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09/14 Cold Cave + TR/ST with DJ Scary Lady Sarah (Chicago)

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COLD CAVE & TR/ST w/ DJ Scary Lady Sarah
$18 ADVANCE & $20 DAY OF / 18 & OVER / Doors 8:00PM / Show: 9:00PM

07/27 (NEXT WEEK!) Silent Films and Loud Music Series: Phantom of the Opera (1925) with a live musical score (Chicago)

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Comfort Film Presents

Silent Films and Loud Music series:

Phantom of the Opera (1925) with a live musical score by Echo Haus w/ special guest Zoog Von Rock of Angelspit

Directed by: Rupert Julian
Uncredited:
Edward Sedgwick
Lon Chaney, Sr.
Ernst Laemmle

Starring: Lon Chaney
Mary Philbin
Norman Kerry
Arthur Edmund Carewe
Gibson Gowland

Runtime: 93 min
Silent film with English intertitles

Plot: At the Opera of Paris, a mysterious phantom threatens a famous lyric singer, Carlotta and thus forces her to give up her role (Marguerite in Faust) for unknown Christine Daae. Christine meets this phantom (a masked man) in the catacombs, where he lives. What’s his goal ? What’s his secret ? –IMDB

About Echo Haus: Echo Haus is an experimental electronic music project. Using mostly analog synthesizers to create washes of immense sound and complex textures. The philosophy behind the music is to work in real time from a starting point and let it evolve naturally which gives each performance a unique experience that will never be recreated.
Echo Haus’s only member, A.J. has recently teamed up with Angelspit performing for their Noiseferatu tour and lending some sonic doom to their latest album “Cult of Fake”.
facebook.com/echohaus
soundcloud.com/echo-haus
Angelspit.net

The screening will be outside on the Comfort Station lawn weather premitting.
Free.

Dead Kennedys June 17

House of Blues Chicago

329 N Dearborn St, Chicago, Illinois 60654

Dead Kennedys
with
The Bollweevils
Squared Off
The Usuals

http://concerts.livenation.com/event/04005095E27B4306?utm_medium=affiliate&utm_source=187101-Facebook%2C+Inc&awc=4103_1461610612_0a580482701424a3f4739079a2052717&REFERRAL_ID=tmfeedbuyat187101&wt.mc_id=aff_BUYAT_187101&camefrom=CFC_BUYAT_187101.

Nocturna; 28th Anniversary Special -DJ Scary Lady Sarah

Nocturna, now in its 28th 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!

This special TWENTY-EIGHTH ANNIVERSARY night includes:

• GlitterGuts Photobooth live photo booth (dress to impress!)

• GIVEAWAYS for this night include:

– KILTER magazine relaunch issue #11/release party! Win- and if you don’t, buy- a copy- of Chicago’s only print zine by & for the dark alternative community! After 5 years, KILTER is back! This issue features album, concert, movie & restaurant reviews; interviews with Micah ofNegative Gain Productions, Leaether Strip, our very own Scary Lady Sarah; a SLS recipe; poetry; art; more! (KILTER will be stocked at these great Chicago retailers: Reckess Records, Chicago Comics, Qvimby’s, Bucket’o’Blood, Laurie’s Planet of Sound, Alchemy Arts & Comix Revolution in Evanston.)

– Guest list spots to see VNV Nation for a stop at Metro on their “Compendium” tour, 23 October! DJ Scary Lady Sarah opens the show.
https://www.facebook.com/events/1176932952351066

– Gift certificates/vouchers towards tattoo sessions at Chicago’s newest (and amazing!) dark arts tattoo & gallery, Ars Memoria! (Chances are to win either a voucher for $50 towards a tattoo or a free one hour session valued at $100!)

– Nocturna t-shirts and much more TBA! ♥

• VENDORS for this night include:

– DreadedJenocide: The Place for Lovely Spooky Things offering dread falls, pony falls, spooky barrettes, clothing & more!

– NOCTURNA t-shirts & Scary Lady Sarah’s own “One Inch Worlds” pin badges and CDs, t-shirts, stickers & buttons from The Bellwether Syndicate

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

• More details to be announced!

At Metro Chicago, 3730 N. Clark St, Chicago
11pm – 5am / 18+ / $10.

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Hey, Nocturna friends! If you feel like adding some LIVE music to your night before heading to Nocturna to dance until dawn, just down the street & before we open is this show: God Module in Chicago with Finite Automata and Antonym!
If you attend that show first, make sure to ask for a voucher which will then get you $5 off the cover price for Nocturna after!
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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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Nocturna is an American Gothic Productions event…
Specialists in Dark Nightlife…
…for Those Who Know…

THIS WEEKEND! Zombie Prom Chicago 2016

Zombie Army Productions will once again be hosting its annual Chicago Zombie Prom at The Cubby Bear (1059 W. Addison, Chicago, IL 60613) on Saturday, May 21st, from 8:00 pm to 2:00 am. As Chicago’s #1 Zombie Event, Zombie Prom is a ghastly, affectionate, cheesy blend of nostalgic high school Americana and the living dead. Zombie attire and makeup are required, but if you do not have your own makeup, zombie makeovers will be available for a $10 donation. This year’s Chicago Zombie Prom is pleased to welcome back Libido Funk Circus as the live zombie band, guaranteed to animate your corpse on the dance floor all night! 21+

Zombie Prom Chicago
1059 W Addison St, Chicago, Illinois 60613

Gary Numan Performing “REPLICAS” – 5/15 (Chicago)

93XRT Welcomes…
GARY NUMAN – performing REPLICAS
Classic Album Residency Tour
With I Speak Machine, Cold Waves Festival DJ Jason Novak
$31 adv – $71 3 Day Pass (Early Bird) – $150 Table for Two / 18 & Over / Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM

GA tickets: http://bit.ly/ReplicasGN
VIP tickets: http://www.etix.com/ticket/p/6656078/gary-numan-performing-replicas-vip-tables-chicago-metrochicagoil

Metro Chicago
3730 N Clark St, Chicago, Illinois 60613

TONIGHT! Echo Beds, Gnawed, Death Factory and more! (Chicago)

As Many of you know, over ten years ago we had started a monthly Showcase, which focused on Electro, Industrial, Gothic, New Wave, Metal and trip-hop bands both local and national and while we are no longer doing monthly events (or are we?) we are still bringing you the best dark electronic live events both large and small in the city of Chicago. The night is sponsored/hosted by Dave of WTII Records.

WTII Record’s Dave’s Upcoming Showcases
Live Wire Lounge
Live Wire Lounge is located at
3394 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago IL
http://www.facebook.com/livewirelounge

Friday May 6th, 2016..
ECHO BEDS
GNAWED
DEATH FACTORY
FLOOD DAMAGE (Rare experimental/Minimal set)
very special TBA

Ticket prices are $10 at the door

21+ doors at 8:00

https://www.facebook.com/echobeds
https://www.facebook.com/gnawed/
https://soundcloud.com/user1092014
https://www.facebook.com/flooddamagechicago/
http://www.wtiirecords.com/
http://www.facebook.com/livewirelounge

ECHO BEDS:
It’s not often when you can bring a band to Chicago that has shared the stage with such important experimental noise bands such as Psychic Tv, The Body, John Weise, Sterile Garden, Tit Wrench, and a ton more but that is exactly what we have in getting Keith Curts and Tom Nelson aka Echo Beds to our fair city.

” Echo Beds crafts a caterwaul of contact-mic’d oil drums, broken cymbals,battered basses,unrecognizable tape loops,and dila…pidated voices with the expressed intention of volume as therapy. Taking inspiration from Guy Debord, Mark Andersen, the Surrealist Manifesto, and all “Wreckers of Civilization” and put through the grinder of the self-practiced D.I.Y. ethos, the end result is a liberating exorcism of social commentary vs political agenda. Powerful, pointed, and uniquely authentic- an Echo Beds performance is one that leaves you thinking long after the ringing in your ears has subsided.”

