The Pink Stones are back at Judson & Moore this Friday

The Athens, Georgia cosmic-country band returns to the same 120-capacity distillery room it last played in April 2024, now with a new album in tow.

The last time The Pink Stones played Chicago, it was April 12, 2024, at Judson & Moore Distillery. This Friday, Nov. 13, they come back to the exact same room.

The show was announced Nov. 2, which makes this one of the shorter lead times you'll see for a touring band. Music starts at 7:30 p.m., tickets are $14.55 on DICE, and Judson & Moore holds about 120 people. Do the math on that and you see why it's worth moving now rather than Friday afternoon.

The Pink Stones come out of Athens, Georgia, led by singer-songwriter and guitarist Hunter Pinkston. Their sound sits where country and folk meet something stranger: twangy and warm, but with a streak of psychedelia and a sense of humor running through it. They released their debut, Introducing... The Pink Stones, on New West, followed it with You Know Who in 2023, and in that time they have become one of the more reliable names in the current wave of cosmic-country bands.

What has changed since that 2024 visit is a new record. Thank the Lord... It's The Pink Stones came out on Sept. 19, 2025, on Normaltown/New West Records, and reviewers have called it the band's most fully realized work yet, a mix of wit, heartbreak and psychedelic flair. Friday is the band's first Chicago show since that album arrived, so expect the set to lean on those songs.

One of the shorter lead times you'll see for a touring band, in one of the smallest rooms they'll play.

The band has also kept working the road on both sides of the Atlantic. There is a Norwich Arts Centre date in England on the books for January 2027, a sign that this sound is traveling well beyond Georgia.

Then there is the room. A distillery is not the obvious place for a touring country band, and that is half the charm. Judson & Moore is the kind of small, intimate Chicago space where the band plays a few feet from the front row and the bar is pouring something made on site. For a group whose records reward close listening, from the pedal steel to the jokes buried in the lyrics, a 120-person room is about as good as it gets.

Grab tickets through the DICE link on this page. At under fifteen bucks for a band that will likely be in bigger rooms next time, it's one of the easier calls of the week.

Then get there early, order something brown, and stand close.

Sources: The Pink Stones Releasing Debut LP 'Introducing...The Pink Stones' Via New West - Glide Magazine (glidemagazine.com); The Pink Stones Releasing 'You Know Who' 6/30 Via New West - Glide Magazine (glidemagazine.com); The Pink Stones - Thank the Lord It's The Pink Stones - New Releases Now (newreleasesnow.com); The Pink Stones - Norwich Arts Centre (norwichartscentre.co.uk); Watch The Pink Stones Play 'Nothin' New' Outside the Clarke County Jail in Athens - FLOOD (floodmagazine.com); DICE: The Pink Stones at Judson & Moore Distillery (link.dice.fm); JamBase listing (jambase.com)