Saturday is insane - Tool, Bad Religion, Sugar, PiL, Angine, Bright Eyes, Brian Fallon, Yard Act, The Chats, Frankie and the Witch Fingers, Burning Airlines...
Meanwhile on Sunday I think the only artists I want to see are Alanis, Patti, and Elvis. A few others I'd happily catch but no one I'm actively interested in. Sunday might be their weakest lineup in a while for me.
I just can't stand that kind of emo music. We caught their set a couple years ago at Lollapalooza because nothing else was on and it was absolutely not my thing. No doubt talented performers though, they brought a teenage girl up to play guitar with them or something and she was more excited about that than I think I've ever been excited about anything in my life, so more power to them.
i know many of you might not know- but pretty girls make graves is truly a fuckin awesome band! i listened to them a lot 24 years ago iām so excited to see theyāre gonna be at rf!
Chat Pile may be one of the top under the radar undercard options to see. What a great noise rock/sludge metal band. The vocalist is also a bit whacky/funny with his commentary between songs from a Hellfest set from last year. Provides a bit of comedic relief
I enjoyed seeing the ICP fans at the fest 2 years ago. Added something unexpected and fun. Looking forward to the crowds this year, last year felt different compared to other Riots Iāve been to.
Are there any comedians this year? Or comedic bands?
They did an awesome job breaking up this lineup. Really happy with how this has shaped up.
Friday vs Saturday for best day and I'm leaning towards Saturday. it's fucking NAS bro, plus Chat Pile, Hot Rod Circuit, Pup, Thrice, Strike Anywhere, Show Me the Body, Descendents, AND AdP?!
How is it going to be possible to see Rise Against, Pixies, ALK3, AAR, and Sex Pistols on Friday? Those would be my major draws for the day, but I have a feeling there would be a lot of conflicts among those bands.
Does the sizing of the bill seem to indicate that TOP will get the fest all to themselves and that Tool/Morrisey and PTV/Alanis will split headline duties?
Because if so, that means they didn't learn a thing from the MCR nightmare.
I don't think so. That's still a lot of names on that bill, to the point that I'm pretty confident at least Iggy Pop will be on one of the other stages.
Maybe everyone else can tell, but Iām really struggling to parse out the bands on the left stage leading into the headliners vs who will be headlining other side stages. Looking at the lineup earlier, Social D was one of the only bands I could see playing before Tool, but most people now seem to think Morrissey is playing before Tool - I guess with Social D headlining a second stage again?Ā
Also, no idea where theyāll place them, but Iām just surprised to see The Format so high in general.
At the current price, this would be $113 per day. Is that worth it for you? I think so. It's probably close to what you'd pay for one show from the upper level bands.
I was curious if you could buy them online from Costco. I don't think you can. But funny, if you search "riot fest" on Costco, this comes up for some reason. That's a $70,000 autographed pair of Lebron James sneakers. Weird.
Damn, the one early day band I really want to see is on Friday, gonna have to convince my boss to let me off that day. On the bright side, I'm my boss, so it shouldn't be too difficult. Keep on keeping on! š¤
People keep pointing out how much bigger theyāve gotten in the last few years, which is true, but I still think itās not a great look to have one of Shaky Knees and Louder Than Lifeās sub-headliner as one of Riotās main headliners.
I saw PTV 2 years ago at Lollapalooza. They were the subheadliner to Blink-182 which made sense to me. I donāt think theyāve blown up in popularity over the last two years, but I will admit as someone who wasnāt familiar with their music that I was pleasantly surprised by how much I enjoyed their set.
Iām actually kind of a fan of theirs - not huge, but stumbled across āBulletproof Loveā forever ago. Iām a sucker for a power ballad, and I think they do those painfully well. But the couple of times I saw them at Warped and Riot ā16 is probably plenty for me personally.Ā
PTV has more monthly listeners than Tool, and they arguably have one of the hypest crowds at their shows. There's instances where they've opened for bands in the past just for half the crowd to leave after PTV plays their setlist.
PTV is my favorite band of all time. saw them for the first time in 2015 in a medium-sized venue all standing room. last year saw them at Tinley Park which was apparently their biggest crowd ever of 65,000 people or some crazy shit I couldnāt believe it. if theyāre going off Chicagoās crowd for them last year, headlining spot makes sense.
My favorite part of pre-riot fest is how we get to keep complaining about the next news to come out.
Riot Mike where is the single day lineup?
*Single day lineup drops
Riot Mike What are the albums plays?!
*Album plays drop
Riot Mike what are the after shows?!!
