Riot Fest 2026 Single Day Tickets On Sale Now
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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.
Check Out This New Partner Song And See Them At Township
Partner is coming to play Township in Chicago on September 28th, 2017.Riot Fest is stoked to announce that we’re bringing Partner to Township in Chicago on Thursday, September 28th. Tickets go on sale here this Friday, June 30th at 10AM. Partner is comprised of eastern Canada’s Josée Caron and Lucy Niles, who play quirky power-pop with lyrical themes that at times remind us of a mashup…
Daily Riot Fest Roundup
Wednesday, June 28th, 2017Is National Insurance Awareness Day. Are you aware of insurance? Riot Fest is stoked to announce that we’re bringing Partner to Township in Chicago on Thursday, September 28th. Tickets go on sale here this Friday, June 30th at 10AM. Partner is comprised of eastern Canada’s Josée Caron and Lucy Niles, who play quirky power-pop with…
I Don’t Wanna Live Forever, But I Do Want This Tiny Lemmy
The only thing you see, you know it’s gonna be, a $125 tiny Lemmy statue. KnuckleBonz, a company that apparently “creates hi-end music collectibles that feature the most legendary and highly influential artists in rock music”, is selling a tiny Lemmy for $125. Only 3000 tiny Lemmy’s are being made, so you better act quick,…
Daily Riot Fest Roundup
Tuesday, June 27th, 2017Today is National PTSD Day, but thankfully it’s also National Sunglasses Day, so if you’re not feeling the world around you, feel free to hide behind your glasses. Shabazz Palaces has released yet another new song from one of the two full-length LPs that Sub Pop is putting out on July 14th. This time, check…
Review: Baby Driver Is the Coolest Movie of the Summer
In his first auteur solo effort, Edgar Wright (Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, [almost] Ant-Man), has truly done something special with film and music. Superman has his sunshine, Popeye has his spinach, and Baby Driver has its music. Played by a so-fresh-faced-he-must-still-pop-pesky-pimples-in-the-morning-mirror Ansel Elgort, Baby is a prodigy of a wheel man literally driven…
Daily Riot Fest Roundup
Monday, June 26th, 2017Today is National Chocolate Pudding Day. Nine Inch Nails played “She’s Gone Away” live for the first time since releasing it on last December’s Not the Actual Events EP, albeit in a non-traditional venue. “The Nine Inch Nails” are the house band at the Bang Bang Bar in a new episode of Twin Peaks: The…
The 10 Worst Velvet Underground Songs To Make Out To
Everybody’s made out to The Velvet Underground. Or at least, anybody worth making out with has. Whether at their sweetest and/or sleaziest, the band’s entire canon has gifted generations of “Jim-Jims” and femme fatales with a nearly flawless soundtrack for soupy, starry eyed, or flat-out smacked-out smooches. But for every “I’ll Be Your Mirror,” “Pale…
Where’d the Cheese Go? When Pizza Hut Hired Ween And Then Fired Them
So what’s the deal with the song “Where’d the Cheese Go?” In 2002, Pizza Hut hired Ween to write a song for a new commercial. Ween sent them six songs and Pizza Hut rejected every one of them. Eventually, “Where’d the Cheese Go?” was leaked on-line, and a hit song was born. According to their…
