The Riot Fest 2026 Late Night Shows Are Here
The Riot Fest 2025 Late Night Shows are HereWho needs sleep… when you have live music?
The Riot Fest 2026 Schedule is Here.
See what time your favorite bands are playing, at the same time, on opposite sides of the parkSee what time your favorite bands are playing, at the same time, on opposite sides of the park.
Riot Fest 2026 Single Day Tickets On Sale Now
1-Day, 2-Day, & 3-Day Tickets On Sale Now!
From GA to Deluxe VIP — the Quick Guide for Choosing the Right Ticket
Not trying to steer you one way or another but… VIP does have air-conditioned bathrooms..
First Time Coming to Riot? Here’s Your Guide
All your burning questions (mostly) answered.Here’s an all-inclusive First Timer’s Guide in hopes you’ll feel a little less hopeless.
A look at the weirder side of Dan Aykroyd
I love Bill Murray as much as anyone—I’m a snob, yes, but I’m not a monster—but I think it’s time we as a culture give the mass adulation a rest for awhile. A couple other people from the original Saturday Night Live orbit were pretty great, too, and I don’t see any Etsy t-shirt shops and…
Time to end your search for the perfect one-hitter, dude
Since I started smoking pot in the late-1900s, things have come about as far as the Internet has in the same span of time. Dealers offer lengthy menus of strains, packaged in odor-free baggies printed with nifty branded art. Dispensaries stock a dizzying array of tinctures, extracts, and edibles. And as far as methods of…
The Riot Fest Week in Review
Week of April 16th, 2018Check out new music from Laura Jane Grace, The Longshot, A Perfect Circle, Sleep, Fidlar, Flatfoot 56, and The Brokedowns.
John Lurie isn’t fooling anybody with this Marvin Pontiac reissue for Record Store Day
In 1999, cult favorite actor/musician/prankster polymath John Lurie—leader of the Lounge Lizards, early Jim Jarmusch muse, brilliant host of the absurdist celebrity travelogue Fishing with John—let slip an album, The Legendary Marvin Pontiac: Greatest Hits, on his Strange and Beautiful Music label. The titular artist, press materials of the time claimed, was a lost hero of…
4/20: It’s not just for stoners anymore
Here are some of the other reasons to reflect today.It’s April 20, so let’s pay homage to five pieces of pop culture surrounding everything else extraordinary about 4/20 (the date, not the time—you’re still with us, right?)
Stream ‘Love Is For Losers’ the debut album from The Longshot, Billie Joe Armstrong’s new band
After teasing out the concept the last couple weeks, Billie Joe Armstrong has revealed the three new songs that make up the debut EP from his latest mysterious new band.
It’s 4/20, have some Alcohol and listen to new FIDLAR
Celebrate 4/20 the only way we know how, with ‘Alcohol’, the new song from Fidlar. ‘Alcohol’ is now available everywhere. You can buy it here. Fidlar plays Coachella this weekend. You should see them. The kick ass.
Is “Agitated” by Electric Eels the first punk song?
The Electric Eels formed in Cleveland, Ohio (oh, that Cleveland!) in 1972, when pretty much anybody else you’d attempt to argue in vain as being the composers of the first punk song were in short pants, and/or long hair and glammy glam makeup. And while “Agitated” wasn’t the band’s first song—and wasn’t even released until 1978…
