G.M.G. • Glitzy • Brindled • Lightninging
Wed 04/30/25
6:30PM
All Ages
music
$10 ADV // $15 DOS
Show Lineup
G.M.G.
(Chicago, IL)
Genre: Indie
G.M.G. is the solo project of Brazilian musician Andre Baptista. Emerging from the tight knit Chicago music scene, Andre recruited his friends to compose the live band further mixing retro-futurism with the project’s undeniably punk, indie aesthetic. The band is currently performing their debut record “Eagerness as Currency” released last July after kicking off their first ever live performances in October of last year. G.M.G., or Gun Metal Grey as it shows in its birth certificate, is the new big band you haven’t seen yet.
Glitzy
(Milwaukee, WI)
Genre: Alternative Rock, Indie
Glitzy is a five piece formed with influences as eclectic as their members. Their lineup of two guitars, synthesizer, drums, andbass come together to create riffy, dense, slack-rock soundscapes. They have been writing, recording, and performing in the Milwaukee DIY scene since 2022.
Lightninging
(Milwaukee, WI)
Genre: Indie, Shoegaze
Lightninging comprises various members of Milwaukee’s experimental and jazz scenes and includes current and former members of Gauss, Social Caterpillar, Frenia, The Naima, and King of Salads. The group’s widely varying musical interests and exploratory outlook produce a densely layered and continually evolving sound, in which strands of rock, jazz, electronic music, experimental music, and pop music refract each other to kaleidoscopic effect. Song structures follow a sort of warped dream logic: jagged polyrhythms give way to shoegaze-y walls of sound; a jazz-indebted dirge dissolves into a noise-laced sound collage.
Lightninging’s creative ethos is similarly layered, variously involving meticulous composition, loose improvisation, and stream-of-consciousness musings, invoking both the power of collective work and intention as well as the power of spontaneity and play; the joy of building a sonic and semantic world with your friends, wrecking the foundation and sending its building blocks tumbling to the ground, only to pick them back up again and start anew.