EARLY WARNINGS

Myylo, Kate Yeager 7/30, 8:30 PM, Golden Dagger NF, Cordae 7/14, 8 PM, Allstate Arena, Rosemont b

Nurko 8/12, 10 PM, Concord Music Hall, 18+

Angel Olsen, Kara Jackson

12/1, 8 PM, Thalia Hall, 17+

Angel Olsen, Natural Information Society 12/2, 8 PM, Thalia Hall, 17+

Angel Olsen, Joanna Sternberg 12/3, 8 PM, Thalia Hall, 17+ Paradise Fears 8/22, 8 PM, Subterranean, 17+

Pardoner, National Photo Committee 7/6, 9 PM, Empty Bottle

Peyton Parrish 6/10, 7 PM, Bottom Lounge b

Tom Paxton & the DonJuans

9/23, 8 PM, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b

Alix Perez 7/28-7/29, 9 PM, Chop Shop, 18+

Bethany Pickens Trio 6/29-7/1, 8 and 10 PM; 7/2, 4 and 8 PM, Jazz Showcase b

Gossip Wolf

5/28, noon, Grant Park, 18+

SZA 10/10, 8 PM, United Center b

Eddie Taylor 100th birthday celebration and the Taylor Family CD release 6/18, 7 PM, FitzGerald’s, Berwyn

Taylor Fest Eras Tour preparty

6/1, 9 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+

Teen Suicide 6/30, 6:30 PM, Cobra Lounge b

Thrice, Holy Fawn 6/9, 8 PM, House of Blues, 17+

Tómarúm, Volcandra 7/27, 8 PM, Cobra Lounge, 17+

Harry Tonchev Trio 6/21, 8 PM, Phyllis’ Musical Inn

New

Joey Aich 7/20, 8 PM, Golden

Dagger

Airborne Toxic Event 8/9-8/10, 8 PM, Lincoln Hall, 18+

Anavitória 9/24, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston b

Angel 8/22, 8 PM, Reggies Rock Club, 17+

Arpa Cafe 6/28, 8 PM, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music Fb

Arrows in Action 7/22, 8 PM, Subterranean b

Babymetal 9/21, 7 PM, Aragon

Ballroom, 17+

Bad Omens 9/21, 7 PM, Salt

Shed

Benny Sings 9/27, 8:30 PM, Lincoln Hall, 18+

Binki 7/30, 8 PM, Sleeping Village

Black Duck 6/30, 9 PM, Hungry

Brain

Carsie Blanton 9/13, 7:30 PM, SPACE, Evanston b

Blessd 6/16, 8 PM, Radius

Chicago, 18+

Blkbok 10/12, 8 PM, City Winery b

Blue Meanies, Tossers, Weaker

Youth Ensemble, DJ Chuck

Wren 7/22, 6 PM, Concord Music Hall b

Bollweevils, Dopamines, Reaganomics, Rad Payoff, Butchered 5/27, 8 PM, Chop Shop, 18+

Bones, Xavier Wulf, Eddy Baker 5/26, 7:30 PM, House of Blues b

Bread & Butter Band 5/13, 9 PM, Hungry Brain

Jimmy Brown, Sweet the Kid, Rovv 5/22, 7 PM, Chop Shop b

Chicago House Music Festival featuring DJ Roy Davis Jr., DJ Psycho-Bitch, Noshaluv, DJ Emmaculate, DJ V, and more 6/24, noon, Humboldt

Park Fb

Conway the Machine, Sauce

Walka, Jae Skeese 5/26, 8 PM, Patio Theater, 18+

Charlie Cunningham 10/26, 8 PM, Lincoln Hall, 18+

Iris Dement, Ana Egge 7/15, 7:30 PM, Park West b

Deslondes, Esther Rose 7/2, 8:30 PM, Hideout

Diggin Dirt 8/13, 8 PM, Schubas

Dikembe, Michael Cera Palin, Arcadia Grey 10/13, 7 PM, Cobra Lounge, 17+

Disinter, Everscathed, Abraded, Derangement 7/8, 9 PM, Reggies Music Joint

Cian Ducrot 10/2, 7:30 PM, Lincoln Hall b

Electric Frankenstein, Handcuffs, Brian Krumm & His Barfly Friends 6/2, 7 PM, Liar’s Club

