This one's fast and loose. I attended 2025's Riot Fest last weekend and caught up with some past guests to talk about music discovery and their experience at the fest. There’s also a couple newcomers to the show, hoping to do longer interviews with these folks soon.

My guests for this episode (In order of appearance):

• Eric Centeno (Demo Division, X Will Mark The Place, DOMS)
• Calen “Squid” Swim (Broken Left Foot)
• Tanner Peterson (Broken Left Foot, Chicago Music Exchange, TNT Chicago)
• Ian Shelton (Militarie Gun, Regional Justice Center)
• Kevin Kiley (Militarie Gun, Lurk, Celebrity)
• Zeltzin “Z” Vazquez (Chicago Show Photographer)
• Andrew Smith (Footballhead, Christian Science Reading Room,meth., Black Nail… etc.)
• Ryan Nolen (Footballhead)

I used Zoom H6 Handy Recorder to do these interviews so there is a lot of bleed from a lot of sources of sound, bands playing and passersby. I feel like its immersive and cool so I hope you enjoy listening!

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Bands Mentioned:

La Rosa Noir, The Cribs, Panchiko, The Academy Is…, Idlesa, Touché Amoré, Senses Fail, Militarie Gun, Mac Sabbath, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, “Weird Al”Yankovic, Green Day, Devo, Shudder To Think, Agnostic Front, Rilo Kiley, Knocked Loose, Blink-182, Manniquin Pussy, Dazy, Alkaline Trio, Citizen, Lurk, Hoax, Iron Lung, Culo, Coke Bust, The Velvet Underground, The Rolling Stones, Geese, Cameron Winter, The 1975, Celebrity, Footballhead, Quannnic, boycomma, Panchiko, Yada Yada, Demo Division, Snuffed, Spin Doctors, Deafheaven, YHWH Nailgun, Christian Science Reading Room, Greet Death, Bristletounge, Harrison Gordon, Wishy, Big Ass Truck I.E., The Linda Lindas