Ryley Walker • Michael Vallera
Mon 01/06/25
7:00PM
18+
music
$20 ADV // $25 DOS
Show Lineup
Ryley Walker
(NYC)
Genre: Indie Rock
Ryley Walker is an accomplished fingerstyle guitarist, singer, and songwriter from Chicago whose music and evolution as an artist have proven mercurial. He moved from noisy avant-garde work in his nascent stages into virtuosic guitar playing and floating spiritual pop that traced lines between Bert Jansch, Van Morrison, and somehow even the Dave Matthews Band. Walker’s love of the DMB was highlighted in his dark interpretations of their songs on the 2018 covers album The Lillywhite Sessions. A series of adventurous collaborations followed before Walker returned to his original solo work on 2021’s Course in Fable.
Michael Vallera
(Chicago, IL)
Genre: Experimental
Michael Vallera is a musician and photographer who lives and works in Chicago. Prolific as both a solo artist and collaborator, he has released albums under his own name and as COIN (Opal Tapes), with percussionist Steven Hess as Cleared (Immune Recordings), and with Joseph Clayton Mills as Maar (Umor Rex, Entr’acte). He is a member of the experimental rock group Luggage (Self Sabotage Reocrds). An MFA graduate of School of the Art Institute of Chicago, his work has been exhibited in Chicago, New York, Los Angeles, and elsewhere.
“head-spinning material that evoke the razor-thin liminal space between here and the hereafter.” SPIN
“an intoxicating walk down a road of rhapsodic soundscapes” Secret Decoder