All posts in October will be from bands playing Fest 10 in Gainesville, Florida. Everything will be posted in the order that they are playing. 

Friday, 10:30 at The Laboratory.

If Fest or No Idea records have a sound, this is the less shouty version of that.

These guys are playing at the same time as Shores, who, as I mentioned, I would also like to see. But as I haven’t seen Campaign before, they win. But if their set is anything like the smaller bands I was excited about last year (Captain We’re Sinking and the Anchor), their set will suck, and I’ll end up back at the shores show.

All posts in October will be from bands playing Fest 10 in Gainesville, Florida. Everything will be posted in the order that they are playing. 

Friday, 10 at 8 Seconds.

With Touché Amore playing at 9:50 and these guys playing at 10, a choice has to be made. Skip Banner Pilot? Skip Touché Amore? Or try to see parts of both sets and hope there isn’t a line.

By the time Fest rolls around, Banner Pilot should have a new album out. If it's even ½ as good as Collapser, I’m going to be stoked.

All posts in October will be from bands playing Fest 10 in Gainesville, Florida. Everything will be posted in the order that they are playing. 

Friday, 7:50 at The Atlantic.

Last year I ended up running (let's be honest, chubby guy fast walking) from the No Idea house to 8 Seconds to try to see this band. I missed the 1st half of their set, but what I did see was great.

I love this band (whoever the hell is in it now) and would gladly run (chubby guy fast walk) to see them again.

Constantines - Insectivora 

I forget on a pretty regular basis how great this band was. 

The show they played at Mac’s Bar in Lansing in 2004 is in my top 10 funnest shows.

All posts in October will be from bands playing Fest 10 in Gainesville, Florida. Everything will be posted in the order that they are playing. 

Friday, 8:45 at The Florida Theater of Gainesville.

This is posted out of order because Lifetime, a band everyone loves, but I couldn’t give a shit about, had to drop off Fest due to babies. But still wanting to play, members of Lifetime remembered they had this other band that the kids are into, and now Kid Dynamite is playing.

There are no other bands that even come close to how badly I want to see this band. Sorry, Great Explainer and Touche Amore, you lose.

Touché Amoré - Pathfinder

All posts in October will be from bands playing Fest 10 in Gainsville Florida. Everything will be posted in the order that they are playing. 

Friday, 9:50 at Double Down.

I thought I saw these guys a year ago and didn’t really care, turns out I didn’t actually see them.  Which I guess is good, otherwise I’d be bummed about how stupid I was. Get in on this band before they blow up even more.

All posts in October will be from bands playing Fest 10 in Gainesville, Florida. Everything will be posted in the order that they are playing.

7:30 at 8 Seconds. I’ve never seen this band live, but I wouldn’t have guessed they would have had a draw big enough for that venue. Hm.

Tigers Jaw is, to me at least, an early 2000’s emo/pop-punk throwback band. And I mean that in as nice a way as I can.

And yes, I’d skip Samiam to see these guys.

La Dispute - The Most Beautiful Bitter Fruit

I’ve been hating on this band since they started. I got why “the kids” loved them, but it did nothing for me at all. Their new album, Wildlife, made me eat my words.

Good job.

You can stream the entire album on the band’s Facebook page.

All posts in October will be from bands playing Fest 10 in Gainesville, Florida. Everything will be posted in the order that they are playing. 

Friday, 10:30 at the Atlantic.

My introduction to Shores last year: driving from Michigan to Gainesville with the band and then seeing them play 3 times in four days.

There is a pretty good chance that, despite liking these guys quite a bit, I’d skip them or at least miss part of their set so I could see Campaign, a band I’ve never seen. 

All posts in October will be from bands playing Fest 10 in Gainesville, Florida. Everything will be posted in the order that they are playing. 

Friday, 9:40 at The Laboratory.

At first, I really loved this band’s demo, but over time, it just seemed like every song had a 2-minute intro, and I don’t have the patience for that nonsense. Then I heard the ep that came out after that, and wrote it off completely. The demo was better. But after listening to it again (and doing so less intensely), I like it. It's not a masterpiece, but it's good and I think they'd be fun to see live.

All posts in October will be from bands playing Fest 10 in Gainesville, Florida.

Despite lots of talk, I will not actually be going to Fest again this year. Nevertheless, I’m going to spend the month posting songs by bands who are there. Everything will be posted in the order that they are playing.

Friday, 6:25 at The Florida Theater of Gainesville

6:25? Shit. I’d have thought the bike had a bigger draw than a 6:25 on Friday show. I guess everyone else liked that new album about as much as I did.

Despite current sins, I love this band’s back catalog enough to show up for the show.

Cliff Meyer of Isis, Red Sparrows, and Windmills in the Ocean, before he was in any of those bands.