Music Frozen Dancing 2025

It’s a very Chicago thing to spend the last Saturday of February standing out in the cold in a street music festival to dance along with punk and hard pop and synth bands. But we love Music Frozen Dancing every year.

The Empty Bottle (previously) puts on the free music festival every year and every year I go with friends and and every year someone takes a photo from the next door building and every year we give them the finger and every year I get so cold I almost want to leave and every year I find new bands that I listen to on repeat.

Oh and also every year Ned has us over for coffee and a cocktail before we head out into the cold and it sets the tone just right.

This year’s lineup:

Clickbait

Definitely some of the best costumes I’ve ever seen - at a show of any size: human-sized eyes, a mouth with cigarette, and a nose with boogers. Fun bops, but kinda sound all the same.

Double Over

Only played a couple songs for some reason?

Landowner

This was a new find for me and I liked their East-Coast punk synth rock. The lead singer kept my attention.

Bib

Good, standard punk rock with some good instrumentalists on that stage.

Egyptian Lover

I had heard his music before but never seen him live. Damn, it was fine to hear everything groove together with only, like, 4 different tones per song. He had the whole crowd dancing.