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.
The Fest 2026 Lineup
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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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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Berkeley's bridge between 90s melodic punk and emo — Jason Beebout's ache over big, rolling hooks. Aging beautifully and criminally underrated.
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.
Brooklyn gruff-melodic trio with big, aching choruses and an immigrant's-eye lyric sheet — made for the last-hour singalong slot, beers raised.
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.
St. Pete's horror-goofball pop-punk — fast, dumb-fun, and Ramones-simple, a Florida-scene good time in werewolf masks.
Dayton's snotty, fast pop-punk workhorses — hooks first, attitude close behind, and a release schedule that never sleeps.
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.
Edmonton duo splicing oi! stomp with synth-lit post-punk and anthemic 80s gloss. One of the more distinctive sounds on the bill.
Pittsburgh pop-punk survivors with a knack for shiny, earworm choruses — longtime road-dogs who still bring it, twenty-plus years deep.
Chicago punk act in full squash-court regalia, delivering balaclava-clad comedy hardcore built around one absurd, committed character.
Tempe-formed punk band with a horn section and a yelping frontman, turning satire and general civic disgust into fast, sweaty desert punk.
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.
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.
Guadalajara art-rock outfit whose theatrical, cartoon-horror version of experimental pop can shift from lullaby to shriek inside a single bar.
Chicago melodic-hardcore vets fronted by ER doctor Daryl Wilson — fast, tuneful, and still ferocious decades on, scene service in every sense.
Venezuelan band bending post-hardcore into polyrhythm and tropical percussion, built on years of relentless DIY touring rather than industry backing.
Todd Congelliere's San Pedro melodic-punk institution (Recess Records) — off-kilter hooks and DIY-lifer charm, the scene's connective tissue.
Epitaph-era skate-punk vets with pro-baseball roots and gruff, fast-melodic conviction — a deep-catalog set for the '90s SoCal-punk crowd.
Gully Boys
The former Avail frontman turned gravel-road troubadour — punk conviction stripped down to an acoustic guitar and hollered truths, train-yard sincerity throughout.
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.
Atlanta band threading knotty, jazz-tinged guitar work through plainspoken confessional writing — emo with the arrangements pulled apart.
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.
New Junk City
Atlanta band at the gruff, melodic end of punk — hoarse vocals and hooks built for basement singalongs.
Detroit post-hardcore that lurches between whisper and full collapse. Long-dormant and much-mythologized, so a Fest set is a genuine event.
Allentown drums-and-keys duo — huge, earnest emo-pop from a deceptively small setup, married-couple chemistry included, huge sound from two chairs.
Another Todd C. vehicle — lo-fi, hyper-catchy, gone-in-90-seconds pop-punk, pure Recess Records energy and communal chant choruses.
Gillian Carter
Austin's beloved late-'90s pop-punk/ska outfit, all sugar-rush hooks and horns — a nostalgia hit that still detonates live.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Asheville twinkle-emo with heart-on-sleeve delivery — part of the genre's newest wave, and one of its most promising.
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.
Orange County's warm, melodic post-punk mainstays — Jeff Caudill's earnest hooks over ringing guitars, underrated for decades and built to last.
Baltimore's co-ed feminist hardcore — Shawna Potter's righteous fury over pummeling riffs, confrontational, necessary, and a Fest force.
Richmond punk with an activist heart and huge, communal choruses — new-ish but already a natural Fest fit, solidarity as setlist.
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.
San Diego punk lifers going since the early nineties — gravel-throated, self-deprecating songs about drinking and disappointment, played fast and loose.
DC's frantic, horn-driven ska-punk revivalists — technical, self-aware, and relentlessly fun. Core to the new ska class Fest has embraced.
Miami's masters of 'thunder-pop' — crushing, downtuned riffs that somehow float on major-key hooks. The heaviest, most physical set on the bill.
Carbondale's Ramones-core standard-bearers — buzzsaw guitars, whoa-ohs, and airtight two-minute hits, pop-punk done exactly right, whoa-ohs guaranteed.
Birmingham's Lee Bains and the Glory Fires — sweat-soaked Southern rock with punk lungs and pointed politics. A cathartic, gospel-loud set.
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.
Mississippi ska with a horn section and a big voice — part of the modern ska class packing Fest dance floors.
Gainesville country-punk led by a strong voice and a barroom heart — the Sunday-morning end of the Fest spectrum, hangover-friendly and lovely.
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.
Montreal's long-running traditional-ska party band. Horns, dance moves, and singalongs — a guaranteed good time on a sweaty Gainesville stage.
