Chicago industrial festival Cold Waves returns from September 22-25 with shows at Riviera Theater, Metro, Smart Bar and Le Nocturne. This year's lineup includes Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, TR/ST, Covenant, The Revolting Corpse (aka The Revolting Cocks' A Barker, Chris Connelly and more), Swedish band Kite, UK post-punk vets Portion Control, The KVB, Actors, Plack Blague, Light Asylum, Black Asteroid, Caustic, Rare DM, Rein, Confines and more. Festival passes are sold out, but you can still get single day tickets to shows.
As in years past, there are smaller editions of Cold Waves happening in other cities. The NYC edition happens September 15 & 16 at Warsaw with Front 242, The Revolting Corpse, Portion Control, Rein and Confines playing on 9/15, and Stabbing Westward, Actors, Kite, Leathers, and Spike Hellis playing on 9/16.
There's also Cold Waves L.A., which happens September 29 & 30 at The Mayan with Front 242, Nitzer Ebb, Xeno & Oaklander, The Revolting Corpse, Actors, High Functioning Flesh and more.
Industrial music festival at Metro :: Chicago
COLD WAVES is a celebration of Chicago’s relationship with industrial music, the memory of a fallen brother, and a fundraiser for suicide prevention charities.
In the summer of 2012, Chicago lost one of its most loved and respected sound engineers and musicians, Jamie Duffy. His work ethic and ingenuity in the local music scene was a gift to many musicians. His abrupt passing had a profound effect on the electronic and metal music communities he meant so much to. In need of healing and hope, we brought 14 bands together for one magical night that year to raise money for Jamies family and say goodbye. But in the end, it was more of an awakening... a rebirth... a breaking wave. The success of the show pushed us to build it into an annual event, stretching over a weekend and moving it to Chicago's iconic Metro.
Over the years we have hosted the return of many iconic industrial bands, as well as introduced people to a new set of innovators. Bands like Front 242, Severed Heads, Godflesh, Front Line Assembly, Fear Factory, Prong and Pop Will Eat Itself brought back fond memories and old school vibes to long awaiting fans, while other bands like High Functioning Flesh, Youth Code, 3Teeth and Author & Punisher have all made new, passionate fans on our stage. We hope to continue this co-mingling of forward-thinking, ground-breaking, classic acts alongside brand new talent, putting music and experimentation before fashion or scene, celebrating the sounds of industrial while connecting and supporting those suffering from depression, addiction, suicidal tendencies and other mental health issues.
Looking forward to our fifth year, COLD WAVES aims to shake the pillars of heaven by collecting the bands, styles, sounds and attitudes that Jamie held dear, and cement the sound of a Chicago institution alive and well. From Wax Trax! and Medusas to Uncle Al and Chicago Trax, this is our history and our future, the melding of man, woman and machine, the sound of melody, muscle and hate, basking in the glow of attack ships on fire down the shores of pluto.
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