2025 Early Bird Presale Tickets: ON SALE NOW
OMG IT’S HAPPENINGHo ho hold onto your Santa hats, because the Riot Fest Holiday Presale is back!
Introducing Riot Coin + Freshly Minted Riot NFTs
Unleashing the Ultimate Cryptocurrency and NFT Collection for Riot Fest AttendeesWe see you and hear you and we’ve been listening to what you want at Riot Fest this year, and NFTs and crytpocurrency is what we know you’ve been asking for. So, buckle up and hold onto your private keys, because we’re about to introduce the newest, most rebellious cryptocurrency on the block(chain) – Riot…
Meet Transfigure Print Co. – A Queer and Trans-Owned Screen Print Studio
Celebrate International Transgender Day of Visibility Today, March 31st!March 31st is the International Transgender Day of Visibility. It’s a day dedicated to celebrating transgender people, their unyielding joy and tenacity, and raising awareness to the discriminations they face across the world. Riot Fest would like to draw your attention to our friends at Transfigure Print Co, a LGBTQAI+ and trans-owned and operated screen-printing…
Riot Fest Community Spotlight: Mestiza
Our Community Spotlights feature the wonderful food, nightlife, and local businesses found within Douglass Park, home to Riot Fest.
It’s Spring, Time To Live Laugh Riot Fest
Available while supplies lastYou know what time of the year it is… today is Black Friday, and we’ve got deals, exclusive (and limited quantity) holiday merch, re-stocked popular items from this year’s Riot Fest, and a few of our greatest hits from the past
Your Favorite Bands’ Favorite Band – An Interview with Jimmy Flemion of The Frogs
The world had never experienced a band quite like The FrogsBrothers Jimmy and Dennis Flemion emerged from Milwaukee with a joyful love of music and a defiant, provocative spirit that made them impossible to ignore. (The silver lamé suits and giant bat wings didn’t hurt, either.) While their work courted controversy and ruffled feathers in right-wing circles, it also resonated with some of the era’s…
Photos: The Wonder Years, Hot Mulligan, Carly Cosgrove at Concord Music Hall, 03.16.23
Pics of the bands and you at Concord Music HallPhotos from the weekday soldout show at Concord Music Hall with The Wonder Years, Hot Mulligan, and Carly Cosgrove. Photos by Michael Herrick. Did you take pics at the show? Include it in the gallery by uploading it to us here.
Music For Mall Goths – A Playlist By Softcult
See Softcult + Soft Blue Shimmer in a few weeks at Cobra LoungeIn just a few weeks, Softcult will stop in Chicago at Cobra Lounge for a show with Soft Blue Shimmer–capping off the end of another season of intermittent sunshine, rain, or snow, or hail and rain.. and snow here in the Midwest. And what better way to embrace your inner darkness than with a dreary…
Who The Heck Is Softcult?
See Softcult at Cobra Lounge March 24th with Soft Blue ShimmerIf you spent any part of your teenage years trying to ride escalators in platform boots, Softcult is for you. But while the Canadian duo describes themselves as “music for mall goths,” they might be selling themselves a bit short. Their sound transcends food courts and fluorescent lighting with layered sonic landscapes that will remind…
