Cruutahn, Modern Cults, Ommen
Cruutahn is a “garage improv” duo featuring Japan-based drummer Akio Jeimus and Chicago guitar player Sam Frampton. The two perform improvisations with pseduo song-structures and an emphasis on rawness and simple musical themes.Having self-released an ep in 2019, winter 2024 will be the duo’s first, long overdue reunion in some years. Modern Cults is power pop trash pop slacker pop rock. With continuing inspiration from Sparklehorse and an added dose of just cryptic enough songwriting from the likes of Stephen Malkmus and Alex G, Modern Cults is urgent and complex but easily accessible with melodies catchier than a cold. OMMEN (DJ SET) Chicago-based drummer and dj spinning selected favorites from the ambient, techno, and drum machine departments.
$50k Check, Background Character, Modern Daybreak
50k Check is a Chicago band that blends 70s post-punk, 60s psychedelic pop, and a noisy indie rock that gives every song its own unique vibe. On their first album, songs build from pin-drop quiet to all-encompassing layers of sound, others peel a song, layer by layer, to reveal their essence. Behind Kelly Torch’s soaring vocals, the band sways between melody and fuzz, groove and trance, dance and lounge. 50K Check is Kelly Torch on vocals, Mason Payne on guitar, Kisira Hill on bass, Karl El Sokhn on drums and David Green on keys. Background Character is a rock band from Chicago that erratically shifts genres mid-song culminating in a sound they call Hyperrock. Their 4th album just dropped in November 2024! Modern Daybreak is a collective of like minded musicians seeking love, peace, and understanding. Their music is the expression of years of hard work, heartbreak, and hope, coalescing in a project unlike any they’ve been a part of before. They come from all different walks of life, working together to create rock-flavored music without genre limitations.
Warren Zevon Birthday Tribute
Truth Zone Recs Presents An Emergency Birthday Celebration Tribute to WARREN ZEVON Performances by The Curls Chris Coleslaw Angela James Junegrass SJOD Bob Solone Bronco Bama Truth Zone Recs DJs on deck playing Warren’s finest all night long **All proceeds benefit LA Wildfire Relief**
Amanda Joy (Single Release), Gayun Cannon, CRYBERBULLY
Amanda Joy is an artist who writes and performs alternative/indie/R&B music. With her band, she creates a safe space filled with love and light. It’s groovy, relatable, fun, and passionate. If you are a person who feels literally anything, you are going to love the energy and joy that fills the room. Gayun Cannon is a 22 year old singer, self-produced, and multi-instrumentalist artist from the area we know and love, the South side of Chicago. Gayun is known for creating a process of healing within each song whether it is about love, healing or her own trials and tribulations through life. Her main goal is for her listeners to tap into their emotions and embrace them. CRYBERBULLY is a Chicago based DJ and artist whose style spans from dreamy ambient to hot and sweaty beats that you can’t help but to shake to. With the goal of creating atmosphere and a world outside of your own, CRYBERBULLY transports listeners through sound and dance.
Jane Hobson, Big Chemical, Petsit
Jane Hobson is a songwriter and indie rock musician based in Chicago (originally from Madison, WI). Hobson leads a five-piece rock band featuring James Strelow on pedal ste, Ivan Skryagin on bass, Bronson Taalbi on guitar and backup vocals, and Eddie Campell on drums. She is often compared to The Cranberries, Snail Mail and Big Thief. Petsit plays laid back ever so slightly quirked up guitar rock that expresses a romanticism beset by life’s insecurities. also featuring Big Chemical
Cass Cwik, Trevor Joellenbeck (single release), Jack Brereton
Cass Cwik is a Chicagoan who plays and writes original folk tunes. He’ll be joined by his longtime musician pals churning out some groove rock for a special set. Trevor Joellenbeck is an Indie rock and roll / Americana songwriter from Chicago, IL. For fans of Andy Shauf, Courtney Barnett, and Chris Cohen, Jack Brereton writes songs about the everyday.
