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Music, Music Feature Sep 18, 2019
[PHOTOS]: The fans and bands of Riot Fest 2019
- By Ryan Segedi
- Tags: Music Feature, Music, Onstage, Photography, Riot Fest, riot fest, ryan segedi, portraiture, fans, douglas park, music photography, punk rock, slayer, the hu, blink-182, the beaches, IDKHow, descendants, american football

Music, Music Feature Sep 5, 2019
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Hopping the Riot Fest nostalgia train

Reunions and full-album sets are the festival’s specialty—so what does it have to offer this year, besides Bikini Kill?
- By Salem Collo-Julin, Leor Galil, Philip Montoro, J.R. Nelson, Brianna Wellen, and Anna White
- Tags: Music Feature, Riot Fest, Douglas Park, 2019, reunion, reunited, full-album set, album set, Bikini Kill, Dashboard Confessional, Against Me!, the Selecter, Blink-182, Enema of the State, Flaming Lips, Yoshimi Battles the Pink Robots, Ween, The Mollusk, Bloc Party, Silent Alarm, Taking Back Sunday, Tell All Your Friends, Louder Now, Dashboard Confessional, The Places You Have Come to Fear the Most, Avail, Over the James, Reinventing Axl Rose, Transgender Dysphoria Blues, Glassjaw, Worship & Tribute, Senses Fail, Let It Enfold You, From the Depths of Dreams, Too Much Pressure, Jawbreaker, Weezer, Ergs!, Ride, Video

Music, Music Feature Sep 11, 2018
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Can Riot Fest turn nostalgia into a renewable resource?

Maybe it’s possible to book amazing reunions forever—but only by building current bands into tomorrow’s back-from-the-dead headliners.
- By David Anthony
- Tags: Music Feature, Riot Fest, Riot Fest 2018, nostalgia, reunions, punk, Jawbreaker, Replacements, Misfits, Original Misfits, Drive Like Jehu, Sasquatch, Warped Tour, Get in It MusicFest, Aahh! Fest, Germs, Dead Kennedys, Blink-182, Blondie, Elvis Costello & the Imposters, Jerry Lee Lewis, Lollapalooza, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 7, 2018
Riot Fest finalizes its daily lineups—though the big new acts were announced yesterday

Yesterday we learned that Weezer, Run the Jewels, and Taking Back Sunday were replacing Blink-182 at Riot Fest. Today organizers added seven more bands, and single-day tickets went on sale.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music, Riot Fest, Riot Fest, Run the Jewels, Weezer, Taking Back Sunday, Blink-182, Street Dogs, the Dangerous Summer, Beach Rats, Just Friends, Archie Powell & the Exports, Typesetter, Blood People, Douglas Park

Blogs, Bleader May 30, 2018
Riot Fest announces its first wave of acts for 2018

Riot Fest got Blink-182! Cypress Hill! Blondie! The Jesus Lizard! Liz Phair! Atmosphere! Beck! Cat Power! And . . . the 82-year-old Jerry Lee Lewis?
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music, Riot Fest, Riot Fest, Riot Fest 2018, Adolescents, Alkaline Trio, Andrew W.K., Aquabats, Arkells, Atmosphere, Audition, Avengers, Bad Religion, Badflower, Beach Bunny, Beach Goons, Beck, Bleachers, Blink-182, Blondie, Bombpops, Bouncing Souls, Bullet For My Valentine, Bully Calpurnia, Cat Power, Clutch, Cobra Skulls, Conflict, Cypress Hill, Digable Planets, Direct Hit!, Districts, Dropkick Murphys, Elvis Costello, Exploited, Face to Face, Father John Misty, Fear, Fever 333, Flogging Molly, Flor, Frights, Front Bottoms, Gary Numan, Gwar, Health, Hobo Johnson & The Lovemakers, Hot Snakes, Interpol, JD McPherson, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jesus Lizard, Johnny Marr, K.Flay, Kevin Devine, Killing Joke, Lagwagon, Liz Phair, Lower Class Brats, Mannequin Pussy, Matt & Kim, Mom Jeans, Moose Blood, No Small Children, Piebald, Pronoun, Pussy Riot, Reignwolf, Save Face, Speedy Ortiz, Spitalfield, Suicidal Tendencies, Sum 41, Superchunk, Swmrs, Total Chaos, Twin Peaks, Underoath, Wonder Years, Wolfmother, Young the Giant

Music, In Rotation Mar 20, 2018
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Adam Luksetich of Foul Tip on his contrarian pick for best country album ever

