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Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Los Lobos — City Winery, Chicago;
Exit Verse/Campdogzz/People Out There — Empty Bottle,
Chicago; Patricia Barber Quartet — Green Mill, Chicago; Robbie
Fulks/Eric Noden/Weeds Poetry Open Mic — Hideout, Chicago;
Joanna Connor/Sheryl Youngblood/Rock N Roll Vs. Cancer
Benefit — House of Blues, Chicago; Raelynn (Live Country) —
Joe’s Live, Rosemont; Corey Dennison/JW Williams & The ChiTown Hustlers — Kingston Mines, Chicago; The Gabriel
Construct/The Phantom Broadcast/Conflux — Martyrs, Chicago;
Improv Night w/Sand and Spitbllin’/Open Mic Night —
Quenchers, Chicago; Bingo w/Burke/Music Trivia — Reggie’s,
Chicago; The Secret Sisters — Schubas, Chicago; Blue
Mondays w/Dave Specter’s Blues Guitar Unsung — Space,
Evanston.
TUESDAY 13
Trivia Night — Ballydoyle, Aurora; Trivia Nite — Ballydoyle,
Downers Grove; BTS Express/Laretha Weathersby — Blue
Chicago, Chicago; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City, Chicago; Live
Band Karaoke — Bub City, Rosemont; Alex Zayas — Buddy Guy’s
Legends, Chicago; R. Kelly — Chicago Theater, Chicago; Los
Lobos — City Winery, Chicago; Radkey/The Fame Riot/Lil
Tits/Oops — Cobra Lounge, Chicago; Benefit for Active
Transportation Alliance w/Mako Sica/Mardou/Courtesy/
Taphophile — Empty Bottle, Chicago; Open Mic/VoiceBox
w/Cathy Richardson — FitzGerald’s, Berwyn; The Fat Babies —
Green Mill, Chicago; Junius Paul Collective/Elijah Jamal —
Hideout, Chicago; Pub Trivia — HOME, Arlington Heights; Mike
Wheeler/Erica Clark/Breezy Rodio/Let’s Rock the Bells
Benefit — House of Blues, Chicago; Joe Orozco — JW Hollstein’s,
Tinley Park; Giles Corey/Mike Wheeler Band — Kingston Mines,
Chicago; Grace Beechy Music — Mackell’s Inn, Chicago;
Grateful String Band — Martyrs, Chicago; Secret Space/Heart
Attack Man/Recreational Drugs (Rock Club)/Mr. Blotto/
School of Rock Oak Park (Music Joint) — Reggie’s, Chicago;
Pete Galanis & Friends w/Dave Herrero — Rosa’s, Chicago;
Jaymay/Starving in the Belly of The Whale — Space, Evanston.
WEDNESDAY 14
Jingle Ball w/Ariana Grande/Ellie Goulding/Backstreet
Boys/Tove Lo — Allstate Arena, Rosemont; Lorrie Morgan Enchanted Christmas — Arcada Theater, St. Charles; Open Mic
— Ballydoyle, Aurora; Open Mic — Ballydoyle, Downers Grove;
Friends of the Bog/The Lone Canary/Nick Jester & The Robot
Orchestra/Splice Series/Carol Genetti/Aaron Zarzutzki/Albert
Wildeman/Peter Maunu — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; JW Williams/
Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago, Chicago; Against The Current/
Cruisr/Beach Weather — Bottom Lounge, Chicago; Whiskey
Wednesday — Bub City, Chicago; The Marcus King Band — Buddy
Guy’s Legends, Chicago; R. Kelly — Chicago Theater, Chicago;
Los Lobos — City Winery, Chicago; Fabitat/DJ Adam El/Ldy
Prblms/Lucy Stoole/Curlene Ribbon/The Vixen — Double Door,
Chicago; Open Mic/The Northern Empty/Owens Room/
Pareidolia — Elbo Room, Chicago; Christmas Bride/LIfestyles/
Heavy Dreams — Empty Bottle, Chicago; Rob Parton Big Band
Christmas/Sidebar Sessions w/Peter Lerner Quartet —
FitzGerald’s, Berwyn; Andrew Bird: Intimate Gezelligheid
Performance — Fourth Presbyterian Church, Chicago; Alfonso
Ponticelli & Swing Gitan/Late Night Set w/Frank Catalano
Sextet — Green Mill, Chicago; Olivia Block/Mike Weis/MT
Coast — Hideout, Chicago; Keithen Banks — House of Blues,
Chicago; Sunny Sweeney/Brennen Leigh/Courtney Patton/
Jamie Lin Wilson — Joe’s Bar, Chicago; Judson Brown’s Dueling
Strings — Joe’s Live, Rosemont; Corey Dennison/Mike
Wheeler/Peaches Staten — Kingston Mines, Chicago; Jungle of
Cities/Old Sap/Chyomin — Martyrs, Chicago; Cheap Girls/Two
Houses/All Eyes West — Quenchers, Chicago; Live Band
Karaoke — Reggie’s, Chicago; Harry Hmura Band — Rosa’s,
Chicago; Dead Horses/The Crane Wives — Schubas, Chicago;
The Bad Plus — Space, Evanston; Like Rats/Knife Hits/
Xabrupta/Bruges — Subterranean, Chicago; The Cool Kids/
Payroll Giovanni & Femdot — Thalia Hall, Chicago; Drift Away
Band — The Lodge on 64, St. Charles; Whiskey & Harmony —
Tilted Kilt, Bolingbrook; Maxwell/Mary J. Blige — United Center,
Chicago; The Revue — Wire, Berwyn; Charles & Company —
Zachary’s, Palos Heights.
