Insubordination Fest is an annual message board nerd festival held in Baltimore, Maryland. The festival started in 2006 as a 10th anniversary showcase for Insubordination Records

Insubordination Records

Insubordination Records is an independent record label based in Baltimore, Maryland.-History:Insubordination Records was founded by Beatnik Termites members Reggie Silvestri and Pat Kim in 1996. As their label specializing in Lookout! Records styled pop punk started to grow, they partnered with...

, and since then has been held every summer. In the past the festival has been headlined by bands such as Less Than Jake

Less Than Jake

Less Than Jake is an American ska punk band from Gainesville, Florida. Originally formed in 1992 as a power pop trio, the band evolved into a hybrid of ska punk. Less Than Jake have also been cited as showing influences from a wide variety of genres including post-grunge, heavy metal, alternative...

, The Mr. T Experience

The Mr. T Experience

The Mr. T Experience is an American punk rock band formed in 1985 in Berkeley, California and currently recording for Lookout! Records. They have released ten full-length albums along with numerous EPs and singles and have toured internationally...

, The Queers

The Queers

The Queers are a punk band formed in 1981 by Portsmouth, New Hampshire native Joe King . The band originally broke up in 1984, but reformed with Joe Queer and a new line-up in 1986. In 1990, the band signed with Shakin' Street Records and released their first album Grow Up...

, and Dillinger Four

Dillinger Four

Dillinger Four is an American punk rock band formed in 1994 in Minneapolis, Minnesota. They have released four full-length studio albums. The current band members are Patrick Costello on bass guitar and vocals, Erik Funk and Bill Morrisette on guitars and vocals, and Lane Pederson on drums.- Studio...

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2006

• Apers
• A Study in Her
• The AV Club
• Beatnik Termites
  Beatnik Termites
  The Beatnik Termites are a Cleveland, Ohio power pop band with a heavy surf rock influence.The band's original lineup of Reggie Silvestri on drums, Pat Kim on guitar and lead vocals and Brian McCafferty on bass formed in 1987. Their sound and vocals are similar in style to the Beach Boys and early...
  
  
• Big In Japan
• Charlie Brown Gets a Valentine
• The Copyrights
  The Copyrights
  The Copyrights are a pop punk band from Carbondale, Illinois made up of Brett Hunter Jeff Funburg , Adam Fletcher , and Luke McNeill . They are currently signed to Red Scare Industries.-History:...
  
  
• Delay
• The Ergs!
  The Ergs!
  The Ergs! were an American punk rock band formed in 2000 in South Amboy, New Jersey, by three high school friends: drummer/lead vocalist Mikey Erg , guitarist/vocalist Jeff Erg , and bassist Joey Erg...
  
  
• Geisha Lightning
• Hot Cops
• Johnie 3
• John Stamos Project
• The Mopes
• Peabodys
• Pea Shooter
• Proteens
• Prozacs
• Stabones
• Steinways
• Sick Sick Birds
• Slaughterhouse 4
• Tattle Tales
• Team Stray
• Tokyo Super Fans
• Unlovables
• Vents
• Varsity Wierdos
• Zoinks!

2007

• The Apers
  The Apers
  The Apers are a Dutch pop punk band who formed in Rotterdam in 1996. They have released their albums on Stardumb Records, apart from the 2007 album Reanimate My Heart, which was released by Sonic Rendezvous Records in Europe, and Insubordination Records in the USA. They have played about 700 shows...
  
  
• The AV Club
• The Beatnik Termites
• Ben Weasel
  Ben Weasel
  Ben Weasel is a punk rock musician, best known as the lead singer and guitarist of bands Screeching Weasel and The Riverdales...
  
  
• Chinese Telephones
• The Copyrights
  The Copyrights
  The Copyrights are a pop punk band from Carbondale, Illinois made up of Brett Hunter Jeff Funburg , Adam Fletcher , and Luke McNeill . They are currently signed to Red Scare Industries.-History:...
  
