The details, in daylight
Pavement played The Salt Shed Outdoors (Fairgrounds) in Chicago on 22 July 2026, with Nap Eyes in support. This show has already taken place — see Pavement's page on KeenToGo for their upcoming dates.
The Fairgrounds is The Salt Shed's outdoor stage, set between the indoor Shed and the Chicago River with the city skyline behind it. The venue describes it as its elevated festival-style communal space, with a custom grandstand, a premium balcony, rooftop ticketing and a run of local retailers. It occupies the old Morton Salt complex on North Elston Avenue — salt was packed here from 1929 until operations ceased in 2015, and the plant's sign was a landmark on the way into town — which the team behind Empty Bottle and Thalia Hall reopened as a music venue in 2022. Pavement are the Stockton, California band whose wry, shambling Slanted and Enchanted and Crooked Rain, Crooked Rain made them the defining indie-rock band of the 90s.