THURSDAY 15
Max Weinberg Band w/Mindi Abair — Arcada Theater, St.
Charles; Bally’s Got Talent: Round 1 — Ballydoyle, Aurora; Old
Lazarus’ Harp/Spitzer Space Telescope — Beat Kitchen, Chicago;
Chi-Town Band — Bella Mia, Midlothian; Stirred Not Shaken/
Related Rhapsody — Berghoff, Chicago; Mike Wheeler/Shirley
Johnson — Blue Chicago, Chicago; For Today Farewell Tour/
Norma Jean/Silent Planet/My Epic — Bottom Lounge, Chicago;
32 Below/Rendition Live Band Karaoke — Bub City, Chicago;
Live Band Karaoke — Bub City, Rosemont; Pistol Pete — Buddy
Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Stephan Jenkins Acoustic — City
Winery, Chicago; Karma To Burn — Cobra Lounge, Chicago; Rudy
Royston Orion Trio/Jon Irabagon & Yashushi Nakamura —
Constellation, Chicago; Pantomine/The Regular — Cubby Bear,
Chicago; Push Beats — Double Door, Chicago; B. Right/
Spotlight: Showcase For Chicago Artists w/Christian JaLon/G
Scott/Niki Hayes/Brittany NaCole — Elbo Room, Chicago;
Andrew Bird: Intimate Gezelligheid Performance — Fourth
Presbyterian Church, Chicago; Kenny G — Genesee Theater,
Waukegan; Andy Brown Solo Jazz Guitar/Alan Gresik Swing
Shift Orchestra — Green Mill, Chicago; Cary Kanno — HB Jones,
Elm hurst; Devil In A Woodpile/Sayers (Video Release)/Rambos
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— Hideout, Chicago; Karaoke — HOME, Arlington Heights; Corey
Dennison — House of Blues, Chicago; Big Country Christmas —
Joe’s Live, Rosemont; Eddie Shaw & The Wolf Gang/Joanna
Connor — Kingston Mines, Chicago; Dirtwire — Martyrs, Chicago;
Nutcracking Holiday Revue — Paramount Theater, Aurora; New
Standard Jazz Orchestra Fet. Bob Mintzer — Reggie’s, Chicago;
Kacey Musgraves — Rialto Square Theater, Joliet; Cowboy
Jukebox — Rivers Casino, DesPlaines; Madman Jam Night —
Rocky Vander’s, Prospect Heights; The James Wheeler Blues
Jam Hosted by Lil’ Ed Williams/Melody Angel — Rosa’s, Chicago;
Gangstagrass — Schubas, Chicago; Ninjah Fareye/Alfonz
Delamota/Diotropics/Mega Mike/Fiya Fly/Rifle MC/Fonz MC
— Smart Bar, Chicago; Los Lobos — Space, Evanston; Anti/
Beyond (Record Release)/Bestman/Bardo/Fever Queen —
Subterranean, Chicago; AC Slater — The Mid, Chicago;
Daisyhead/Capstan — Wire, Berwyn.
FRIDAY 16
Doug James & The Pocket — 210 Bar, Highwood; The Ides of
March w/Jim Peterik — Arcada Theater, St. Charles; Too White
Crew — Austin’s Fuel Room, Libertyville; JBC Presents — Bada
Brew, Crest Hill; Dick Diamond & The Dusters — Ballydoyle,
Aurora; Summer Son — Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Hot Rocks —
Bannerman’s, Bartlett; Craig Scott Duo — Bar Louie, Oak Brook
Terrace; A Very Merry Beast Warrior Holiday Show/Central
Disorder — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Coverlicious — Bedrocks,
Shorewood; It Takes Two/Guy Dominick — Berghoff, Chicago;
Tenry Johns/Claudette Miller — Blue Chicago, Chicago; April’s
Reign/The Niche — Blue Chip - Rocks Lounge, Michigan City, IN;
DJ Night — Blue Chip - Vegas Baby, Michigan City, IN; Veil of
Maya/Deadships/World War Me/Sioum/Tanzen — Bottom
Lounge, Chicago; Wedding Banned/Hillbilly Rockstarz —
Bourbon Street, Merrionette Park; Ben Miller Band — Brauer
House, Lombard; Dan Peters — Broken Oar, Port Barrington; 32
Below — Bub City, Chicago; Larry McCray/The Blue Coast Band
— Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Cirrus Falcon — Carlucci,
Downers Grove; The Outfit — Chicago Loop Niteclub,
Streamwood; Mark Esses & DJ New/Vintage/From the Start —
Cobra Lounge, Chicago; KSHMR/Drezo — Concord Music Hall,
Chicago; JD Allen Trio — Constellation, Chicago; Curt Cohiba/
Doomerang/The Group Conversation/Sincerely Sarlacc —
Cubby Bear, Chicago; Foxing/Tiny Moving Parts/The Island of
Misfit Toys/The Reptilian/Simmer Down Sound w/Akasha/The
Graduate/Rad Brian/Marcus Iyah/Odd Obession Movies —
Double Door, Chicago; Orange Star — Draft Picks, Naperville;
Austin Jones — Durty Nellie’s, Palatine; Los Borrachos: Cinco
De Mayo in December — Elbo Room, Chicago; Hard Country
Honky Tonk w/The Hoyle Brothers — Empty Bottle, Chicago;
Minor Characters/Furr/Great Moon — Empty Bottle, Chicago;
Phil Angotti & Friends — FitzGerald’s, Berwyn; UltraFab (Hard
Rock) — Four Winds Casino, New Buffalo, MI; Andrew Bird:
Intimate Gezelligheid Performance — Fourth Presbyterian
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concert previews, news, and reviews.
