RiotLand. Only at Riot Fest. Starting this Friday in Chicago.
Explore RiotLand for yourself at Riot Fest kicking off in Douglass Park this Friday at 11AMRiot Fest is this weekend and you know what that means… It’s time to reveal RiotLand for the very first time. We’ve been teasing pictures all week long on Instagram, and if you want to get a first look at the “choose your own adventure world”, click the button below. Or, better yet download the…
The Riot Fest 2024 Map Is Here
Never get lost again.Never get lost again with this trusty map for Riot Fest 2024 in Douglass Park. Riot Fest is back in Douglass Park with five large stages, exclusive VIP and Deluxe lounges, Deluxe viewing areas near the stages, and RiotLand, a top-secret world featuring Logan Arcade, the Riot Pop!! skate ramp, and some surprise attractions you’ll…
The Riot Fest 2024 Schedule is Here.
See what time your favorite bands are playing, at the same time, on opposite sides of the parkWith just 36 days until Riot Fest, it’s time to know who’s playing when and what bands you have to painstakingly decide between. Take a look below to see who’s playing when on Friday, Saturday, and Sunday, and we’ll see you in Douglass Park! Schedule is subject to change.
Wasps Can Tell Other Wasps That You Suck, Says Science
Fun fact: if a wasp hates you, it can drop a pheromone on you that tells other wasps you suck. Thanks wasps. We probably deserve it.
RZA and Good Humor Team Up to Make Ice Cream Trucks Less Racist
The hip-hop icon proves Wu-Tang is still for the childrenUnless you’ve researched the roots of popular music in pre-Civil War America (some of us like doing research, okay?), you might only know “Turkey in the Straw” as the old-timey song you sang in preschool and as the nagging, tinny jingle blaring out of just about every ice cream truck in every American city, all…
‘Bossanova’ Turns 30: Joey Santiago on his Favorite Pixies Record
Revisiting the band’s spaced-out third album as it celebrates its 30th anniversaryPixies have long held the reputation of that band some bigger band emulated, to put it kindly. To Joey Santiago, the Pixies’ calculated lead guitarist, the secret recipe—the one pretty much every loud alternative act rolling into the 90s looked towards for inspiration—didn’t completely formulate until the band’s third full-length album, Bossanova, released 30 years…
You Can Spend the Night in the World’s Last Blockbuster for Just $4
The Airbnb-converted store will let four lucky winners spend a night with unlimited movies and snacksThere’s only one Blockbuster left in the world—and if you’re lucky, you can spend the night in it with all the movies and snacks you want for just $4.
‘Sopranos’ Star James Gandolfini Really, Really Loved Green Day’s ‘Dookie’
He went so far as to name his email and dog after the 1994 albumMany people hold Green Day’s landmark 1994 album Dookie near and dear to their little punk hearts. The late James Gandolfini of The Sopranos, as it turns out, may have been the biggest Dookie fan of them all. Last week, after a fan online asked Sopranos co-star Michael Imperioli what kind of music Gandolfini enjoyed, Imperioli had one…
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.