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.
RZA and Good Humor Team Up to Make Ice Cream Trucks Less Racist
The hip-hop icon proves Wu-Tang is still for the childrenUnless you’ve researched the roots of popular music in pre-Civil War America (some of us like doing research, okay?), you might only know “Turkey in the Straw” as the old-timey song you sang in preschool and as the nagging, tinny jingle blaring out of just about every ice cream truck in every American city, all…
‘Bossanova’ Turns 30: Joey Santiago on his Favorite Pixies Record
Revisiting the band’s spaced-out third album as it celebrates its 30th anniversaryPixies have long held the reputation of that band some bigger band emulated, to put it kindly. To Joey Santiago, the Pixies’ calculated lead guitarist, the secret recipe—the one pretty much every loud alternative act rolling into the 90s looked towards for inspiration—didn’t completely formulate until the band’s third full-length album, Bossanova, released 30 years…
You Can Spend the Night in the World’s Last Blockbuster for Just $4
The Airbnb-converted store will let four lucky winners spend a night with unlimited movies and snacksThere’s only one Blockbuster left in the world—and if you’re lucky, you can spend the night in it with all the movies and snacks you want for just $4.
‘Sopranos’ Star James Gandolfini Really, Really Loved Green Day’s ‘Dookie’
He went so far as to name his email and dog after the 1994 albumMany people hold Green Day’s landmark 1994 album Dookie near and dear to their little punk hearts. The late James Gandolfini of The Sopranos, as it turns out, may have been the biggest Dookie fan of them all. Last week, after a fan online asked Sopranos co-star Michael Imperioli what kind of music Gandolfini enjoyed, Imperioli had one…
Stand Against Censorship in Comics
Support RiotFest.org contributor Bianca Xunise as newspapers attempt to silence her viral comicBlack lives matter. Wearing a face mask in public is the only way to slow the pandemic that’s raging across the United States like it is in no other affluent nation. To most of us, these are basic, obvious facts, but since America currently seems to prefer wishful thinking and Internet rumors to facts, a…
It’s Bandcamp Friday Again
100% of Bandcamp’s revenue cut goes straight to artists, every first Friday of the monthBandcamp’s wildly successful Bandcamp Fridays now extend to every first Friday of the month for the rest of the year.
A Reimagined, Orchestrated Version of Bad Religion’s “Faith Alone” Appears
The track, originally off Against the Grain, gets a symphonic new takeBad Religion has just released a new orchestrated version of “Faith Alone,” a song originally released on 1990’s classic ‘Against the Grain.’
Chicago is Getting… a Meme Museum
A free exhibition of internet history is coming to 6th Dimension Space + GalleryIt’s all a joke, isn’t it?