  
• Dead Mechanical
• Dear Landlord
• Egghead
• The Ergs
• For Science
  For Science
  For Science was a punk rock band from New Brunswick, New Jersey made up of John Slover , Joe Steinhardt , and a rotating rhythm section which at times included members of The Ergs!, and other local bands...
  
  
• The Guts
• Head
  Head (band)
  -History:After making three albums and a few singles the Bristol-based combo faded away. Nick Sheppard previously played in The Cortinas and The Clash...
  
  
• The Leftovers
  The Leftovers
  The Leftovers are an American pop punk band from Portland, Maine, made up of Kurt Baker , Andrew Rice , Matt Anderson , and Adam Woronoff .-History:...
  
  
• The Methadones
  The Methadones
  The Methadones were a band formed in 1993 by guitarist/vocalist Dan Vapid. The Methadones initially lasted only a few shows before Dan put them to the side to focus on his main band Screeching Weasel. By 1999 Dan was no longer a member of Screeching Weasel or his other band The Riverdales, and...
  
  
• The Modern Machines
• The Mr. T Experience
  The Mr. T Experience
  The Mr. T Experience is an American punk rock band formed in 1985 in Berkeley, California and currently recording for Lookout! Records. They have released ten full-length albums along with numerous EPs and singles and have toured internationally...
  
  
• The Paper Dragons
• The Parasites
  The Parasites
  The Parasites is a novel by Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1949.-Plot:In this novel, Miss du Maurier tells the story of the Delaney family...
  
  
• The Riptides
  The Riptides (Canadian band)
  -History:The Riptides were formed in Ottawa, Ontario Canada in February 1998. The original lineup included Andy Vandal Bob Goblin , Johnny Dangerously , and Steve Ransom and the band released the cassette-only Harelip record...
  
  
• The Sick Sick Birds
• The Steinways
• Teenage Bottlerocket
  Teenage Bottlerocket
  Teenage Bottlerocket is a punk rock band formed in Laramie, Wyoming in 2001.The band was formed by twin brothers Ray and Brandon Carlisle, following the dissolution of their previous band, Homeless Wonders, in 2000...
  
  
• The Unlovables
  The Unlovables
  The Unlovables are a New York City based pop punk band. The band formed after bassist/singer Hallie Bulliet recorded a handful of songs for a present with Adam Rabuck who encouraged her to continue playing music...
  
  
• The Varsity Weirdos

The Groovie Ghoulies

The Groovie Ghoulies

The Groovie Ghoulies were an American pop punk band from Sacramento, California whose music took inspiration from horror movies. They released numerous albums, EPs, and singles, and toured internationally...

 were scheduled to play but did not due to their break up earlier that year. Members of the band did however appear as guests during The Mr. T Experience set. Head was booked to replace The Groovie Ghoulies. The God Damn Doo Wop Band was also scheduled to play but did not.

2008

• 20 Belows
• Agent Orange
  Agent Orange
  Agent Orange is the code name for one of the herbicides and defoliants used by the U.S. military as part of its herbicidal warfare program, Operation Ranch Hand, during the Vietnam War from 1961 to 1971. Vietnam estimates 400,000 people were killed or maimed, and 500,000 children born with birth...
  
  
• Ann Beretta
  Ann Beretta
  Ann Beretta is a punk band from Richmond, Virginia. Formed in 1996 by Rob Huddleston, Leer Baker, Chris Rupp and Russ Jones , the band plays straightforward punk with small doses of rockabilly and country mixed into their sound....
  
  
• The AV Club
• Backseat Virgins
• Beatnik Termites
  Beatnik Termites
  The Beatnik Termites are a Cleveland, Ohio power pop band with a heavy surf rock influence.The band's original lineup of Reggie Silvestri on drums, Pat Kim on guitar and lead vocals and Brian McCafferty on bass formed in 1987. Their sound and vocals are similar in style to the Beach Boys and early...
  
  
• Be My Doppleganger
• Chinese Telephones
• Cletus
• The Copyrights
  The Copyrights
  The Copyrights are a pop punk band from Carbondale, Illinois made up of Brett Hunter Jeff Funburg , Adam Fletcher , and Luke McNeill . They are currently signed to Red Scare Industries.-History:...
  