Emily How, Lys Allen, Growing Boys
Emily How is a central IL based indie singer/songwriter. Emily’s music revolves around heartfelt lyrics, gritty guitar tones, and has been described by many as “cathartic.” Lys Allen is a singer/songwriter based out of central Illinois. Inspired by artists such as Phoebe Bridgers and Samia, her music is a sincere storytelling of her life experiences, connecting with audiences through intimate lyrics with the support of a full band. Growing Boys is a local Chicago duo-singer folk band.
Pet Peeves, Off Contact, Model Living
Pet Peeves is an experimental no-wave band from Chicago with a revolving lineup of members from Chicago’s improvised music scene. Featuring saxophone, surrealism, and slapstick humor. Releasing their second album November 15 on Orb Tapes. Off Contact is a “jack of all trades” sonic assembly drawing influence from anywhere and everywhere. Holding a tight-steady rhythm, pooling into a cosmic wave of suspense; every song upholds multiple layers of perspective. Model Living are a Chicago-based post-punk quartet formed in spring 2023. Their angular songwriting & urgent-yet-poetic lyricism seek to capture life in Your City (USA) & the ever-encroaching doom surrounding them. Guitarist Jay Martinez, drummer Nico Ciani, & bassist Matt Ciani create a hazy backdrop of repetition & tension for vocalist Geoff Daniels’ frantic depictions of a city ravaged by displacement, restaurant groups, & Exponential Growth.
Bull Heather, King Sans, Muddle, Ceruleum
Bull Heather is a musical project and persona that is as much inspired by glam and drag culture as she is alt metal or 2000s diva pop music, performing songs that explore the experience of queerness in our current tumultuous era through the lens of heavy and off-kilter rock music influenced by acts such as Black Dresses, the Pixies, and Mitski.Backed up at live shows by her band, The Bloodflowers, Bull is energetic, passionate, irreverent, and, most of all, loud as hell. As King Sans, Jake and Iz deliver a powerful showcase of what Chicago’s tight noise punk can be. Amongst a sea of countless awe inspiring bands, Sans paves a path of their own. Adopting a front of powerful altrock, they put a layer of sinister experimentation on top of melancholic lulls to deliver one delicious pie. Muddle makes Post Hardcore from the Southside An Elgin based Shoegaze outfit, Ceruleum delves into a reverb-soaked, effect-laden, and distorted sound. Pulling influence from all the classic bands of the 90s and 2000s as well as modern Nu gaze and revival acts, Ceruleum will put the fucksmack down on your eardrums.FFO: Blue Smiley, They are Gutting a Body of Water
Jim the Kid & The Painkillers, Drew Swartz, Dragonfruit
Jim The Kid is a recording artist based in Chicago, whose unique brand of synthesizer and guitar fueled rock-‘n’-roll sounds familiar yet hard to place. With a large catalog of songs both loud and quiet, hard-hitting and sensitive, dancey yet contemplative, Jim The Kid thrives in experimentation and self-exploration. Joined on stage by The Painkillers, his live show is one that’s filled with dancing and high-energy performances played from the heart to give the audience a night they won’t forget. Jim The Kid & The Painkillers are Jimmy Clarke on guitar and vocals, Victor Kamhazi on guitar, synthesizers and backup vocals, Tommy Nelson on bass, and Ranan Vales on drums. Lyric driven alternative pop! Somewhere between the lemonheads and the la’s… With a twist of moody folk for good measure. The songs are driven by an enthusiasm for hooky lines and warm guitars. Preformed with wild enthusiasm for live music, Drew Swartz scrambles up and down the emotional spectrum, with friends filling in as backing musicians to bring the whole operation together. Sometimes acoustic! Usually noisy! Dragonfruit is the project of Shravan Raghuram and D Jean-Baptiste, two thirds of Fruitleather, concentrating their energy into making a heavy, experimental, mess of everything.