Smoking Popes in Aurora

Smoking Popes are an American rock band formed in the Chicago area in 1991. Built around brothers Josh, Eli and Matt Caterer, they play melodic punk and power pop shaped by Josh Caterer’s crooning vocals. The albums Born to Quit and Destination Failure, along with songs including “Need You Around” and “Rubella,” established their best-known work. After breaking up in 1999, Smoking Popes reunited for a 2005 concert at Metro in Chicago, and the performance was issued as a live album and concert film. They subsequently resumed club touring and played their hometown punk festival Riot Fest.

Spitalfield is an American rock band formed in Chicago in 1998. Its melodic pop-punk and emo sound is best known through the album Remember Right Now and songs including “I Loved the Way She Said ‘L.A.’” and “Five Days and Counting.” Spitalfield ended its original run with a farewell tour in 2007, then reunited in 2013 to perform Remember Right Now in full for its tenth anniversary. That return included Riot Fest, and the band toured the album again for its 20th anniversary in 2023 on the Remember Right Now 20 Year Anniversary Tour.