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Chicago's worst talent agent attempts to get her most promising clients booked on a Verizon commercial. Can she do it? Maybe.

Featuring: Matty Merrit, Brigid Broderick, Victor Carlesi, Maddie Daviss, Sage Huston, Jerwin Gabriel Santiago, Daniella Aguilar, David Tarantino, and Kristen Aviles

Doors at 8:30pm, show at 9:00pm

DD Island makes psych-infused, twangy folk rock in Brooklyn, NY. They're releasing our first full-length record Setting Sun in spring 2026.

Carriers is an American indie-rock project helmed by Cincinnati, Ohio’s singer-songwriter and musician, Curt Kiser. Since 2014, Carriers’ music can be described as honest, warm, and full of heart, like a late-night chat with a close friend. Curt Kiser’s songs blend the storytelling soul of Tom Petty with the dreamy vibes of Amen Dunes, creating a sound that’s both familiar and fresh.

Jessica Risker is a songwriter and visual artist based in Chicago. Her second full-length album under her own name, Calendar Year, is a folk-psych masterpiece.

Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm

Folk artists Lefty Parker & Blue Ranger share a weekend residency at Color Club.

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Folk artists Lefty Parker & Blue Ranger share a weekend residency at Color Club.

Night Starts at 8:00pm, mini sets at 9:00pm and 10:00pm

DJ Gutterball hosts a free night of vinyl-only country bummers. Stay around for drink specials from Apologue and Judson & Moore and mini-cover sets from crooners Andrew Sa and Lydia Cash.

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Olivia and the Lovers are a queer cowboy band based in Chicago. Taking inspiration both from classic American folk music and cowboy standards, Olivia Love writes music as a vehicle for vulnerability and reflections on queer love, loss, and healing. They were named the Best Emerging Band and Best Country Band in the 2023 Chicago Reader Poll.

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Zander Raymond is an interdisciplinary artist and musician working in Chicago. His music is rooted in improvisation, utilizing modular synthesizers and open-source sound computers to sample, warp, and build sonic images that embrace non-linear approaches to composition. He’s released music on Moon Glyph, Sound as Language, Florabelle, Cached.media, among others.

Dancing starts at 9pm

An all vinyl two-step dance party with Ricki Free & DJ Gutterball.

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Olivia Ellen Lloyd will try anything once. From flight attendant school in Dallas to producing theater in New York and teaching in Guatemala, Lloyd sought adventure but struggled to find a greater sense of purpose––until she found her way back to music. Channeling that restless spirit, she writes songs that pay homage to her Appalachian roots while charting fresh territory.

Heavily influenced by country, folk, and indie rock, Lloyd’s sound combines the traditional, rooted sounds of her West Virginia upbringing with the fly-by-the-seat-of-your-pants exhilaration of her current life. She is inspired by the electric heartbeat of New York City, the peaceful quiet of her small hometown and the rich moments of life on the road in between.

Over the course of her first two full-length releases as Half Gringa, Chicago-based singer, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter Isabel Olive has demonstrated stunning emotional intelligence and songwriting elegance. Her 2025 full-length release, Cosmovisión, captures Olive at her most self-possessed, addressing “mythology, mortality, and everything in between.” Indeed, Half Gringa seems to revel in addressing what cannot be grasped or expressed so easily. She commonly switches between English and Spanish in her songs. It’s a tribute –– as is the band name –– to her upbringing by a Venezuelan mother and an American father in a Midwestern town. This record is distinctly Half Gringa because it is only Olive who stands in front of these particular ancestors, who wields this particular perspective and experience, this particular “cosmovisión.”

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Courtney O'Donnell is on a mission to figure out what she’s good at. From therapist to waitress to flight attendant, she’ll try them all — live on stage — with a little help from the audience. But as her world spins out of control, it becomes clear that Planet Courtney isn’t just a chaotic job hunt — it’s a whole world built to avoid the one thing she’s always wanted to do.

ABOUT COURTNEY

Courtney O’Donnell is a comedian, writer, and award-winning social creative.

As a comedian, she hosted sold out shows at venues across the country such as Dynasty Typewriter, The Elysian, Union Hall, and Club Cumming. Her solo show “Planet Courtney” is featured in this year New York Comedy Festival. Her short film “Going Pop!”, which she wrote and stars in, will debut in 2025.

As a social creative, she’s been widely recognized for shaping brands’ voices through humorous content. Most notably, she was the force behind McDonald’s social at Wieden+Kennedy from ‘20-’24. Other brands she’s worked on include: YouTube, Panera, BudLight, Google Maps, and Coffee Mate.

