Riot Fest Announce Daily Lineup For 2019 Festival

Did you want to know when Blink-182 are playing? What about The B-52’s? Lucero? The Starting Line? What about Slayer?

Well today we finally know when these bands and others are playing at Riot Fest this year.

The Chicago based music festival unveiled their daily lineup for 2019. Check it out below.

Riot Fest takes place at Douglas Park in Chicago, Ill. from Friday, September 13 to Sunday, September 15. Tickets are on sale now.

Slayer, The Get Up Kids, Village People, More To Play Riot Fest 2019

This year makes the 15th anniversary of Riot Fest. And they’re going all out to celebrate.

Headlining this year’s festival are Blink-182, Slayer, Bikini Kill, The Raconteurs, and Rise Against. Others set to appear include The Get Up Kids, Ween, Senses Fail, Bloc Party, Village People, The B-52’s, PKEW PKEW PKEW, I Don’t Know How But They Found Me, Elder Brother, and American Football to name a few.

Check out the lineup below.

This will be Blink’s first time back at Riot Fest since they had to cancel last year due to drummer Travis Barker getting blood clots in his arms and getting in a car accident with his son. Weezer, Taking Back Sunday, and Run The Jewels replaced the pop-punk trio at Riot Fest in 2018.

Slayer’s Riot Fest show will be their last in the Chicago/Milwaukee area. Bikini Kill just recently reunited, making this one of their first shows since coming back. This will also be The Raconteurs’s first show in Chicago in 11 years. Rise Against’s set is special since it will be their first time back at Riot Fest since 2012 where they played the first outdoor event.

Some bands will be playing some classic albums of theirs in full. Look at who will be doing that at Riot Fest.

Against Me! – Reinventing Axl Rose + Transgender Dysphoria Blues
Avail – Over The James
Bloc Party – Silent Alarm
Dashboard Confessional – The Places You Have Come To Fear The Most
The Flaming Lips – Yoshimi Battles The Pink Robot
Glassjaw – Worship and Tribute
The Selecter – Too Much Pressure
Senses Fail – From the Depths Of Dreams + Let It Enfold You
Taking Back Sunday – Tell All Your Friends + Louder Now
Ween – The Mollusk

Tickets are available at Eventbrite.com. Both regular and VIP tickets are available now to purchase.

Riot Fest’s 15th anniversary festival takes place Friday, September 13 at 11 a.m. (CDT) and runs through Sunday, September 15 at 10 p.m. (CDT.)

The festival first started in 2005 and has featured artists like The Bouncing Souls, 7 Seconds, Bad Brains, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Polar Bear Club, Jello Biafra And The Guantanamo School Of Medicine, Social Distortion, A Day To Remember, Fall Out Boy, Cheap Trick, The Academy Is…, Death Grips, Queens Of The Stone Age, and Jerry Lee Lewis.

Jawbreaker, Less Than Jake, Teenage Bottlerocket, More To Play The FEST 18

Florida’s annual punk festival The FEST is back for FEST 18, featuring a stellar lineup of bands in the punk, rock, hardcore, and pop-punk genres.

Headlining the festival this year is Jawbreaker, Less Than Jake, a reunited Jawbox, Dag Nasty, Mariachi El Bronx, Off With Their Heads, AJJ, Iron Reagan, Joyce Manor, and Teenage Bottlerocket.

Others scheduled to perform include Brendan Kelly of The Lawrence Arms, Planes Mistaken For Stars, Tsunami Bomb Dikembe, Calicoco, Heartsounds, Go Betty Go, Lee Bains III + The Glory Fires, Tim Barry, and The Copyrights. 

International acts that are scheduled to play compromise of Überyou from Switzerland, S.M.N. from Japan, Sorry! We Are Silly from Italy, Good Friend from Ireland, Billy Liar from Scotland, DFMK from Mexico, Lone Wolf from the Netherlands, Forever Unclean from Denmark, Captain Asshole from Germany, and Eat Defeat from the UK.

The current lineup can be found at The FEST’s website. More acts will be announced on May 11.

This year’s FEST will take place from Friday, Novermber 1, to Sunday, November 3, in Gainesville, Fla..

Tickets for FEST 18 are available now, but get them before they sell out!

Check out the poster for the festival below.

The FEST began in 2002 and was created by Tony Weinbender, formerly of No Idea Records. Since then, bands like Against Me!, Big D And The Kids Table, Code Orange, Diarrhea Planet, The Ergs!, The Front Bottoms, The Gaslight Anthem, Hot Water Music, Into It. Over It., Jeff Rosenstock, Knapsack, La Dispute, Matt And Kim, Naked Raygun, Only Crime, PUP, Red City Radio, Snapcase, Tigers Jaw, United Nations, Valient Thorr, The World Is A Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid To Die, and You Blew It!, have performed.