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10 Oct 2024

Riot Fest Bands Answer One-Word Interview Questions

To help y’all to get to know some of the (many) artists you should get to know from Riot Fest, we sped up the process by having them pick a one-word interview question from a hat. Here’s what 11 of them had to say (these are all actual quotes): And

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18 Oct 2022

San Francisco Among America’s “Rattiest” Cities

Move over, mold. San Francisco has a rat problem. For the third year in a row, SF has ranked fifth in a list of rat-ridden cities compiled by pest control company, Orkin. New York City took second place, losing out to Chicago. Orkin rated the Windy City America’s “rattiest,” marking

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08 Oct 2024

The November 2024 BAS Voter Guide

A Big Change to This Year’s Voter Guide We’ve been doing voter guides for a really long time. I’m pretty sure we put our first one out in like 2010 or something. And I know that thousands of you rely on our voter guides to help you make decision. But

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28 Sep 2022

What Were People Willing to Riot for at Riot Fest?

When you think of a festival, especially a very sizable one (40-50k fans a day), you don’t usually expect the progressiveness – or for them to be a community-involved non-profit – that we see from Riot Fest. With that said, plus all of that is going on in this world,

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03 Oct 2018

Finding Love at Festival

Love isn’t for everyone and festivals aren’t for everyone but anyone looking for CONSENUAL love at a festival has the opportunity to find that someone (for a night or for life). Finding love in all the wrong places is pretty easy. Finding love at Riot Fest is almost as easy

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Chance the Rapper, NPR Poetry
15 Mar 2018

BAS Poetry: Chance the Rapper on NPR’s Tiny Desk

Broke-Ass Stuart is now accepting poetry submissions to be featured in the BAS Poetry: Arts & Culture column. Written & curated by Corinne Avganim. What do you do most Fridays? Me — I sit around the house with buddies, drink too much and watch music videos on YouTube. During last weekend’s

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29 Nov 2017

We wanna send you and your bae to see Jamila Woods!

  With a velvety sound primarily rooted in soul and hip hop, Chicago’s Jamila Woods made her first big impact on the music scene in 2015 with her fan adored vocal features on Donnie Trumpet & The Social Experiment’s Surf album (Sunday Candy and Questions). Prior to her 2015 solo breakout, Jamila was

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12 Sep 2017

We wanna send you and a friend to Riot Fest! 48 hour giveaway!

Riot Fest is a multi-day music festival specializing in punk, rock, alternative, metal, and hip-hop. Founded in 2005 in Chicago. Carnival Rides, amazing food vendors, sideshow performers, and more add to the atmosphere of this independent music fest. In 2005, Riot Fest booked a multi-venue weekend of punk and rock

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21 Sep 2016

All The Things You Need To Know at Riot Fest Chicago

A decade ago you probably never heard of Riot Fest. Shoot, even this year you still might not know about it. Alas, I assure you, that you’ll know a handful of the artists at one of the country’s biggest punk, alternative, metal and hip-hop festivals. The ORIGINAL Misfits, Nas, Rob

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