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.
Weezer, The Cure, Blur and Alice In Chains in this set, album anniversaries for Depeche Mode, Dinosaur Jr., Rancid, Jane’s Addiction and Jack’s Mannequin, plus Nine Inch Nails, They Might Be Giants, Letters To Cleo and cool covers from Soup Dragons and Siouxsie And The Banshees.
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.
U2’s “New Year’s Day”, Blink 182, Nine Inch Nails and The Ramones in this set along with Weezer, Cake, Liz Phair and New Order, plus Oasis, The Flaming Lips, Letters To Cleo and “3 Strange Days” from School Of Fish.
Beck, Green Day, The Smiths and Veruca Salt in this set, album anniversaries for Nirvana, Interpol, Depeche Mode, Soul Coughing, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Foo Fighters, STP and Weezer, plus U2, Blink 182, Paramore and They Might Be Giants.
Beastie Boys, Blondie, The Cure and Luscious Jackson in this set, album anniversaries for Jane’s Addiction, Depeche Mode, Dinosaur Jr., Rancid, Coldplay and Jack’s Mannequin, plus Riot Fest bands: Nine Inch Nails, Yeah Yeah Yeahs and Jimmy Eat World.
Depeche Mode, The Smiths, Alice In Chains and Alanis in this set, album anniversaries for Radiohead, Everclear, A Perfect Circle, Soundgarden, Gorillaz and The Cure, plus cool covers from Orgy and Cowboy Junkies and Wheatus’ “Teenage Dirtbag”.
Weezer, Radiohead, Beck and Alice In Chains in this set along with U2, Nine Inch Nails, Local H and XTC, plus The Breeders, Beastie Boys, Orgy’s cover of “Blue Monday” and all the glam goodness of The Darkness.
Beck, Blink 182, Bad Religion and Blondie in this set along with Radiohead, 311, Social D and Garbage, plus Siouxsie And The Banshees, Devo, Matthew Sweet and some quality cha-cha-chaing with Caviar’s “Tangerine Speedo”.
