Riot Fest is a multi-day music festival specializing in rock, punk, alternative rock, and hip hop. The 2017 festival takes place September 15th – 17th at Douglas Park in Chicago.
Ticket Price: $189.98 (GA); $329.98 (VIP)
Headliners
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Festival lineup
- A Day to Remember
- Action Bronson
- Alice Bag
- Andrew W.K.
- At the Drive-In
- Bad Brains
- Bayside (Performing The Walking Wounded)
- Beach Slang
- Best Coast
- Built to Spill (Performing Keep It Like A Secret)
- Buzzcocks
- Cap’n Jazz
- Cockney Rejects
- Danzig performing (Danzig III: How the Gods Kill)
- Dead Cross
- Death From Above 1979
- Dessa
- Dinosaur Jr. (Performing You’re Living All Over Me)
- Dirty Heads
- Downtown Boys
- Engine 88
- FIDLAR
- Fishbone (Performing Truth & Soul)
- Four Year Strong
- GBH
- GWAR
- Gogol Bordello
- Grayscale
- Hot Water Music
- Jawbreaker
- Knuckle Puck
- Liars
- M.I.A.
- Mad Caddies
- Mayday Parade (Performing A Lesson In Romantics)
- Mike D (DJ Set)
- Ministry
- Minus the Bear
- New Found Glory
- New Order
- Nine Inch Nails
- Nothing More
- Paramore
- Peaches
- Pennywise
- Potty Mouth
- Prophets of Rage
- Queens of the Stone Age
- Radar State
- Saul Williams
- Say Anything
- Shabazz Palaces
- Slaves
- Streetlight Manifesto
- TV on the Radio
- Taking Back Sunday
- That Dog. (Performing Retreat From the Sun)
- The Casualties
- The Cribs
- The Flatliners
- The Hotelier
- The Lawrence Arms (Performing Oh, Calcutta!)
- The Menzingers
- The Mighty Mighty Bosstones (Performing Let’s Face It)
- The Orwells
- The Smith Street Band
- The Story So Far
- The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black
- Tobacco
- Vic Mensa
- Wu-Tang Clan (performing Enter the Wu-Tang (36 Chambers))
- X
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Festival News and Rumors

Austin City Limits' 2022 Livestream to Feature Paramore, Kacey Musgraves, The Chicks & More
You can also watch sets by Marcus Mumford, The War on Drugs, Billy Strings, Flume, and Goose.
Consequence Staff October 6, 2022

The What Podcast: Mat Kearney Talks Cover Songs, His Career Journey, and More at Moon River Festival
Barry and Lord Taco also touch on how the festival handled its Sunday rainout.
Ben Kaye September 14, 2022
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First Pantera Reunion Shows Announced for Slipknot's South American Knotfests and Mexico's Hell & Heaven Fest
Jon Hadusek August 25, 2022

2022 Zona Music Festival: Beach House, Portugal. the Man, and Bleachers Lead Lineup
Carys Anderson August 24, 2022

Police Believe They Stopped Potential Mass Shooting at Bass Canyon EDM Festival
Abby Jones August 21, 2022
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