Pop Shows in Chicago

Kickstand Productions Presents

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.

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.

Doors @ 7PM, Performance @ 8PM This is an AGES 17 AND OVER event. Valid Photo ID is required for age restricted shows. Forms of valid ID are current and non-expired Driver's License, State ID or Passport. Aragon Ballroom is a standing room only venue, all tickets are General Admission unless otherwise stated. There is NO re-entry. Individuals under 17 are allowed to attend if accompanied by their parent or legal guardian https://www.aragonballroomchicago.com/

Birthday Sets by:🎧 Ilana Ariella @ilana_ariella 🎶🎧 Shmoo @shmoochicago 🎶Also Playing:🎧 Wyser @mrwyser 🎶 All are welcome to 'Industry Night'. Come party with Industry folk on their night off. Open till 4:00 AM! Drink Specials for All: $2 Well, $2 PBR, $3 Bombs, $4 Deep Eddy Flavored Vodka Cocktails, $4 High Noon, $4 Titos, Altos, Jameson, Hendricks, Bacardi. No Cover All Night. 21+ w/ID.

Doors open at 6PM. Performance begins at 7PM. This show is for AGES 17 AND OLDER. Valid Photo ID is required for age restricted shows. Forms of valid ID are current and non-expired Driver's License, State ID, or Passport. House of Blues Chicago is a standing room only venue, all tickets are General Admission unless otherwise stated. *All support acts are subject to change without notice.* Individuals under 17 are allowed to attend if accompanied by their parent or legal guardian Upgrade Your Experience: https://www.sevenrooms.com/events/hobchicago/hobwebsite

Doors @ 6PM, Performance @ 7PM This is an ALL AGES event. Aragon Ballroom is a standing room only venue, all tickets are General Admission unless otherwise stated. There is NO re-entry. https://www.aragonballroomchicago.com/

Alfonso Ponticelli – guitar Steve Gibons – violin Ethan Philion – bass Bob Rummage -drums

When the members of Slow Pulp discuss Yard, their second full-length record and first for ANTI-, their vocabulary often defaults to synesthetic imagery and sensation. "We have so many visual cues for how we talk about music," singer and guitarist Emily Massey says as she stops herself in the middle of explaining how the album's second song, "Doubt," sounds like wakeboarding. "Doubt is quite dark lyrically, but it is found in this upbeat and almost campy environment." On Yard, the Wisconsin-bred, Chicago-based four-piece nestles comfortably into pockets of nuance, impressions, contradictions -- sonics and lyrics finessed together to bottle the specific tension of a feeling you've never quite been able to find the right words for. In that regard, listening to Slow Pulp can feel like being in a room with someone who's known you so long that they can read your every micro-expression and pinpoint exactly how you're feeling before you can.

Thursday, November 19 Protomartyr * J.R.C.G. $30 Adv. / $35 Day of / 18+ / Doors: 7pm / Show: 8pm Since their 2012 debut No Passion All Technique , the Detroit post-punk band Protomartyr have mastered the art of evoking place: the grinding Midwest humility of their hometown, as well as the x-rayed elucidation of America that comes with their vantage. Protomartyr—vocalist Joe Casey, guitarist Greg Ahee, drummer Alex Leonard, and bassist Scott Davidson—have become synonymous with caustic, impressionistic assemblages of politics and poetry, the literal and oblique.

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Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+Packaging is the duo of Daniel Lyon and Connor Birch. Their debut albumPackagingfusespsychedelic textures, krautrock chug, electronic grandeur, tuneful accessibility, and just a littlebit of bristling self-awareness

Riot Fest presents... Ghostwoman w/ special guests Croaker $26 ADV // $33 DOS - All Ticket prices inclusive of taxes and fees. What you see is what you pay, no surprises later. 📬Stay in touch, subscribe to our newsletter here➡️ \*\*https://cobralounge.com/email-newsletter/** ⬅️ Riot Fest says sign up for their email list, or their boss will yell at them: https://riotfest.org/newsletter

Fly off the handle bohemiennes~ the Squirrel Flower Express is coming your way. Ella Williams returns for her first full band headlining tour in 2 years!!

Varsity Dropout is a Chicago-based indie folk project using music as a therapeutic lens to explore memory and connection. Rooted in raw, unvarnished songwriting, the sound bridges the warm, expansive folk of Mumford & Sons and Bon Iver with the emotional weight and dynamic punch of Manchester Orchestra and The 1975. Every track is an invitation to process the heavy stuff together. Alma Yeon: Alma Yeon creates kaleidoscopic songs on keyboard and electric ukulele. Her lyrical music explores growth, grief, and finding joy in unexpected places. An up-and-coming singer-songwriter in Chicago, Alma Yeon's moving performances have been called "playful and provocative" with the power to gather and heal. Alma Yeon searches deep and creates love songs, a forgiving mirror, and a call to action. Martin Bandz: Martin Bandzoumouna (aka Martin Bandz) is a Chicago-based singer-songwriter and producer whose multi-genre sound draws from a upbringing in jazz and symphonic bands, classical funk and R&B, African icons like Koffi Olomide and Youssou N'Dour, and 2000s alt-rock.

