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Marley — Chop Shop , Chicago ; Billy Prine — City Winery , Chicago ; Haley Heynderickx / Macie Stewart — Constellation , Chicago ; Devin Shaffer / Claude / Beloved DJs — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Joanne ShawTaylor — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Chris Greene Quartet — FitzGerald ’ s Sidebar , Berwyn ; Alfonso Ponticelli — Green Mill , Chicago ; Terrapin Flyer — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Sparkle Carcass / Meg and the Wheelers / Lyon $ — Hideout , Chicago ; Jawbreaker — House of Blues , Chicago ; Jazz Links Jam — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Kevin Devine / Pronoun / Kayleigh / Goldsworthy — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Dan Whitaker / Chord Boy — Montrose Saloon , Chicago ; Kabareh Cheikhats / Les Filles de Illighadad — Old Town School of Folk Music , Chicago ; Latin Night — Piazza , Aurora ; Good Vibes Only Comedy — Promontory , Chicago ; Game Show Classics ( Joint ) — Reggies , Chicago ; The Furious Bongos — Reggies , Chicago ; Mickey Dolenz — Rialto Theatre , Joliet ; Bob Moses / Amtrac — Riviera Theatre , Chicago ; Ivy Ford — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ; NIIA — Schubas , Chicago ; Open Jam — Shanahan ’ s , Woodridge ; Skooter ’ s Idol — Skooters Raodhouse , Shorewood ; Good Morning — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Ausar / Brittney Carter / WemmyMo / Oliv Blu — Subterranean , Chicago ; DJ — Tailgaters , Bollingbrook ; Iffficial — Tavern on LaGrange , LaGrange ; Brass Tracks Jazz Band — The Quarry , Lemont ; Frank Lamphere & Jazz Quartet — Untitled , Chicago ; Wednesday After Work — Zanies , Chicago .
THURSDAY 14
Micah Collier Alec Tet / Late Night : Alejandro Salazar — Andy ’ s , Chicago ; Ours — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Sheryl Youngblood Band — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Riley Brothers — Bub City , Chicago ; Elaine
Elias — City Winery , Chicago ; Haley Heynderickx / Matt Dorrien — Constellation , Chicago ; MSSV / Mate — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Jim Lauderdale — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Roy McGrath — FitzGerald ’ s Patio , Berwyn ; Andy Brown / Alan Gresik Orchestra — Green Mill , Chicago ; Cafe Carly — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Cookerman ’ s Idle Hands : Erwin Helfer ( 6pm ) — Hideout , Chicago ; Jawbreaker — House of Blues , Chicago ; Karaoke — Jamos Live , Mokena ; Marcus Hill Quintet — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Daniel Rossen — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Karaoke — Madcats , Palatine ; The Million Reasons / Boundary Waters / Dirty Nines — Martyrs , Chicago ; Open Mic — Mickey Finns , Libertyville ; James Demeny Quartet / Mid American Elevator — Montrose Saloon , Chicago ; Vinyl Night — Polyanna Brewing , St . Charles ; Snail Mail / Joy Again — Riviera Theatre , Chicago ; Joey J .
Sayre Acoustic / Lil Ed Williams — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ; Jon Spencer & The Hitmakers / Quasi — Schubas , Chicago ; Pro Jam — Shanahan ’ s , Woodridge ; Chris Smither / Betty Soo — SPACE , Evanston ; Reggae Gold — Subterranean , Chicago ; Karaoke / Blok DJs — Tavern on LaGrange , LaGrange ; Jim Breuer — The Forge , Joliet ; Terrapin Flyer — The Venue , Aurora ; Unbridled Burlesque — Untitled , Chicago ; Airborne Toxic Event / Mondo Cozmo — Vic Theatre , Chicago ; Distinguisher / Mugshot / Liught The Fuse / Thutch / Knights — WC Social Club , West Chicago ; Hunter Hill — Zanies , Chicago .
