It’s Riot Fest week!! The Chicago festival is best known for putting together some of the nation’s best lineups year after year, bringing back iconic bands for special reunions along the way, and the 2017 edition is right up there among their best ever. We’ve been attending the […]
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Riot Fest time is almost here and to help build up the hype they have revealed their aftershows lineup. While the party at Douglas Park wraps up by 10:00pm a month from now, fans will be able to keep enjoying live performances from this year’s lineup at the Riot
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Just a day after revealing Danzig had been added to this year’s roster and announcing the single-day lineups, Riot Fest has unveiled the remaining two acts that will do full-album performances this year. The final two albums to be performed in full are Danzig III: How the Gods Kill and Enter the Wu-Tang
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The 2017 edition of Riot Fest is taking shape today with the announcement of the single-day lineups. Along with the breakdown of which day artists like A Day To Remember, Vic Mensa, At The Drive In, Paramore, Prophets of Rage, M.I.A., and New Order are performing, but the
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Riot Fest 2017 got a big update with their second round of lineup announcements, which added more than 20 bands including At The Drive In and Best Coast. This year’s lineup was already making Riot Fest a contender of music festival of the year when the first announcement
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Happy Riot Fest lineup announcement day! OK, that doesn’t have a good ring to it, but WGAF when you finally get the first wave lineup announcement today… Nine Inch Nails (Friday), Queens Of The Stone Age (Saturday), and the exclusive reunion of pioneering punk band Jawbreaker will all
So long @RiotFest!! @themisfits close things off with "Attitude" pic.twitter.com/cThBKkDt00 — Pursuit of Dopeness (@PursuitDopeness) September 19, 2016 If you, like us, were at the Riot Stage for the closing act of Riot Fest 2016, you got to see The Original Misfits play only their second show together
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Sunday kicked off with beautiful weather and excellent performances from Billy Talent, Juliette and the Licks, Thursday, Andrew W.K, and The Wonder Years. Unfortunately the Joey Badass performance was marred by audio difficulties, but Joey still soldiered through to perform “Christ Conscious” and some new bangers. The Deftones
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Starting in 2005 as a multi-venue Chicago based festival, Riot Fest has since grown to a multi city festival showcasing current and past Punk, Rock and Hip Hop Acts. It has long been a POD favorite thanks to the outstanding lineups, and the excellent crowd atmosphere that can
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We all know #RiotFestSucks, so how about a little something to have you complain about it some more? Well today we finally get the daily schedule for Riot Fest Chicago, featuring tons of sweet, delicious time conflicts between some of our favorite acts playing this year! These are
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