Punk Shows in Chicago

Lenny Kaye returns to the Gman Tavern for a night of songs to celebrate the release of his debut solo album, Goin' Local. This intimate performance brings one of punk rock's paragons to the Gman stage for a night of new and old favorites for a can't miss evening. Singer-songwriter, Nora O'Connor, will join as support. Lenny Kaye is a guitarist, music historian, and writer, known for his role as the guitarist in the Patti Smith Group, with whom he is an inducted member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame. His involvement with the music industry dates back to the 1960s and he remains active both on and off stage. His studio work includes such artists as Jim Carroll, Allen Ginsberg, Kristen Hersh, Soul Asylum, and Suzanne Vega. He has three Grammy nominations in the liner notes category for boxed sets on the sixties folk revival, and he is the author of several books. Nora O'Connor has been an in-demand singer/multi-instrumentalist for decades, performing with Neko Case, The Decemberists, Iron and Wine, Andrew Bird, The New Pornographers, Robbie Fulks, Mavis Staples, and Chicago supergroup The Flat Five. She is a featured player on numerous albums and has produced three solo albums. She is currently touring with Neko Case and writing/recording her fourth album.

The Sidepieces is a country band with a rotating cast of Chicago singers and players revisiting a range of mostly sad songs, some recent/some old, some familiar/some hidden gems, some traditional/some unorthodox. Led by Jordan Martins on pedal steel, The Sidepieces plays these songs in order to listen to eachother, improvise, find the form, invite surprises, and stretch the sounds that inhabit the song. Current members include Angela James, Sam Cantor, Ryan Norris, Kelsey Wild, Raul Cotaquispe, Nolan Chin, Gus Martini, and Chris Salveter (Judson Claiborne) among others. Listening, talking, weeping, dancing, and laughing are all encouraged from the audience.

Riot Fest presents... Yard Act The Armed $42 ADV // $46.50 DOS - All Ticket prices inclusive of taxes and fees. What you see is what you pay, no surprises later.

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Robert's Westside Presents: AFTER SCHOOL SPECIAL w/ Thünderhead General Admission: $12 + Service Fees Reserved Table + GA: $15 Per Seat + Service Fees (Sold in groups of 4 - 6, General Admission included) General Admission tickets do not include rese...

Riot Fest presents... The Bouncing Souls w/ special guests Human Issue $60 ADV // $66 DOS - All Ticket prices inclusive of taxes and fees. What you see is what you pay, no surprises later.

In more than 25 years together, Alkaline Trio has created their own little universe in their songs, one that is a bit dark, a bit brooding, and always just a few short steps away from armageddon. Their music has been a reliable black mirror of reality. And now, as the band releases their monumental tenth album, Blood, Hair, and Eyeballs, the real world looks more like an Alkaline Trio song than ever before—midway through a global meltdown and 90 seconds to midnight on the Doomsday Clock.

Dark Industrial techno. The 3rd Friday of every month, the replicants emerge from the shadows to unleash a hard-hitting assault of industrial, EBM, and hard techno. Featuring Nexus residents DJs Licious, Flesh_Bot, and Sprite. Nexus 6 is a queer-friendly space: no bigots, no fascists, no bullshit. DJ Bios: Sprite - For two decades, Sprite has mixed the industrial techno rhythms and dark electronic melodies that rumble the fault lines of civilization. A former resident of Chicago’s legendary Neo nightclub, he also produces robot riot music as Anarchotech on the label HANDS. https://linktr.ee/anarchotech Flesh_Bot - DJ Flesh_Bot has been feeding the industrial oontz machine with her hard-hitting, energetic sets. She's played at venues throughout the US, Europe, and Japan, including Super Swartz Mannheim, Cold Waves, Sanctum (Chicago), Wasteland Weekend, and Wave-Gotik-Treffen. https://linktr.ee/djfleshbot TICKET EVENT INFORMATION: This event is 21+ All sales final, NO refunds or exchanges, events are rain or shine. Door times are subject to change without notice. Tickets purchased at box office will be inclusive of fees. Once you’ve purchased, you will receive an order confirmation email from See Tickets on behalf of ‘Beat Kitchen’ or 'Subterranean' with your eTicket(s) attached. *IMPORTANT: If you do not see your order confirmation in your inbox, make sure to check your junk/spam folder. If you still do not see your order confirmation or have any other technical ticketing-related issues with your order, click here to access the See Tickets help center. We take pride in creating a space where everyone feels welcome and safe, and we strive to provide accommodations for all guests to the best of our ability. While we commit to doing everything in our power to accommodate when given advanced notice, guests who require accessibility accommodations should contact us at info@subt.net or info@beatkitchen.com . Staff can provide assistance when possible. If you have tickets to an upcoming event and require special accommodations, or have questions, please contact info@subt.net or info@beatkitchen.com at least one week prior to the event.

