{"id":1342,"date":"2013-06-13T03:06:35","date_gmt":"2013-06-13T03:06:35","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/?p=1342"},"modified":"2013-06-13T03:06:35","modified_gmt":"2013-06-13T03:06:35","slug":"replacements-riot-fest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/1342\/replacements-riot-fest\/","title":{"rendered":"The Replacements Reunite for Riot Fest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft  wp-image-1344\" alt=\"The Replacements Riot Fest\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/replacements-reunion-shows.jpg\" width=\"317\" height=\"223\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/replacements-reunion-shows.jpg 528w, https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/replacements-reunion-shows-300x210.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 317px) 100vw, 317px\" \/>Last fall&#8217;s <a href=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/2012\/10\/treplacements-reunion-ep-due\/\" target=\"_blank\">covers EP<\/a> for Slim Dunlap won&#8217;t be the last we hear from the Replacements reunion: the band&#8217;s\u00a0Paul Westerberg and\u00a0Tommy Stinson\u00a0have officially booked three shows for 2013 &#8212; in Chicago (9\/13-15), Denver (9\/21-22), and Toronto (8\/24-25). News of the reunion dates arrived via <a href=\"http:\/\/riotfest.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Riot Fest<\/a>, who finally unveiled their mystery headliners tonight.<!--more--><\/p>\n<p>There are a number of noteworthy acts also on the bill for these shows (Iggy and the Stooges, et al.), but how surreal is it to see &#8220;The Replacements&#8221; printed atop the festival poster below? It&#8217;s been over 2 decades since they bid farewell to the live stage, and here&#8217;s hoping further tour dates are in the works.<\/p>\n<p>In the meantime, visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/riotfest.org\/\" target=\"_blank\">Riot Fest page<\/a> for ticket info on the trio of Replacements reunion dates we have confirmed so far.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignleft size-full wp-image-1343\" alt=\"The Replacements Riot Fest\" src=\"http:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/replacements-riot-fest-chicago-denver-toronto.jpg\" width=\"466\" height=\"720\" srcset=\"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/replacements-riot-fest-chicago-denver-toronto.jpg 466w, https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/06\/replacements-riot-fest-chicago-denver-toronto-194x300.jpg 194w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 466px) 100vw, 466px\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Last fall&#8217;s covers EP for Slim Dunlap won&#8217;t be the last we hear from the Replacements reunion: the band&#8217;s\u00a0Paul Westerberg and\u00a0Tommy Stinson\u00a0have officially booked three shows for 2013 &#8212; in Chicago (9\/13-15), Denver (9\/21-22), and Toronto (8\/24-25). News of the reunion dates arrived via Riot Fest, who finally unveiled their mystery headliners tonight.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1342","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1342"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1347,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1342\/revisions\/1347"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1342"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1342"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.twentyfourbit.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1342"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}