The Cure will return to the United States following the band’s just-underway amphitheater tour to join Foo Fighters, The Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie and Queens of the Stone Age as headliners for the 2023 edition of Riot Fest in Chicago this September.
The 95-act bill, announced today, also includes Turnstile, The Mars Volta, Ride, Mr. Bungle, AFI, The Breeders, Kim Gordon, Ani DiFranco, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, The Exploited and, uh, Corey Feldman.
See the full llineup below.
Tickets — $269.98 for three-day passes — for the Sept. 15-17 festival, at Chicago’s Douglass Park, went on sale as the lineup was announced at 10 a.m. CDT today; visit riotfest.org for more information and to purchase.
This follows the sell-out of an undisclosed number of $179.98 three-day passes during a presale on Monday night — help before any of the lineup had been revealed.
Riot Fest dates back to 2005 in Chicago, though its current incarnation as a multi-day outdoor festival wasn’t established until 2012. The event has since been instrumental in several major reunions, including Naked Raygun, The Misfits, Jawbreaker and, perhaps most famously, The Replacements.
The Cure last headlined Riot Fest in 2014, when the festival also was staged in Denver.
Here’s this year’s full lineup:
Riot Fest 2023
Foo Fighters
The Postal Service
Death Cab For Cutie
The Cure
Queens of the Stone Age
Turnstile
The Mars Volta
Mr. Bungle
Tegan and Sara
100 Gecs
The Gaslight Anthem
AFI
Death Grips
The Used
The Dresden Dolls
Say Anything
070 Shake
The Breeders
Kim Gordon
Viagra Boys
Pup
Sleep Token
The Interrupters
Flogging Molly
Frank Turner & The Sleeping Souls
Pennywise
Bayside
Ani DiFranco
Finch
Silverstein
Insane Clown Posse
Head Automatica
Parliament Funkadelic Ft. George Clinton
Godspeed You! Black Emperor
L.S. Dunes
Gorilla Biscuits
Ride
Cults
Nothing,Nowhere.
Code Orange
White Reaper
Balance and Composure
Fake Names
Eshu Tune
Quicksand
Enter Shikari
The Wrecks
Thursday
Hawthorne Heights
Bowling For Soup
Braid
H20
Spitafield
Jehnny Beth
Drain
Snapcase
The Bronx
Microwave
Oso Oso
Origami Angel
The Exploited
Plosivs
Steve Ignorant Band / Crass
Black Angels
Yard Act
Warpaint
Nothing
Screaming Females
High Vis
Rival Schools
Caroline Rose
Sludgeworth
Free Throw
Just Mustard
Hotline TNT
Quasi
Corey Feldman
Just Friends
Bearings
Pinkshift
Olivia Jean
Calva Louise
The Aquadolls
Enola Gay
Earth Crisis
Empire State Bastard
Cassyette
FEA
Fleshwater
The Bobby Lees
Pool Kids
Young Culture
Fade ‘Em All
CK Vassi
Total Chaos
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The Postal Service and Foo Fighters are the worst.
Um,,, Corey Feldman?