Void_church

09/01/2024

Attn. Spooky groovers! Dark electronic warlock conjures gloomy, pulsing spells designed to shake gothic ass, as indebted to Nitzer Ebb as Clan of Xymox. 

 brew potions for occult s*x practices, blending doomy riffs, lush interludes, and electronic exploration inspired by vintage horror soundtracks. 

Shadow entity GLURGE starts the evening wafting post-punkian sheets of angular, psychedelic goth-rock. 

Come revel in spooky season gloom at Tuesday, Oct. 15. Doors at 6, show at 7 sharp as Mikey Myers’ knife. $15 advance, $20 doors. Ticket link in bio. Thanks to Safe Harbor, , and for teaming up on this Epically October banger. 

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08/22/2024

Finally, an evening of seductive vampire bops. .memory makes dubby trip-hop for ghosts, blending layers of grimy, organic percussion with creeping synths and smokey jazz lounge vocals run through a tape machine inches from death.

haunt secret catacombs, pumping darkwavey synth-pop touched by the black velvet caresses of goth, EBM, and new wave.

Come worship at the Void Church Sunday, Sept. 15 . $15. All ages. Doors at 6, music at 7 SHARP AS A BLADE. (If you want all ages shows ya’ll gotta show up on time.)

Break out yr fishnets and dancing boots. Ticket link in bio.

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08/17/2024

are Pavement & Sonic Youth sloppily making out in stained glass ball pit. Catch them kicking off the evening lineup at TONIGHT. They play AT 6. FREE. ALL-AGES — THE KIDZ R ALL RIGHT.

08/16/2024

Teamed up with Safe Harbor for a killer free, early, all-ages show at Saturday at 1!

play the kind of rock and roll you could smash a beer bottle on a cop car to.* Their revved up post-punk calls to mind UK acts like IDLES and Fontaines DC with touches of Mclusky and Bear Vs Shark. Not for the faint of heart, but for full hearts to rage to.

embrace the contrasting vibes of surf rock melodies, crushing shoegaze guitars, and mid-2000’s indie full of warm nostalgia, yet distinctly their own sound. Waves of distortion and infectiously catchy vocals for swaying and hugging and reveling in the perks of wallflowerdom.**

1 p.m. Free. . All-ages.

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(*Void Church does not encourage getting caught smashing beer bottles on cop cars.)

(** Void Church does encourage wallflowerdom.)

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08/06/2024

What is Void Church? Find out at our showcase Aug. 15, where you’ll get a taste of our canonic vibe — shoegaze, goth, dreampop, psych, and beyond.

Chicago shoegaze greats combine glittering pop sensibilities with aurora-borealean sheets of fuzzy guitars, dreamy female vocals, and a driving rhythm section. Beachouse meets the Jesus and Mary Chain in Kevin Sheilds’ Siamese Dream.

Somewhere between Clairo and The Cure lies the wistful world of .days. Chicago artist Alessia Kato’s solo project is best described as danceable bedroom goth pop, and it feels like holding hands with your crush in a cemetery.

Peoria’s .sunshine are a groovy lysergic rocket on interstellar overdrive, seemingly capable of manipulating time, space, and color whilst plugged in and soaring on-stage. Early Pink Floyd talk megaliths with King Gizzard and the Wizard Lizard at the SETI Institute.

Void Church High Priestess DJ Doubleyou
( ) will spin vinyl spells from the VC repertoire between sets.

Thurs., Aug. 15 at . Doors 6/music 7. $15. Ticket link in bio.

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07/21/2024

are gazey utopian Blade Runner dream-pop. Magonlias are the blooming post-rock alter ego of legendary Iowa/Illinois shoegazers Archeress. Spend a few hours in Monet’s “Path under the Rose Arches,” Saturday, July 27 at . Early ALL-AGES show: Doors at 4, music at 5 SHARP. $20 to find Heaven in the Neon Woosh, babygurl! Ticket link in bio.

