Riot Fest is a multi-day music festival specializing in punk, rock, alternative, metal, and hip-hop. The festival is held annually in Douglass Park, Chicago, Illinois, and is known for booking reunions, guest performances, and full album performances. The 2023 lineup is out of this world with incredible artists such as the Foo Fighters, The Cure, The Postal Service, Death Cab For Cutie, to name a few. You can see a complete list of artists below.
Riot Fest was founded in 2005 by Mike Petryshyn and Sean McKeough, and spent seven years as a multi-venue festival before settling in Douglass Park. The Riot Fest Foundation was created to unite artists, fans, and communities through art, music, and philanthropy. Since 2010, the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless has been the official charity partner of Riot Fest, and the partnership has helped raise more than $260,000 for the organization.
Riot Fest Line-up By Day
Friday
Foo Fighters, Turnstile, Tegan and Sara, Say Anything, The Breeders, Kim Gordon, The Interrupters, Bayside, Ani DiFranco, I’m Silverstein, Parliament Funkadelic ft. George Clinton, Code Orange, Fake Names, Quicksand, The Wrecks, Hawthorne Heights, Braid, Yard Act, Screaming Females, Sludgeworth, Quasi, Just Friends, Bearings, Pinkshift, Olivia Jean, Calva Louise, The Aquadolls, FEA, The Bobby Lees, Young Culture
Saturday
The Postal Service/Death Cab for Cutie, Queens of the Stone Age, Mr. Bungle, 100 Gecs, Death Grips, 070 Shake, Viagra Boys, PUP, Sleep Token, Frank Turner and the Sleeping Souls, Pennywise, Insane Clown Posse, Head Automatica, Nothing,Nowhere., White Reaper, Eshu Tune, Enter Shikari, Bowling for Soup, Spitalfield, Jehnny Beth, Drain, Snapcase, The Exploited, Plosivs, Steve Ignorant Band/Crass, Warpaint, High Vis, Rival Schools, Corey Feldman, Enola Gay, Casyette, Pool Kids, CK Vassi, Total Chaos
Sunday
The Cure, Mars Volta, The Gaslight Anthem, AFI, The Used, The Dresden Dolls, Flogging Molly, Finch, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, L.S. Dunes, Gorilla Biscuits, Ride, Cults, Balance and Composure, Thursday, H2O, The Bronx, Microwave, Oso Oso, Origami Angel, The Black Angels, Nothing, Caroline Rose, Free Throw, Just Mustard, Hotline TNT, Earth Crisis, Empire State Bastard, Fleshwater, Fade ‘em All
