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.
BAUGS brings a distinct brand of toe-tapping dark pop through lush synthesizers L, spacey vocals, and the more-than-occasional harp.
Captain of The Launch Pad Chi — Leader of the Alpha Centaurians. A$tro $taxx is an interrupter, a frequency shifter, and an all-around high-voltage being. Wrapped in marveled alien skin, $taxx is a Chicago-born recording artist blending cosmic imagination with raw urban energy to create a futuristic, genre-bending sound. From Englewood to the cosmos, she is building a movement for outsiders, dreamers, and aliens who were never meant to fit in… only to take off.
Yucki Gross is a self-produced artist who blends genres and mixing a lot of melodic rap with shoegaze and ambient textures. Yucki has fun when he makes my music in his home studio and that's captured in his live performances.
Chicago based artist Moon Destroyer aims to be out of this world and up with the stars. Incorporating elements of pop, rock, alternative, punk, and electronic, Moon Destroyer highlights emotional themes with a large sound that incorporates influences like Paramore and Foster The People.
Ripworld is an electronic rock act that mixes the noise and edge of late-70s post punk and 90s alt rock with the production style and sensibilities of contemporary dance, hip-hop, and indie rock music. Their 2024 debut album "FALLEN ANGELS" was written, recorded, mixed, mastered, and released alone in a cramped bedroom.
Chicago, I know you’ve been wondering when you’re gonna see me.. how does next month sound? 😉✨
Been sitting on this one for a HOT minute! SO beyond delighted to announce that I’ll be making both my Midwest and out of state debut JUNE 20th at R&Burlesque Unplugged produced by @missharlemnyte@nytesinharlem_productionco Juneteenth weekend 🥹💕
Being part of a live band show has been a DREAMMMM of mine since my interest in burlesque started in 2017.. & to be part of R&Burlesque’s INAUGURAL live band show with band direction by @unfamiliar_fella ? This shit is about to be EVERYTHING!
Don’t wait, only 50 tickets will be sold — trust me, they’re gonna go fast once you see the rest of the cast!
🎟️ link in the usual place.. see you soon 💋
Flyer photo: @crazyezra
#jojodevereaux #blackburlesque #livebandburlesque #chicagoburlesque #midwestburlesque
So pumped to be shredding with our friends @carnivore.mommy and @vaudettes on FRIDAY ✨5.22✨!! Come see some bands and some burlesque and get blasted with us at @colesbar
BACK AT IT AGAIN BAYBEE
Playing at @colesbar with @fectoglen and @stmntsband on tour from Baltimore! Might get a little silly.
Doors at 8:30, music at 9:00
ANIMAL TALKING SCHOOL is the solo electronic music project of Richard Syska (SECRET MEANS OF ESCAPE, 312 Films). ATS's music weaves a sonic tapestry of carefully curated sound sources, field recordings and manipulations which strive to challenge the listener both compositionally and sonically. The music immerses audiences in an evocative sonic landscape that can be at various times mysterious, foreboding, aggressive and alien, while at other moments comforting, familiar and relaxed.
DEATH PYRE is the combination of the St. Louis, MO/Chicago, IL avant goth duo AMPYRE and the Chicago, IL post-industrial/noise unit DEATH FACTORY. They have a trilogy of albums that were recorded in one day at Chicago's Experimental Sound Studio available on labels No Sides Records, Eh? Tapes and Bent Window Records.
Slow Slow Loris is a duo whose industrial noise melodies merge with visceral avant-garde to create epic and delicate storms of sound that worship the unknown, a sonic sorcery through voice and electronics. Based in both Berlin and the US, they have released albums on Cloister Recordings, Zaetraom, & Staaltape and have toured Europe, Russia, and the USA.
Daniel Burke (Illusion of safety) is Soundoferror focused on making music exclusively with synthesis of every kind. Hardware, software, modular, & keys. Any form is fair game, though the forms usually tend toward the abstract and experimental.