07/01/2024

Void Church wouldn’t exist without Matt Moody. Two years ago we had an idea to put on the kind of event we’d dreamed of since our days as goth-inclined teens. A vibey celebration of the dark, angsty stuff our silly hearts feel at home in. Obviously we’d hold it at the Village Theatre. For us and so many other creatives, it’s a place our hearts feel at home in, too. Because of Matt. He was immediately all in on Void Church, and worked earnestly to try to bring every crazy idea we had into reality. He did that for everyone. Matt Moody fostered dreams. If you had a creative vision he was your collaborator. Your promoter. Your stage manager. Your production assistant. Your sound guy. Your master of ceremonies. Your pie-in-the-sky idea guy. Your grounding voice of reason. Your co-conspirator. Your friend. He was kind and honest. Loyal and passionate. Funny and so talented in so many ways. Matt was full of light and love, and it came bursting out of him with those deep, unforgettable belly laughs. Hearty guffaws, if you will. We cannot thank Matt enough for helping us make our dreams into reality. For showing us and so many others that with community, ingenuity, and gaffer tape anything is possible. Godspeed, Matt. 🎩

05/03/2024

One of our favorite bands, , dropped a live album today, recorded at the on Oct. 8 2023, and it’s something special. Haunting, innovative, and damn inspiring from a musician’s perspective, this is a document of one of the best sets we’ve seen on the stage for a Void Church show, and that’s saying something. Snag yourself a copy via — link in bio. Follow , they’re working on a new record! 👻🖤⚔️
Thanks to for live sound and for the capture and initial mix.

05/02/2024

Goth Dad and return to the with for a morose matinee black lipstick trad-goth jangly guitar dance party! *deep breath* If you like early , if you wish Moz’s politics hadn’t ruined , if you want to hit harder on the dance floor you’ll get what you want this Saturday, May 4 at . Doors 4:30/music 5:30. $20. Love is all. Free Palestine.

04/30/2024

DUNGEON SYNTH side quest with Safe Harbor Thursday, May 2 . Trance-inducing and highly theatrical, conjure dark, dwarven dungeon synth from floating ossuaries beyond the thrust of their namesake. They are not to be missed. Grunnachadh’s arcane interpretations of lost Celtic hymns hang in the air like fog on the moors. And the bard Liv Carrow’s () pagan ballads will summon Brigid from her winter slumber. If you like DND, fantasy novels, chainmail, swords, castles, and candles you can’t miss this show. Ren Faire garb highly encouraged. $10, Thursday May 2 at . Doors at 6, music at 7.

04/19/2024

This is devastating. Steve Kille passed away earlier this week. are longtime void church favs, and Steve’s melodic, groove-forward bass playing made them the indisputable kings of modern psychedelic rock, with a sound all their own, which you felt and even saw floating in the air as much as you heard. I (Adam) was lucky enough to catch them three times over the years, and each time Steve graciously endured my gear gushing and technique questions. The last time — Seattle 2017 — I was able to tell him he inspired me to pick up the bass. His style influenced me more than any other bass player, and even changed the way I play guitar.

Steve was a class act. Approachable, kind, funny, and incredibly talented as both a musician and animator. Light one up and pour one out for a real one tonight, who absolutely deserves a place next to Lemmy, Geezer Butler, and John Entwistle as one of the finest bass players of heavy rock ‘n roll.

If you don’t know Dead Meadow, Void Church fans should start with 2005’s mythically lush “Feathers,” which I'll argue is a masterclass in blending heavy psych with shoegaze. After that, switch on the Lysergic Arthurian Wet Dream that is 2003’s “Shivering King and Others." Finally, finish your journey where the band started, their 2000 self-titled record, which at this point feels more to me like a magical land on the other side of some shimmering portal than an album; a Tolkien Neverland place where I’ve adventured for centuries on the other side of consensus consciousness. Steve’s bass was always a focal point of the band, but it really takes front and center on that first record.

Godspeed, Steve. Thank you so much.

04/11/2024

Ringo Deathstarr are a Turbo-Kaleidoscopic Siamese Dream of fuzzed up, riff-maxed, blissed out shoegaze. Ringo Deathstarr are My Bloody Valentine and the Smashing Pumpkins making out in slo-mo under an exploding neon sign. Ringo Deathstarr score starship demo derbies in the Hourglass Nebula. They’re from Austin, Texas.

Astrobrite are hovering legends of shoegaze—big kahunas of America’s first wave, Silver Surfing since ‘93. Guitar layers so thick they blur toward Rothko. Vocals so ethereal you’ll think your house is haunted. Bass grooves so heavy your speakers will commit hara-kiri. Astrobrite are the house band at the Large Hadron Collider. They’re from Chicago, Illinois.

