Riot Fest is a punk, rock and alternative music festival formed in Chicago in 2005. The festival proposes a diverse lineup consisting of buzzed-about reunions, one-offs, special guest appearances and popular punk mainstays. Incarnations of Riot Fest are also held in Denver and Toronto. Despite the multi-city expansion Chicago has remained the festival’s flagship event with nearly three times as many bands as the others.
Ticket Price: $99.98 (Early Bird)
Headliners
Festival lineup
- 7 Seconds
- 88 Fingers Louie
- Alkaline Trio
- American Nightmare
- Andrew WK
- Anthrax
- Babes in Toyland
- Bayside
- Beach Slang
- Benjamin Booker
- Black Lips
- Bootsy Collins' Rubber Band
- Broadway Calls
- Cayetana
- Chef'Special
- Cloud Cult
- Coheed and Cambria
- Cold War Kids
- Cypress Hill
- De La Soul
- Death Grips
- Desaparecidos
- Doomtree
- Drive Like Jehu
- Eagles of Death Metal
- Explosions in the Sky
- Flogging Molly
- GWAR
- GZA
- Ice Cube
- Iggy Pop
- Iration
- Jazz Cartier
- Joyce Manor
- Kongos
- L7
- Less Than Jake
- Main Attrakionz
- Millencolin
- Modest Mouse
- Motorhead
- Nada Surf
- OFF!
- PUP
- Pixies
- Rancid (...And Out Come the Wolves)
- Reverend Horton Heat
- Run-DMC
- Snoop Dogg
- Speedy Ortiz
- Swervedriver
- System of a Down
- Teenage Bottlerocket
- Tenacious D
- Testament
- The Airborne Toxic Event
- The Damned
- The Dead Milkmen
- The Get Up Kids
- The Joy Formidable
- The Lawrence Arms
- The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
- The Prodigy
- The Vandals
- Thrice
- White Mystery
- Yelawolf
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
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