SOTW PRESENTS: Indie-pendent Dance Party at Beauty Bar Saturday!

Attention Chicago party people! Like the above artists? Wanna dance your pants off this Saturday? 

Join Stic-of-the-Week at Beauty Bar Chicago for music from Greg Corner (Dark Wave Disco) and Derek Berry (Rehab Mondays) and other guests...(TBA). No cover with RSVP at DO312 (click here to RSVP) and Hosted Old Style from 9 - 10 PM. 

We'll be raging from 9 -2 AM, so come ready to party!

Krewella at the Aragon Saturday

Krewella will be at the  this Saturday, November 16 as a part of the Get Wet tour featuring Seven Lions and Candyland. For tickets and more information, click here! 

What shows are you seeing this weekend? 

My Gold Mask - Severed

Check out Chicago electronic pop, My Gold Mask's new single, Severed! The track has a dreamlike quality that is perfect for a lazy afternoon or chill night and we cannot get enough.

#supportchicagoartists

Free Stream: Infinity Shred - Sanctuary

Infinity Shred, the "synth pop" trio from NYC is gearing up to release their second album, Sanctuary, on September 10. However, you can stream the album in its entirety below until the release date! Enjoy, because this album is stellar. 

Adrian Lux headlining Webster Hall, July 20th.

Get ready for this lush and mood lifting DJ/Producer to play his second show in NYC this summer. Adrian Lux, grammy-nominated and california chill vibes artist, is going to be playing an excited show this Saturday! What makes him especially cool is that he's only 27 and he knows how to combine his passion for electronic lullabies and rock and roll guitar melodies into symphonic tracks. Check out the video to his newest single damanged, which comes off his second album that is to be released later this year.

Saturday, July 20 2013

10pm-4am
Webster Hall

Spring Awakening Announcement!

In addition to posting the daily line-ups, Spring Awakening has also announced their official after parties for this year's festival! Spring Awakening is just around the corner starting on Friday June 14 and ending Sunday the 16th. Be sure to grab your tickets from clubtix here if you have not already. 

The daily line-ups for Spring Awakening are as follows:

Friday:

MOBY DJ | BINGO PLAYERS | DJ BL3ND | CARNAGE | DEAN COHEN | DIRTY SOUTH | JOHN DAHLBACK | NERO (dj set) | PANTY RAID | R3HAB | ROBBIE RIVERA | ZOMBOY 
Danger Wayne | Digital Departure | Ekho & JWorra | Justin Reed | Konrad Gainnes | Louis the Child | DJ Magix | Milk N Cookies | Paul Universe | Peter Kontor | Popsh!t | RAdiohiro w/MC Zulu | DJ Rozz | Striz 

Saturday:

BASSNECTAR | 12TH PLANET | AN21 & MAX VANGELI | AUTO BODY | DOTEXE | FELIX DA HOUSECAT | FLOSSTRADAMUS | GRAMATIK | GREEN VELVET | LUCKY DATE | NERVO | NICKY ROMERO | OLIVER | PAUL OAKENFOLD | SAVOY (live) | WALDEN | WOLFGANG GARTNER | ZEDD | ZEDS DEAD
Adam Abstrakt | Bisharat | Dakota | Don Dada | Jack Trash | Kings of Class | Knuckle Children | Mighty Thor | NaPalm w// Sephano & Torio | PHNM | Robots on the Run | Ryan B | DJ SOLO | Stratus | Team Bayside High | The Dub Knight | Xposur

Sunday:

CALVIN HARRIS | ATB | BOYS NOIZE | BREAK SCIENCE | CHUCKIE | CLOCKWORK | EXCISION | FIGURE | GREEN LANTERN | JOACHIM GARRAUD | KREWELLA | MINNESOTA | MORD FUSTANG | NATHAN SCOTT | ORCHARD LOUNGE | PORTER ROBINSON | SHOWTEK | STAFFORD BROTHERS | TOMMY TRASH | TOPHER JONES
Alex Kislov | Boji | Compact Disco | Enoptix | Erik K | Gun Love | Gus Karas | DJ Intel | LoBounce | Mario Florek | NORdjs | Porn and Chicken | Ramsen | Regulators | Trentino | Xonic | Yos

The official after-party announcements are as follow:

Friday:
Moby & Revolvr at the MID
PANTyRAiD & Zomboy at House of Blues
Dirty South at SpyBar
DJ Blen at Volkan

Saturday:
Nicky Romero at the MID
Zeds Dead with Salva at House of Blues
Cajmere at SpyBar
Nervo at Palladium

Sunday:

Calvin Harris at the MID
Excision and Minnesota at House of Blues
Boys Noize at SpyBar

**after-party line-up information courtesy of youredm.com

Unveiling the Conspiracy

Stic catches up with Mikul and Louis from Midnight Conspiracy on the upcoming Spring Awakening festival, exciting summer plans, and the meaning behind their stage presence.

Photo Credit: Christopher Free

SOTW: This summer Soldier Field will house the first Spring Awakening music festival. What are your thoughts on the festival’s potential and playing a large venue like the stadium?

 

MC: I remember watching the Depeche Mode 101 documentary as a kid and seeing their massive shows on the Music for the Masses tour in other stadiums like the Rose Bowl, and thinking "now that's majorly epic." Hopefully in Spring Awakening we'll have the return of arena rock but instead of bands like The Cure and Depeche Mode, you'll have DJs and electronic acts. Boy, things have changed.

SOTW: What are your opinions on the overall artist selection at Spring Awakening?

MC: It’s a pretty solid, awesome lineup. As opposed to other festivals it will be all EDM (electronic dance music), which is exciting. Lollapalooza has a lot more mainstream bands. This will be the first fest in Chicago that is pretty much all electronic.

SOTW: In your opinion, what is the best thing a fan can do during a live Midnight Conspiracy performance? What do you like to see when looking at the crowd?

MC: Go HAM, as the kids like to say these days. We like seeing crowd surfing; mosh pits are also great. At Lolla there was a pretty big mosh pit when we performed so hopefully we can repeat that at Spring Awakening.

SOTW: Can you explain your stage presence and props used such as the illuminated pyramid that contains the outline of an eye?

MC: We have a 16-foot eye in the shape of our triangle logo that we perform out of, for our "Eye Live" shows. It has LEDs and a full on laser light show. The Midnight Conspiracy logo (a pyramid with an eye) is far from the Illuminati stereotype that people associate with it. If you listen to our intro from our shows, it suggests there's an elite few, a new world order, that overly influences our lives, and our eye represents the truth and inner vision to expose these oppressors. The "all seeing eye" has been used long before its association with the Illuminati.

SOTW: What is your favorite festival attire when performing and/or attending?

MC: We get a lot of clothes from All Saints like leather jackets, jeans and shirts. So, we’re usually rocking that, but black leather isn't always the best in the heat of the summer. At North Coast Music Festival we were coordinating black outfits, but it was so hot, I had to rip off my shirt and leave a bare chest and stomach under my leather. It was my trashiest moment. Hopefully there won't be a repeat of that.

SOTW: Summer is right around the corner; what are your goals and excitements for summer 2012?

MC: Spring Awakening will kick off the summer. We’ll also be releasing a new single called "Eyes in the Sky", a new EP as well as all the remixes for our last single, "The Eye."