Friday, November 20 ADULT. & A Place To Bury Strangers * DANA $25 Adv. / $30 Day of / 18+ / Doors: 8pm / Show: 9pm ADULT . is not cooperating. For over 25 years, the dystopian Detroit synth-punk institution founded by Nicola Kuperus and Adam Lee Miller has embodied steadfast frustration, distrust, and apprehension. One might expect the edges to soften with time, but ADULT. is not interested in the comforts of legacy. The duo’s music has never sounded as visceral, urgent, and downright angry as it does on the culminating, uncompromising Kissing Luck Goodbye, their scorched-earth 10th LP and fourth with Dias Records. Built with upgraded gear and a whole new library of sounds, the material is crushingly dynamic, louder yet clearer, with Kuperus’ commanding delivery given greater prominence in the mix, outlining an arsenal of vivid, caustic calls, chants, and musings. Fans around the world know Oliver Ackermann always brings surprises. For nearly two decades, the singer and guitarist of New York City’s A Place To Bury Strangers has fused post-punk, noise-rock, shoegaze, psychedelia, and avant-garde experimentation into music that feels volatile and alive. As the founder of Death By Audio, he’s extended that same spirit through his signal-scrambling effects, empowering artists everywhere to push sound past its limits. Onstage, A Place To Bury Strangers delivers a shamanistic experience—immersive, feral, and electrifying—where real-time experiments and sudden breakthroughs collide.

Head on over to Tack Room to join Laura Cai every month for her theme night! Channel your inner emo kid for this next one on Friday, October 23rd. From 9pm-11pm, she will be at the piano performing fan favorite and deep cut pop punk/emo songs from artists like Paramore, Blink 182, and more! No cover, so come on in and be ready to belt out some tunes!

Doors: 9PM / Show: 10PM / 21+ Ten years on, Omnis Deluxe is a bit of a paradox; Its an island of a record with a fully formed untethered-to-any-scene unique quality but I hear its influence everywhere in the art punk underground. There are countless bands that have mined inspiration from the LPs cerebral pop cool, single string riffs, syncopated hooks, and crispy mid-fi production style. Perhaps in 2016 when Omni cheekily named the album Deluxe, they knew they had a classic on their hands. The band was poking fun of the streaming era marketing tactic where artists re-enter the algorithm via a deluxe expanded version of an album right after the original is released but ironically, ten years later Omnis debut is a genuine classic and is being re-released with a bonus disc of B-sides, outtakes, and demos. Omni began as a way for Philip Frobos (bass + vocals) and Frankie Broyles (guitars + drums + keys) to practice creative spontaneity in contrast to the slower meticulous methods their then other bands employed. One fateful night in 2013, the then-roommates devised an Eno-inspired creative game: Would it be possible to write an entire song (arrangement + lyrics, etc.) all in one three hour night session? Whereas most bands begin sculpting a riff or progression brought in by one member, Omni revelled at the chance to begin each songwriting session with a true tabula rosa with no goal in mind except trusting the process. These sessions often began with a melodic bass line that was then quickly complemented by syncopated pointillist guitar (Frankie almost never voices full chords on guitar in Omni). Philip would then retreat to a quiet area to write lyrics as quickly as possible while Frankie worked on writing and recording the drum parts. Seeking the definitive by chance, any accidents that happened in the takes became baked into the songs arrangements; An extra measure here or resting a beat too long there forced the band to come up with creative musical solutions.

Friday, November 20, 2026 Vegyn feat. Headache * Madeline * amr* $20-$25 GA / $25 Door / $20 Student Door (before 12am with valid ID) / 21+ / Doors: 10PM

Saturday, November 21 DJ Joe Shanahan All Vinyl – Funk / Punk / Soul and a splash of DiscoFree / 21 & over / Event: 3pm-7pm

This is an ALL AGES event. Outset is a standing room only venue, all tickets are General Admission unless otherwise stated. There is NO re-entry.

Doors @ 530PM, Performance @ 630PM This is an AGES 17 AND OVER event. Valid Photo ID is required for age restricted shows. Forms of valid ID are current and non-expired Driver's License, State ID or Passport. Aragon Ballroom is a standing room only venue, all tickets are General Admission unless otherwise stated. There is NO re-entry. Individuals under 17 are allowed to attend if accompanied by their parent or legal guardian https://www.aragonballroomchicago.com/

The Chicago Review — A Poetry Reading with… Cynthia Cruz, the author of ten poetry collections, including Hotel Oblivion, which won the National Book Critics Circle Award and was a finalist for the Kingsley Tufts Award. She has received a Hodder Fellowship from Princeton University and a Guggenheim Fellowship. She recently completed a PhD in philosophy at the European Graduate School, where she wrote her dissertation on Hegel and madness. She is currently a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Department of English at the University of Notre Dame. Sara Nicholson, the author of three books of poetry, most recently April, all from the Song Cave. A chapbook of new poems, Honesty, was published by Distance No Object in 2026. She teaches in the MFA program at Boise State University. Martin Corless-Smith, who was born in Worcestershire. His next book is From The Black Sea (Shearsman Books, UK, 2027).

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