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Jun 12 – Shimmer: shoegaze/dreampop w/ DJs Scary Lady Sarah & Peroxide

Held the second Tuesday of each month, Shimmer is an evening devoted to shoegaze, dreampop, psych, drone, ethereal, space rock, nugaze, electrogaze & chillwave music brought to you by American Gothic Productions (purveyors of moody music in Chicago.)

Scary Lady Sarah & Philly Peroxide (your Dancing DJs™) spin a soundtrack of sonic incandescence alongside sparkling visuals in a special glitter-friendly venue, Slippery Slope, in Chicago’s Logan Square! Great club, great staff, great sound, great location! ♥

Amazing new & classic shoegaze played for just for you!

SHIMMER- home of the ChiGazers; where Chicago’s shoegaze fans & bands meet & hang out. 🙂

Slippery Slope, 2357 N. Milwaukee Ave, Chicago
21+ / 9pm-2am / FREE to get in!

Come out & chill, drink, sway…..and shimmer with us.
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Please like the Shimmer page- see our playlists, make requests, say hi! 🙂
https://www.facebook.com/ShimmerChicago

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VOLTAIRE in Chicago June 9th!

Nocturna, now in its THIRTIETH year, is an 18+ dark alternative dance night held once every other month (more or less) in Chicago. DJ Scary Lady Sarah spins a highly request-driven mix of current & classic goth, industrial, post-punk, deathrock, ethereal, shoegaze, new wave, ebm, darkwave, dark indie & more. Come dance until dawn!
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• Saturday, 9 June 2018: Tonight we celebrate 30 years of Nocturna (the longest running goth event in North America!) To mark this momentous occasion, we will be opening earlier (10pm) – make sure to show up in a timely manner- we have a slew of special features throughout the night, starting with a concert performance at 11pm sharp with:

• AURELIO VOLTAIRE! https://www.facebook.com/VoltaireFanPage
Goth entertainer extraordinaire! After working together at many locations & occasions, we are very pleased to have Aurelio Voltaire perform at Nocturna for the first time! You know him from his music, his animation, his books, his Gothic Homemaking show on YouTube… come see him in person!

• GlitterGuts Photobooth: Our fave nightlife photographers! Free for our guests- get snapped- dress to impress!

• PREVIEW our upcoming book: Nocturna: Thirty Years of Nights! Publication date to be announced soon!

• VENDORS:
– Dreaded Jenocide: The Place for Lovely Spooky Things offering spooky barrettes, handbags, clothing, Manic Panic cosmetics & more!

– Art By Rembry: Various artwork: original paintings, drawings, art prints, sculptures, jewelry boxes, and magnets

– Evil-Eric Designs: Making necklaces for our scene for over 20 years. https://www.etsy.com/shop/EvilEdesigns

– Shadow Emporium Apothecary & Shoppe: Purveyors of Obscure Goods & Esoteric Goods
https://www.facebook.com/shadowemporium

– NOCTURNA t-shirts

• GIVEAWAYS for this night include:

– Tickets to the Neo Reunion: 2350 Last Call– dance party & movie screening! Win a VIP table for you & a guest at the event which takes place at Metro on Friday, 27 July.
https://www.facebook.com/events/631148710570038

– Guest list spots to Das Ich, Antonym, Visceral Anatomy and DJ – The Pirate Twins on Friday, 13 July at Brauerhouse Lombard

– Issues of the brand-spanking new issue of KILTER magazine! (Copies on sale, too!)

– Carrie G Hair Artisan – $50. gift certificate towards her Rockstar hair services plus a sampling of her favourite vegan friendly hair products! https://www.instagram.com/carrieghair

– Guest list spots to Adoration Destroyed / Fires / Xentrifuge / DJ Scary Lady Sarah on Sunday, 10 June at Underground Lounge – Chicago

• The Candy Cauldron will be on stage as always; help yourself to a complimentary treat!

•Further delights revealed as the date approaches!

At Metro Chicago, 3730 N. Clark Street
10pm – 5am / 18+ / $15.

For those who would like to purchase an advance ticket, here’s the link: https://www.etix.com/ticket/p/7684290/nocturna-30th-anniversary-chicago-metrochicagoil

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Thank you so much! Please help spread the word by sharing this event page!- especially now that FB limits how many people one person can invite! Looking forward to seeing you there!!! ♥

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Join the NOCTURNA FB group, too: https://www.facebook.com/groups/15090361526

Nocturna is an American Gothic Productions event…
Specialists in Dark Nightlife…
dark beautiful music ritual dance pageantry libations
…for Those Who Know…

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Manière Noire is a collective project of Atelier Oil and Sugar and Cimmerian, based in Montréal. A pretext to create obscure items and accessories for a Noir Lifestyle. Started on the 31st of October 2016 with the goal of designing and producing one enamel pin design per month, accompanied by art prints, original illustrations and other types of items, yet to be announced.
Our name comes from the french term for mezzotint, a printmaking process in which the artist produces an image by burnishing a textured copper plate, creating light areas from a solid black base. Manière also means a way of doing things, which resonated with our vision of a lifestyle brand.

