The Replacements, who broke up onstage in 1991 at Grant Park, will reunite and perform at the 2013 Riot Fest.

The reunion presumably will include founding members Paul Westerberg and Tommy Stinson, who last year recorded a benefit EP of cover songs for former Replacements guitarist Slim Dunlap, who had suffered a stroke. Dunlap had replaced Stinson’s brother, Bob Stinson, who was fired from the band in the mid-’80s and died in 1995. Founding drummer Chris Mars quit the band in 1990, and has been concentrating on his career as an artist rather than music in the last decade. Steve Foley, the drummer who replaced Mars and performed with the band during their last show, died in 2008.

In a 2005 Chicago Tribune interview, Westerberg said, “I think Tommy wants to get together again and play. I don’t know if we could call it the Replacements if it was just me and him and two other guys. I’d be a liar if I said I wouldn’t enjoy the adulation. But we were always the exception to the rule when it came to the way things were done. And I’d like to see us maintain that mystique. There’s the great problem of us getting back together and sucking the bag, and ruining the reputation forever. Maybe we should just sit tight and let people think we were great. We were about youth and rebellion and fun and wildness, and all the things that don’t necessarily sit well as we get older. We were never big jammers or played long, slow music that would make sense to revisit now that we’re all better musicians. So I wouldn’t look for any reunion soon. If I dropped dead, I think that’s the safest bet you could make to see all of us in one place.”

(via Chicago Tribune)