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Top weekend shows: Riot Fest, Hideout Block Party, Handsome Family, Lightning Bolt
Riot Fest: For the first time the annual punk festival expands outdoors for two days in Humboldt Park (opening night will be indoors at the Congress Theatre), and the lineup has some of its heaviest hitters yet, including Iggy and the Stooges, Elvis Costello, Rise Against, the Jesus and Mary Chain, Built to Spill, Fishbone, Screaming Females, the Descendents, the Offspring, Alkaline Trio and more, 6 p.m. Friday at the Congress Theatre, 2135 N. Milwaukee Av., $38 (sold out); 11:30 a.m. Saturday-Sunday at Humboldt Park, 1400 N. Sacramento Ave., $45 daily; riotfest.org.
Greg Kot
September 14, 2012
