Can't Make It To Riot Fest? Some Performances Will Be Streaming Online

By Stephen Gossett in Arts & Entertainment on Sep 12, 2016 9:17PM

Glenn Danzig (above) will rejoin The Misfits onstage at Riot Fest this fall, photo via Danzig's Facebook page

Riot Fest is very nearly upon us. The annual festival of punk rock and punk-neighboring music lands this weekend at Douglas Park, Sept. 16 - 18. Three-day passes are sold out, and single-day tickets are almost gone, too. But if you missed the boat or otherwise can’t make it to Chicago, you can still immerse in the festival’s punk-and-otherwise-alt goods remotely. Riot Fest announced on Monday that portions of the Chicago edition will be available to stream via UphoricTV.

UphoricTV, to address that quizzical look on your face, is a new-ish digital network that caters to festival streaming. (Apologies to Disco Biscuits fans already well familiar.) The broadcast will be free, according to a Riot Fest press release, but viewers will have to subscribe to the YouTube channel here to access the feed.

So far, Riot Fest and UphoricTV are mum about which performances will be streamed—although you’d suspect the heavy-hitter headliners would qualify. It’d be pretty perverse if there were no, say, Morrissey or Flaming Lips or Original Misfits but a ton of n-th-wave emo and metalcore revival. (Not that we don’t appreciate that, as well.)

So if that’s the case, this could be your only shot to see Evil Elvis Glenn Danzig perform those candy-hooked horror-punk classics with Jerry Only as the Misfits—outside of grainy Periscopes, of course. That alone may make it worth a peek.