Festival Hub: Riot Fest

The Scene: For fans of punk, alt rock, and artists you won’t see on other festival lineups, Riot Fest should be on your bucket list. Started as a showcase festival in Chicago in 2005, Riot Fest has transformed into a multi-day outdoor festival and has spawned editions in Toronto and Denver. The original in Chicago’s Humbolt Park remains the best and most solid lineup of the bunch.

Riot Fest Chicago 2024: September 20-22, 2024
  • Slayer
Riot Fest Chicago 2023: September 15-17, 2023
Riot Fest Chicago 2022: September 16-18, 2022
  • 7 Seconds
  • Action Bronson
  • Alexisonfire
  • Algiers
  • Alice Glass
  • Alkaline Trio
  • Anberlin
  • Aviva
  • Bad Religion
  • Bauhaus
  • Bleachers
  • Bob Vylan
  • Boston Manor
  • Brae
  • Bridge City Sinners
  • Bully
  • carolesdaughter
  • Charlotte Sands
  • Chastity
  • Cliffdiver
  • Cloud Nothings
  • Concrete Castles
  • Descendents
  • Destroy Boys
  • FEAR
  • Foxy Shazam
  • GWAR
  • Holy Fawn
  • Ice Cube
  • Jake Hill
  • Jawbox
  • Jeff Rosenstock
  • Jimmy Eat World
  • Joey Valence
  • Josh A
  • Juliana Theory
  • jxdn
  • Kid Sistr
  • Lagwagon
  • Less Than Jake
  • LS Dunes
  • Lucky Boys Confusion
  • Lunachicks
  • Madball
  • Mannequin Pussy
  • Midtown
  • Mom Jeans
  • Moon Kissed
  • Movements
  • My Chemical Romance
  • Night Spice
  • Nine Inch Nails
  • No Trigger
  • Pale Waves
  • Placebo
  • Poorstacy
  • Portugal. The Man
  • PVRIS
  • Real Friends
  • Renforshort
  • Rocket From The Crypt
  • Save Face
  • Sincere Engineer
  • Sitting On Stacy
  • Skating Polly
  • Sleater-Kinney
  • Sunny Day Real Estate
  • Surfbort
  • The Academy Is…
  • The Bombpops
  • The Front Bottoms
  • The Get Up Kids
  • The Joy Formidable
  • The Linda Lindas
  • The Maine
  • The Menzingers
  • The Misfits
  • The Story So Far
  • The Wonder Years
  • Thick
  • together PANGEA
  • Treaty Of Paris
  • War On Women
  • WARGASM
  • Weathers
  • Yeah Yeah Yeahs
  • Yellowcard
  • Yungblud
Riot Fest Chicago 2021: September 16-19, 2021
Riot Fest Chicago 2019: September 13-15, 2019
  • Blink-182
  • Slayer
  • BIKINI KILL
  • THE RACONTEURS
  • Rise Against
  • The Flaming Lips
  • JAWBREAKER
  • Ween
  • Bloc Party
  • Wu-Tang Clan
  • PATTI SMITH AND HER BAND
  • TAKING BACK SUNDAY
  • Rancid
  • Violent Femmes
  • DESCENDENTS
  • MANCHESTER ORCHESTRA
  • THE B-52s,
  • DASHBOARD CONFESSIONAL
  • THE STORY SO FAR
  • AVAIL
  • THE STRUTS
  • AGAINST ME!
  • PVRIS
  • PENNYWISE
  • THE STARTING LINE
  • COCK SPARRER
  • STREETLIGHT MANIFESTO
  • Anthrax
  • NECK DEEP
  • BOB MOULD
  • HOT SNAKES
  • AMERICAN FOOTBALL
  • Guided By Voices
  • Ride
  • LUCERO
  • TESTAMENT
  • ANDREW W.K.
  • SENSES FAIL
  • THE GET UP KIDS
  • VILLAGE PEOPLE
  • Less Than Jake
  • HOT WATER MUSIC
  • GLASSJAW
  • GWAR
  • THE SELECTER
  • ANTI-FLAG
  • NICK LOWE w/LOS STRAITJACKETS
  • TURNOVER
  • THE DAMNED THINGS
  • CURSIVE
  • TURNSTILE
  • SURFER
  • BLOOD
  • THE ERGS!
