Foo Fighters, Death Cab, The Cure Among Riot Fest Headliners

Riot Fest, Chicago’s massive September rock and punk-focused festival, will get headline performances from Foo Fighters, Death Cab for Cutie and the Cure, among others.

Dave Grohl and his bandmates will top the bill on the Douglass Park stage for the first night, September 15, alongside Turnstile. Death Cab (and Ben Gibbard’s other project The Postal Service) will headline Saturday with Queens of the Stone Age. The final night of the festival features the Cure and a re-formed The Mars Volta.

Down the bill, Riot Fest will also feature Mr. Bungle, 100 gecs, Insane Clown Posse, Tegan And Sara, Parliament Funkadelic, AFI and Ani DiFranco (among many, many others; see the full line-up, which includes Corey Feldman, below).

Tickets — which run from $269 for a three-day GA pass to $1,500 for “Deluxe+” — are on-sale now.

Riot Fest 2023

Foo Fighters 
The Postal Service 
Death Cab for Cutie 
The Cure 
Queens of the Stone Age
Turnstile
 Mr. Bungle
The Mars Volta
 Danzig
Tegan and Sara
100 Gecs
The Gaslight Anthem
Death Grips
AFI
The Dresden Dolls
Say Anything
The Used
Pennywise
The Breeders
The Interrupters
PUP
070 Shake
Ani DiFranco
Parliament Funkadelic ft. George Clinto
Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls
Finch
Bayside
Silverstein
Sleep Token
Kim Gordon
Flogging Molly
Viagra Boys
Insane Clown Posse
Gorilla Biscuits
Head Automatica
LS Dunes
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
Ride
Nothing Nowhere
Code Orange
Cults
White Reaper
Balance and Composure
Fake Names
Eshu Tune
Quicksand
Jehnny Beth
The Wrecks
Thursday
Hawthorne Heights
Bowling for Soup
Braid
H2O
Spitalfield
Enter Shikari
Drain
Snapcase
Corey Feldman
Origami Angel
The Bronx
The Exploited
Plosivs
Steve Ignorant Band / Crass
Black Angels
Yard Act
Warpaint
Nothing
Screaming Females
High Vis
Rival Schools
Caroline Rose
Just Mustard
Hotline TNT
Quasi
Microwave
Sludgeworth
Just Friends
Pinkshift 
Enola Gay
Earth Crisis
Empire State Bastard
Cassyette
FEA
Free Throw
Bearings
The Bobby Lees
Pool Kids
Fade ‘Em All
Total Chaos
Fleshwater
Olivia Jean
Calva Louise
Ck Vassi
Young Culture