Turnstile, Insane Clown Posse, Corey Feldman, More To Play Riot Fest 2023

Oh you know what’s goin down.

Chicago’s beloved punk rock festival Riot Fest has unveiled its lineup for 2023, and it is nothing but banger after banger. The 17th annual festival will run from Friday, September 15, to Sunday, September 17, at Douglass Park in Chicago, Ill. Friday’s headliners are Foo Fighters and Turnstile, Saturday will bring The Postal Service, Death Cab For Cutie, and Queens Of The Stone Age, and Sunday will close off with The Cure and The Mars Volta. Other acts scheduled throughout the weekend include Enter Shikari, Insane Clown Posse, Frank Turner, Microwave, 070 Shake, Corey Feldman, Parliament Funkadelic feat. George Clinton, Mr. Bungle, Spitalfield, Balance And Composure, and many more. Check out the killer lineup below.

Tickets are currently available on the festival’s website.

Riot Fest first took place in 2005 and has been running on strong until COVID-19 cancelled 2020’s festivities. Artists who’ve played in the past include The Lawrence Arms, Youth Brigade, Bad Brains, Anti-Nowhere League, NOFX, fun., The Tossers, Gogol Bordello, Reggie And The Full Effect, Jane’s Addiction, System Of A Down, Hippo Campus, Built To Spill, Underoath, Slayer, and My Chemical Romance

Bad Religion, Jimmy Eat World, Silverstein, More To Play Four Chord Music Festival 8

Holy crap this lineup is stacked.

Pittsburgh based music festival Four Chord officially announced its lineup for their eighth year. And this one blow last year’s out of the water. For the first time ever, the festival will be taking place over the span of two days. Headlining day one are Bad Religion, Descendents, and Pennywise, featuring appearances by Silverstein, The Amity Affliction, H2O, I Am The Avalanche, Keep Flying, and many more. Day two is more pop-punk oriented with All Time Low, Jimmy Eat World, and The Story So Far headlining, with The Starting Line, Mom Jeans., Angel Du$t, The Maine, Cherie Amour, and others performing. Two as-of-yet to-be-announced acts will also be performing on day two. Check out the lineup below.

“This is it. This is the festival I had dreamed of being able to put on since this started in my apartment 7 years ago in Pittsburgh. I can’t wait,” Four Chord founder Rishi Bahl said in a press release.

Early bird GA tickets went on sale earlier today and have already sold out. However, VIP and 2-day tickets will become available on April 19 at 11 am est. GA tickets go on sale April 22 at 11 am est. Individual day passes will go for $86, while 2-Day VIP passes are going for $350. Single day VIP passes are $186. 

For tickets and festival info, go here.

Four Chord Music Festival 8 takes place Friday, September 9 and ends Saturday, September 10, at the Wild Things Park in Pittsburgh/Washington, Pa.

Four Chord Music Festival began in 2014 inside of a nightclub and has since ventured out into the Wild Things Park in Pittsburgh/Washington, Pa. Bands and acts who’ve played Four Chord in the past include We Are The Union, Anti-Flag, The Spill Canvas, Punchline, Less Than Jake, Seaway, and Rise Against.

Snoop Dogg, Escape The Fate, Gojira, More To Play Louder Than Life 2021

After COVID-19 canceled last year’s Louder Than Life, the rock festival is planning on making 2021 its best year to date.

The Louisville, Ky., festival announced its lineup for 2021 earlier yesterday, unveiling that this year’s headliners are Korn, Snoop Dogg, Machine Gun Kelly, Cypress Hill, Staind, Jane’s Addiction, Mudvayne, Nine Inch Nails, Judas Priest, Rise Against, and Metallica who are performing two different sets. Others attending include Teenage Wrist, Beartooth, Escape The Fate, Killswitch Engage, The Blue Stones, Gojira, Ice Nine Kills, Spiritbox, The Distillers, Pennywise, The Hu, and From Ashes To New. Check out the full lineup below.

“[Promoter Danny Wimmer Presents] has always considered Louisville home, so to be able to bring America’s Biggest Rock Festival back in 2021 means everything to us,” the festival’s founder Danny Wimmer said in a statement. “After a year filled with challenge after challenge, we worked incredibly hard to curate a lineup worth the wait for our fans. Weather got in the way of Nine Inch Nails in 2018, the pandemic derailed our plans for two big Metallica sets in 2020 – so to have them both back for 2021, along with KORN and the rest of this incredible lineup over four days, that’s the kind of ‘new normal’ that we’re all looking forward to.”

Louder Than Life 2021 will be held at the Highland Festival Grounds at KY Expo Center on September 23 – 26. Tickets are available now.

The festival premiered in 2014 and has boasted a lineup of bands and artists including Stone Temple Pilots, Whiskey Myers, Being As An Ocean, Falling In Reverse, and Guns N’ Roses.

Motion City Soundtrack, 3OH!3, Sum 41, More To Play Slam Dunk Festival 2021

While COVID ruined both attempts for a Slam Dunk this year, the British festival are hoping that nothing dampens their 15th anniversary.

“We are very pleased to confirm the final list of artists who were due to play SDF20 and will be returning to play SDF21,” the festival wrote in a statement “As the vast majority of you have kept hold of your tickets for next year it seemed only right to try to bring back as many SDF20 artists as we could. If an artists was due to play 2020 and they are not on the poster, this means they are unfortunately not able to play at SDF21. We will be announcing new artists in the coming months.”

The bands announced for SD21 so far include previous 2020 headliners Sum 41 and Don Broco, along with Motion City Soundtrack, We Are The In Crowd, 3OH!3, Bury Tomorrow, I Am The Avalanche, Dance Gavin Dance, Pennywise, A, Chunk! No, Captain Chunk!, and Yours Truly. Check out the current lineup below.

Artists returning from 2020 include Movements, Comeback Kid, Face To Face, Zebrahead, and Doll Skin.

However, not everyone scheduled for SD20 will be attending next year’s festivities. As Slam Dunk stated earlier, “If an artists was due to play 2020 and they are not on the poster, this means they are unfortunately not able to play at SDF21.” The bands and artists currently not on the bill are Bayside, Bedouin Soundclash, Derek Sanders of Mayday Parade, Elder Brother, Fit For A King, The Movielife, Polaris, Refused, The Suicide Machines, Vinnie Caruana of The Movielife and I Am The Avalanche, and We Came As Romans.  

Tickets are still available to purchase. Slam Dunk also said that if you have a ticket for SD20, it will be valid for SD21. “Just to confirm SDF20 ticket orders remain valid for SDF21, your ticket provider will send your ticket closer to the event. If you have any questions about tickets please contact customer services of your ticket provider (See tickets if you followed the links on our website) There are a limited number of tickets remaining at SDF20 prices.”

Slam Dunk 2021 will be held from Saturday, May 29, at Temple Newsam in Leeds, and Sunday, May 30, in Hatfield Park in Hatfield.

The festival began in 2006 and has featured bands like The Hush Sound, Beat Union, Sonic Boom Six, Cash Cash, Hit The Lights, A Rocket To The Moon, Taking Back Sunday, We Are The Ocean, I Killed The Prom Queen, Beartooth, WSTR, Enter Shikari, The Devil Wears Prada, and Pagan.