Dead Bars

PEARS, The Casket Lottery, Direct Hit, Ratboys, Be Well, Brendan Kelly, Militarie Gun, NØ MAN, Camp Trash, Joystick and more join the already-stacked lineup...

Featuring Shawna Potter from War on Women, Catbite, Chris Gethard, Slingshot Dakota, Mikey Erg, Sarchasm, Spike Slawson from Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Two Minutes to Late Night, and more.

Plus, Fest 18 also includes Less Than Jake, Mariachi El Bronx, Off With Their Heads, AJJ, Screaming Females, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Tim Barry, and even more.

Dead Bars' new single ”I'm A Regular" was produced by grunge legend Jack Endino, and it mixes sludgy guitars and power pop guitars in a way that should appeal to Weezer and Dinosaur Jr fans...

”When I accidentally saw Dead Bars at a bar in Pittsburgh two years ago, I started a journey. After their show, I bought their first album ‘Dream Gig’ immediately and it has had a weekly rotation on my turntable since,” said A-F Records' Chris Stowe.

Other new additions include Comeback Kid, Mikey Erg, Frameworks, Brendan Kelly, Shellshag, and more.

The Fest also added Lemuria, Mean Jeans, Somos, Vacation, Iron Chic, Slingshot Dakota, PUP, RVIVR, Timeshares, Frameworks, Lifted Bells, Antarctigo Vespucci, Ian Graham, Katie Ellen, Roger Harvey, Museum Mouth, Hiccup, Amanda X, Die Choking, Sonic Avenues, Mac Sabbath, Creepoid, Sports and mannnnnny…

It includes Planes Mistaken For Stars, Propagandhi, Small Brown Bike, Samiam, Dead To Me, Strike Anywhere, Knapsack, Tim Barry, Braid, Latterman (who are reunited again), The Menzingers, AJJ, War On Women, Underground Railroad to Candyland, Toys That Kill, United Nations, Iron Reagan, Jeff Rosenstoc…

Gainesville's annual punk festival The Fest returns in 2015 for its 14th year (hence Fest 14) from October 30 to November 1, and like in previous years, a handful of the bands play Pre-Fest in Little Ybor from October 28...