Mama's Broke: Analogue Tour
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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Westhead, Billy Fortune Unit [OH], Poolish
Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm
Billy Fortune Unit is on tour from Cinncinatti and plays bluegrass. Joined by local indie artists Westhead and Poolish.
Kristina Murray
Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm
Georgia-bred, Nashville-based artist Kristina Murray plays Americana and country music rooted and steeped in troubadour storytelling and southern-rock grit.
Kristina currently lives in Nashville, active in the independent country and Americana music scene. One listen and you’ll believe every word that drips from her honky-tonk hewn, yet honeyed vocal style.
Her new album Little Blue is out now on Normaltown Records
BOOTLEG: Greatest Hits
Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm
Local Universe presents a new character showcase: BOOTLEG hosted by Kerry Stevens. Comedians, musicians, and performers are given a choice of pop-culture icons to rip-off LIVE at Color Club.
"GREATEST HITS" Line-up: Liska as "Gwen Stefani", Carly Schirber as "Robin Williams", Jacob Crow as "Gweneth Paltrow", Lou Bisio as "George Washington", and Ashlyn Quintus as "Cher".
Will Orchard, Adelaide
Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm
Will Orchard is a Nashville-via-New England based indie-folk artist. He has made a name for himself as both a deeply emotive and disarming songwriter, and a relentless DIY troubadour. His music has taken him on tour around the US and Europe more times than he can count, often with his partner & fellow songwriter Jess Kerber. His latest record, Behind The Shadow Glass, was lauded by many indie outlets, including Atwood Magazine, who praised his “poetic introspection, stirring melodies, and earnest, open-hearted spirit”. In 2026, he looks forward to continued tour dates around the US and Europe, and a new record on the horizon.
Swappin’ Boots
feat. Full Spectrum Bluegrass
Lessons at 8:00pm, dancing at 9:00pm
Local Universe presents the queer two-step night that's taken the city by storm! Come by and dance to live music every month!
Pull out that vintage cowboy hat, shine up that bespoke bolo, and come pardner-up to dance with someone new and hang with fellow country-queers. There's a grand prize for the best dressed, and even a little something for the runner up! Channel Dolly and Orville and come dressed to impress.
If you need a bit of liquid courage, Judson & Moore's house distilled spirits and handmade cocktails will be available from the bar.
Lone Rock Bride, The Part Timers, Henry True
Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm
A night of alt-country in Avondale.
Paper Wings
Doors at 8:30pm, show at 9:00pm
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.
Charlie & Richard: Secret Project
Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7:00pm
There’s no way around it: New York comedians Charlie Bardey and Richard Perez are Up To Something. After having spent years crafting a shared absurd comic sensibility — Charlie directed Richard’s hit one-person show “I Have To Do This,” the two made the Eternal Family short film “Ha Birthday” — Charlie and Richard are ready to share their new Secret Project with the world. A mix of crowd-work, sketch, self-help, and shared hallucination, Charlie and Richard: Secret Project spirits you into a world like no other.
Charlie Bardey is a writer and comedian born and raised in NYC. He hosts the popular podcast Exploration: LIVE! and was named one of Vulture Magazine’s “Comedians You Should and Will Know” in 2023.
Richard Perez is a comedian, actor and writer based in Brooklyn, NY. He has a solo show called “I Have To Do This” directed by Charlie Bardey. Named one of Vulture’s “Comedians You Should And Will Know in 2023,” Perez has appeared in various film and television projects such as “The Moment” (A24), Adults (FX), The Tonight Show with Jimmy Fallon (NBC) and more.
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MV Wells [Album Release Show]
with Molly Carberry, Blue Earth Sound DJs
Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm
Chicago’s MV Wells steps out front with Le Dauphin, his debut solo album, arriving May 29, a sharp, melody-first mix of indie rock, orchestral pop, and singer-songwriter craft that leans as much on Harry Nilsson and Burt Bacharach as it does the left-field pop instincts of Electric Light Orchestra and early solo John Lennon. After a decade embedded in the city’s indie circuit, from the scrappy hooks of NE-HI to the synth-leaning detours of Spun Out, Wells pivots toward something more deliberate here. The edges are still there, but the focus sharpens. This is a songwriter’s record, built on melody first, with a deep pull toward classic pop structure and a refusal to sand down its weirder instincts.
