CrowdMateChicago’s September 3–6 concert weekend begins with a particularly clean two-night proposition at Schubas Tavern. Thursday, September 3, brings Discus, Memory Card and Poolish for a High Five Presents bill; Friday, September 4, follows with Black Milk, Fat Ray and Thelonious Martin. The bookings pair two sharply different bills in the same room, which is exactly their value as a short opening-weekend route: Thursday is a local showcase with a stated $5 ticket premise, while Friday places a Detroit rapper-producer on the road behind a new album. For listeners who want two concentrated nights before the long weekend fills out, Schubas makes the case for committing to one address twice.[1][2][3][6]
The Thursday show starts at 8 p.m., following 7:30 p.m. doors, and is listed as 21+. High Five Presents describes its series as a limited run of $5 shows highlighting local artists. Discus arrives with Chicago identified as its home base on the group’s own page, and the bill puts the band alongside Memory Card and Poolish. That framing matters: this is a chance to hear a three-band local lineup in the room’s early-evening slot, with the modest ticket price as a central part of the program.[1][4]
Discus’s Bandcamp catalog supplies a useful entry point for Thursday. Its releases and track list include titles such as “To Relate To,” “On Tour,” “Blood on the Interstate” and “Hope to Death,” a record of work that invites listeners to arrive with a few reference points while leaving interpretation open. The official venue listing supplies the concrete shape of the night—Discus first on the poster, with Memory Card and Poolish—and tags the event as local. It is the kind of bill where the opener-to-headliner sequence is itself the reason to get in on time.[1][4]
Friday’s Detroit connection
Friday shifts the scale and the frame. Black Milk’s 9 p.m. Schubas Tavern appearance is part of his Ceremonial tour, with doors at 8:30 p.m. and an 18+ admission policy. His official tour page lists Chicago on September 4 between Toronto on September 2 and a Hopscotch Music Festival appearance in Raleigh on September 11. The venue’s lineup adds Fat Ray and Thelonious Martin, giving the date a pointedly collaborative cast around Black Milk’s headlining set.[2][3]
Fat Ray’s presence carries particular context. Black Milk and Fat Ray released the joint 2025 single collection The Recipe, whose credits name the pair as writers and Black Milk as producer, mixer and mastering engineer. That shared credit makes Friday feel connected to an active creative relationship that informs the support-slot pairing. Black Milk’s current album, Ceremonial, was released May 8, 2026; its credits list Black Milk as writer, producer and performer, with additional contributors including BJ the Chicago Kid and Chicago’s Saba. The Chicago stop thus arrives with both a current album and a recent Black Milk–Fat Ray collaboration in view.[3][5][6]
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Make the two-night route
Treat Thursday and Friday as separate entries with a practical common center. Discus, Memory Card and Poolish begin Thursday, September 3, at 8 p.m.; Black Milk, Fat Ray and Thelonious Martin begin Friday, September 4, at 9 p.m. Schubas Tavern is at 3159 N. Southport Ave. The Thursday listing is 21+, while Friday is 18+, so check the age policy before choosing a night. Recheck Schubas Tavern’s official event pages and the artists’ official pages for tickets, door times, lineup changes and any other changeable information before heading out.[1][2][3]
These concerts happened on 3–4 September 2026
The next dates at these venues: Schubas Tavern
Sources
- 09-03-2026 High Five — Schubas Tavern / Lincoln Hall
- 09-04-2026 Black Milk — Schubas Tavern / Lincoln Hall
- Black Milk Official Site — Black Milk
- Music — Discus
- The Recipe — Black Milk & Fat Ray
- CEREMONIAL — Black Milk