Church, Chicago; Wizards of Winter — Genesee Theater,
Waukegan; Guy King — Grand Victoria Casino, Elgin; The
Flipside Show w/Chris Foreman/Bob Mintzer Organ Trio/After
Hours Jam Session — Green Mill, Chicago; Stevie Craig — Harp
& Fiddle, Park Ridge; Funny Ha-Ha — Hideout, Chicago; The
Moods — Hollywood Casino, Aurora; Trap The Halls — HOME,
Arlington Heights; DJ Kosmo — House of Blues, Chicago; Vital
Signs — Jambalaya @Pheasant Run, St. Charles; Fool House —
Jenny’s Southside Tap, Mokena; Chris Lane — Joe’s Live,
Rosemont; Sorry For Partying — JW Hollstein’s, Tinley Park;
Michael Heaton — Kennedy Pointe, Bristol; Duke Tumatoe & The
Power Trio/Joanna Connor — Kingston Mines, Chicago;
Emancipator/Tor/Edamame/Lapa — Lincoln Hall, Chicago;
Lifters Acoustic — Lone Buffalo, Ottawa; Suburban Cowboys —
Lucky Star, Bartlett; Stampy/Ryan Viser/Lunar Ticks — Martyrs,
Chicago; Helmet/Local H — Metro, Chicago; Pulp Fusionw/
Cellophane — MT Barrels, Schaumburg; Nutcracking Holiday
Revue — Paramount Theater, Aurora; Slick/Vicious Circle/
Jailbreak — Penny Road Pub, Barrington; Hi Fi Superstar —
Pheasant Run Resort, St. Charles; Goalie Fight!/The Idle
Rich/Miles/Vamplifier — Quenchers, Chicago; The Flabby
Hoffman Show — Red Line Tap, Chicago; Mest (Rock Club)/
Sons of Ra/Pavlov3/Faces of The Bog/We Killed The Lion —
Reggie’s, Chicago; Mannheim Steamroller — Rialto Square
Theater, Joliet; 7th Heaven — Rivers Casino, DesPlaines;
Crosstown Classics — Rockin’ Horse Saloon, Oak Forest; Melvin
Taylor & The Slack Band — Rosa’s, Chicago; Shiny Penny/Ember
Oceans/The 41 North/Joey Pettrone & The Scarecrow
Army/Katie & Les Bates — Schubas, Chicago; Nightmares on
Wax DJ Set/Romare DJ Set/Adam Stolz — Smart Bar, Chicago;
Tim Reynolds — Space, Evanston; Celtic Woman: Home For
Christmas — Star Plaza Theater, Merrillville, IN; Chrismas With
the Big League Boys — Subterranean, Chicago; CSO’s Merry,
Merry Chicago — Symphony Center, Chicago; Lynch Mob —
Tailgater’s, Chicago; Twin Peaks/PANGEA/Golden Daze/Parent
— Thalia Hall, Chicago; Impulsive Hearts/Small Tines/Born
Days — The Burlington, Chicago; Giraffage — The Mid, Chicago;
Christmas Queens — The Vic, Chicago; Cary Kanno — Tilted Kilt,
Bolingbrook; DJ & Karaoke — Uptown Lounge, Chicago; Soda —
Venuti’s, Addison; 20 Bands of Christmas — Wire, Berwyn.
SATURDAY 17
Second Time Around — 210 Bar, Highwood; One Hot Mess —
Adobe Gila’s, Rosemont; JT James Acoustic — Angry Brothers
Pub, Racine, WI; Ralphie May’s White Trash Christmas — Arcada
Theater, St. Charles; Rockus — At Work Sports Bar, Hoffman
Estates; Ron Hawking Christmas — Austin’s Fuel Room,
Libertyville; Dead Man’s Hand — Bada Brew, Crest Hill; The
Remedy — Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Bad Medicine —
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