Bands in Chicago, Illinois

Chicago’s Boy Band Review delivers a boy band tribute show built around 90s-era pop, with lights, video, choreography, and harmonies. The act has played high-profile events, private engagements, a Las Vegas residency at Planet Hollywood Casino, and venues nationwide.

Fool House is a live 90s dance party paying homage to boy bands, pop stars, hip hop, and pop punk, with larger-than-life production, sing-alongs, throwbacks, and choreographed dance moves.

Chicago’s Think Floyd USA delivers a full-production Pink Floyd tribute with lights, video, and a nine-piece lineup. Active since 2004, the band covers major songs, deep cuts, and often performs albums in full.

Chicago tribute band Shining Star performs an Earth, Wind & Fire set focused on the group’s 1970s and 1980s peak years. The 10-piece lineup includes horns, 2 keyboardists, and vocal parts based on Maurice White and Philip Bailey.

Chicago-based tribute band Smells Like Nirvana performs songs from Nevermind, In Utero, Bleach, MTV Unplugged, and rare b-sides. A national traveling Nirvana tribute, the band plays without click tracks or backing tracks.

Wonderlove is a Stevie Wonder tribute built around songs audiences know from the 1960s through the 2000s. Presented as The Stevie Wonder Experience, it combines broad song recognition with the emotional range and party feel associated with Stevie’s catalog.

Hollywood Swinging is a Kool & The Gang tribute band based in Chicago, Illinois, built around the group’s hits from the early 1970s through the mid 1980s. The show pairs a live concert feel with a dance-party atmosphere.

Chicago’s Too Hype Crew is a seven-piece, all-live cover band performing classic hip hop and R&B from the 80s through the early 2000s, with choreographed Fly Girls. Their family-friendly festival and corporate shows tailor language, song selection, costumes, and antics to the event.