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
GeneralAdmission VIP Deluxe Deluxe+ BACKSTAGE Experience the festival like never before with our exclusive Backstage Pass, designed to give you top-level access and insider perks. A Backstage Pass includes all the amenity benefits of Deluxe+, Deluxe, VIP, and GA ★★★ PLUS! ★★★ Interested? Email us at [email protected] with the subject line “Backstage Pass 2026” to inquire about availability and purchase details.…
Payment Plans still Available… For a limited time
So you want Riot Fest tickets AND the ability to make a few smaller payments with no interest instead of up front all at once. Done.
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.
The Riot Fest Late Night Schedule Is Here
The Riot Fest party doesn’t end at 10:00pm. Riot Fest Late Night shows have been announced! Kicking things off on Thursday, September 14th—before the festival is in full-swing—will be Chicago’s acclaimed punks, The Orwells, entertaining a packed House of Vans at this free-with-RSVP show, as well as a pit stop at Cobra Lounge from Riot…
Daily Riot Fest Roundup
Monday, August 14th, 2017Jawbreaker played its first announced show of 2017 in advance of the band’s big Riot Fest gig next month. Yes, over the weekend, Blake, Chris and Adam played the 400-capacity Rickshaw Stop in San Francisco, a show that sold out in nanoseconds and had journalists from Stereogum and Noisey descending upon it for analysis. There’s…
Taco Bell Is Testing A Burrito With Spicy Pop Rocks
Instead of having your Taco Bell burrito explode in your pants, you can now have the experience of having your Taco Bell burrito explode in your mouth. As reported on Foodbeast, Taco Bell is testing a new burrito in the Orange County, CA area called the Firecracker Burrito. What makes the Firecracker Burrito so special?…
How Built To Spill Accidentally Changed the Indie Rock Landscape With ‘Keep It Like a Secret’
“The Plan” keeps coming up again. It comes up on your good playlists, usually first. It’s always in your rankings of “Best Damn Kickoff Tracks Ever” (if that internal list of yours is truly worth a damn). It’s in your head right now (and you’re currently air-drumming along with that opening line). It’s “The Plan”…
Daily Riot Fest Roundup
We talked to a couple of The Mighty Mighty Bosstones about twenty years of Let’s Face It being the king of ska mountain, as well as the time they hung out with Paul Walker from The Fire and the Fury-ous, or whatever it’s called. The Flatliners debuted a new music video on the Rise Records YouTube channel. Check…
Sign This Petition For A Lemmy Emoji
Who’d win in a wrestling match, Lemmy or God? Trick question; Lemmy is God. If you sign this petition, Lemmy could also be an emoji. The creator of the petition, S Edward May, is respectfully requesting that Unicode inventor Mark Davis add an image of Lemmy Kilmister to the Emoji set. “Emoji has evolved into…
Two Bosstones Talk Twenty Years of ‘Let’s Face It’ And Hanging Out With Paul Walker
This past March marked twenty years of one of the biggest releases in the history of ska: The Mighty Mighty Bosstones’ Let’s Face It. Set to play the album in its entirety at Riot Fest, founding members Dicky Barrett (vocals) and Joe Gittleman (the bass fiddleman) sat down to talk about what made the album…
Daily Riot Fest Roundup
Thursday, August 10th, 2017The Riot Fest schedule has been released! Be sure to catch up on several hours’ worth of complaining on Twitter, and join in by berating @RiotFest. Also, be sure to download or update the pocket phone app on your iOS, Android, or Sidekick, and make your own schedule and discover bands you don’t love yet,…