Courtney is currently freelance and based in Los Angeles, where she regularly spends $22 on smoothies.

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Ever since the release of their critically acclaimed debut album, The Real Truth, Maximiano’s music has reached indie, folk, and americana scenes all across the country. The Milwaukee, WI based singer, songwriter, producer, engineer, and multi-instrumentalist toured extensively in support of The Real Truth, which The Milwaukee Journal Sentinel named the 3rd Best Album of 2024, calling it “one of the most piercing and emotionally resonant collections of songs… a towering artistic achievement.”

Maximiano performed 107 shows in 28 cities across 15 states in 2025 while still finding time to produce, mix, and collaborate with 30 artists and bands. In the midst of this hard work, Maximiano had a brief period of rest when their former professor asked them to dog sit in the Hudson Valley region of New York. During that ten day span Maximiano wrote their new album, Rokeby, named for the area that inspired the songs..

Rokeby, which Maximiano wrote, produced, arranged, recorded, and mixed, expands upon the lush production of The Real Truth in its first half before refocusing around the raw intimacy of performance in the stripped back second half. Every song on the album, no matter the production style, is driven by Maximiano’s trademark songwriting style: “honest, vulnerable, and altogether beautiful,” (Milwaukee Record).

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Honestly Same is an amplified acoustic and synthetic quintet that improvises patient and contemplative music. The sound worlds breathe, loop, iterate, layer. Honestly Same finds inspiration in insect and frog calls, resonant harmonies, and the blue light of a neighbor's TV.

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Sylvia Ivy grew up Portland but today records and gigs in Chicago, weaving influences like Elliot Smith and Big Thief into moth-bitten yet living songs—songs of intimacy, recovery and transition. In them chasms open, flight patterns buzz, banquets are held and road trips start and end. Like the margin filled sprawl of a xeroxed journal, Sylvia’s music is a scratchy, needle-nosed slate of personal mythology. ‘What is this perfect mess?’ she asks on “Anonymous”.

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.

The Knife Kickers (solo) are on tour from Connecticut promoting “an acoustic album” out on Redscroll Records in early Spring

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Last Call Honky Tonk is Judson & Moore's late night two step party. Every month catch a rotating local band play and the bar serves a cheap beer & shot combo for the late night affair. Dance right up until you hear your bartenders yell last call!

Happy birthday Jim!

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The tenured music professional with 36 full-length records, Jim Lauderdale has been described as "stylistically restless". He's been at the cutting edge of where Americana has been headed since the 90s jumping from rock and country straight into a bluegrass album with thee Dr. Ralph Stanley and writing hits for the likes of George Strait, Patty Loveless, and George Jones. He'll be in town with his Nashville all-star band the Game Changers tonight.

We don't expect anything less than wild stories, wild antics, and a good time from one of our favorites, Jim Lauderdale.

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Jonathan van Halem is a stand-up comedian based out of New York City. Jonathan currently works at The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon, and previously worked at Stephen Colbert Presents Tooning Out The News. He’s also served as a contributor to the parody website Clickhole. 

Known for his observational comedy and relatable style, Jonathan has worked as a frequent opener for comedians such as David Cross, Rory Scovel, Gianmarco Soresi, Kyle Gordon, and Sabrina Wu. He hosts a popular monthly show at Union Hall in Brooklyn called Hot Gossip, which has been featured in The New York Times and Brooklyn Magazine. 

Jonathan has achieved significant success online, with clips routinely garnering millions of views on Instagram and TikTok. His rant against AMC A-List was named one of Vulture’s Best Comedy Shorts of June 2024. He also made this fun, semi-viral video about Chappell Roan. 

When he’s not doing comedy, he’s patiently waiting for the New York Mets to win the World Series. His favorite Family Guy character is Stewie. 

Daytime Event

New from Color Club & CIVL Fest is the GREEN Expo! This event aims to empower artists and strengthen the music community through resource sharing. During the day musicians and fans can connect within the larger Chicago community and break down barriers created by knowledge gatekeeping.

In the Color Club Ballroom, the Expo will feature tables from organizations integral to the wider live music community, such as labels, booking agencies, city arts orgs, marketing professionals, and PR companies, all sharing their role within the community.

In smaller spaces throughout the building, there will be opportunities to attend more intimate breakout sessions, workshops, and panels. Connect with professionals and experts on topics ranging from starting a band to navigating the current, tumultuous environment of the contemporary album cycle.

