Submissions due the 15th of the preceding month, for example, July listings by June 15th.
Mail to Illinois Entertainer, 4223 W. Lake, Suite 420, Chicago, IL 60624, fax (773) 717-5666, or
e-mail [email protected]. All dates subject to change; please contact venues to verify.
MONDAY 1
Do Not Submit/Rogers Park — Act One Pub, Chicago; Villains/
Cambion — Bada Brew, Crest Hill; Fever The Ghost/Varsity/
Strange Lovelies — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Tenry Johns Band —
Blue Chicago, Chicago; Black Actress/Shawn James & The
Shapeshifters/13 Monsters — Brauerhause, Lombard; Ethan
Bell — Bub City, Chicago; Jimmy Burns Hosts The Jam — Buddy
Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Bark & Bingo — Elbo Room, Chicago;
Nick Waterhouse/DJ Dan Maloney — Empty Bottle, Chicago; A
Teenager Ate My Baby — Fitzgerald’s, Berwyn; Robbie Fulks —
Hideout, Chicago; Steve Ditzell & Blue Lightning — House Of
Blues, Chicago; Carl Weathersby/JW Williams & The Chi-Town
Hustlers — Kingston Mines, Chicago; Worriers/Caves —
LiveWire, Chicago; The Devilish Winks/Tiny Miles Trio —
Martyrs’, Chicago; Open Mic/Improv Night — Quenchers,
Chicago; Open Mic — Red Line Tap, Chicago; Sunshine Root/
Tim Rogner/Kiernan McMullan/Ryan Langlois — Reggie’s Music
Joint, Chicago; The Holy Alimonies/Holy White Hounds —
Schubas, Chicago; Nothing/Merchandise/Cloakroom —
Subterranean, Chicago; Bears & Company/Signals/Red Light
Compliance/My Magic Shoes — The Burlington, Chicago; Bottle
Kids/Up For Nothing/Top Shelp Lickers/Double Feature —
Underground Lounge, Chicago.
TUESDAY 2
Mallory Lennon & The Sykadelix/Pistachio Brothers — Abbey
Pub, Chicago; Cruisr — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Charlie Love
Band/Claudette Miller — Blue Chicago, Chicago; The Special
20’s — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Ian Maksin & Goran
Ivanovic Trio — City Winery, Chicago; Chicago Nightlife Awards
— Concord Music Hall, Chicago; Table Top Game Night — Durty
Nellie’s, Palatine; The Evening Attraction/Foxhole/Overclocked
— Empty Bottle, Chicago; Bluesday Tuesday w/Lurrie Bell’s
Chicago Blues Band/Open Mic — Fitzgerald’s, Berwyn; Dynamo
— Fizz, Chicago; Mick & Ben/Roommate — Hideout, Chicago;
Naughty & Nice Pub Trivia — Home Bar, Arlington Heights;
Matthew Curry — House Of Blues, Chicago; Ronnie Hicks Band/
Michael Wheeler Band — Kingston Mines, Chicago; Seinabo
Sey/James Davis — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Pecha Kucha Vol. 34
— Martyrs’, Chicago; Wit Rabbit Reading Series/Bobco:
Working Class Poets — Quenchers, Chicago; The Mudflapps/
Chris Flood/Craig Champlin — Red Line Tap, Chicago; Mr.
Blotto/Psycles — Reggie’s Music Joint, Chicago; Ozric Tentacles
/Mano — Reggie’s Rock Club, Chicago; Pete Galanis & Friends
Feat. Omar Coleman — Rosa’s, Chicago; The Do/Zigtebra —
Terrapin Flyer/Flabby Hoffman Comedy — Abbey Pub, Chicago;
Singing For Your Supper — Act One Pub, Chicago; Emperors &
Elephants/ADD/The Prophets of Addiction — Bada Brew, Crest
Hill; Spice Series/Fred Lonberg/Albert Wildeman/Peter
Maunu/Jackson Scott/Dam Gila/Power Haunts/Blind Moon —
Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Demetria Taylor/JW Williams — Blue
Chicago, Chicago; Judson Brown’s Dueling Strings — Bub City,
Chicago; Michael Charles — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago;
Brother Starrace/A Billion Young/Brigade/Ethan Butler/The
Sueves/Soft Candy — Double Door, Chicago; Second City &
Workout Karaoke — Elbo Room, Chicago; MTVGhosts/Jack
Tell/BlackGlass/Fat Hot — Empty Bottle, Chicago; Jeannie
Lambert & Judy Roberts — Fitzgerald’s, Berwyn; Kids/Mouthful
Of Snow — Fizz, Chicago; Foundations of Music Quiz Show
Showdown — Hideout, Chicago; Scott Ellison/Jay Langston —
House Of Blues, Chicago; Live Band Karoake — Joe’s Bar,
Chicago; Carl Weathersby Band/Mike Wheeler w/Peaches
Staten — Kingston Mines, Chicago; Grieves/Grayskul/
Rapperchicks — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Tributosaurus Becomes
Huey Lewis & The News — Martyrs’, Chicago; Magic Giant/Greg
Jackson Combs/Davenport Ed — Mayne Stage, Chicago; Royal
Blood/Mini Mansions — Metro, Chicago; Trippin’ Billies — Navy
Pier, Chicago; Newpoli/DJ Bashert — Old Town School, Chicago;
Wayland/Left Of Reason/Wrecked — Penny Road Pub,
Barrington; Mrstealyourwig Comedy Showcase — Promontory
Theater, Chicago; Burlesque Review& Comedy Showcase —
Quenchers, Chicago; Jack Butler Jones/Sunshine Root — Red
Line Tap, Chicago; Umbra And The Volcan Siege — Reggie’s
Music Joint, Chicago; Aborted/Fit For An Autopsy/
Archspire/Dark Sermon — Reggie’s Rock Club, Chicago; Sugar
Blue Unplugged — Rosa’s, Chicago; American Vacation/Beth
Bombara/Sun Speak — Schubas, Chicago; The Secret Sisters &
Striking Matches — Space, Evanston; Punjol — Subterranean,
Chicago; Quiz Quest — Wire, Berwyn.
Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago, Chicago; Rockin Billy & The
Wild Coyotes — Brauerhause, Lombard; Nellie Tiger Travis —
Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Charlie Mars & Clarence Bucaro
— City Winery, Chicago; 1349/Necrophagia/Vattnet Viskar/
They Die Screaming — Cobra Lounge, Chicago; Blood Red Boots
/The Hot Moms — Double Door, Chicago; Bar Bingo — Durty
Nellie’s, Palatine; I Am Fest Battle Of The Bands — Elbo Room,
Chicago; The Hussy/The Lemons — Empty Bottle, Chicago; Big
Dog Mercer — Famous Dave’s, Orland Park; The Houli’s
Hooley/Walter Salas-Humara/Jon Langford — Fitzgerald’s,
Berwyn; Acid Tide/The Humbolts/Taft/Star McCutchen — Fizz,
Chicago; The Moods — Grand Victoria Casino, Elgin; Kaiser
Brother