Experience music 7 days a week at the Empty Bottle, featuring everything from Anti-pop Consortium to Trans Am, the indie-rock, electronic, experimental, jazz; post-this and pre-that.
In 1992 the Empty Bottle started out as a cat-ridden hole-in-the-wall bar in Ukrainian Village (just south of Wicker Park) where patrons could get any one of nine beers for a buck-fifty or less, play pool for 50 cents, and find everything from Monster Magnet to Bill Monroe on the jukebox.
On Halloween of 1993, the Empty Bottle moved two blocks up the street and threw open the doors to our new, sound-equipped, slightly larger hole with three nights of great shows, culminating with a SCRAWL performance that could have been a scene out of "Carrie."
The Empty Bottle has done a bunch of shows since then; they've also thrown four full-fledged proms, pulled off an Independence Day cookout (during which they were hit by lightning and no one noticed), hosted a two-night garage extravaganza dubbed Bottle Shock, and organized a summer weenie roast.
They have also hosted the highly acclaimed Chicago Homocore series, as well as six years of Improvised/Jazz music festivals that have brought folks in from all over the globe. In fact, they've been anything but empty since the great first year, thanks to the same low prices, lack of attitude, and dedicated regulars that made the original bar such a success.