TICKET EVENT INFORMATION: This event is UPSTAIRS This event is ALL AGES All sales final, NO refunds or exchanges, events are rain or shine. Door times are subject to change without notice. Tickets purchased at box office will be inclusive of fees. Once you’ve purchased, you will receive an order confirmation email from See Tickets on behalf of ‘Beat Kitchen’ or 'Subterranean' with your eTicket(s) attached. We accept physical IDs or official digital IDs. Photos or screenshots of an ID are not accepted. *IMPORTANT: If you do not see your order confirmation in your inbox, make sure to check your junk/spam folder. If you still do not see your order confirmation or have any other technical ticketing-related issues with your order, click here to access the See Tickets help center. We take pride in creating a space where everyone feels welcome and safe, and we strive to provide accommodations for all guests to the best of our ability. While we commit to doing everything in our power to accommodate when given advanced notice, there is no elevator or ramp available to our upstairs ballroom. Guests who require accessibility accommodations should contact us at info@subt.net . Staff can provide assistance when possible. If you have tickets to an upcoming event and require special accommodations, or have questions, please contact info@subt.net at least one week prior to the event. More information can be found here on our FAQ page.

SLUG NUDGER NINO CHIFLO Niño Chiflo is an unapologetically political Punk Rock band from the City of Chicago. On guitar Thomas Wells, bassist Saul Garcia, and drummer Roberto Lopez, and vocalist Trish Zulueta Autumn Sky Passage by Jeff Scott Castle Facebook Instagram Tyrë Fyrë From the bowels of The Alley in Chicago, Tÿre Fÿre has risen through the mucky muck to aurally assault your earholes with the truth. While smelting punk, post-punk, and a touch of hardcore, Tÿre Fÿre have forged their own voice and intend to shout down the demons that plague society. Autumn Sky Passage by Jeff Scott Castle Spotify Facebook Instagram Twitter

Sunday, September 20, 2026Queen! Featuring Bradley Zero * Derrick Carter * Michael Serafini Hosted by Lucy Stoole * Nico Guest Host: Jock The Stripper$15 Early / $20 Advanced / $20 Door / $15 Student Door (before 12am with valid ID) / 21+ / Doors: 10PM

Riot Fest presents... The Flatliners w/ special guests Dave Hause $33 ADV // $40 DOS - All Ticket prices inclusive of taxes and fees. What you see is what you pay, no surprises later.

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KAYA The success of Kaya, an openly bisexual, fabulously flamboyant cross-dresser, was a wake-up call for Japan’s notoriously conservative music industry. Born Tatsuya Kasei on July 17, 1983 in Tokushima, he started out in music in 1999 under the name Hime (Princess) in the short-lived visual kei bands Meties and Isola, but his career really started to take off when he met Hora, keyboardist of the band Velvet Eden. In 2001, they formed the gothic electro-industrial duo Rudolf Steiner, named after the 19th century Austrian mystic. They attracted the attention of famous producer Mana — former guitarist of the massively successful Malice Mizer — who signed them to his own label, changing their name to Schwarz Stein (pseudo-German for Black Stone). At the same time, Hime changed his stage name to Kaya, after the name of the legendary bird karyoubinka. Kaya’s clear, pure, yet powerful tenor was especially suited to Hora’s dark electronic music, and the duo’s two albums, New Vogue Children and Artificial Hallucination, acquired cult status both in Japan and around the world, especially in Europe. In 2004, they split over musical differences, disappeared from the scene for two years, then reunited briefly in the project Another Cell before launching solo careers. Spotify Instagram PANIC PRIEST Panic Priest is the darkwave-centric project of Chicago-based “dark crooner” Jack Armondo, who channels themes of death, sex, and doomed romance into haunting anthems for our turbulent times. By blending atmospheric synths, soaring guitars, dancefloor-driven beats, and commanding baritone vocals, Panic Priest creates emotionally charged and infectious midnight melodies that stand at the forefront of the modern darkscene. Known for his electrifying one-man live performances, Panic Priest fuses hard rock energy with the pulse of hook-laden, danceable dark pop. Since his acclaimed self-titled debut in 2018, Armondo has toured and shared stages with Light Asylum, Vision Video, ACTORS, and Twin Tribes, and performed at Cold Waves, Absolution, Terminus, Sanctum and Verboden. His latest album Once Wild arrived in August 2025. Autumn Sky Passage by Jeff Scott Castle Facebook Instagram

Throughout a catalog streamed nearly half-a-billion times and highlighted by multiple gold and platinum certified singles / albums, All Time Low have continually raised the bar for both pop and punk. Since 2003, the group has notched five straight Top 10 entries on the Billboard Top 200, spanning the gold-certified Nothing Personal [2009], Dirty Work [2011], Future Hearts [2015], and Last Young Renegade [2017]. The latter attracted tastemaker acclaim from the likes of Rolling Stone, Paste, and more as the band canvassed the world, headlining arenas on three continents. 2019 saw All Time Low celebrating the anniversary of Nothing Personal, an album that's influence remains prevalent with Rock Sound citing its impact on Fall Out Boy, 5 Seconds of Summer, and more. After nearly two decades together, All Time Low rekindled the spark they first ignited in a Baltimore basement on their 2020 full-length studio album, Wake Up, Sunshine.

