8:00 PM, $7 suggested

Songwriter Showcase and Open Mic featuring Madsen Minax and The Wheels

Justin Petertil of Love Raid and Office hosts our Songwriter Showase featuring Madsen Minax of Actor Slash Model and Juliet Mizicko with LaRaie Zimm.

Madsen’s music is Americana Roots Music for contemporary lives. His music is acoustic and sparse, but powerful with strong lyrical strokes and pithy vocals. actorslashmodel.com

The Wheels’ music often moves at the pace of weeping. The trio captures the catharsis of loss and loneliness with tender but strong voices carrying long phrases. Their sound is broad and open, but also intimate and self searching. myspace.com/laraiez

Justin Petertil, our monthly host, is a bit of songwriting voyeur. His music, often performed with Love Raid, constrains a number of disparite influences into pop forms that belie their own complexity.

At Elastic Arts, 2830 N Milwaukee, 2nd Floor, Chicago.