She’s Green weave shimmering sylvan tapestries of reverberating awe. She’s Green are a misty encounter with the fae in a grove of willows. She's Green are the Lady of the Lake and Excalibur is a Fender Jazzmaster. They’re easily one of the best shoegaze/dream pop bands of the third wave, and you betta recognize. They’re from Minneapolis, Minnesota.

Interlay sing broken glass lullabies over spiraling descents of alt-rock guitars, simultaneously crushing and delicate in every possible sense. Interlay are the Cranberries if every song is “Zombie.” They’re from Chicago, Illinois.

Saturday, May 11 at Raccoon Motel. Doors 6, music 7 SHARP. $20. 21-plus. Ticket link in bio!

Don’t miss this dreamboat, we’re putting in some extra zazz to make it unforgettable!

04/05/2024

Time for another dark dance party, kids. V.C. proudly presents 'Net Gala, the premier gothique formal event of the season. Feat. frenetic darkwave/post-punk/goth/industrial/new wave/EBM/witch house s*xyjams by DJ Doubleyou and DJ Shane Brown, lights and decor by V.C + pals, fiendish photo ops, and more. Dig out yr s*xy vampire gowns and let's get weird Friday, April 26 at Raccoon Motel, 8-Midnight. $5. 21+

03/22/2024

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Blist Her are the finest grunge-injected shoegazing alt-rockers in the scene. The Burlington, Iowa four-piece channel the Smashing Pumpkins in '92, Catherine Wheel in '91, and Teenage Fanclub in '90 then strain it all through a Deftones filter — e.g. they totally rip! Buy their music at www.blisther.bandcamp.com and follow them on FB: Blist Her

Blist Her full set live at Raccoon Motel in DavenportAudio recorded, mixed and mastered by Devin Alexander of Void ChurchVideo made in collaboration with Voi...

03/18/2024

We're teaming up with Death In The Midwest to bring you full videos of every Void_church set from the Raccoon Motel with beautiful, pro-mixed audio by Giallows. We just uploaded our first video, a gorgeous set from dreamy Minneapolis shoegazers She's Green. Like and subscribe, or something!

She's Green are a dreamy, sylvan standout of the modern shoegaze revival. The Minneapolis five-piece cast ethereal spells inspired by communion with nature, ...

03/14/2024

In awe that we've had half the bands from this massive shoegaze festival on the stage of the Raccoon Motel. We've got some crazy announcements coming up. Philly may be shoegaze Mecca rn, but we're putting the Quad Cities on the map.

Upward years are here.

02/26/2024

🚨TIME CHANGE - Doors at 6, music at 7 SHARP! This all-ages dream is one for the history books, do not sleep on it! cast shimmering sheets of fuzzed-out, Shieldsian ecstasy. peel the yellow wallpaper to reveal a glimmering sylvan garden of reverberating bliss. would’ve signed with Creation or SubPop in ‘91 but their corporeal forms had not yet congealed on this plane. Ride the spiritual chills to heaven with us Wednesday, Feb. 28 at *ALL-AGES* $12 in advance $15 at the door. Ticket link in bio. We

01/17/2024

Our first show of 2024 is a real beaut! Sonoran desert gazers cast shimmering sheets of fuzzed-out, Shieldsian ecstasy. Minneapolis dreamgazers peel the yellow wallpaper to reveal a glimmering sylvan garden of reverberating bliss. Burlington romantic grungegazers would've signed with Creation or SubPop in '91 but their corporeal forms had not yet congealed on this plane. Ride the spiritual chills to heaven with us Wednesday, Feb. 28 at *ALL-AGES* $12 in advance $15 at the door. Doors at 7, music at 8 SHARP. Ticket link in bio. We

12/15/2023

A Yuletime dance party for alt kids, goths, cornchips, shoegazers, new wavers, witchy BBs and anyone who wears black to the family function. DJ Shane Brown and DJ Doubleyou are cooking up a mess of piping hot grooves to shake your bones to. Deck your halls dark and head to the Saturday, Dec. 23 for bangin’ holiday b***y shaker. Music starts at 8 and bops til midnight. Doors whenever because this event is FREE baby! But the Church won’t shy away from donations to help fund the bonkers s**t we’ve got planned for 2024 😈. Come get weird with all the weirdos in town — WEIRDOS UNITE. ⚔️🪦⚔️ 🖼️ by

11/19/2023

Hotline TNT’s hooky, heartbroken shoegaze evokes breakups in basement venues to the tune of tape-saturated walls of guitar. Come see why gave their record, “Cartwheel,” a best new music nod this Tuesday, Nov. 21 at . Chicago’s Sleepwalk will set the mood with their driving, reverberated shoegaze tailor made for half-tab speed runs of Silent Hill before sunrise. $15. Doors 6:30, music at 7:30 sharp. ALL AGES. Come thru to kickstart yr gravy week on the right foot. Ticket link in bio.