Tuesday, September 22 Hail The Sun * A Lot Like Birds * Blight Town * Diver $32.50 Adv. / $35 Day of / 18+ / Doors: 6PM / Show: 7PM. Anybody familiar with Hail The Sun will know there's always a great deal of meaning beneath the surface. Theirs are songs that probe the very nature of existence, that strive to find the answers to the fundamental questions that being human raises, and that don't flinch away from any form of self-reflection whatsoever. That's been the case since the band—lead vocalist Donovan Melero, guitarists Shane Gann and Aric Garcia, bassist John Stirrat and drummer Allen Casillas—formed in Chico, CA in 2009, but which is especially the case on cut. turn. fade. back, their seventh full-length. Indeed, even for a band whose album titles veer between being suggestive of something more and existentially profound, this record truly goes the distance, encompassing the complete cycle of life with its four monosyllabic words.

21+ 8pm Doors. This is a 21+ event. Presented by Personal Space Booking.

TICKET EVENT INFORMATION: This event is UPSTAIRS This event is 17+ All sales final, NO refunds or exchanges, events are rain or shine. Door times are subject to change without notice. Tickets purchased at box office will be inclusive of fees. Once you’ve purchased, you will receive an order confirmation email from See Tickets on behalf of ‘Beat Kitchen’ or 'Subterranean' with your eTicket(s) attached. We accept physical IDs or official digital IDs. Photos or screenshots of an ID are not accepted. *IMPORTANT: If you do not see your order confirmation in your inbox, make sure to check your junk/spam folder. If you still do not see your order confirmation or have any other technical ticketing-related issues with your order, click here to access the See Tickets help center. We take pride in creating a space where everyone feels welcome and safe, and we strive to provide accommodations for all guests to the best of our ability. While we commit to doing everything in our power to accommodate when given advanced notice, there is no elevator or ramp available to our upstairs ballroom. Guests who require accessibility accommodations should contact us at info@subt.net . Staff can provide assistance when possible. If you have tickets to an upcoming event and require special accommodations, or have questions, please contact info@subt.net at least one week prior to the event. More information can be found here on our FAQ page.

Truck Violence's second full length record, The weathervane is my body, is an attempt to answer, an attempt at conciliation through refusal. Karsyn Henderson and Paul Lecours grew up in a French Canadian town of 600 people... Rooted in the noise rock and post-hardcore traditions, and steeped in a DIY ethic that runs deep in Canadian underground culture, the record is uncompromising in its refusal to be anything other than what it is: immediate, self-determined, and built entirely by the hands that imagined it.

Empire Productions presents... Soul Exchange Out 4 Blood w/ special guests TBA $20 - All Ticket prices inclusive of taxes and fees. What you see is what you pay, no surprises later.

Empire Productions presents... Soul Exchange Out 4 Blood Hate and Discontent Knavish Soaked In Torment $20 - All Ticket prices inclusive of taxes and fees. What you see is what you pay, no surprises later.

21+ 8pm DOORS

The Tear Garden is about to embark on its first tour dates in the bands history. Founders Cevin Key (Skinny Puppy, Download) and Edward Ka-Spel (Legendary Pink Dots) joined forces 30 years ago to create their initial recordings, psychedelia-infused electronic and tribal tracks that would become their first album , "rdquo" -> Tired Eyes Burning". In 2025, their new album , 'Astral Elevator' has been gleefully received and a long persistent cry from an audience clamouring for a tour look set to have their prayers answered. The combination of Skinny Puppy's sonic overload and the Pink Dots' hallucinogenic labyrinth may seem like an unlikely combination, but the evidence of the music and the longevity of the project exemplifies a perfect marriage. Wisconsi-based electronic chanteuse CARRELLEE, who recently joined the IAMX US touring team will open the show, along with Bragolin, a Dutch post-punk/dark wave projectcontaining influences from various decades with '80s baritone guitar, synths and drummachines, '60s/'70s organs and '90's Shoegaze guitars. On Sale: Friday, April 17th at 10:00 AM In an effort to mitigate scalping, Bottom Lounge does not certify any secondary ticket sales via third parties and is not responsible for fraudulent ticket sales on third party websites. Please be mindful of scammers. Tickets for this event will be sent on a delay (extra time is required to process and confirm all orders), but you'll always receive your tickets in time for your event. If you have not received your tickets three days before your event, be sure to let us know.

Cobra Lounge presents... Woven Cat Tag Mail Order Bride $15 ADV // $17 DOS - All Ticket prices inclusive of taxes and fees. What you see is what you pay, no surprises later.