Empty Bottle
Getting around
Parking nearby
- Car park — 7 min walk
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Upcoming Events
Honky Tonk All Stars with Meg and The Wheelers / Brandon Good / Rachel Swain
Doors: 7PM / Show: 8PM / 21+ RSVP DOES NOT GUARANTEE ENTRY
Handmade Market
12PM / 21+ / Free
Heavens To Betsy / Bonfire Madigan
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+ More than three decades after they founded heavens to betsy, Corin Tucker and Tracy Sawyer still have something important to say. Just as riot grrrl punk rock and feminism...
Heavens To Betsy / NO MEN
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+ More than three decades after they founded heavens to betsy, Corin Tucker and Tracy Sawyer still have something important to say. Just as riot grrrl punk rock and feminism...
Pop-Up Box Office
5PM - 7PM / 21+ Purchase fee-free tickets to any show at Empty Bottle! Stay for our devilishly great Happy Hour!
FREE MONDAY w/ Rent Control featuring Nonnie Parry / Twice Told Tale / Timelife / Tender Object Systems
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+ RSVP DOES NOT GUARANTEE ENTRY
Porcelain / Zastava / Attic Reels
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+ , "rdquo" -> Everything has changed," sings frontman Steve Pike on , "rdquo" -> Apocalypse", a track from Austin post-hardcore band Porcelain's sophomore LP, Today's Minor...
*SOLD OUT* Makaya McCraven
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+ Makaya McCraven is a prolific drummer, composer and producer. His newest album, In These Times, is the triumphant finale of a project 7+ years in the making. It's a preemi...
Packaging / Discus / Leo
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+Packaging is the duo of Daniel Lyon and Connor Birch. Their debut albumPackagingfusespsychedelic textures, krautrock chug, electronic grandeur, tuneful accessibility, and j...
Hard Country Honky Tonk with The Hoyle Brothers
FREE // 21+
Omni (Deluxe 10 Year Anniversary)
Doors: 9PM / Show: 10PM / 21+ Ten years on, Omnis Deluxe is a bit of a paradox; Its an island of a record with a fully formed untethered-to-any-scene unique quality but I hear its influence everywhere...
Melkbelly XL (Sitzpinkler) / Duck!! / Haruhi / Wild Zero
Doors: 9PM / Show: 10PM / 21+
Blue Earth Sound (Album Release) / PXM / Ferny DJ Set
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+
Bears vs Saints At The Bottle
DOORS 11AM / KICK OFF 12PM / 21+ / Free Ben Johnson you saved my life please come see a show sometime
Kathryn Mohr / Lula Asplund / Anna Johnson
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+ The music of Oakland-based artist Kathryn Mohr exists in a liminal space of auditory dissociation. Drawing inspiration from lost items washing up on the shore of the San F...
FREE MONDAY w/ The Part Timers / Prathloons / Petsit
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+ RSVP DOES NOT GUARANTEE ENTRY
Rivkah Reyes / mozey
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+
Jaff Graffner (Album Release Show) / Earl Gary / AJ / Jacob Ciocci DJ Set
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+
*SOLD OUT* Petey USA / Linus Hablot
Doors: 9PM / Show: 10PM / 21+ Petey USA is an American singer, songwriter, and producer whose music blends sharp storytelling, emotional honesty, and massive indie-rock hooks into a sound that feels b...
Uniflora / Instrument / Laliberté
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+
Michael Meyers Stand Up Comedy Special Recording (Early Show)
Doors: 6PM / Show: 7PM / 21+ Beloved Chicago stand up comedian, Michael Meyers, records his next comedy special at the Empty Bottle! A regular on stages throughout the city, Meyers has spent the last ...
Michael Meyers Stand Up Comedy Special Recording (Late Show)
Doors: 9PM / Show: 930PM / 21+Beloved Chicago stand up comedian, Michael Meyers, records his next comedy special at the Empty Bottle! A regular on stages throughout the city, Meyers has spent the last...
