GOSSIP WOLF

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All Time Low, Gym Class Heroes, Grayscale, Lauran Hibberd 9/23, 5:30 PM, Aragon Ballroom b

Ashnikko 9/16, 8 PM, Aragon Ballroom b

Bonzie 8/7, 7 PM, Subterranean, 17+

Caster Volor, Rebel Queens, Chains Over Razors, Lady Evil 9/2, 8 PM, Reggies

Music Joint

Cheddar, Spike Carter, Wicked Pickle 8/12, 8 PM, Chop Shop

Chicago Video Game Music Festival featuring Knight of the Round, Kingdom of Zeal, Arc Impulse, Playing With Power, Super Guitar Bros, Jer Roque, Natalie Clyne 8/12, 7 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+

Margo Cilker, Christy Hays 10/14, 8 PM, Schubas, 18+

Clem Snide 9/21, 8 PM, Szold Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b

Coral Moons 8/5, 7 PM, Subterranean, 17+

Santiago Cruz 11/7, 7:30 PM, Park West b

Darlingside 10/28, 8 PM, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b

Destroy Boys, Gully Boys, Destructo Disk 7/22, 6 PM, Metro b

Russell Dickerson 10/27, 7:30 PM, Riviera Theatre, 18+

McKinley Dixon 9/9, 8 PM, Schubas, 18+ Every Avenue, SayWeCanFly 7/3, 6:30 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+ 50 Cent, Busta Rhymes, Jeremih 9/16, 7 PM, United Center b

Fueled by Emo; Sugar, We’re a Fall Out Boy Tribute 7/8, 9 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+

G-Eazy 6/15, 8 PM, the Vic, 18+

G Flip 10/13, 7:30 PM, Park West b

Have Mercy, A Will Away 8/13, 8 PM, Subterranean, 17+

Hemlock, Waterfall King 8/20, 8 PM, Reggies Music

Joint

Justice Hill & Nighttime

Love, Basic Comfort 9/8, 9:30 PM, Hideout

Hives 11/5, 8 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+

Hoods, Brick by Brick 8/26, 8 PM, Beat Kitchen, 17+

Hulvey, Torey D’Shaun 9/6, 7:30 PM, Subterranean b

Krooked Kings 10/5, 7:30 PM, Lincoln Hall b

Lastlings, Running Touch 9/23, 10 PM, Chop Shop, 18+

A Light Sleeper, Planchette 8/6, 4:30 PM, Hideout Local Natives, Halfnoise 9/8, 7:30 PM, Riviera Theatre, 18+

Lojay 7/3, 7 PM, the Promontory b

Bruno Major 9/25, 7:30 PM, the Vic b

Mighty Poplar 9/13, 8 PM, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b

My Morning Jacket 11/9-11/11, 7:30 PM, Chicago Theatre b

Nanna, Indigo Sparke 8/1, 8 PM, Thalia Hall, 17+

Nekrogoblikon, Inferi, Aether Realm, Hunt the Dinosaur 6/2, 6:15 PM, Bottom Lounge, 17+

Stevie Nicks 6/23, 7 PM, United Center b

Nocturna 35th Anniversary Celebration featuring Adult. 6/17, 11:30 PM, Metro, 18+

Righteous Babes 8/19, 8 PM, City Winery b Riot Fest featuring Foo Fighters, Turnstile, Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, Queens of the Stone Age, the Cure, Mars Volta, Mr. Bungle, Tegan and Sara, 100 Gecs, Gaslight Anthem, AFI, Death Grips, the Used, Dresden Dolls, Say Anything, 070 Shake, Breeders, Kim Gordon, Viagra Boys, Pup, Interrupters, Silverstein, Insane Clown Posse, Parliament Funkadelic featuring George Clinton, and more 9/15-9/17, 11 AM, Douglass Park b

Rust Ring, Fever Haze, Brady 6/11, 9 PM, Empty Bottle

Skoli & the Faculty, Lexisnothere, Alaska Jules 6/3, 9 PM, Empty Bottle F So & Dumb, Brinstarr, Anita Hart 7/7, 7 PM, Schubas, 18+ Spits 8/6, 9 PM, Empty Bottle J.E. Sunde, Anna Vogelzang 7/18, 7:30 PM, SPACE, Evanston b