Heavy Pauses is a St. Louis experimental ensemble featuring Chris Boron, Mike Broy, Chris Smentkowski, and Rick Wilson, described as “dense synth transportation rituals” that blend heavy drones and improvisation into sonically immersive trance states. Featuring members of The Conformists, Brain Transplant, and SkarekrauRadio, the group pushes sound into intense, exploratory territory.
Off Belay is gorpy, indie-rock out of Chicago, Illinois. Small calls to action, steeped in reverb.
Jack Moony & The Sun Drops is a groovy Blues and Rock Pop band based out of Chicago, Illinois.
Jack Riedy writes songs about the little things: love, sex, work, and death. Jack and his brilliant backing band the Dealbreakers play fast, funky rock inspired by Prince and Talking Heads. Off Belay is gorpy, indie-rock out of Chicago, Illinois. Small calls to action, steeped in reverb.
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Mel Senese is a Chicago based rock artist delivering high energy, emotionally charged performances. Her sound fuses Linkin Park intensity with PVRIS atmosphere, blending rock, EDM, and hard hitting pop and metalcore elements into a genre bending style. Known for electrifying live shows and viral livestream moments featured in the Chicago Tribune and ABC7, her latest single “Protector” kicks off a darker, more intense era exploring love, loss, and reinvention, all driven by her raw, unfiltered vocal power.
Dead Sugar is a rising American rock band; a collaboration between vocalist Blair Robinson and guitarist NEiL. They have gained attention for their emotive live performances and haunted concept album. Virus is the soundtrack to the zombie apocalypse. A concept album using the undead as a metaphor for complacency, fear, and emotional decay. Dark, aggressive, and unexpectedly vulnerable, Virus is about survival, self-awakening, and refusing to go numb.
When the Wall Breaks Down: Spontaneous, shapeshifting, ever-evolving improvised music from Chicago. Who knows what will happen?
Two figures emerge from the darkness, untouched by the lamp's light, they sing in delicate cacophony. Iz and Jake are King Sans: Chicago's gothic noisepunk duo. Sans consistently delivers a high-energy, theatrical live show, that is as equally playful as it is sinister.
Named after an infamous, clandestine doomsday cult from the 1960s, The Living Head is an apocalyptic post-punk band from Chicago, IL. Spontaneous, shapeshifting, ever-evolving improvised music from Chicago. Imagine two feral rats scurrying around you in the shadows of an alley. They'll shriek and run, but then sing you a lullaby.
From playing in bands to standing solo, slugscape brings a soundscape of industrial hitters and trip hop ballads.
Chicago's THE FEAT – Craig Woods (Towers, Peter and Craig), Justin Wexler (Stillwell, Engines), and Matt Vicars (Ghost Towns, Sore History) – have created a sound that exists somewhere within their shared collective experience of independent and punk music.
Performances end up being an in your face mosh dance that helps strengthen the connection between artist and audience. Hungu is a Chicago-based DJ and producer playing the full spectrum of house from basement classics to modern bangers and everything in between. Expect smooth blends, unexpected cuts and whatever else the night brings.
Morbid Circle is a dark electronic artist that blends punk, EBM, and darkwave into a unique sound of catchy melodies and powerful vocals.
Merging their backgrounds in hiphop and punk, Mike Bandanna became to be known as the rapper with a band with a sound unlike many before them. Forged in the fires of the underground house shows, the band grew to add members Casey Powell, masterclass guitarist, and Dj $weetboy, the eclectic disc jockey. Mike Bandanna grew to be a shining name in the local scene and on to headline two successful indie tours. With a style blend from dark, choatic rage, to drug fueled croons and ballads, and lyrics venturing through introspective thought and aspirational gusto, songwriter Mike Bandanna delivers a sound that challenges its very own identity while still remaining true to it's roots.
Shravan Raghuram of When the Wall Breaks Down // spontaneous, shapeshifting, ever-evolving improvised music from Chicago.