Broadway-bound Beetlejuice musical to premiere in October

It’s been in the works for years, but a Beetlejuice musical is finally set for an official launch.

Warner Bros. Theatre Ventures and Langley Park Productions jointly announced Wednesday that Beetlejuice, a musical comedy based on Tim Burton’s beloved film of the same name, will make its world premiere in a pre-Broadway engagement at the National Theatre in Washington, D.C. The production is tentatively slated for an October bow, and performance dates are expected to be confirmed shortly.

Tony Award nominee Alex Timbers (Peter and the Starcatcher) will direct a production choreographed by Connor Gallagher (The Robber Bridegroom), with an original score by Eddie Perfect (King Kong) and a book by Scott Brown and Emmy nominee Anthony King (Broad City). Pitched as a “ruder, raunchier, and frankly, more repellant” version of Burton’s film, Beetlejuice tells the story of Lydia Deetz, a strange teenager obsessed with the whole “being dead thing.” Luckily for Lydia, her new house is haunted by a recently deceased couple and a degenerate demon who happens to have a thing for stripes. When Lydia calls on this ghost-with-the-most to scare away her insufferable parents, Beetlejuice comes up with the perfect plan, which involves exorcism, arranged marriages, and an adorable girl scout who gets scared out of her wits. Plus singing and dancing, of course.

Timber’s Beetlejuice production was workshopped last year, with Community breakout Danny Pudi among the actors to star. No casting information for the pre-Broadway National Theatre production has been announced as of yet.

You can visit BeetlejuiceBroadway.com for more information.

June 6 – Industrial Accident: The Story of Wax Trax Records

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The Chicago Underground Film Festival is thrilled beyond words to present the Chicago Premiere of INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT: The Story of Wax Trax! Records, the tale of two gay men who created an unlikely family of punks, queers, and artists on a breakneck ride through the 80s underground, accidentally changing music forever. In 1975, Jim Nash and Dannie Flesher opened a small independent record store in Denver, Colorado specializing in imports and collectible vinyl and championing glam rock and the early punk scene. Within a few years, the couple relocated to Chicago and opened a larger store next to the Biograph Theatre. Wax Trax! soon became an internationally recognized home base for underground music, fashion, and subculture. Following the store’s success, the pair’s unconventional approach to music led them to branch out into releasing records themselves, creating a label of the same name that would become synonymous with a new genre known as Industrial. The label introduced groundbreaking artists like Ministry, Front 242, My Life With The Thrill Kill Kult, KMFDM and others to a generation ready to revolt against the material excesses and cultural conformity of the 80s. Throughout the decade these artists would become increasingly successful until it became impossible for major labels to ignore them. As their biggest talent began to defect, poor business decisions were made, and the label and store began to suffer. Wax Trax! declared bankruptcy in 1992 and was absorbed by New York-based TVT Records. The imprint stayed active throughout the 90s but the magic was gone. With founder Jim Nash’s death from complications related to AIDS in 1995 Wax Trax! was effectively over. Decades later the impact that these two music-obsessed men and the love they shared continue to be felt. Featuring never before seen footage and interviews from key musicians including Al Jourgensen, Chris Connelly and Luc Van Acker, Jim’s children, and store and label employees, INDUSTRIAL ACCIDENT is an inside look at the passion, the dysfunction and the chaos that fueled the pioneering store and label throughout the 1980s & 1990s.

“As important as Chess Records was to blues and soul music, Chicago’s Wax Trax imprint was just as significant to the punk rock, new wave, and industrial genres.” – Richard Giraldi, Chicago Sun-Times

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Happy World Goth Day!

May 22 is World Goth Day. The Official World Goth Day site defines it as “a day where the goth scene gets to celebrate its own being, and an opportunity to make its presence known to the rest of the world.”

World Goth Day originated in the United Kingdom in 2009. BBC Radio 6 was looking at a number of music subcultures throughout a week in May, including Goth music. Goth DJs Cruel Britannia and martin oldgoth got an event up and running. It was decided that May 22 would be the day when this event would be held regularly.

The tradition continued and spread outside the United Kingdom, with a website being initiated to coordinate and advertise events worldwide.

World Goth Day celebrates the sub cultural aspects of the Goth subculture. Aspects of the culture like fashion, music and art are celebrated by fashion shows, art exhibitions and music performance. Many of the events feature local Goth bands, and some have taken on a charity aspect with events in the United Kingdom and Australia supporting favoured charities like the UK Sophie Lancaster Foundation, a charity that tries to curb prejudice and hatred against subcultures.

The event has evolved to be now celebrated by goths all around the world, including the United Kingdom, United States, Canada, Australia, Singapore, Brazil, Mexico, Spain, Macedonia and South Africa.

Read more:
metro.co.uk/2018/05/22/first-goth-brief-history-goth-world-goth-day-7567334/
independent.co.uk/arts-entertainment/music/features/world-goth-day-2018-gothic-history-edgar-allan-poe-dracula-punks-bauhaus-siouxsie-cure-tim-burton-a8356986.html
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Goth_Day

Listen:
mixcloud.com/KittyLectro/kitty-lectro-world-goth-day-dj-mix-2018/

Follow: 
worldgothday.com/
facebook.com/theworldgothdaypage/

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