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…
Daily Riot Fest Roundup
Monday, June 26th, 2017Today is National Chocolate Pudding Day. Nine Inch Nails played “She’s Gone Away” live for the first time since releasing it on last December’s Not the Actual Events EP, albeit in a non-traditional venue. “The Nine Inch Nails” are the house band at the Bang Bang Bar in a new episode of Twin Peaks: The…
The 10 Worst Velvet Underground Songs To Make Out To
Everybody’s made out to The Velvet Underground. Or at least, anybody worth making out with has. Whether at their sweetest and/or sleaziest, the band’s entire canon has gifted generations of “Jim-Jims” and femme fatales with a nearly flawless soundtrack for soupy, starry eyed, or flat-out smacked-out smooches. But for every “I’ll Be Your Mirror,” “Pale…
Where’d the Cheese Go? When Pizza Hut Hired Ween And Then Fired Them
So what’s the deal with the song “Where’d the Cheese Go?” In 2002, Pizza Hut hired Ween to write a song for a new commercial. Ween sent them six songs and Pizza Hut rejected every one of them. Eventually, “Where’d the Cheese Go?” was leaked on-line, and a hit song was born. According to their…
Daily Riot Fest Roundup
Friday, June 23rd, 2017Today is Glenn Danzig‘s birthday! Since he is immortal, gaining one more year probably doesn’t mean as much to Mr. Danzig as it does to us. That being said, Glenn, all of us at Riot Fest would like to wish you a happy birthday, and we can’t wait to see you here in Chicago in…
Riot Fest Adoptable Puppy of the Week: Rambo
Rambo A163454 • Neutered 1.3-year-old Male • Available for Adoption at Chicago ACC Rambo is very excited in his cage. His cage presence may turn people off because he jumps a lot and just wants to get outside. He has lots of energy outside in the playlots and its understandable because he isn’t getting all…
9 Reasons Shea Couleé Is Truly America’s Next Drag Superstar
In the eight years that have passed since RuPaul’s Drag Race first aired, the wildly popular pop culture behemoth has never crowned a Chicago queen as its winner. As of tonight, when the Logo/VH1 show’s Season 9 finale airs, that could very well change. Chicago queen Shea Couleé has practically dominated Season 9 of the…
A Safe Haven 5K: Run Fast, Win Riot Fest Passes
Riot Fest is continuing our partnership with Douglas Park neighborhood organization A Safe Haven Foundation for its 7th annual 5K RUN! to End Homelessness! This year, the run will be held at Montrose Harbor, and takes place on Saturday, July 15th, 2107 at 8:30AM. The first 50 runners to finish will each win a pair of…