Search
Tickets Lineup
Riot Fest
  • Back to top
  • RIOT FEST
    • CHICAGO • SEPT 17-19, 2021
    • Tickets
    • Lineup
    • Preview Party
    • FAQ
    • Lockers
    • Hotels
    • Photos
    • Past Lineups
  • Magazine
    • Most Recent
    • Features
    • Interviews
    • Music
    • TV+Film
    • Comics
  • Shows
  • Merch
  • Newsletter
  • Search

Category: Music

January 25, 2021
Humble Bundle’s Latest Plug-In Collection is One Hell of a Deal
By Miles Raymer / Music, Stuff To Do / free stuff, home recording, Humble Bundle
Humble Bundle—which has been selling super-discounted software packages to raise money for charity for over a decade—is currently offering a serious set of pro-quality plug-ins…
Read more
December 9, 2020
Rivers Cuomo is Now Selling 2,655 Unreleased Weezer Demos Online
By Riot Fest / Music / weezer, demos, rivers cuomo
Weezer fans might not have Van Weezer under the tree this year, but they’ve just received arguably the greatest gift any fan could ask for: Rivers…
Read more
December 9, 2020
That One Time a Frank Zappa Fan Mashed Up “Absolutely Free” and a Christmas Poem Perfectly
By Emily Reily / Holiday, Music / christmas, frank zappa, youtube
There's a Frank Zappa song that syncs up shockingly well with a narrated short film of "Twas The Night Before Christmas" from 1942.
Read more
October 16, 2020October 16, 2020
Run the Jewels to Perform ‘RTJ4’ in Full on Adult Swim
By Riot Fest / Music, Stuff To Do / Stuff To Do, run the jewels, livestream
Our weekend plans, like many of you, involve staying indoors and doing very little. So why not catch a Run the Jewels livestream this Saturday…
Read more
September 15, 2020September 30, 2020
Help Naked Raygun’s Pierre Kezdy Cover Cancer Costs
By Riot Fest / Chicago, Music / chicago, naked raygun
From his earliest performances with Strike Under and Trial By Fire to his most prominent work in Pegboy and Naked Raygun, Pierre Kezdy has spent…
Read more
September 14, 2020
Remembering Toots Hibbert, a Founding Voice of Reggae
By Miles Raymer / Music / Playlists, Reggae, Toots and the Maytals
RIP Toots Hibbert, a founding voice of reggae and the unforgettably joyful frontman of Toots and the Maytals. Blast some Toots and the Maytals this…
Read more
September 2, 2020September 2, 2020
Technical Difficulties: Help Jerry Bryant Save JBTV
By Riot Fest / Chicago, Music
The ripple effect of COVID-19 has hit just about every corner of the music industry, and music television is no different. Chicago’s own JBTV—the longest…
Read more
August 14, 2020
RZA and Good Humor Team Up to Make Ice Cream Trucks Less Racist
By Riot Fest / Food + Drink, Music / Wu-Tang Clan, Food+Drink, RZA
Unless 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…
Read more
August 11, 2020August 11, 2020
‘Sopranos’ Star James Gandolfini Really, Really Loved Green Day’s ‘Dookie’
By Riot Fest / Music, TV+Film / green day, HBO, Dookie
Many 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…
Read more
July 1, 2020July 1, 2020
‘Save Stereogum’: A Covers Comp Featuring El-P, Laura Jane Grace & More
By Bailey Davis / Music, News / laura jane grace, The National, run the jewels
Facing financial uncertainty, Stereogum has put together an Indiegogo campaign with an impressive ‘00s covers comp with 40+ contributing artists.
Read more
June 24, 2020June 25, 2020
Buy This Screen Print and Help Out Bad Brains’ H.R.
By Riot Fest / Music / Bad Brains, screen print, Garageland
Bad Brains frontman H.R. has hit some hard times in the wake of the pandemic. You can help him by grabbing one of Garageland’s limited-edition…
Read more
June 22, 2020
Pixies’ ‘Bossanova’ is Getting a 30th Anniversary Reissue
By Riot Fest / Music, Riot Fest 2021 / reissue, vinyl, Riot Fest 2021
Pixies’ third LP Bossanova is turning 30 this year, and the band is celebrating with a timely reissue of the record on vinyl.
Read more

Posts navigation

1 2 … 66 Next

Sign up for our email list or my boss is going to yell at me.

  • Riot Fest Foundation
  • History
  • Privacy
  • Contact
©2020 Riot Fest
All Rights Reserved.
Website designed by COVERT NINE
  • Facebook (opens new window)
  • Twitter (opens new window)
  • Instagram (opens new window)
  • Youtube (opens new window)