The Hideout’s September 10–11 route from cosmic ensemble music to Container’s noise-techno pressure

The Hideout offers a compact experimental-music route on Thursday, September 10, and Friday, September 11: first, Spiral Galaxy’s record-release gathering with Bobby Conn, SiP and DJ Fiendish Thingys; then Container with easygoingtech, Anti-Soul Organization and 11111111111. The pairing is useful because it traces two live-scale approaches to electronics across a single room. Thursday builds outward through collaborators and long-form instrumental color. Friday concentrates energy into the collision point of techno, noise and punk-minded volume. Both bills fit the venue’s long-running habit of presenting indie rock, punk, free jazz and performance-oriented music in close proximity.^{[1][2][3][4][5]}

Spiral Galaxy’s release-night constellation

Spiral Galaxy opens the route at The Hideout on Thursday at 7 p.m. The bill centers the Chicago project’s new LP, Spiral Galaxy II, a collaboration led by flutist Sara Gossett and Plastic Crimewave on guitar, keyboards and machines. The venue describes the record as a long-form excursion through kosmische rock, astral folk and minimalism, with a group of musicians who appeared on the album joining the release-show performance. That structure gives the night a clear reason to arrive early: the supporting sets are part of the record’s wider circle, framing the album’s collaborators as a full-evening community. That collective framing is central to the appeal of a one-night release performance.^[1]

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Bobby Conn in an experimental role

Bobby Conn’s place on the Thursday program helps locate Spiral Galaxy within a particular Chicago lineage. The Hideout says Conn produced and played on the new album, and that he and violinist Monica BouBou will headline with an experimental sound excursion. Conn emerged from Chicago’s No-Wave and performance scene during the 1990s; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago characterizes his work through theatrical presentation, satirical writing and experimental soul-based art rock. His 2025 album Bobby’s Place also moves between extended psychedelic pieces and concise conceptual rock songs, a range that makes this guest appearance feel closely aligned with the bill’s exploratory design.^[1][3][5]

Container’s late-week jolt

Container follows at The Hideout on Friday at 7 p.m. Ren Schofield’s project has been described as experimental techno built from distortion, broken rhythm and noise, later developing into an electro-punk form with traces of melody. That description makes the second night a useful counterpart to Spiral Galaxy’s ensemble approach: a solo electronic vocabulary pushed toward physical force, framed here by easygoingtech, Anti-Soul Organization and 11111111111. For practical planning, Spiral Galaxy is Thursday, September 10, at 7 p.m.; Container is Friday, September 11, at 7 p.m. Recheck The Hideout’s official pages for door times, ticket availability and any last-minute changes.^[2][4]

Sources

1. Spiral Galaxy, Bobby Conn, SiP, DJ Fiendish Thingys — Hideout Chicago
2. Container, easygoingtech, Anti-Soul Organization, 11111111111 — Hideout Chicago
3. Tour: Fresh Take with Bobby Conn and Monica BouBou — Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago
4. Container — Apple Music
5. Bobby Conn: Bobby’s Place — Forced Exposure