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…
Chicago Creatives: Ariel Zetina is the Mother of the Windy City Club Scene
Even when her work explores the dark, abrasive, and traumatic, Ariel Zetina’s goal is to make you dance. The Chicago-based playwright, producer, and DJ’s aesthetic delights in the unexpected; she often uses a danceable four-on-the-floor beat structure as a Trojan horse to shepherd strange, glitchy, and transgressive sounds and themes onto the dancefloor. She emphasizes…
This New Get Up Kids Song will Definitely Brighten Your Day
Check out “Maybe” from the new Kicker EP—the band’s first release in seven years.The Get Up Kids are back and sounding as classic as ever. Check out “Maybe” from Kicker, the band’s new EP (and its first release since 2011’s There Are Rules). This track calls back everything we love about the Get Up Kids—especially when vocalist Matt Pryor really starts giving it at around 2:29—and we can’t wait to…
Random Fandom: Warm Up to the Dark Sky Weather App
I am several different kinds of Those People when it comes to my phone. Along with being one of Those People who’s got a really complicated ergonomic organizing system for my app icons, and one of Those People who sets their phone to grayscale to keep the from using it too much, I’m also one of…
In Other News, the New Gang of Four EP Features Ivanka Trump On the Cover
English post-punk band Gang of Four is releasing a new EP, Complicit, scheduled for release on April 20. Today, the cover art was revealed; and it features First Daughter Ivanka Trump… and includes a track called “Ivanka (Things You Can’t Have).” In a statement about the song, founding guitarist Andy Gill says: When we think of the media,…
Listen To Some Music From The New Pennywise Album, ‘Never Gonna Die’
Pennywise just released a new track from its upcoming album, Never Gonna Die, scheduled for release on April 20, 2018 via Epitaph Records. You can listen to “Won’t Give Up The Fight” below, and pre-order the album here. Never Gonna Die Track List 01. Never Gonna Die 02. American Lies 03. Keep Moving On 04. Live While…
Underoath’s New Album, ‘Erase Me’, To Be Released on Friday
Underoath is releasing their next album, Erase Me, this Friday, April 6th. Previously identifying in part as a Christian band, the band no longer identifies as such and because of that have gotten some push back from fans who feel they’ve betrayed them. “I feel bad for people who wouldn’t listen to the new album…
Morrissey Launches Morrissey Central, A New Website Covering All Things Morrissey
Bigmouth strikes again: Morrissey has launched Morrissey Central, a new website where Morrissey can write about whatever Morrissey pleases. The site will feature essays about things that Morrissey hates, things Morrissey likes, updates on new Morrissey music, random photos of Morrissey’s choosing, and any other whims that Morrissey may have along the way. The first essay on…
The Story Behind International Tom Hanks Day
When a group of college students in Kalamazoo, Michigan decided to get drunk and enjoy a Tom Hanks movie marathon on April Fool’s Day 15 years ago, it’s unlikely that they expected to keep celebrating America’s most beloved actor at that time every year, and even less likely that they expected Hanks himself to ever…