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WILD BELLE

BY ALYSSA GIRDWAIN

Chicago-born siblings Natalie and Elliot Bergman will be performing on familiar turf at this year’s Tomorrow Never Knows. Since the release of their debut album Isles in 2013, Natalie has taken her tales of love-wrecked angst into the studio, crucifying the men who did her wrong in the process. The result is Dreamland, Wild Belle’s sophomore album that is much more grit-ridden than the band’s last lighter, more Bohemian reggae affair. New single “Giving Up On You” gives fans a taste of the new direction with added punk to the tropic flair and, according to Elliot, “sharper teeth.”

WITH FEE LION
9 PM LISTEN
$18-$20 TICKETS

VANCE JOY

BY OLIVIA SCHROEDER

From earning a degree in law school to becoming a multi-platinum artist, James Keogh (a.k.a. Vance Joy) is riding the waves of his success. Though music may have started as a hobby, the Melbourne-raised indie folk artist shortly turned it into a five-album deal with Atlantic Records. Since then, Joy has been keeping busy touring with Taylor Swift while planning his own 2016 headlining tour after a re-release of his 2014 debut LP, Dream Your Life Away. This time around, the LP features his newest single “Fire and Flood,” which consists of percussion that packs a punch, subtle harmonies, and emotionally charged lyrics that tell an epic story.

WITH REUBEN AND THE DARK
7:30 PM LISTEN
$35 TICKETS

TORTOISE

BY KEVIN GREENE

After more than five years of relative silence, Tortoise are finally putting the finishing touches on a new album. The Chicago band is in the midst of their third decade of defying genre tastes with equal parts precision and inspiration. Technique, an underappreciated musical characteristic, has always played an essential role in Tortoise’s confounding and captivating catalog. In a city that might be better known for its contribution to dance music and industrial metal, Tortoise’s omnivorous appetite for everything from jazz to drum and bass might just make them a leading representative of Chicago’s eclectic musical history.

6:30 & 10:15 PM LISTEN
$20 TICKETS

TORRES

BY KEVIN GREENE

Mackenzie Scott is intense. She’s one of those girls who would kick your ass and then go write a crushing love song about how the beating mauled her soul more than it bruised your flesh. This year she released Sprinter, a worthy follow-up to her alternatingly smoldering and explosive self-titled debut. “I was all for being real but if I don’t believe than no one will,” she intones on album opener “Strange Hellos,” which perfectly captures her brand of grungy Southern rock. While Scott’s lyrics may give some listeners pause, it helps to think of her as a warrior wielding damaging riffs…not against you, but against her own inner demons.

WITH PALEHOUD + JULIEN BAKER
9 PM LISTEN
$15 TICKETS

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