Riot Fest headliners for 2023 will be Foo Fighters and Turnstile Friday; The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie and Queens of the Stone Age Saturday; and The Cure and Mars Volta Sunday.
The three-day Riot Fest will be Sept. 15-17 in Douglass Park, according to an announcement Tuesday. Tickets are on sale 10 a.m. May 16 at riotfest.org. Limited presale tickets went on sale Monday.
Additional music acts include Kim Gordon, Mr. Bungle, Tegan and Sara, 100 Gecs, The Gaslight Anthem, Death Grips, Parliament Funkadelic with George Clinton, Ani DiFranco and AFI.
The longtime, independently run music fest has been at the center of controversy in the last year regarding its Douglass Park location. Some have criticized Riot Fest and some other big music events for taking over portions of the West Side city park and making them inaccessible to the surrounding community for periods of time over the summer. Summer Smash Festival, a three-day hip-hop music festival put on by SPKRBX and Lyrical Lemonade, announced it would relocate from Douglass Park to SeatGeek Stadium in Bridgeview June 23-25. Heatwave moves to Northerly Island June 10-11.
According to the announcement, Riot Fest will also include its usual array of food, drink and merchandise vendors, as well as carnival rides, a return of last year’s busy wedding chapel and Logan Arcade with vintage arcade games.
Headliner The Cure also is slated to perform at the United Center in Chicago June 10.
Also on the Riot Fest lineup, according to the announcement:
070 Shake
Balance and Composure
Bayside
Bearings
Black Angels
Bowling for Soup
Braid
Caroline Rose
Cassyette
CK Vassi
Code Orange
Corey Feldman
Cults
Drain
Earth Crisis
Empire State Bastard
Enola Gay
Enter Shikari
Eshu Tune / Hannibal Buress
Fade ‘Em All
Fake Names
FEA
Finch
Fleshwater
Flogging Molly
Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls
Free Throw
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Gorilla Biscuits
H2O
Hawthorne Heights
Head Automatica
High Vis
Hotline TNT
Insane Clown Posse
Jehnny Beth
Just Friends
Just Mustard
L.S. Dunes
Microwave
Nothing
nothing,nowhere.
Olivia Jean
Origami Angel
Pennywise
Pinkshift
Plosivs
Pool Kids
PUP
Quasi
Quicksand
Ride
Rival Schools
Say Anything
Screaming Females
Silverstein
Sleep Token
Sludgeworth
Snapcase
Spitalfield
Steve Ignorant Band / Crass
The Aquadolls
The Bobby Lees
The Breeders
The Bronx
The Dresden Dolls
The Exploited
The Gaslight Anthem
The Interrupters
The Used
The Wrecks
Thursday
Total Chaos
Viagra Boys
Warpaint
White Reaper
Yard Act
Young Culture
Riot Fest will be Sept. 15-17 in Douglass Park, 1401 S. Sacramento Drive, entrance at the corner of W. Ogden Avenue and Sacramento. Tickets and more information at riotfest.org