Riot Fest first took place in 2005 as a much smaller festival than it’s since grown into, and this year it will celebrate its 20th anniversary as it returns to Chicago’s Douglass Park from September 19-21. Tickets are on sale and the 2025 lineup is out now, featuring headliners blink-182, Green Day, and Weezer (celebrating Blue Album). In the slightly less big font, it’s got The Sex Pistols (with Frank Carter), Rilo Kiley, Knocked Loose, The Beach Boys, The Pogues (who are touring with guests, following the death of Shane MacGowan), Jack White, IDLES, Jawbreaker, Bad Religion, The Hold Steady, Texas Is The Reason (their third-announced reunion show), Dance Hall Crashers (also a reunion), Alkaline Trio, The Wonder Years, The Front Bottoms, James, Sparks, and more, and “Weird Al” Yankovic gets an interesting-looking billing in the middle of the poster.
In the smaller font, we get another Shudder To Think reunion show (!), Hanson (lol), The Damned, The Bouncing Souls, Rico Nasty, Screeching Weasel, Citizen, Microwave, Free Throw, Dehd, The Linda Lindas, Panchiko, Buzzcocks, Stiff Little Fingers, Superchunk, Militarie Gun, The Cribs, Helmet, Touché Amoré, Marky Ramone, Camper Van Beethoven, Agnostic Front, Lambrini Girls, Ovlov, Smoking Popes, Puddles Pity Party, H2O, Wishy, Harrison Gordon, Samiam, The Tossers, Shonen Knife, Zero Boys, Agent Orange, Quannic, Weakened Friends, Footballhead, a few Chicago/Illinois hometown legends (Pegboy, Didjits, The Effigies), and more.
It’s a good one, folks! See the poster below.
UPDATE: Weezer’s Blue Album set is one of 20 full-album plays.