  
• The Crumbs
  The Crumbs
  The Crumbs are a rock band originating from Miami, Florida. The band is composed of Raf Classic , Johnny B , Emil 4 , and Chuck Loose ....
  
  
• The Drunken Cholos
• Dateless
• Dead Mechanical
• Dear Landlord
• Ded Bugs
• Deep Sleep
• Doc Hopper
• The Ergs!
  The Ergs!
  The Ergs! were an American punk rock band formed in 2000 in South Amboy, New Jersey, by three high school friends: drummer/lead vocalist Mikey Erg , guitarist/vocalist Jeff Erg , and bassist Joey Erg...
  
  
• Fear of Lipstick
• The Festipals
• For Science
  For Science
  For Science was a punk rock band from New Brunswick, New Jersey made up of John Slover , Joe Steinhardt , and a rotating rhythm section which at times included members of The Ergs!, and other local bands...
  
  
• Full Of Fancy
• The Guts
• The Hextalls
• Karmella's Game
  Karmella's Game
  Karmella's Game is an American rock band from Baltimore, Maryland. Their current line-up consists of "KTO" , her brother Joe Ostrosky , Mandy Koch , and Aaron Smith . They have released two full-length studio albums, an EP, and a live disc...
  
  
• The Leftovers
  The Leftovers
  The Leftovers are an American pop punk band from Portland, Maine, made up of Kurt Baker , Andrew Rice , Matt Anderson , and Adam Woronoff .-History:...
  
  
• Lemuria
  Lemuria (band)
  Lemuria is an indie/punk rock band from Buffalo, New York formed in 2004. Lemuria has recently released their "The First Collection" EP compilation and the LP, "Get Better"...
  
  
• Moral Crux
• Nancy
• Off With Their Heads
  Off With Their Heads (band)
  Off with Their Heads is a punk rock band formed in 2002 from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Since their formation, they have often featured a rotating line-up of tour players, due to their members' other commitments and Off With Their Head's own full-time touring schedule...
  
  
• Project 27
• The Parasites
  The Parasites
  The Parasites is a novel by Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1949.-Plot:In this novel, Miss du Maurier tells the story of the Delaney family...
  
  
• The Proteens
• The Queers
  The Queers
  The Queers are a punk band formed in 1981 by Portsmouth, New Hampshire native Joe King . The band originally broke up in 1984, but reformed with Joe Queer and a new line-up in 1986. In 1990, the band signed with Shakin' Street Records and released their first album Grow Up...
  
  
• The Riptides
  The Riptides (Canadian band)
  -History:The Riptides were formed in Ottawa, Ontario Canada in February 1998. The original lineup included Andy Vandal Bob Goblin , Johnny Dangerously , and Steve Ransom and the band released the cassette-only Harelip record...
  
  
• The Steinways
• Short Attention
• Sloppy Seconds
  Sloppy Seconds
  Sloppy Seconds is a Ramones-influenced punk band from Indianapolis, Indiana that started in the mid-1980s. They gained notoriety in the underground "punk" scene with songs like "Come Back, Traci" , "I Don't Want to be a Homosexual", "Jani is a Nazi", "I Want 'em Dead" and "So Fucked up".The bands...
  
  
• Sludgeworth
  Sludgeworth
  Sludgeworth is an American punk rock band from Chicago, Illinois consisting of Dan Schafer , Adam White , Dave McClean , Mike Hootenstrat , and Brian Vermin ....
  
  
• Sweet Baby
  Sweet Baby
  Sweet Baby was a pop punk band that originated from Berkeley, California, and was part of the 924 Gilman Street scene. They were signed to Ruby Records....
  
  
• The Tattletales
• Teenage Rehab
• Sick Sick Birds
• Team Stray
• Weston
  Weston (band)
  Weston are a punk rock band hailing from Bethlehem, PA. Founded in 1990, they took their name from singer Dave Weston's family, since his parents allowed them to practice in their basement. The band never found mainstream success but their energetic and irreverent live shows earned them legendary...
  
