Riot Fest returning to Chicago this summer
By FOX 32 Digital Staff
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Photo via Riot Fest website
CHICAGO - Riot Fest is returning to Chicago late this summer after being canceled last year due to the pandemic.
Riot Fest posted on their website that the music event will take place September 17-19 in Douglass Park.
The 3-day passes have already sold out, but single day tickets will go on sale next week.
The lineup for this year’s Riot Fest is star-studded, with Nine Inch Nails, Smashing Pumpkins and Run the Jewels set to headline.
Other bands included are: Pixies, Faith No More, Devo, Mr. Bungle, Coheed and Cambria, Taking Back Sunday, Dirty Heads, Sublime with Rome, Lupe Fiasco, Vic Mensa, NOFX, New Found Glory, Circle Jerks, Simple Plan, Dinosaur Jr., The Ghost Inside, Gogol Bordello, Motion City Soundtrack, and more.
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Nine Inch Nails, and Run The Jewels are among the acts on the Riot Fest 2021 lineup. The event returns to Douglass Park in Chicago on September 17 – 19. Organizers also confirmed the dates of Riot Fest 2022 (September 16 – 18, 2022) that will feature headliners My Chemical Romance, who were previously slated to play the 2021 fest. Tickets for both festivals are on sale now.
The Riot Fest 2021 lineup also includes
Pixies, Faith No More, DEVO, Mr. Bungle, Coheed And Cambria, Taking Back Sunday, Dirty Heads, Sublime With Rome, Lupe Fiasco (performing
The Cool),
Vic Mensa, NOFX, New Found Glory, Circle Jerks, Simple Plan, Dinosaur Jr., Gogol Bordello, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Best Coast, Big Freedia, Andrew W.K., Living Colour, Fishbone, Amigo The Devil and more. Additional acts will be announced next week at the same time single-day tickets go on sale.