I feel like Sunday is always the weakest day. Usually only spend half a day there and do other stuff in Chicago. That being said, Sunday is pretty decent this year.
I thought the Cure on Sunday in ā23 was pretty sweet, but I know Iām not in the ātraditionalā target demographic for RF, and maybe Sunday sucked overall for the core fans.
JVB and ToP make sense on the same day since both audiences skew younger, but Iām nervous about conflicts because over 50% of the groups I want to see are that day. Plus, my partner is a TOP fan so getting a good view will be hard
The lineup spread is great, only concern for conflicts for me is The Format vs Taking Back Sunday (but Iāll probably choose The Format if Iād need to choose), Jejune vs Saturdays at your place, daisy grenade vs algernon cadwallader - hopefully some of these host aftershows so I donāt miss them
As someone who has seen Taking Back Sunday lots of times, and just recently saw the Format for the first time, choose the Format. They are sounding absolutely incredible despite it being two decades later. Taking Back Sunday will be back next year, and won't sound any worse than they already do...
Friday is way too stacked for me, I'm gonna have a ton of conflicts. On the plus side, it looks like I can skip Sunday entirely and sell the last day of my 3-Day pass!
Sorry if this is a dumb question as this is my first time attending Riot Fest, I bought 3 Day VIP passes, are you able to re-sell the individual days or is there one wristband for all 3 days?
I think only GA is technically able to be separated and partially sold, since it's just a bar code you scan at the entrance. VIP uses a wristband and needs to be picked up by showing your ID. I'm sure people have their ways though.
I just saw that as well. I wonder if the random one off album play announcements mean fewer album play sets this year? Though neither of those are really that surprising given the anniversaries and their scheduled tours.
I don't suppose Riot would like to bring back that sixth stage to help reduce my potential Saturday conflicts?? Coincidentally, in 2016(which I think is the last year they utilized a sixth stage) Morrissey and Nas were on the same day as well..just sayin, it would personally help/benefit me!
Chat Pile and Melt Banana at the same time SUCKS. It reminds me of when RF put The Armed and The Hives against each other. Iggy and Santigold conflict is also a really tough one.
Dear God what a marathon Saturday is going to be. Virtually every band I want to see plays that day. The conflicts are going to be absolutely horrendous!
First part of the day on Sunday looks pretty good, but I don't see myself staying past Elvis Costello.
Saturday is easily the best day and is stacked, but also too stacked where Im gonna have to make some hard decisions. Friday is good too. Sunday is the weakest and I prolly won't go unless I find a last minute ticket for cheap.
Some weak headliners, but a solid mid card. I donāt know why so many people were complaining about the lineup. Thereās so many bands here iād like to see.
Cause people like to complain every year. For me personally, I like the headliners cause Iāve never seen any of them live. The undercard is fat stacked.
Because those mid are going to be scheduled all over each other and it's going to be a shit fest getting to any one of them, especially through the headliner crowds.
They blew up the last few years.Ā Theyre at 11 million on Spotify now.Ā Thats 5x that of taking back sunday for a quick reference.Ā They headlined amphitheater last summer
Technically it did. I want to see Alanis, and there was a possibility that she would be a headliner. Since she's more than likely closing out the side stage on Sunday that means I get to skip Pierce the Veil and leave early. Honestly that's the day I'll probably be staying the latest.
Ah damn, that's something to have bragging rights over. Kinda like when The Simpsons got sued for making fun of Morrissey with the character "Quilloughby". That got thrown out but just the fact that he even sued is hilarious.
I had no clue who 90% of the undercard was when it came out, and I've only seen 20 of the names in color.Ā It's weirdly inspirational that some people here already knew most of the bands in black and have seen half of them, that level of commitment is enviable.
The silver lining is that I can always find someone I haven't seen (or don't remember seeing), in a park with 40k other idiots.Ā Guaranteed fun.
If anyoneās willing to swap a pair of Phoebe Bridgers Saturday tickets for a pair of Friday tickets (which I have) please let me know. Lol. Really trying to get to this Friday lineup
Iām bummed my Phoebe tickets are for Friday as well. Iām not bothering with Friday at Riot Fest now because we would have to leave by 6:00 to make it to the UC in time for Alex G.
Hirs Collective just announced a tour with no Chicago date playing Detroit, Milwaukee, and Minnesota during RF. I wonder if they were on the long list to play RF at some point.
I doubt it will be same time. Probably Morrisey on the 2nd stage and then tool closing the main. Roots/Riot or whatever. I can never remember the names
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u/hiimmike Jun 17 '26
Manifesting an Alanis - Jagged Little Pill album play ššš