  
• Zatopeks
  Zatopeks
  Zatopeks are a British pop punk band who formed in the United Kingdom in 2001; several band members played together in the band called 3½" Floppy founded in 1999 at Birmingham University...
  
  

2009

• The 20 Belows
• The Adorkables
• The Apers
  The Apers
  The Apers are a Dutch pop punk band who formed in Rotterdam in 1996. They have released their albums on Stardumb Records, apart from the 2007 album Reanimate My Heart, which was released by Sonic Rendezvous Records in Europe, and Insubordination Records in the USA. They have played about 700 shows...
  
  
• The AV Club
• The Backseat Virgins
• Banner Pilot
  Banner Pilot
  Banner Pilot is a punk band from Minneapolis, Minnesota.Their music is heavily influenced by acts such as Jawbreaker, The Lawrence Arms, Screeching Weasel, and Hot Water Music.-History:...
  
  
• Be My Doppelganger
• The Beatnik Termites
• Boris The Sprinkler
  Boris the Sprinkler
  Boris the Sprinkler was a pop-punk band that formed in Green Bay, Wisconsin in 1992, known for their zaniness and abnormality. Their aesthetic seemed to borrow from Devo and The Dickies. They display a sci-fi bizarro style reminiscent of Buckaroo Banzai....
  
  
• The Challenged
• Charlie Brown Gets a Valentine
• The Copyrights
  The Copyrights
  The Copyrights are a pop punk band from Carbondale, Illinois made up of Brett Hunter Jeff Funburg , Adam Fletcher , and Luke McNeill . They are currently signed to Red Scare Industries.-History:...
  
  
• The Cretins
• Dead Mechanical
• The Dead Milkmen
• Dear Landlord
• Deep Sleep
• Dillinger 4
• The Dopamines
  The Dopamines
  The Dopamines are a punk rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio formed by Jon Lewis Jon Weiner , and Matt Hemingway . In 2008, Matt parted with The Dopamines and Michael Dickson quickly took over as the permanent drummer...
  
  
• Egghead
• The Festipals
• The Firecrackers
• Full Of Fancy
• The Gateway District
• The Guts
• The Hextalls
• House Boat
• The Jetty Boys
• John Walsh
  John Walsh
  John Edward Walsh is an American television personality, criminal investigator, human and victim rights advocate and formerly the host, as well as creator, of America's Most Wanted...
  
  
• Karmella's Game
  Karmella's Game
  Karmella's Game is an American rock band from Baltimore, Maryland. Their current line-up consists of "KTO" , her brother Joe Ostrosky , Mandy Koch , and Aaron Smith . They have released two full-length studio albums, an EP, and a live disc...
  
  
• Kepi Ghoulie
• The Kung Fu Monkeys
• Le Volume Était Au Maximum
  Le Volume Était Au Maximum
  Le Volume Était Au Maximum is a francophone pop punk band from Montreal, Quebec, formed in 2000. Their musical style is inspired by the Ramones, Screeching Weasel, and The Queers.-History:...
  
  
• The Leftovers
  The Leftovers
  The Leftovers are an American pop punk band from Portland, Maine, made up of Kurt Baker , Andrew Rice , Matt Anderson , and Adam Woronoff .-History:...
  
  
• Lemuria
  Lemuria (band)
  Lemuria is an indie/punk rock band from Buffalo, New York formed in 2004. Lemuria has recently released their "The First Collection" EP compilation and the LP, "Get Better"...
  
  
• The Loblaws
• The Marshmallows
• Max Levine Ensemble
• The Methadones
  The Methadones
  The Methadones were a band formed in 1993 by guitarist/vocalist Dan Vapid. The Methadones initially lasted only a few shows before Dan put them to the side to focus on his main band Screeching Weasel. By 1999 Dan was no longer a member of Screeching Weasel or his other band The Riverdales, and...
  