FRIDAY 15
New Nostalgia / Late Night : Scott Burns — Andy ’ s , Chicago ; Olivia Rodrigio — Aragon , Chicago ; Loverboy / The Sedonas — Arcada Theatre , St . Charles ; DJ Don Carlos — Arlington Ale House , Arlington Heights ; Frontine Fest : Party Foul / Dirt Born — Avenue 912 , Griffith , IN ; Shortly / Ally Evenson / Fran / Colleen Dow — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; John Primer Band & Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Allan Rayman — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; The Country Night — Bourbon St ., Merrionette Park ; Faction / Wedneday ’ s Child / Focal Point — Brauerhouse , Lombard ; Ten96 / Europe Without a Jacket ( Bhouse ) — Brauerhouse , Lombard ; Flethcher Rockwell — Bub City , Chicago ; Dead Freddie / James The Boneless / Saddleman — Burlington , Chicago ; David Quinn ( Record Release )/ Mikey G and Top Tiers — Carol ’ s Pub , Chicago ; Weedeater / Rebelmatic / Adam Faucett — Chop Shop , Chicago ; Elle Varner / DJ Aktive — City Winery , Chicago ; Regina Bell / Kayla Jade — City Winery , Chicago ; Gunhild Carling — Club Arcada , St . Charles ; Salt Sweat Sugar / Dashboard Professional — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Craig Taborn — Constellation , Chicago ; Satinder Sartaaj — Copernicus Center , Chicago ; Tom Segura — Credit Uinion 1 Arena , Chicago ; Lizzy & The Rockers — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Last in Line — Decibels at On The Roxx , Portage , IN ; Jim Belushi — Des Plaines Theatre , Des Plaines ; Line Dancing Kickin ’ it with Carol ( 6:30pm ) — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Lunar Ticks / Frequilibriam — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Hoyle Brothers ( 5:30pm ) — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Mnsdn / Frank Leone — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Terry White & Loaded Dice — FitzGerald ’ s Patio , Berwyn ; Aunt Kelly / Ripley / The Dearlys — G Man , Chicago ; Chris Foreman — Green Mill , Chicago ; Keith Jackson & the Triple Dose Band ( Council Oak ) — HardRock , Gary , IN ; Maya & Ashanti ( Hard Rock Live ) — Hard Rock , Gary , IN ; David Huckfelt ( 7pm ) — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Happy Hour : Paolo Apuli — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Lowest Pair — Hideout , Chicago ; Hairbanger ’ s Ball — Hobart Art Theatre , Hobart , IN ; Jawbreaker — House of Blues , Chicago ; Marquis Hill Quintet — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Jazz Enclave — Joe ’ s on Weed St ., Chicago ; Soft Kill / Alien Boy / Topographies / French Police — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ;
Two Beer Tommy — Madcats , Palatine ; SJOD / Stan P Band / Stormy Chromer / Pine Travellers — Martyrs , Chicago ; A Benefit for Charles Levi featuring Stabbing Westward — Metro , Chicago ; Uncle Pigeon — Mickey Finns , Libertyville ; Midwestern Dirt / Eric Koskinen / Airship Caravan / Old Joy — Montrose Saloon , Chicago ; Martin Hayes Quartet — Old Town School of Folk Music , Chicago ; Dancing Queen — Piazza , Aurora ; Cheryl Rodney — Polyanna Brewing , Lemont ; Brad Hides — Polyanna Brewing , Roselle ; Marsh — Prysm , Chicago ; Grateful Phish Jam — Q Bar , Darien ; Black Tiger Sex Machine / Lucii , Vampa / Phonon / Hairitage — Radius , Chicago ; The Elephant Lore / The Truckers / B . Lake — Reggies , Chicago ; Matt Kearney — Riviera Theatre , Chicago ; Line Dance Night — Saddle Up , Aurora ; Tim Gleason — Skooters Raodhouse , Shorewood ; Sherelle / Ariel Zetina / Josh Maj — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience — SPACE , Evanston ; Prize Horse / Ridgeway / Habitats / Daybreaker — Subterranean , Chicago ; Tom Grennan — Subterranean , Chicago ; Torn / Freak Like Me ( Creed and Halestorm Tributes ) — Sundance Saloon , Mundelein ; Blok DJs / Midnight Sun — Tavern on LaGrange , LaGrange ; Citizen Cope — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; SnowThat Product — The Rave , Milwaukee ; Jim Lauderdale — The Venue , Aurora ; LaTanya Hughes — Untitled , Chicago ; Airborne Toxic Event / Mondo Cozmo — Vic Theatre , Chicago ; Psychostick / Ideamen — WC Social Club , West Chicago ; Gavin Matts — Zanies , Chicago .
