In its own little way, Riot Fest Chicago feeds off diversity. It’s their superpower – their adamantium skeleton or sharply-dressed Alfred that allows them to stack a daily lineup with immensely popular bands that wouldn’t share the same stage for a billion Apple dollars. Such an attribute can be a heel for summer getaways but for Riot Fest, it was just the theme on Saturday (September 13th). On one hand, the thousands of Wu followers at Humboldt Park watched Wu-Tang Clan crescent kick through 36 Chambers and everything from “Triumph” to ODB’s “Shimmy Shimmy Ya”. On the other hand, bearded lifers and the like got to see Descendents tear through 1982’s Milo Goes To College and favourites like “Coffee Mug”, “My Dad Sucks”, “Coolidge”, and “I Don’t Want To Grow Up”. The two acts are polar opposites in every way (including East Coast vs. West Coast) and that was punctuated by the rest of Saturday’s bill which pitted The National, Metric, The Get Up Kids, Television, and Mighty Mighty Bosstones against Saosin, Say Anything, RX Bandits, The Orwells, Wavves, and Macaulay Culkin’s The Pizza Underground. It sounds overwhelming but for a music fan, that’s Heaven 2.0 – unless of course you were our senior editor who just so happened to freak out over every Dashboard Confessional song. It’s Riot Fest after all, so we don’t blame her
Check out our live stills below via photographer Joel Pilotte and make sure to scroll through his other galleries from Riot Fest Chicago Friday.
ANTI-FLAG at RISE STAGE
7 SECONDS at RISE STAGE
THE WORLD IS A BEAUTIFUL PLACE at REVOLT STAGE
SAOSIN w/ ANTHONY GREEN at ROCK STAGE
SAY ANYTHING at ROCK STAGE
LEMURIA at REVOLT STAGE
WU-TANG CLAN at ROOTS STAGE
SKATERS at REVOLT STAGE
DESCENDENTS at RISE STAGE