  • SAVE FERRIS
  • FRANK IERO AND THE FUTURE VIOLENTS
  • WHITE REAPER
  • GRANDSON
  • H2O
  • I DON’T KNOW HOW BUT THEY FOUND ME
  • HOT MULLIGAN
  • THE HU
  • TEENAGE BOTTLEROCKET
  • PROF
  • CHERRY GLAZERR
  • DAVE HAUSE & THE MERMAID
  • THIS WILD LIFE
  • THE GARDEN
  • DRAKULAS
  • DEAD SWORDS
  • CAN’T SWIM
  • CAROLINE ROSE
  • THE BEACHES
  • MAT KEREKES
  • ANGEL DU$T
  • MICROWAVE
  • PKEW PKEW PKEW
  • SINCERE ENGINEER
  • SKATING POLLY
  • NO PARENTS
  • ULTRA Q
  • LANDO CHILL
  • CLEOPATRICK
  • ELDER BROTHER
  • THIN LIPS
  • CHAOS CHAOS
  • KALI MASI
  • YOURS TRULY
  • GANSER
  • RAMONA
Riot Fest Chicago 2018: September 14-16, 2018
Riot Fest Chicago 2017: September 15-17, 2017
  • Nine Inch Nails
  • Queens of the Stone Age
  • Jawbreaker
  • New Order
  • Paramore
  • Prophets of Rage
  • I.A.
  • Wu-Tang Clan
  • Mike D (DJ Set)
  • A Day To Remember
  • Gogol Bordello
  • Taking Back Sunday
  • Vic Mensa
  • Dirty Heads
  • TV on the Radio
  • Ministry
  • Dinosaur Jr.
  • New Found Glory
  • FIDLAR
  • Bad Brains
  • Death From Above 1979
  • Action Bronson
  • Pennywise
  • Built to Spill
  • X
  • Peaches
  • The Lawrence Arms
  • The Mighty Mighty Bosstones
  • The Orwells
  • Bayside
  • Say Anything
  • Mayday Parade
  • The Cribs
  • Streetlight Manifesto
  • Dead Cross
  • Minus the Bear
  • The Menzingers
  • LIARS
  • GWAR
  • Buzzcocks
  • GBH
  • Real Friends
  • Hot Water Music
  • Shabazz Palaces
  • Andrew W.K.
  • Fishbone
  • The Story So Far
  • State Champs
  • Four Year Strong
  • Beach Slang
  • that dog.
  • Knuckle Puck
  • Chon
  • Slaves
  • The Hotelier
  • The Flatliners
  • Dessa
  • Saul Williams
  • Engine 88
  • Nothing More
  • Alice Bag
  • Tobacco
  • Sleep On It
  • Downtown Boys
  • The Smith Street Band
  • The Regrettes
  • HDBeenDope
  • Gazebos
  • Kitten Forever
  • Hellzapoppin’ Circus Sideshow Revue
  • Ramones T-Shirt
  • Meat Is Burger
  • Ughh My Kids Are Here
  • The Port-A-Parties
Riot Fest Chicago 2016: September 16-18, 2016
  • THE ORIGINAL MISFITS (FEATURING GLENN DANZIG JERRY ONLY AND DOYLE WOLFGANG VON FRANKENSTEIN)
  • MORRISSEY
  • WEEN
  • DEATH CAB FOR CUTIE
  • ROB ZOMBIE
  • SOCIAL DISTORTION
  • BRAND NEW
  • NAS
  • THE SPECIALS
  • DEFTONES
  • FITZ & THE TANTRUMS
  • JIMMY EAT WORLD
  • DESCENDENTS
  • REFUSED
  • NOFX
  • BAD RELIGION
  • PIERCE THE VEIL
  • ALL TIME LOW
  • UNDEROATH
  • MOTION CITY SOUNDTRACK
  • THURSDAY
  • JAKE BUGG
  • THE HIVES
  • DEATH GRIPS
  • CHEVY METAL
  • BOB MOULD
  • THE HOLD STEADY
  • GLASSJAW
  • ME FIRST AND THE GIMME GIMMES
  • PEPPER
  • TIGER ARMY
  • MEAT PUPPETS
  • GZA
  • THE WONDER YEARS
  • METHOD MAN & REDMAN
  • DAN DEACON
  • DEE SNIDER
  • ANDREW W.K.
