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The post Riot Fest 2025 Celebrated 20 Years with Silly Punk Spunk: Review + Photos<\/a> appeared first on Consequence<\/a>.<\/p>\n Last week, Coachella dropped its 2025 lineup<\/a> and, unsurprisingly, it sparked quite a bit of discourse<\/a>. Echoing sentiments lobbed at Lollapalooza<\/a> in previous years, many felt like Coachella\u2019s three pop star headliners marked a shift away from the festival\u2019s alternative roots. Luckily, there\u2019s a festival in the Windy City that has dug its feet into the ground, remained independent, and kept the ethos of its founding days intact: Riot Fest<\/a>.<\/p>\n The punk-leaning event celebrated its 20th anniversary this past weekend at Douglass Park in Chicago, boasting a pop punk holy trinity of headliners in Blink-182<\/a>, Weezer<\/a>, and Green Day<\/a>, as well as an impressive undercard consisting of both scene veterans and exciting newbies. The whole shebang was certainly grander in scale than Riot Fest\u2019s earliest editions, but its spunky core remains \u2014 RIOT FEST SUCKS, as they say. Acts like The Effigies, Alkaline Trio, Smoking Popes, Bad Religion, and a host of others were even ripped right from lineups of Riot Fest\u2019s past; say what you want about punk rockers, but if Riot Fest has proven anything over the past two decades, it\u2019s that they\u2019re remarkably consistent.<\/p>\n