Color Club's monthly showcase GREEN, which inspired the EXPO, will continue that evening to closeout the event. GREEN programming spotlights up-and-coming talent in partnership with Columbia College and is made possible by the Music In Action grant from Live Music Society.

Expo details will be updated here and announced via Instagram soon! RSVP now to save your spot.

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GTC is a Bad mofo. He makes Tex-Mex rock n’ roll and cowboy kraut with his band NASA Country. He is San Antonio’s resident cosmic country, gonzo honky tonk, weirdo freak and a national treasure in Holland. He is a fun dude and if you see him live you will have a good time, "foo."

Bobby Conn has been playing pick 'n' mix with genres and delivering messages of politics, hope, despair, revolution and bullshit in his quasi-falsetto since the early Nineties. All this whilst dressed in glitter, eyeliner and high heels that would these days rival Nicky Wire.

Bobby Conn is a vocalist, songwriter, and performance artist working in Chicago, IL. He came out of the Chicago “No­Wave” noise and performance scene in the mid­90’s but quickly developed a reputation for extravagantly excessive performances, satirically political lyrics, and experimental, soul­based art rock.

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Matt Gold and Dustin Laurenzi present Devotional Fade, a collaborative record of electroacoustic rhythmic improvisations – equal parts meditation and dance, released on We Jazz Records, 24th April. Laurenzi and Gold, key collaborators in the Chicago creative scene and with genre spanning artists such as Bill Callahan and Makaya McCraven, step forward here with a major artistic statement, a product of extended improv sessions capturing the duo’s hypnotic interplay. This is the sound of two of Chicago’s most vibrant instrumental voices listening deeply, communing in sound.

Recorded in Laurenzi’s attic studio, Devotional Fade emerged from a series of weekly sessions over the course of a single month. The duo kept the tape rolling continuously each day and selected a number of immersive sonic worlds to present, oscillating between patient, sacred minimalism and wild, dancefloor-worthy combustion.

Lane Beckstrom is a producer and multi-instrumentalist based in Chicago, IL. Lane works in a variety of genres with projects such as Resavoir, Sam Evian, Hannah Cohen, Knox Fortune, Liam Kazar and others. Lane's forthcoming solo project is an exploration of ambient electronic music.

EARLY: doors at 6:30pm, show at 7:00pm

LATE: doors at 9:00pm, show at 9:30pm

Certified big dawgs Emma Dalenberg and Sunny Laprade are two of the funniest, freakiest, queer comedians New York City has to offer, and they’re also best friends! They are coming together to bring nonstop laughs and feral stories on this unforgettable double-headlining tour.

Emma Dalenberg is a NYC-based, Minnesota-born stand-up comic, writer, and actor. Since getting on stage and performing stand up comedy for the first time at age 19, Emma has developed a style that blends good vibes with controlled chaos—balancing sincerity with subversion, nostalgia with futurism—all delivered through a sweet charm and a genuine desire to connect with audiences of every background. She performs regularly at internationally recognized clubs including The Stand NYC, Laugh Factory Chicago, Acme Comedy Club in Minneapolis, and The Wall in Berlin. Her viral stand-up and sketch clips have earned her a devoted Instagram following of over 75k, helping her emerge as a distinct voice with global reach. In 2024, Emma was featured on the LMAOF TV Comedian Highlight Series, won Best of Fest at the Portland Comedy Festival, and completed her first work-in-progress solo tour across 14 cities in Europe and the USA. In 2025, she opened Daniel Sloss’ residency at the Soho Playhouse in NYC, joined Reggie Watts on his Europe tour at Soho Theater London and Berghain Berlin, debuted the newest version of her solo show, Freak, Pray, Love, in NYC, Berlin, and Istanbul, and made her playwriting and acting debut at the New York Comedy Festival with Woke Woke West: The Musical, which sold out its two-night premiere.

Raised in Western NY, Sunny Laprade is a NYC based standup comedian, storyteller, writer, producer, and director who has been featured on MTV and amassed over 15 million likes and 240,000 followers on TikTok alone. With over a quarter of a million followers combined across all platforms, she was at one point the second most followed trans woman standup comic in the world. Sunny performed her first hour of comedy at Alfred University in 2017 at just 17 years old. She is the current host and producer of T4T Comedy, a monthly all-transgender comedy show, which sold out the Bell House in June 2025 and was the largest live all transgender comedy show of all time. Her first 75 minute comedy special, Queer Enough, which she wrote, performed, and produced, ran for two nights to sold out audiences and was released to the public on YouTube in 2022. It was named one of 6 Queer Comedy Specials That Will Restore Your Faith in the Craft by Autostraddle. Her story F It, We Ball won the Moth GrandSLAM at the Music Hall of Williamsburg in 2024, and a short film based off of that story is currently in post-production. Laprade was a staff writer for Late Stage Live, and is currently a staff writer for Going Down with Ella Yurman. She has been featured as part of New York Comedy Festival, and performs all over the country!

