A 5-band emo bill from all over the world. Worst Party Ever? Yes, but this will be a pretty good concert. Stacked bill. Big feelings. Too many bands to process emotionally. You’re gonna leave with a new favorite and probably a lump in your throat (but like, in a good way).

FFO: Snowing · Brave Little Abacus · Mom Jeans ❤️☠️🖤

Zao’s been doing heavy, chaotic metalcore since before half the crowd had WiFi. Loud, fast, emotional, and somehow still getting heavier.

FFO: Converge · Norma Jean · Every Time I Die ❤️☠️🖤

Ever feel like your brain won’t shut up, so you write a perfect indie rock song about it? Mal Blum gets it. Their songs are clever, raw, and catchy in that “laugh so you don’t cry” kind of way.

FFO: AJJ · The Mountain Goats · Sidney Gish ❤️☠️🖤

Kiesza broke big with “hideaway” (look it up, there’s a good chance you know it), and has been keeping dance floors weird ever since. It’s electro-pop with the kind of hooks that stick in your head for days.

FFO: Robyn · Jessie Ware · La Roux ❤️☠️🖤

Girls to the front! Febuary's coming through all the way from Las Vegas with the emo/screamo you know you love (and yes, that's how you spell it).

FFO: Saetia · Wednesday · Gouge Away

You ever feel like throwing a chair just to feel something? Good. This one’s for you. Real stomp-the-floor, clench-your-teeth, test-the-structural-integrity-of-the-venue energy.

FFO: Madball · Gulch · Knocked Loose ❤️☠️🖤

This is what happens when you pour gasoline on classic rock and light it with a Marlboro. Does anyone else hear notes of Spyro soundtrack? Just us?

FFO: Dirty Honey · The Hives · Royal Blood ❤️☠️🖤

These legends have been dragging souls through the sludge since the 90’s, and they’re not getting any sunnier. Hope you like your metal slow and filthy.

FFO: Incantation · Autopsy · Temple of Void ❤️☠️🖤

Another great Midwest lineup! Sleepersound brings the dream pop/post-rock that leans into the floaty, foggy stuff, slow builds, spaced out vibes, and that “am I in a coming-of-age film right now?” kind of energy.

Modern Tigers celebrate the release of their new album “Loss/Less.” Don’t miss out!

Skramz from the matrix. Beaming in from NYC and Pittsburgh with a sound that feels like a dial-up modem having a meltdown

FFO: p.s. you’re wrong · The Kodan Armada · teen suicide ❤️☠️🖤

Floaty, fuzzed-out and just the right kind of heart-wrecked, MX Lonely are headed to Sugar Maple for a night of shoegaze!

FFO: Whirr · Cloakroom · Soft Kill ❤️☠️🖤

Bring your heart-on-sleeve energy and maybe a friend who’s a little too into yelling along to every lyric. No judgment. We’ll be right there with you.

FFO: Hot Mulligan · Spanish Love Songs · MUNA ❤️☠️🖤

Sad? Gay? Loud? Perfect.

FFO: Mannequin Pussy · Gully Boys · That dog. ❤️☠️🖤

This band feels like the onset of the “Indie Sleaze” revolution that took over in the 2000’s. It somehow feels nostalgic and new all at the same time. (Remember the first time you ever heard Modest Mouse? It’s kinda like that) 

FFO: The White Stripes · Franz Ferdinand · Hot Hot Heat 

Ocean Sleeper is coming all the way from Australia to scream directly into your soul from our very famous stage. If you're into getting loud, getting sad, or both at the same time...see you there.

FFO: Polaris · Dayseeker · Wage War ❤️☠️🖤

Nox Novacula returns to Milwaukee for another night of Death Rock! Don’t miss out!

Oliver Francis makes vibey, emo-adjacent trap that’s perfect for blasting in your car while you overthink everything. He writes, records, and produces it all himself. Catch him on our very famous stage this August!

FFO: Bones · Wicca Phase Springs Eternal · nothing,nowhere. ❤️☠️🖤

Prepare to summon the void. This one’s a full on funeral grind sermon at Cactus Club!

