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…
Premiere: Pool Holograph’s “Medieval Heart” Unlocks Something Transformative
The Chicago quartet’s refreshing third album is out October 2Chicago-based art rock quartet Pool Holograph have clearly been hard at work reinventing themselves. They’re set to release their third album, Love Touched Time and Time Began to Sweat, on October 2—and the first single, “Medieval Heart,” is evidence of lot of methodical tinkering. We’re stoked to premiere the track for you here today. Listen…
Wasps Can Tell Other Wasps That You Suck, Says Science
Fun fact: if a wasp hates you, it can drop a pheromone on you that tells other wasps you suck. Thanks wasps. We probably deserve it.
RZA and Good Humor Team Up to Make Ice Cream Trucks Less Racist
The hip-hop icon proves Wu-Tang is still for the childrenUnless you’ve researched the roots of popular music in pre-Civil War America (some of us like doing research, okay?), you might only know “Turkey in the Straw” as the old-timey song you sang in preschool and as the nagging, tinny jingle blaring out of just about every ice cream truck in every American city, all…
‘Bossanova’ Turns 30: Joey Santiago on his Favorite Pixies Record
Revisiting the band’s spaced-out third album as it celebrates its 30th anniversaryPixies have long held the reputation of that band some bigger band emulated, to put it kindly. To Joey Santiago, the Pixies’ calculated lead guitarist, the secret recipe—the one pretty much every loud alternative act rolling into the 90s looked towards for inspiration—didn’t completely formulate until the band’s third full-length album, Bossanova, released 30 years…
You Can Spend the Night in the World’s Last Blockbuster for Just $4
The Airbnb-converted store will let four lucky winners spend a night with unlimited movies and snacksThere’s only one Blockbuster left in the world—and if you’re lucky, you can spend the night in it with all the movies and snacks you want for just $4.
‘Sopranos’ Star James Gandolfini Really, Really Loved Green Day’s ‘Dookie’
He went so far as to name his email and dog after the 1994 albumMany people hold Green Day’s landmark 1994 album Dookie near and dear to their little punk hearts. The late James Gandolfini of The Sopranos, as it turns out, may have been the biggest Dookie fan of them all. Last week, after a fan online asked Sopranos co-star Michael Imperioli what kind of music Gandolfini enjoyed, Imperioli had one…
Stand Against Censorship in Comics
Support RiotFest.org contributor Bianca Xunise as newspapers attempt to silence her viral comicBlack lives matter. Wearing a face mask in public is the only way to slow the pandemic that’s raging across the United States like it is in no other affluent nation. To most of us, these are basic, obvious facts, but since America currently seems to prefer wishful thinking and Internet rumors to facts, a…