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Grove ; Wendy & DB and the Band — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Sheryl Youngblood — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Smokin ’ Gunz / Spike & The Spitwads — Blue Chip Casino - Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Mr . Pickles Thrashtacular w / Exodus / Municipal Waste & Immortal Bird — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; The Messengers — Bub City , Chicago ; Robbie Gold — Bub City , Rosemont ; Nigel Mack — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Salsa Sunday — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Open Mic w / Superfly Redneck — Cuzin ’ s Pub , Blue Island ; Billy King Band Open Mic Jam — Cuzin ’ s Pub , Tinley Park ; From Nothing To Something — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Fran / Gratitude Journal / Furble — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Carla Cooke — Evanston Rocks , Evanston ; Shout Section Big Band — Fitz Spare Keys , Elmhurst ; Chicago Grandstand Big Band / Woodridge Friends of Jazz — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Zoie Moser — Four Winds Casino , New Buffalo , MI ; Million Dollar Quartet — Genesee Theater , Waukegan ; Uptown Poetry Slam / Soul Jazz Night w / Joel Paterson & Chris Foreman — Green Mill , Chicago ; Mark Lavengood / Seth Bernard / Gregory Stovetop — Heartland Cafe , Chicago ; Trivia Night — HOME Bar , Arlington Heights ; Why Don ’ t We / Gospel Brunch — House of Blues , Chicago ; Linsey Alexander / Claudette Miller / Blues Jam — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Why ?/ Florist / Air Credits — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Ricky Skaggs & Kentucky Thunder / Scott Mulvahill — Old Town School , Chicago ; China Grove — Pheasant Run Mainstage Theater , St . Charles ; Brandon James / Gifted Keys / Septicflesh / Dark Funeral / Thy Antichrist / Withering Soul / Fin — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; MGMT — Riviera Theater , Chicago ; Pyzow / Half Gringa / Liz & The Lovelies — Schubas , Chicago ; Beach Bunny / Greet Death / Mover Shaker / Bosley Mongo — Subterranean , Chicago ; Live DJ — Tailgaters , Bolingbrook ; Local Showcase — The Forge , Joliet ; Uneventful Daze / Tim Klocek — Tonic Room , Chicago ; Bogues / MNOR — Uncommon Ground , Chicago ; DJ & Karaoke — Uptown Lounge , Chicago ; Villian of The Story / Deadships — Wire , Berwyn .
MONDAY 5
Johnny Don ’ t — BaseCamp , Lisle ; Extraordinary Popular Delusions / Tabletop Game Night — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Luke Pytel w / Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Wade Magee — Bub City , Chicago ; Jimmy Burns Hosts The Jam — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Soul Spectacular — City Winery , Chicago ; So Pretty / Espejos — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Pub Trivia — Fitz Spare Keys , Elmhurst ; Patricia Barber Quartet — Green Mill , Chicago ; Open Mic — Heartland Cafe , Chicago ; Bingo Night — HOME Bar , Arlington Heights ; Why Don ’ t We — House of Blues , Chicago ; Corey Dennison / JW Williams & The Chi-Town Hustlers — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Amy Shark / Milck — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Black & Blue / Midnight Hour — Martyrs ’, Chicago ;
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Miguel / Sir / Noncahlant Savant — Riviera Theater , Chicago ; Uma Bloo / Boniface / Xoe Wise — Schubas , Chicago ; Laila Biali — Space , Evanston ; Peter Perrett / The Molochs — Subterranean , Chicago ; Bash Bang / Speed Babes — The Owl , Chicago ; Funk Vendetta — Tonic Room , Chicago ; Elisa Latrice — Uncommon Ground , Chicago .
TUESDAY 6
Silent Film Night : The Penalty w / Jay Warren on Organ — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Chicago Underground Comedy — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Tenry Johns Band / Claudette Miller — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City , Rosemont ; Johnny Rawls — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Joanne Shaw Taylor — City Winery , Chicago ; Open Mic Nite — Empire , Naperville ; Tiny Firelies / Living Hour / The Curls — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Billy Branch & Sons of Blues / Open Mic — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; The Fat Babies — Green Mill , Chicago ; Joanna Connor / Mike Wheeler w / Peaches Staten — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Skinny Lister / Will Varley — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Pecha Kucha Vol . 45 — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Mr . Blotto / Garcia Later — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Nashville Electric Company — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; Mauno Pool Holography / Sean Green — Schubas , Chicago ; Blue Mondays w / Dave Specter — Space , Evanston ; Pussy Riot / Nikki Lynette / Hip Hop Open Mic — Subterranean , Chicago ; Karaoke — Tailgaters , Bolingbrook ; Catastrophic Event Specialist Tour 2018 — The Forge , Joliet ; Gazebo Effect — Tonic Room , Chicago ; BackWood Jones — Wire , Berwyn .
