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.
Breaking News: The Brokedowns have a new album
The Brokedowns have a new album! Sick of Space is 13 tracks of what the band does best, which is to play and sing songs for you, the fans. The new LP comes out on May 18, 2018 via Red Scare. We’re sure it’s great, but Toby wouldn’t send it to us. We asked the…
Ring in the fiscal new year with these live Twin Peaks videos
The band just released some great clips from its New Year’s Eve tripleheader.Twin Peaks played an epic sold-out three-night stand at Chicago’s Thalia Hall, culminating in New Year’s Eve revelry for the ages. Now you can relive those memories and/or feel like you were there.
Slayer Talks About The Early Days In Episode 2 of Video Series
In January, Slayer announced that it would wrap up its 37 year-long bloody reign over the world of heavy metal by heading out on May 10 for one last tour around the globe (and, by proxy, hell). In 2016, vocalist/bassist Tom Araya told Loudwire, “After 35 years, it’s time to collect my pension.” To celebrate — and…
Is “Strange Things Happening Everyday” by Sister Rosetta Tharpe the first punk song?
Laura Jane Grace just made the feel good hit of the summer
The Against Me! singer recorded the sunny “Park Life Forever” with her eight-year-old daughter, Evelyn.
Is “Be My Baby” the first punk song ever?
To paraphrase Kim Gordon—England didn’t invent punk rock, girl groups did. In the early 1960s, teenage sisters Veronica and Estelle Bennett and their cousin, Nedra Talley had formed a singing group called the Ronettes. One night in 1961, the girls teased their hair and applied a glut of eyeliner in order to sneak into the…
Twitter is down and it’s amazing
For a brief-but-amazing time today, Twitter was broken. Over those enlightening thirty minutes or so, you couldn’t tweet your stupid thoughts, you couldn’t scroll through your stupid feed, and therefore, you couldn’t see what stupid thoughts other stupid people were tweeting. It was brilliant. Twitter controlled the damage by telling us that something was “technically…
Is “Train Kept A-Rollin’” the First Punk Song Ever?
Pinning down the first song written in any particular musical style is an impossible task. Genres don’t emerge fully formed from the mind of a single creator, even if they can sometimes look that way in retrospect. The closer you look, the blurrier things get. For every landmark release like “That’s Alright (Mama)” in the…
