riot fest

4.27.2025 History Of Alternative

April 27, 2025 | bphillips

Radiohead, The Cure, Rancid and Letters To Cleo in this set, album anniversaries for Live, Porno For Pyros, The Posies, Taking Back Sunday and Cypress Hill, plus tunes from Riot Fest 2025 bands: Green Day, Weezer, Bad Religion, Helmet and Alkaline Trio.

Fest Fest 2025

Each week will be a different festival!
Monday through Friday, four times a day, at 8:00am, 11:00am, 2:00pm, and 5:00pm, we’ll have your chance to win 1-Day Riot Fest tickets and qualify for a trip to one of these amazing music festivals!

Riot Fest Day 2 – Douglas Park

September 25, 2024 | ageshel

Riot Fest Day 2 was a great time with some great bands! Check out our gallery here!

Riot Fest Day 1 – Douglas Park

September 21, 2024 | ageshel

Check out are sick Day 1 of Riot Fest Gallery!

St.Vincent – Metro

September 18, 2024 | ageshel

St.Vincent is kicking off the Riot Fest After Shows early with a sold-out show at the Metro on a Wednesday night! Check out the gallery here!

9.15.2024 History Of Alternative

September 15, 2024 | bphillips

Pearl Jam, The Pixies, Hole and Fiona Apple in this set, album anniversaries for Arcade Fire, Social D, Muse, Jet and Cake, plus music from Riot Fest 2024 bands: Beck, Fall Out Boy, Sum 41, St. Vincent, Sincere Engineer, Beach Bunny, The Offspring, Cypress Hill, Face To Face, Sublime and NOFX.

Sublime perform “Feel Like That” on Fallon

July 10, 2024 | bphillips

Jakob Nowell made his late-night TV debut fronting Sublime. WATCH the performance here. See Sublime at Riot Fest in September.

6.16.2024 History Of Alternative

June 16, 2024 | bphillips

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.

RIOT FEST RETROSPECTIVE

September 22, 2023 | Web Team

9.17.2023 History Of Alternative

September 17, 2023 | bphillips

Jane’s Addiction, Oasis, Primus, Paramore and Nine Inch Nails in this set, album anniversaries for Nirvana, Social D, Cake, Liz Phair, Pearl Jam and Green Day, plus bands playing Riot Fest today: The Cure, AFI and The Dresden Dolls.

A new documentary about The Mars Volta and At The Drive-In to premiere in October.

September 14, 2023 | bphillips

WATCH; The trailer for ‘Omar And Cedric: If This Ever Gets Weird’ here. It features decades worth of footage recorded by Omar Rodríguez-López.

Riot Fest 101 playlist

September 10, 2023 | bphillips

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.

9.10.2023 History Of Alternative

September 10, 2023 | bphillips

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.

Riot Mike on Riot Fest

September 8, 2023 | bphillips

Riot Mike spoke with Brian Phillips about this year’s Riot Fest and shared some very cool and fascinating stories. Listen to the conversation here.

9.3.2023 History Of Alternative

September 3, 2023 | bphillips

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.

The Riot Fest daily schedule is here!

August 30, 2023 | <3 Lauren

And win a pair of 3-day passes!

8.27.2023 History Of Alternative

August 27, 2023 | bphillips

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”.