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A new single-day festival-style event presented by Cold Waves, SPACE ECHO is a specially curated lineup with respect to FAILURE, whose groundbreaking 1996 opus Fantastic Planet reaches its 30 year milestone.
To celebrate, Cold Waves Presents has built an evening of music featuring a plethora of forward-thinking acts with ties to Failure and the city of Chicago. BARONESS, AND YOU WILL KNOW US BY THE TRAIL OF DEAD, TORCHE and SHINER have all shared enduring bonds with Chicago, while SLOW MASS calls the city home. Rounding out the bill is SPOTLIGHTS (Ipecac Recordings artists and a recent fave of Deftones Chino Moreno) with Austin’s RINGO DEATHSTARR and BLEARY EYED from Philadelphia bringing the bliss.
The original COLD WAVES FESTIVAL in 2012 was a celebration of Chicago’s darkwave/industrial/gothic music scene, a fundraiser and homage to a fallen brother, Jamie Duffy. His work ethic and passion in the local music scene was a gift to many musicians, and his abrupt passing had a profound effect on the musical families he belonged to.
Over a decade later... COLD WAVES continues to shake the pillars of heaven by collecting the bands, styles, sounds and attitudes that Jamie held dear, and cement the sound of a Chicago institution alive and well. From Wax Trax! and Medusas to Uncle Al and Chicago Trax, this is our history and our future.
Now in 2026, we embrace another part of our history via our newest endeavor; SPACE ECHO. Anyone who toured or performed with our bands, our tribe, knew that FAILURE was a big part of our enduring hearbeat. This new event pays respect to their intersection of metal, shoegaze, prog, psychedelic, experimental, dream-pop and doom, expanding the boundaries of the "alternative music genre" the band, and their contemporaries, represents.
"This is not a dream... not a dream..."
Special thanks to our sponsors, past and present:
Half Acre Brewing, Novation/Focusrite, Schecter Guitar Research, Electronic Saviors, Revolution Brewing & Riveting Music
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