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.
Depeche Mode, Weezer, Veruca Salt and New Order in this set, album anniversaries for Muse, Jet, Arcade Fire, Barenaked Ladies, The Black Keys and Red Hot Chili Peppers, plus Riot Fest bands Foo Fighters, The Cure, Queens Of The Stone Age, AFI, The Used, Death Cab For Cutie, The Gaslight Anthem and Flogging Molly.
Blink-182, Nine Inch Nails, Veruca Salt and Social D in this set, album anniversaries for Bad Religion, R.E.M., Hole, System Of A Down and Everlast, cool covers from STP and Smashing Pumpkins, plus Riot Fest 2023 bands The Cure, Queens Of The Stone Age, Death Cab For Cutie and Tegan And Sara.
Green Day, 311, Bjork and Soundgarden in this set, album anniversaries for Pearl Jam, Oasis, Queens Of the Stone Age, The Cure, Coldplay, Death Cab For Cutie, Blur and The Breeders, plus Radiohead, Buffalo Tom, Good Charlotte and Tripping Daisy’s “I Got A Girl”.
Weezer, Nine Inch Nails, Beastie Boys and Blondie in this set, album anniversaries for Garbage, Rancid, Red Hot Chili Peppers and The Eels, plus Social D, Urge Overkill, The Breeders and Green Day’s “Jesus Of Suburbia” (watch the video here)
Weezer, The Cure, Garbage and Sinead O’Connor in this set, album anniversaries for The Strokes, Sublime, Sponge, Sheryl Crow and Silversun Pickups, plus music from the first day of MTV (8/1/81) Split Enz, The Vapors, The Pretenders and The Buggles’ “Video Killed The Radio Star” (watch the video here)
The Cure, Nine Inch Nails, The Breeders and Bad Religion in this set, album anniversaries for The Flaming Lips, The Hives, Candlebox and Catherine Wheel, cool covers from Talking Heads, Orgy and Echo And The Bunnymen, plus The Pixies, Garbage and They Might Be Giants.
Foo Fighters guitarist’s new solo album “Lost At Sea” will be released in October. Check out the song “Damage Control” here. See him with Foo Fighters at Riot Fest in September.
Blur, Violent Femmes, Garbage and They Might Be Giants in this set, several songs from the Singles soundtrack and album anniversaries for Bjork, The Darkness, Foo Fighters, The White Stripes and The Prodigy, plus 311, Blondie, Bad Religion and “4th Of July” from the band X. (watch the video here)
Weezer, Oasis, Beastie Boys and The Breeders in this set, album anniversaries for Sonic Youth, Rancid, Cage The Elephant and The B-52’s, plus 311, XTC, The Stone Roses, Garbage and Against Me!
Green Day, STP, Garbage and The Pixies in this set, album anniversaries for The Killers, Nirvana, Velvet Revolver, Radiohead, Paul Westerberg, Beastie Boys and Bjork, plus Pearl Jam, Our Lady Peace, PJ Harvey and Siouxsie And The Banshees.
STP, Green Day, Garbage and The Cranberries in this set, album anniversaries for Sublime, The Lemonheads, Blink-182, Smashing Pumpkins, Coldplay, The White Stripes and Talking Heads, plus The Cure, Catherine Wheel and Baz Luhrmann’s “Everybody’s Free To Wear Sunscreen”. (watch the video here)
Weezer, Veruca Salt, Cake and Depeche Mode in this set, album anniversaries for Beastie Boys’ “Ill Communication” and The Smashing Pumpkins’ “Gish”, plus Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Liz Phair and The Donnas!
Beastie Boys, Garbage, 311 and Nine Inch Nails in this set, album anniversaries for Radiohead, Soundgarden, The Cure, Gorillaz and A Perfect Circle, plus Riot Fest bands The Cure, Death Cab For Cutie, Foo Fighters, The Breeders, The Mars Volta, Frank Turner and The Breeders.
Beck, Depeche Mode, Blondie and No Doubt in this set, album anniversaries for Weezer, Green Day, Linkin Park, Primus and The Fixx, cool covers from Cake and Talking Heads, plus Mother’s Day favs from Fountains Of Wayne, Chvrches, Scissor Sisters, Outkast and Danzig!
Beck, Social D, Garbage and Oasis in this set, album anniversaries for Faith No More, Fall Out Boy, New Order, Nine Inch Nails, The Stone Roses and the Dandy Warhols, plus U2, Marvelous 3, Stroke 9 and Mazzy Star’s “Fade Into You”
Throw back to when Lead singer of the Foo Fighters Dave Grohl made his way onto “Hot Ones” last year after being one of the most requested guests by the fans. This video popped up on the YouTube homepage and it still holds up as one of the most entertaining “Hot Ones” interviews ever. Dave…
Weezer, STP, The Breeders and Dinosaur Jr in this set, album anniversaries for Beastie Boys, R.E.M., Radiohead, Taking Back Sunday, World Party and The Posies, plus Porno For Pyros, Siouxsie And The Banshees, Yeah Yeah Yeahs (watch the Heads Will Roll video here) and Rage Against The Machine.
Beck, Social D, Sonic Youth and The Replacements in this set, album anniversaries for The Pixies, Rage Against The Machine, Live, The Cure and Depeche Mode, plus Pearl Jam, Garbage, Material Issue and we did it all for…Limp Bizkit! (revisit the Nookie video here)