Riot Fest Chicago is Moving to Douglas Park
The dust has settled and the official verdict is in: Riot Fest is saying goodbye to Humboldt Park and hello to Douglas Park.
Mike Petryshyn, co-founder of the recently named Best Music Festival in the US, released a statement about the festival's move to North Lawndale:
In my very first meeting with Alderman Cardenas, I was happy that we were discussing logistical details and how we could enrich the community. Quite frankly, I was silently ecstatic. He gets it and it was genuine. Our goal has always been to leave a positive impact in the community we call home by helping local independent businesses, hiring ward residents and making an impact year-round. We did that in our previous home and plan to do the same — if not more — in the community surrounding Douglas Park and the 12th Ward.
As soon as we started discussing community, it was refreshing to see George get up from his desk and start pointing on the ward map to the local businesses we need to meet and have a formal introduction. He was excited and so was I. To have an an elected official see clearly how we can bring good things is humbling. To be appreciated for who we are—as people running an indie company and a festival—by the him and all of the supporters has been inspiring.
The strife between Riot Fest organizers and Alderman Maldonado of the 26th Ward (where Humboldt Park is located) has been well-noted since last year's festival that left the park with thousands of dollars in damages. And while the festival is committed to repairing the park, Maldonado and other Humboldt Park residents were vocal with their opposition to the festival's return despite overwhelming support that resulted in over 8,000 signatures (ours included) to keep the festival in Humboldt.
Riot Fest also announced the lineup for this year's festival will be released next week, ensuring a busy Riot Fest-related news month ends on a high note.
You can read the festival's official announcement here.
Widespread Panic Headlining North Coast Music Festival 2015
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This post was originally published by our affiliate site, Chicago Music.
North Coast Music Festival (NCMF) is thrilled to announce WIDESPREAD PANIC as the surprise headliner for this year’s festival! The legendary Southern rock jam band has remained in Pollstar’s Top 50 Tours of the Year for the past decade, and continues to be one of the most relevant touring entities on the live music scene after almost 30 years. 2015 marks a special year for the band as they announced the release of their first studio album in five years. This spring WP embarks on a highly anticipated nationwide tour in celebration of their first studio release since Dirty Side Down in 2010.
For more information on NCMF visit here.
Riot Fest Chicago 2014 Set Times Available
A week before Riot Fest's 10th Anniversary, the weekend's full set times have been released. Much like last year's Riot Fest (read our Day 1, Day 2, and Day 3 recaps!), there aren't many scheduling conflicts on my tentative schedule. I'll go into more detail on my "Top Artists to See at Riot Fest 2014" list next week, but I'm feeling really excited about this year's lineup. It may not carry the same "Wow!" factor that last year's did, but this year does feature some amazing Chicago talent, including my good friends ShowYouSuck and Netherfriends, plus rising Chicago artists Lucki Eck$, The Orwells, The Crombies, and more. You can check out the set times by date and stage below, and if you want something a bit more informative/interactive, you can find the Friday, Saturday, and Sunday set times on the Riot Fest website.
Friday, September 12
Riot Stage
3:00pm - 3:30pm: Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears
4:00pm - 4:45pm Circa Survive
5:15 - 6:00pm Failure
7:00pm - 7:45pm Gogol Bordello
8:45 - 10:00pm Jane's Addiction
Roots Stage
3:30pm - 4:00pm Title Fight
4:45pm - 5:15pm Stiff Little Fingers
6:00pm - 7:00pm NOFX
7:45pm - 8:45pm The Offspring
Rock Stage
4:00pm - 4:40pm All
5:00pm - 5:45pm Senses Fail
7:30pm - 8:15pm Murder City Devils
9:00pm - 10pm Rise Against
Riot Fest Speaks Stage
5:45pm - 7:00pm Pussy Riot panel
Rebel Stage
4:15pm - 5:00pm Gwar
5:30pm - 6:15pm Clutch
7:00pm - 7:45pm Mastodon
8:45pm - 9:45pm Slayer
Rise Stage
3:45pm - 4:15pm Ur Lineup Sux, Bro
5:00pm - 5:30pm Emarosa
6:15pm - 7:00pm We Came as Romans
7:45pm - 8:45pm Of Mice & Men
Rev Stage
3:00pm - 3:30pm Somos
4:00pm - 4:30pm Plague Vendor
5:00pm - 5:30pm Hotelier
6:00pm - 6:30pm From Indian Lakes
7:00pm - 7:30pm Pianos Become the Teeth
8:00pm - 8:30pm Pity Sex
The Radicals
3:30pm - 4:00pm Vamos!
