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.
Ryan Duggan’s Irreverent Illustrations Channel Ghosts of Chicago’s Past
For the last decade and change, Ryan Duggan has designed and printed posters in Chicago as Drug Factory Press. In that time, he’s cultivated a bold, handmade cartoon style that splits the difference between classic punk fliers, the heroes of Chicago underground comics (Ivan Brunetti, early Daniel Clowes), handmade urban sign-painting, and even the high/low…
We Asked Unsane the Band 5 Questions About Soderbergh’s New Film, ‘Unsane’
If you have killer taste in music, you did a double take upon catching the trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s new iPhone 7 thriller, Unsane (opening wide this Friday). After all, it just happens to share a name with one of the most reliably radical noise-rock bands of all time (the skate-and-die clip for “Scrape” was…
Listen To This Unreleased Song From The Lawrence Arms ‘Oh! Calcutta!’ Sessions
The Lawrence Arms’ 29-song best-of album, ‘We Are the Champions of the World’, showcases the band’s favorites from their catalog, plus five previously unreleased tracks… including this gem.
Riot Fest Adoptable Puppy of the Week: Muddy
Muddy is a tall drink of water. No, really. He is long and lanky and extra good looking. He was really easy to leash up and to get outside. We went straight to the playlot, where he had a blast letting loose and get himself and me…well, very muddy!! He has a lot of young…
The New Deadpool 2 Trailer Is Here, Introduces X-Force
Could we have just posted the YouTube link to the new Deadpool 2 trailer on our social media instead of embedding the link on a Riot Fest post? Yes we could have, but this way we get the clicks on the Riot Fest website instead. The new trailer introduces us to the completely derivative X-Force,…
The Odd Couples: 11 Weird Musical Collaborations
Some musical collaborations seem written in the stars, and some don’t even make sense if you factor in rock star-level drug budgets. But that doesn’t mean they can’t have their own kind of magic. When two mismatched artists try to make history for an entire album, the results can mean a struggling singer’s rebirth, or…
Watch The Violent New Music Video For Panic! At The Disco’s New Song, “Say Amen (Saturday Night)”
Panic! at the Disco released a new music for their song “Say Amen (Saturday Night)” from their upcoming album Pray For The Wicked, due out June 22. Panic! At The Disco frontman Brendon Urie says, “Pray For The Wicked is my ‘thank you’ to our fans and the most fun I’ve ever had making album.”…
A New Children’s Book About Vice President Mike Pence’s Gay Bunny Is #1 Best-Seller
For those of you don’t know, Marlon Bundo aka BOTUS (Bunny Of The United States) is a very real and Instagram famous bunny belonging to the family of Vice President Mike Pence. And now, Marlon Bundo has two very different books on the Amazon Best-Seller list. The first book, titled “Marlon Bundo’s Day in the…