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LATE: doors at 9:00pm, show at 9:30pm

Jaboukie Young-White is a comedian, writer, filmmaker, and musician from Chicago who was a correspondent on THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH. Named one of Variety's 10 Comics to Watch at the 2018 Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival, Jaboukie has performed stand up twice on THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON and debuted his half-hour comedy special on COMEDY CENTRAL STAND-UP PRESENTS. Jaboukie’s writing credits include Netflix’s AMERICAN VANDAL and BIG MOUTH. He can be seen in the last season of HBO’s CRASHING, recurring in the Hulu series ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING, recurring in the HBO Max series RAP SH!T, produced by Issa Rae, and as a guest star of Netflix’s BLACK MIRROR. On the feature side, you can see him in the A24 produced Mike Mills feature C'MON, C'MON opposite Joaquin Phoenix, Sony’s ROUGH NIGHT directed by Lucia Aniello, Netflix’s SET IT UP directed by Claire Scanlon, SOMEONE GREAT directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, and as the lead in the film DATING & NEW YORK, released by IFC Films. Jaboukie also voices the lead roles of "Truman" in the animated series FAIRFAX on Amazon, and the role of “Ethan” in Disney’s STRANGE WORLD. Most recently, Jaboukie can be seen in THE THREESOME, directed by Chad Hartigan, which just premiered at SXSW 2025 and the Warner Brothers feature film, COMPANION, directed by Drew Hancock, now streaming. Jaboukie’s musical debut, All Who Can’t Hear Must Feel, was released through Interscope records in 2023. He currently recurs on ABC’s ABBOTT ELEMENTARY.

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CHUCK MEAD is a Country singer with a rock n roll heart. He’s also a renowned songwriter, producer, music director, musicologist and architect behind the rebirth of Lower Broadway and the Global Neo Traditional Country music movement.

This Kansas native, has been at the forefront of what has come to be known as Americana Music for the better part of 25 years. Perhaps best known for cofounding the famed ‘90s Alternative Country quintet, BR5-49, whos 7 albums garnered a CMA Award for Best International Touring Act and three Grammy nominations, helped build an indelible bridge between authentic American Roots music and millions of fans worldwide.

LAID BACK COUNTRY PICKER and Honey are the Hillbilly Power Duo. Picking up where the White Stripes left off, they deliver a blistering show, equal parts 70s Guitar Rock, Honky Tonk and Country Punk. They have toured internationally, opening for the likes of Deep Purple as well as playing festivals and clubs across the US. Blurring the lines with wit, humor and hot picking, LB is his own genre.

Imagine Waylon Jennings sitting in with Motorhead.

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Jaboukie Young-White is a comedian, writer, filmmaker, and musician from Chicago who was a correspondent on THE DAILY SHOW WITH TREVOR NOAH. Named one of Variety's 10 Comics to Watch at the 2018 Just for Laughs Montreal Comedy Festival, Jaboukie has performed stand up twice on THE TONIGHT SHOW STARRING JIMMY FALLON and debuted his half-hour comedy special on COMEDY CENTRAL STAND-UP PRESENTS. Jaboukie’s writing credits include Netflix’s AMERICAN VANDAL and BIG MOUTH. He can be seen in the last season of HBO’s CRASHING, recurring in the Hulu series ONLY MURDERS IN THE BUILDING, recurring in the HBO Max series RAP SH!T, produced by Issa Rae, and as a guest star of Netflix’s BLACK MIRROR. On the feature side, you can see him in the A24 produced Mike Mills feature C'MON, C'MON opposite Joaquin Phoenix, Sony’s ROUGH NIGHT directed by Lucia Aniello, Netflix’s SET IT UP directed by Claire Scanlon, SOMEONE GREAT directed by Jennifer Kaytin Robinson, and as the lead in the film DATING & NEW YORK, released by IFC Films. Jaboukie also voices the lead roles of "Truman" in the animated series FAIRFAX on Amazon, and the role of “Ethan” in Disney’s STRANGE WORLD. Most recently, Jaboukie can be seen in THE THREESOME, directed by Chad Hartigan, which just premiered at SXSW 2025 and the Warner Brothers feature film, COMPANION, directed by Drew Hancock, now streaming. Jaboukie’s musical debut, All Who Can’t Hear Must Feel, was released through Interscope records in 2023. He currently recurs on ABC’s ABBOTT ELEMENTARY.

