DOUG STANHOPE
Doug Stanhope is a stand-up comic. Has been since 1990.
His material ranges from true-life graphic perversion to volatile social criticism. Doug is vulgar, opinionated, brutally honest and shockingly uninhibited and is certainly not for everybody. He started his career in Las Vegas doing jack-off jokes for free drinks. Not much has changed, save for the mullet.
Doug has built a wide-ranging television resume of dubious achievement. He hosted The Man Show on Comedy Central as well as the ubiquitous pseudo-porn for the sexually crippled, “Girls Gone Wild”, both solely and shamelessly for financial gain. He has appeared on “The Howard Stern Show”, “Comedy Central Presents”, “Premium Blend”, NBC’s “Late Friday”, “Spy TV” BBC’s “Floor Show Live” while on ecstasy and wrote, produced and starred in Fox’s “Invasion of the Hidden Cameras” and has even popped up on “Fox News with Greta Van Sustern” and “The Jerry Springer Show”. In 2010, he was the Voice of America on the BBC’s “Charlie Brooker’s Newswipe”.
None of it compares to seeing him live; Doug is a two-time winner of Time Out New York’s “Best Comedy Performance of the Year”.
He’s appeared at multiple major comedy festivals including Montreal Just For Laughs, Aspen US Comedy Arts, Chicago Comedy Festival and the Edinburgh Festival Fringe Scotland, where he won the Strathmore Press Award for Best Act of the Fringe in his debut year.
Selected by both Variety and the Hollywood Reporter as one of the Top Ten Comics To Watch, Doug has released four CDs and three DVDs including “No Refunds” on Showtime in 2008.
DJ SEAN ROE
DJ SEARCHL1GHT
DJ SHANNON
DJ SHAUN T
DJ SKOODA
SLUGO
Thomas ‘DJ Slugo’ Kendricks was born on Chicago’s South Side. With 20 plus years in the game, he is one of the original creators of a music style commonly known as ghetto house or more recently regarded as juke. Deriving from old school house, it is steeped with nuances from ghetto life traditions and descriptions. In 1992, he released his first truly professional mix tape, Ghetto Mix Part III. This tape landed in the hands of Ray Barney, CEO of the infamous Chicago-based Dance Mania label, resulting in a long stream of releases there, and affording DJ Slugo the freedom to form his own outlet, Subterranean Playhouse. Stepping to his own beat, he has remained a tireless staple of the genre he helped shape.
DJ SPS
DJ TONY MACIAS
DJ TORNADO
DJ TOURE
Dj TREW
DJ V-DUB
DJ WARP
DJ WHITE LIGHTNING
DJ WORD
DJ WYLLYS
DJ YENDOR
DJ ZEBO
DJ ACUCRACK
DJAPPEL FEAT. KIM IN WONDERLAND
DJM TRIO
DJS
DJS JOE VOR-TECH & MR. AUTOMATIC
DOCTOR DON & THE BOOGIE MONSTERS
DOCTOR, THIS VIRUS IS SILENCE
DOGGYBAG
DOMMIN
DON CABALLERO
DON GIBSON
DON OF THE KNOTTS
DON RUSSIAN
DON’T PANIC
Don’t Panic is a rock & roll / pop punk band which formed in the Pocono Mountains of northeast Pennsylvania in 2009. Named after the Douglas Adams’ favorite novel of founding vocalist/guitarist Ted Felicetti, Don’t Panic began as an endeavor, where making genuine, fun rock and roll music came first and everything else second. Joining Ted were Keith Slader (bass), Anthony Paesano (drums) and AJ Larsen (guitar). After a short hiatus ending in 2019, The band released their first full length effort ‘See Through It All’ in 2020 and then a follow up full length with ‘Dark Horse’ in Sept 2021. Drawing off their collective influences from bands like Bayside, Millencolin, Foo Fighters, & No Use for a Name, Don’t Panic’s third full length album ‘Setting up to Fail’ is set to release on August 25th, 2023, after a very busy year and a half out on the road touring in the U.S and U.K and performing with the likes of Less than Jake, Bowling for Soup, The Ataris, The Spill Canvas, Face to Face, Alien Ant Farm, Lit, Mest and tons others. What’s next? An open road and good times with a Miller Lite and our friends. Because that’s all that really matters.
DIVEBAR
Williams traveling through time and having a beer with Joe Strummer. Then imagine that they decide to rent a Pinto and drive cross-country, and along the way they pick up Keith Richards and Robbie Robertson. Somewhere outside of Wichita, they run into Aretha Franklin, and she decides to come along for the ride too, but since it’s only a 4-seater, they have to strap her to the roof. None of that describes Divebar in the least, but it’s hilarious to picture two dead guys driving a Pinto while the Queen of Soul rides on the roof like Teen Wolf. Also, she’s wearing a halter top.
