Chicago live music
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International DJ Dani Brasil takes over the Hydrate booth for a night of high-energy circuit and Latin beats. He's played major events around the world, including XLSIOR Mykonos, WE Party, White Party Vietnam, White Party Bangkok, and many more. Now he's back in Chicago to keep the dance floor moving until 5 AM.
Get ready to dance all night with Dani Brasil bringing the heat live! International DJ Dani Brasil takes over the Hydrate booth! He's played at major events globally including XLSIOR Mykonos, WE Party, White Party Vietnam, White Party Bangkok, and many more. Now he's back in Chicago to give you a night of high energy circuit and latin beats! Saturday, Sept. 26Set starts at 11 PMDance late night to 5 AMLights by VJ George G. Hydrate Nightclub 3458 N Halsted.
Sunday, September 27 Cold Waves XIV Afterparty… Scary Lady Sarah (DJ Set) $10 or Free with Cold Waves Wristband / 21 & Over / Doors: 12AM / Show: 12:15AM
Chicago Jazz Composers Collective presents: Emily Kuhn Quartet featuring: Emily Kuhn – composer, trumpet Meghan Stagl – piano Kitt Lyles – bass Gustavo Cortinas – drums Kenny Reichert Quartet featuring: Kenny Reichert – composer, electric guitar Geof Bradfield – tenor sax Ethan Philion – upright bass Devin Drobka – drums and cymbals.
Cavetown's Robin Skinner, of Cambridge, England, has become an anchor for a generation of listeners who've found not just solace in his music, but a kind of spiritual room to grow up in. His catalog, spanning lo-fi ditties and indie rock charmers, has amassed billions of streams, earned a 6× Platinum certification, and inspired high-profile features in the New York Times, Rolling Stone and Billboard. His global touring career has taken him from sold-out clubs to massive tours with AJR and Pierce The Veil, as well as festival main stages at Glastonbury, Lollapalooza, Corona Capital, Primavera Sound, and many more. Along the way, his songs have become comfort objects to his dedicated fans, who have clasped them, cried to them, and grown up alongside them. They've been soft hands offering understanding when the world felt too sharp.
Event features a General Admission Dance Pit in front of the stage! All sales are final, no refunds/exchanges permitted, but tickets may be transferred through your TM Account. Garcia's is fully ADA compliant featuring wheelchair lifts and ramps between the various levels of the venue, assisted listening devices upon request, and allows official service animals. Premium Table seating is located closest to the stage offering the most intimate music experience for guests and includes table service. Reserved Table seating is located on our main floor, behind the Premium section, and also includes table service. Both Premium and Reserved table seating is cabaret style which means you may be sitting with other fans. Private Booths are available and depending on the booth seats 1 to 4, 5, or 6 guests. General Admission/Standing Room is located around the sides of the room on an elevated level for quality viewing and easy bar access.
Sunday, September 27 Cold Waves XIV featuring KING WOMAN • YOUTH CODE • LEAD INTO GOLD • SPIKE HELLIS • BLACK CROSS HOTEL • INSULA ISCARIOT $55 Adv. / $65 Day of / $145 3-Day Metro Pass / 18 & over / Doors: 6PM / Show: 7PM Portion of proceeds to benefit Darkest Before Dawn and other non-profit organizations. Cold Waves Single Day VIP Tables available here.
Joy Guidry - Five Prayers in Five Movements Support from BSA Gold Date: Sunday, September 27th, 2026 Doors: 6:00PM to Venue | 6:30PM to Sanctuary Showtime: 7:00PM Tickets: Advanced - $20 (+$4.72 fees, including tax) Day of Show - $25 (+$5.13 fees,...
Unfathomable Showscapes is an ever-evolving avant garde variety show extravaganza for lovers and haters of experimental music, comedy, improvisation, theatre and performance art.
Sophia Lucia & The Freaks make rock & roll punk mama freak shit music Bora Bora is a trilingual band from Chicago that plays Tropical Space-Folk music, synthesizing the lush sounds of Brazilian AM Gold with crunchy Velvet Underground sonic tones. Xyta is an indie folk solo act from Chicago, IL. A lifelong yearner and songwriter, they'll make you cry, hopefully laugh, and definitely think about your ex, all with just a guitar and a microphone. A niche favorite of horse girls, gays, and the depressed and lonely alike. Mush Mush is a Chicago-Grown, Indie Pop Trio with ATX roots
A night of awesome music with the Humboldt Arboreal DJs to close out the 8th year of hosting the best summer party in Humboldt Park. House, Groove, Disco, and more.