SATURDAY 16
New Nostalgia / Late Night : Scott Burns — Andy ’ s , Chicago ; Olivia Rodrigio — Aragon , Chicago ; Liquid Faction — Arlington Ale House , Arlington Heights ; Bluegrass Brunch ( 11am ) — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Kowloon Walled City / Rid of Me / Virgin Mother / Lume — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; John Primer Band & Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Brother Ali — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Motown Nation / Loudernow — Bourbon St ., Merrionette Park ; 7th Heaven — Brat Stop , Kenosha ; Whitney Morgan & The 78s ( Bhouse ) — Brauerhouse , Lombard ; In The Stix — Bub City , Chicago ; Riley Brothers — Bub City , Rosemont ; Or / Gentleman Speaker — Burlington , Chicago ; Diamondback — Carol ’ s Pub , Chicago ; Deon Cole — Chicago Theatre , Chicago ; Jantsen — Chop Shop , Chicago ; Gunhild Carling — Club Arcada , St . Charles ; Together Pangea — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Money Can ’ t Buy You Acoustic — Cole ’ sBar , Chicago ; Keefe Jackson Likely So — Constellation , Chicago ; Yolanda del Rio — Copernicus Center , Chicago ; Tom Segura — Credit Uinion 1 Arena , Chicago ; Nystrodamus / Wunderlich / Sinister Fate / Player Blue — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Last in Line — Des Plaines Theatre , Des Plaines ; Drag Brunch ( 11am / 3pm ) — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Hairbangers Ball ( 9pm ) — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Ed Schrader ’ s
Music Beat / CB Radio Gorgeous — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Led Zeppelin 2 — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Alyssa Allgood / Red Elvisies — FitzGerald ’ s Patio , Berwyn ; DJ Joe Shanahan : All Vinyl-Funk , Punk , Soul ( 3pm ) — G Man , Chicago ; Karaoke Jam : Mark Rose — G Man , Chicago ; Paper Machete — Green Mill , Chicago ; Infinity ( Cafe ) — Hard Rock , Gary , IN ; Smiley Tillmon Band featuring Kate Moss ( Council Oak ) — Hard Rock , Gary , IN ; Matthew Perrymen Jones — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Deeper / Sports Boyfriend — Hideout , Chicago ; Chicagoland Stand-Up Comedy — Hobart Art Theatre , Hobart , IN ; Jawbreaker — House of Blues , Chicago ; Libido Funk Circus — Jamos Live , Mokena ; Marquis Hill Quintet — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; The Birkenrocks — Joe ’ s on Weed St ., Chicago ; Elizabeth Moen / Lucky Cloud — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Nick Bell Band — Madcats , Palatine ; Pat Ferguson “ Solace ” Release / Tim Carbone / Jacob Jolliff / Kyle Keegan / Kenny Leiser / Pete Smith / Chicken Wire Empire — Martyrs , Chicago ; Absolution — Metal Monkey , Romeoville ; Loop Rockers — Mickey Finns , Libertyville ; Muriel Anderson — Old Town School of Folk Music , Chicago ; Travis — Park West , Chicago ; Lateralus — Piazza , Aurora ; Crawford ’ s Daughter — Polyanna Brewing , Lemont ; JD Kostyk — Polyanna Brewing , Roselle ; Kyle Santillian ( 10pm ) — Promontory , Chicago ; Urban Fetes — Promontory , Chicago ; Whiskey Road — QBar , Darien ; The Story So Far / Joyce Manor / Mom Jeans / Microwave — Radius , Chicago ; Michael Johnson / Michael Robinson ( Comedy Shack ) d — Reggies , Chicago ; The Freecoasters / Soul Radics / Detroit Riddim Crew / DJ Chuck Wren ( Joint ) — Reggies , Chicago ; GOV ’ T Mule — Riviera