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Daily Riot Fest Roundup
Thursday, June 8th, 2017Today is National Best Friends Day, as well as National Pick Your Poison Day. Please don’t poison your best friends. It’s just plain rude. Everybody is talking about the big news of the day…THE RIOT FEAST! That’s right, we’re opening a restaurant! The Riot Feast is a limited-time restaurant and bar in Chicago with Riot…
What Would Happen If Riot Fest Opened A Restaurant?
What would happen if Riot Fest opened a restaurant? Well, I guess we’re about to find out. Introducing The Riot Feast! Wait, what?! Who said you could open a restaurant? How does a thing like that just happen? Have you heard of Saved By The Max? Yes, exactly…the…
Hot Water Music’s Artwork & Iconography Created A Legacy All Its Own
Even though it’s never specified exactly what it is, over the past twenty-five years Hot Water Music has constantly been searching for…something. It’s easy to see it in the band’s music which, in its early days, was based upon the southern hardcore stomp of Avail, the rough-hewn songcraft of Leatherface, and the punchiness of Fuel,…
Riot Fest Adoptable Puppy Of The Week: Persephone
Persephone A162880 • Spayed 2-year-old Female • Available for Adoption at Chicago ACC Persephone is a very sweet girl. She sits nicely for you in her cage and is easy to leash up when it’s time to go out for a walk. Persephone seemed to cower a bit walking past the other cages. Once outside,…
Daily Riot Fest Roundup
Wednesday, June 7, 2017Today is National Chocolate Ice Cream Day, as well as National Running Day. So go eat a few scoops of chocolate ice cream and then jog that shit off. ICYMI: MIA released a new song today. She dedicates “GOALS” to her hardcore fans. Rancid has blessed us with more new music from their forthcoming album…
M.I.A. Releases New Song ‘GOALS’
M.I.A. released ‘GOALS’, a new song for her hardcore fans, this morning. The video for ‘GOALS’ will be displayed at Southbank Centre’s Royal Festival Hall during M.I.A.’s Meltdown Festival in London. DEDICATED TO MY HARDCORE FANS THANK YOU FOR YOUR UNFALTERING DEDICATION AND SUPPORT. YOU HAVE GIVEN ME A SLIVER OF HOPE IN HUMANITY. STAY…
Death From Above Debut New Song, Shorten Band Name
In addition to ditching the “1979” from their band’s name, Seb and Jesse from Death From Above have just premiered a new single “Freeze Me,” via MistaJam’s BBC1 radio show in England. Below you can hear the track, plus an interview with the band. Regarding the name change, no clear explanation was given, however Consequence…
Were the Beatles actually punk? An investigation
When the first punk bands started coming together in the mid-Seventies, the Beatles were on the hit list of bloated hippie-era dinosaurs who’d grown fat and rich off the counterculture who the new wave of rock rebels meant to batter into irrelevancy in a barrage of cranked-up rockabilly riffs. Since then it’s become something like…