GNAWED:
Hailing from Minneapolis, Grant Richardson is the Power Electronics/Death Industrial project Gnawed. Gnawed influences can best be described as broken radios, industrial decay, and the failing of humanity. Gnawed catalog is over 15+ releases strong spread out on several record labels such as Malignant Records, Phage Tapes, Danvers State Recordings, Nil By Mouth, Exabyss Records, Maniacal Hatred, Spit & Cuss, Insides Music, Fusty Cunt, Northern Lord, Out Of Body Records, L. White Records, White Centipede Noise, Industrial Culture.

https://www.discogs.com/artist/1560393-Gnawed

DEATH FACTORY:
Death Factory is the project of Mike Krause and William Sides based in Chicago since 1988. They have recorded several home recorded cassettes ,CD-rs and tracks for various compilations over the last three decades. Several live shows have taken place since 2001 mostly in Chicago ,or the Midwest . Their first Lp and cd release are slated for early May (Prison Tatt Records) . Death Factory’s sound ranges from death Industrial, to ‘old school’ Industrial, to atmospheric horrorscapes to ambient . Various tracks also have rhythmic elements to them . occasional members include: the infamous Arvo Zylo and Right Eye Rita.

Check out their back catalog to get an idea of this experienced monster lineup that has been assembled.

https://www.discogs.com/artist/986942-Death-Factory-2

FLOOD DAMAGE (eXperimental)
We are pleased to have the night kicked off with a rare experimental set by Michael Allen Rose (and assorted guests) aka Flood Damage. Back in 1996, deep in his parents basement, Michael A Rose (Now Im Nothing) started smashing the keys on his keyboard. Sometimes the sounds that came out made some kind of non-euclidean sense, and so he recorded them. In 2001 the CD “underlife” was released, garnering positive feedback from such luminaries as Meg Lee Chin (Pigface, Crunch) and remixed by such artists as Hypoid, Things Outside the Skin, hEADCAHE and Avenpitch.

In 2002, Flood Damage was featured on Notes From Thee Real Underground Volume III put out by invisible records. This exposure led to other compilation appearances such as Ursa Major from Innervenus. Between 2002 and 2006, Michael also provided instrumental tracks for the documentary “Rediscovering the Corps” and designed soundtracks for theatrical productions.

Their 2014 full length release, “Instructions for the assembly of god (s) was produced by none other than Sean Payne of Cyanotic.

Now it’s been bubbling under the surface and the rebirth is almost here. With a new full band, and plans for an industrial burlesque fusion extravaganza, the Flood Damage apocalypse is nigh.

LiveWire Lounge Chicago
3394 N Milwaukee Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60641

Horror Wednesday Birthday at LateBar (Chicago)

Come out to Horror Wednesday for your monthly installment of Horror punk, psychobilly, deathrock, gothic rock, dark glam and more! This month we celebrate the birthday of our very own DJ CarrieMonster!
Lisa Macabre serves your poison and Jimmy the Gate Keeper at the door.
10pm to 4am. No cover!
Drink, dance and be scary

Late Bar
3534 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60618

BITTERSWEET 6th Anniversary: Goth Prom (Chicago)

Sunday, April 24
Berlin Nightclub
954 W Belmont Ave, Chicago, Illinois 60657

BITTERSWEET: Goth Prom
The 6th Anniversary of Bittersweet

DJ Peroxide spins goth club classics and new dark alternative music & video: goth, darkwave, post-punk, ethereal, 4AD, shoegaze, coldwave, synthpop & more
Special guest DJ Scary Lady Sarah

Black attire encouraged & appreciated.
Wear Your Best Black…
(This is a Goth Prom, after all!)

No cover charge. 21+ with ID required.
$2 PBR / $3 Heineken / $4 Kraken Black Spiced Rum / $6 Stoli

http://www.BerlinChicago.com/
http://www.djperoxide.com/

04/16 NOCTURNA DJ Scary Lady Sarah @Metro (Chicago)

Nocturna, now in its 27th 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!

• GIVEAWAYS for this night include Nocturna t-shirts and more TBA! ♥