Corey Taylor, Wargasm, Oxymorrons 8/31, 7:30 PM, Riviera Theatre b

Teal Swan 6/10, 7 PM, Comfort Station Fb

Toad the Wet Sprocket, Marcy Playground 6/28, 8 PM, Cahn Auditorium, Evanston b

Shania Twain, Priscilla Block 7/1, 7:30 PM, Credit Union 1 Amphitheatre, Tinley Park b

Violent J, Ouija Macc, Esham 6/2, 7 PM, Chop Shop, 18+

Vive Chihuahua Fest featuring La Fiera de Ojinaga, La Maquinaria Norteña, La Energia Norteña 9/2, 7 PM, Aragon Ballroom, 17+

Upcoming

Ab-Soul 6/5, 7:30 PM, Lincoln Hall b

Angela Aguilar 6/2, 8 PM, Auditorium Theatre b

Melody Angel 6/6, 8 PM, City Winery b

Big Joanie, Frida Kill 6/2, 10 PM, Empty Bottle

Do Division Street Fest day one with W.I.T.C.H., Jesse Royal, Brainiac, Cowboys, Akasha, Beats y Bateria 6/2, 5:45 PM, Division between Damen and Leavitt b

Do Division Street Fest day two with Bobby Oroza, Cloakroom, Daniel Villarreal Group, Mspaint, Frankie Rose, Dirty Nil, Conjunto Primitivo, Daniel Romano’s Outfit, Big Joanie, SRSQ, Girls Rock! Chicago, Bonzie, School of Rock Chicago

6/3, 1 PM, Division between Damen and Leavitt b

Do Division Street Fest day three with Dan Deacon, Vundabar, Fingy, Sarah & the Sundays, Surprise Chef, Slaps, Glyders, OK Cool, Lauren Early, Nora Marks, Neptune’s Core, School of Rock Chicago West 6/4, noon, Division between Damen and Leavitt b

Evangelia, DJ Pantazi 6/9, 8 PM, Schubas, 18+ Musa Keys 6/9, 10 PM, the Promontory

Billy Prine & the Prine Time Band, Scarlett Egan 6/7, 7:30 PM, City Winery b

Riopy 6/11, 7 PM, Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music b

Yob, Cave In, Yakuza 6/6, 8 PM, Thalia Hall, 17+ v

EVER SINCE singer, producer, and songwriter Krysta Rayford , aka K.Raydio , moved to Chicago from Minneapolis in summer 2022, Gossip Wolf has been on the alert for every bit of her soulful music. She has an endlessly alluring voice, a keen melodic sense, and a knack for beats that combine classic R&B and soul from the past 20 years with splashes of almost avant-garde ingenuity. She’s issued many self-released singles, EPs, and beat tapes since 2010, including a few since arriving here, and last week she dropped the EP Metamorphosis , her most accomplished work yet. Across its six tracks, Rayford escorts her listeners through different phases of her life, sharing her idealistic childhood daydreams and her hardscrabble midwestern work ethic. These gorgeous, generous songs should earn her plenty of fans in her new town.

It’s been almost three years since Angel Bat Dawid and Oui Ennui dropped Message From the Daoui , the spectacular debut from their jazz-rap project Daoui . Earlier this month, though, Oui Ennui uploaded a new Daoui song to his Bandcamp page: the hypnotic “Lil Blk Ass Prince,” originally accompanied by a video installation that reimagines Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince as a Black story. This wolf hopes the duo will perform the song when they open for Brazilian multi-instrumentalist Hermeto Pascoal at Thalia Hall on Tuesday, May 23.

Ever pass the Logan Boulevard Skate Park under the Kennedy and wish you could see punk bands play there? Well, hang onto your butt! On Friday and Saturday, May 19 and 20, local DIY promoter Bumshows presents all-ages punk fest Shred Your Standards at the skate park.

The 15-act bill leans hard on emerging heavy Chicago bands, including Bovice, We Weren’t Invited, and Break the Cycle Shred Your Standards also includes wares from local artists and vintage resellers. Each day runs from 2 PM to 10 PM and costs $15. —J.R.

NELSON AND LEOR GALIL

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