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…
Sausages Are Falling From The Sky In Florida
Sausages are falling from the sky in Florida. At least they were for one South Florida family this weekend. In an interview with ABC 10, Travis Adair, father of the Adair family, said they were awakened out of a sleep on Saturday morning to what sounded like thunder on their roof. “It was like thunder,…
Riot Fest x Do312’s Cat-ify A Punk Album Contest
Contest time! Use your best photoshop skills to Cat-ify A Punk Album and you could win Riot Fest tickets. Here’s how it works: Step 1: Cat-ify a Punk Album. Be creative. Keep it PG-13. (Photoshop it, MS Paint it, draw it, sculpt it, just make sure YOU make it.) Step 2: Upload your Cat Punk…
Musicians Enjoying Hot Dogs at Riot Fest
Happy National Hot Dog DayHappy National Hot Dog Day. In honor of this holiday, we found some totally not-Photoshopped images of bands enjoying hot dogs at Riot Fest. If you were a good little boy or girl, maybe Hot Dog Santa will leave encased meat underneath the hot dog tree for you.
‘Dunkirk’ Is Boring
Riot ReviewsChristopher Nolan is one of the most consistently excellent filmmakers working today. Even if you don’t care for one of his ten feature films very much, it’s hard to say that any are objectively “bad.” I did not care for his latest, Dunkirk, and I am going to be in the vast minority on that point…
Daily Riot Fest Roundup
Tuesday, July 18th, 2017The Replacements are releasing For Sale: Live at Maxwell’s 1986, the band’s first live album since 1985’s dicey The Shit Hits the Fans. This 29-track gem was cut to actual 2″ tape at legendary sweatbox Maxwell’s in Hoboken, NJ in February of 1986, and the band was particularly on that night. This show took place during the…
10 Andrew W.K. Songs That Aren’t About Partying
When It’s Time To Party We Will [Sometimes] Party HardAs Andrew W.K. prepares for his sixth consecutive performance at Chicago’s Riot Fest this fall, we’d like to speak on his behalf to clear up a misconception. No, this has nothing to do with the theory that “Andrew W.K. doesn’t actually exist” (the jury’s still out on that one). Rather, we’re here to address the…
Nine Inch Nails Release Second Song Off New EP
Nine Inch Nails are set to release their new EP, Add Violence this Friday (July 21st). Last Thursday they released “Less Than,” the first track off the Add Violence EP, and today they released another song from it, “This Isn’t The Place.” Add Violence 1. Less Than 2. The Lovers 3. This Isn’t the Place…
Daily Riot Fest Roundup
Monday, July 17th, 2017With the July 28th release of his hotly-anticipated debut album The Autobiography almost upon us, Vic Mensa is making lots of news these days. The news we’ll focus on here is that there’s a rad new video for “Rage” — where Mensa uses a plane crash as a metaphor for addiction and mental health issues — and…