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 Official Riot Fest 2026 Playlist
Listen on SpotifyYou’ve snagged your 3-Day Tickets to Riot Fest 2026, you’ve seen the lineup, now it’s time to get familiar with our 2026 artists. Listen to the playlist on Spotify and keep an eye on the Riot Fest app for more updates and announces coming soon.
Premiere: Pansy’s “Trash” is a Striking Portrait of Discontent
Vivian McCall’s first solo LP as Pansy (out April 2) illustrates her experiences transitioning over past three years‘Pansy,’ the self-titled solo debut of Vivian McCall, wholly captures the struggles and triumphs of a trans woman simply existing. Listen to her new song “Trash”—for fans of Girlpool, Modest Mouse, and Laura Jane Grace.
Gateway Love: A Comic on Discovering Punk Through Simple Plan
Two Simple Plan fans recount their youth in this illustrated featureSet in 2005, “Gateway Love” follows two 12-year olds in line for their first live show ever: Simple Plan.
Meet Mikey Fivebucks, the Guy Who’s Trying to Launch a Catnip Dispensary
Catnip Dispensary Inc. hopes to raise $4,105 to sell Fivebucks’ homegrown, high-quality catnip to the massesFor many folks who work at Riot Fest, Mikey Fivebucks is a very familiar face around the festival grounds each year. Usually rocking a half-shaven, half-bearded face that’s pretty hard to miss, his name comes from the fact that he does a lot of crazy shit for (you guessed it) five bucks. But if all…
10 Stories About Cults You Need to Watch in 2021
The best films, limited series, and documentaries about cults you can find on streaming servicesThere’s cult cinema… and then there’s cinema about actual cults. Here’s a list of cult-obsessed miniseries, feature films and documentaries worth watching that you can stream at home.
How a DIY Collective of Women and Non-Binary Music Photographers are Reimagining Art Spaces Online
The founders of To The Front, despite an ongoing pandemic, have continued to expand their virtual community of artistsCourtney Coles and Erica Perez, the founders of an online collective called To The Front DIY, want their post-COVID events to look a bit different than the norm—just like their traveling DIY photography shows had been.
King Buzzo on Solo Work, Collaborations, and Why Melvins 1983 is the Closest You’ll Get to the Original Lineup
The Melvins frontman reflects on past projects like Fantômas and Crystal Fairy—and looks ahead to Working with God, the new Melvins recordFor our latest Autodiscography, we catch up with the always-opinionated, never-resting Buzz Osborne (better known as King Buzzo) of Melvins—a band vital to the development of the Seattle grunge scene, from its infancy in the early to mid-80s to its apex in 1994. That’s when the bona fide alt-rock movement came to a screeching halt…
Support Black-Owned Record Stores with This RSD Vinyl Compilation
Proceeds from Songs for You, Vols. 1 & 2 will be directly reinvested into Black-owned music shops nationwideSupport Black-owned record stores this #RecordStore Day with ‘Songs for You, Vols. 1 & 2,’ a two-volume vinyl compilation featuring Lupe Fiasco, Common, Marvin Gaye, and more. Proceeds will be reinvested into Black-owned music shops across the country.
Worth a Listen: Free Sonos Radio Programs with Dolly Parton, David Byrne, and More
Enjoy DJ sets from Thom Yorke, Chicago’s Whitney, and British rap punks Sleaford Mods—free of chargeIf you love music and hate wires, there’s a good chance that you already know about Sonos’s unbelievably cool wifi speakers. Thankfully, you don’t need to own a Sonos to get in on all the sweet programming.
