Blink-182, Weezer, Green Day Lead

Riot Fest will celebrate its 20th anniversary this year with a stacked lineup featuring headliners Green Day, Blink-182, and Weezer. 

The three-day event will take place Sept. 19 through 21 at Douglass Park in Chicago. Blink-182 will headline night one, Weezer will headline night two (with a special set featuring a performance of the Blue Album in full), and Green Day will close out the fest on night three. 

Other top-billed acts include Jack White, the Sex Pistols with Frank Carter, Idles, Alkaline Trio, the Beach Boys, Bad Religion, the Pogues, the Hold Steady, Dropkick Murphys, the Front Bottoms, Cobra Starship, Gym Class Heroes, the Wonder Years, Sparks, “Weird Al” Yankovic, and the recently-reunited Rilo Kiley. 

Other artists from across the indie, emo, punk, rap, and hard rock spectrum set to play the fest are the Bouncing Souls, Hanson, Rico Nasty, Dehd, the Linda Lindas, Buzzcocks, Stiff Little Fingers, Superchunk, Militarie Gun, Camper Van Beethoven, James, Dance Hall Crashers, Ovlov, Marky Ramone, and the Ataris. The festival is also promising one more surprise, set to be revealed tomorrow, April 24, at 10 a.m. CT. 

A full lineup for Riot Fest 2025 is available on the festival’s website, where tickets are also available to purchase now. 

Riot Fest began as a local punk rock festival in Chicago that took place at various venues around the city. Over the years, it developed into a local institution, finding a fixed home at Douglass Park in 2015. The festival recently announced a new long-term agreement with the Chicago Parks District to keep the festival going in the future.

“We didn’t plan on making it for twenty years. We planned on making it through one weekend. But here we are — still loud, still weird, still building something bigger than we ever meant to,” said festival founder “Riot Mike” Petryshyn in a statement.