Doors at 8:30pm, show at 9:00pm

Mama’s Broke have spent over a decade in a near-constant state of transience, pounding the transatlantic tour trail. They've brought their dark, fiery folk-without-borders sound to major festivals and DIY punk houses alike, absorbing traditions from their maritime home in Eastern Canada all the way to Ireland and Indonesia. Nowhere is the duo's art-in-motion approach more apparent than on their long-awaited JUNO-nominated sophomore record Narrow Line (released May 2022 on Free Dirt Records) It's the sound of nowhere in particular, yet woven with a rich synthesis of influences that knows no borders.

The eleven songs on Narrow Line burrow deeply, with close harmony duets, commanding vocals, and poignant contemplations on cycles of life, including birth and death. Tinges of Americana stand side-by-side with the ghosts of Eastern European fiddle tunes and ancient a cappella ballad singing, melding into an unusually accessible dark-folk sound. A careful listen of Narrow Line invokes an ephemeral sense of place—whether real or imagined—inviting us to take comfort in the infinite possibilities of life, whether or not we ever choose to settle down.

For a group defined by constant touring, it’s not surprising that the two artists that make up Mama’s Broke, Lisa Maria and Amy Lou Keeler, met on the road. Both coming out of travelling communities that are focused on music and protest, the two owe the way in which they move through the world to the integrated and self-sustaining nature of DIY culture and activism. It was a busy life that took them on a roundabout annual touring schedule running between Canada, the United States, Ireland, the UK, and Europe.

The driving force behind this band is – and has always been – the commitment to challenge borders between people, places, and traditions; while encouraging freedom of expression and community through music.

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John Andrews has spent the past few years tucked away in Red Hook, Brooklyn - a neighborhood that sits just beyond the natural drift of the city. Once shaped by maritime industry and later a haven for artists in search of vast warehouse space, its history and isolation give it a quiet magnetism. Streetsweeper, the fifth album by John Andrews & The Yawns, reflects that vantage point-tranquil, self-contained, and curious about the movements most people overlook.

Just a few cobblestone blocks from the freight-ship-lined harbor, Andrews wrote dozens of new songs at his electric piano. Nine of them found their way to Los Angeles to be recorded with Luke Temple, who played guitar and some bass. Drummer Noah Bond and bassist Kevin Louis Lareau, both longtime members of The Yawns and Cut Worms, form the rhythm section. Will Henriksen of Florry played fiddle on “Something To Be Said,” while Emily Moales of Star Moles sang harmonies recorded remotely by Kevin Basko at Historic New Jersey.

Smushie is the solo effort and childhood nickname of songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Austin Koenigstein. A New Yorker by origin, Koenigstein moved to Chicago in 2019, where he has since distinguished himself with a volcanic live act and a torrent of self-produced material. Smushie’s music strikes at conventions of genre and tribe, at once casting an R&B pocket against wailing CBGB vocals, at any given show transforming folk numbers into pounding four-on-the-floor booty-busters, with the aid of searing guitar lines and a towering rhythm section. Rich in both humor and urgency, his songs leap into confrontation, touching on class divides, loss of innocence, bad-faith clowns, surreal landscapes, and the nuclear potential of a good time. His shows are, above all, fun. In 2023, Smushie released his debut album, Doofus Casanova, quickly following it up with two EPs and a collaborative LP. His sophomore solo full-length record is slated for release in early 2025.

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Billy Fortune Unit is on tour from Cinncinatti and plays bluegrass. Joined by local indie artists Westhead and Poolish.

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Sabrina Wu is a New York based actor, writer, and stand-up comedian. They made their feature film debut in the Lionsgate comedy JOY RIDE, from executive producers Seth Rogen and Evan Goldberg and director Adele Lim. They’ve also guest starred in ABBOTT ELEMENTARY, and you can soon watch them as a series regular in the upcoming show MURDERBOT starring Alexander Skarsgard on Apple TV+.

Wu was a writer on the critically-acclaimed FX limited series DYING FOR SEX starring Michelle Williams and Jenny Slate.

