Riot Fest Chicago 2015 Spotlight

This upcoming weekend is the annual rock festival Riot Fest. This Riot Fest is the Chicago stop where it originated and has been going strong since the early 2000’s. This festival is mix with Punk, Rock, Metal, and some Hip-Hop. This is the second Riot Fest of this year. Last month was in Denver. The one after this one in Chicago will be the following weekend in Toronto, Ontario. The festival is on September 11 and end on September 13. The location is at Douglas Park. For all of the people going have a fun and safe time.

Day One September 11

No Doubt, Faith No More, Motorhead, Ice Cube & Special Guest (Performing Straight Outta Compton Remix), Alkaline Trio, Coheed and Cambria, Flogging Molly, Slightly Stoopid, Thrice, Dirty Heads, Anthrax, Eagles of Death Metal, Against Me!, Bayside, Mest, Atreyu, Lee Scratch Perry, The Expendables, Living Colour, Fishbone, Death, Mariachi El Bronx, Every Time I Die, Real Friends, 88 Fingers Louie, Mustard Plug, Into It Over It, Post Malone with FKI, Chef’s Special, Marmozets, Barb Wire Dolls, The Coathangers, Prayers, Speedy Ortiz, White Mystery, Main Attrakionz, Ground Up, Skinny Lister, Dirty Faces, Alex Wiley, Heems, Psalm One, Dreamers, Faulkner, Hellzapoppin Circus Sideshow Revue.

Day Two September 12  

System of A Down, Iggy Pop, Rancid (Performing … And Out Come The Wolves), Billy Idol, Taking Back Sunday, Drive Like Jehu, Merle Haggard, Alexisonfire, The Academy Is (Performing Almost Here), The Lawrence Arms, Echo & The Bunnymen, Bootsy Colins Rubber Band, The Damned, Pennywise, The Devil Wears Prada, Mayday Parade, Babes in Toyland, Desaparecidos, The Joy Formidable, The Dead Milkmen, The Thurston Moore Band, FIDLAR, MillenColin, American Nightmare, Swervedriver, GWAR, Lifetime, Joyce Manor, CIV, The Movielife, Steve Ignorant and Paranoid Visions, The Dear Hunter, The Ataris (Performing Blue Skies, Broken Hearts… Next 12 Exits), Modern Life Is War (Performing Witness), Fit For Rivals, Flatfoot 56, Teenage Bottlerocket, CHON, Counterpunch, Direct Hit!, Sleep On It, The Brokedowns, Meat Wave, Elway, Indian Handcrafts, Pears, Gateway Drugs, Clowns, Die Selloutz, Hellzapoppin Circus Sideshow Revue.

Day Three September 13      

Modest Mouse, The Prodigy, Snoop Dogg (Performing Doggystyle, Damian “JR. Gong” Marley, Tenacious D, Rodrigo Y Gabriela, L7, Stephen “Ragga” Marley, Kongos, Cypress Hill, Yelawolf, The Airborne Toxic Event, Manchester Orchestra, De La Soul, Andrew Mcmahon In The Wilderness, New Politics, Jimmy Cliff, Andrew W.K., Less Than Jake, Morgan Heritage, Doomtree, HUM, Tarrus Riley, The Dwarves (Performing Blood, Guts, & Pussy), Tommy Stinson, Kevin Devine, Jo Mersa, Alvvays, The White Buffalo, Black-Am-I, Skip Marley, Knuckle Puck, Jazz Cartier, Have Mercy, Superheaven, Foxing, Beach Slang, Cayetana, Blis, Northern Faces, Souvenirs, Skating Polly, Signals Midwest, Modern Chemistry, Tasha The Amazon, Foxtrott, Twin River, Indian School, The Municipal Drainage Project, Hellzapoppin Circus.  

My Top Five I Want To See
1. System of A Down
2. Iggy Pop
3. American Nightmare
4. L7
5. Drive Like Jehu