Molly Nilsson / Air Waves

Name: Molly Nilsson / Air Waves
Start: 2025-09-02T20:00:00-05:00
Location: Empty Bottle

Schedule

Tue, 02 Sep, 2025 at 08:00 pm

UTC-05:00

Location

Empty Bottle | Chicago, IL

Doors: 8PM / Show: 9PM / 21+
Molly Nilsson is a Swedish born artist, producer and songwriter residing in Berlin since 2005. Nilsson first started composing in 2007 and made her first live performances in Europe around the same time. In 2008 Nilsson self-released her first album, These Things Take Time, on CD-R. In 2009 she founded her own label Dark Skies Association with which she would continue to publish her work together with UK based record label Night School Records. Nilsson is known for her productive pace in releases, averaging on one album a year, as well as publishing self directed music videos.
Molly Nilsson has performed more than 500 live shows, mainly headlining, in Europe, North America, South America, Oceania and Asia. Her 2015 release Zenith was followed by a sold out European tour and received critical acclaim in independent media and has been re-pressed 3 times. It was nominated to the Manifest Music Awards 2016 for Best Pop Album. In 2016 she performed at the 20 000 capacity festival Field Day Festival in London. Her song “I Hope You Die” has as of today 7.1 million views on YouTube. Her music has been featured in various films, TV-series, fashion and skate videos, is frequently played on international radio stations such as BBC, NPR and KCRW, as well as national radio in Germany, Austria, Sweden, Denmark, Ireland and France. 2018
Molly Nilsson supported American band MGMT on their sold out European tour as well as their parts of their US tour. Her latest album Extreme was released in January 2022 was followed by headlining tours of Europe and US. The album made number 10 on Fader’s list of Best Albums of the year. The single Pompeii was named Best New Music by NPR. 2022 she was awarded a songwriting award from Swedish composers and lyricist organization. In 2024 she was granted the Villa Aurora residency stipend in
Pacific Palisades in Los Angeles where she recorded the conceptual album Un-American Activities.
She is currently working on her 12th full length album.