Riot Fest celebrates its 15th anniversary with an epic 3-day festival that spans eras, genres and description. This year’s event runs from Friday 9/13/19-9/15/19, and includes:
BLINK-182, SLAYER (final Chicago & Milwaukee show), BIKINI KILL, THE RACONTEURS, RISE AGAINST, THE FLAMING LIPS (performing Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robot), JAWBREAKER, WEEN (performing The Mollusk) BLOC PARTY (performing Silent Alarm), DIE ANTWOORD, PATTI SMITH AND HER BAND, TAKING BACK SUNDAY (performing Tell All Your Friends and Louder Now), RANCID, VIOLENT FEMMES, DESCENDENTS, MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA, THE B-52s, DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL (performing The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most), THE STRUTS, AGAINST ME! (performing Reinventing Axl Rose and Transgender Dysphoria Blues), PVRIS, THE STARTING LINE, THE STORY SO FAR, AVAIL (performing Over The James), PENNYWISE, COCK SPARRER, STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO, ANTHRAX, NECK DEEP, BOB MOULD, HOT SNAKES, AMERICAN FOOTBALL, GUIDED BY VOICES, RIDE, LUCERO, TESTAMENT, ANDREW W.K., SENSES FAIL (performing Let It Enfold You and From The Depths Of Dreams), THE GET UP KIDS, VILLAGE PEOPLE, LESS THAN JAKE, HOT WATER MUSIC, GLASSJAW (performing Worship & Tribute), GWAR, THE SELECTER (performing Too Much Pressure), ANTI-FLAG, NICK LOWE w/ LOS STRAITJACKETS, TURNOVER, THE DAMNED THINGS, CURSIVE, TURNSTILE, SURFER BLOOD, THE ERGS!, SAVE FERRIS, FRANK IERO AND THE FUTURE VIOLENTS, WHITE REAPER, GRANDSON, H2O, I DON’T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME, HOT MULLIGAN, THE HU, TEENAGE BOTTLEROCKET, PROF, CHERRY GLAZERR, DAVE HAUSE & THE MERMAID, THIS WILD LIFE, THE GARDEN, DRAKULAS, DEAD SWORDS, CAN’T SWIM, CAROLINE ROSE, THE BEACHES, MAT KEREKES, ANGEL DU$T, MICROWAVE, PKEW PKEW PKEW, SINCERE ENGINEER, SKATING POLLY, NO PARENTS, ULTRA Q, LANDO CHILL, CLEOPATRICK, ELDER BROTHER, THIN LIPS, CHAOS CHAOS, KALI MASI, YOURS TRULY, GANSER, RAMONA
So much to unpack here: Blink makes good on last year’s absence… Slayer makes a deal to permanently destroy our hearing… The Raconteurs return to Chicago after close to a decade away from the stage… Flaming Lips play “Yoshimi” in its entirety… Against Me! returns… heritage groundbreakers Violent Femmes, the B-52s and Patti Smith get set to remind us all of where a lot of this started… The Hu is the best Mongolian band ever… And Rise Against raises the Chicago flag over the whole damn thing, with a songbook built on punk roots, social consciousness and arena-ready hooks.
Just to confirm: Slayer, the Village People and Rise Against are all playing the same festival. We live in an age of wonders.
And yeah, we love this year’s line-up… especially because it includes lots of old friends!
Watch Tim from Rise Against on stage with Billy Corgan at The Nights We Stole Christmas last year:
Watch Dashboard Confessional perform “Vindicated” in #TheLounge:
Watch The Struts perform “Kiss This” in #TheLounge:
