My Chemical Romance, NIN, The Misfits to headline Riot Fest 2022
The Misfits Walk Among Us and so do Ice Cube, Yellowcard, Bauhaus, and Portugal. The Man at this year’s Riot Fest in Chicago
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Since 2005, Riot Fest has been the place to see punk rock luminaries get the band together and play a show for thousands of fans. Their idiosyncratic lineups, which marry classic punk, pop-punk, emo, hardcore, and some industrial, rap, and pop for good measure, is one of the few places you’ll see Bauhaus share the stage with Yellowcard. This year’s no exception as Bauhaus and Yellowcard are but two of the acts making their way to the Windy City for another Riot Fest.
Running from September 16 to September 18 in Chicago, Riot Fest will host more than 100 acts across five stages. Leading the charge, My Chemical Romance will headline Friday; The Misfits performing their classic debut, Walk Among Us, on Saturday; and Nine Inch Nails will close out the fest on Sunday.
But wait, there’s more! Indie rock legends Yeah Yeah Yeahs, goth legends Bauhaus, and emo legends Sunny Day Real Estate will make their Riot Fest debut this year. Sure, an SDRE reunion sounds cool, but what if aging millennials want to relieve their Y2K pop-punk glory days. Well, you’re in luck. Yellowcard, The Academy Is…, and Midtown will all reunite at Riot Fest too.
And that’s barely half of it. Portugal. The Man, Placebo, Jeff Rosenstock, Descendents, Ice Cube, Action Bronson, Alkaline Trio, and Bad Religion are also set to play. So if you haven’t found something you like, just look a little harder.
1-Day, 2-Day, 3-Day passes go on sale at RiotFest.org this morning at 10 a.m. CST.
And without further adieu, here’s the full lineup for Riot Fest 2022:
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
My Chemical Romance
Alkaline Trio
Portugal. The Man
Bleachers
Descendents
Rocket from the Crypt
The Wonder Years
Placebo
Jeff Rosenstock
Anberlin
Less Than Jake
Lagwagon
Lucky Boys Confusion
Foxy Shazam
Boston Manor
Sincere Engineer
Pale Waves
Cloud Nothings
LS Dunes
carolesdaughter
Destroy Boys
AViVA
Bob Vylan
Holy Fawn
Algiers
Wargasm (UK)
Cliffdiver
Sitting On Stacy
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 17
The Original Misfits (Performing ‘Walk Among Us’)
Yellowcard
Bauhaus
Sunny Day Real Estate
Bad Religion
Yungblud
The Story So Far
The Front Bottoms
The Menzingers
Alexisonfire
Movements
jxdn
The Get Up Kids
Gwar
7 Seconds
Madball
FEAR
Bully
The Joy Formidable
Together Pangea
POORSTACY
Mannequin Pussy
War On Women
Charlotte Sands
Jake Hill
Bridge City Sinners
THICK
Skating Polly
No Trigger
Surfbort
SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 18
Nine Inch Nails
Yeah Yeah Yeahs
Ice Cube
Sleater-Kinney
Jimmy Eat World
The Academy Is…
Action Bronson
Lunachicks
The Maine
Midtown
PVRIS
Jawbox
Alice Glass
The Linda Lindas
Mom Jeans.
Real Friends
The Juliana Theory
Josh A
Renforshort
Joey Valence & Brae
Weathers
Kid Sistr
Save Face
The Bombpops
Treaty of Paris
Concrete Castles
Chastity
Moon Kissed
Night Spice
18 Comments
7 Seconds? Wow.
Kinda some odd choices that I wouldn’t necessarily fit together here, but there is a lot here that I am excited for, may just have to go to this.
I won’t lie. I’m halfway considering this just for Bauhaus alone. I don’t think any of the days have more than a band or 2 that I’d want to see otherwise, but I’d drop a couple hundo to see Bauhaus just by themselves.
Anticipating watching Bauhaus the night before NIN really warms my cold little black heart.
always a solid lineup. This one is no exception
Anyone have some recommendations out of the small bands on the bottom side of the bill to check out?
Holy Fawn is good slow, heavy stoner rock. They were supposed to play last year but couldn’t make it (as were Fucked Up, whose last-minute surprise absence bummed me out quite a bit). Also if you like knockoff Queen fun, Foxy Shazam fit the bill.
I literally went to a Save Face show last night. They are HEAVILY influenced by My Chemical Romance so I’d check them out if you like MCR.
I see that we’ve got a band called “Sitting on Stacy” and POORSTACY playing at the same festival. Also, “Night Spice” sounds like a cheap European cologne.
For fuck’s sake, it’s not “without further adieu”
Some people hate saying goodbye.
Man I’m old there’s like three bands I’d want to see, and sitting through the rest of the crap is just not worth it“Back in my day, a punk festival cost 35 dollars and had more than one punk band per day!”
Saw NIN two weeks ago. Sounded as good as ever. Great setlist too.
It’s crazy they host THIS particular festival in THAT particular park and it doesn’t lead to trouble. They seem like polar opposites.
I wish going to these festivals didn’t involve standing in an ocean of stinky strangers.
May we talk about someone else’s chemical romance for two minutes? Does it always have to be about you?!
I truly detest Pale Waves. “Hey, what if we chose a real hardcore aesthetic but then made the most boring, whiny, uninspired wiener music ever?”
That’s neat, but is the Saturday headlining set really only going to be 25 minutes long?