Experience Smokestack

Nightlife, Art, Concerts & More

From the rooftops to the 2nd floor art gallery to the 1st floor, celebrate adventure & creativity, history & culture, and art & nightlife with cool beverages, fun snacks, unique experiences, and great views at a one-of-a-kind three-level art & music venue and rooftop bar

Unique, Historic & Authentic

One of the area's oldest buildings, Smokestack is a casual, cosmopolitan art & music venue and rooftop bar that is its own destination in a renovated historic warehouse with the area's only public rooftops in the heart of Downtown Dubuque and the Millwork District

Dare to be Different

Experience a wide range of art , culture, and music in one of the most unique buildings anywhere. Concerts, art exhibitions, original EDM, warehouse parties & raves, open mic, and much more both indoors and outdoors

Record at Smokestack with Asylum

Asylum Recording Studios & Live Sound

Smokestack's partner Asylum Recording, Studios & Live Sound, under lead engineer Matt "Mr. Zills" Gregory, offers recording, mixing, mastering, duplication, distribution, restoration, remastering, reamping, editing, and correction with industry standard quality for all musical genres - from hip hop to folk to heavy metal at Dubuque's only professional recording studio. Asylum is also available for live sound and stage production services.