Broom, Bitcrush, Brian Seyler
broom is a NYC based ambient-shoegaze outfit. sad guitar and saxophone through a bunch of pedals and loops. chicago debut. Bitcrush is an electronic jazz duo founded by Charlie O’Neill and Leo Buczkowski in 2022. Drawing from a wide variety of influences from the jazz, electronic and avant-garde idiom, Bitcrush has carved a unique space for themselves in the Chicago music scene with their eclectic live performances and 2024 album We Regret to Inform You. also featuring Brian Seyler
May + the Ladies, Basal Jones, Night Beach, Emily Rach Beisel
May Klug is a composer based in Minneapolis, MN. Her project May + The Ladies celebrates high-femme pop spectacle, drawing from her experimental synthesizer practice, past as a frontwoman in queercore bands, and deep love of house, bubblegum bass, and electroclash. Joined by Jared Hemming and Cleo Pupillo, this is May’s heartfelt, desperate, and misguided attempt to make extremely likable music. Basal Jones – I am a rap artist who has a taste for different sounds and cultures. This EP will include everything from a medieval bop to a crash course into the City Girl lifestyle. Night Beach is a 4-piece band playing creative indie songs about love, identity, and a life in common. FFO Elliot Smith, Parquet Courts, & Yo La Tengo. Expect new chords, sweet melodies, and seismic revelations on the nature of reality (DISCLAIMER: revelations not guaranteed) Emily Rach Beisel is known for visceral performances blending extended vocal and instrumental techniques with analogue electronics. Their works is described as “heavy stuff, sounds retrieved from the deeper places… Beisel pokes around in the sonic depths and brings leviathans out to play. (A Jazz Noise)”
Jonah Eggleston Live Album Recording [Early Show]
Jonah Eggleston Live Album Recording Jonah Eggleston is a standup comedian based in Chicago by way of Appalachia. His comedy is a mix of storytelling, anxious confessions, and doom-spiralling over slight inconveniences. He has performed throughout Chicago (The Lincoln Lodge, Zanies) as well as across the country (Comedy on State, DC Improv.) He’s a nice guy once you get to know him. with support from Sam Dicke & Kristi Durkin
Jonah Eggleston Live Album Recording [Late Show]
Jonah Eggleston Live Album Recording Jonah Eggleston is a standup comedian based in Chicago by way of Appalachia. His comedy is a mix of storytelling, anxious confessions, and doom-spiralling over slight inconveniences. He has performed throughout Chicago (The Lincoln Lodge, Zanies) as well as across the country (Comedy on State, DC Improv.) He’s a nice guy once you get to know him. with support from Sam Dicke & Kristi Durkin
Slugscape, AAAYYYAAA, Morbid Circle
From playing in bands to standing solo, slugscape brings a soundscape of industrial hitters and trip hop ballads AAAYYYAAA – MIDWEST INDUSTRIAL Morbid Circle is a dark electronic artist that blends punk, EBM, and darkwave into a unique sound of catchy melodies and powerful vocals. Performances end up being an in your face mosh dance that helps strengthen the connection between artist and audience.
Triplets of Gonzo, Zakary Extract, Beastii
Triplets of Gonzo began as a street performing act in Mexico, where Selinger Gonzo and Jess Northup first developed their guitar and vocal chemistry. After relocating to Chicago, they teamed up with drummer Todd Waters and pushed their sound into something more mature and expansive, a melding of early-2000s Chicago underground, 70s prog sprawl, and Latin-leaning rhythmic patterns. Their new EP Gift (recorded with Mike Lust) digs into that mix with intricate guitars, massive synth bass, razor-tight drums, and a powerful vocal presence that cuts through the chaos. Onstage, the compositions intensify as the band cranks up the energy, balancing a tight, dialed-in sound with Selinger’s magnetic stage presence. Zakary Extract is a singer-songwriter from Chicago Illinois making intricate, hand-crafted art rock. On his new full length record “Elsewheres,” Extract trades biting electric guitars for lush, ephemeral psychedelia. Beastii – Surfy moody grungy groovy garage pop
Big Chemical, Disaster Kid, Growing Boys
Big Chemical is a twangy indie rock band formed in Ann Arbor and currently based in Chicago. They take inspiration from The Band, Dear Nora, and The Replacements to bring a complex and high energy performance. Chicago Nostalgia rock trio Disaster Kid finds reflection at the core of their music. Packed together by vivid detail and passionate melodies, their cathartic indie rock sound is lined with lyrical storytelling which puts an emphasis to the mysticism in the mundane. Growing Boys, a folk and alt band, is the brainchild of two best friends whose harmonies are as tight as their bond.
Rareforms, Rotten Mouth, Vision in the Rhythm
Rareforms – Heavy psych rock tinged with 90’s influences. A power trio bringing a high-energy show with riffs and intricacies to pull people in from the other room Rotten Mouth is a 4-piece Dirty / Groove Rock band that guarantees to bring all of their jamtastic energy to every song they write and to every live performance. Through brain-liquefying guitar solos, earth-rattling drum rolls, and a deep, gritty tone that will eternally shake your soul, the band brings a unique twist to modern rock n’ roll music. Through the use of powerful, improvisational extended jamz, their music transforms into an avalanche of sound and emotion, and ensures that your body will undoubtedly feel like a wonderland. Vision in the Rhythm began in the household of three brothers on Chicago’s Southwest Side. Coming from a family that embraces a strong sense of Irish heritage, Irish-folk music was a natural route that created the cornerstone of the brothers’ identity. The band has now broadened to a 6-piece band that embraces genres including alt-rock & folk music, blending this all into their repertoire to create a lively evolving show
Foz The Hook’s Fundraising Machine featuring Kristi Durkin & Georgia Moore
Join Foz The Hook for a night of music and comedy to hep support the work being done by the Chicago Abortion Fund. Featuring comedians Kristi Durkin and Georgia Moore. With music by Foz The Hook Doors at 6 Music at 7 Show at 7:30 Feature at 7:40 Headliner at 8 Auction and raffle at 8:20. Then more drinking.
King Sans, Pudding, Braince
Gothic noisepunk from the shadows of Chicago:Always putting on a show to remember, as King Sans, Iz and Jake deliver chaotic energy with melancholic lulls, to create a night as dynamic as each day itself. Secret agents by day, whistleblowers by night. Enter the viscous and demented world of Pudding. They got synths, slap bass, a virtual horn section… and they’re wearing sunglasses. When they’re not mingling with extraterrestrial hippies, dodging teleporting mall cops, or honking horns on the information superhighway, Pudding is on the move. And they have the documents to prove it Braince- Scuzzy, fuzzy funtime boyz. We build stripped-down, bass-driven rippers special-made for going fast when you’ve been thinking too hard.