Name: ESA, Nevada Hardware, [melter], DJ Veganinblack//Sat May 9 2026 Livewire Lounge Chicago
Start: 2026-05-09T20:00:00-05:00
Location: LiveWire Lounge Chicago

$ESA, Nevada Hardware, [melter], DJ Veganinblack\/\/Sat May 9 2026 Livewire Lounge Chicago$

ESA, Nevada Hardware, [melter], DJ Veganinblack
Livewire Lounge
3394 N Milwaukee Ave
Chicago
Saturday May 9 2026
8pm
21+
$20 adv/$25 doors

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ESA (UK)A fusion of hard electronic rhythms and powerful sonic hooks. ESA's heavy rhythmic style has become rooted at the forefront of the Harsh Industrial/ Power Electronics /EBM scene, predominantly owing to slews of powerful and engaging live shows and festivals spanning Russia/ Japan/ USA/ and the majority of Europe, along with 12 hard hitting critically albums.
https://www.instagram.com/jamie_esa_official/https://
linktr.ee/electronicsubstanceabusehttps://
esangp.bandcamp.com/music
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Nevada Hardware is a Chicago-based industrial breakbeat project known for fusing distorted guitars, chopped samples, and massive hook-heavy grooves. Their early-2025 release Split Scene (Thinkbreak Records) earned underground acclaim, landing top positions on year-end lists from I Die: You Die, ReGen Magazine, and A Model of Control. Nevada Hardware has built a reputation for heavy, kinetic dance music that nods to industrial, techno, and late-90s rave culture while staying sharply contemporary.
Known for high-energy live performances, Nevada Hardware delivers relentless sets that keep dancefloors moving. Live shows feature real-time sequenced video created in collaboration with multimedia artist and labelmate royb0t, tightly synced to the music to create an immersive, high-impact audiovisual experience.
https://linktr.ee/nevadahardware
https://nevadahardware.bandcamp.com
https://www.thinkbreakrecords.com/nevadahardware

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[melter] comprises Robert Hyman and Jax Allos: a sonic disturbance made of flesh, blood, and machine. Their 2023 self-titled EP ranges from the jarring, distorted rhythms and menace of dark alternative rock and industrial noise, through to the brooding atmospheres of darkwave and grinding gloom. Onstage, Hyman’s propulsive battery of live drums drives the duo’s mix of electronics and heavy distorted bass; whilst Allos stalks the stage like some menacing hybrid of Peter Murphy’s more sinister sister, and an animatronic pterosaur that threatens to malfunction at any moment.
www.meltermusic.com
https://www.youtube.com/@meltermusic
https://www.facebook.com/meltermusic/https://
www.instagram.com/meltermusic
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DJ Veganinblack’s roots are deeply planted in the Chicago goth/industrial/darkwave/electro music community. As the founder of Club LeBon, est May 2020, & currently streaming live 3 days a week via Twitch, DJ Veganinblack conjures an inclusive platform for dark underground dance music with a fresh focus on femme and LGBTQIA identifying artists. Her meticulously curated CD sets simultaneously support and explore the currentz, classix & future sounds of dark subculture through the discovery of new artists & dancefloor bangers branching from the archives. Genres & styles explored and blended in DJ Veganinblack’s sets include nugoth, coldwave, minimalsynth, tribevibe, postpunk, rhythmic noise, synthpop, industrial & global bass, retrowave, EBM, 80’s & 90’s remixed, dark & dirty electro/techno. Connect to your cosmos thru radical self expression on the dancefloor.Recently, DJ Veganinblack was the DJ support for national tours featuring Solar Fake, SRSQ, Secret Shame & Kælan Mikla/Kanga/Panic Priest. Invited festival appearances include Terminus Festival, Calgary July 2019, Cold Waves Chicago, Sept 2021& 2024, Skull Fest Detroit, Nov 2022 & Be Afraid of the Dark & Sanctum Festivals, Chicago, Oct 2023, Dark Force Fest, NJ, May 2025. DJ Veganinblack has also organized and performed at her own events at Burning Man Festival, Black Rock City NV; Late Bar, The Burlington, The Fallen Log, Livewire, Bourbon on Division & Epiphany Center for the Arts, Chicago.
linktr.ee/djveganinblack
twitch.tv/djveganinblack
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Negative Gain has been around since 1997 delivering classic industrial, EBM, darkwave, coldwave, post-punk, and goth music to the masses. In early 2011, Roger Jarvis (of KDC and HexRx) joined Micah Skaritka (of Cruciform Injection) to reboot the label.This reboot included rebranding, and restructuring of the stable of bands on the label. The first three bands on the reboot were: HexRx, Kevorkian Death Cycle, and Alter Der Ruine.
https://ngpofficial.bandcamp.com/
https://www.facebook.com/NegativeGain
https://negativegain.com//