  
• One Short Fall
• Pansy Division
  Pansy Division
  Pansy Division is an American punk rock band that formed in San Francisco, California in 1991. Featuring primarily gay musicians and focusing mostly on gay-related themes, Pansy Division is one of the more melodic-oriented bands to emerge from the "queercore" movement that began in the 1980s.-Early...
  
  
• The Parasites
  The Parasites
  The Parasites is a novel by Daphne du Maurier, first published in 1949.-Plot:In this novel, Miss du Maurier tells the story of the Delaney family...
  
  
• The Proteens
• The Prozacs
• Psyched To Die
• Rational Anthem
• The Repellents
• The Resistors
• The Secretions
  The Secretions
  The Secretions are an American punk rock band from Sacramento, California. Formed in 1991, the band has released numerous albums and singles, and toured the USA and internationally.- History :...
  
  
• The Serlingtons
• Short Attention
• The Shuttlecocks
• Sick Sick Birds
• The Sidekicks
• Spodie
• Squirtgun
  Squirtgun
  Squirtgun is an American punk rock band from Lafayette, Indiana formed by record producer Mass Giorgini in 1993.-1993-1998:Squirtgun originally consisted of Mass Giorgini , Matt Hart , Flav Giorgini , and Dan Lumley .The band signed to Lookout! Records and their first release was the EP...
  
  
• The Steinways
• Sucidie
• Teenage Bottlerocket
  Teenage Bottlerocket
  Teenage Bottlerocket is a punk rock band formed in Laramie, Wyoming in 2001.The band was formed by twin brothers Ray and Brandon Carlisle, following the dissolution of their previous band, Homeless Wonders, in 2000...
  
  
• Teen Idols
  Teen Idols
  The Teen Idols were a pop punk band originally from Nashville, Tennessee. They were formed in 1992 by Phillip Hill and originally broke up in 2003...
  
  
• Toys That Kill
  Toys That Kill
  Toys That Kill is a punk rock band, formed from a previous incarnation known as F.Y.P . Just after the release of their last album self-titled album, Todd C., SEAN C. and new members started the new band...
  
  
• Underground Railroad to Candyland
• The Unlovables
  The Unlovables
  The Unlovables are a New York City based pop punk band. The band formed after bassist/singer Hallie Bulliet recorded a handful of songs for a present with Adam Rabuck who encouraged her to continue playing music...
  
  

2010

• American Steel
  American Steel
  American Steel is an American punk rock band formed in 1995 in Oakland, California. When offered their first show, the group took their name from the block-long sign on the warehouse across the street...
  
  
• Baracuda McMurder
• Be My Doppelganger
• Beatnik Termites
  Beatnik Termites
  The Beatnik Termites are a Cleveland, Ohio power pop band with a heavy surf rock influence.The band's original lineup of Reggie Silvestri on drums, Pat Kim on guitar and lead vocals and Brian McCafferty on bass formed in 1987. Their sound and vocals are similar in style to the Beach Boys and early...
  
  
• Black Wine
• Chinese Telephones
• The Creeps
• Dead Mechanical
• Dear Landlord
• The Dopamines
  The Dopamines
  The Dopamines are a punk rock band from Cincinnati, Ohio formed by Jon Lewis Jon Weiner , and Matt Hemingway . In 2008, Matt parted with The Dopamines and Michael Dickson quickly took over as the permanent drummer...
  
  
• Flamingo Nosebleed
• Hamiltons
• Hextalls
• Houseboat
• Huntingtons
  The Huntingtons
  The Huntingtons are a punk band from Baltimore, Maryland which formed in 1993-1994 in the Maryland/Delaware area by Cliff Powell , Mike Holt and Mike Pierce . The band is heavily influenced by The Ramones.-1993-2005:The Huntingtons debut album Sweet Sixteen was released in 1996 by Flying Tart...
  
  
• Impulse International
• Jetty Boys
• Joel The Hole
• Kepi Ghoulie and Friends
• Leftovers
  Leftovers
  Leftovers are the uneaten edible remains of a meal after the meal is over, and everyone has finished eating. Food scraps that are not considered edible are not regarded as leftovers, but rather as waste material; any remaining edible portions constitute the leftovers.The ultimate fate of leftovers...
  
