Riot Fest Turns 20 With Massive 2025 Lineup: Green Day, Weezer, Sex Pistols & 90+ More

Riot Fest celebrates its 20th year at Chicago’s Douglass Park September 19 – 21, 2025. Organizers revealed the festival’s huge 2025 lineup headlined by Green Day, Blink-182 and Weezer.

The independent festival continues a tradition of defying genre boundaries with a bill that runs the gamut from Jack White to Sex Pistols to Rilo Kiley to The Beach Boys to “Weird Al” Yankovic to The Hold Steady and Hanson. Plenty of harder-edged acts are also aboard, including IDLES, Alkaline Trio, All Time Low, Knocked Loose, Jawbreaker, Dropkick Murphys, Bad Religion, The Pogues, The Front Bottoms, The Academy Is…, Cobra Starship, Gym Class Heroes, Texas Is the Reason, Knuckle Puck, The Wonder Years, James, Sparks and Dance Hall Crashers.

The Bouncing Souls, The Damned, Inhaler, Rico Nasty, Screeching Weasel, Citizen, Senses Fail, Microwave, Free Throw, Dehd, The Linda Lindas, Panchiko, Buzzcocks, Stiff Little Fingers, Superchunk, Militarie Gun, The Cribs, Shudder to Think, Helmet, Touché Amoré, Pegboy, Honey Revenge, Marky Ramone and many more are also set to perform at Riot Fest 2025.

Riot Fest has called Douglass Park home since 2015. Organizers recently signed a long-term deal with the Chicago Park District to ensure the festival’s future.

Tickets for the 20th Anniversary Riot Fest are on sale now. General Admission, VIP, Deluxe and Deluxe+ options are available. Purchase Riot Fest 2025 passes via Tixr.com.

Scroll below to view the complete lineup confirmed today, with another “special announcement” set for tomorrow, April 24 at 10 a.m. CT.