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

Downtown Boys Release First Song Off Their New Album
Downtown Boys announced their new album on Facebook today, and released the first track, “A Wall.” The band describe the song as “A message to all our leaders who on this day and all days propagate racism, xenophobia, and Islamophobia to further destroy our world,” and added “Your walls are just walls and they can and will be torn down.”…

Elephant Crushes And Kills Elephant Hunter
According to the Washington Post, Theunis Botha, a 51-year-old veteran big game hunter, was crushed to death by an African Elephant he was trying to kill in western Zimbabwe. Botha started his hunting business in 1983 because of his “mutual love for Africa and its natural beauty,” and was well-known for his leopard and lion hunting…

Riot Fest Invites You To #WearOrange On June 2
Friends, family and fans – Riot Fest invites you to join us in supporting the Chicago-based gun violence prevention awareness campaign #WearOrange to help raise awareness about the fight to end gun violence. In January of 2013, Chicago resident and high school student Hadiya Pendleton marched in President Obama’s second inaugural parade. A week later, she was shot…

Riot Fest Horoscopes – Week of May 22nd, 2017
Pisces (February 19 – March 20): You’re so young and beautiful. That’s right, you’re slick. You’re no fool. Time goes by, tables turn. Now you know. First it giveth, then it taketh away.

Bloodclot Release New Song
Bloodclot, John Joseph (Cro-Mags), Todd Youth (ex-Murphy’s Law, ex-Danzig), Nick Oliveri (ex-Queens of the Stone Age), Joey Castillo (ex-Queens of the Stone Age, ex-Danzig), have released ‘Kali’, a new song off their upcoming album. Their album Up In Arms is scheduled for release on July 14th via Metal Blade. You can pre-order it here. And…

Listen To Biters New Album The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be
Atlanta band, Biters new album The Future Ain’t What It Used to Be, is out today on Earache Records. With a little bit of T. Rex, Thin Lizzy, Cheap Trick, and AC/DC thrown in, this is a band you don’t want to miss. Frontman Tuk Smith says, “For this album, I wanted to go back…

nothing,nowhere. Debut Music Video For ‘Clarity In Kerosene’
nothing,nowhere. debuted a music video for their song ‘Clarity In Kerosene’ available now on Equal Vision Records / DCD2. download it at: http://smarturl.it/clarityinkerosene. And make sure to to see Nothing,Nowhere with Real Friends w/ Tiny Moving Parts, Have Mercy, and Broadside at Concord Music Hall on Friday, June 9th. Get your tickets now.

A Dark Crystal Prequel Series Is Coming To Netflix
The prophecy didn’t say anything about this! Prophets don’t know everything! Skeksis, Mystics, and Gelfling are back. Netflix and the Jim Henson Company announced today they are preparing a prequel series to the movie The Dark Crystal. The 10-episode series, The Dark Crystal: Age of Resistance, will takes place many years before the 1982 Jim…