FFO: Full of Hell · Wormrot · Discordance Axis ❤️☠️🖤

Dreamy but pissed about it. If your idea of catharsis involves staring at your shoes while getting emotionally walloped, this one’s calling your name. Blush are headed to Sugar Maple for a night of Shoegaze!

FFO: Narrow Head · Softcult · Cloakroom ❤️☠️🖤

Accordion, banjo, and a whole lot of punk spirit, straight from Argentina and ready to light up the room with rad folk punk.

FFO: Days N’ Daze · Gogol Bordello · Leftöver Crack ❤️☠️🖤

Imagine a breakup text set to the best pop song you’ve ever heard. Boy Jr. is Pop music that bites back. Hyperpop covers of The Killers, internet brainrot, and catchy as heck.

FFO: Tessa Violet · Half·alive · King Princess 

Are you the master of this domain? Shenanigans Trivia Co. is giving you the chance to prove it!

Chicago basement Indie Pop glowup!

FFO: Hippo Campus · COIN · Dayglow ❤️☠️🖤

Five bands. All Wisconsin. All volume. Throwdown with the locals, it’ll be fun, we promise!

FFO: Sevendust · Breaking Benjamin · Nonpoint ❤️☠️🖤

A sweaty swirl of banjos, bellows, and back-alley exorcisms lies ahead with this one. Holy Locust are headed to Club G for a night of folk punk! Don’t miss out!

FFO: Ramshackle Glory · Pigeon Pit · Amigo The Devil ❤️☠️🖤

Dirtnap Records are bringing an absolutely insane three-day fest to our very famous stage! Milwaukee Record summed it up best, check it out!

Dirtnap Records are bringing an absolutely insane three-day fest to our very famous stage! Milwaukee Record summed it up best, check it out!

Dirtnap Records are bringing an absolutely insane three-day fest to our very famous stage! Milwaukee Record summed it up best, check it out!

Chicago’s own is rolling through X-Ray Arcade like a synth-metal tornado.

FFO: Daughters · Swans · Lightning Bolt ❤️☠️🖤

If you’ve ever wanted to feel like you’re slow dancing in a dream inside a VHS tape that’s melting, this is that.

FFO: Nothing, Slowdive, Cloakroom ❤️☠️🖤

Get ready for a jam-packed night of Metalcore with Dead7!

Come light a candle and lose yourself in the fog.

FFO: Christian Death · Rudimentary Peni · T.S.O.L. ❤️☠️🖤

Straight outta the Northeast and built like a concrete wall, these hardcore bruisers bring the kind of set that feels like a basement show in a barbed wire factory.

FFO: XweaponX · Sunami · Drain ❤️☠️🖤

If corpse paint, pig squeals, and circle pits are your love language, you already know what’s up.

FFO: Cradle of Filth · Carnifex · Whitechapel ❤️☠️🖤

Imagine a punk rock ghost train driven by My Chemical Romance and Danny Elfman. If you’ve ever wanted to mosh in a velvet cape, this one’s for you.

FFO: The Dresden Dolls · Gogol Bordello · Creeper ❤️☠️🖤

Things are about to get real weird in the best way. You know him from The Cramps, The Gun Club, and Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, but this is Kid doing his own freaky thing.

FFO: The Cramps · Nick Cave · Thee Oh Sees

Hard times are coming to our very famous stage… Don’t miss Cro-Mags!

Messy, sparkly, and weirdly cathartic, this is nth wave emo wrapped in hyperpop goodness.

FFO: Jane Remover · Fraxiom · glaive ❤️☠️🖤

It’s Hell’s Bells with better outfits, Dirty Deeds done with consent, and Back in Black, but make it fashion. AC/DC walked so GayC/DC could strut.

Started as one guy and a guitar, now it’s a full-blown folk-rock crew with Chicago roots and a knack for turning sad songs into singalongs.

