The two producers – Dylan Ragland makes music as fan favorite Party Favor and Ricky Mears produces as dancefloor igniter NITTI – first linked via DM in 2019 to share track ideas. Sensing their musical chemistry, they jumped on Facetime. By the end of the call, they’d registered the @youasidepiece social handles and their own figurative side piece had been born.
“It started out as a fun passion project because we both love and care about house music,” says Ragland, “but it’s grown so much bigger than we originally planned.”
Indeed, success came fast for the pair. SIDEPIECE’s second single, the 2020 Diplo collaboration “On My Mind,” earned the trio a 2021 GRAMMY nomination for Best Dance Recording. A flurry of hit singles have followed, with SIDEPIECE carving out a signature sound rooted in catchy vocals – “the most important element,” says Ragland – and the ever-intoxicating bump and grind house groove. Spanning tech house, bass house and beyond, tracks including “Acrobatic,” “Temptation,” “Sextacy” and their latest — the steamy dancefloor heater “Reborn” — are quintessentially SIDEPIECE: party-starting club records with a pop-lean and serious sex appeal.
🔵 VENUE
Spybar
646 N. Franklin St.
Chicago, IL 60654
21+
🔵 DATE & TIME
July 31 2026
doors: 10pm
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