Twenty bands will play full album sets for Riot Fest’s 20th anniversary this summer, the music festival announced Thursday. The full list includes:
Weezer: “The Blue Album”
Sex Pistols: “Never Mind The Bollocks …”
Alkaline Trio: “Maybe I’ll Catch Fire”
Bad Religion: “Suffer”
The Pogues: “Rum Sodomy and the Lash”
The Hold Steady: “Separation Sunday”
The Academy Is …: “Almost Here”
The Front Bottoms: “Back On Top”
Knuckle Puck “Copacetic”
The Bouncing Souls: “How I Spent My Summer Vacation”
Screeching Weasel: “My Brain Hurts”
Helmet: “Betty”
Pegboy: “Strong Reaction”
The Ataris: “So Long, Astoria”
Agnostic Front: “Victim in Pain”
Smoking Popes: “Born to Quit”
The Effigies: For Ever Grounded
Samiam: “Astray”
Agent Orange: “Living in Darkness”
Zero Boys: “Vicious Circle”
Riot Fest will be Sept. 19-21 in Douglass Park. The three-day music festival announced bands and performers for 2025 on Wednesday, including headliners Blink-182, Weezer, Jack White and Green Day. Select tickets are on sale now at riotfest.org.
Riot Fest 2025: Green Day, Blink-182 and Weird Al Yankovic, plus a new deal to stay in Douglass Park
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