11/19/2023

Hotline TNT’s hooky, heartbroken shoegaze evokes breakups in basement venues to the tune of tape-saturated walls of guitar. Come see why gave their record, “Cartwheel,” a best new music nod this Tuesday, Nov. 21 at . Chicago’s Sleepwalk will set the mood with their driving, reverberated shoegaze tailor made for half-tab speed runs of Silent Hill before sunrise. $15. Doors 6:30, music at 7:30 sharp. ALL AGES. Come thru to kickstart yr gravy week on the right foot.

11/06/2023

Shoegaze BBs: and will share the stage at the Tuesday, Nov. 21. This is an ALL AGES SHOW. $15 to catch two of the finest modern gazers in the game. Doors 6:30, music at 7:30. Ticket link in bio.

10/26/2023

The Halloween Rave is cancelled this year. We love you, and we’ll catch you at the Airiel/Pink Frost/Rosie Tucker show at the Motel on Friday, Nov. 3. We have another November banger to announce soon, so keep yr eyes peeled. Happy Halloween, parishioners.

10/16/2023

Void Church x Wake Brewing combine forces on their favorite night of the year for the most memorable dark dance party this side of Blade’s Blood Rave. DJ Doubleyou and DJ Shane Brown will conjure slinky spirits among the trippy lights, fog, and spooky projections that make our shows at Raccoon Motel so special. We’re going even harder for this, and it’s FREE. Jams start at 7 p.m. at . Come in costume! Bring candy! And be ready to groove 2 the grave! **t

10/08/2023

TONIGHT! Activity and Moscow Puzzles at Raccoon Motel! Doors at 6, music at $7. KILLER spooky jams for only $10!

From the album Spirit In The Room available on Western Vinyl August 4, 2023Listen / buy https://lnk.to/spiritintheroomhttps://www.instagram.com/activity_song...

10/06/2023

Ma, we’re on the radio waves!

In this episode of "What's Happening QC," host Marc Zyla welcomes guest Adam Wesconsin, founder of the collective Void Church. Adam shares the motivation behind starting Void Church, which aims to bridge the gap in the local music scene by showcasing goth, shoegaze, and darkwave bands. Listeners get...

10/06/2023

Listening to feels like falling in love. The Chicago shoegaze legends weave sonic tapestries of oxytocin, shimmering and lush, groovy and romantic. Close your eyes and hover in high-decibel ecstasy.
Listening to feels like pointing a motorcycle at the sun and pouring on full-throttle. This is driving, effervescent, heavy guitar music from the hallowed halls of the Chicago alt-rock pantheon.
Listening to Rosie Tucker () feels like drowning week-old heartbreak in buzzing neon light. The L.A. artist's catchy, wistful guitar pop belies lyricism sharp enough to break the skin and leave a scar.
Ride the spectrum of human emotion with us on Friday, Nov. 3 at the . Doors at 7, music at 8. $15. Ticket link in bio.

10/05/2023

Brooklyn’s conjure haunting, trip hop-infused art pop perfect for trysts with shadow people. Iowa City’s rip the air with their warm, glistening sonically-youthful take on two-piece post-rock. Spirits of the prairie entwine with NYC djinn at a special Void Church Mass this Sunday, Oct. 8 . Join us for our first embrace of the Spooky after Shoegaze Summer. Doors at 6, music at 7 SHARP. $10. Let’s make out with ghosts. Ticket link in bio.

08/29/2023

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Void Church: Friday The 13th. Get spooky with D-port gothgazers , loud QC post-psych darlings , Denver dark prog rockers , and DJ Doubleyou at the turntables. Deck yrself darkly and get profane in an old church Friday, Oct. 13 at doors at 7, music at 8. $15 advance, $18 door. Ticket link coming soon! 🖼️

08/28/2023

This Thursday we are back at with dj doubleyou for a dreamy summer night. Bring your favorite shoes for us to gaze upon 💖