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Riot Fest is a yearly highlight. This year's performers reflect on their favorite memories from the festival, and relive the event with our photo gallery.

The Wonder Years have announced their seventh studio album, The Hum Goes On Forever. The band also shared "Wyatt's Song (Your Name)."

The Wonder Years have shared another new single, "Summer Clothes." Their new album is set to release later this year. "Summer Clothes" is an anthemic trek through memories, where sadness parts for just long enough to notice its absence. Vocalist Dan Campbell cries out, sounding close to tears while recounting these precious moments...

***This article contains sponsored content*** Check out The Latest — for all the essential new music, tickets and livestreams you need right now. My Chemical Romance return with new music Where else would we begin this week’s roundup than with “The Foundations Of Decay”? My Chemical Romance’s ...

Riot Fest has announced its 2022 lineup. Headliners include My Chemical Romance, the original Misfits and Nine Inch Nails. One-day, two-day and three-day passes are available here. Check out the lineup below. Read more: Pale Waves announce new album ‘Unwanted,’ drop lead single “Lies”—watch Riot Fest will be returning to Douglas Park and will last from Sept. 16-18. Notable newcomers to ... Read Mo

In 2021, collaboration was the lifeblood for HEALTH. Last year alone, the band linked up with Poppy (“DEAD FLOWERS”), Nine Inch Nails (“ISN’T EVERYONE”), Perturbator (“Excess”) and Deftones’ Chino Moreno and Tyler Bates (“ANTI-LIFE”). Each of those singles sounds unique, taking on distinct ch...

Gratitude is the answer to everything these days. Riot Fest knows that inherently. Across all four days of the festival, that feeling permeated the grounds of Douglas Park. Whether it was Billy Corgan of Smashing Pumpkins professing his love for Chicago several times over or Flaming Lips’ Wayne Coyne performing from a human hamster ball to keep fans safe, the importance of this year's festival was

NOFX have released an off-the-wall animated music video for the track “The Big Drag,” off their latest release, Single Album. The visual was created by the Ukrainian duo the Mad Twins, also known as Olya and Vira Ishchuk. The video starts with the members of NOFX cleaning up lead singer and bassist Fat Mike’s room. The frontman is ...

In the past decade, everyone from Misfits and Jawbreaker to My Chemical Romance and Rage Against The Machine has thrilled us with the announcement of a reunion show or tour. And while we’re ecstatic to see these artists hit the road again, that doesn’t stop us from wishing that they’d make a pitstop or two to record another studio album. Below are nin...

UPDATE: JULY 7, 2021, 5:00 P.M. E.T. Halsey officially released the cover art for their fourth album via Instagram. The photographic artwork celebrates the beauty of the body after childbirth and the duality of autonomy. As if depicted by a Renaissance painting, a baby sits on their lap with a curled-over hand and wrinkled blanket...

Over the years, Riot Fest has taken over Chicago’s Douglas Park with circus sideshows, carnival games and, most importantly, an incredible lineup. But its history stretches even further back, drawing people of all ages and backgrounds between its hub and offshoots in Toronto and Denver. The ...

Pop-punk legends Simple Plan and New Found Glory have rescheduled their Pop Punk’s Still Not Dead tour. Hitting the road in September 2021, the groups will be joined along the way by rising alt-pop act LØLØ. Alternative Press and Live Nation have partnered to offer a special presale for the tour. Launching Wednesda...

The organizers of Riot Fest have announced that the festival is returning to Douglass Park in Chicago this fall. In typical Riot fashion, the lineup for Sept. 17, 18 and 19 is stacked. “We’ve missed you and we can’t wait to see you this year,” the festival organizers shared.  Headliners include...

My Chemical Romance are rescheduling their reunion tour dates for 2022. The highly anticipated run will mark the follow-up to the band’s return at The Shrine in Los Angeles in December 2019 following a clue-filled reunion announcement weeks prior on Halloween. O...

As 2020 prepares to close up shop, no one needs a reminder that it has been one hell of a year. Between COVID-19 and the election alone, it’s been a relentless beast. Bands not being able to tour or perform live was a devastating blow for musicians and fans alike, so when something good happens for these artists during such an adverse time, celebration is vital. F...

Back in February, the Academy Is... celebrated the 15th anniversary of their debut album Almost Here. Now, Adam Siska has revealed that the Academy Is... intended to further celebrate the album's anniversary this year. However, due to the coronavirus pandemic, those plans quickly changed...

Making plans with your Netflix queue this weekend? Finishing your novel? Working on that jigsaw puzzle you had made of the orange sky on the West Coast? Whatever you’re doing, we’re damned confident it’s not as great as this year’s Riot Fest lineup. This year’s event look...

Just like so many other festivals and gigs this year, Lollapalooza 2020 was canceled due to coronavirus. Following the sudden halt of live music, the industry is trying to predict when live events will resume back to normal. Although most reports predict that large-scale live events could return in the latter part of 2021, Lollapalooza co-founder Marc Geiger thinks otherwise...

The 1990s started out with DS-1 distortion pedal grunge bands viciously stomping on the global spandex-wearing hair-metal movement from the decade before and ceremoniously ended with the rise of the baggy-pant rockers of nü metal and bleached-blond boy bands with chiseled faces, courtesy of TRL. How...

Due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic, Riot Fest 2020 has been postponed until 2021. The festival announced the new dates and first lineup announcement on June 16. The Chicago-based festival follows a long list of other festivals that have been postponed this year including Lollapalooza, Glastonbury, Coachella and Reading and Leeds...