Tuesday, September 29 Everything Everything: Get To Heaven 10th Anniversary with Psymon Spine $40 Adv. / $45 Day of / $140 VIP / 18+ / Doors: 7pm / Show: 8pm. VIP Package includes: Embroidered Everything Everything hat, Signed Get To Heaven anniversary vinyl, Exclusive signed tour poster, Signed set list, Commemorative VIP laminate & lanyard. No-one quite operates in the realm of the visionary Everything Everything. Setting dystopian 'Black Mirror'-style concepts to songs which thrillingly find the sweet spot between esoteric experimentation and art-pop accessibility, the band have earned critical acclaim and a devoted following in equal measure, leading to five Ivor Novello and two Mercury Prize nominations, a run of six consecutive Top 10 albums, and major headline shows including London's Alexandra Palace. Everything Everything have always explored grand concepts in their albums, as demonstrated by 2022's ahead-of-the-curve 'Raw Data Feel' (which fed everything from 4Chan forum posts to the teachings of Confucius into an AI program, and used its responses as a basis for its lyrics and titles). That continues with the release of their new album Mountainhead. It imagines an alternate society in which those at the lowest rung of society's ladder are forced to work relentlessly to keep its elite, at the mountain's peak, elevated. While it's an idea that looks to a nightmarish future, it's full of engaging metaphors for our current existence, from capitalism and environmentalism to religion and celebrity worship. The music is just as engaging, their art-pop heart coloured by an array of off-kilter production touches and a new-found alt-pop accessibility.
múm (pronunciation: [muːm] - moom) are an exploratory Icelandic musical group whose music is characterized by experiments in electronic music, soft vocals, glitch beats, innovative sampling and eerie effects with a variety of traditional and unconventional instruments. The band was formed in 1997 by original members Gunnar Örn Tynes and Örvar Smárason and has since then released six full albums, as well as a mountain of other music, singles, EP's, collaborations, theatre and film music. In 2013 múm released a single with Kylie Minogue, Whistle from the film Jack & Diane which the band composed the original score the year before. In 2015 múm wrote a special piece named Drowning with German pianist and composer Hauschka, commissioned by the MDR Sinfonieorchester in Leipzig where it was performed that summer. One of múm's more recent extracurricular project is a semi- improvised electronic music score to the silent masterpiece Menschen am Sonntag (1930) and a special performance at Iceland Airwaves Festival 2016 in collaboration with the Kronos Quartet, playing songs from múms backcatalog at Harpa Concert Hall.
Riot Fest presents... The Schizophonics: Burning Floor Tour w/ special guest Descartes A Kant and Gelatinous Cube & The Ambiguous Wrecks. $24 ADV // $26 DOS - All Ticket prices inclusive of taxes and fees. What you see is what you pay, no surprises later.
Riot Fest presents... The Schizophonics: Burning Floor Tour w/ special guest Descartes A Kant. $24 ADV // $26 DOS - All Ticket prices inclusive of taxes and fees. What you see is what you pay, no surprises later.
Riot Fest presents... The Schizophonics: Burning Floor Tour w/ special guest Descartes A Kant and Gelatinous Cube & The Ambiguous Wrecks. $24 ADV // $26 DOS - All Ticket prices inclusive of taxes and fees. What you see is what you pay, no surprises later.
In a burst of colour and rhythm that cuts a distinctive path through modern club music, Olof Dreijer crystallises his solo work around a gleaming debut solo album, Loud Bloom. Since returning with a rush of output in 2023, Dreijer has been sprinkling dancefloors with a string of releases that perfect the fine balance of angular originality and universal appeal. The sound is bright and immediate, wild around the edges but overflowing with heart and soul. Updating a sound he first teased in the late 00s through drag performance and a handful of enduring, celestial dance tracks like the universally adored 'oar003B', this purposefully joyful wave of recent output came after years spent working on projects for others. He was one half of legendary synth pop provocateurs The Knife with his sister Karin Dreijer, also producing for their solo project Fever Ray as well as Houeida Hedfi, Zhala and Planningtorock more recently. He also helped establish a music school for refugees in Berlin before continuing to teach creative music production to immigrant youth in Sweden. The striking arrival of Rosa Rugosaon Hessle Audio in 2023 heralded the dawn of a new era in his music-making, followed up by successive flourishes for Dekmantel and AD93 as well as remixes for Björk & Ros-alía, Royskopp & Robyn and more, paving the way towards Loud Bloom.
London-based producer Ryan Lee West, better known under the name Rival Consoles, is notable for making synthesisers sound human and atmospheric. Over the course of a critically acclaimed eighteen-year career, his music has diversified from the challenging electronic output of his early EPs, to gradually becoming more conceptual and metamorphic with his albums.In July 2025 Rival Consoles released his latest studio album Landscape from Memory on Erased Tapes, and is presenting it with a brand new unique performance that will take the form of an immersive audio-visual experience in which he will present material from across the last 15 years of his career and beyond. From deep ambient works to his unique version of techno, and traversing the vast spectrum in between, the show will be a long-form narrative of ideas — many heard live for the first time — with visuals co-created and performed live by David Sydiongco.
Alfonso Ponticelli – guitar Steve Gibons – violin Ethan Philion – bass Bob Rummage -drums
21+. 9pm. Emily Beisel - clarinets, electronics Caroline Jesalva - violin Sam Wagster - pedal steel guitar Michael Zerang - percussion
Riot Fest presents... MILLIONAIRE$: "My Sweet 16" Part 2 Tour w/ special guests Notions and DAVVN $29 ADV // $33 DOS - All Ticket prices inclusive of taxes and fees. What you see is what you pay, no surprises later.