FFO: Mt. Joy · Caamp · The Backseat Lovers ❤️☠️🖤

Modem sounds like a cold war dance party in a neon bunker. They mix synth-pop, punk attitude, and just enough weird to keep it interesting. Catch ‘em at Club Garibaldi in Bayview!

FFO: Kælan Mikla · Boy Harsher · Tamara Luonto ❤️☠️🖤

Get ready for fall with Graveyard Gallery!

Glitchy transmissions from the occult coming in to alert you that there's post-apocalyptic synth lurking in the shadows at MKEULTRA!

FFO: Juno Reactor · This Morn’Omina · Aesthetic Perfection ❤️☠️🖤

Alright, Myspace alumni, this one's for you! Somehow it's been 20 years since Suck Out The Poison came out, and you're gonna wanna scream the entirety of it in the pit! 

FFO: The Chariot · Maylene & The Sons of Disaster · Everytime I Die

Cloakroom are headed to our very famous stage!

Knifeplay and Euphoria Again are headed our way for a night of crushing, blown-out slowcore.

FFO: Whirr · Have a Nice Life · Duster ❤️☠️🖤

Conan plays doom metal that’s slow, loud, and absolutely massive. It’s all crushing riffs, no nonsense, and yes, it will rattle your teeth in the best way.

FFO: Bongripper · Electric Wizard · Monolord ❤️☠️🖤

Denver crust metal madness! Victim of Fire are headed to MKEUltra! Don’t miss out!

FFO: Hell Gate · Warhammer · Barbarian Swords ❤️☠️🖤

This band has perfected the art of turning panic attacks into pop‑punk anthems. Spanish Love Songs are headed to Falcon Bowl in Riverwest!

FFO: The Menzingers · The Wonder Years · The Hotelier ❤️☠️🖤

Kinda dark, kinda dreamy, definitely the move if if you’re into moody tunes and low lighting.

FFO: Drab Majesty · Cold Cave · The Chameleons

Loud, retro, cool as hell…like if The Ronettes got into a bar fight with The Sonics (and won). You’ll swear it’s straight outta the '60s, but louder and way less polite.

FFO: Shannon & The Clams · Black Lips · Death Valley Girls ❤️☠️🖤

This event is sponsored by our friends at WMSE!

This one's gonna float you into a pink-hued dream dimension. Shoegaze, noise-pop, and warm fuzzy feelings all in one night.

FFO: Tamaryn · Hatchie · Glare ❤️☠️🖤

If you’re into heavy stuff with some bounce, this one’s for you.

FFO: UnityTX · Vein.fm · Knocked Loose ❤️☠️🖤

Warm, scrappy East Coast emo that makes you wanna smile and sob at the same time. You don’t need a helmet to see Sports at our very famous arcade!

FFO: Panucci’s Pizza · Michael Cera Palin · Glocca Morra ❤️☠️🖤

Don’t fear the White Reaper-Rock and roll music from Louisville, Kentucky! this ain’t your grandma’s backyard gig.

FFO: Ty Segall, Japandroids, King Tuff ❤️☠️🖤

Punk the way it’s meant to be. Loud, fast, and with something to say. It’s the kind of set that makes you want to yell along even if you don’t know the words yet.

FFO: Tilt · Bratmobile · The Distillers ❤️☠️🖤

Frankie and the Witch Fingers deal in blown-out psych-punk with new wave glitches and just enough grease to stain your soul. Wild live show, serious pedalboard chaos, zero chill.

FFO: Ty Segall · Oh Sees · Thee Sacred Souls ❤️☠️🖤

Winter makes the kind of music you put on when you’re walking home alone and pretending you’re in a movie (just me?). It’s hazy, nostalgic, and a little bit sparkly in that “I’m processing something, don’t talk to me” kind of way.

FFO: Men I Trust · Jay Som · Beach House ❤️☠️🖤

Fire up the grill… Mutilation Barbecue is headed to Cactus Club for an evening of gory death metal!

