Our New Year’s Eve show – with Black Joe Lewis & The Honeybears, DeRobert and the Half-Truths, and The Soul Summit DJs – is sold out. If you got tickets while the getting was good, congrats! We’ll see you on Saturday night. Doors open and show starts at 9pm, with the Soul Summit DJs. Our [...]
The Retar Crew has established themselves online through diligence, alcoholism, and social networking. They are back onstage at Double Door this thursday, December 22 for “A Very Retar Christmas Holiday Extravaganza Show”. The show will feature The Retar Crew playing fan favorites such as “Hung Like a Tuna Can Man,” “The Retar Anthem” and “Daddy [...]
Life is full of surprises, and nobody knows this better than Kathryn Calder. After years of performing with indie darlings Immaculate Machine, she found herself unexpectedly asked to record and tour with The New Pornographers and was almost immediately inducted as a full-fledged member of that group. In 2010 she released her first solo album, [...]
Pyyramids is a mysterious new project from OK Go’s Tim Nordwind and singer Drea Smith. Combining spooky atmospheres with lo-fi elements and lush electronic soundscapes, Pyyramids marries the mature vocals of Smith with Nordwind’s dancey, dreary song ideas and turns them into fully formed rainy day dance pop. Their debut EP, Human Beings, was written [...]
FRIDAY: Chicago’s Moon Furies recently undertook a “100 Shows in 100 Days” Challenge. You may have seen them playing outside our club at the Six Corners intersection, in Wicker Park, or perhaps at a CTA station. It was a pretty cool undertaking and their ambition gets the thumbs up from us. Moon Furies describe themselves [...]
This Saturday, November 26, is going to be a big day for us and many other small businesses across the country – It is the 2nd annual Small Business Saturday. In an effort to encourage shoppers to buy local for the holidays, we are hosting The Urban Folk Circuit. From noon to 5pm, dozens of [...]
Where did this month go? Thanksgiving is already next week and we’re already sick of hearing Christmas tunes at Walgreen’s. We have a pretty cool weekend lined up, starting with a farewell show tonight and ending with an electro/jam band dance party on Black Wednesday. Tonight’s show is going to be a bittersweet farewell show [...]
We’ve had a really good run of shows this fall, and the run continues tonight with The Meat Puppets. They have had a busy year, releasing their 13th studio album, “Lollipop,” and recording a cover of Nirvana’s “Smells Like Teen Spirit” for Spin’s “Newermind” compilation: Garage/Blues/Rock duo The Blackbox Revelation and local indie rockers The [...]
NYC electro/indie/dance duo Holy Ghost! is playing here tomorrow night. They are comprised of Alex Frankel and Nick MIllhiser, who have a long shared musical history, notably as studio/live musicans for James Murphy and Tim Goldsworthy. They also performed and recorded with Juan Maclean. They formed Holy Ghost! over their love of all things disco, [...]
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