The landscape of Chicago club life is changing, especially with the recent shuttering of Sonotheque and the re-branding of Lava. Smart Bar’s aiming for a little consistency in a business that’s anything but and just announced plans for a new Tuesday night series, titled Chilled, to be launched February 9. “Basically it’s gonna be a weekly downtempo night. We realized that, first off, there are not any good downtempo nights in the city, and secondly, there are a lot less options these days of things to do on Tuesday nights,” Nate Seider, Smart Bar’s talent buyer, says. “We just really want to do something laidback, more low-key, so the crowd can sit around and not feel so motivated to get up and rage and dance.” Seider used to run his own Tuesday night downtempo series at Moonshine, and picked DJ John Simmons to lead the charge on this new venture. He cites swanky joints Violet Hour and Rodan as models, as the evening intends to draw in the “martini crowd.” “I guess,” Seider says. “We definitely try not to be stuffy, but we just want people more in tune for a nice night out, to sit around and hang with friends and not worry about having to yell over the sound system.” (Tom Lynch)