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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.
2023 Artist Lineup
- 070 Shake
- 100 Gecs
- AFI
- Ani DiFranco
- Balance and Composure
- Bayside
- Bearings
- Black Angels
- Bowling For Soup
- Braid
- Calva Louise
- Caroline Rose
- Cassyette
- CK Vassi
- Code Orange
- Corey Feldman
- Cults
- Death Cab For Cutie
- Death Grips
- Drain
- Earth Crisis
- Empire State Bastard
- Enola Gay
- Enter Shikari
- Eshu Tune
- Fade ‘Em All
- Fake Names
- FEA
- Finch
- Fleshwater
- Flogging Molly
- Foo Fighters
- Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls
- Free Throw
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- Gorilla Biscuits
- H20
- Hawthorne Heights
- Head Automatica
- High Vis
- Hotline TNT
- Insane Clown Posse
- Jehnny Beth
- Just Friends
- Just Mustard
- Kim Gordon
- L.S. Dunes
- Microwave
- Mr. Bungle
- Nothing
- Nothing
- Nowhere.
- Olivia Jean
- Origami Angel
- Oso Oso
- Parliament Funkadelic Ft. George Clinton
- Pennywise
- Pinkshift
- Plosivs
- Pool Kids
- Pup
- Quasi
- Queens of the Stone Age
- Quicksand
- Ride
- Rival Schools
- Say Anything
- Screaming Females
- Silverstein
- Sleep Token
- Sludgeworth
- Snapcase
- Spitafield
- Steve Ignorant Band / Crass
- Tegan and Sara
- The Aquadolls
- The Bobby Lees
- The Breeders
- The Bronx
- The Cure
- The Dresden Dolls
- The Exploited
- The Gaslight Anthem
- The Interrupters
- The Mars Volta
- The Postal Service
- The Used
- The Wrecks
- Thursday
- Total Chaos
- Turnstile
- Viagra Boys
- Warpaint
- White Reaper
- Yard Act
- Young Culture