Riot Fest posts the lineup of music acts by day for 2026
Published in Entertainment News
CHICAGO — Riot Fest has announced performers, by day, with Twenty One Pilots and Iggy Pop headlining on Friday, Tool and Morrissey on Saturday, and Pierce the Veil and Alanis Morissette on Sunday.
Riot Fest 2026 runs Sept. 18-20 in Chicago’s Douglass Park (1401 S. Sacramento Drive). According to the announcement on Wednesday, one-day and two-day tickets go on sale at 10 a.m. Thursday, June 18 (from $99.98 plus fees).
The annual three-day festival of punk and alternative music first announced its 2026 lineup in late May.
Friday
Twenty One Pilots, Iggy Pop, Rise Against, Pixies, Alkaline Trio, All-American Rejects, Sex Pistols, Santigold, Motion City Soundtrack, Joey Valence & Brae, Bayside, Tricky, 3OH!3, GWAR, Slick Rick, Guttermouth, Fleshwater, the Paradox, Bratmobile, Mariachi El Bronx, Violet Grohl, Foxy Shazam, DeathbyRomy, División Minúscula, Radio Free Alice, Glixen, JMSN, the Callous Daoboys, Worry Club, Teen Mortgage, Slothrust, Soul Glo, Cardinals, Greet Death, Panic Shack, Almost There But Not Really.
Saturday
Tool, Morrisey, Social Distortion, Nas, Bad Religion, Sugar, Bright Eyes, Angine De Poitrine, Descendents, Gogol Bordello, Public Image LTD, PUP, Thrice, Less Than Jake, Brian Fallon & The Painkillers, the Suicide Machines, Afroman, Destroy Boys, the Chats, Yard Act, Chat Pile, VANA, Strike Anywhere, Show Me The Body, Hot Rod Circut, Melt-Banana, Frankie & The Witch Fingers, Burning Airlines, Gurriers, Kiwi Jr., Nobro, Whispers, ASAVA, Aim High.
Sunday
Pierce the Veil, Alanis Morissette, Elvis Costello & The Imposters, the Format, Patti Smith and Her Band, Twin Peaks, Taking Back Sunday, Insane Clown Posse, Pennywise, the Beths, Mom Jeans, Cartel, Bowling for Soup, This Is Lorelei, Sincere Engineer, Jejune, Arm’s Length, Saturdays at Your Place, Good Riddance, Haywire, Dead to Me, the Flatliners, Murphy’s Law, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Daisy Grenade, Holding Absence, Algernon Cadwallader, Ben Quad, Remember Sports, Macseal, Stomach Book, the Iron Roses.
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