Halfway 2 Hollywood is a band you don’t want to miss. Comprised of professional musicians that love to entertain, these guys are guaranteed to get the party started. Halfway 2 Hollywood (formerly One Night Band) makes it their mission to authentically re-create the songs we all know and love. This “Party Band” delivers danceable, upbeat songs that keep the crowd dancing and drinking all night long. Set lists are carefully crafted and catered to accommodate the crowd and demographic. Plain an… (more)d simple – Halfway 2 Hollywood brings the house down night after night!!

Chicago’s THE GAME is a five-piece rock group recently formed from component members of Sweet Medicine and Bad Machine, delivering a fresh take on the hard rock genre with catchy pop vocals mixed with classic dual lead guitars. Dynamic and energetic, THE GAME pulls from classic rock, metal, and pop, citing major influences such as The Rolling Stones, Led Zeppelin, ZZ Top, Motown, Mountain, The Who, Grand Funk, and Bob Seger. THE GAME is on a mission to bring fun and good times back to rock and r… (more)oll. HE GAME has been hard at work writing and rehearsing new, original material over the long Chicago winter. Now ready to command the stage again with a full repertoire of material featuring catchy riffs and singable melodies, THE GAME will bring the party to you in 2010!

The Cathy Santonies are a subversive mix of riot grrrl & cock rock…now, don’t you wanna hear what that sounds like?
Mojo Santoni bangs out solid, catchy riffs and mindblowing solos in a way that will make you want to run home to mommy. She is joined on guitar by the illustrious Jane Danger, who will hypnotize you with steady rhythms and intricate lead lines. You could try if you wanted, but the band’s message of girl rock revolution is impossible to ignore because of Radio Santoni’s powerfully unique voice and relentless energy. The rock-solid drumming of Chippy anchors the sonic thrashing and keeps everyone dancing their asses off and begging for more. Yeah!
The Cathy Santonies–rock n roll is NOT dead.

We are Faggy Pussy. The people in our band are named Tom, Megan, Emily, Vince, and Lizze.

Johnny and the Beloveds

The Wheels are a quintet of acoustic songwriters from Oak Park whose music could be described as folk noire. These artists explore textured soundscapes, wrought with longing heartache for lost loves and redemption. Dark romantics all, their songs encompass a world that is melancholy, impassioned, and sonically apropos. LaRaie Zimm, is a contributing lyricist whose vocal power astonishes and may cause ethereal palpitations. Alexander Mizicko is a contributing lyricist vocalist and guitarist, … (more)his songs cascade down your mind like glaciers of old memories. Juliet Mizicko is a contributing lyricist, vocalist and guitarist. Her songs’ subtle reveries drift forth from seas and mountains of commanding inspiration. Paul Russell’s masterful violin and Isaac Lyons’ accordion bring magnificent compliment to the singers. A stream of consciousness meanders from bow and bellows; their solos fuel the bonfires of dreams

Chicago may not be the Music Capital of the Universe, but any artist who’s done a few years around the Windy City will agree that its unforgiving environment really teaches an artist to give 100% every time. From this “boot camp city” emerges Right Rongly, a dynamic duo who has reinvented “acoustic rock” in short order.Led by longtime Chicago guitar mangler Scottish McMillan, whose solo work has been regarded by many music critics to be among the Acoustic genre’s most innovative and exciting, R… (more)ight Rongly takes on metal, funk, jazz, ballads, and everything else they can think of with equal facility. As Right Rongly’s drummer, Ryan Aiello provides heavy, groove-driven drum beats, offering a solid platform for McMillan’s big, floppy, fuzzy, funky guitar riffs and blasting vocal fits. An accomplished “jammer”, Aiello’s been out and about with a number of bands since graduating with an Associate’s Degree in music performance from McNally Smith College of Music (formerly MusicTech College), in St. Paul, Minnesota. Gigging since the age of 15, Aiello has toured with several bands, including Never Stay Quiet, Random Pulse, and Combat Astronomy; before settling in Chicago in 2007. Aiello’s focus has now sharpened on Right Rongly, and in the last year, he and McMillan have kept their calendars full, both with shows and with recording, all of which has been done live, both on stage and in the studio. Right Rongly tightly embraces the idea, “If you can’t do it live, you just can’t do it.” Only recently has the band started making multi-track studio recordings, and the release of their debut album is tentatively set for Spring 2010. Until then, their music can be heard at MYSPACE.COM/RIGHTRONGLY, and you can be sure that you’re hearing exactly what they put out at shows – it was all done in one take. They’ve released a high-definition, live-concert DVD, shot at Chicago’s Double Door in late 2008, and it really highlights their musicality as well as McMillan and Aiello’s chemistry together. Right Rongly’s shared influences in progressive rock like Rush and King Crimson, 90′s rock like Soundgarden and Alice in Chains, and weirdo jam-funk like Les Claypool, shine brightly in Right Rongly’s music, but the work feels totally genuine. More and more each day, Right Rongly clearly defines themselves as leaders in a brand-new field

The Gothsicles mix a love for Nintendo, a bucket-load of wit and a passion for Industrial sounds to create as you might expect, a pretty unique fusion of all three things. The Chicago-based unit are very different and we are proud to welcome them into the SPHERE – Sphere magazine (UK)

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Amongst many other things, I am: – A career DJ and Impresario/Promoter; my company is American Gothic Productions. www.AmericanGothicProd.com – Living in Berlin, Germany though I fly back at least 6 times per year to my hometown of Chicago to DJ, etc. – Vegan – GAF I passionately enjoy & promote good, new, dark alternative music. I DJ, book bands & produce club events & have been doing so for over 21 years. I absolutely love what I do.