Andrew Sa “American Rough” Album Release
Doors at 8:00pm, show at 8:30pm
Andrew Sa steps confidently into the spotlight with his debut album American Rough, out on June 26 via Bloodshot Records. After growing up in the Bay learning to sing along to classic country hits, Sa eventually moved to Chicago to further his songwriting education through a class at the Old Town School of Folk Music, and went on to meet the collaborators that shaped his musical career in Chicago for the years to come: Liam Kazar and Sully Davis. It was Davis who first invited Sa to open for the legendary queer country band Lavender Country at The Hideout and also tapped him for the brilliantly campy music revue Cosmic Country Showcase, started by Davis and Dorian Gehring in 2018. It was largely through Cosmic Country that Sa became a sought-after voice in Chicago’s independent music scene, enveloping audiences with his signature, siren-like croon and delectable charm. Sa’s ever-evolving relationships with his collaborators, the city of Chicago, and his own songwritership paved the way for this impressive debut. Produced by North Carolina-based H.C. McEntire, American Rough is an intimate, aching, sweet-toned showcase of country-colored indie-folk songs that serve as a cinematic portal into Sa’s relationships with men, the city, and his own pulsing heart. Across its 10 sparkling tracks, we find Sa navigating the complicated dance of masculinity as it’s brought to its most tenuous limits. Sa’s evocative poetry and hypnotic, sultry, lilt captivate and charm, held together throughout by McEntire’s pristine and resplendent musical production recalling Roy Orbison, Randy Newman, Waylon Jennings, and the Everly Brothers. In the world of American Rough, men hold each other close and sway along to the radio. Rugged voices coo, sunlight filters through half-opened windows, hard bodies find each other in the dark and soften, dreams linger, springs bloom taunts. By album closer “Fightin to be Fightin”, we feel the complicated weight of masculinity’s sour burden, but still trust in Sa’s vision of a gentler kind of manhood.
Andrew Sa “American Rough” Album Release
Doors at 7:00pm, show at 8:00pm
Andrew Sa steps confidently into the spotlight with his debut album American Rough, out on June 26 via Bloodshot Records. After growing up in the Bay learning to sing along to classic country hits, Sa eventually moved to Chicago to further his songwriting education through a class at the Old Town School of Folk Music, and went on to meet the collaborators that shaped his musical career in Chicago for the years to come: Liam Kazar and Sully Davis. It was Davis who first invited Sa to open for the legendary queer country band Lavender Country at The Hideout and also tapped him for the brilliantly campy music revue Cosmic Country Showcase, started by Davis and Dorian Gehring in 2018. It was largely through Cosmic Country that Sa became a sought-after voice in Chicago’s independent music scene, enveloping audiences with his signature, siren-like croon and delectable charm. Sa’s ever-evolving relationships with his collaborators, the city of Chicago, and his own songwritership paved the way for this impressive debut. Produced by North Carolina-based H.C. McEntire, American Rough is an intimate, aching, sweet-toned showcase of country-colored indie-folk songs that serve as a cinematic portal into Sa’s relationships with men, the city, and his own pulsing heart. Across its 10 sparkling tracks, we find Sa navigating the complicated dance of masculinity as it’s brought to its most tenuous limits. Sa’s evocative poetry and hypnotic, sultry, lilt captivate and charm, held together throughout by McEntire’s pristine and resplendent musical production recalling Roy Orbison, Randy Newman, Waylon Jennings, and the Everly Brothers. In the world of American Rough, men hold each other close and sway along to the radio. Rugged voices coo, sunlight filters through half-opened windows, hard bodies find each other in the dark and soften, dreams linger, springs bloom taunts. By album closer “Fightin to be Fightin”, we feel the complicated weight of masculinity’s sour burden, but still trust in Sa’s vision of a gentler kind of manhood.
Zander Raymond, Schmitt/Hatcher/Raymond
Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm
Zander Raymond, Eli Schmitt, Garrett Hatcher, and Zander Raymond
Hogget Hour
Show starts at 8:00pm | BYOB Donations welcome!
Local Universe and Sheep Cult Comics presents Hogget Hour; A whimsical hour of comedy and visual chaos. Join the cult on April 29th at 8:00pm for a night of hilarious weirdness and educational perspectives. A baby sheep like you might even grow into a full sized adult- if you follow directions carefully. Donations are welcome and it’s BYOB. Featuring Brigid Broderick, Mina Bond, Jerwin Gabriel Santiago, Nathan Hatchfield, Sam Rocha, Finn Allen, and Emma Day. Poster design by Maddy Angstreich.
Tear Joint
Night Starts at 8:00pm, mini sets at 9:00pm and 10:00pm
It may seem like these feelings will never end, but DJ Gutterball is hosting the last night of sad country 45s at Sportsman’s April 26th. On this last lonely evening two voices will pluck heartstrings enough for them to finally break: Quarter Mile Thunder and Lillian King bring live mini sets to the front bar. Drink specials from Judson & Moore and Apologue Liquors all night long.
Chuck Mead & Laid Back Country Picker
Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm
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.
Matt Gold & Dustin Laurenzi, Lane Beckstrom
Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm
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.
Garrett T. Capps, Bobby Conn, Shy Bronco
Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm
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.
GREEN Community Expo
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.
Jonathan van Halem
Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7:00pm [early]
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.
Jim Lauderdale & The Gamechangers
Happy birthday Jim!
Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm
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.
Last Call Honky Tonk with Toadvine
Doors at 8:30pm, show at 9:00pm
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!
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Sylvia Ivy, Modern Cults, The Knife Kickers [CT]
Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm
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
Honestly Same
Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm
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.
Maximiano, Ava Brennan, Caley Conway
Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm
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).
Planet Courtney
Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7:00pm [early]
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.
