Photo Credit: Jeff Callen
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.
Festival Poster
2014 Artist Lineup
Gogol Bordello
Jane's Addiction
Primus
Tegan & Sara
The Cure
The Flaming Lips
The Hold Steady
The National
The Offspring
Wu-Tang Clan
- 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