Cealed Kasket’s live show is a frenetic medieval horror opera set in the dark ages, a presentation of barbaric hedonistic rock and roll so powerful it would reduce Alice Cooper to prison rape bait. The Onion called it ” Over-the-top mock-metal played with enough death-rock affectation to make Marilyn Manson look like the master of subtlety.” Equal parts comedy and tragedy, their rabid fan base comes not only for the music but for the theatrical experience-to be a warrior, to be a part of the bat… (more)tle, to join their heroes onstage with swords raised and blood boiling. Drinking contests, shouting matches, special effects, knights, wenches and backstage sluttin maximize audience participation. Special Effects by Bad Dog Efx ( LucasFilm Ltd/ 20Th Century Fox / Universal Pictures), and medieval set design by David Krause (Red Moon Theatre) set the tone for onstage dragon slaying debauchery as the crowds roar aids the band in pulling the proverbial and literal sword from the stone. Led by the self-proclaimed Jesus Christ of Heavy Metal, vocalist Mortal Death has assembled a rag-tag group of supernaturals dedicated to the glory of classic metal, swords and sorcery. Sir Sarsicus, the 500-year-old wizard, works his guitar magic from castle towers and has been known to grow to extreme heights before the crowds’ very eyes. Bassist and diamond baron Maurice Pearlman can out-whiskey the largest senator, and drummer extraordinaire Scott Jackson is satiated only by fast cars, white leather, titty-cams and free party favors. The band is kept in line by the Soul Collector, the hype man and manager with a penchant for dancing, “gangsta shit”, and stealing the spirits of the youth. The self titled debut album Cealed Kasket was recorded and mixed during a 5-day schnapps binge at legendary Gravity Studios by producer Manny Sanchez (Zwan, Umphreys McGee, The Von Bondies, Rod Stewart). Emmie Magazine states “Cealed Kaskets lurid songcraft instills the utmost vigor into the surging, fetid masses.” The album represents an ambitious masterpiece of nostalgic power metal and medieval fuckerey-a drunken toast to the Old Wave of British Heavy Metal.

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Ana Sia’s love of electronic music combined with an innate understanding of the value of dance to the human soul collectively fuse to create unforgettable sets of experience, whether she is slamming spots in her hometown of San Francisco or taking her turn in the forests of music festivals around the country. Ana’s energetic delivery of brain-fazing beats has earned the Princess Slay-ah an important spot in pioneering the West Coast future sound movement. She will take you on a musical expe… (more)dition into the deepest reaches of your brain, as she masterfully blends a wide spectrum of rhythms with a beautiful fluidity and a delicate sensibility, giving the dance floor a delightful ride that ends at the corner of bliss and oblivion. Uniting the best elements of dirty dubstep, grimy glitch, and her personalized blend of “global slut psy-hop,” Ana Sia’s sets confirm crunk status of all who dare enter into her seamless world of sound

Eliot Lipp didn’t choose to become one of the most looked to artists in contemporary electronic music, but somehow, Lipp’s sound, one that uses vintage gear to create a unique take on Hip Hop and House, has quickly garnered the respect among the industry’s most influential musicians and producers as well as the deep admiration among audiences worldwide. Since being discovered by Scott Herren (aka Prefuse 73) in the mid 2000’s, and releasing albums on the cutting edge labels Eastern De… (more)velopments, Mush and Hefty as well as backing the hype with a relentless touring schedule of influential live shows all over the globe, Lipp has quickly become one of the barometers for the revival of electronic music in the States. Originally hailing from Tacoma, WA, Lipp paid his dues in the underground scenes of almost every primary market in the US, Europe and Asia, including stints in Los Angeles, San Francisco and Chicago before dropping roots in the Brooklyn scene that has continued to produce some of the most recognized artists in contemporary indie and electronic music. Lipp’s signature sound, a crossbreed of 90’s Hip Hop and House, 70’s Funk fusion as well as classic Electro, has and will continue to breakdown barriers and transpose trendy scenes. Whether programming Hip Hop beats, writing dirty basslines, collaborating with the likes of premier producers, DJs, MCs and musicians, examined by SPIN, URB, Pitchfork and other media or playing popping parties at clubs and festivals worldwide, Eliot Lipp will continue to do his part in revolutionizing electronic music.