Christmas has moved from December to May this year, and tonight is the night Santa gives us all the one thing we have been demanding: The lineups for Riot Fest 2015. The final lineup to be revealed tonight, May 27, was for the Chicago event, which takes place Sept. 11-13. Additional bands and details will be revealed […]
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Riot Fest Denver 2015 Lineup Revealed
May 27th, 2015 
James Shotwell Christmas has moved from December to May this year, and tonight is the night Santa gives us all the one thing we have been demanding: The lineups for Riot Fest 2015. The second lineup to be revealed tonight, May 27, was for the Denver event, which takes place August 28-30. Additional bands and details will be revealed in the coming […]
Riot Fest Toronto 2015 Lineup Revealed
May 27th, 2015 James Shotwell Christmas has moved from December to May this year, and tonight is the night Santa gives us all the one thing we have been demanding: The lineups for Riot Fest 2015. The first lineup to be revealed tonight, May 27, was for the Toronto event, which takes place September 19-20. Additional bands and details will […]
Riot Fest Lineups Coming Next Week, Chicago Venue Announced
May 20th, 2015 James Shotwell With all the summer festival announcements as of late, there has been a clear absence of updates from the Riot Fest team. The 2014 schedule came out during the second week of May last year, but the crew behind the multi-city event needed a little more time before revealing the 2015 installment, which will again […]
Riot Fest, Lollapalooza To Owe An Estimated $440,000 For Park Repairs
November 9th, 2014 Matthew Leimkuehler There is a price to pay for punk rock and it sings in the tune of roughly $182,000. That’s the estimate, according to the Chicago Tribune, of repair costs to Humboldt Park after Riot Fest Chicago suffered from a massive rain downpour on its 2014 opening night. The $182,000 comes at nearly triple last year’s […]
UTG INTERVIEW: Mineral @ Riot Fest Chicago
October 6th, 2014 Corey From Nostalgia is something special, especially to the music scene. Memories are tied to bands that have become defunct, and have gone to do other things. That’s what makes the reunions of those bands so special. It brings a crazy amount of people together to cherish a special occasion that may never happen again. The reunion […]
LIVE REVIEW: Riot Fest Denver (Days 2 & 3)
September 26th, 2014 James Shotwell I was so proud of myself for waking up the morning after my first night at Riot Fest Denver and cranking out my review of ‘Day 1’ that I believed wholeheartedly I would be able to repeat that act the following two days. “I’ll be the first to press ‘post’ out of every journalist there,” […]
UTG INTERVIEW: New Found Glory @ Riot Fest Chicago 2014
September 25th, 2014 Matthew Leimkuehler Rock bottom. That’s the best way to describe where New Found Glory sat in their career earlier this year. Accusations surrounding the abrupt departure of a former member whirled around the band — causing chaos like nothing any artist wants to see in a tenured career. It would have been so easy for our favorite […]
UTG INTERVIEW: Modern Baseball @ Riot Fest Chicago 2014
September 25th, 2014 Corey From Modern Baseball is, by and large, one of the most important breakthrough artists of this year. If their first album, Sports, didn’t prove that, the band’s 2014 release of You’re Gonna Miss It All should have. Not only is their recorded music perfect for singing along and laughing, but this honest and witty four-piece perfects […]
UTG INTERVIEW: John Nolan of Taking Back Sunday @ Riot Fest Chicago
September 24th, 2014 Corey From Taking Back Sunday have had a crazy year. They released a criminally underrated album (Happiness Is…), a split 10″ with The Used, and embarked on a huge, extensive tour that has lasted nearly all year, including all three Riot Fest dates. And they’re not done. They’ll cross the pond and play shows over in Europe […]
RIOT FEST CHICAGO: The Good, The Bad, And The Totally Weird
September 22nd, 2014 Matthew Leimkuehler Alternative music fans far and wide congregated in The Windy City Sept. 12-14 for the greatest punk rock show on Earth, Riot Fest Chicago. The weekend was imaginably filled with amazing sets, carnival rides, beer, and deep fried everything. This year’s Riot Fest Chicago was comprised of hundreds of bands, 7 stages (8 on Friday […]
LIVE REVIEW: Riot Fest Denver (Day 1)
September 20th, 2014 James Shotwell I missed Riot Fest 2013, and to be honest I spent the first six months after it took place kicking myself for having not attended. When the 2014 installment was unveiled, I knew this would be the year I finally made the trek. Chicago was my first choice, but due to some family related issues […]