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Thursday, July 13th, 2017Just in case it got past you, Nine Inch Nails released new music today! Check out “Less Than,” the driving first track from Add Violence, a new NIN EP that’s coming our way on July 21st. Add Violence is the second in a trilogy of EPs, starting last December with Not the Actual Events and culminating in…another one,…
Happy Thursday. Here Is A New Nine Inch Nails Song.
Did you know there’s a new top-secret Nine Inch Nails EP due out this summer? And another one that’s set to be released 6-8 months after that? In December of 2016, Nine Inch Nails released the EP Not The Actual Events. And in an email from Trent Reznor to fans who ordered from the band’s…
Riot Fest Adoptable Puppy of the Week: Hazel
[bs_col class=”col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-4″] [bs_col class=”col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-4″] [bs_col class=”col-xs-12 col-sm-12 col-md-4″] HAZEL A162585 • Spayed 2 year-old Female • Available for Adoption at Chicago ACC Silly Hazel has been waiting quite some time for her forever home! She came into the shelter on 3/9/17 as an abandoned dog. That’s 125 days in a cage 🙁 We don’t…
Wish Upon – Will You Wish For Your Time Back?
To call the new teen thriller Wish Upon a “horror” movie is a bit generous. It’s about as scary as the first in the Scream series, and close in spirit. It is also similar in that it’s pretty good, and likely to spawn a whole new franchise of its own. Jonathan Shannon (played by Ryan…
Riot Fest Staff Picks For Pitchfork Music Festival
As our brethren at Pitchfork Music Festival begin their annual mid-July preparations at Union Park, the Riot Fest staff has been carefully looking at the Pitchfork lineup in anticipation of another great weekend in Chicago. And although the Riot Fest staff has a wide array of musical preferences, Pitchfork (July 14-16, Union Park, Chicago, IL)…
Exploring Ska’s Strangest Strains
Ska is a genre rich with history, originating in 1950s Jamaica before slowly spreading across the globe. Serving as the precursor to both reggae and rocksteady, ska is not only a fundamental building block, it’s the rare genre that’s able to be transmuted without losing its distinct features. In the ‘70s, ska would reach England…
Daily Riot Fest Roundup
Wednesday, July 12th, 2017The Replacements‘ Paul Westerberg has released a new song via Soundcloud. Check out “2HAWK_1” (which could very well just be the name of the file that was uploaded to the site) below, and then fondly reminisce with us about the time that The Replacements played Riot Fest thrice. Prophets of Rage released a new single…
Jawbreaker Documentary Gets Premiere Date and New Trailer
Don’t Break Down: A Film About Jawbreaker to Premiere in San Francisco on August 11thOn May 4th, we gave you an Albini-laden sneak peak of Don’t Break Down, the highly anticipated documentary on Jawbreaker. The film’s producers have now announced a premiere date and released its first proper trailer. Don’t Break Down: A Film About Jawbreaker, directed by Tim Irwin and Keith Schieron and produced by The September Club,…