Yakusa — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Hoyle Brothers ( 5:30pm ) — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Planet Groove / DJ — Evenflow , Geneva ; Tesla — Four Winds Casino , New Buffalo , MI ; That Arena Rock Show — Fuel Room , Libertyville ; These Beasts ( Record Release )/ Electric Haw / Evasive Actions — GMan Tavern , Chicago ; Chris Foreman / Ethan Iverson — Green Mill , Chicago ; Infinity — Hard Rock Casino - Cafe , Chicago ; Laura Rain & Caesars — Hard Rock Casino - Council Oak , Chicago ; DJ Blanco & Karaoke — Heroes West , Lemont ; Pino Farina Band — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Mezzanine Swimmers / Painted Faces / Excepter / Taste Rubber — Hideout , Chicago ; Poems , Stories & Songs in Memory of Lin Brehmer : Tony Fitzpatrick & Jon Langford ( 6:30pm ) — Hideout , Chicago ; Ripe — House of Blues , Chicago ; Marlon Wayans — Improv Chicago , Schaumburg ; Wedding Banned — Jamo ' s Live , Chicago ; Miguel Zenon — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Birkenrocks / Silver Palms — Joe ' s Bar , Chicago ; Verka Serduchka Band : “ Save Ukraine Tour ” — Joe ' s Live , Rosemont ; Big Dog Mercer — Johnny Blitz , Westmont ; U . S . Girls / Jane Inc — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Frank Liston Trio — Madcats , Palatine ; Horseshoes & Hand Grenades ( 2 Sets )/ Stan P Band — Martyrs ', Chicago ; Ionnalee : Iamamiwhoami / Luminous Kid — Metro , Chicago ; Faction — Mickey Finn ' s , Libertyville ; Trevor Hall — Old Town School of Folk Music , Chicago ; Steve Poltz — Old Town School of Folk Music - Szold Hall , Chicago ; Colt Ford — Piazza , Aurora ; Bill Uhler — Pollyana Brewing , Lemont ; Brad Hides — Pollyana Brewing , Roselle ; Jazz Comfort Food — Pollyana Brewing , St . Charles ; Luttrell / Side Project / FJ9 — Prysm , Chicago ; Blak Swan — Q Bar , Darien ; Snow Tha Product — Rave / Eagles Club , Milwaukee ; Midamerican Elevator / Petite League / Oddysseys — Reggies - Joint , Chicago ; Engelbert Humperdinck — Rialto Square Theatre , Joliet ; Lizzy McAlpine / Oivia Barton — Riviera Theatre , Chicago ; Modern Day Romeos — Rookies Rochaus , West Dundee ; Mzz Reese & Her Piece ' s — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; Shen Yun — Rosemont Theatre , Rosemont ; Line Dancing Party — Saddle Up , Aurora ; Placebo / Poppy Jean — Salt Shed , Chicago ; Ethan Bortnick / Ayleen Valentine — Schubas , Chicago ; Piano Bar — Shanahan ' s , Woodridge ; Cola — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Audion ( DJ Set )/ Jerome Hill / Flower Food — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Louden Wainwright — SPACE , Evanston ; WLDLYFE — Subterranean , Chicago ; Caroline Rose / Kairos Creature Club — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Mickey Avalon — The Forge , Joliet ; Kendre Music — Untitled , Chicago ; Noah Gabriel — Venue , Aurora ; Felipe Esparza — Vic Theatre , Chicago ; Spring Signals / Embers Rise / Inverted Vision — WC Social Club , West Chicago ; Yard Squad / Kinky P — Wild Hare , Chicago ; Kelsey Cook — Zanies , Chicago ; Eddy Ifft — Zanies , Rosemont . |
SATURDAY 22
DJ Boathouse — Alive One , Chicago ; Ana Gabriel — Allstate Arena , Rosemont
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; Brown & Asche / Chicago Calling — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; Winger / Wig Wam — Arcada , St . Charles ; Shytown — Arlington Ale House , Arlington Heights ; Fool House — Art Theatre , Hobart , IN ; Blackened — Basecamp , Lisle ; Passafire / Crooked Coast — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Mike Wheeler Band / Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Chelsea Grin / Carnifex / Left To Suffer / Ov Sulfur — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Anthony Gomes — Brauerhouse - Bhouse , Lombard ; Derek Lersch Band — Bub City , Chicago ; Yankee Cowboy — Bub City , Rosmont ; James Armstrong — Buddy Guy ' s Legends , Chicago ; Cruel / Bug Moment / CalicoLoco — Burlington Bar , Chicago ; Simple Remedy — Carol ' s Pub , Chicago ; KOAN Sound — Chop Shop , Chicago ; Austin Lucas & Bold Party / Adam Faucett — Coles , Chicago ; Pop Evil / The Word Alive / Avoid — Concord Hall , Chicago ; Big Cyc — Copernicus , Chicago ; Louder Now — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Karaoke — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Mike & Joe / DJ — Evenflow , Geneva ; Cash Box Kings — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Family Brunch : Dreamtree Shakers — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Dreamtree Shakers / Trapper Schoepp / Mike Viola — FitzGerald ' s Sidebar , Berwyn ; Surfin ' Usa — Fuel Room , Libertyville ; Chris Connelly ( One Man Show ) Album Release Show : Eulogy To Christa : The Music and Mystique of Nico — GMan Tavern , Chicago ; Paper Mache / Ethan Iverson — Green Mill , Chicago ; Indigos — Hard Rock Casino - Cafe , Chicago ; Anthem — Heroes West , Lemont ; Austin Plane — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Neil Hamburger / Major Entertainer — Hideout , Chicago ; Poems , Stories & Songs in Memory of Lin Brehmer : Tony Fitzpatrick & Jon Langford ( 2:30pm ) — Hideout , Chicago ; Big Bubble Rave — House of Blues , Chicago ; Marlon Wayans — Improv Chicago , Schaumburg ; All American Throwbacks — Jamo ' s Live , Chicago ; Miguel Zenon — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Ron Burgundy ' s — Joe ' s Bar , Chicago ; Dan Stevens / Omar Coleman — Johnny Blitz , Westmont ; Mo Lowda & The Humble / Illiterate Light — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Angel ' s Meow Meow Diva Drag Brunch ( Noon ) — Madcats , Palatine ; The Allstars — Madcats , Palatine ; Soul Daddy / Jam in Between — Martyrs ', Chicago ; 420 Show — Metal Monkey , Romeoville ; Eden — Metro , Chicago ; Mid Life Crisis — Mickey Finn ' s , Libertyville ; Alasdair Fraser & Natalie Haas — Old Town School of Folk Music - Szold Hall , Chicago ; Jib Brothers — Pollyana Brewing , Lemont ; Karla & The Phat Cats — Pollyana Brewing , St . Charles ; Goili & Assia ( DJ Set ) — Prysm , Chicago ; Claremont Drive — Q Bar , Darien ; Claude Vonstroke / Mike Kerigan / Raecola — Radius , Chicago ; Clutch / Amigo The Devil / Nate Bergman — Rave / Eagles Club , Milwaukee ; Emo Nite — Rave / Eagles Club , Milwaukee ; Liam Taylor / Journey Tupper / DZ Riley — Reggies - Comedy Shack , Chicago ; Good Hangs / Gold Steps / Suitable Miss — Reggies - Joint , Chicago ; Black Tiger Sex Machine — Riviera Theatre , Chicago ; Rock Show ( Journey Tribute ) — Rookies Rochaus , West Dundee ; Joe Pratt & Source One — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; Shen Yun — |
Rosemont Theatre , Rosemont ; Bikini Kill / Ganser — Salt Shed , Chicago ; No Men / Album Release Show / Heet Deth / Bussy Kween Power Trip — Schubas , Chicago ; Global Currency — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Ross From Friends ( DJ Set )/ Justin Aulis Long / Sevron — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Tenille Townes — SPACE , Evanston ; Schaffer The Darklord / Coolzey / Void Pedal — Subterranean , Chicago ; Worry Club — Subterranean , Chicago ; Bossy Dog — Suzy ' s , Yorkville ; Hairbangers Ball — Tailgaters , Bolingbrook ; Wild Child / Proxima Parada — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Chaos & Carnage 2023 — The Forge , Joliet ; Brad Arena / Tax on Doors & Windows — Uncommon Ground , Chicago ; Neverly Brothers — Venue , Aurora ; Tom Papa — Vic Theatre , Chicago ; Feels Like Karma / Juice Falls / Double Identity — WC Social Club , West Chicago ; After Hours : Calvin Harris — Zanies , Chicago ; Kelsey Cook — Zanies , Chicago ; Eddy Ifft — Zanies , Rosemont .
