Brando’s Speakeasy and Dead 2 Me Records debut Chicago’s weekly electro-swing and house night:
SWING DE VILLE!
Featuring resident DJ FactorySettings
with GUEST DJs every week!
Swing De Ville premieres Sept 13th with Vourteque
BRANDO’S SPEAKEASY
343 S. Dearborn Ave.…
The White City Rippers return for their fist show since Krampunacht ’13.
They had not been apprehended by the police.
The Packrat Machine heads up from the Illinois Valley with Handmade Homemade Music.
They have not been charged for hoarding …
Colonel Gunn’s Wild West Music Show
Vourteque (After)
Special Guest from ROUGE Chicago’s
At the end of the Belle Époque, art produced a riot. The confluence of music and dance at the premiere of Igor Stravinsky’s The Rite of Spring caused an incensed audience to throw fists at each other and objects at …
There’s a new passel of rough riders a-ridin’ into town, a-whompin’ and whoopin’ every livin’ thing that moves within an inch of its life. These here buzzards are Colonel Obadiah Gunn’s Wild West Music Show. Colonel Gunn (aka V …
April kicks off with visits from a couple of touring bands of swingers from Europe. Movits! play Reggie’s Music Joint on Tuesday, April 1, and Caravan Palace plays the House of Blues on Friday, April 4, 2014.
Movits! hails from …
Several steampunk stalwarts are running crowdfunding campaigns. Eli August and the Abandoned buildings are working on an EP. Frenchy and the Punk are recording a new CD. Unwoman is working on an original album. Victor Sierra is trying to come …
This is just a hunch, but I suspect that some steampunks may enjoy musical theatre. For them, the Nebraska Theatre Caravan is touring a steampunk-inspired staging of The Fantasticks. Chicago-area productions swing through in March 2014.
The Fantasticks is …
In a Facebook post, man about town Rory AquaBear Sunderland wrote, “In this day and age how do you put Steampunks, Dieselpunks, Cyberpunks, Goths, Hipsters, Preps, Stuggles (Steampunk + Muggles…yes I just made it up), Bro’s, Gypsyunks, and Carnies in …
You would expect to see more airships sailing over the prairie, bound for the badlands or the Pecos River. There should be a speck of a dirigible hovering in the wide-open skies of the big country. Considering that Chicago is …
Steampunk Airship Travel Art - Forge22 Design
