
2026 Early Turkey Ticket + Merch Presale On Sale Now!
Riot Fest 2026 Early Bird Presale is on sale NOW! Get your tickets, gobble gobble.

The Riot Fest Valentine’s Day Playlist (For Weirdos)
Weirdos need love songs, too. Here’s a Valentine’s Day playlist for the awesome-but-forgotten among us.

The Daily Riot Fest Roundup
Tuesday, February 13th, 2018Today’s Roundup victims include Mean Jeans, Silverstein, a doomsday lava dome in the Pacific Ocean, a couple of great concert announcements, and more!

Looking For a Career Change? Cadbury is Hiring Part-Time Chocolate Tasters
If you’re willing to move to England and get paid £9 per hour to work about eight hours per week, have we got the job for you!

Shane Told Reminisces About Silverstein’s Best and Worst Chicago Shows
Welcome to the inaugural installment of First/Last/Best Worst, where we ask musicians to tell the stories behind their first, last, best and worst gigs in Chicago.

Good News, Everyone! There’s a Giant Dome of Lava In Pacific Ocean that Could Kill Us All
According to a recent study, a six-mile wide lava dome has been discovered off the coast of Japan. If that’s not rad enough, it contains more than 7.68 cubic miles of volcanic magma, which could erupt and kill us all at any moment!

“We Would Not Record a Jingle for a Product We Didn’t Believe Was Totally Sick”: The Mean Jeans Don’t Sell Out
Pontificating on pizza and product placement while jawing about jingles with Portland’s punk rock party pals.To celebrate Mean Jeans’ new Fat Wreck Chords album full of unsolicited corporate jingles, we caught up with singer/guitarist Billy Jeans.

Lemmy Will Be Waiting for Us in the Afterlife, According a Billboard in St. Louis
Lemmy is back, in deity form! According to a billboard in St. Louis, you will meet the Motörhead frontman when you die; as a result, mortality doesn’t seem so grim anymore.

The Daily Riot Fest Roundup
Monday, February 12th, 2018The Daily Riot Fest Roundup: Quincy Jones, Johnny Cash, Elon Musk, Fu Manchu, and more.