riot fest

Dive Into Tiny Moving Parts’ New Video for “Always Focused”

As of today, our good friends in Tiny Moving Parts have released their sophomore album Pleasant Living through Triple Crown Records, but not without also putting out a wet and wild music video for their single “Always Focused.” The trio decided to partner with Kyle Thrash for this project, who some might remember as the […]

FESTIVAL PREVIEW: Six Reasons Why Riot Fest Chicago Will Be Your Busiest Weekend This Year

As with most festival or multiple-stage concerts, you’re forced to make choices. And that’s the exciting part of squeezing in as much music as you can in a single weekend. That means it’s a great lineup and you are always consuming music…great music. Riot Fest Chicago is no exception to this rule. This year, for […]

Riot Fest Release Chicago and Denver Set Times

The moment is finally here — we can all start budgeting and planning our weekends for Chicago and Denver Riot Fest stops. The greatest punk rock show in North America, Riot Fest has a stacked lineup at both festivals including the likes of The Cure, Slayer, The National, The Flaming Lips, Weezer, Say Anything, Taking […]

Circa Survive Announce Brief Tour with Pianos Become The Teeth

Doylestown, PA five-piece Circa Survive announced that they’ll be playing a few shows in September with post-hardcore outfit Pianos Become The Teeth. Circa Survive are playing both Toronto’s Riot Fest as well as the Chicago Riot Fest date, where the brief stint of shows begins and ends, respectively. Check out the poster with dates below. […]

Riot Fest Denver Announces New Venue

The fears of cancellation can now be put to rest, Riot Fest fans. Your favorite music festival is still coming to Colorado September 19-21, and they’ve found an even better venue to host the event. According to a statement released today, Riot Fest will be moving from May Farms in Byers, Colorado over to Sports […]

Denver Riot Fest Denied Permit, Will Search For New Location

Arapahoe County, Colorado has denied Riot Fest‘s request for a temporary-use permit to stage their 3-day music festival on September 19-21 in the small town of Byers. Riot Fest was set to return to the same May Farms location where the festival took place in 2013, but locals began expressing concerns about the return of […]

Tiny Moving Parts Announce New Album, ‘Pleasant Living’

A little over a year after bursting onto the independent music scene, Tiny Moving Parts have announced plans to release their Sophomore album later this year through Triple Crown Records. Pleasant Living was recorded by J. Robbins at his Magpie Cage Studios in Baltimore earlier this year. The album finds the Minnesota based group building […]

Weezer Announce New Album Title

Weezer is back and set to have a busy year. Not only will they be busy rehearsing some older songs for Riot Fest, but it’s clear that we’ll see a new album this year. Earlier this year, they posted a teaser regarding such release. Well, now we have been presented with a new teaser, and […]

Riot Fest Chicago Lineup Grows To 124 Bands, Adds Say Anything And More

Riot Fest Chicago is the elephant in the room all other festivals must recognize and then drop to their knees and worship. The initial lineup announcement which included 110 bands, almost shut down the alternative music blogosphere when released. Now, with three months to go until launch, the organizers for Riot Fest Chicago have revealed […]

The Get Up Kids, Weezer, Descendents And More To Perform Full Albums At Riot Fest

It’s not like Riot Fest needed to get any better. The incredible lineups for the Chicago and Denver weekends of the annual festival were revealed earlier this week, and the initial tiers of tickets are long sold out, but the festival made yet another spectacular announcement today. In honor of Riot Fest’s tenth anniversary, ten […]

LISTEN: Failure Releases “Come Crashing,” Their First New Song In Eighteen Years

Failure is an influential alternative rock band that disbanded in 1997, but recently reunited for a series of headline gigs that included a short run of dates opening for Tool. The band just kicked off the “Tree of Stars” tour, their first full tour of the States in 17 years. A tour-exclusive EP has been […]

Saosin Post “Seven Years” Rehearsal Video

Slowly but surely more and more dates are trickling in for Saosin and Anthony Green performing live together again. Skate and Surf Festival is this weekend; they also announced a few dates in June in Southern California. And just last night we found out that they would be appearing at Chicago’s Riot Fest. If the […]