— Bub City, Rosemont; Timothy B. Schmit — City Winery, Chicago;
Macabre/Brain Tentacles/Wild Jesus — Empty Bottle, Chicago;
Uptown Poetry Slam/Soul Jazz Night — Green Mill, Chicago;
Gospel Brunch/Dennis Leise/Darren Jay & The Delta Souls —
House of Blues, Chicago; Linsey Alexander/Claudette Miller —
Kingston Mines, Chicago; Martini Lunch — Pheasant Run Resort,
St. Charles; John 5 & The Creatures/Hero Jr./The Radiomen —
Reggie’s, Chicago; Carlos Vives — Rosemont Theater, Rosemont;
Queen! w/Ralph Rosario/Abel Aguilera AKA Rosabel/Michael
Serafini/Garrett David — Smart Bar, Chicago; Raul Midon/Rob
Flax — Space, Evanston; Medina Azahara — Subterranean,
Chicago; Sunday Funday — Tailgater’s, Bolingbrook; This
Saxophone Kills/Facists — The Hideout, Chicago; Flasher —
Township, Chicago; Sam Rae/Taylor Rogers/Sharkk Heartt/
Kosi w/Robert Rodi — Uncommon Ground, Chicago; Daikaiju
Attacks Wire — Wire, Berwyn.
MONDAY 17
Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Tenry
Johns/Claudette Miller — Blue Chicago, Chicago; Makena
Hartlin — Bub City, Chicago; Jimmy Burns Hosts The Jam —
Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Becca Stevens — City Winery,
Chicago; Boo Baby/Sasquatch/Turf War/The Ex-Bombers/Bag
Frys — Cobra Lounge, Chicago; The Eternals Espiritu/Zombi
Group/Bottletree/Hot Lava — Empty Bottle, Chicago; Patricia
Barber Quartet — Green Mill, Chicago; Joanna Connor/Leela
James & Daley/Sheryl Youngblood — House of Blues, Chicago;
Corey Dennison/JW Williams & The Chi-Town Hustlers —
Kingston Mines, Chicago; Louder Than A Mom — Martyrs’,
Chicago; Improv Night/Sand N Spitballin’/Open Mic —
Quencher’s, Chicago; Bingo/Burke/Trivia Night — Reggie’s,
Chicago; The Flaming Lips — Riviera, Chicago; Welshly Arms/
Dan Rodriguez — Schubas, Chicago; The Chicago Moth
StorySLAM — Space, Evanston; Detriment — Subterranean,
Chicago; Diamanda Galas — Thalia Hall, Chicago; Boo Baby/
Sasquatch/Turf War/The Ex-Bombers/Bag Frys — The
Burlington, Chicago; Willliam Matheny/Weeds Poetry Open Mic
— The Hideout, Chicago; Open Mic — Uncommon Ground,
Chicago.
TUESDAY 18
Trivia Night w/Mark — Ballydoyle, Aurora; Trivia Night —
Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Pete Ellman Big Band Jazz — Base
Camp, Lisle; Brant Bjork/Royal Thunder/Black Wizard/
Chicago Underground Comedy — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Luke
Pytel/Laretha Weathersby — Blue Chicago, Chicago; Live Band
Karaoke — Bub City, Chicago; LIve Band Karaoke — Bub City,
Rosemont; The Special 20’s — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago;
Timothy B. Schmit — City Winery, Chicago; Fake It Til You Make
It — Elbo Room, Chicago; Open Mic — Empire, Naperville;
Grandpa Bay Showcase: This is Lorelei /Kevin and Hell (Record
Release)/Not For You/Skinface — Empty Bottle, Chicago; Open
Jam Night — Evenflow, Geneva; Open Mic — Fitzgerald’s, Berwyn;
Fat Babies — Green Mill, Chicago; Pub Trivia — HOME Bar,
Arlington Heights; Mike Wheeler/Keithen Banks/Comedy
Cocktail — House of Blues, Chicago; Mike Wheeler/Giles Corey
— Kingston Mines, Chicago; Whiskey & Harmony — Mackell’s Inn,
Chicago; 40,000 Headmen — Martyrs’, Chicago; XTX/Mr. Blotto
— Reggie’s, Chicago; The Octopus Project — Schubas, Chicago;
Nate Staniforth — Space, Evanston; Alt Nation’s Advanced
Placement Tour/Open Mic Hip Hop — Subterranean, Chicago;
Karaoke — Tailgater’s, Bolingbrook; The Wailin’ Jennys — Thalia
Hall, Chicago; Moon Bros. — The Hideout, Chicago; Jesse
Taylor/Open Mic — Uncommon Ground, Chicago; Eclectic
Electric w/Erfbeats — Wire, Berwyn.
