Being the birth city of house music, there is a surprising dearth of dance music festivals here in Chicago. Spring Awakening (aka the EDM Bowl in Soldiers Field) and the Chosen Few Picnic (truly closer to a huge family reunion) aside, the only dance festival of recent times has been Wavefront, located on Montrose Beach. The city shut that down to in response to a bevy of noise complaints last year, and Riverwest Festival has quickly taken its place this weekend from July 4th-6th. In kind, LWE has prepared this quick guide to the festival with our picks highlighted. More info is available at the Riverwest Festival website.

Adrian Lux
Bob Moses
Cinna
Matthew Dekay
DJ Koze
Dubfire
Marcus Fengler
Fil Sonik
Phil Groves
Henrix
Inphinity & Kalendr
Max Jacobsen
J Worra
Kid Delicious
The Martinez Brothers
Matador
RJ Pickens
Henrik Schwarz
Special E.D.
Mantas Steles
Ten Walls
Yoni

Audiofly
Nikola Baytala
Lee Burridge
Deep Dish
Marcel Dettmann
Dixon
Ari Frank
DJ Three
Jimmy Edgar vs Danny Daze
Lee Foss & Anabel Englund
Garrett B & Dabura
Michael Gracioppo
Heidi
Steve Lawler
Jason Patrick
Robots On the Run
Sean Strange
Thugfucker
Mia Wallace
Marcus Worgoll

DJ Tennis

Apollonia
Art Department
Nick Bassett
Benoit & Sergio
Binnetti
Bisharat
Black & Yellow
DJ Tennis
Excision
Steve Gerard
Guy Gerber
Hot Since 82
Johnny R
Jamie Jones
Lauren Lane
Damian Lazarus
Mind Against
Morgan Page
Paul Ritch
Rusko
Sharam
Dustin Sheridan
Vaski
Eric Volta