Still to come this month is a performance of Red Hot’s 2024 compilation TRAИƧA featuring lots of special guests.

Last weekend, Riot Fest celebrated its 20th anniversary at Douglass Park in Chicago, hitting the Windy City with three rousing days of loud rock and roll (and some softer, surfier stuff, too).

Riot Fest this year featured both Blink-182 and Chicago's very own Alkaline Trio. And while the two acts have been touring together in recent weeks, Riot Fest must have seemed like the perfect ...

Twenty years into its punk-rock-carnival experiment, Riot Fest stands as Chicago’s largest, longest-running independent music festival. From its humble beginnings in the since-shuttered Congress ...

Riot Fest 2025 has begun. Here's all you need to know, from the schedule to the best way to get to Douglass Park for the music festival's 20th anniversary. Riot Fest is held in Douglass Park in ...

Photos from Riot Fest 2025 at Douglass Park on Sept. 19-21, 2025. While its 20th anniversary year’s lineup leans into emo, metalcore and a healthy amount of nostalgia, it celebrates Chicago — its sole ...

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In 2005, what began as a modest multi-venue, fan-driven punk event in Chicago has morphed into a large-scale outdoor event that continues to mark its territory as one of the most impressive ...

Bandmembers Joe Taylor and Kevin Maida visited WBEZ studios to look back on their genre-reviving album, talk safety in the pit and look ahead to what’s next. The Chicago band Knuckle Puck got its ...

CHICAGO — Some big names are heading to Riot Fest; Blink 182, Weezer, Green Day. And perhaps biggest of all: Tom Skilling. Chicago’s Very Own Tom Skilling will deliver — via video link — the official ...