Snocaps Melted the Snow with Their Heart-Warming Performance at Chicago’s Thalia Hall.
Chicago, Illinois - November 30, 2025
Coincidentally on the night of Chicago’s first big snow of the season, Snocaps opened their hearts to a sold out Sunday night show at Thalia Hall. The first of only a handful of shows across the States, Snocaps is a project started by twin sisters Allison and Katie, known to many as Waxahatchee, Crutchfield in collaboration with their friends Brad Cook and MJ Lenderman. They released their self-titled album, Snocaps on October 31st of this year.
The crowd was roaring as opening band Bonny Doon, self-described “natural music ensemble,” set the tone. Both friends and labelmates of Snocaps, the band played songs that span their 11-year discography.
The hype from their set carried through and grew as Snocaps stepped on stage. There was no introduction needed. Snocaps took to the stage and within seconds Allison began singing “Coast”, met with a chorus of cheers as they ended the song.
The set included a mix of Snocaps songs as well as songs from their solo and past projects. Alison and Katie have years of music and different projects under their belt. Snocaps was simply a revival of this musically-fueled bond. They played Waxahatchee’s “Silver,” “Coast to Coast,” and “La Loose” and Swearin’s, a band fronted by Allision, “Dust in the Gold Sack,” “Movie Star,” and “Kenosha.” They also played songs from Alision and Katie’s second project together, P.S. Eliot, including “Incoherent Love Songs,” “Shitty and Tragic,” and “Like How You Are.” Right before their performance of “Incoherent Love Songs,” Katie mentioned how performing this was a “no brainer" and that she wrote it when she was 19, and with that Allison gave a show stopping harmonica performance.
Despite the size of Thalia Hall, Snocaps made a venue with a sea of people feel the same as a local show at a bar. The sense of friendship on stage, their lyrics, their raw vocals, the variance in instrumentation, the history behind their songs: this all brought a level of undeniable vulnerability. The venue’s acoustics made their vocals and instrumentation feel like they wrapped the audience up in a warm hug. The crowd gave a big hug back as they sang along, hummed, swayed, whooped, and applauded throughout the show.
While there were big indie names standing on that stage, it wasn’t about that. It was about two twin sisters and their friends sharing their lives with those who love them.
Snocaps will be playing two shows in LA and two in New York so be sure to grab tickets and see them before they’re “put on ice for the foreseeable future,” as they’d like to say.
Listen to SNOCAPS on Spotify and Apple Music.
