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
2016 Artist Lineup
Bad Religion
Dan Deacon
Death Grips
Deftones
Jimmy Eat World
Nas
Rob Zombie
Social Distortion
The Hives
The Hold Steady
Ween
- 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.