CHICAGO — Riot Fest has announced its lineup for 2026, with headliners and music acts, including Alanis Morrisette, Morrissey, Iggy Pop, Elvis Costello & The Imposters, Tool, Twenty One Pilots and Pierce the Veil.

The annual three-day festival of punk and alternative music will be Sept. 18-20 in Chicago’s Douglass Park. Tickets (three-day general admission, VIP and deluxe) are now on sale at riotfest.org.

The bill also includes the Pixies, Rise Against, Alkaline Trio, the All-American Rejects, NAS, Patti Smith, Sugar, Social Distortion, Bad Religion, Sex Pistols, Twin Peaks, Bright Eyes, the Format, Taking Back Sunday, Pennywise, Descendents, the Beths, Santigold, Gogol Bordello, Public Image LTD, Tricky, Angine de Poitrine, Insane Clown Posse, Motion City Soundtrack, Mom Jeans, Joey Valence and Brae, Bayside, PUP, 3OH!3, Cartel, Thrice, Less Than Jake, Bowling for Soup, GWAR, the Suicide Machines, Brian Fallon & the Painkillers, Mariachi El Bronx, Bratmobile, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Good Riddance, Guttermouth, This Is Loreli, Slick Rick, Afroman, the Chats, Fleshwater, Yard Act, Sincere Engineer, the Paradox, Destroy Boys, Arm’s Length, Jejune, Chat Pile, Strike Anywhere, JMSN, Show Me the Body, Haywire, Dead to Me, the Flatliners, Violet Grohl, Foxy Shazam, Saturdays at Your Place, Algernon Cadwalader, Melt-Banana, Daisy Grenada, Vana, DeathByRomy, Panic Shack, Frankie and the Witch Fingers, Worry Club, Division Minuscula, Ben Quad, Deadletter, Teen Mortgage, Holding Absence, Whispers, Soul Glo, Gurriers, Plosivs, Stomach Book, Burning Airlines, Macseal, Slothrust, Glixen, the Callous Daoboys, Greet Death, Remember Sports, Nobro, Kiwi Jr., Murphy’s Law, Cardinals, Iron Roses, ASAVA, Aim High and Almost There But Not Really.

The schedule by day, as well as single-day tickets, will be available at a later date.

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