Riot Fest returns to Chicago’s Douglass Park on September 18-20, and this year’s lineup has been announced. It’s headlined by Tool, Twenty One Pilots, Pierce the Veil, and Alanis Morissette.
This year’s lineup also includes Rise Against, Social Distortion, Alkaline Trio, Bad Religion, Nas, The Format, Taking Back Sunday, Descendents, Pennywise, Bright Eyes, Mom Jeans, Morrissey, Iggy Pop, Elvis Costello & The Imposters, Pixies, Patti Smith and her Band, Sugar, Twin Peaks, viral polkadotted duo Angine de Poitrine, Insane Clown Posse, Santigold, Gogol Bordello, Tricky, PUP, and Motion City Soundtrack.
Perhaps the most surprising thing about the Riot Fest 2026 lineup is the inclusion of both The Sex Pistols featuring Frank Carter AND Public Image Limited. John Lydon has not been shy about trashing his former bandmates for touring as The Sex Pistols without him, calling them “a tribute act.” Pistols bassist Glen Matlock responded this week, telling Billboard, “People say we’re a tribute band without John, but there’s three of us, and he’s the only Public Imager. I think he’s painted himself into a corner of a very big hallway.” Surely they’re playing different days of the festival.
Still more from the Riot Fest 2026 lineup: The Beths, Joey Valence & Brae, Bayside, Thrice, Less Than Jake, GWAR, The Suicide Machines, Brian Fallon & The Painkillers, This is Lorelei, Sincere Engineer, Batmobile, Freshwater, The Chats, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Yard Act, Destroy Boys, Mariachi El Bronx, Arm’s Length, Jejune, Chat Pile, Show Me the Body, Haywire, Violet Grohl, Saturdays at Your Place, Algernon Cadwallader, Melt-Banana, Teen Mortgage, Ben Quad, Strike Anywhere, Soul Glo, Glixen, The Callous Daoboys, Greet Death, Remember Sports, Cardinals, Kiwi Jr., Murphy’s Law, and more. See it in full below.
Tickets are on sale now.