SUNDAY 23
Andy Brown / Jordan Baskin — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; Joe P — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Sheyrl Youngblood Band — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Diva Drag Brunch ( Noon ) — Brauerhouse , Lombard ; Noreen Stark — Buddy Guy ' s Legends , Chicago ; Tink & Friends — Chicago Theatre , Chicago ; Ann Hampton Callaway : Peggy Lee Celebration — City Winery , Chicago ; Bubbles & Beauties Drag Brunch — City Winery , Chicago ; Night of the Superwrestlers — Concord Hall , Chicago ; Jimy Zito : St . Jude Benefit — Des Plaines Theatre , Des Plaines ; Monica Laplante / System Exclusive / Flesh Panthers — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; British Buddy — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Dane Cook — Genesee Theatre , Waukegan ; Soul Message — Green Mill , Chicago ; Poems , Stories & Songs in Memory of Lin Brehmer : Tony Fitzpatrick & Jon Langford ( 5:30pm ) — Hideout , Chicago ; Marlon Wayans — Improv Chicagod , Schaumburg ; Miguel Zenon — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Los Autenticos Decadentes — Joe ' s Live , Rosemont ; Night Beats — Madcats , Palatine ; Karen Shook Acoustic — Mickey Finn ' s , Libertyville ; David Howley — Old Town School of Folk Music , Chicago ; Cals Angels Event — Pollyana Brewing , St . Charles ; Ted Lasso Trivia — Pollyana Brewing , St . Charles ; Malone — Prysm , Chicago ; Pop Evil / The Word Alive / Avoid — Rave / Eagles Club , Milwaukee ; Live Band Karaoke — Reggies - Joint , Chicago ; Old Town School of Folk Blues Band — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; Shen Yun — Rosemont Theatre , Rosemont ; Nils Frahm — Salt Shed , Chicago ; Rudy De Anda / Blood Club / Sidaka — Schubas , Chicago ; Acoustic Brunch — Skooter ' s , Shorewood ; Lies — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Derrick Carter / Michael Serafini / Garrett David — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Greg Ward / Imperial Boxman — SPACE , Evanston ; Pinback / Disheveled Cuss — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Shadow of Intent / Body Snatcher / Boundries — The Forge , Joliet ; Dragula Titans / Boulet Brothers — Vic Theatre , Chicago ; Edddie Ifft — Zanies , Chicago .
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MONDAY 24
WWE Monday Night Raw — Allstate Arena , Rosemont ; Clif Walace Big Band — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; Pat McCann — Chicago Theatre , Chicago ; Shaun — Chop Shop , Chicago ; Evan Dando — City Winery , Chicago ; Sasha & The Valentines / Hemlock / Morgan Powers — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Joel Paterson & Friends — Green Mill , Chicago ; Open Mic & Jam — Johnny Blitz , Westmont ; Eleventh Dream Day : 40th Anniversary — Metro , Chicago ; Saint Motel — Metro , Chicago ; Ambre — Reggies - Club , Chicago ; Cian Ducrot — Schubas , Chicago ; Jervis Campbell / Thomas Austin — SPACE , Evanston ; Kill Alters / Deli Girls / Murder Pact — Subterranean , Chicago ; Open Mic & Live Review — Tavern on La- Grange , Countryside ; Slaughter to Prevail — The Forge , Joliet ; Ruch Guzzi — Zanies , Chicago .
TUESDAY 25
Abney Effect — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; Chicago Underground Comedy — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Ian McConnell — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Gene Mobile — City Winery , Chicago ; Xiu Xiu — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Open Jam — Evenflow , Geneva ; Fenwick HS Jazz Band / Gerald Bailey / Macrame Brass — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Chicago Cellar Boys — Green Mill , Chicago ; The Cellar Story — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Whitechapel — House of Blues , Chicago ; Chicago Harmonica Meetup — Johnny Blitz , Westmont ; Wilder Woods / Abraham Alexander — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Open Mic — Madcats , Palatine ; Graham Nash — Old Town School of Folk Music , Chicago ; Mr . Blotto — Reggies - Joint , Chicago ; Daisychain / Footlight District / Reilly Downes — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Open Mic — Subterranean , Chicago ; Krunk Karaoke — Tavern on LaGrange , Countryside ; Flo Live — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Open Jam — The Uptown , Westmont ; Pete Ellman Big Band & Sycamore HS — Venue , Aurora ; Bruce Campbell — Vic Theatre , Chicago ; Super 6 Showcase — Zanies , Chicago ; Rich Guzzi — Zanies , Rosemont .
WEDNESDAY 26
Guy King / Eric Schneider — Andy ' s Jazz , Chicago ; Brian Regan — Arcada , St . Charles ; Girls Night Musical — Arcada , St . Charles ; Demo Division / Broken Left Foot / Disaster Kid / Lithia — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Splice Series Jazz — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Nate Manos / Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Brooks Nielsen — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Kashmir - Led Zeppelin Show — Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Open Mic — Brauerhouse , Lombard ; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City , Chicago ; Brother John : Open Jam — Buddy Guy ' s Legends , Chicago ; Whaddayaknow Trivia — Carol ' s Pub , Chicago ; Comedy Open Mic — Coles , Chicago ; Silent Film Night — Des Plaines Theatre , Des
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