Beastie Boys, Bad Religion, Fiona Apple and Afghan Whigs in this set, album anniversaries for The Pixies, Violent Femmes, Hole, Hum and Foo Fighters, plus Blink-182, 311, Gang Of Four, Eve 6, Stroke 9, The 1975, Haircut 100 and Apollo 440
Beck, Buffalo Tom, Veruca Salt and The Replacements in this set, album anniversaries for Our Lady Peace, Queens Of The Stone Age, Social D, STP, Taking Back Sunday and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, plus Pearl Jam, The Pixies, Tori Amos, Joy Division and The Gaslight Anthem.
Green Day, The Breeders, Nirvana and Veruca Salt in this set, album anniversaries for Soundgarden, Cracker, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Bravery, AFI, Kaiser Chiefs and Tears For Fears, plus U2, 311, The Stone Roses and Luscious Jackson.
A Valentine’s Day themed show with “love” tunes from Beck, Depeche Mode, Paramore and The Pretenders, plus Pearl Jam, Paul Westerberg, Weezer and Mazzy Star, cool covers from Nirvana, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Cake and Bow Wow Wow along with Blink-182, The 1975, Haircut 100 and Zero 7.
Oasis, XTC, Nine Inch Nails and The Breeders in this set along with New Order, Sonic Youth, Jimmy Eat World and The Ting Tings, plus Beck, Beastie Boys, Bjork, Soundgarden and They Might Be Giants.
Beck, Beastie Boys, Weezer and The Pretenders in this set, album anniversaries for Foo Fighters, Alanis, Alice In Chains, Rage Against The Machine, Fiona Apple and R.E.M., plus Pearl Jam, They Might Be Giants, Blur and Siouxsie And The Banshees
Beastie Boys, Weezer, STP and Siouxsie And The Banshees in this set, album anniversaries for Green Day, Soundgarden, No Doubt, The Lemonheads, Hot Hot Heat, Rise Against, The Afghan Whigs, Death Cab For Cutie and Cake, plus Pearl Jam, Depeche Mode, Alkaline Trio and Ned’s Atomic Dustbin.
The Cure, Bad Religion, Alice In Chains and PJ Harvey in this set, album anniversaries for U2, STP, Beck, Green Day, Oasis and Radiohead, plus Depeche Mode, Rancid, cool covers from Blondie and Social D along with Blink-182, The Smiths and The Dandy Warhols.
The Replacements, Alice In Chains, The Breeders and Veruca Salt in this set, album anniversaries for Pearl Jam, Oasis, Queens Of The Stone Age, Cracker, OK Go, Coldplay and Death Cab For Cutie, plus Weezer, Nine Inch Nails, Marvelous 3 and Catherine Wheel.
Radiohead, Green Day, Paramore and The Breeders in this set, album anniversaries for Sponge, Gin Blossoms, 311, Arcade Fire and Sheryl Crow, plus Blink-182, Morrissey and music from the first day of MTV in 1981: The Buggles, Blondie, Split Enz and The Vapors.
The Cure, Garbage, The Pixies and Our Lady Peace in this set, album anniversaries for Alanis, Beck, Blink-182, Brand New, STP, The Shins, Nada Surf, and The White Stripes, plus bands playing Riot Fest 2024: NOFX, Spoon, Fall Out Boy, Sublime, Manchester Orchestra and Pavement.
Beastie Boys, Blondie, Sublime and They Might Be Giants in this set, album anniversaries for The Clash, Death Cab For Cutie, Primus, Green Day, Spoon, Keane and 3 different Weezer albums, plus a few Happy Mother’s Day “Mom” tunes from Fountains Of Wayne, twenty one pilots, U2, Panic! At The Disco and “Mother” from Danzig!
Oasis, Weezer, Hole and Fiona Apple in this set, album anniversaries for Nine Inch Nails, Fall Out Boy, The Cure, New Order, The Stone Roses, Sonic Youth and The Dandy Warhols, cool covers from Nirvana and Mike Ness, plus Jimmy Eat World, XTC, Morrissey and The Pretenders.
Beastie Boys, The Breeders, R.E.M. and The Ramones in this set, album anniversaries for Soundgarden, Nine Inch Nails, Evanescence, U2, Sinead O’Connor, Jack Johnson and Kaiser Chiefs, plus Our Lady Peace, Buffalo Tom, Urge Overkill, Save Ferris, Fugazi and The Psychedelic Furs.
Beck, Foo Fighters, The Breeders and The Cure in this set, album anniversaries for The Replacements and Green Day’s “Dookie”, plus U2, Eve 6, Nine Inch Nails, Korn, Social D, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Echo And The Bunnymen and The Pixies.
Radiohead, The Cure, STP and The Stone Roses in this set along with Depeche Mode, Paramore, Siouxsie And The Banshees and Garbage, album anniversaries for Spoon and They Might Be Giants, plus U2, 311, Nine Inch Nails, Our Lady Peace and Orgy’s cover of “Blue Monday”
Beastie Boys, The Breeders, Depeche Mode and Dinosaur Jr. in this set, album anniversaries for Alanis, Alice In Chains, Fiona Apple, Foo Fighters, Rage Against The Machine and R.E.M., plus Bjork, Oasis, Our Lady Peace and Crazy Town’s “Butterfly”.
Cake, Pearl Jam, Veruca Salt and Social D in this set, album anniversaries for No Doubt, Green Day, U2, 311, Radiohead, Rise Against, The Lemonheads, Soundgarden and Hot Hot Heat, plus Weezer, Our Lady Peace, Against Me! and Blur’s Parklife (watch the video here)
The playlist from tonight’s two hour preview of the music you’ll hear next weekend in Douglass Park + listen to Riot Mike talk about all things Riot Fest with Brian Phillips here.