WEDNESDAY 19
Open Mic — Ballydoyle, Aurora; Open Mic w/Dave Kelly —
Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Trivia Night — Base Camp, Lisle;
ForeverAtLast/The Protest — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; JW
Williams/Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago, Chicago; The
Obsessed/Karma To Burn/Fatso Jetson — Bottom Lounge,
Chicago; Folk Yeah — Bub City, Chicago; Judson Brown — Bub
City, Rosemont; Morgan James w/Andy Allo — City Winery,
Chicago; The Jared Presley Experience/Kelroy/Eric Newmiller/
The Concept — Cobra Lounge, Chicago; Karuna: Hamid Drake &
Adam Rudolph Percussion Duet — Constellation, Chicago;
Madman Jam Night — Draft Picks, Mt. Prospect; Open Mic/
Michael Drabik — Elbo Room, Chicago; Trivia Night — Empire,
Naperville; Oozing Wound/Ribbonhead/Salvation — Empty
Bottle, Chicago; Tom Hartman Presents — Excalibur, Chicago;
Big Band Dance Party w/APOL Orchestra/Jared Bufe Quartet
— Fitzgerald’s, Berwyn; Alfonso Ponticelli w/Swing Gitan/Frank
Catalano Sextet — Green Mill, Chicago; Keithen Banks/Vivian
Garcia/Mike Posner & Band/Obisoulstar/Joanna Connor —
House of Blues, Chicago; Generationals/Psychic Twin — Lincoln
Hall, Chicago; Erin Edmister & 3 Tons/Wonky Tonk — Martyrs’,
Chicago; The New Pornographers/Waxahatchee — Metro,
Chicago; Henerencia De Timbiqui — Old Town School, Chicago;
Open Mic w/Willie Max — Penny Road Pub, Barrington;
Boney/Krayola/Brook Pridemore/D8ing — Quencher’s, Chicago;
Loudness/Vajra — Reggie’s, Chicago; Jay Leno — Rosemont
Theater, Rosemont; Myq Kaplan — Schubas, Chicago; Roht/Emo
Nite Chicago — Subterranean, Chicago; DJ Jeff Overstreet —
Tailgater’s, Bolingbrook; The Magnetic Fields — Thalia Hall,
Chicago; Burly Night/The Jared Presley Experience/Kelroy/
Eric Newmiller/The Concept — The Burlington, Chicago; Bossa
Blue — The Hideout, Chicago; Luka — The Roof @ The Wit,
Chicago; Kimi Hayes — Tilted Kilt, Bolingbrook; M4TH —
Township, Chicago; Randy & Mr. Lahey — Wire, Berwyn.
THURSDAY 20
Nightsphear II — Arcada Theater, St. Charles; Best Band in The
Land Competition — Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Terry Malts/
Business of Dreams — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; BTS
Express/Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago, Chicago; 32 Below —
Bub City, Chicago; Altered Five — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago;
Seth Walker & Edward David Anderson — City Winery, Chicago;
Band From The Back Porch/Jimmy Eat World Cover Band/Hi
Ho — Cobra Lounge, Chicago; Betty Who/Verite — Concord,
Chicago; Art & Action for Climate Justice — Constellation,
Chicago; Mr. Blotto/Old Shoe — Durty Nellie’s, Palatine; The
Streems/Harper’s Grove/The Big Lonesome/Dead Fortune —
Elbo Room, Chicago; The Bingers/Peach Fuzz/Glyders — Empty
Bottle, Chicago; Live Band Karaoke — Evenflow, Geneva; Tom
Hartman Presents — Excalibur, Chicago; Andy Brown Jazz
Guitar/Gresik Swing Shift Orchestra — Green Mill, Chicago;
Whiskey & Harmony — HB Jones, Elmhurst; Mississippi Gabe
Carter/21 Savage/Young M.A./Tee Grizzley/Young Nudy/Josh
Hoyer & Soul Colassal — House of Blues, Chicago; Yacht Rock
Review — Joe’s Bar, Chicago; Joanna Connor/Mz. Peaches —
Kingston Mines, Chicago; Mad Dogs & Englishmen/Remember
Jones — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Marty Casey — Live Wire,
Chicago; Euforquesta/The Maytags/ Zoofunkyou — Martyrs’,
Chicago; The 4th Chicago Cabaret Convention — Park West,
Chicago; Saliva — Penny Road Pub, Barrington; Icpick
Slim/Clamor and Claw/Elijah Berlow/Sasha Tycko & Plus Sign
— Quencher’s, Chicago; 070 Shake/Devil To Pay/CBCS Comics
— Reggie’s, Chicago; Suburban Cowboys — Rivers Casino, Des
Plaines; Crystal Garden/Arclight — Schubas, Chicago;
Tribesteppaz/Delamota/Diotropics/Hispd
Chase/
Lamebrane/Ciro/Mega Mike/M.I.A. Tag Team/Rifle MC/Fonz
MC — Smart Bar, Chicago; Reggae Gold — Subterranean,
Chicago; The Magnetic Fields — Thalia Hall, Chicago; Chicago
Emo Live — The Burlington, Chicago; Devil In A Woodpile/Triple
Release Show w/Dark Fog/Bionic Cavement and The Velcro
Lewis Group — The Hideout, Chicago; Miss DJ Meg — The Roof
@ The Wit, Chicago; Good Clean Fun w/Mike Bruccoleri —
Venuti’s, Addison; Gills/The Weathermakers/Pharmavoid/Andi
Donahue — Wire, Berwyn.