WEDNESDAY 7
Bill Porter Orchestra — 210 Live , Highwood ; Blues Jam w / Big Ray & Chicago ’ s Most Wanted — B . L . U . E . S , Chicago ; JW Williams / Laretha Weathersby — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; The Expendables / Throught The Roots / Pacific Dub / Amplified — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Whiskey Wednesday w / DGT Trio — Bub City , Chicago ; Dave Specter — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; My Dad Wrote A Porno — Chicago Theater , Chicago ; Betty Who / Pretty Sister / Spencer Ludwig — Chop Shop , Chicago ; AJ Croce : 2 Generations of America — City Winery , Chicago ; Mer ’ s Music Showcase — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Madman Band — Draft Picks , Mt . Prospect ; Open Mic — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Trivia Night — Empire , Naperville ; Archie Powell & The Exports / Juiceboxxx — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; The Fat Babies / Mike Davis / Jacob Zimmerman / NewStandard Quartet — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Alfonso Ponticelli & Swing Gitan / Lat Night w / Frank Catalano Sextet — Green Mill , Chicago ; In One Ear — Heartland Cafe , Chicago ; Liam Durkin — House of Blues , Chicago ; The Office Trivia — Joe ’ s Bar , Chicago ; Giles Corey / Corey Dennison — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Alex Cameron / Molly Burch — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Tributosaurus becomes : The Who — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Akello / Lunasa — Old Town School , Chicago ; Trivia Night — Q Bar , Darien ; Preach / Live Band
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Karaoke / Bingo — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Christian Lopez — Schubas , Chicago ; Declan McKenna / Chappell Roan — Space , Evanston ; Live DJ — Tailgaters , Bolingbrook ; Udo Dirkschnieder / Elm Street / Strikeforce / Endgame — The Forge , Joliet .
THURSDAY 8
Corey Dennison — 210 Live , Highwood ; Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Singer / Songwriter Showcase w / Hunter Jackson — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Pussy Riot / Nikki Lynette — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; BTS Express / Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Futuristic / Ishdarr / Mark Battles / Scribcash — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Michale Graves Acousic — BrauerHouse , Lombard ; 32 Below — Bub City , Chicago ; The Chicago R & B Kings — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Random Rob / Edamame — Chop Shop , Chicago ; Howard Jones w / Rachael Sage — City Winery , Chicago ; Open Mic Blues Jam w / Billy King Band — Cuzin ’ s Pub , Blue Island ; Knuckle Puck / Boston Manor / Free Throw / Hot Mulligan / Jetty Bones — Durty Nellie ’ s , Palatine ; 3rd Annual Battle of the Bands — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Marlon Williams / Tiny Ruins — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Sal & Izy — Evviva , Lisle ; Elmhurst College Jazz Band — Fitz Spare Keys , Elmhurst ; Phil Angotti Winter Dance Holly Winder Dance Party — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Brian Allison — Four Winds Casino , New Buffalo , MI ; Andy Brown Solo Jazz Guitar / Alan Gresik Swing Shift Orchestra — Green Mill , Chicago ; McLennon — HB Jones , Elmhurst ; Country Night — HOME Bar , Arlington Heights ; Ty Dolla $ ign — House of Blues , Chicago ; Mike Wheeler Band — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; James P . Daley ’ s Decahedral / The New Constellations — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Betty Who — Metro , Chicago ; Mary Gauthier — Old Town School , Chicago ; Extreme Midget Wrestling — Q Bar , Plano ; REO Speedwagon — Rialto Square Theater , Joliet ; Chet Porter / CHNNLL — Schubas , Chicago ; Icon For Hire / Makeout / Reggae Gold — Subterranean , Chicago ; Rhye / Boulevards — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Catfish & The Dogstars / Mama Juke / Peggy Tenderass — Tonic Room , Chicago ; The Songwriter Sampler — Uncommon Ground , Chicago ; DJ & Karaoke — Uptown Lounge , Chicago ; Rick Lindy & The Wild Ones — Venuti ’ s , Addison ; War of Ages / Convictions / Earth Groans — Wire , Berwyn ; James Libera — ZaZa ’ s Tavola , Lake Barrington .