Theatre , Chicago ; John Waite — Rochaus , West Dundee ; Jamiah Rogers Band — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ; Quebradita Time — Rosemont Theatre , Rosemont ; Two Beer Tommy — Saddle Up , Aurora ; Don Lifted / Sydny August — Schubas , Chicago ; Angel Diust / Spiritual Cramp / Webbed Wing — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Bob Schneider — SPACE , Evanston ; DNBID DJs — Subterranean , Chicago ; Si Dios Quiere / Snuffed / Habitats / Payasa — Subterranean , Chicago ; Bella Cain — Sundance Saloon , Mundelein ; Perfecting Gravity — Suzy ’ s , Yorkville ; Blok DJs / Juice Man — Tavern on LaGrange , LaGrange ; Miden Chicago / Wild Child / Heaven and Hell Chicago — The Forge , Joliet ; Snap Shot — The Quarry , Lemont ; Dave Specter — The Venue , Aurora ; Gregory Stewart — Untitled , Chicago ; Gavin Matts / After Hours — Zanies , Chicago .
SUNDAY 17
Andy Brown Quartet / Late Night : Mike Bening — Andy ’ s , Chicago ; Good Kid / Phoneboy — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Sheryl Youngblood Band — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Bottom Bracket ( Chicago )/ Past Life
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( 630 ) 960-2455 • www . TobiasMusic . com 5013 Fairview Ave • Downers Grove IL 60515 melodies plucking and lurching with accented poise , joined by the almost taunting guitar squeal , works exceptionally well . As the composition grows quieter , more brooding elements are added , decorated with Pink Floyd-esque sonic guitar melodies ( think “ Echoes ” from its 1971 Meddle album ) continuously dip and rise . Only three tracks contain vocals (“ Mesa Skyline ,” “ Pariah ” and “ Black Flame at the Edge of the Desert ”), which are hauntingly handled by Ms . Bellavia . Although its obscure fusion of sounds may seem incompatible at first , the album proves to be highly innovative with each listen . The compositions are comforting and pleasing as background music , where you don ’ t have to give it your full undivided attention . From the doomy / shoegazing vibes of “ Alkali ,” to the ethereal Spanish melodies and spacey , country-ish twang of “ Mesa Skyline ,” to the wailing , harmonica-driven “ The Judge ,” An Evening Redness conjures up a whirlwind of emotions .
– Kelley Simms
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VARIOUS ARTISTS Late Night Tales Presents Version Excursion : Don Letts
( Night Time Stories ) British music impresario , filmmaker , and DJ Don Letts was a key figure bringing English punk and reggae camps together in the late ‘ 70s , befriending both Bob Marley and The Clash in the same era . His influence as a sampler came to prominence as a member of Big Audio Dynamite and as a documentarian for the Clash ( Westway to The World ). His love of dub reggae is showcased on Late Night Tales , curating an album of reimagined reggae reinterpretations of classics from Jefferson Airplane (“ White / Black Rabbit ”), Big Audio Dynamite ’ s “ E = MC2 ,” “ Joy Division ’ s “ Love Will Tear Us Apart ” and The Tamlins version of “ Baltimore .” There ’ s much to love here . Prince Fatty & Sniece ’ s “ Black Rabbit is one of the best “ versions ” of “ White Rabbit ” you ’ ll ever hear including samples of Alice and Wonderland over a bed of dub-heavy riddims . And there ’ s much more to explore .
– John Vernon
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