This year’s Riot Fest celebrated its 20th anniversary in Douglass Park. Headlined by alternative veterans blink-182, Weezer, and Green Day, the weekend became a festival of surprise performances. Jack White joined IDLES for their Joy as an Act of Resistance song “Never Fight A Man With A Perm,” Cobra Starship brought out Gym Class Heroes leader Travie McCoy and William Beckett from the Academy Is… for “Bring It (Snakes on a Plane), and Descendents’ Stephen Egerton and Alkaline Trio’s Matt Skiba joined blink-182 for “Hope.”
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After over a decade of the festival trying to get John Stamos to perform, he finally conceded and played with the Beach Boys — but not without some stipulations. For him to play, festival founder Riot Mike had to get a tattoo of a stick of butter and Stamos’ last name, a John Stamos look-alike contest had to be hosted by the festival, and a Greek-style pizza needed to be created and named after him — “The Stamos Supreme” — by a local Chicago pizza restaurant. He also hopped onstage for Hanson’s set during the fan-favorite “MMMBop.”
See portraits from some of this year’s performers below, shot by Ryan Bakerink.
Inhaler/Ryan Bakerink
The Paradox/Ryan Bakerink
Girl In a Coma/Ryan Bakerink
Bad Religion/Ryan Bakerink
Dan Campbell of the Wonder Years/Ryan Bakerink
Honey Revenge/Ryan Bakerink
Barbarians of California/Ryan Bakerink
Cobra Starship/Ryan Bakerink
Microwave/Ryan Bakerink
Cliffdiver/Ryan Bakerink
Dance Hall Crashers/Ryan Bakerink
Travie McCoy of Gym Class Heroes/Ryan Bakerink
Bouncing Souls/Ryan Bakerink
SOFTPLAY/Ryan Bakerink
Violent Vira/Ryan Bakerink
Hanson/Ryan Bakerink
Alkaline Trio/Ryan Bakerink
Militarie Gun/Ryan Bakerink
All Time Low/Ryan Bakerink
Senses Fail/Ryan Bakerink
Puddles Pity Party/Ryan Bakerink
Shudder To Think/Ryan Bakerink
Harm’s Way/Ryan Bakerink
Knocked Loose/Ryan Bakerink
Kristopher Roe of the Ataris/Ryan Bakerink
The Front Bottoms/Ryan Bakerink
Superchunk/Ryan Bakerink
The Cribs/Ryan Bakerink
