The Empty Bottle

1035 N Western Avenue
Chicago, IL 60622
Tel: (773) 276-3600

Empty Bottle Website

Live Music Schedule:

2/5 DJ Anthony Cozzi of Radar Eyes
2/6 Radar Eyes (Record Rel), Bare Mutants, Outer Minds
2/7 Craig Finn, Mount Moriah
2/8 The Field Auxiliary, Slow Animal, Gypsyblood
2/9 Michael Lux & The Bad Sons, The Geoff Dolce Band, Mooner
2/10 Netherfriendsj (Record Rel), Secret Colours, Vamos
2/11 The Swan King, Bridesmaid, Sun Splitter, Oyarsa
2/12 Like Rats, Czar, Lord, Sequoia
2/13 Unicycle Loves You (Record Rel), Lightfoils (Record Rel), The Grooks
2/15 The Black Belles (Logan Square Auditorium)
2/15 Tyler Jon Tyler, Nones
2/16 Veronica Falls, Brilliant Colors
2/17 Twin Sister, Ava Luna, Summer Girlfriends
2/18 Cut Hands, Bongripper, DJs Jeffrey Jinx & Tesco Jane (7pm)
2/18 Windy City Soul Club (10pm)
2/19 Cajun Dance Party! (2pm)
2/20 Royal Baths, The People’s Temple
2/21 Buxton, The Down Feathers, Spells
2/22 Slow CLub, Air Waves, Love of Everything
2/23 CSTVT, Stay Ahead Of The Weather, Castevet, Coping, Amulet, Daylight
2/24 Life & Times, Sweet Cobra, Electric Hawk
2/25 Pretty Good Dance Moves, Rambos, Pictures Of Then, Billeh Ocean
2/27 Whales, The Cell Phones, Solemn Meant Walks, My Canadian Girlfriend
2/29 James Greer, Mutts, Hosted by Harold Ray

3/2 The Twilight Sad, Young Prisms, Micha P. Hinson
3/3 The Greenhornes, Ornery Little Darlings
3/5 Wet Hair, Psychedelic Horseshit, Ed Schrader’s Music Beat
3/6 Chapter 24, The Blind Shake
3/8 Yellow Ostrich, 123
3/10 Running, Bitchin’ Bajas, Stacian
3/11 Apache Dropout, Heavy Times, ZATH, Supersonic Piss
3/14 Grimes, Born Gold
3/19 K-Holes, Bare Wires, Bezoar, DJ Bradiy
3/21 A Place Bury Strangers, Apteka, The Big Sleep, DJ bradiy
3/23 Magnetix, Xray Eyeballs
3/24 Night Beats, Sore Subjects
3/25 Peter Case & Paul Collins, Summer Twins
3/27 feedtime
3/29 Housse De Racket, Rites
3/30 Chairlift, Nite Jewel
3/31 The Hood Internet, DJ Dylan J. Peterson, MC Rota

4/4 Keep Shelly In Athens
4/6 Dinosaur Feathers, Sister Crayon
4/18 Hanni El Khatib, Sundelles

Description:

In 1992 the Empty Bottle started out as a cat-ridden hole-in-the-wall bar in Ukrainian Village (just south of Wicker Park) where you could get any one of nine beers for a buck-fifty or less, play pool for 50 cents, and find everything from Monster Magnet to Bill Monroe on the jukebox.

On Halloween of 1993, we moved two blocks up the street and threw open the doors to our new, sound-equipped, slightly larger hole with three nights of great shows, culminating with a SCRAWL performance that could have been a scene out of “Carrie.”

We’ve done a bunch of shows since then; we’ve also thrown four full-fledged proms (with RED RED MEAT as COTTON CANDY and THE GRIFTERS as PUMP ACTION RETARDS), pulled off an Independence Day cookout with TORTOISE, THE SEA AND CAKE, and 5IVE STYLE (during which we were hit by lightning and no one noticed), hosted a two-night garage extravaganza dubbed Bottle Shock, with MAN OR ASTROMAN?, THE MONO MEN, THE OBLIVIANS, and a special appearance by former Big Boy Tim Kerr and JACK O’ FIRE, and organized a summer weenie roast with COWS, GAUNT, BABE THE BLUE OX, and four other great bands.

We also hosted the highly acclaimed Chicago Homocore series, the highlights of which included TEAM DRESCH and COME. We’ve hosted six years of Improvised/Jazz music festivals that have brought folks in from all over the globe. In fact, we’ve been anything but empty since our great first year, thanks to the same low prices, lack of attitude, and dedicated regulars that made the original bar such a success.