Plus: Hanna Hazard from Lil Tits on father-and-sons Wisconsin rock band Solid Freex, Luca Cimarusti from the Reader on a bargain-bin banger from a departed Yes bassist, and more
- By Luca Cimarusti
- Tags: In Rotation, Self-Inflicted Aural Nostalgia, podcast, Jeff Gomez, Guided by Voices, Chris Squire, Yes, Fish Out of Water, Patrick Moraz, Bill Bruford, Blink-155, Blink-182, Sam Sutherland, Josiah Hughes, Mish Way, Ben Cook, Hanna Hazard, Lil Tits, Lifestyles, Solid Freex, Trin Tran, No Hoax, Platinum Boys, Wisconsin, Lou Miami, Dance With Death, Dancing With Death, Ghosts, Lou Miami & the Kozmetix, To Sir With Love, Boston, Dolly Parton, Porter Wagoner, I Will Always Love You, Adam Luksetich, Foul Tip, Numero Group, Steve Hiett, Down on the Road by the Beach, Bernard Herrmann, Vertigo, Sanford Clark, They Call Me Country, Lee Hazlewood, Waylon Jennings, Video

Blogs, Bleader Aug 3, 2017
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Emanuel: Rauner is ‘governing through anger’ by vetoing CPS funding, and other Chicago news

Also, a Northwestern professor and an Oxford University employee are wanted for murder in connection with a stabbing death in River North.
- By Kate Shepherd
- Tags: News, Did You Read __________?, Chicago, Illinois, Rahm Emanuel, Bruce Rauner, Chicago Public Schools, education funding, Obamacare, Affordable Care Act, health insurance, Blue Cross Blue Shield of Illinois, Northwestern University, Oxford University, murder, Wyndham Lathem, Andrew Warren, Trenton H. James Cornell-Duranleau, Bastian Schweinsteiger, soccer, Chicago Fire, Manchester, Munich, Metro, Foo Fighters, Lollapalooza, Arcade Fire, Blink-182, Spoon, Video

Music, Music Feature Aug 1, 2017
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How Blink-182 gave hip-hop a refreshing Enema

The Friday-night Lollapalooza headliners helped connect the mainstream pop-punk of the late 90s to the Soundcloud rap of today.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Blink-182, Lollapalooza, Lil Peep, Lil Uzi Vert, Ju, Melo Makes Music, Chuck Inglish, Cool Kids, Vic Mensa, pop-punk, rap, hip-hop, Soundcloud rap, Soundcloud rappers, Enema of the State, Take Off Your Pants and Jacket, Stay Together for the Kids, XO Tour Llif3, XXXtentacion, Dammit, Gustav Åhr, Marilyn Manson, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, Disturbed, Migos, Mark Hoppus, Tom DeLonge, Travis Barker, Can I Say: Living Large, Cheating Death, and Drums Drums Drums, Matt Skiba, Alkaline Trio, Neighborhoods, Yelawolf, Sean Combs, P. Diddy, Bad Boy for Life, Bun B, Late Night Creepin’, Expensive Taste, Paul Wall, Crank That (Soulja Boy), TRV$DJAM, Crazy Town, DJ AM, Adam Goldstein, What’s My Age Again?, Sour Apples, Give the Drummer Some, Lil Wayne, Pharrell, Slaughterhouse, RZA, Snoop Dogg, Cypress Hill, Rick Ross, Twista, Lupe Fiasco, Gucci Mane, When Fish Ride Bicycles, Special Edition Grand Master Deluxe, Sugar, We’re Goin’ Down, Fall Out Boy, Paramore, Panic! at the Disco, My Chemical Romance, Adam’s Song, Mysticphonk, Stains, Video

Blogs, Bleader Jun 8, 2017
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Vic Mensa narrows his focus on crossover pop with The Manuscript

After foregrounding his radical politics with last year's "16 Shots," Vic Mensa emphasizes the pop aspects of his rap songs on a new EP.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Hip-Hop, Music, Vic Mensa, The Manuscript, There's Alot Going On, OMG, Pharrell, Pusha T, Clipse, Laquan McDonald, Travis Barker, Blink-182, Fake Shore Drive, Andrew Barber, hip-hop, Chicago rap, Kids These Days, Down on my Luck, Video

Blogs, Bleader Mar 22, 2017
Lollapalooza 2017 lineup: Chance the Rapper takes a victory lap with a bunch of predictable acts

