bazaar47
- Nick and The Adversaries · Depot Village
- The Impossibles · Bo Diddley Plaza
- Boss' Daughter · University Club
- Hell Beach · The Wooly
- Jen Pop · The Bull
- Dikembe · Heartwood
- The Effigies · The Backyard
- Won't Stay Dead · Loosey's
- Sumo · The Atlantic
- Drosera · Vivid Music Hall
- ambretta · Bazaar47
- The Doomstompers · Depot Village
- Big Sad · University Club
- Daisyhead · Heartwood
- Horace Pinker · The Backyard
- Teddy DuChamp's Army · The Wooly
- PUP · Bo Diddley Plaza
- Medians · The Bull
- Cutman · The Atlantic
- sleepytime trio · Vivid Music Hall
- Signals Midwest · Heartwood
- The Boy Detective · Depot Village
- Damage Done · Bazaar47
- Madison Bloodbath · University Club
- One Fall · The Wooly
- Tides · The Backyard
- Chimes · The Bull
- Sleep in. · Heartwood
- Good Teal · The Atlantic
- Supersonic (Oasis Cover Set) · Loosey's
- Against All Authority · Bo Diddley Plaza
- future forms · Bazaar47
- Mega Infinity · Depot Village
- Small Brown Bike · Vivid Music Hall
- The Tim Version · University Club
- Kerosene Heights · Heartwood
- Hospital Job · The Wooly
- For Dear Life · The Backyard
- Ultra Lights · The Bull
- Rodeo Boys · Loosey's
- the feat · The Atlantic
- Sorry Sweetheart · Depot Village
- Ill Star · Bazaar47
- Common Sage · Heartwood
- Panthro U.K. United 13 · University Club
- Bouncing Souls · Bo Diddley Plaza
- Fat Heaven · The Wooly
- Heart & Lung · The Backyard
- Boston Marriage · The Bull
- Liquid Limbs · Vivid Music Hall
- I Am the Avalanche · Heartwood
- Wolf-Face · Loosey's
- Feversleep · The Atlantic
- Seeker · Bazaar47
- Title Holder · Depot Village
- Banquets · The Wooly
- Sam Russo · The Backyard
- Gameface · Heartwood
- Brightr · Baby J's Bar
- Loris · The Bull
- Orbiter · Vivid Music Hall
- Hit Like A Girl · Loosey's
- Smelter · The Atlantic
- Lagwagon · Bo Diddley Plaza
- Something to Do · Depot Village
- Stunner · Bazaar47
- Texas is the Reason · Heartwood
- Houseghost · The Backyard
- The Moms · The Wooly
- Gab De La Vega · Baby J's Bar
- War On Women · Vivid Music Hall
- Pressure Wheel · The Atlantic
- Pwrup · Depot Village
- Skeletizer · Bazaar47
- Black Guy Fawkes · Baby J's Bar
- The Iron Roses · The Wooly
- Clearance Bongwater Revival · Loosey's
- Her Head's On Fire · The Atlantic
- Iron Reagan · Vivid Music Hall
- Joker's Republic · Depot Village
- Minorcan · Baby J's Bar
- Thunderclap · Bazaar47
- The Raging Nathans · The Backyard
- Tiltwheel · Baby J's Bar
- Beinn · The Atlantic
- Easy Money, Inc. · Loosey's
- Kill Lincoln · Depot Village
- Orca · Bazaar47
- Torche · Vivid Music Hall
- Jared Knapik · Baby J's Bar
- DFMK · The Backyard
- The Bomb That Will Bring Us Together · Loosey's
- Molly McGuire · The Atlantic
- Sandcrawler · Bazaar47
Sunday lineup (October 25)
Bouncing Souls, Samiam, Sparta, Mustard Plug, Nerf Herder, The Planet Smashers + 107 more
Sunday set times (113 sets)
- Doom Scroll · The Bull
- Dead Bars · Bo Diddley Plaza
- Chad Price · Baby J's Bar
- Myles Bullen · The Bull
- Middle-Out · The Atlantic
- The Overjoyed · Loosey's
- Matt Pless · The Bull
- Rodeo Boys · Bo Diddley Plaza
- Tired Radio · Baby J's Bar
- Jackie + The Mosquito Bites · University Club
- Dirty Rotten Revenge · The Atlantic
- sawpaw · Depot Village
- Brave You · Bazaar47
- Maxwelltheband · Loosey's
- Middle-Aged Queers · The Backyard
- MakeWar · Baby J's Bar
- Half Past Two · Heartwood
- NOBRO · Bo Diddley Plaza
- Brook Pridemore · The Bull
- Bat Boy · University Club
- Blind Adam and The Federal League · Depot Village
- Caitlin Edwards · The Atlantic
- Star 99 · Bazaar47
- Age of Kid · Heartwood
- Burnt Tapes · Loosey's
- Gameface · Baby J's Bar
- Shehehe · The Backyard
- The Copyrights · Bo Diddley Plaza
- Ryan Cassata & The Top Surgeons · The Bull
- Sooza · Heartwood
- The Joytraders · University Club
- Lee Bains · Depot Village
- The Crosses · The Wooly
- Model Martel · The Atlantic
- Arid Wave · Loosey's
- Palette Knife · Bazaar47
- Bob Nanna · Baby J's Bar
- Christy Costello & The CC Club · The Backyard
- Stuck Lucky · Heartwood
- Logan Greene · The Bull
- Nerf Herder · Bo Diddley Plaza
- Hey! TV Boy! · University Club