Grand Rapids' third-wave ska lifers, built for skanking. Relentlessly upbeat, horns blazing, zero cynicism — exactly the palate-cleanser a punk weekend needs.
F.Y.P
Gainesville gruff-melodic punk — a hometown act primed for a hometown crowd, singalongs pre-loaded and Fest-family energy guaranteed.
Won't Stay Dead
Five Hundred Bucks
Ghost Rat
Moral Less Right
Orlando gruff-melodic punks with sharp, politically charged hooks — a Florida-scene stalwart with big-hearted songwriting and no patience for the powerful.
Oh the Humanity!
Hyperdog
Tired Radio
Bad DOG
The Cherry Bombs
Hoist the Colors
MooseCreek Park
Long Island band formed in 2021, working a scrappy alternative sound out of the island's long DIY lineage.
New Forms
Home Boys
Off Day
winded
Bike Tuff
Brooklyn band since 2016, writing melodic punk that leans into self-deprecation and worn-down honesty rather than anthems.
The Slow Retreat
Walking Blue
Spoil
Philadelphia emo with a pop-punk backbone, built on plainspoken diaristic lyrics about anxiety, doubt and self-repair.
Night Mayor
Tightwire
Gazee
Leg Biters
Spaceman Bob
i.liedtomyself
Choke Up
TrashWorldFL
Direct Order'82
Excuse Me, Who Are You?
Ceramicats
Pity Party
HLLLYH
Awful Din
Days Spent
Dead Sea Lords
Arcadia Grey
Crucial Fix
Asbury Park group pairing reverb-soaked surf guitar with bright pop hooks that turn out to be a lot bleaker than they first sound.
Hew
300 Usd
Kiss the Scientist
Memory Entry
The Strange Ones
Worst Party Ever
Crush Fund
Orange Blossom Trail
Bashful
Little Low
Cape Crush
Heavy Lag
Watts
Pony
Best Bear
Mike & The Nerve
secondSELF
boy clothes
Woolbright
Psychic Death
Quiet Fear
Huntsville's twinkly, sometimes-screamed emo — intricate and emotionally maximal, a cult name in the genre's online canon.
Time Thieves
trustfall
Shrug Dealer
Flowers for Emily
The Barbed Wires
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.
Measurement
Horsewhip
Suck Brick Kid
Porch Coffin
Hawgs
Toledo band working the twinkling, wordy end of Midwest guitar music, with the scrappy energy of records made among friends rather than in studios.
Worse Off
Don't Panic
Drought
Freezing Cold
rubes
DC/Baltimore chaotic hardcore fronted by Maha Shami — searing, political, and cathartic, carrying the region's screamo lineage forward.
Glazed
Canadian Rifle
The Ergs! drummer-turned-frontman, a walking encyclopedia of pop-punk hooks — prolific, beloved, and seemingly playing five sets everywhere at Fest.
The Dreaded Laramie
Pressure Set
Double Jointed
Sunday Morning
Anchorite
Reconciler
Atlanta group working the melodic end of punk — gruff, heart-on-sleeve songs about getting older without getting quieter.
Dear Maryanne
Spells
Pink Slip
the yaupon holly
Cuni
Miller Lowlifes
Fresh Pots!!
Sleep Club
Chilled Monkey Brains
Human Issue
Bad, Bad Things
Pollyanna
Bay Area hardcore with a metallic edge and a vocalist who does not let up — pit fuel from the scene's deep bench.
Sweet Gloom
The Ghost You Know
Legitimate Business
Lockslip
Trash The Rental
Worlds Scariest Police Chases
Bronson Arm
Mass Panic
Nick and The Adversaries
Summerbruise
Indianapolis band working the Midwest emo lineage since 2017 — knotty guitar lines, self-deprecating lyrics and choruses built for a room shouting along.
Boss' Daughter
Hell Beach
Jen Pop
The Effigies
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.
ambretta
Drosera
The Doomstompers
Big Sad
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.
Long-running Chicago-via-Phoenix melodic punks — gruff, fast, and criminally slept-on, lifers with a record collection's worth of craft.
Teddy DuChamp's Army
Medians
Cutman
Damage Done
The Boy Detective
Madison Bloodbath
One Fall
Tides
Chimes
Good Teal
Sleep in.
Supersonic (Oasis Cover Set)
future forms
Mega Infinity
Tampa gruff-punk vets — bar-band heart and worn-in singalongs, longtime Fest family with the crowd to prove it.
For Dear Life
Hospital Job
Punchy Atlanta garage-pop — singalong nihilism, clingy guitar hooks, and a swaggering lean into Aussie trash rock, made for sweaty rooms.
