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
Dethklok and Run the Jewels Top the Bill for 2022 Adult Swim Festival Block Party
The three-day fest will be staged across multiple venues August 5th-7th in Philadelphia.
Spencer Kaufman May 18, 2022
Music Midtown 2022: Jack White, MCR, Fall Out Boy, and More to Play Atlanta Fest
Alex Young May 17, 2022
Chemical Brothers, M.I.A., Flume, Jamie xx to Play Inaugural Portola Music Festival in San Francisco
Alex Young May 16, 2022
Reunited Sunny Day Real Estate Added to Furnace Fest Lineup
The emo pioneers are making their first live appearances since 2010.
Jon Hadusek May 12, 2022
Riot Fest 2022 Lineup: MCR, Misfits, Nine Inch Nails, Bauhaus, Sunny Day Real Estate & More
Carys Anderson May 11, 2022