4:30pm - 5:00pm Baby Baby
5:30pm - 6:00pm Wounds
6:30pm - 7:00pm Radkey
7:30pm - 8:00pm Red City Radio
Saturday, September 13
Riot Stage
12:05pm - 12:35pm Pizza Underground
1:05pm - 1:50pm Orwells
2:30pm - 3:15pm Dandy Warhols
4:00pm - 4:45pm Die Antwoord
5:30pm - 6:15pm Paul Weller
7:15pm - 8:00pm Metric
9:00pm - 10:00pm The National
Roots Stage
12:35pm - 1:05pm Wavves
1:55pm - 2:40pm Tokyo Police Club
3:15pm - 4:00pm City & Colour
4:45pm - 5:30pm Afghan Whigs
6:15pm - 7:15pm Wu-Tang Clan
8:00pm - 9:00pm Flaming Lips
Rock Stage
12:00pm - 12:30pm Frank Iero
1:00pm - 1:45pm RX Bandits
2:15pm - 3:00pm Streetlight Manifesto
3:30pm - 4:15pm Saosin with Anthony Green
4:45pm - 5:30pm Say Anything
6:00pm - 6:45pm Dashboard Confessional
7:15pm - 8:15pm The Used
8:45pm - 9:45pm Taking Back Sunday
Rebel Stage
1:10pm - 1:40pm Samiam
2:20pm - 2:50pm Buzzcocks
3:45pm - 4:25pm Face to Face
5:10pm - 5:55pm Me First & the Gimme Gimmes
6:55pm - 7:55pm Cock Sparrer
8:55pm - 9:55pm Samhain
Rise Stage
7:55pm - 8:55pm Descendents
5:55pm - 6:55pm Get Up Kids
4:25pm - 5:10pm Mighty Mighty Bosstones
2:50pm - 3:55pm Television
1:40pm - 2:20pm 7 Seconds
12:25pm - 1:10pm Anti-Flag
Rev Stage
12:00pm - 12:30pm Picturebooks
1:00pm - 1:30pm Rose's Pawn Shop
2:00pm - 2:30pm The Bots
3:00pm - 3:30pm The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die
4:00pm - 4:30pm Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas
5:00pm - 5:30pm Lemuria
6:00pm - 6:30pm Nostalgia
7:00pm - 7:30pm Skaters
8:00pm - 8:30pm Citizen
The Radicals
11:45am - 12:15pm Buffalo Rodeo
12:45pm - 1:15pm Dan Wade
1:45pm - 2:15pm Ex Friends
2:45pm - 3:15pm Broncho
3:45pm - 4:15pm American Scene
4:45pm - 5:15pm Restorations
5:45pm - 6:15pm Crombies
6:45pm - 7:15pm Unlikely Candidates
Sunday, September 14
Riot Stage
1:45pm - 2:15pm Kurt Vile & the Violators
2:55pm - 3:35pm Superchunk
4:30pm - 5:15pm Tegan and Sara
6:00pm - 6:45pm Patti Smith
7:45pm -10:00pm The Cure
Roots Stage
11:45am - 12:30pm Menzingers
1:00pm - 1:45pm Bouncing Souls
2:15pm - 2:55pm Billy Bragg
3:35pm - 4:30pm Naked Raygun
5:15pm - 6:00pm Dropkick Murphys
6:45pm - 7:45pm Social Distortion
Rock Stage
1:15pm - 1:45pm Only Crime
2:15pm - 3:00pm Silverstein
3:30pm - 4:15pm La Dispute
4:45pm - 5:30pm: Mineral
6:00pm - 6:45pm Blue Meanies
7:15pm - 8:15pm New Found Glory
8:45pm - 9:45pm Bring Me the Horizon
Rebel Stage
1:10pm - 1:40pm Front Bottoms
2:10pm - 3:00pm The Hold Steady
3:45pm - 4:25pm Motion City Soundtrack
5:05pm - 5:55pm Hot Snakes
6:40pm - 7:40pm Cheap Trick
8:40pm - 9:55pm Weezer
Rise Stage
12:40pm - 1:10pm Laura Stevenson
1:40pm - 2:10pm Whigs
3:00pm - 3:45pmAndrew W.K.
4:20pm - 5:05pm Lucero
5:55pm - 6:40pm Mudhoney
7:40pm - 8:40pm Primus
Rev Stage
12:00pm - 12:30pm Chumped
1:00pm - 1:30pm Survay Says!
2:00pm - 2:30pm Pup
3:00pm - 3:30pm Tiny Moving Parts
4:00pm - 4:30pm Cerebral Ballzy
5:00pm - 5:30pm Dads
6:00pm - 6:30pm Modern Baseball
7:00pm - 7:30pm I Am the Avalanche
The Radicals
11:30am - 12:00pm Grizzled Mighty
12:30pm -1:00pm Mutts
1:30pm - 2:00pm Team Spirit
2:30pm - 3:00pm Netherfriends
3:30pm - 4:00pm Lucki Ecks
4:30pm - 5:00pm ShowYouSuck
5:30pm - 6:00pm My Gold Mask
6:30pm - 7:00pm In the Valley Below
7:30pm - 8:00pm Archie Powell & the Exports
Top Artists to See at North Coast Music Festival 2014
Preview written by Alex Lapenia and Jesse Pizano of Three Card Photography. Post was originally published by our affiliates at Chicago Music.