  
• Less Than Jake
  Less Than Jake
  Less Than Jake is an American ska punk band from Gainesville, Florida. Originally formed in 1992 as a power pop trio, the band evolved into a hybrid of ska punk. Less Than Jake have also been cited as showing influences from a wide variety of genres including post-grunge, heavy metal, alternative...
  
  
• Max Levine Ensemble
• Menzingers
• Methadones
• Nancy
• Night Birds
• Noise By Numbers
  Noise By Numbers
  Noise By Numbers is pop punk band featuring Dan Schafer and Jeff Dean...
  
  
• Old Wives
• Off With Their Heads
  Off With Their Heads (band)
  Off with Their Heads is a punk rock band formed in 2002 from Minneapolis, Minnesota. Since their formation, they have often featured a rotating line-up of tour players, due to their members' other commitments and Off With Their Head's own full-time touring schedule...
  
  
• The PG-13s
• Pillowfights
• Protagonist
  Protagonist
  A protagonist is the main character of a literary, theatrical, cinematic, or musical narrative, around whom the events of the narrative's plot revolve and with whom the audience is intended to most identify...
  
  
• Prozacs
• The Quarantines
• The Queers
  The Queers
  The Queers are a punk band formed in 1981 by Portsmouth, New Hampshire native Joe King . The band originally broke up in 1984, but reformed with Joe Queer and a new line-up in 1986. In 1990, the band signed with Shakin' Street Records and released their first album Grow Up...
  
  
• The Roman Line
• Sandworms
• The Scissors
  The Scissors
  The Scissors is an aerial dog fighting maneuver, commonly used by military fighter pilots before the advent of high thrust-to-weight fighters in the late 1950s to mid-1960s and later, and before the perfection of the all-aspect air-to-air missile, and reliable BVR weapons...
  
  
• Shutouts
• The Sidekicks
• Smokejumper
  Smokejumper
  A smokejumper is a wildland firefighter who parachutes into a remote area to combat wildfires.Smokejumpers are most often deployed to fires that are extremely remote. The risks associated with this method of personnel deployment are mitigated by an extremely well developed training program that has...
  
  
• Smoking Popes
  Smoking Popes
  The Smoking Popes are an American pop punk from the northwest suburbs of Chicago, Illinois, formed in 1991. They play punk-influenced pop music with crooning vocals...
  
  
• Teenage Bottlerocket
  Teenage Bottlerocket
  Teenage Bottlerocket is a punk rock band formed in Laramie, Wyoming in 2001.The band was formed by twin brothers Ray and Brandon Carlisle, following the dissolution of their previous band, Homeless Wonders, in 2000...
  
  
• Tenement
  Tenement
  A tenement is, in most English-speaking areas, a substandard multi-family dwelling, usually old, occupied by the poor.-History:Originally the term tenement referred to tenancy and therefore to any rented accommodation...
  
  
• Varsity Weirdos
• Visitors
  The Visitors (band)
  The Visitors were an Australian rock band formed in 1978 after the breakup of popular punk band Radio Birdman. The songs were written by Deniz Tek but unlike many other Tek bands, Tek did not sing vocals in The Visitors. Instead the vocals were sung by long time friend of the band Mark Sisto...
  
  
• Zatopeks
  Zatopeks
  Zatopeks are a British pop punk band who formed in the United Kingdom in 2001; several band members played together in the band called 3½" Floppy founded in 1999 at Birmingham University...
  
  

CD/DVD's

During 2007 a live CD/DVD was released compiling various performances from that years festival. Additionally CD/DVD sets where released compiling the entirety of some bands set that year including The AV Club, Dead Mechanical, The Guts, The Leftovers

The Leftovers

The Leftovers are an American pop punk band from Portland, Maine, made up of Kurt Baker , Andrew Rice , Matt Anderson , and Adam Woronoff .-History:...

, Paper Dragons, Short Attention, The Steinways, Varsity Weirdos, and Wimpy Rutherford.