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Slayer reunite to play Riot Fest 2024!!

Retirements in music are very much like retirements in professional wrestling, they often don’t last, but in this case we are grateful for it because Slayer has reunited! Riot Fest just announced that Slayer has reunited and will be performing...

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Riot Fest announces 2023 lineup!

It’s always an exciting day when Riot Fest announces its lineup and that day has arrived! In keeping with tradition, it is an excellent and very diverse selection of bands that should have something for just about everyone. Now all...

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Verbal Assault returns to Chicago this Saturday! Win tickets!

Verbal Assault was one of the finest punk rock bands of their time during the mid to late 1980’s. In their few years together they released a small handful of really great records that have stood the test of time, and they toured regularly. It...

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Riot Fest announces 2022 lineup!

Riot Fest just released its lineup for 2022 and man is it a good one!!!!!
Tickets are available from the Riot Fest Website. It is going to be a long wait until September!

Riot Fest announces lineup for Riot Fest 2021

If this isn’t the bright light at the end of a long dark tunnel that has been the current pandemic then I don’t know what is. Riot Fest unveiled their lineup and plans to return this September and boy did they put together a lineup that...

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R.I.P. Pierre Kezdy of Naked Raygun

We lost a punk rock super hero today. Pierre Kezdy of Naked Raygun lost his battle to cancer and passed away at the far too young age of 58. The influence Pierre left on this city from all the bands he played in, but especially in Naked Raygun, will...

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Help Pierre Kezdy of Naked Raygun battle cancer

Pierre Kezdy is most known as one of the superheroes in Chicago punk legends, Naked Raygun but his super powers extend far beyond that. Pierre has been responsible for some of the best punk rock music to come out of this city since punk rock became...

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R.I.P. Kim Shattuck

Kim Shattuck, an indie rock icon, passed away today at the age of 56 after losing her battle with ALS. Kim is most known for being the singer and songwriter of The Muffs, but she also did time in The Pixies, The Pandoras, and others. She was an...

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Gwar to perform on Jimmy Fallon show tonight

In their continuing quest of global domination, Gwar will be appearing on the Jimmy Fallon show tonight. The band will be performing their new single, “Zombie’s March” on the show. The band will be...

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October 28, 2010

New Weezer video

Weezer and Epitaph Records just posted a new video for the first single from their latest album, Hurley. The song is called “Memories” and aside from being on the album, it also has the distinction of being...

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October 27, 2010

The Ocean robbed in Spain

This is something that just hurts to read. The Ocean, who are on tour overseas with The Dillinger Escape Plan, were robbed on a highway in Spain. That is a shitty thing to have happen to anyone, especially a band trying...

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October 25, 2010

Julie Christmas releases first video

The finest female vocalist in modern rock, Julie Christmas, has just released a new video from her forthcoming solo album. The album is titled The Bad Wife and is coming soon. This video and the song in particular...

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October 20, 2010

New Municipal Waste video

Municipal Waste and Earache Records have just released a new video. The video, which if MTV still played videos would likely be a staple of Headbangers Ball, is for the song, “Wolves of Chernobyl” and you...

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October 19, 2010

Toothpaste Busted at Oz reunion video

Didn’t make it to Riot Fest this year? Shame on you! Didn’t make it to the once in a lifetime Busted at Oz reunion show at that dumpy little sauna in Wicker Park during Riot Fest? Promptly kick yourself in...

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October 19, 2010

Earth to reissue first recording sessions

Drone metal band, Earth, is set to reissue their debut recordings this fall. The album, titled A Beaurocratic Desire For Extra Capsular Extraction, will compile the entirety of their 1990 Smegma Studios sessions that...

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September 23, 2010

Learn to play guitar with Evile

UK thrash metal band, Evile, is about to embark on big fall tour of North America. In an effort to make sure their fans play the air guitar properly during their set, guitarist Ol Drake decided to make an instructional...

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September 22, 2010

Darryl Jenifer to release solo album in October

There’s no question that the Bad Brains were one of the most important and influential punk rock bands of all time. Their early output, especially their debut album on ROIR (which for years was only available as a...

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September 20, 2010

R.I.P. Jerry Williams

Jerry Williams of, th’ Cigaretz, and a fixture of the early New York punk rock scene passed away on Saturday. Jerry also was the engineer behind such legendary hardcore releases like the Bad Brains “Roir...

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September 20, 2010

New Articles of Faith video

Here’s something I never thought I would be writing about. Articles of Faith, a band who no one thought would be likely to get back together, just released a new video for “With a Vengeance” which is a...

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September 13, 2010

Danzig new video and fall tour

Sticking to the topic of videos and musicians with long careers, Glenn Danzig has been making music since the late 1970s and hasn’t stopped. He too has had his ups and downs and to be honest lately Danzig has had...

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September 8, 2010