The local rap hero is one of the few bright spots on an otherwise anemic Lollapalooza lineup that also includes Lorde, Migos, the XX, Run the Jewels, and, um, Liam Gallagher.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music, Lollapalooza, Lollapalooza 2017, Grant Park, Chance the Rapper, Coloring Book, Muse, Arcade Fire, the Killers, Lorde, Migos, the XX, Run the Jewels, Spoon, Liam Gallagher, Blink-182, Ryan Adams, the Shins, 21 Savage, Rae Sremmurd, Noname, the Walters, Kweku Collins, Whitney, the O'My's, Big Sean

Blogs, Bleader Feb 1, 2017
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Chicago rapper Ju tips his hat to pop-punk’s recent past on his newest singles

Ju samples a well-known Blink-182 bass line on one track and references Fall Out Boy on another.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: 12 O'Clock Track, Do This, Hip-Hop, Music, Ju, Melo Makes Music, Chicago Sleepers, Funeral, 12 O'Clock Track, hip-hop, Chicago hip-hop, Fall Out Boy, Blink-182, Stains, Adam's Song, Video

Music, Music Feature Jul 21, 2015
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Knuckle Puck do for pop-punk what elastic does for sweatpants

This south-suburban band, on their first Warped Tour to support their imminent debut LP, just want to make more room inside the genre they love.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Music Feature, Knuckle Puck, Warped Tour, Simple Plan, pop-punk, Joe Taylor, John Siorek, Kevin Maida, Nick Casasanto, Ryan Rumchaks, Dan Lambton, While I Stay Secluded, Rise Records, Blink-182, Fall Out Boy, Zack Zarrillo, Property of Zack, The Weight That You Buried, Real Friends, Video

Blogs, Bleader Sep 15, 2013
Riot Fest day two: White-haired front men and a little puke

No blood today, but there was vomit.
- By Mara Shalhoup
- Tags: Riot Fest, Whoa, Music, Riot Fest, Saturday, Humboldt Park, X, the Lillingtons, Dinosaur Jr, Guided by Voices, Flag, Blondie, Rancid, Public Enemy, Violent Femmes, Blink-182

Blogs, Bleader May 16, 2013
This year's stacked Riot Fest lineup includes Public Enemy, Fall Out Boy, and Motorhead

Take a peek at some of our thoughts on the bill, see how Gossip Wolf's predictions panned out, and dig through old Reader features and write-ups on some of the bands.
- By Leor Galil
- Tags: Whoa, Music, Riot Fest, Humboldt Park, Public Enemy, Motorhead, Fall Out Boy, Blink-182, Violent Femmes, Motorhead, Rancid, Blondie, Public Enemy, Brand New, Sublime with Rome, Dismemberment Plan, Guided By Voices

Blogs, Bleader Jun 15, 2010
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Today in "Kids Today"

This is not the way we thought the 90s would be remembered.
- By Miles Raymer
- Tags: Crickets, Music, 90s, millennials, retro, Blink-182, Third Eye Blind, Lit, alt-rock, indie rock, Surfer Blood, Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Pitchfork, the Internet, video, Whale, Video

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Reunions and full-album sets are the festival’s specialty—so what does it have to offer this year, besides Bikini Kill?

Maybe it’s possible to book amazing reunions forever—but only by building current bands into tomorrow’s back-from-the-dead headliners.

Yesterday we learned that Weezer, Run the Jewels, and Taking Back Sunday were replacing Blink-182 at Riot Fest. Today organizers added seven more bands, and single-day tickets went on sale.

Riot Fest got Blink-182! Cypress Hill! Blondie! The Jesus Lizard! Liz Phair! Atmosphere! Beck! Cat Power! And . . . the 82-year-old Jerry Lee Lewis?

Plus: Hanna Hazard from Lil Tits on father-and-sons Wisconsin rock band Solid Freex, Luca Cimarusti from the Reader on a bargain-bin banger from a departed Yes bassist, and more

Also, a Northwestern professor and an Oxford University employee are wanted for murder in connection with a stabbing death in River North.

The Friday-night Lollapalooza headliners helped connect the mainstream pop-punk of the late 90s to the Soundcloud rap of today.

After foregrounding his radical politics with last year's "16 Shots," Vic Mensa emphasizes the pop aspects of his rap songs on a new EP.

The local rap hero is one of the few bright spots on an otherwise anemic Lollapalooza lineup that also includes Lorde, Migos, the XX, Run the Jewels, and, um, Liam Gallagher.

Ju samples a well-known Blink-182 bass line on one track and references Fall Out Boy on another.

This south-suburban band, on their first Warped Tour to support their imminent debut LP, just want to make more room inside the genre they love.

No blood today, but there was vomit.

Take a peek at some of our thoughts on the bill, see how Gossip Wolf's predictions panned out, and dig through old Reader features and write-ups on some of the bands.

This is not the way we thought the 90s would be remembered.

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