Olivia Ellen Lloyd, Half Gringa
Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm
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.”
Fool's Country
Dancing starts at 9pm
An all vinyl two-step dance party with Ricki Free & DJ Gutterball.
Zander Raymond, Ro Lundberg + Caroline Jesalva
Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm
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.
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Olivia & The Lovers [EP Release], The Devil Said Jump
Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm
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.
Tear Joint
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.
Lefty Parker, Blue Ranger, Conor Lynch
Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm
Folk artists Lefty Parker & Blue Ranger share a weekend residency at Color Club.
Lefty Parker, Blue Ranger, Sleepers Bell
Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm
Folk artists Lefty Parker & Blue Ranger share a weekend residency at Color Club.
DD Island, Carriers, Jessica Risker
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.
Sweetie
Doors at 7:00pm, show at 7:30pm
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
Julia Blair, Jake Prizant, Chris Coleslaw
Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm
Julia Blair was born of this world as a force to smother the disquieting agents of despair- and as a gentle soul that no-less employs her mighty voice to speak truth to power. Those who know her personally know this, and those who have heard her sing know this as well. On her debut solo album for Crutch of Memory Enterprises, Better Out Than In, Julia proclaims her fondness for self-expression and demonstrates her aptitude for dynamics: from the explosive nature of a pop hook to the firm, comforting grip of a lullaby. She does so at-times anecdotally, while utilizing the marriage of sophisticated arrangements and plain-spoken lyrical language.
Jake Prizant is a comedian known for his character work and is balloon artistry. He also appeared in Deli Boys on Hulu for a bit as well.
Chris Coleslaw (Tobacco City) turns his wit and humor into more Crazy Horse-esque rippers with his solo project.
Spike Einbinder & Honey Pluton
Doors at 6:30pm, show at 7:00pm [early]
Doors at 9:00pm, show at 9:30pm [late]
Spike Einbinder is a comedian, actor, writer, drag performer and 6,000 year old shapeshifting demon from Los Angeles. His work combines body horror, surrealism and dark comedy. He has featured roles in HBO's "Los Espookys", as well as A24's "You Hurt My Feelings" and "Problemista". He has performed his live solo comedy hours "Visions" and “I’m Not Scared & I’m Not Insane” to sold-out crowds.
Honey Pluton is a stand-up comedian and theatrical performer with 8 years of experience spanning stage, film and screen. He is a mutable and dynamic artistic spirit that prioritizes a DIY ethos, anarchic politic and lateral collaboration. He’s creatively inspired by disruption, risk-taking, and the liminal thresholds that blur states of consciousness. He is nationally touring his solo show ‘I’ve Always Been Like This’ to sold out crowds across the country and is also host of the weekly podcast ‘Up Good with Honey Pluton’
Last Call Honky Tonk
feat. Rachel Swain
Doors at 8:30pm, show at 9:00pm
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!
Welcome to the Show hosted by Derek Bish
Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm
Derek Bish hosts a free night of interviews with Chicagoans of note.
Sam Wenc, Plathemis Trio
Doors at 7:30pm, show at 8:00pm
Sam Wenc is a composer, improviser, and interdisciplinary artist working with sound, text, performance and installation. He has released music on Longform Editions, Where to Now, Moone Records, Noumenal Loom, Sweet Wreath, and Obsolete Staircases, amongst others. His work has been supported by Elektronmusikstudion (Stockholm, Sweden), Art OMI (Ghent, NY), Foundation for Contemporary Arts and has performed throughout the US, Canada, Peru, and Japan.
He is one-half of Lobby Art Editions, a record label that highlights and releases works by artists exploring boundaries of genre and media. He manages Mississippi Records, an independent archival record label that has been releasing music by overlooked artists for nearly 20 years.
The Plathemis Trio is a Chicago-based ambient music group featuring Sarah Clausen, Jordan Martins, and Zander Raymond. They are known for performing improvised, atmospheric instrumental music.
Cosmic Country Showcase feat. Jonny Fritz
Hosted by Andrew Sa & Mary Williamson, also featuring Sabine McCalla The Flying Objects
Doors at 7:00pm, show at 8:00pm
Cosmic Country Showcase is the cult-hit otherworldly country revue. Based in Chicago, the show brings top notch Americana crooners, pickers, and performers alongside a wild mix of drag, outrageous comedy, and stunts that make it a one-of-a-kind variety show. Starting in 2018, the showcase has had talent from an entire universe of genres that it fits into its country galaxy including Sam Evian & Hannah Cohen, Jeff Tweedy, Lizzie No, Tasha, BNNY, Cassandra Jenkins, Nikki Diamonds, Garrett T Capps & NASA Country, Esther Rose and so many more.
Hosting the show is the celestial Andrew Sa, an undeniable talent with a vocal range that will take us into the stratosphere. Co-hosting is the Queen of Chaos Mary Williamson. Williamson is a resident clown and performer bringing to life original characters as well as singing and leading a few tunes herself. The night features house band The Flying Objects that back all the special guests & hosts.