Don’t Miss This Year’s Electrifying Music Line-up!

Furious Frank
Furious Frank pays thoughtful homage to the styles that define our country’s heritage. With rustic sounds from a mandolin, violin, and a few acoustic guitars, this raucous ensemble will gallop through rowdy sing-a-longs driven by tight horns, bass, and drums.

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Los Vicios de Papa
Known for their energetic live shows, LVDP adds a distinct Latino identity to ska music. The group takes pride in their ability to meld the percussive and horn elements of salsa music with the distinct rhythms and socially conscious mindset of ska punk.

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JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound
JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound understand the vast possibilities of mixing rock and soul. A sweaty soul review featuring fatback drums, grainy keyboards, crunchy guitars and a front man with a lively demeanor, vocal range, and unmatched personality.

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Rafter
Rafter Roberts openly admits that he’s “never quite sure whether to pursue pop or strange art.” Rafter creates experimental electronic music with melody, tune and crisp bedroom production. Keyboard rock with a distinct personality.

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This Is Cinema
This Logan Square quartet operates in the middle of many genres. Along with their peculiar studio tactics—tuning wine glasses, imitating drum machines—This Is Cinema gives a unique sonic identity to each one of their songs.

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Hollows
Garage rock is fierce, and when it’s mixed with a spunky, girl-group attitude, it is practically irresistible. Each song is a burst of energy, humor, and spark; and before long you will know all the words.

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Arrivals
With firm melodies and shameless ambition, the Arrivals craft quick, edgy tunes that impact immediately. Once compared to punk bands like Naked Raygun and Pegboy, they now stand alone as one of the few bands left that still harbor that no nonsense attitude.

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White Mystery
These Chicago siblings are out to prove something. Alex and Francis Scott Key White are out to prove that the consistency of their throwback ideals—the seething noise, the grainy power, the anthemic fury—is only getting better.

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Black Bear Combo
Call it transatlantic polka with a twist. This Chicago sextet mixes the traditional sounds of Eastern Europe with punk, rock, and free jazz; making a daring new mixture of the four.

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Beaba Do Samba
Beaba Do Samba celebrates the sunset sensuality of Brazilian music. With whispery vocals and polyrhythmic percussion, this Chicago-based quartet blends the sounds of Latin jazz, samba, and bossa nova.

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Papo Santiago
Santiago and his orchestra harbor a style that pulls from several Latin circles—Merengue, Salsa dura, Boricua jazz. With his energetic croon (and marvelous flute chops) Papo leads his orchestra—and his audience—through a lively journey of syncopated rhythms and bright horn melodies.

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Sidewalk Chalk
Inside the depths of every Sidewalk Chalk number is an uncanny sense of urban artistry. The jazz stylings of the keyboards and horns stretch the boundaries of hip-hop with every song; or maybe it’s the boundaries of jazz they are stretching.

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The Hood Internet
The Hood Internet’s song choices are often bewildering when you first read the titles, but giving them a listen provides further insight to the ears and musical intuition of this talented duo. When played live, the numbers take on a new, improvisational feeling.

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Rabble Rabble
Psych punk rockers Rabble Rabble are sure to make you trip out, head bang, and dance all night long, fusing infectious guitars and hypnotizing rhythms.

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The Eternals
"[The Eternals] not only combine the eerie chill of deep dub with the righteous fire of 70s rockers reggae but play around with hip-hop, electro, ambient noise, art-rock, punk, and pretty much every other revolutionary sound from the past 30 years." - The Chicago Reader.

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