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…
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…
It’s Bandcamp Friday Again
100% of Bandcamp’s revenue cut goes straight to artists, every first Friday of the monthBandcamp’s wildly successful Bandcamp Fridays now extend to every first Friday of the month for the rest of the year.
A Reimagined, Orchestrated Version of Bad Religion’s “Faith Alone” Appears
The track, originally off Against the Grain, gets a symphonic new takeBad Religion has just released a new orchestrated version of “Faith Alone,” a song originally released on 1990’s classic ‘Against the Grain.’
Chicago is Getting… a Meme Museum
A free exhibition of internet history is coming to 6th Dimension Space + GalleryIt’s all a joke, isn’t it?
Band Name Bureau and the 15-Year Effort to Catalog Terrible Band Names
Former A.V. Club editor Kyle Ryan revives his Year In Band Names column as a newsletterSince the early MySpace days, writer and former A.V. Club editor Kyle Ryan has been collecting terrible band names. He’s keeping his 15-year effort going with a newsletter called Band Name Bureau.
A Guide to Making Smashing Pumpkins Cocktails
Drink through the band’s discography with our cocktail (and mocktail) recipesIt doesn’t feel like it’s been too long since Smashing Pumpkins’ 2018 release of the ragbag, indie-genre mashup work Shiny and Oh So Bright, Vol. 1—and with any luck, we should be getting a double album later this year, one that Billy Corgan describes as being “back in the lane of taking a risk.” Well,…
Floating Movie Theaters are Coming to Chicago This September
Floating Boat Cinema docks at Lake Michigan September 9–13Come September, a new form of moviegoing might just drift into Chicago: floating movie theaters.