Citric Dummies / Lost Legion / Lavender / The Alices
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+
Krampusnacht feat. Wild Earp & the Free for Alls / Iris Marlowe / MEoW Puppet Show / MC Santa
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+
Dos Santos / Fachoso / Dj Wero
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+ Chicago--based quintet---Dos Santos---has long invited audiences to listen at the edges of Latin music, making the unfamiliar familiar. Formed in 2013, their music brings ...
Bears vs Jaguars At The Bottle
DOORS 11AM / KICK OFF 12PM / 21+ / Free Ben Johnson you saved my life please come see a show sometime
Whitmer Thomas with comedy from Clay Tatum
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+
FREE MONDAY w/ Answering Machines / Oildrum / Pebbles Inc
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+ RSVP DOES NOT GUARANTEE ENTRY
Genre Is Death / The Art Gray Noizz Quintet
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+ Genre Is Death (NYC) is a limitation-destroying noise band formed by Ty Varesi (guitar, vox) and Tayler Lee (bass, vox). Their sound is abrasive and malignant--- using hea...
JEFF The Brotherhood
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+ JEFF the Brotherhood is back for the first tour in years playing songs from the 1st 2 LPs: Heavy Days and We are the Champions.
HEATHEN AXE / Prime Angel Weather / Mild Violence / DJ Bill Roe
Doors: 9PM / Show: 10PM / 21+HEATHEN AXEJOHN DWYER GUITAR, VOCALS & NOISE MACHINESTOM DOLAS BASS, TAMBOURINE & CLAPSJOHN HODGE DRUMS
FACS / PARKiNG / TEMPS.
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+ Chicago trio FACS use minimalism and space to create abstract, modern art rock. The group evolved out of the dissolution of kranky artists Disappears & the current lineup ...
Bears vs Dolphins At The Bottle
DOORS 11AM / KICK OFF 12PM / 21+ / Free Ben Johnson you saved my life please come see a show sometime
Rat Tally / Hearthands / Giant Pit of Glass
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+
John Cicora and the Nootka Sound / Fina
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+
Oscarbate Film Collective Presents: The All-Chicago Tenants Alliance Fundraiser
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+ Featuring DJ sets by Casper McFadden / Cocojoey & Mukqs Oscarbate and ACTA join forces to re-alive their mysteriously shuttered fundraiser! This time, no landlord-controll...
FREE MONDAY w/ Bursting / French Inhaler / Sour House / Palace Guard
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+ RSVP DOES NOT GUARANTEE ENTRY
Music Trivia with Brendan and Sean
Doors: 530PM / Show: 6PM / 21+ RSVP DOES NOT GUARANTEE ENTRY Music Trivia with Brendan and Sean returns to Empty Bottle after more than a year away. In that year, Brendan and Sean have diligently been...
Avantist / Beastii / Flash Flash Comfort
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+
The Spits / Uranium Club
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+ NEW YEARS EVE WITH THE SPITS & URANIUM CLUB In an era that relies so heavily on quick-hit bands, there are very few things that are truly part of the subculture and not ju...
Stomatopod / Prichard / The Most Distant Object / The Fuzzbox DJs
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+
Don't Want To Go Fest 4 featuring Pure Intention / Heet Deth / Babe Report / Bog Power
Doors: 9PM / Show: 10PM / 21+
Don't Want To Go Fest 4 featuring daarling / Plum / Tapegun / Snowcuffs
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+
FREE MONDAY w/ Astrobrite / Fauvely / Emily Jane Powers
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+ RSVP DOES NOT GUARANTEE ENTRY
MANCHO sounds / Charlie Otto / Ryan Behling / Chromabeats
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+
*MOVED TO THALIA HALL* Anna von Hausswolff
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+ Anna von Hausswolff is a Swedish musician and composer whose work carves out space for the celestialand the transcendent to enter into the modern world. Following her brea...
Willi Carlisle
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+ The Golden Dragon Buffet Tour With a heavy-duty catalog of new material for a career first double album, The Universal Bubba marks a half dozen releases for folksinger Wil...
Girl Ultra: el Tour de RRRomeo
Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+ Anna Johnson celebrates the release of her debut LP Swarm of Tongues, out October 2 on Somnimage. She will be accompanied by Paige Naylor, Ben Baker Billington, and Andrew...