Daily Riot Fest Roundup
Wednesday, August 9th, 2017King of the Hill could be coming back?! The Hollywood Reporter is reporting that the suits over at Fox had a “preliminary conversations” with King of the Hill co-creators Greg Daniels and Mike Judge about bringing Hank, Boomhauer, Dale, Bobby, and the art of propane back into your homes. They go on to explain that…
WHY DIY? Vol. V: Getting A Brand To Sponsor Your Band
Over recent decades, companies have finally recognized the value of music and how it shapes people’s lifestyles. Your preferred genre of music most likely influenced the type of deodorant you used this morning (or lack thereof) and what type of beverage you ordered last night. Remember how a local business would donate jerseys to your…
A Cheetos Pop-up Restaurant Is Coming To NYC
Pop-up restaurants are stupid, but here comes another one. The Spotted Cheetah, a Cheetos pop-up restaurant, will be opening for three days starting August 15th. Reservations for the three day run are already completely full, but you can sign-up to join the waitlist. “As a long-time Cheetos fan, I’m thrilled to join forces with a…
“One Of The Nastiest Sea Creatures To Have Ever Inhabited The Earth” Named After Motörhead’s Lemmy Kilmister
Lemmy Kilmister may be gone, but he’s not forgotten. When scientists were looking for a name for a newly classified 19 ft. Jurassic sea-crocodile, only one name came to mind. The new description of “Lemmysuchus,” which means “Lemmy’s Crocodile,” was recently published in the Zoological Journal of the Linnean Society. “Lemmysuchus” was previously thought to be…
Daily Riot Fest Roundup
Tuesday, August 8th, 2017Riot Fest loves John Stamos. We love him so much that we held Have Mercy: The John Stamos Art Show last month, which was the best art show ever in the history of the world. Rolling Stone, always on the forefront of cutting-edge journalism, had Mr. Stamos review some of the best works from the…
Happy Birthday John Stamos
What’s that? You don’t have plans for John Stamos’ birthday yet? Have mercy! John Phillip Stamos, actor, film producer, instrumentalist, singer, and hero, was born Monday, August 19th, 1963 in Cypress, California. To celebrate the 54th anniversary of his birth, Riot Fest and WKQX are throwing John Stamos a birthday party at The Riot Feast,…
Daily Riot Fest Roundup
Monday, August 7th, 2017According to the Associated Press, Maria Alyokhina and Olga Borisova from Pussy Riot are being detained in the remote Siberian burg of Yakutsk today for taking part in a protest outside of a prison there. They were protesting the imprisonment of Ukranian filmmaker Oleg Sentsov, who was sentenced to 20 years in jail by a…
Listen To ‘Radical Eyes’, The New Song From Prophets of Rage
Prophets of Rage, the supergroup consisting of Tim Commerford, Tom Morello, Brad Wilk (Rage Against The Machine and Audioslave), DJ Lord and rapper Chuck D (Public Enemy), and B-Real (Cypress Hill), release their self-titled debut LP on September 15th, which also happens to be the first day of Riot Fest. Today we get to hear…
