Year Rain/Lakeside Collective – Elbo Room, Chicago; Trio Life
– Evenflow, Geneva; Classical Cocktails w/Sidebar Jazz/
Chicago Singer Spotlight – Fitzgerald's, Berwyn; Blameshift –
Freakster's Roadhouse, Pontiac, IL; HIM 2014 Tour – House Of
Blues, Chicago; Mike Wheeler w/Peaches Staten/Carl
Weathersby – Kingston Mines, Chicago; Lydia/HRVD/Golden
Sun – Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Eric Lambert & Friends/Andy
Miller/Ben Benedict – Martyrs, Chicago; Chicago Acoustic
Underground Showcase w/Red And Reckless/LIFEAFTERSIX/
Dann Morr & The Dashing Bastard Side Show – Mayne Stage,
Chicago; Memphis May Fire/The Word Alive/A Skylit Drive/
Hands Like Houses/Beartooth – Mojoes, Joliet; HAPA – Old
Town School Of Folk Music, Chicago; Shane Merrill – Q Bar,
Darien; Booty Caboose/DJ Limbs & Friends – Red Line Tap,
Chicago; Wax On Wax Off/The Hotten Hallers/The
Grasstronauts/Nate Gordon – Reggies Music Joint, Chicago;
Disco Ilusion w/Tone B. Nimble/Darryn Jones/Solson – Smart
Bar, Chicago; Kasim Sulton – Space, Evanston; Serial Hawk/Life
Exposed/Witch Messiah – The Burlington, Chicago; Cajmere
Gorgon City – The Mid, Chicago.
THURSDAY 13
Imagine Dragons – Allstate Arena, Rosemont; Rehab/Angel's
Cut – Austin's, Libertyville; Elisium/Blameshift/Through These
Eyes/The Complex Project/Threatening The Order – Bada
Brew, Crest Hill; Prom Night/In Threes/No Safari – Beat
Kitchen, Chicago; Shirley Johnson Blues Band – Blue Chicago,
Chicago; Eddie Taylor Jr./Mike Wheeler – Buddy Guy's, Chicago;
Mix Trio – Carlucci, Downers Grove; Lynne Jordan And The
Shivers – City Winery, Chicago; Summer Camp Music Festival
Presents: Bones Jugs N' Harmony /Eric Lambert & Friends –
Cubby Bear, Chicago; Jeff Gibbs/Mike Gallagher – Double Door,
Chicago; Family Groove Company/Matt Burke Band – Durty
Nellies, Palatine; Glass Armada/M.A.D. Syndicate/AfterSound
– Elbo Room, Chicago; PBJ – Evenflow, Geneva; Adam Marsland
w/Dag Juhlin/Exposure Local Music Showcase – Fitzgerald's,
Berwyn; Zumba Mega Party – H.O.M.E., Arlington Heights; Hard
Rock Rising Phase #3 – Hard Rock Chicago, Chicago; Cary
Kanno – HB Jones, Elmhurst; Mister Suit/Axons/Bode Radio –
Hideout, Chicago; Gaelic Storm – House Of Blues, Chicago;
Whiskey Jam w/Josh Hoge & Ward Gunther/Drake White/
Chris Weaver/Tony Lucca/Ingram Hill/Joey Hyde/Bringley
Addington – Joe's Bar, Chicago; Joanna Connor Blues Band –
Kingston Mines, Chicago; Sean Holt & The Teardrops – Kingston
Mines, Chicago; Broad City Live – Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Helping
Phriendly Orchestra – Martyrs, Chicago; Joey Derus – Metro
Deli Station, Chicago; 10 Years/Hellbound Glory – Mojoes,
Joliet; Sudden Deth/Split Earth/Monster Power/Sad Monster
Party – Quenchers Saloon, Chicago; Open Mic Night w/Micki
Croisant – Red Line Tap, Chicago; Ode/The Great Crusades/
Planeusters – Reggies Music Joint, Chicago; Semple – Rivers
Casino, Des Plaines; Valentin Stip – Smart Bar, Chicago; Marc
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Cohn – Space, Evanston; Stafford Brothers – The Mid, Chicago;
David Polk Project – Wire, Berwyn.
FRIDAY 14
American English/The Fortunate Sons/Sam Crossland/
MTVGhosts – Abbey Pub, Chicago; Demi Lovato – Allstate Arena,
Rosemont; Slightly Stoopid – Aragon Ballroom, Chicago; One
Night Band – Austin's, Libertyville; Chuck Mosley & The
VUA/Downtown Brown/In The Aisles/Thunder Snatch/ Pipe &
Convoy – Bada Brew, Crest Hill; Aidan O'Toole/Wild Colonial
Bhoys – Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; McNulty Irish Dancers/
Whiskey Damned – Ballydoyle, Aurora; Sealed With A Kiss –
Bannerman's, Bartlett; Withoutabreath/Red Novella/Never
Leave Chicago/Along The Parallel – Beat Kitchen, Chicago;
Classical Blast Duo – Blackfinn American Grill, Mt. Prospect; JW
Williams Blues Band w/Demetria Taylor – Blue Chicago,
Chicago; Groove Sauce – Blues Bar, Mt. Prospect; Fruteland
Jackson/Scott Nev/Roosevelt "Hatter" Purifoy/John Primer
Band – Buddy Guy's, Chicago; Kampfire Kowboys – Chicago
Loop Niteclub, Streamwood; Experience Hendrix – Chicago
Theater, Chicago; An Evening With Michael McDermott – City
Winery, Chicago; Against The Plagues/Withering Soul/Knifed At
Gunpoint/Pale Horseman – Cobra Lounge, Chicago; Matt
Ulery's Loom – Constellation, Chicago; Cirrus Falcon –
Countryside Saloon, Des Plaines; Soda – Dock's Bar & Grill,
Wauconda; Fatbook/Bassel & The Supernaturals/Dos Santos/
Sonorama DJ's – Double Door, Chicago; 7th Heaven – Durty
Nellies, Palatine; Jaktripper/7th Heaven – Durty N