Little Five Fest is a music festival in Atlanta, Georgia. The event partnered with several local venues and featured 50 or so local bands as an annual showcase of the music of Atlanta. The event started in 2004 as "Othersound Music Festival" and evolved over the years to take on a more general tone representing the entire area of Little 5 Points and as an alternative to the mainstream music festival Music Midtown. The festival focused on local and independent music groups: "Focusing on bands just under the indie mainstream radar, the Other Sound Music Festival has a rich history of booking the right bands.". The festival usually features bands from local label mainstays like Rob's House Records, Die Slaughterhaus Records and ISP-Music (Industrial Strength Promotions) among others. While previous festivals focused heavily on rock music, the festival featured a variety of musical genres including rap, hip-hop, country, electronic music, DJ sets, performance art and theatre.
Past lineups (partial list)
2009 (partial list)
Star Bar Stage: The Selmanaires, Book Of Colors, A Fight To The Death, Grand Prize Winners From Last Year, Club Awesome, Falcon Lords, Distile Records - United States "Unsilvered Mirrors", Author's Apology, Los Buenos Criminal Records stage: Jeffrey Butzer, The Orphins, Yo La Tengo, This Piano Plays itself
2010 (Lineup by venue) Source: Criminal Records music & comic book store Java Lords Coffee Shop Star Bar Main Stage Star Bar Basement The Five Spot 2:30 – Back Pockets
3:30 – The Wild
4:30 – A Fight to the Death
5:30 – Mermaids 2:00 – Wes Ables
3:00 – Hawkeye Pierce
4:00 – Platonic Sex
5:00 – The Falcon Lords 6:00 – What Happened to Your Fire, Tiger
7:00 – Book of Colors
8:00 – Little Tybee
9:00 – West End Motel
9:40 – Author's Apology
10:15 – The Charges
11:15 – Abby GoGo
12:15 – Skin Jobs 6:30 – Walk from the Gallows
7:30 – Starfighter
8:30 – Buffalo Bangers
9:30 – King Congregation
10:30 – Tornado Town
11:30 – Odist 7:00 – Meut
8:00 – Jeremy Ray & The Gonzo Orchestra
9:00 – Weapons of Audio
10:00 – Oryx and Crake
11:00 – Grand Prize Winners from Last Year
12:00 – Omelet
2011 (partial lineup)
Aku You Anna Kramer and the Lost Cause Baby Baby Back Pockets Cousin Dan Darling Norman DJ Homo G.G. King Ghost Bikini Glen Iris (Members included Justin Hughes of Rock*A*Teens fame and Chris Strawn) Grand Prize Winners from Last Year Gun Party Hawkeye Pierce Hip to Death I Want Whisky Jack of Hearts Jack Preston and the Dojo Collective Jade Lemons and the Crimson Lust Jeffrey Bützer King Congregation Lille Lucy Dreams Mermaids Order of the Owl Ralph Skin Jobs Shepherds Street Violence The Head This Piano Plays Itself Tornado Town West End Motel (Members included Brent Hinds of Mastodon and Tom Cheshire) What Happened to Your Fire, Tiger? Young Antiques Young Orchids
In 2012 the venues were hosted at Criminal Records music and comic book shop, Aurora Coffee and three stages at the Star Bar.
2012
According to Creative Loafing (Atlanta), the 2012 festival took place on September 29, 2012, and featured over 90 bands and was spread across 9 venues.
Sponsors and supporters
While the festival is usually sponsored mostly by local record labels and businesses, there have been a number of nationally known sponsors such as Pabst Blue Ribbon (produced by the Pabst Brewing Company), the High Museum of Art, Creative Loafing, Zipcar, Orange Amplification, Scoutmob and Whynatte Latte.
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