Eydís Evensen 10/8, 8:30 PM, Constellation, 18+

5 Seconds of Summer 8/23, 8 PM, Huntington Bank Pavilion b

Freedom Affair 7/2, 8:30 PM, Golden Dagger

Gogol Bordello 7/27, 7 PM, Concord Music Hall, 17+

Ha Ha Tonka, Me Like Bees 6/29, 8:30 PM, Hideout

Joshua Hedley, Lauren

Morrow 6/3, 8:30 PM, FitzGerald’s, Berwyn

Her Only Light: The Songs of Connie Converse featuring 5th Wave Collective, Sara Coral 5/19, 8:30 PM, Constellation, 18+

Marquis Hill 9/27, 6 PM, Harris Theater b

Icewear Vezzo 6/23, 6:30 PM, the Promontory b

Ida y Vuelta 5/19, 9 PM, Hungry Brain

Iguanas 7/20, 8:30 PM, FitzGerald’s, Berwyn

Nabihah Iqbal 6/7, 9 PM, Empty

Bottle

Gregory Alan Isakov 10/1, 7:30 PM, Chicago Theatre b

Jimmie’s Chicken Shack 8/31, 8 PM, Beat Kitchen

Jimmy Whispers 6/24, 9 PM, Empty Bottle

Josephine, Chillona, Tommy Bravos 5/23, 8:30 PM, Sleeping Village

Jupiter & Okwess 6/21, 7:30 PM, Martyrs’

Kiltro 7/8, 8 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+

Kings of Convenience 10/28, 8 PM, the Vic b

Klingande 7/1, 10 PM, Prysm Nightclub

Kneecap 10/9, 8 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+

Marielle Kra 7/19, 8 PM, Schubas, 18+

Jenny Lewis, Jenny O., Hayden Pedigo 7/7, 8 PM, Salt Shed, 17+

Little Simz 9/20, 7:30 PM, Riviera Theatre b

Love and Rockets, Vinsantos 6/6, 7:30 PM, Riviera Theatre, 18+

Lyle Lovett & His Large Band 6/18, 7 PM, Chicago Theatre b

Magic City Hippies 9/1, 8 PM, SPACE, Evanston b

Masonic Wave, Rollo Tomasi, Burned or Buried 6/1, 7 PM, Liar’s Club

Madilyn Mei 7/13, 7:30 PM, Schubas b

Metallica, Pantera, Mammoth WVH 8/9/2024, Soldier Field b

Metallica, Five Finger Death Punch, Ice Nine Kills

8/11/2024, Soldier Field b

Moon Walker 7/15, 7 PM, Cobra Lounge b

Mustard Plug, Toasters, Half Past Two, Malafacha, DJ

Chuck Wren 9/7, 8 PM, Reggies Rock Club, 17+

Lido Pimienta 7/27, 8 PM, Subterranean, 17+

Q101 Piqniq featuring Incubus, Badflower, Beach Weather, Giovannie & the Hired Guns, Paris Jackson 7/30, 4 PM, Huntington Bank Pavilion b

Idan Raichel 6/11, 5 and 8:30 PM, City Winery b

Rainbow Kitten Surprise, Indigo De Souza 10/21, 7:30 PM, Credit Union 1 Arena b

Hania Rani 11/30, 8 PM, Thalia Hall, 17+

Rotten Mouth, Blaqrock, Los Black Dogs, Swabs 6/17, 7 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+ Sadies, Jon Langford & Sally Timms 8/24-8/25, 8 PM, Hideout

Seal, Buggles 5/27, 8 PM, Chicago Theatre b Seasaw, Scarlet Demore, Trenchies, Sick Day 7/21, 6:30 PM, Subterranean, 17+ Shortparis 8/16, 9 PM, Sleeping Village

JJ Smith, Wheel of Giants, Heather Styka 7/27, 8 PM, Golden Dagger Squid 2/18/2024, 8 PM, Thalia Hall, 17+ Macie Stewart & Lia Kohl, Eliza Niemi, Dorothea Paas 5/27, 8:30 PM, Constellation, 18+

