Riot Fest Announces Next Wave Of Bands Including System Of A Down, The Prodigy
By Tankboy in Arts & Entertainment on Jun 23, 2015 5:00PM
Riot Fest just filled in a few question marks on their 2015 line-up in Douglas Park this September. Joining the previously announced bands are System of a Down, The Prodigy, 88 Fingers Louie, and Chef’Special. This announcement is reflective of the line-up's broad musical diversity, continuing to embrace the ethos that punk rock is built on personal taste and not adherence to some sort of rigid genre of musical cliches. The Prodigy's aggressive electronic dance music is just as likely to get metal kids moshing as System Of A Down's drop D hard rock will get the EDM-ers pogoing and spinning in circles. Right?
Riot Fest also just announced the return of their ticket layaway plan, constructed to give folks the chance to buy tickets and make incremental payments on their purchase in order to afford the three day music festival. Interested? You can find more information on the layaway plan here.
A number of acts are slated to follow last year's example and perform some of their own "classic" albums in their entirety. So far those are:
- Snoop Dogg performing Doggystyle
- Ice Cube & Guests performing NWA's Straight Outta Compton
- Rancid performing … And Out Come The Wolves
- The Academy Is… performing Almost Here
- The Dwarves performing Blood Guts and Pussy
Riot Fest is in Douglas Park September 11-13 and tickets are on sale now.
The full line-up of Riot Fest thus far is:
No Doubt, System of a Down, Modest Mouse, Faith No More, The Prodigy, Iggy Pop, Snoop Dogg, Damian “Jr. Gong” Marley, Motörhead, Rancid, Tenacious D, Billy Idol, Ice Cube & Special Guests, Alkaline Trio, Coheed And Cambria, Taking Back Sunday, Rodrigo y Gabriela, Drive Like Jehu, Merle Haggard, Flogging Molly, Slightly Stoopid, L7, Alexisonfire, Thrice, Dirty Heads, Stephen “Ragga” Marley, The Academy Is…, The Lawrence Arms, Kongos, Cypress Hill, Anthrax, Echo & The Bunnymen, Bootsy Collins’ Rubber Band, The Damned, Yelawolf, Pennywise, The Airborne Toxic Event, Manchester Orchestra, Eagles Of Death Metal, The Devil Wears Prada, De La Soul, Andrew McMahon, In The Wilderness, Mayday Parade, New Politics, Jimmy Cliff, Against Me!, Babes In Toyland, OK GO, Bayside, Mest, Andrew W.K., Desaparecidos, The Joy Formidable, The Dead Milkmen, Atreyu, FIDLAR, Millencolin, American Nightmare, Swervedriver, Lee Scratch Perry, GWAR, Less Than Jake, The Expendables, Living Colour, The Thurston Moore Band, Morgan Heritrage, Lifetime, Fishbone, Death, Doomtree, Hum, Tarrus Riley, Mariachi El Bronx, Civ, Joyce Manor, Every Time I Die, The Movielife, The Dwarves, Tommy Stinson, Steve Ignorant & Paranoid Visions, Real Friends, The Dear Hunter, Kevin Devine, 88 Fingers Louie, Mustard Plug, The Ataris, Jo Mersa, Into It. Over It., Alvvays, The White Buffalo, Black-Am-I, Skip Marley, Knuckle Puck, Post Malone with FKI, Jazz Cartier, Chef’Special, Marmozets, Modern Life Is War, Fit For Rivals, Barb Wire Dolls, The Coathangers, Flatfoot 56, Teenage Bottlerocket, Prayers, Chon, Counterpunch, Have Mercy, Speedy Ortiz, Superheaven, White Mystery, Foxing, Direct Hit!, Main Attrakionz, Ground Up, Skinny Lister, Beach Slang, Cayetana, Alex Wiley, Heems, Dirty Fences, Blis,Sleep On It, The Brokedowns, Meat Wave, Psalm One, Northern Faces, Dreamers, Souvenirs, Elway, Indian Handcrafts, Skating Polly, Signals Midwest, Modern Chemistry, Faulkner, PEARS, Gateway Drugs, Tasha The Amazon, Foxtrott, Twin River, Clowns, & Indian School