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.
Our Riot Fest & Rodeo 2016 Staff Picks
Riot Fest & Rodeo is NOW and naturally, we can’t wait for the action to begin! It’s probably no surprise that the musical tastes and preferences among the Riot staff members are as diverse as the artists on the festival roster, so naturally, everyone had a different answer when we asked them to recommend one band that can’t…
10 Questions with Diarrhea Planet
Nashville six-piece Diarrhea Planet has become a fast rising rock band in recent years for their mix of high-energy, pop-influenced tunes laced with various metallic, alternative, and trippy overtones. Despite their gross out moniker—which serves as a firm (?) reminder on those days the news/current events get you thinking thinking we live on a shithole of a…
Sleigh Bells Releases Video for “It’s Just Us Now”
Brooklyn noise-pop duo Sleigh Bells have released a new video for their song, “It’s Just Us Now,” off of their upcoming album, Jessica Rabbit. Directed by the band’s own Derek Miller, the video alternates shots of vocalist Alexis Krauss grappling with some bad feelings in a swimming pool — dressed in red, as the the cartoon character…
Die Antwoord Releases Video for “Banana Brain”
Cape Town-base rap/rave group releases a drug-addled new video from their upcoming album.Cape Town’s Die Antwoord has released a new video for “Banana Brain” off of their upcoming album, Mount Ninji and Da Nice Time Kid. The video starts with Yolandi, dressed in a pure, white, “innocent”-looking dress, drugging her parents’ tea before getting in Ninja’s car for a night of hedonistic fun. Everything starts out kinda awesome before taking a…
Modern Drummer Hosts Refused “Drum Cam”
Earlier this week, Modern Drummer gave us another reason to get pumped to catch the legendary Swedish hardcore band Refused at Riot Fest this year when they hosted a live cam video of drummer David Sandström playing crowd favorite “New Noise,” off the band’s iconic 1998 album The Shape of Punk to Come. Check it out below…
10 Questions with NOFX
Skate punk icons NOFX are no strangers to Riot Fest, having appeared on our stages many times since the festival’s inception. The group formed in Los Angeles in the early 1980s and have maintained the same lineup since 1991 when guitarist/trumpet player Aaron “El Hefe” Abeyta came into the fold, making them one of the longest-running bands in…
Download The Riot Fest App
Or Don’t Download It.Download the Riot Fest App. Or don’t download it. Do whatever the hell you want. This is a free country. Don’t let us bully you into doing something you don’t want to. Seriously though, all the cool kids are downloading the Riot Fest App. So you’re going to Riot Fest! We hope this app will…
Researchers Use “Pop Music vs. Screamo” Experiment to Study Cooperation
Results UnsurprisingDo these Riot Fest-ers look more cooperative or uncooperative to you? Inspired by the use of music as “added value” in retail settings, researchers at Cornell University launched a study to explore the effects of music on employee mood. By playing participants a sampling of “happy” songs such as the Beatles, “Yellow Submarine,” and less…
