Capn Jazz

In addition to Jawbreaker and Cap’n Jazz, Riot Fest Sunday included Paramore, Dinosaur Jr (playing You’re Living All Over Me), Built to Spill (playing Keep It Like A Secret), Prophets of Rage, TV on the Radio, GWAR, and more…

It’s 2017, Tim Kinsella and the rest of the band are cresting 40 years old and Cap’n Jazz are still playing like teenagers overstuffed with hormones and energy…

Jawbreaker wasn’t the only highly anticipated emo/punk reunion at Riot Fest 2017. Two slots before them on the same stage was Cap’n Jazz, who broke up one year before Jawbreaker and are back for a few shows, which are their first since a brief 2010 reunion and might be their last.

Chicago’s Riot Fest begins Friday (9/15) — and the aftershows begin tonight (9/14). We’ve made a playlist of 32 essential songs by acts on the ridiculously stacked lineup.

Related bands American Football and Cap’n Jazz both have upcoming shows at Brooklyn Steel, and we’re giving away tickets to both shows.

Mike and Tim’s band Cap’n Jazz is playing reunion shows again for the first time since 2010. Mike’s band American Football are also continuing their own reunion. We caught up with both prolific musicians ahead of Riot Fest, Brooklyn Steel shows for both bands, and more…

Also: Hot Water Music, Gogol Bordello, The Queers, GBH, and still more.

Also: Built to Spill, Buzzcocks, Gogol Bordello, The Queers, GBH, and still more.

“Oh Messy Life” kicked in and the crowd lost any semblance of restraint they had left. Within seconds kids were crowd surfing and screaming back every word Tim Kinsella spat at them..