Lansing, Michigan punk band trading in loud, scrappy, heart-on-sleeve songs — basement-show energy that survives the move to bigger rooms.
the feat
Ill Star
Sorry Sweetheart
Common Sage
Panthro U.K. United 13
Fat Heaven
Heart & Lung
Boston Marriage
Liquid Limbs
Feversleep
Seeker
Title Holder
New Jersey gruff-melodic punk with earnest hooks and a road-worn heart — Menzingers-school singalongs for the beard-and-flannel faithful.
English folk-punk troubadour with a big heart and a bigger singalong — solo, disarming, and beloved across the punk circuit.
Brightr
Loris
Orbiter
Smelter
Milwaukee third-wave ska vets, still skanking after all these years — horns up, irony nowhere in sight.
Stunner
Gab De La Vega
Houseghost
The Moms
Pressure Wheel
Pwrup
Skeletizer
Black Guy Fawkes
Clearance Bongwater Revival
Her Head's On Fire
Joker's Republic
Essex County ska punk, together since 2017, working the upstroke-and-shout end of the northern New Jersey circuit.
Minorcan
Thunderclap
Beinn
Easy Money, Inc.
Orca
Jared Knapik
DFMK
Punk out of Tijuana, fast and melodic, sung mostly in Spanish and grounded in the border city's DIY circuit.
Molly McGuire
Sandcrawler
The Bomb That Will Bring Us Together
Doom Scroll
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.
Myles Bullen
Middle-Out
The Overjoyed
Matt Pless
Jackie + The Mosquito Bites
Dirty Rotten Revenge
sawpaw
Brave You
Maxwelltheband
Middle-Aged Queers
Brook Pridemore
Brooklyn songwriter out of the anti-folk scene, pushing acoustic guitar and a shouted vocal toward folk punk.
Southern California ska with sunny keys and a charismatic frontperson — pure feel-good, third-wave optimism with real songcraft.
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.
Bat Boy
Blind Adam and The Federal League
Caitlin Edwards
Age of Kid
Burnt Tapes
Bay Area duo threading giddy, lopsided indie rock through fuzz and abrupt tempo turns — short songs that end before they outstay the hook.
Athens, GA punk with fuzz, hooks, and dual vocals — high-energy, road-tested, and built for the late-night slot.
Ryan Cassata & The Top Surgeons
Sooza
The Joytraders
Model Martel
The Crosses
Arid Wave
Columbus outfit playing twinkly, wordy Midwest emo at pop-punk speed — tapped guitar figures and self-deprecating jokes in equal measure.
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.
Christy Costello & The CC Club
Nashville ska-core with a political edge and hardcore muscle under the horns — skanking and moshing given equal time.
Logan Greene
Hey! TV Boy!
Lamonta
New Brunswick ska-core with crust in its veins — fast, dark, and rowdy, horns over hardcore drums.
Vic Bondi And His Issues
La Versión Extendida de las Cosas
The Low Blow
Evening Standards
Atlanta crew playing scrappy, acoustic-scarred punk with a gang-vocal streak — road-worn songs about getting by.
Sad Snack
Wordplay
New Jersey outfit dealing in short, blunt songs with nothing padded out — hardcore at its most economical.
The Bad Ups
All I Hear Is Birds
Feeble Strength
Seagulls
Dead Selves
Pinkish
The Caution Children
The Mermers
The Subjunctives
Back East
Pretty Bitter
Gottlieb
Tombstonehead
Sybris
Gun Died Laughing
Buffalo hardcore with NYHC bounce and a frontwoman who commands the pit — Fest's dose of full-contact energy, delivered with a grin.
Octopoulpe
New Brunswick basement-scene band trading in short, scrappy songs that pair twinkly guitar figures with genuine post-hardcore bite.
Bumsy and The Moochers
The Valterra Dragons
Jonathan Francis
Kitty Kitty Meow Meow
Bobby Edge Band
Ghost Chant
Queer honky-tonk out of Brooklyn — pedal steel, piano and plainspoken songwriting that puts gay life at the center of country tradition.
Flagman
Adjust the Sails
Cooper!
American Dream Survivors
Slackrr
Thrull
Oh Ya and the You Betchas
The Albert Square
Jumpstarted Plowhards
Sacramento sisters churning out bratty, hooky garage-punk — fun, fast, and tight, with Ramones economy and sibling-locked harmonies.
Rent Strike
shitstorm
Teen Agers
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.
New Eagles
Nomore
Confession Kids
Spare Kid
Supertwin
0 Miles Per Hour
Makeup Remover
Dear Cincinnati
Innerlove
Mystery Band
Swiss Army Wife
Wired Up
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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