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The Riot Fest Week in Review
Week of March 19th, 2018Some mildly entertaining stories you may have missed this week. And new music from Panic! at the Disco, The Lawrence Arms, Kevin Devine, Elway, and Pussy Riot.
Science Says Pizza Is A Better Motivator Than Money
Science is awesome. Pizza is awesome. Science + pizza is super awesome. In his new book “Payoff: The Hidden Logic That Shapes Our Motivations,” psychologist Dan Ariely details how pizza is better than money in motivating people at work. Ariely ran an experiment at a factory with four separate groups. The employees in the four…
Fugazi Still Plays Music Together, But No They Aren’t Reuniting
Fugazi has reunited. Well, technically, Fugazi has reunited several times since they broke up in 2003, but only to play music together in private because the guys are still friends and sometimes that’s what friends do, they hang out together and play music. Does this mean they are planning on a reunion? No. Fugazi is…
Ryan Duggan’s Irreverent Illustrations Channel Ghosts of Chicago’s Past
For the last decade and change, Ryan Duggan has designed and printed posters in Chicago as Drug Factory Press. In that time, he’s cultivated a bold, handmade cartoon style that splits the difference between classic punk fliers, the heroes of Chicago underground comics (Ivan Brunetti, early Daniel Clowes), handmade urban sign-painting, and even the high/low…
We Asked Unsane the Band 5 Questions About Soderbergh’s New Film, ‘Unsane’
If you have killer taste in music, you did a double take upon catching the trailer for Steven Soderbergh’s new iPhone 7 thriller, Unsane (opening wide this Friday). After all, it just happens to share a name with one of the most reliably radical noise-rock bands of all time (the skate-and-die clip for “Scrape” was…
Listen To This Unreleased Song From The Lawrence Arms ‘Oh! Calcutta!’ Sessions
The Lawrence Arms’ 29-song best-of album, ‘We Are the Champions of the World’, showcases the band’s favorites from their catalog, plus five previously unreleased tracks… including this gem.
Riot Fest Adoptable Puppy of the Week: Muddy
Muddy is a tall drink of water. No, really. He is long and lanky and extra good looking. He was really easy to leash up and to get outside. We went straight to the playlot, where he had a blast letting loose and get himself and me…well, very muddy!! He has a lot of young…
The New Deadpool 2 Trailer Is Here, Introduces X-Force
Could we have just posted the YouTube link to the new Deadpool 2 trailer on our social media instead of embedding the link on a Riot Fest post? Yes we could have, but this way we get the clicks on the Riot Fest website instead. The new trailer introduces us to the completely derivative X-Force,…