Sueños Music Festival day one featuring Wisin y Yandel, Feid, Arcangel, Chencho Corleone, El Alfa, Gera Mx, Ivy Queen, Paopao, Yovngchimi, DJ Gordo, DJ Miriam, Sorry Papi 5/27, noon, Grant Park, 18+

Sueños Music Festival day two featuring Grupo Firme, Nicky Jam, Becky G, Eladio Carrion, Myke Towers, Junior H, Ryan Castro, Chanell, Young Miko, DJ Chava, DJ Dynamiq, DJ Fredy Fresco, Sorry Papi

T-Pain, Tobi Lou 6/14, 8 PM, Riviera Theatre, 18+

Thaddeus Tukes Quartet 7/20-

7/22, 8 and 10 PM; 7/23, 4 and 8 PM, Jazz Showcase b

Tweet 5/15, 8 PM, City Winery b

Water From Your Eyes, Floatie, Anita Hart 6/22, 9 PM, Sleeping Village

D.S. Wilson 7/14, 6:30 PM, the Promontory b

Wombats 9/27, 7:30 PM, the Vic b

X 7/6, 8 PM, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b

Yo La Tengo 6/24, 7 PM, Metro, 18+

Updated

Masiwei, Spence Lee 5/23, 8 PM, Bottom Lounge, venue changed, 17+

Upcoming

Ausberto Acevedo, Jim Baker, Dan Bitney, and Keefe Jackson 5/6, 8:30 PM, Constellation, 18+

Conan 5/5, 8:30 PM, Reggies Rock Club, 17+

GZA, Fouronezero, Jaeti, Demko 5/4, 7:30 PM, the Promontory, 18+

Kali Uchis, Raye 5/15-5/16, 7 PM, Aragon Ballroom b

Off!, Die Spitz 5/13, 9 PM, Lincoln Hall

Dougie Poole, Tobacco City

5/5, 10 PM, Empty Bottle

Ringo Deathstarr 5/7, 7:30 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+

Si Dios Quiere, Bovice, Break the Cycle, Soledad, Cold Case, Los Skin 5/5, 8 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+

Winona Forever, Modern Nun, Sick Day 5/5, 8 PM, Schubas, 18+ v

A furry ear to the ground of the local music scene

THE MEMBERS OF Chicago jazz-fusion sextet Cordoba drive an inventive creative community with their many overlapping projects. Vocalist Brianna Tong , for instance, also sings in funky experimental ensemble Je’raf and punky trio Bussy Kween Power Trip, both of which also feature prolific Cordoba bassist Khalyle Hagood . Hagood, meanwhile, also plays in soul outfit the Devonns and synth-pop duo Gilt Drip. Vocalist and saxophonist Eric Novak makes rambunctious records under the name Dissonant Dessert , and they appear on the forthcoming debut EP from Karma Fête—a project whose core members include Cordoba keyboardist Zach Bain-Selbo. Anyway, on Wednesday, April 19, Cordoba drop their accomplished second album, In Hell , whose sumptuous textures, proggy shifts in mood and arrangement, and artsy, reflective lyrics make it one of the best Chicago albums of the year. On Friday, April 21, Cordoba headline a record- release show at Constellation.

In 2021, Gossip Wolf praised local singer-songwriter Hannah Sandoz for a series of handmade, self-released cassettes whose “hushed and atmospheric folk” deftly deployed “rustic charm and sweeping feelings of melancholy.” In late March, Sandoz released their first fulllength, a cassette called Leaving the Party Early , which they describe as “a coming-of-age story about graduating college in 2021 and moving here to build a life in the city.” The tape’s 12 songs surround their glorious melodies with found sounds that impart a specific sense of place: jostling along in a seat on the CTA on “Miss My Train,” for instance, or being stuck in the late dregs of a bogus party on “I Wanna Go.” Sandoz already has songwriting chops and command of some compelling production techniques, and now they’ve clearly mastered the art of tapping into universally relatable emotions— they’ve got a bright future ahead of them.

—J.R. NELSON AND LEOR GALIL

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