  • JOEY BADA$$
  • GWAR
  • LEFTÖVER CRACK
  • BILLY TALENT
  • THE ANNIVERSARY
  • NECK DEEP
  • HIGHLY SUSPECT
  • SMOKING POPES
  • FUCKED UP
  • THE VANDALS
  • THE DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN
  • GIRLS AGAINST BOYS
  • FU MANCHU
  • THE FALCON
  • I THE MIGHTY
  • THE TOASTERS
  • SET YOUR GOALS
  • JULIETTE LEWIS & THE LICKS
  • FRNKIERO ANDTHE CELLABRATION
  • TIGERS JAW
  • BASEMENT
  • CITIZEN
  • SWINGIN’ UTTERS
  • BIG D & THE KIDS TABLE
  • DIARRHEA PLANET
  • POUYA
  • TOUCHÉ AMORÉ
  • HIPPO CAMPUS
  • BALANCE & COMPOSURE
  • PEOPLE UNDER THE STAIRS
  • WHITE LUNG
  • DENZEL CURRY
  • JESSICA HERNANDEZ & THE DELTAS
  • TURNOVER
  • VIOLENT SOHO
  • DEE-1
  • BLEACHED
  • BRICK + MORTAR
  • NIGHT RIOTS
  • PLAGUE VENDOR
  • OFF WITH THEIR HEADS
  • HOLY WHITE HOUNDS
  • LAURA STEVENSON
  • SOMOS
  • TANCRED
  • MICROWAVE
  • DEAL’S GONE BAD
  • DEATH SPELLS
  • 3TEETH
  • BLACK FOXXES
  • THE WANS
  • CREEPER
  • THE WALTERS
  • JULE VERA
  • MARINA CITY
  • WORRIERS
  • NOTS
  • BIG UPS
  • ALL DOGS
  • THE DIRTY NIL
  • ESKIMEUAX
  • WAR ON WOMEN
  • HARD GIRLS
  • A WILL AWAY
  • CAN’T SWIM
  • WITH OUR ARMS TO THE SUN
  • DONNA MISSAL
  • BAD COP / BAD COP
  • TASHA THE AMAZON
  • BLACKBOX
  • HIGH WAISTED
  • PARTNER
  • SLEEPY KITTY
  • SCHOOL OF ROCK
  • AND FEATURING HELLZAPOPPIN CIRCUS SIDESHOW REVUE.
Riot Fest Chicago 2015: September 11-13, 2015
  •  Against Me!
  •  Alexisonfire
  •  Alkaline Trio
  •  American Nightmare
  •  Andrew McMahon In The Wilderness
  •  Andrew W.K.
  •  Anthrax
  •  Atreyu
  •  Babes In Toyland
  •  Bayside
  •  Billy Idol
  •  Bootsy Collins’ Rubber Band
  •  Coheed and Cambria
  •  Cypress Hill
  •  Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley
  •  De La Soul
  •  Desaparecidos
  •  Drive Like Jehu
  •  Eagles of Death Metal
  •  Echo & The Bunnymen
  •  Faith No More
  •  FIDLAR
  •  Flogging Molly
  •  GWAR
  •  Ice Cube & Special Guests
  •  Iggy Pop
  •  Jimmy Cliff
  •  KONGOS
  •  L7
  •  Lee Scratch Perry
  •  Less Than Jake
  •  Manchester Orchestra
  •  Mayday Parade
  •  Merle Haggard
  •  Mest
  •  Millencolin
  •  Modest Mouse
  •  Motorhead
  •  New Politics
  • No Doubt
  •  Pennywise
  •  Rancid
  •  Rodrigo Y Gabriela
  •  Slightly Stoopid
  •  Snoop Dogg
  •  Stephen “Ragga” Marley
  •  Swervedriver
  •  System Of A Down
  •  Taking Back Sunday
  •  Tenacious D
  •  The Academy Is…
  •  The Airborne Toxic Event
  •  The Damned
  •  The Dead Milkmen
  •  The Devil Wears Prada
  •  The Dirty Heads
  •  The Expendables
  •  The Joy Formidable
  •  The Lawrence Arms
  •  The Prodigy
  •  Thrice
  •  Yelawolf
Riot Fest Chicago 2014: September 12-14, 2014
  • Andrew WK
  • Billy Bragg
  • Blue Meanies
  • Bouncing Souls
  • Bring Me The Horizon
  • Buzzcocks
  • Cheap Trick
  • Circa Survive
  • City and Colour
  • Clutch
  • Cock Sparrer
  • Dashboard Confessional
  • Descendents
  • Die Antwoord