Actually, Divebar is an alt-country band out of Chicago, similar in style to Wilco and Lucinda Williams. Since their formation in 2003, Divebar has built an impressive following with their crafty songwriting, rich vocal harmonies, and energetic stage presence. Their unique sound is influenced by each of the band members’ diverse upbringings – the music conjures up images of the vast plains of Kelly’s Texas, the rich farmland of Chris’ Iowa, the carefree charm of Matt and Dan’s small-town Wisconsin, and the ample parking of Aric’s Evanston.
DJ ADAM BLACK
DJ ARTURO
DJ BRIAN KELLY
DJ BROADWAY STREETZ
DJ BROCK
DJ CHILL WILL
DJ COFFIN BANGER
DJ COOCH
DJ CRAIG ALEXANDER
DJ DAMON LOCKS
Dj DARRYN
DJ DESTRUCTION
DJ EDDIE RIOT (NEO)
DJ ERIK FRIEDLY
DJ GITANA
DJ IZZO
DJ J LEE
DJ JOHN CIBA
DJ JOHNNIE MO
DJ KAMAR
DJ KING & SPECIAL GUEST
DJ KOOL ANT
DJ LLOYD DEV
DJ LUDUS LOVESTYLE
DJ MAMA C
DJ MANNCHILD
DJ MONKY
DJ NOIR
DJ PNS
DJ RUDE ONE
DJ SCARY LADY SARAH
Scary Lady Sarah is a nightclub DJ & party promoter (winner of Chicago Nightlife Awards’ “Best DJ 2016.”) Primary musical focuses are: goth, industrial, EBM, shoegaze, deathrock, ethereal, synthpop/wave, darkwave. Her club event Nocturna has been running continuously since 1988. She also plays rhythm guitar & sings with The Bellwether Syndicate.
DJ SCENERY
DJ SEAN MAC
GSA Midwest Club Dj of The Year:: Shadyville Dj † Nike Dj † Tastemaker † Designer † The Academy † Coors Light Ambassador † Party Rocka † God 1st
DIABLO BLANCO
DIAGON ALLEY
Currently Based in Chicago, Diagon Alley is a Wizard Wrock Band with strong punk rock influences and a controlled wrecklesness. We enjoy broadening our musical horizons and encompasing different styles and flavors into our music (like a giant tasty potion of audible goodness). So if your interested in what you hear, stick around, you might just hear something familiar, and yet completly different….
DIAGRAM OF TRUTH
DIALOGUE
DIAMOND PLATE
DIAMOND PLATE formed in 2004 in the southwest suburbs of Chicago. DIAMOND PLATE unknowingly arrived at the right time, just as thrash-metal was beginning to make a huge comeback worldwide. Due to the ferocity of their music, coupled with a revived hunger for thrash, DIAMOND PLATE quickly established themselves as one of the top forces in the emerging U.S. thrash metal scene.
DIAMOND REXX
Singer Nasti Habits created the original four-member lineup in 1985. Four months after their first live show the band signed a management deal with Mark Nawara and Jim Sperandio who then got the band signed to Island records, and with the addition of bassist Andre and drummer Johnny Cottone they released their debut album Land of the Damned in 1986. In 1989, the band signed to the independent Red Light Records, where they released their second album Rated Rexx in 1990. The band went on hiatus in the 1990s, but Habits formed a new line-up in 2001, now with S.S. Priest on guitar, Basil Cooper on bass and background vocals and Billy Nychay on drums, the band’s now influenced by alternative metal. This line-up recorded the Rexx Erected album, released on the Diamond label, after which Cooper left to be replaced by Tommy Hanus. The Evil was released in 2002 on Crash Music. In 2006 bassist Tommy Evans joined the band, and the following year, original drummer Johnny Cottone returned on drums. The band then went dormant and remained quiet over the next few years. In 2009 the original line-up of Habits/Andre/Priest/Cottone reunited for a twenty-year anniversary show.
DIATRIBE
DIES MALI
DIESEL
DIGITA
DILLINGER ESCAPE PLAN
Fuck those Beatles squares: New Jersey’s DEP are incontrovertibly the greatest band the world has ever seen. The evidence is threefold. One: they mash together squiddly jazz guitars, death metal and ‘challenging’ time signatures into a huge spiky ball of noise. Two: on their new EP, Faith No More/Tomahawk nutjob Mike Patton runs around in a gas mask screaming how much he hates Hollywood. Three: herein is a version of Aphex Twin’s ‘Come To Daddy’ which makes the original sound like Charlotte Church.