We lost two legends this week: “King of the Surf Guitar” Dick Dale, and R&B dynamo Andre “Mr. Rhythm” Williams. Both left a big footprint… Read more
Category: Editorial
The confluence of baseball with all kinds of heavy music—namely punk, hardcore and grindcore—has spawned outsider art that is deeply offbeat, thoughtfully woke and, more… Read more
This year brings ‘3 From Hell’ to theaters, the third part in Zombie’s trilogy of Mansonoid serial killer movies. It's a great time to revisit… Read more
The Germs might seem a strange choice for a decidedly New York film like ‘Cruising’, but as it turns out, they were a perfect match… Read more
The music of the 2001 film ‘Josie and the Pussycats’ defined the girl-power pop sound that would come to influence a generation of millennial musicians. Read more
March 8, 1994 was the Midnight Madness to rule them all: the unveiling of both Nine Inch Nails’ ‘The Downward Spiral’ and Soundgarden’s ‘Superunknown’. Read more
There’s never been a clear name for Blink-182’s fifth album, and that’s strangely fitting. To the band and their fans, it’s untitled. To the rest… Read more
Cold weather has a way of shrinking down the scale of our worlds, and with the temperature staying well south of freezing recently I’ve been… Read more
It’s that time of year again. Back for its 13th year in Grant Park, Lollapalooza returns to Chicago this weekend.
And since we here at Riot… Read more
Attending a music festival is a wonderful experience––the bands, the people watching, the carnival rides, the greasy food––but things can easily take a turn for… Read more
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It's all around us. It's in our computers. It's in the smaller computers that we carry around in our pockets. The very air you breathe is… Read more