FFO: Sanguisugabogg · 200 Stab Wounds · Undeath ❤️☠️🖤

These maniacs rip full game soundtracks live while their speedrunner plays through the game in real time on stage. We’re turning X-Ray into Bowser’s Castle, so come hang!

STAGE DIVE.

Ever wish your lo-fi daydreams had a little more bite? You got it!

FFO: Built to Spill · Grandaddy · Sparklehorse ❤️☠️🖤

If you're not sweating by the third song, check your pulse.

FFO: Cleopatrick · Nirvana · Queens of the Stone Age ❤️☠️🖤

Baltimore pride, zero compromise.

FFO: Trash Talk · Turnstile · Scowl ❤️☠️🖤

Like if The Crow had a synth setup and a fog machine that never turns off. Vosh are headed to Club Garibaldi! Don’t miss out!

FFO: Boy Harsher · She Past Away · SRSQ ❤️☠️🖤

The Grogans are headed to our very famous stage! Don’t miss out!

You don’t watch this band…you get abducted by them! (into interdimensonal jams)

FFO: Gong · Boredoms · Silver Apples

The kind of singalongs that leave your throat wrecked and your soul slightly less crushed.

FFO: The Clash · Bouncing Souls · The Interrupters ❤️☠️🖤

This band has the soundtrack to your next main character moment COVERED. They’re dreamy, cinematic (like if you lived inside of your favorite indie movie), and super vibey.

FFO: Tame Impala · Local Natives · Explosions in the Sky ❤️☠️🖤

From the outer edges of the fuzziverse comes Kal-El, Norway’s heavy-hitting doom ‘n’ roll export. For fans of fuzz, Sabbath worship, and soundtracks to space battles you (probably) didn’t survive.

FFO: Monolord · Kadaver · Red Fang 

Long Island heart. Hardcore roots. All guts, no gimmicks.

FFO: Taking Back Sunday, Silent Majority, The Movielife 💔☠️🖤

Patrick Wolf makes emotional, genre-fluid art pop that somehow sounds like both a breakup and a renaissance fair. He’s been out of the game for a minute, but the new stuff’s got the same moody magic people got hooked on in the MySpace era.

FFO: Rufus Wainwright · ANOHNI · Owen Pallett ❤️☠️🖤

Skip the TV Party tonight… Black Flag is headed to our very famous stage. Don’t worry, we’ve got a Six-Pack waiting for you!

FFO: Circle Jerks · Dead Kennedys · Minor Threat (but really, do we even need this section?)
❤️☠️🖤

Weakened Friends is all big riffs, sing-alongs, and the kind of energy that makes you want to start a band with your best friends. Loud, fun, and impossible not to vibe with.

FFO: Mannequin Pussy · Slothrust · illuminati hotties ❤️☠️🖤

One minute you’re laughing at a lyric, the next you’re genuinely into the groove and wondering how you ended up in a full-blown singalong. It’s loud, it’s loose, and it doesn’t take itself too seriously. Just show up, grab a beer, and let things get a little weird.

FFO: Tenacious D · Andrew WK · Flight of the Conchords ❤️☠️🖤

The Haunt head to our very famous stage! Don’t miss out!

Filthy garage punk straight from DC.

FFO: Stiff Richards · Wine Lips · Bad Nerves ❤️☠️🖤

One part Wisconsin, one part London, fully chaotic Los Angeles energy.

FFO: Walk The Moon · X Ambassadors · Against The Current ❤️☠️🖤

After nearly 20 years of pioneering Deathcore, Ingested finally make their way to X-Ray Arcade. If you’re into blast beats, pig squeals, breakdowns, and vocals that sound like a swamp monster throwing a tantrum, don’t miss ‘em!

FFO: Dying Fetus · Aborted · Carnifex ❤️☠️🖤

Indie folk that starts off feeling kinda breezy, then sucker punches you (just a little). It’s honest, it’s catchy, and it somehow makes falling apart sound kinda hopeful.

FFO: Oliver Hazard · Knox Hamilton · Briston Maroney ❤️☠️🖤

Don’t miss Teethe at our very famous arcade!