Yesterday Riot Fest announced their 2025 lineup, with Blink-182, Weezer, and Green Day headlining. It's the 20th anniversary of the Chicago festival, and they're celebrating by having 20 of the bands do one of their respective albums in full.
Weezer will be continuing their Voyage To The Blue Planet Tour celebrating 30 years of their self-titled debut aka the Blue Album. The Sex Pistols will be tearing through their one and only LP Never Mind The Bollocks... with Frank Carter on lead vocals. Bad Religion will be playing their 1988 classic Suffer, and the Pogues are celebrating 40 years of their landmark album Rum Sodomy & The Lash on their first tour since frontman Shane MacGowan's death in 2023.
The 20th anniversary of Riot Fest is going down September 19–21 at Douglass Park in Chicago. The full list of full-album playthroughs is below.
Weezer – The Blue Album
Sex Pistols – Never Mind The Bollocks...
Alkaline Trio – Maybe I’ll Catch Fire
Bad Religion – Suffer
The Pogues – Rum Sodomy & 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
