Riot Fest Chicago 2014 – Sunday

Sunday brought Billy Bragg, Superchunk, Naked Raygun, Lucero, My Gold Mask, Patti Smith, Primus, Weezer, and more beautiful weather.  Fueled on discarded Red Bulls and beer, the bees buzzed around Humboldt Park looking to start fights with me wherever I went.

The machine kills fascists: Billy Bragg

Superchunk:

Naked Raygun:

This is the look of pure joy.  Michael Petryshyn, founder of Riot Fest, has worked with Naked Raygun for years and is a close friend.  Here is Mike listening to the first notes of their album Throb Throb.

Naked Raygun pulled Michael onstage in the middle of the set to celebrate the 10th Anniversary with a cake.

Lucero:

Chicago’s own–My Gold Mask

Ran into my friends Gordon Robertson (The Damn Choir) and Archie Powell (Archie Powell & The Exports)

“When I was very young, my mother took me for walks in Humboldt Park, along the edge of the Prairie River.  I have vague memories, like impressions on glass plates, of an old boathouse, a circular band shell, an arched stone bridge.  The narrows of the river emptied into a wide lagoon and I saw upon its surface an singular miracle.” –Patti Smith (an excerpt from the first paragraph of Just Kids)

Primus:

Weezer:

7 Seconds, All, Andrew W.K., anobium, anobiumlit, Anti-Flag, Archie Powell & the Exports, Baby Baby, Billy Bragg, Black Joe Lewis & the Honeybears, Blue Meanies, Bring Me the Horizon, Broncho, Buzzcocks, Cerebral Ballzy, Cheap Trick, chicago, Chumped, Circa Survive, Citizen, City and Colour, Clutch, Cock Sparrer, Dads, Dashboard Confessional, Descendents, die antwoord, Dropkick Murphys, Emarosa, Ex Friends, Face to Face, Failure, FrnkIero And The Cellabration, From Indian Lakes, Gogol Bordello, GWAR, Hot Snakes, I Am the Avalanche, In the Valley Below, jacob singer, Jane's Addiction, Jessica Hernandez & the Deltas, Kurt Vile & the Violators, La Dispute, Laura Stevenson, Lemuria, Lucero, Lucki Eck$, Mastodon, Me First and the Gimme Gimmes, Metric, Mineral, Modern Baseball, Motion City Soundtrack, Mudhoney, My Gold Mask, Naked Raygun, New Found Glory, NOFX, Nostalghia, Of Mice & Men, Only Crime, Patti Smith, Paul Weller, Pianos Become the Teeth, Pity Sex, Plague Vendor, Primus, Pup, Pussy Riot, Radkey, Red City Radio, Restorations, Rise Against, Rose's Pawn Shop, Rx Bandits, Samhain, Samiam, Saosin, Say Anything, Senses Fail, ShowYouSuck, Silverstein, Skaters, Slayer, slider, Social Distortion, Somos, Stiff Little Fingers, Streetlight Manifesto, Superchunk, Survay Says!, Taking Back Sunday, Team Spirit, Tegan and Sara, television, The Afghan Whigs, The American Scene, The Bots, The Bouncing Souls, The Crombies, The Cure, The Dandy Warhols, The Flaming Lips, The Front Bottoms, The Get Up Kids, The Hold Steady, The Hotelier, The Menzingers, The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, The Murder City Devils, the national, The Offspring, The Orwells, The Picturebooks, The Pizza Underground, The Unlikely Candidates, The Used, The Whigs, The World Is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die, Tiny Moving Parts, Title Fight, Tokyo Police Club, Wavves, We Came as Romans, Weezer, Wounds, wu-tang clan