Riot Fest 2025 Tour • Page 31

The Aquabats are out as well. HOB in Chicago on 7/7.

 

Well that's incredibly upsetting.

 

That might be the most disappointing “out” so far and I’m not even the biggest fan.

Part of my Riot fantasy for this year was seeing them play mid-late afternoon.

 

I am kind of surprised how The Aquabats have not played Riot more. I could easily see them being a recurring band like TBS or Gwar

 

Nothing against The Aquabats personally, but I’m content with less repeat every year bands playing (aside from GWAR and Taking Back Sunday…regardless of how bad Adam’s voice is)

With Pitchfork Festival done and Lollapalooza barely booking any rock these days, I feel like that gives Riot much more options in terms of booking rock or guitar driven music, and having more repeat bands would hinder that if they are bigger bands taking up a bigger spot on the lineup each year.

 

the Aquabats haven't played since 2018, and they were amazing

 

I totally thought they played a couple years ago (post-Covid) haha

 

I disagree, The Aquabats should play all 3 days every year

 

The Aquabats can kick rocks. It's Mac Sabbath or bust for me as far as novelty acts go.

 

I NEED AN OKILY DOKILY REUNION

 

This is thread ban worthy. Holy smokes.

 

LCD Soundsystem is teasing a tour and I haven’t seen any Chicago venues teasing yet. Milwaukee, Detroit, Columbus and Toronto have been teased among others. They are at Sea.Hear.Now on September 13 in New Jersey so I’m guessing the Midwest dates are shortly after that. Assuming Blink and Green Day are in, they seem like the perfect headliner for the “indie day”/to balance out between two pop punk headliners. They did play four shows in Chicago last year but that was earlier in the year and it will have about 1.5 years since those shows come Riot Fest time.

Edit:
They are at the Hollywood Bowl with Pulp on September 25/26 so yeah definitely feel like the Midwest dates would be in between Sea.Hear.Now and those shows.

 

Yeah, I still think it's gonna be Blink 182, LCD/Vampire Weekend, Bring Me the Horizon/Deftones, which would be an absolute home run.

 

Vampire Weekend is unlikely, they are mostly sticking to the Easy Coastish and it would be a bit tricky for them to make it to Riot based on their currently announced dates, but we’ll see!

 

The LCD tour is in August. Still a chance!

this spec season has been so fun.

 

Powerwolf and Dragonforce announced a tour with no Chicago date and an open date 9/21. Would feed into the metal-ness of Sunday.

 

Never heard of Powerwolf but hell yeah I’ll take Dragonforce.

I’m leaning no on LCD even though I would love to see them again. Maybe they were a planned Pitchfork headliner? I really would love to know how much of that was booked before Condé Nast shut it down. I assume the headliners would have a harder time than the lower billed bands jumping on something else.

I think my current top 3 prediction is Blink, Green Day, Deftones.

 

I could see LCD playing, but as a sub-headliner.

Right now I’m guessing:

Fri- Blink
Sat- Green Day
Sun- Deftones/BMTH

 

I saw Dragonforce on Ozzfest 2006 and they were baaaad, but I'd be down to give them another shot if somehow they were playing this year

 

My understanding is they are much better live nowadays (apparently Marc joining the band in 2011 really turned them around).

 

the new green day IG post sure hints at chicago with that belushi pic:

 

The last part of a “few tricks up our sleeves” makes it seem like a tour is imminent

 

I don't know that is necessarily a "hint" for Chicago so much as just... The song they've chosen to hype the deluxe edition with. It's up on streaming now.

But regardless... More shows incoming for the fall makes them much more likely.

I was being hyperbolic. Though, if I'm being fully honest, I'd rather Riot book some of the newer/younger ska bands.

 

It’s crazy to think that at my first riot fest Deftones were the 11th highest billed band and only 4th highest on their day… and now almost a decade later they’re very likely to headline their own night without releasing any popular songs or albums in the time between.

 

Tiktok is wild, man.