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Mover Shaker / Jupiter Styles / Becca / She-Her / Making Movies— Subterranean, Chicago; DJ Mike P / Bianca Shaw / Emann & Jojo / Fee Lion / Kingfatz / Case / DJ Mike P( Bud Light Stage)— Taste of Chicago @ Grant Park, Chicago; The Flaming Lips / La Butcherettes / Half Gringa( Petrillo)— Taste of Chicago @ Grant Park, Chicago; 7th Heaven / Petty Kings / Tainted Jake / Sugar Mama & The Gold Diggers / Renegades— Taste of Park Ridge, Park Ridge; Tusk / Chicago Experience / Cadillac Casanovas— Taste of Westmont, Westmont; D’ Ussepalooza— Thalia Hall, Chicago; Two Tones— The Cottage, Crystal Lake; Otep / Club Shabazz— The Forge, Joliet; DJ Esteban La Groue & Danny Dan— The Owl, Chicago; Michael Che / Cipha Sounds— The Vic, Chicago; Mr. Blotto— Tonic Room, Chicago; Hugh Too— Uptown Lounge, Chicago; DJ Q— Venuti’ s, Addison; Time Bandits Chicago— White Eagle, Niles; Mojowindow Doors Tribute— White Tavern, Naperville; Brett Eldredge / Aaron Lewis / Ashley McBride / Riley Green / Cale Dodds / Alex Williams / Jacob Powell / Reece Phillips— Windy City Smokeout, Chicago; Angel Vivaldi / Hyvmine— Wire, Berwyn; Blake Alexander— Zachary’ s Bar, Palos Heights.
SUNDAY 15 JULY
Bill Porter Orchestra— 210 Live, Highwood; Jay Siegel’ s Tokens / Larry Chance & The Earls / Freddy Boom Boom Cannon & Vance Ladd— Arcada Theater, St. Charles; The Whiskey Brothers— Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Slam Funk / Here For The Summer Collective / TBA— Beach Fest, Round Lake Beach; Video Nasties / Street Smarts / Live w / Robert Mays— Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Kojo Reggae— Blarney Island, Antioch; Luke Pytel / Laretha Weathersby— Blue Chicago, Chicago; Hoosier Highway / Middle of The Road— Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge, Michigan City, IN; Kevin Conlins— Board & Barrel, Naperville; Suburban Cowboys— Broken Oar, Port Barringtons; Sunfallen— Bub City, Chicago; Sorry For Partying— Bub City, Rosemont; Joe Moss— Buddy Guy’ s Legends, Chicago; Sushi Roll— Captain’ s Quarters, Antioch; Apocalypse Hoboken / The Bollweevils— Chop Shop, Chicago; Wayne The Train Hancock / Scott H. Biram— City Winery, Chicago; Long Story Short( Release Party)— Club Arcada, St. Charles; Shout Section / Bluegrass Brunch— Durty Nellie’ s, Palatine; The Wick / Mako Sica / Grex( CD Release)/ House Head Social Cancer Bash— Elbo Room, Chicago; Courtesy / Media Jeweler / Richard Album / Desert Liminal— Empty Bottle, Chicago; Donna Summer Disco Night w / Rainere Martin— Evanston Rocks, Evanston; Teen Open Mic— Fitzgeralds, Berwyn; Mike Talbot— Four Winds Casino-Hard Rock, New Buffalo, MI; Epic / Peaches Beach Party— Friendship Fest, Paols Hills; Uptown Poetry Slam / Soul Jazz Night w / Joel Paterson & Chris Foreman— Green Mill, Chicago; Rob Zombie
THE CLAUDETTES July 15 Taste of Chicago, Grant Park, Chicago, IL 60602
& Marilyn Manson— Hollywood Casino Amphitheater, Tinley Park; Chicago Blues All Stars / Chicago Slim & Friends / Gospel Brunch— House of Blues, Chicago; Summer Block Party w / Ludacris / Boyz II Men— Huntington Bank Pavilion @ Northerly Isle, Chicago; Blues Jam w / Linsey Alexander— Kingston Mines, Chicago; The Fossil Tonez— Mac’ s on Slade, Palatine; Kofi & The New Roots Band / Chicago Latin Jazz Festival w / Chuchito Valdes / Ignacio Berroa / Chagua-Ruiz Belvis Afro Latin Jazz Ensemble— Navy Pier, Chicago; Whiskeyfist— Niko’ s Red Mill Tavern, Woodstock; Square Roots Festival( see listings)— Old Town School, Chicago; Kojo Reggae / Acoustically Sound— Port of Blarney, Antioch; Audra McDonald & the CSO— Ravinia Festival, Lake Forest; Ion / Predator / Death On Fire / Epitasis— Reggie’ s, Chicago; Music Trivia / Bingo w / Burke— Reggie’ s, Chicago; Big Suit / AM Taxi / The Bishop’ s Daredevil Stunt Club / The Fox & Hounds / The Flat Cats( Main Stage); One Night Band / Rod Tuffcurls & The Bench Press / Hellow Weekend / Rosie & The Rivets / School of Rock( Damen Stage)— Roscoe Village Burger Fest, Chicago; Anders Osborne / Lynn Drury— Space, Evanston; Uncovered: David Bowie / Pokey LaFarge / Gaiteros de San Jacinto w / Yeison Landero / The Tossers / Joybird / King Wasiu Aynide Marshall / Shosha Wolf / Whitney Ross / The Soukous Allstars / Jonas Friddle & The Majority and more— Square Roots Festival @ Lincoln Square, Chicago; Live DJ— Tailgater’ s, Bolingbrook; DJ Mike P / Sa’ Rayah / Emily Blue / Adam Ness / The Claudettes / Young DRA / DJ Mike P— Taste of Chicago @ Grant Park, Chicago; George Clinton & Parliament Funkadelic / BJ & The Kid / Boy Illinois( Petrillo)— Taste of Chicago @ Grant Park, Chicago; Arra / Muddy Waters Blues Tribute & Jams / Battle of the Teen Bands— Taste of Westmont, Westmont; The Jimmy Dore Show— Thalia Hall, Chicago; Scott Dubose— The Cottage, Crystal Lake; Exmortus / The Absense / Hatchet / Micawber / Crusadist / Final Dissent— The Forge, Joliet; Old Sap— Uncommon Ground Edgewater, Chicago; Lara Bell / Shealeigh / Althea Grace— Uncommon Ground Lakeview, Chicago; DJ / Karaoke— Uptown Lounge, Chicago; Brothers Osborne / Turnpike Troubadors / Kane Brown / Walker Hayes / Renee Blair / Charley Crockett / Jamie Lin Wilson / Jimmie Allen / Troy Cartwright / Andrew Duhon— Windy City Smokeout, Chicago; Project 86 / Kitfai / Lower Nature / Oppressed Affliction / Endostalgia— Wire, Berwyn.
MONDAY 16
Extraordinary Popular Delusions / The Octopus Project / Botany / Blithe Field— Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Mike Wheeler Band / Demetria Taylor— Blue Chicago, Chicago; Justin Russell
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— Bub City, Chicago; Brother John Hosts The Jam— Buddy Guy’ s Legends, Chicago; Post Child / North by North / Little Church / Boo Baby— Chop Shop, Chicago; She’ s Crafty— City Winery, Chicago; Static Signal / OLC— Elbo Room, Chicago; Zigtebra / The Voluptuals / Midnight Opera / Wavy ID— Empty Bottle, Chicago; Chicago Jazz Orchestra / Patricia Barber Quartet— Green Mill, Chicago; The Paper Machete / Alfonso Ponticelli & Swing Gitan / Frank Catalano Sextet— Green Mill, Chicago; Nigel Mack / Joanna Connor— House of Blues, Chicago; Corey Dennison / JW Williams & The Chi Town Hustlers— Kingston Mines, Chicago; Metal Monday— Mac’ s on Slade, Palatine; Louder Than A Mom— Martyrs’, Chicago; Metal Mania w / Damaged Justice / Hellion— Tailgater’ s, Bolingbrook; David Ryle w / A Well Known Secret— Uncommon Ground Edgewater, Chicago; Open Mic— Uncommon Ground Lakeview, Chicago.
TUESDAY 17
Retro Futura 80’ s Tour— Arcada Theater, St. Charles; Trivia Nite w / Pat O’ Malley— Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Chicago Underground Comedy / Forth Wanderers— Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Tenry Johns Blues Band / Claudette Miller— Blue Chicago, Chicago; Matt Nanke— Board & Barrel, Naperville; Steve & Nate’ s Drinks & Paints— BrauerHouse, Lombard; Live Band Karaoke— Bub City, Chicago; Live Band Karaoke— Bub City, Rosemont; Leilani Kilgore— Buddy Guy’ s Legends, Chicago; Boy Named Banjo / Zach Dubois— City Winery, Chicago; Senn Alan Band— Country In The Park, Rosemont; Open Mic— Empire, Naperville; Pete Wilson w / The Rooks( Record Release) / Western Medication / Boyfiend— Empty Bottle, Chicago; Cathy Richardson / Open Mic— Fitzgeralds, Berwyn; The Fat Babies— Green Mill, Chicago; Beer Yoga— Hoppy Pig, Bradley; Mad Man Tour w / Ferg / IDK / A $ AP Rocky / Funky Mojo Daddy / Mike Wheeler— House of Blues, Chicago; Joanna Connor / Michael Wheeler / Peaches Staten— Kingston Mines, Chicago; Clairo / Garren Sean— Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Garcia Later / Dime Store String Band— Martyrs’, Chicago; John Candy Trivia Night— Q-Bar, Glendale Heights; Karaoke— Q-Bar, Plano; Mr. Blotto— Reggie’ s, Chicago; Pete Galanis & Friends— Rosa’ s Lounge, Chicago; The Song of Bethlehem Screening & Discussion w / The LA Hustle— Space, Evanston; Open Mic Hip Hop / 24 Hrs./ Junior V / Gino Haze / Smba— Subterranean, Chicago; Generation— Summer Concert Series, Downers Grove; Karaoke— Tailgater’ s, Bolingbrook; Black Label Society— The Forge, Joliet; Open Mic— Uncommon Ground Edgewater, Chicago; The Paper Boats / Cait Arq & G. H. Jackson— Uncommon Ground Lakeview, Chicago. continues on page 44
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