Summer is coming to an end on Labor Day weekend, and with that comes the end of summer’s official music festival season. I’d like to share a few reasons why you should join the thousands of people who will descend upon Union Park located in Chicago for the fifth anniversary celebration of North Coast Music Festival, summer’s official last stand. Whether you are into hip hop, dance music, or electronica, North Coast has music for everyone to enjoy. With Bassnectar as heavy bass hitters, Snoop Dogg and Kid Cudi bringing hip hop vibes, and STS9 as one of the headliners, the lineup of artist features an impressive spread of acts, with a wide variety of DJs and producers including Zeds Dead, electro soul GRiZ, dub-step sensation Adventure Club, and house’s finest talent Dada Life, Wolfgang Gartner, Showtek, and W&W. There will be some amazing indie bands Little Dragon, Future Island, Wild Belle, and Dr. Dog, as well as more hip hop sounds from Riff Raff, Action Bronson and Chicago locals Probcause and Sabu. Some acts I am most excited for are EDM headliners Alesso and Nikky Romero who are sure to be hot. With 50 more acts over the three-day festival, this without a doubt is going to be the most fun weekend of the summer. See you at North Coast! Read on as we go into more detail about who we're excited to see at NCMF this weekend.
New Location, Attractions for Riot Fest Chicago 2014
If you couldn't already tell, I'm extremely excited about Riot Fest's 10th anniversary. It's been less than a month since the punk rock-themed festival released their lineups for the year, and now we're supplied with even bigger, more exciting news. Riot Fest will be moving its location from Humboldt Park to... Humboldt Park! The festival will simply migrate to the north end of the park with North Ave. serving as its Northern end, Kedzie to its West, California to its East, and Division to the South. This will make access to the festival much more convenient for commuters as the North Ave. bus will now be accessible right on festival grounds.
Even better, more attractions are being added to the festival this year. In addition to the staple carnival attractions that Riot Fest has been known for, a 9-hole miniature golf course (supplied by our homie Artpentry), a haunted house, Gospel for the Guilty burlesque show, a 20-game arcade supplied by Emporium Arcade Bar (with proceeds going to the Chicago Coalition for the Homeless), and more!
Haunted house and miniature golf tickets are on sale right now over at Ticketfly. Take a closer look at the updated map for Riot Fest Chicago 2014 below. We'll see you next month!
Night Shows for Austin City Limits 2014 Announced
Following the Austin City Limits 2014 lineup announcement comes the announcement for the Texas-based festival's "night shows." Are you a fan of some of this year's ACL artists, but would better appreciate seeing them in an intimate venue setting rather than an outdoor festival? ACL's night shows just might be for you. Tickets for shows artists such as DIPLO, Spanish Gold, Tegan and Sara, Interpol, CHVRCHES, The Glitch Mob, and more officially go on sale this Friday at 10am CST. You can find the full list of Austin City Limits 2014 night shows here.
However, if you subscribe to the official C3Concerts.com mailing list by 10pm CST tonight, you'll be mailed a pre-sale code to purchase tickets a day early on Thursday. To join the aforementioned mailing list, simply sign up at this link. We'll have more from this year's Austin City Limits when the festival touches down in October!
Midwest Ska Fest 2014 Information + Sampler
You know what I love? Well thought-out DIY musical ventures, and that is exactly what Midwest Ska Fest 2014 is. Operating in its second year (though formerly known as Summer Ska Fest last year), the festival is an appreciation of independent ska, reggae, 2-tone, and dub bands and artists throughout the Midwest and will be taking place at the Double Door on Saturday, August 23rd. Tickets are on sale here.
This year's lineup features Chicago bands The Crombies, On Your Marx, Los Vicios de Papa, and Malafacha alongside Ohama's The Bishops, Milwaukee's Something to Do, and Northwest Indiana's Green Room Rockers with special guest Matt Wixson and a DJ set by legendary ska DJ, Chuck Wren. To help commemorate the festival, a Midwest Ska Fest 2014 Sampler has been created to help familiarize potential attendees with the bands' music. You can find the sampler below.
We'll be attending Midwest Ska Fest 2014, so you can expect more from these bands full of "hep" cats, hephephephep. Ska puns!
Ruby Hornet's Lollapalooza 2014 Spotify Playlist
In case you missed our Lollapalooza artist recommendations yesterday, check them out while you listen to our Spotify Playlist! Curated by both Aleks and I, we wanted to share this playlist with those who may not be familiar with the Lollapalooza artists we recommended. In my opinion, the playlist runs the gamut of sounds that Lollapalooza offers, from OutKast's flow to CHVRCHES' synth-pop and everything in between. Enjoy this playlist while you prepare for a very tiring and people-filled weekend.