Glad Rags, Cowboy Neal, Arm Candy
Glad Rags is a music collective from Chicago that blends chamber pop, psychedelic rock, new wave, electronica, and experimental jazz. Cowboy Neal is an energetic six-piece band from Chicago, IL. Bringing frenetic, diverse performances, you’ll hear music inspired by The Talking Heads, Fela Kuti, Frank Zappa, King Crimson, Pom Poko, and black midi. Cowboy Neal has performed at many venues in the city: Bookclub, Beat Kitchen, Subterranean, the Burlington, and more! Come and dance with Cowboy Neal! Arm Candy is an energizing rock group that fuses ethereal, dynamic instrumentals with insistent, anthemic vocals. Like a sugar rush, Arm Candy is something you’ll crave again and again.
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.
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.cordless, Try a Dull Knife, 2g
.cordless – new chicago loud and moody Try a Dull Knife – Malort powered emotional rock, guitars and screaming 2g – Loud, fuzzy, heavy punk music
Shinespark, Future Nest, Mary!Mary!, sulffffffur
shinespark is the musical project of Chicago based producer zoey eliza. Her tracks blend emotive melodies with textural beats and mellow to otherworldly electronic sounds. With influences ranging from minimal ambient, idm beats and breaks to pop punk riffs, y2k aesthetics and nature, shinespark aims to create saturated emotional spaces to dream of a better world to. ⋆˚✿˖°shinespark’s recently released album ‘zoey.eliza_dream_realm’ is a collection of uplifting and dreamy all-instrumental beats. Future Nest blends Industrial Goth and Digital Hardcore to create a a show that is both dynamic and immersive. The action of the songs is heightened by her improvised movement and vocal delivery, which connect the audience directly to the performance. Skin on metal on wire on blood – flirt with that sacred pull and let desire walk you on its leash. MaryMary! is a noisepop musician who sings about love and fear and self respect. She loves analog synths and digital samplers, both of which can be heard on her EP, entitled MY STUPID HEART LIKE A SNOWGLOBE FULL OF BLOOD. Her music and other endeavors can be found at linktr.ee/marymarychic. Mary lives in Chicago with her friends. sulffffffur is serious contemporary music.
Nude Franklin, Smooth Rogers, Oux
Nude Franklin is new Chicago-based alternative rock band led by songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, and producer Dylan Barnett. Drawing inspiration from eclectic, genre-bending artists like Talking Heads, Pink Floyd, Prince, St. Vincent, and King Krule, Nude Franklin blends new wave, funk, and psychedelic rock in their incendiary live performances. Expect raucous guitar solos, bewildering lyrics, 80’s inflected synth pop, and funky drums. The band plans to release their debut EP January 22nd, 2026. “oux “/ɒ/” is an alt-pop band from chicago. while you could call their music “experimental pop”, that hardly does justice to the profusion of genres and ideas they weave into their songs. oux’s debut full-length, “necronym” balances prickly idiosyncrasies with sleek earworms, and unraveling its layers is part of the fun. Smooth Rogers is the brainchild of Chicago-based musician, Zac Bron. Combining elements of psychedelic pop, dreamy alt-rock, and funk, Smooth Rogers takes you on a journey through lush soundscapes and danceable grooves.