William Shatner

Chat Pile, Thrice, Show Me The Body, William Shatner, Black Flag, Alkaline Trio, and more have announced some Riot Fest sideshows. Riot Fest is scheduled for September 18th–20th at Douglass Park in Chicago, IL....

Riot Fest just announced several side shows around Chicago, including the live debut of actor William Shatner's band The *uckers.

Shatner's live metal debut will now take place in a club a day ahead of his 'Riot Fest' set.

Presumably he wasn't supposed to reveal that yet.

Star Trek actor William Shatner insists his rider for Chicago's Riot Festival is not unreasonable, but he does want a boat named after him.

The Chicago festival, which used similar tactics to woo actor John Stamos in the past, has dropped a list of supposed "requirements" for William Shatner to debut his metal music during this year's event.

Holy shat.

Entertainment icon William Shatner is bringing his newly conceived rock spectacle to Riot Fest 2026, joining one of the festival's most celebrated lineups alongside Iggy Pop, PUBLIC IMAGE LTD., Morrissey, BLINK-182, WEEZER, SEX PISTOLS featuring Frank Carter, THE POGUES, THE DAMNED, JAWBREAKER and m...

Having assembled one of the most ambitious gatherings of heavy metal royalty ever gathered for a single recording project, William Shatner is now exploring the possibility of taking his heavy metal album to the stage for a live event unlike anything audiences have seen before. Part concert, part the...