Best of Riot Fest 2024 Photo Gallery + 3-Day Recap Video
So many great pictures, it’ll probably crash your tabsRiot Fest is over, and yeah, we’re bummed too. But don’t worry, the memories live on (and so do the porta-potty lines). There were crowdsurfing newlyweds, reunions, anniversaries, and of course, you beautiful maniacs. We’ll have a few more galleries, videos, and cool shit to share in the coming weeks, and we can’t wait until…
Couldn’t Get That Black Hoodie? Preorder Riot Fest 2024 Merch Now
Did you not go to Riot Fest but want to pretend you did?Are you already regretting not picking up some of our 2024 merch? Was your favorite design sold out by the end of the weekend? Did you not go to Riot Fest but want to pretend you did? We got you covered. Riot Fest 2024 merch is now live. Merch items typically ship in 2-3 weeks…
Riot Fest 2024: Sunday Photo Gallery
Riot Fest 2024 is over, but the memories will live on forever if you want them to. See the pics from day three, and don’t delete the app! We’ll have our Best Of Riot Fest Gallery, People Of Riot Fest Gallery, and a few more videos and photos coming your way soon. Plus, if you…
Riot Fest 2024: Saturday Photo Gallery
Gates open 12 PMIt’s the beginning of the end – Sunday of Riot Fest 2024 is here. Take a look at our Saturday photo gallery, and get ready to end this festival weekend with a bang. Today’s schedule and map are below; stay up-to-date throughout the day via the Riot App. Take a look at the final Late Night…
Riot Fest 2024: Friday Photo Gallery
Gates open at 11amRiot Fest 2024 Day One. If you can’t remember what happened, watch the video recap and see how good you look in all the photos. Today’s schedule and map are below; stay up-to-date throughout the day via the Riot App. We’ve also got daily schedules, Late Night Aftershows, transportation and neighborhood guides so you know where to get late night…
Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ In A Major Key Sounds Like A 1990s Everclear, Gin Blossoms, Spin Doctors Song
Nirvirna – Teen Sprite from Sleep Good on Vimeo. Some monster, aka Sleep Good, just pitch-shifted / auto-tuned Nirvana’s ‘Smells Like Teen Spirit’ into a major key, and now it sounds like an Everclear, Gin Blossoms, or Spin Doctors song from the 1990s. I’m seriously waiting for Jason Biggs to walk through the door acting…
‘AdVenture Capitalist’ and Idle Gaming in the Attention Economy
Cold weather has a way of shrinking down the scale of our worlds, and with the temperature staying well south of freezing recently I’ve been on the lookout for things to keep my mind occupied that involve moving my body out of my comfortable and cozy bed. On a frigid recent afternoon after a particularly…
Are The Distillers Returning in 2018?
This isn’t a hint — and no, I don’t know the fucking Riot Fest lineup — but Brody Dalle of The Distillers teased a video on Instagram that the band may have some new things in store for 2018. A cryptic video with the caption “THE DISTILLERS 2018” was posted on the bands social media.…
‘Stranger Things’ Star Gaten Matarrazo Covers Paramore and Fall Out Boy
Stranger Things stars Finn Wolfhard (Mike Wheeler) and Joe Keery (Steve Harrington) are in bands. We’ve already known that Wolfhard sings in a band called Calpurnia, and Keery is the drummer in Chicago psych-rock band Post Animal. New to the rock n’ roll cast party is Gaten Mattarazo, who plays the adorable Dustin Henderson on…
Top 10 Riot Fest Posts of 2017
2017 was a whirlwind year for the soft-hitting brand of real-yet-unbelievable news that Riot Fest brings you every day. When a manatee farted in Florida, you smelled it here first. When the Arcade Fire banned cellphones and other assorted everyday items from their shows, we were right there to mock them. Did we start a…
So, This is Festmas… What Have YOU Won? Last Chance To Answer With “Everything”
THE HO HO HAUL Grand Prize and Holiday Presale Tickets End Tonight!You’ve helped to make 2017 the… BEST. #RIOTFESTMAS. EVER. To show our gratitude, we’re giving you until the end of today to buy Holiday Presale Tickets for Riot Fest 2018… BUY. THEM. HERE. Today is the last day to SIGN UP TO WIN our grand prize, which is your chance to… WIN. IT. ALL! That’s…
Hey! Ho!… Ho! Ho!: Mickey Leigh Talks About A New Christmas Single By His Brother, Joey Ramone
Also: How Two Queens-Based Jews (Mickey and Joey) Spent Christmas As KidsHey ho, Ramones fans! For just $20, you too can own a piece of the Christmas Industrial Complex (CIC) in the form of a Joey Ramone vinyl record-shaped ornament, featuring the song “Merry Christmas (I Don’t Want to Fight Tonight).” This holiday playlist staple, from the Ramones’ Brain Drain album, appears incognito, however. Side A is…
On The 12th Day Of Festmas: A Tale Was Told To Me, By The Lawrence Arms’ Brendan Kelly
Few #RiotFestmas traditions have stood the test of time quite like the traditional reading of The Night Before Christmas by a comforting and familiar voice. So we reached out to the local musician with the most comforting, silky smooth timbre available to us. And when we couldn’t get a hold of Josh from the Smoking Popes, we found…