10 Questions with Hard Girls
Hard Girls is a California punk trio with post-punk leanings comprised of of vocalist / guitarist Mike Huguenor, vocalist / bassist Morgan Herrell, and drummer Max Feshbach. The group formed out of San Jose’s independent music community in 2008 and have since released a handful of EPs, and three full-lengths, most recently Hard (Asian Man…
10 Questions with Swingin’ Utters
Swingin’ Utters have been mainstay in the punk community for nearly three decades. Having emerged out of the San Francisco Bay Area in the late, ’80s, by the time of their 1995 album The Streets of San Francisco, they turned the hearts of critics and fans alike for their infectious blends of traditional, working class punk, country, and roots. Since then, they’ve maintained a…
Listen to Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds’ New Album Skeleton Tree
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds have released their new album Skeleton Tree and you can listen to it now on Apple Music. It’s their first album since 2013’s Push the Sky Away. The video below comes from the feature-length film One More Time With Feeling, which debuted last night. It has interviews with the band,…
10 Questions with Against Me!
Riot Fest alum Against Me! appeared on the Roots Stage at Riot Fest & Rodeo last weekend, blowing over the crowd with a high-energy set that included a number of tracks from their upcoming album, Shape Shift With Me (get an advance listen to the record courtesy of NPR here). Against Me! was formed by…
Chicago “Name Your Stage” Contest Winner
Welcome to the Storyheart StageCongratulations to Storyheart Ciangi-Bachtell, the winner of our “Name Your Stage” contest with Chicago’s RedEye to have a stage named in her honor at Riot Fest & Carnival in Chicago next weekend. Even if we thought about it really, really hard, we couldn’t have come up with a lovelier name than Storyheart to contrast…
Riot Fest Chicago 3-Day Tickets SOLD OUT
Single-Day Tickets Almost GoneI don’t mean to freak you out, but Riot Fest Chicago 3-day tickets are sold out and single-day tickets are going to be sold out very soon. So you should probably get those tickets before it’s too late. If you want to see the Original Misfits, Featuring Glenn Danzig, Jerry Only and Doyle Wolfgang Von…
Riot Fest Is Getting Its Own Garbage Pail Kids.
Excusively at Riot Fest Chicago
No, Seriously.Somehow the wonderful people at Topps approved Riot Fest to have its very own Garbage Pail Kids Series just in time for the festival next week in Chicago (Sept. 16-18). And we couldn’t be more thrilled. When we caught word that this would be actually happening, we immediately called some of our Riot friends to…
10 Questions with Tiger Army
Founded by vocalist/guitarist Nick 13 in 1996, California’s Tiger Army brought a ‘50s flair to its first show at the famed punk venue 924 Gilman Street and went on to become one of the most revered psychobilly bands of a generation. In May, 2016 Tiger Army released its fifth album, V •••, its first album since…
