Party With Vic Mensa Tomorrow At Emporium Before He Plays Coachella In April

• Courtesy of Vic Mensa’s Facebook
• Vic Mensa

Coachella announced its lineup earlier today, and rapper Vic Mensa is among the local acts slated to play the California festival in April. It seems like a pretty good cause for celebrating, and the Save Money leader already has a venue to do it—Emporium in Wicker Park. Tomorrow night Mensa and local producer Smoko Ono will DJ at the arcade bar under the name “Groupie Love,” and the dance-floor magnificence of Mensa’s breakout 2014 single “Down on My Luck” (one of my favorite songs of 2014) is enough to convince me these guys can spin a set that’s worth trudging through negative temperatures to check out.

In February 2018, this article was updated to use the phrase ‘arcade bar’ in place of the word originally used.