2026 Early Turkey Ticket + Merch Presale On Sale Now!
Riot Fest 2026 Early Bird Presale is on sale NOW! Get your tickets, gobble gobble.
Ministry’s New Album Will Be An Awesome Thing To Taste
In local music news, Ministry has just announced AmeriKKKant, the Chicago band’s 14th album. This will be their first new LP since 2013’s From Beer to Eternity, and the promo video on the Pledge Music pre-order page for the new album teases a return-to-form, calling back the Ministry sound immortalized on classic albums such as The…
Listen To Against Me! Songs ‘Stabitha Christie’ and ‘First High of the Morning’
Happy Friday. ‘Stabitha Christie’ and ‘First High of the Morning’ are now available for streaming. The limited edition 7″ picture disc featuring two brand new tracks from Against Me! was released on Record Store Day. You can listen to both tracks below.
German Music Festival Is Building A Beer Pipeline
The Wacken Open Air festival in Wacken, Germany is building a beer pipeline to pump the approximately 100,00 gallons of delicious golden liquid that will be consumed over the 3-day heavy metal music festival. At an estimated cost of $1.25 million, the beer pipeline will not only save the festival grounds from the damage of…
Get Up Kids & The Anniversary Alums Announce New Band Radar State With A Jam
Because you can’t spell “Radar” without “Rad”When it comes to the Kansas City/Lawrence indie rock torch, it’s safe to say that The Get Up Kids and The Anniversary helped to light it and have been running four minute miles with it ever since (sorry, couldn’t help it). It only makes sense that eventually they’d come together for forces of good, which…
You Can Get A Tarot Reading By Rochelle From The Craft
Rachel True, maybe best known for her movie roles as Rochelle from The Craft and Mary Jane Potman from Half Baked, has, for the past year, been working as a tarot card reader at House of Intuition in Echo Park in Los Angeles, California. Years before being cast as Rochelle in The Craft, True lived…
Shabazz Palaces Release New Song, “Since C.A.Y.A.”
Shabazz Palaces has previously announced the release of two new albums on Sub Pop in July, and now they’re sharing some music with us. “Since C.A.Y.A.,” the first track from the 1-2 punch of Quazarz: Born on a Gangster Star and Quazarz vs. The Jealous Machines, “features dazzlingly funky bass licks by the magnificent Stephen ‘Thundercat’ Bruner and was…
9 Photos of Avocado Toast You Bought Instead of Riot Fest Tix
“When I was trying to buy Riot Fest tickets, I wasn’t buying smashed avocado for $19 and four coffees at $4 each,” a man who got a $34,000 loan from his grandfather said. “They want to eat out every day, they want to travel to Europe every year,” he said. “The people that buy Riot Fest…
Rob Zombie’s 2016 Riot Fest Set Mutating Into Live Album
If you opted to check out The So So Glos at Riot Fest Chicago last year instead of checking out Rob Zombie, or simply decided to camp out all day at the Riot Stage barricade for optimal Misfit-ing, your F.O.M.O. will soon be cured. If you’ll recall, Mr. Zombie dished out White Zombie’s lengthily-named (and…