Morrissey, Social Distortion, Rob Zombie, Deftones & NOFX to Play Riot Fest
Last week, it was extremely exciting to see Riot Fest managing to get Glenn Danzig and Jerry Only to reunite under “The Original Misfits” banner for a pair of festival gigs. Now, we get word that Riot Fest has managed to rope in Morrissey.
Morrissey will play the Chicago edition of Riot Fest (September 16-18) at Douglas Park alongside the likes of Ween, Social Distortion (performing White Light, White Heat, White Trash), Rob Zombie (performing White Zombie’s Astro-Creep: 2000), Death Cab For Cutie, Brand New, NAS, Deftones, Jimmy Eat World, Refused, Death Grips, Descendents, The Specials, Foo Fighters side-project Chevy Metal, as well as Fugazi offshoot Girls Against Boys.
Additional Chicago performers include NOFX, Bad Religion, Thursday, Underoath, The Anniversary, The Hives, Glassjaw, Leftover Crack, Smoking Popes, Pepper, Motion City Soundtrack, Big D & The Kids Table, The Holy Steady (performing Girls & Boys in America), Bob Mould, Meat Puppets, GZA, Method Man and Red Man, Dan Deacon, GWAR, Joey Bada$$, Andrew WK, Fucked Up, The Dillinger Escape Plane, Juliette Lewis & The Licks, Diarrhea Planet, Touché Amoré, Hippo Campus, White Lung, and Denzel Curry.
As for Riot Fest Denver being held at the National Western Complex on September 2-4, those festivities will feature The Misfits, Ween, Death Cab For Cutie, Sleater-Kinney, Jane’s Addiction (performing Ritual De Lo Habitual), Wolf Parade and Tyler the Creator.
Of course, that’s not all, as NAS, Deftones, Descendents, Sleigh Bells, Chevy Metal, Vince Staples, Flatbush Zombies, The Dandy Warhols, NOFX, Underoath, Bad Religion, Thursday, The Hold Steady (performing Girls & Boys in America), Yo La Tengo, Suicidal Tendencies, Danny Brown, Against Me!, Converge, Fucked Up, Meat Puppets, Juliette Lewis & The Licks, Touché Amoré, Glassjaw, Diarrhea Planet, White Lung, and Lagwagon will also appear in the mile high state.
More bands will be added to these daily bills in the coming weeks.
As previously reported, Riot Fest is not returning to Toronto this year but does hope to be back there in the near future.