- Tim Barry · Depot Village
- The Best of the Worst · Heartwood
- Vic Bondi And His Issues · The Wooly
- Lamonta · The Atlantic
- La Versión Extendida de las Cosas · Loosey's
- The Low Blow · Bazaar47
- Evening Standards · The Backyard
- The Wild · The Bull
- Sad Snack · Heartwood
- Wordplay · University Club
- The Bad Ups · The Atlantic
- School Drugs · The Wooly
- Sparta · Bo Diddley Plaza
- All I Hear Is Birds · Bazaar47
- Feeble Strength · Loosey's
- Flying Raccoon Suit · Heartwood
- Whiskey & Co. · Depot Village
- Seagulls · The Backyard
- Dead Selves · The Bull
- Pinkish · University Club
- The Caution Children · The Wooly
- The Mermers · Heartwood
- The Subjunctives · The Atlantic
- Back East · Loosey's
- Pretty Bitter · Bazaar47
- Samiam · Bo Diddley Plaza
- Gottlieb · The Backyard
- The Planet Smashers · Heartwood
- Drag the River · Depot Village
- Tombstonehead · The Bull
- Sybris · University Club
- Spaced · The Wooly
- Gun Died Laughing · The Atlantic
- Octopoulpe · Loosey's
- Ogbert the Nerd · Bazaar47
- Bumsy and The Moochers · Heartwood
- The Valterra Dragons · The Backyard
- Jonathan Francis · The Bull
- Kitty Kitty Meow Meow · University Club
- Bouncing Souls · Bo Diddley Plaza
- Mustard Plug · Heartwood
- Bobby Edge Band · The Atlantic
- Ghost Chant · The Wooly
- Paisley Fields · Depot Village
- Gillian Carter · Loosey's
- Sweet Gloom · Bazaar47
- Flagman · The Backyard
- Adjust the Sails · The Bull
- Cooper! · University Club
- American Dream Survivors · Depot Village
- Slackrr · The Atlantic
- Thrull · The Wooly
- The Albert Square · Bazaar47
- Oh Ya and the You Betchas · Loosey's
- Jumpstarted Plowhards · The Backyard
- Dog Party · University Club
- Rent Strike · Depot Village
- shitstorm · The Wooly
- Teen Agers · The Atlantic
- Blvck Hippie · Bazaar47
- Tiltwheel · The Backyard
- New Eagles · Loosey's
- Nomore · University Club
- Confession Kids · Depot Village
- Spare Kid · The Atlantic
- Supertwin · The Wooly
- 0 Miles Per Hour · Bazaar47
- F.Y.P · The Backyard
- Makeup Remover · University Club
- You Vandal · The Atlantic
- Dear Cincinnati · Bazaar47
The Fest 2026 lineup FAQ
When and where is The Fest 2026?
Fest 24 runs October 23–25, 2026, across venues in downtown Gainesville, Florida. It's a walkable, multi-venue festival rather than a single fairground. One pass gets you into shows at bars, clubs, and theaters throughout the weekend.
How many bands play The Fest?
Well over 300 acts across the three days: everything from reunited headliners to Gainesville locals and DIY bands on their first tour. The full lineup is listed below.
What kind of music is The Fest?
Punk in every dialect: melodic and skate punk, gruff/Hot Water Music-style anthems, Midwest emo, third-wave ska, crossover thrash, folk-punk, and some post-hardcore and sludge. If you like any corner of punk, there's a room for you.
Do I need a pass, or can I go to a single show?
The Fest is built around a weekend pass that gets you into all the venues (subject to room capacity, since popular sets fill up, so arrive early). Some individual shows may sell single tickets, but the pass is how most people do Fest. Check the official site for current pass and ticketing details.
I've never been to The Fest — any tips?
Pick a handful of must-see bands, then leave room to wander; discovering an unknown band in a half-empty bar is the whole point. Venues are close together but the big sets fill up, so line up early for those and stay flexible for everything else.
Who plays Friday at The Fest 2026?
Friday, October 23: A Wilhelm Scream, The Flatliners, PUP, Algernon Cadwallader, Home Front, Pulley, plus 96 more acts.
Who plays Saturday at The Fest 2026?
Saturday, October 24: Bouncing Souls, Lagwagon, PUP, Texas is the Reason, Against All Authority, Bear Vs. Shark, plus 132 more acts.
Who plays Sunday at The Fest 2026?
Sunday, October 25: Bouncing Souls, Samiam, Sparta, Mustard Plug, Nerf Herder, The Planet Smashers, plus 107 more acts.
Are set times out for The Fest 2026?
Yes. The full schedule is live: the day-by-day section on this page lists every act with its set time.
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