On the stand-up side, they were selected as one of the New Faces of Comedy by the Just For Laughs Festival in 2022. Later that fall, they had their TV debut doing stand up on the Tonight Show. Variety Magazine named Wu one of the Top 10 Comics to Watch in 2023. In the same year, Vulture Magazine named Wu a Comedian You Should Know and Will now.

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Deanna Ortiz’s Funny Slut is a show that blends stand-up, dating horror stories, and multimedia to examine my time working in social media for the adult entertainment industry, a job that turned out to be equal parts content strategy, crisis management, and surprisingly… therapy.

A three-time Chicago Reader “Best Standup” winner and one of Time Out’s 2025 Comics to Watch, Deanna Ortiz has recently performed the show at Zanies Chicago, Madison Comedy Festival, and The Lincoln Lodge, where it has received an incredible response from audiences who connected to her mix of outrageous workplace stories and vulnerable revelations.

Throughout Funny Slut, Ortiz explores not only what it's like to write obscenities in a brand-safe tone, but also how watching this content made her a more body-positive, confident, and fearless person. While she definitely leans into the absurdity of the job, Funny Slut ultimately is a show about self-worth and finding female empowerment in the least expected places.

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A night of alt-country in Avondale.

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Long-time friends and collaborators Emily Mann and Wila Frank, known together as Paper Wings, dream up warm, pastoral folk songs furnished with delicate banjo and spellbinding harmonies so close you often can’t tell their voices apart. On their latest project, Listen to the World Spin, the Nashville duo’s songwriting flourishes, displaying their exceptional ability to reference nostalgic sounds of American folk music while maintaining their own compelling style of artful and unpretentious lyricism. Embracing themes of solitude, nature, and passage through time and space, Listen to the World Spin is a beautiful exploration of how we are never alone in our search for meaning and certainty in difficult times. “We needed these songs to guide and comfort us through the last few years,” says Frank, “And we hope they’ll do the same for others.” Listen to the World Spin was released on March 15th, 2024 with support from Free Dirt Records.

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LizaBanks Campagna is a stand-up comedian and tour guide, building an entirely new lane in the creator economy, one where comedy, culture, and civic curiosity collide.

LizaBanks has applied her comedic instincts to an unexpected arena, tourism and cultural education. As a New York City tour guide leading sold out experiences at The Metropolitan Museum of Art and Grand Central Terminal, she has transformed traditional sightseeing into immersive, personality driven storytelling. Online, LizaBanks extends that same sensibility through content that blends humor, historical context, and sharp social observation. In 2025, she expanded her platform into civic conversation, interviewing political figures including Zohran Mamdani and engaging audiences around issues like public transit and accessibility with clarity and curiosity. She frequently collaborates with Overheard, including hosting its Happy Hour series, and facilitating red carpet interviews.

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Back in 2023, bassist Peter Kerlin (Sunwatchers, Chris Forsyth Solar Motel Band, Bent Arcana, Everloving) and drummer Rob Smith (Gray/Smith, Rhyton, Pigeons) ritualistically burnt their passports, ate the ashes, and began conspiring together under the new guise of Animal, Surrender!

Kerlin's spidery and melodious playing on his 8-string electric bass expands the expected language of that instrument into terrain more often inhabited by lutes or pianos, and begs to interweave with a drummer who slyly punctuates and propels against the grain. The duo's often wordless music is spun from threads of lost folksongs and polyrhythms into hypnotic, latticework compositions, melodies and beats shifting like cat's-cradles strung between their constantly moving hands.

Their eponymous debut on Ernest Jenning Record Co. in 2024 found haunting covers of Nick Drake and Mike Wexler lurking in a tangle of lean, progressive compositions crafted with the terse economy of post-rock but a pastoral, kaleidoscopic vision in its eyes.

Their forthcoming album, A Boot for Every Bane (2025 EJRC), builds upon the incantatory language of the first while inviting the mercurial talents and instincts of pipe organist Curt Sydnor (Greg Saunier, Yonatan Gat, Peni Candra Rini) into the magick circle.

From historic St. John's Church in Richmond, VA where Patrick Henry challenged the young nation to give him liberty or give him death, Sydnor's organ breathes charged air to help the group coax out troubled spirits buried deep in the American dirt for a spiritual reckoning. Along with many new compositions that advance their original cause, they resurrect and reanimate several old American standards: the seductive and sub-tropical Poinciana made famous by Ahmad Jamal's trio, and the untraceable river song Shenandoah, known from deep renditions by Belafonte, Dylan, and Tony Rice to name but a few.

When the animal catches its own distorted reflection in the rolling river, what is left to do but surrender to the song?