FRIDAY 21
Two Hand Jesters Comedy — 516 On First, LaSalle; Burton
Cummings — Arcada Theater, St. Charles; Mr. Perfect/Winnie
Cooper — Austin’s Fuel Room, Libertyville; A.D.D/ Emperors &
Elephants/Quor — Bada Brew, Crest Hill; Dick Diamond & The
Dusters — Ballydoyle, Aurora; Lava Rock — Ballydoyle, Downers
Grove; Covergurl/Midwestern Underground — Bannerman’s,
Bartlett; Trio — Bar Evolution, Batavia; HiFi Superstar/Dear
John — Base Camp, Lisle; Dowsing/The Exquisites/The
Cardboard Swords/Hot Mulligan/The Howl — Beat Kitchen,
Chicago; Tenry Johns/Claudette Miller — Blue Chicago, Chicago;
Soda/Hello Nuvo — Blue Chip-Rocks Lounge, Michigan City, IN;
DJ Night — Blue Chip-Vegas Baby, Michigan City, IN; Vance
Guitar Kelly & The Backstreet Blues Band — BLUES, Chicago;
Semple/Hillbilly Rockstarz — Bourbon Street, Merrionette Park;
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Preston Shannon/JB Ritchie — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago;
Cirrus Falcon — Carlucci, Downers Grove; Chicago R&B Spring
Fest — Chicago Theater, Chicago; Dwele — City Winery, Chicago;
Kodakrome/Abertooth Lincoln — Cobra Lounge, Chicago; Eptic
& Must Die/Gentlemen’s Club — Concord, Chicago; Chris
Greene Quartet — Constellation, Chicago; Shiny Penny/The
Linden Method/Lost Years/Break Up Lines — Cubby Bear,
Chicago; Just The Two Of Us — Cuzin’s, Tinley Park; Pat
McCurdy — Durty Nellie’s, Palatine; Young Cub/Blue Steel/Dr
Unk/Alex Makris/Rett Smith — Elbo Room, Chicago; Moon
Duo/Jackie Lynn — Empty Bottle, Chicago; Libido Funk Circus —
Evenflow, Geneva; Jenny Bienemann — Fitzgerald’s, Berwyn;
Blammo/DJ Rawzhel — Four Winds Casino, New Buffalo, MI;
Flipside Show/Laurence Hobgood Trio w/ Strings/After Hours
Jam Session — Green Mill, Chicago; Rumor Hazit — Hollywood
Casino, Aurora; 7th Heaven — Hollywood Casino, Joliet; Salsa
Night — HOME Bar, Arlington Heights; Joe Facetta — Hoppy Pig,
Bradley; The Good, The Bad, The Blues/Guy King/DJs Deejay O
& Eddie Mills — House of Blues, Chicago; All About A Good Time
— Jambalaya @Pheasant Run, St. Charles; Straight Shooter —
Jenny’s Southside Tap, Mokena; Bubba Sparxxx/DNK/Brian
Fraze/Eye and i/Hitsleep — Joe’s Bar, Chicago; The Moonlight
Pickers — Kennedy Pointe, Bristol; Joanna Connor/Lil Ed & The
Blues Imperials — Kingston Mines, Chicago; Stripped — Level
257, Schaumburg; The Wedding Present/Colleen Green Band —
Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Air Raid/The Black Order/Everything
Must Die/Discarnate — Live Wire, Chicago; Blackball Mine —
Lone Buffalo, Ottawa; Rebirth Brass Band/Matt Ulery’s
Pollinator — Martyrs’, Chicago; The New Pornographers/
Waxahatchee — Metro, Chicago; Model Stranger — MT Barrels,
Schaumburg; The Flat Cats — Old Town School, Chicago; The
4th Chicago Cabaret Convention — Park West, Chicago; Teenage
Mutant 90s Turtles — Penny Road Pub, Barrington; Midnight
Road/Burning Bridges — Q-Bar, Darien; Una Gala De Tema
Fanatico Del Rock — Quencher’s, Chicago; The Ever Afters/
Teenage Bottlerocket/The Bollweevils/Flamingo Nosebleed/
The Eradicator/CBCS Comics — Reggie’s, Chicago; Arra —
Rivers Casino, Des Plaines; Reik — Rosemont Theater, Rosemont;
Marc Scibilia/Corey Harper/ Brad Ray/Bass Physics/Blunt
Force — Schubas, Chicago; Outcry 2017: Jesus Culture/Lauren
Daigle/Elevation Worship — Sears Center, Hoffman Estates;
Bliss — Sideouts, Island Lake; Jubilee/ Chrissy/Cqqchifruit —
Smart Bar, Chicago; Brigitte DeMeyer & Will Kimbrough/Allan
Rayman — Space, Evanston; Boondox The Scarecrow/Blaze Ya
Dead Homie/Lex The Hex Master — Star Bar, Chicago Ridge;
Stereo Heart Unplugged — State & Lake @The Wit, Chicago; The
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