  • Dropkick Murphys
  • Face To Face
  • Failure
  • Gogol Bordello
  • GWAR
  • Hot Snakes
  • Jane’s Addiction
  • KURT VILE & THE VIOLATORS
  • Lucero
  • Mastodon
  • Me First and the Gimme Gimmes
  • Metric
  • Mighty Mighty Bosstones
  • Motion City Soundtrack
  • Mudhoney
  • Naked Raygun
  • New Found Glory
  • NOFX
  • Of Mice & Men
  • Patti Smith
  • Paul Weller
  • Primus
  • Pussy Riot (Nadya Tolokonnikova & Masha Alekhina)
  • Rise Against
  • Samhain
  • Saosin (w/ Anthony Green)
  • Say Anything
  • Slayer
  • Social Distortion
  • Stiff Little Fingers
  • Streetlight Manifesto
  • Superchunk
  • Taking Back Sunday
  • Tegan and Sara
  • The Afghan Whigs
  • The Cure
  • The Dandy Warhols
  • The Flaming Lips
  • The Get Up Kids
  • The Hold Steady
  • The Murder City Devils
  • The National
  • The Offspring
  • The Used
  • Thurston Moore
  • Tokyo Police Club
  • Weezer
  • Wu-Tang Clan
Riot Fest Chicago 2013: September 13-15, 2013
  • AFI
  • Against Me!
  • Andrew W.K.
  • Atmosphere
  • Bad Books
  • Bad Religion
  • Bayside
  • Best Coast
  • Blink-182
  • Blondie
  • Bob Mould
  • Brand New
  • Chuck Ragan
  • Deal’s Gone Bad
  • Dessa
  • Devotchka
  • Dinosaur Jr.
  • Fall Out Boy
  • FLAG
  • Glassjaw
  • Guided By Voices
  • GWAR
  • Hatebreed
  • Hostage Calm
  • Joan Jet & The Blackhearts
  • Kitten
  • Masked Intruder
  • Mephiskapheles
  • Mission of Burma.
  • Nativ
  • New Beat Fund
  • Off With Their Heads
  • Pennywise
  • Pet Symmetry
  • Peter Hook & The Light
  • Pixies
  • Public Enemy
  • Quicksand
  • Rancid
  • Rocket From The Crypt
  • Saul Williams
  • Say Anything
  • Screeching Weasel
  • Smoking Popes
  • Stars
  • Sublime with Rome
  • Suicidal Tendencies
  • Surfer Blood
  • T.S.O.L.
  • Taking Back Sunday
  • The Broadways
  • The Dear Hunter
  • The Dismemberment Plan
  • The Flatliners
  • The Interrupters
  • The Lawrence Arms
  • The Lillingtons
  • The Replacements
  • The Selecter
  • Violent Femmes
  • X
  • More TBA
Riot Fest Chicago 2012: September 14-16, 2012
  • A Day to Remember
  • A Wilhelm Scream
  • Alkaline Trio
  • Andrew W.K.
  • August Burns Red
  • AWOLNATION
  • Built To Spill
  • Chiodos
  • Coheed and Cambria
  • Dead Sara
  • Deals Gone Bad
  • Descendents
  • Dropkick Murphys
  • Elvis Costello & The Imposters
  • Environmental Encroachment
  • Fireworks
  • Fishbone
  • Frank Turner
  • Gogol Bordello
  • GWAR
  • Hot Water Music
  • Iggy And The Stooges
  • Imagine Dragons
  • Japanther
  • Larry And His Flask
  • Less Than Jake
  • Minus the Bear
  • Neon Trees
  • Nobunny
  • NOFX
  • Off With Their Heads
  • Pegboy
  • Reverend Horton Heat
  • Rise Against
  • Screaming Females
  • Sister Crayon
  • Slapstick
  • Teenage Bottlerocket
  • The Adicts
  • The Gaslight Anthem
  • The Henry Clay People
  • The Infected
  • The Jesus and Mary Chain
  • The Offspring
  • The Promise Ring
  • The Story So Far
  • White Mystery