FRIDAY 9
GooRoos — 210 Live , Highwood ; Demi Lovato — Allstate Arena , Rosemont ; G-Eazy — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; The Musical Box / The Black Show / Lamb Set — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Shawn Holt & The Teardrops — B . L . U . E . S , Chicago ; Karnasia — Bada Brew , Crest Hill ; Black Diamond — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Trio — Bar Evolution , Batavia ; The Fresh Hops — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Sheryl Youngblood — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Euphoria / Sole City Juke Band — Blue Chip Casino - Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; DJ Night — Blue Chip Casino- It ’ s
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Vegas Baby , Michigan City , IN ; Justin Nokuza / Good Old War / River Matthews — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Louder Than Bombs / Pri Mary — BrauerHouse , Lombard ; Shamrockers Ball w / Live Bands — Broken Oar , Port Barrington ; 32 Below — Bub City , Chicago ; Chris Karabas — Bub City , Rosemont ; Luke Pytel / Bob Mandrino & The New Homewrecker — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Stosh — Chicago Loop , Streamwood ; Evening of Dreams — Chop Shop , Chicago ; Quinn XCII / Chelsea — Concord Music Hall , Chicago ; Liz Manville — Cuzin ’ s Pub , Tinley Park ; Light and Shade — Dock ’ s Bar , Wauconda ; Sweet Diezel Jenkins / There Goes The Neighborhood — Durty Nellie ’ s , Palatine ; Leeloo Dallas / The Fonzie Scheme / Enemy of Culture — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Tres Moustache — Empire , Naperville ; Dre Day — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Seckond Chaynce / Gutter Souls — Evanston Rocks , Evanston ; Mike Love / Jungle Man Sam — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Hello Weekend / DJ Dubbington — Four Winds Casino , New Buffalo , MI ; Fool House — Fuel Room , Libertyville ; Guy King Sextet / Chris Foreman on Organ // After Hours Jam — Green Mill , Chicago ; Michael Heaton — Harp & Fiddle , Park Ridge ; Play For The Planet — Heartland Cafe , Chicago ; Whiskey & Harmony — Hollywood Casino , Aurora ; Libido Funk Circus — Hollywood Casino , Joliet ; Little Birds w / Special Guests — House of Blues , Chicago ; Rick Lindy Duo — Incontro A Tavola , S . Barrington ; Firechicken — Jenny ’ s Southside Tap , Mokena ; Corey Smith — Joe ’ s Bar , Chicago ; Bajaga & Instruktori — Joe ’ s Live , Rosemont ; Dana French — Kennedy Pointe , Bristol ; Frank DePeder — Kerry Piper , Willlowbrook ; Lurrie Bell / Nora Jean Bruso / Doktu Rhute Muuzic — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Ought / Snail Mail / Ganser — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Ghost Ryder — Lucky Star , Bartlett ; Gorlla Social / Son of Abbey / Summer of Salt — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Darryl Jones Project w / Nicholas Tremulis — Park West , Chicago ; Steadfast / Blackmarket Democracy / Wrecked / Convoy — Penny Road Pub , S . Barrington ; Piano Man — Pheasant Run Mainstage Theater , St . Charles ; Justin Moyar / Keith Scott / Avernus / Morta Skuld / Disinter / Blood Wolf / Clyde Stubblefield All Stars / Aycee Lovely — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Maggie Speaks & DJ Q — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; Mat Kearney / Andrew Belle / Filous — Riviera Theater , Chicago ; Sebastian Maniscalco — Rosemont Theater , Rosemont ; Meni Trust / Sports Boyfriend — Schubas , Chicago ; Nothing , Nowhere / Shinigami / Lil Lotus / Jay Vee — Subterranean , Chicago ; Thirsty Boots Band — Sundance Saloon , Mundelein ; Live DJ — Tailgaters , Bolingbrook ; Hot Snakes / Meat Wave / Duchess Says — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Kacey Russell & Doc — The Cottage , Crystal Lake ; DJ Fess Grandiose — The Owl , Chicago ; Railroad Earth / Roosevelt Collier — The Vic , Chicago ; Chicks With Picks — Tilted Kilt , Bolingbrook ; Southern Avenue / Frequilibrium — Tonic Room , Chicago ; Two Fellas — Tuscany , Oak Brook ; Ivy Ford & Mike Zabrin — Twisted Rose , Algonquin ; Lotus
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