Schedule of Events:
7:00PM: Skyler Higley - Color Club
Skyler Higley is a stand-up comedian and WGA-award winning writer who started in Chicago’s legendary stand up scene. Skyler’s razor-sharp writing has been honed from contributing positions at ClickHole and the New Yorker, as well as staff writing gigs at The Onion, CONAN and currently After Midnight with Taylor Tomlinson. Skyler was one of the Just For Laughs Festival’s New Faces in 2022, has appeared on Comedy Central, and was recently featured in Vulture’s list of Comedians You Should Know. Skyler’s unique style was described by his former boss Conan O'Brien as 'delightfully bizarre and undeniably hilarious.'
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Doors open: 6:30PM
Cost: $15.00
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7:00PM: Oddly Satisfying: Ky Newman & atlgrandma W/ Underscores (DJ SET) & Hafsa ged- lincoln hall
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7:00PM: Lutalo w/ runo plum & SLeeper’s Bell- Schubas
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9:00PM: Parker Callahan: Soda Pop - Color Club
Parker Callahan is a comedian whose blend of humor and music has culminated in his solo show, Soda Pop. He was recognized at 2023 Just For Laughs Festival New Face of comedy, has toured the world as a Second City touring player, and his stupid little videos have gone viral online despite their gay overtones. He's opened for Paul F Tompkins and Sam Taggert, and recently performed at the New York Comedy Festival alongside collaborator Maggie Winters (aka Chicago's Comedy Queen.) You can follow him on all platforms at @parkthelark
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8:30PM: Linda Sol - Gman Tavern
Linda Sol (EP Release Show)
21 & Over. Valid State or Federal ID required for entry
Doors open at 7:30PM
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8:00PM: Cosmic Country Showcase Featuring Cactus Lee- Judson & Moore
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8:00PM: Half Waif w/ N.O.I.A. - Sleeping Village
In the deep Upstate New York winter of 2022, trees bare and taunting, Nandi Rose found herself searching for an apricitic clarity. She has always found the season difficult; its ruthless theft of birdsong and flora, heavy clouds low and smothering what little light remains. But the cacophonous silence of that winter was particularly brutal. It should have been stirred by the growth of life, a promise of a new chapter, a bright dawn, as Rose learned she was pregnant with her first child. That promise was broken in early December, when stillness took over the ultrasound screen; slow-motion mouths told her the life inside her had ended. Like a snapped branch weighed down by leaden frost, Rose lost a part of her future she thought would blossom.
Baldwin tells us we must say yes to life, to “embrace it wherever it is found – and it is found in terrible places – nevertheless, there it is.” This is the guiding force of See You At The Maypole, the sixth full-length album in Half Waif’s prolific catalog. If we look for color in the midst of our own personal winters, the brightness will soon begin to bounce off the snow. This gathering of resilience and clutching of chiaroscuro––celebrating both light and dark––guides us on a journey towards acceptance and surrender. Rose had to figure out how to love her life, even if it didn’t look like what she wanted it to.
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8:00PM - Axis: Sova W/ Desert Liminal & Ovef Ow - Hideout
Axis: Sova
On their journey from blown-out solo bedroom project to full-blown band, Axis: Sovahave been described as "prime movers of robo-boogie for the central United States" (NPR) and "like The Stooges riding shotgun on a Suicide track" (Pitchfork). Yet their mutant glam has truly crystallized on a different level with their latest, Blinded By Oblivion (God?/Drag City). The group - Brett Sova, Jeremy Freeze, and Josh Johannpeter - wrote their new album within the steel-grey confines of their hometown, Chicago, then flew out to Southern California and recorded it at Harmonizer Studios. The resulting clash of industrial steel vs. indelible nature is sonically palpable, with the music hinging on tension and full of cathartic release, all produced for rock n' roll radio. Throughout, Axis: Sova take a slew of heady musical inputs to inform a harrowing and insistent lyrical POV lit up by allegories of social estrangement, personality crisis, and compassion for our collective fallibility. It's the human condition: we're all just Blinded By Oblivion.
Desert Liminal
Desert Liminal is an experimental pop trio who've honed their unique sound within Chicago's rich underground music community for nearly a decade. Songs center dream-like poetry and vocal harmony within a cloud of analog synth textures and swirling violin loops. KEXP called their 2024 album Black Ocean a "captivating, string-enhanced set of sweeping art-rock, cinematic shoegaze, and poetic dream-pop featuring a lush, enveloping sound."
Ovef Ow
Chicago’s Ovef Ow have been making synth heavy art punk for the better part of the last ten years, pulling influences that seem to range from B-52s and Devo to The Raincoats and Sleater-Kinney. Agitation is met with upbeat party anthems, paired together to create a swarm of new wave jangle and rough but friendly post-punk. Synths peel, drip, and flail across guitars, bass, and drums, ringing out with surfy exuberance, the band’s entire mood shifting between sunburnt joy to a stumbling sense of bliss. (by Dan Goldin, @post_trash_)
Cost: $15 ADV/ $18 DOS plus fees
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