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System of a Down, The Prodigy to Headline Riot Fest in Douglas Park

By Darryl Holliday | June 23, 2015 12:03pm
 System of a Down, The Prodigy and No Doubt will headline Riot Fest 2015.
System of a Down, The Prodigy and No Doubt will headline Riot Fest 2015.
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CHICAGO — System of a Down, The Prodigy, 88 Fingers Louie and Chef'Special have been added to the Riot Fest 2015 lineup, according to an announcement by Fest organizers on Twitter Tuesday.

Other headliners announced earlier this year include No Doubt, Modest Mouse and Snoop Dogg. 

For the first time this year, the fest will take place in Douglas Park after neighborhood tensions pushed it out of Humboldt Park.

This year's Riot Fest will take place Sept. 11 to Sept. 13. Three-day tickets went on sale last month and are still available. Single-day tickets have not yet gone on sale.

Here are the acts that were announced in the first-wave lineup release:

• No Doubt

• Modest Mouse

• Faith No More

• Iggy Pop

• Snoop Dogg

• Damian "Jr. Gong" Marley

• Motörhead

• Rancid

• Tenacious D

• Billy Idol

• Ice Cube & special guests

• Alkaline Trio

• Coheed and Cambria

• Taking Back Sunday

• Rodrigo Y Gabriela

• Drive Like Jehu

• Merle Haggard

• Flogging Molly

• Slightly Stoopid

• L7

• Alexisonfire

• Thrice

• The Dirty Heads

• Stephen "Ragga" Marley

• The Academy Is...

• The Lawrence Arms

• Kongos

• Cypress Hill

• Echo & The Bunnymen

• Bootsy Collins' Rubber Band

• The Devil Wears Prada

• Yelawolf

• Pennywise

• The Airborne Toxic Event

• Manchester Orchestra

• Eagles of Death Metal

• Anthrax

• De La Soul

• The Damned

• Andrew McMahon in the Wilderness

• New Politics

• Mayday Parade

• Jimmy Cliff

• Against Me!

• Babes in Toyland

• OK Go

• Bayside

• Mest

• Andrew W.K.

• Desaparecidos

• The Joy Formidable

• The Dead Milkmen

• Atreyu

• Fidlar

• Millencolin

• American Nightmare

• Swervedriver

• Lee Scratch Perry

• Gwar

• Less Than Jake

• The Expendables

• Living Colour

• The Thurston Moore Band

• Morgan Heritage

• Lifetime

• Benjamin Booker

• Fishbone

• Death

• Doomtree

• Hum

• Tarrus Riley

• Mariachi El Bronx

• Civ

• Joyce Manor

• Every Time I Die

• The Movielife

• The Dwarves

• Tommy Stinson

• Steve Ignorant & Paranoid Visions

• Real Friends

• The Dear Hunter

• Kevin Devine

• Mustard Plug

• The Ataris

• Jo Mersa

• Into It. Over It.

• Alvvays

• The White Buffalo

• Black-Am-I

• Skip Marley

• Knuckle Puck

• Post Malone with Fki

• Jazz Cartier

• Marmozets

• Modern Life is War

• Fit for Rivals

• Barb Wire Dolls

• The Coathangers

• Flatfoot 56

• Teenage Bottlerocket

• Prayers

• Chon

• Counterpunch

• Have Mercy

• Speedy Ortiz

• Superheaven

• White Mystery

• Foxing

• Direct Hit!

• Main Attrakionz

• Ground Up

• Skinny Lister

• Beach Slang

• Cayetana

• Alex Wiley

• Heems

• Dirty Fences

• Blis

• Sleep On It

• The Brokedowns

• Meat Wave

• Psalm One

• Northern Faces

• Dreamers

• Souvenirs

• Elway

• Indian Handcrafts

• Skating Polly

• Signals Midwest

• Modern Chemistry

• Faulkner

• Pears

• Gateway Drugs

• Tasha The Amazon

• Foxtrott

• Twin River

• Clowns

• Indian School

• Die Selloutz

• The Municipal Drainage Project

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