Tavern , Chicago ; Soul Message — Green Mill , Chicago ; Cynic / Toxic Holocaust / Profanatica / The Skull / Putrid Pile / Lurid / Exegesis — Heavy Chicago , Chicago ; Outbound A Capella — Hey Nonny , Arlington Hts ; Tokyo Police Club — HOB , Chicago ; Brendan Bayliss & Andy Frasco — Hobart Theatre , Hobart , IN ; Aries Spears — Improv , Schaumburg ; Chuchito Valdes — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Jonny Lyons & Pride — Lyric Theater , Blue Island ; Corner Boys — Madcats , Palatine ; Chofis Sessions — Martyrs ', Chicago ; Other Bills ’ Welsh Project / Sid Kingston / Wuji Bop — Montrose Saloon , Chicago ; Kilimanjaro — Prysm , Chicago ; Cancer Bats / Etheral Tomb / Blastcap — Reggies - Club , Chicago ; Vosh / DJ Scary Lady Sarah / Bellhead — Reggies - Music Joint , Chicago ; Streetlight Manifesto / Devon Kay & The Solutions — Riviera Theatre , Chicago ; Ashley Sienna / Ava Morse / Piwa — Schubas , Chicago ; Queen !: Satoshi Tomiie / Derrick Carter / Michael Serafini — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Sue Foley — Space , Evanston ; Stan P — Stage 119 , Elmurst ; Draggy Tingz — Subterranean , Chicago ; Eraserbaby / All Weather Sports / Cowboy Jane — Subterranean , Chicago ; Rock and Roll Playhouse — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Tiwa Bleu & Chosen Few / Mario Dueñas — Venue , Aurora ; SHIM / Anything But Human / Chasing The Devil — WC Social Club , West Chicago ; Pete Lee — Zanies , Chicago ; Marc Skippy Price — Zanies , Rosemont .
MONDAY 4
Alll Music Trivia — Alive One , Chicago ; Heritage Jazz — Andy ' s , Chicago ; Blanks — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Irish Music Sessions — Chicago St . Pub , Joliet ; In Stitches : Shannon Downey and Greta Johnsen — Chop Shop , Chicago ; Jam Session — Cole ' s , Chicago ; Joel Patterson — Green Mill , Chicago ; Open Mic — Johnny ' s Blitz , Westmont ; Poison Girl Friend / Computerwife — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Hoyle Bros ( 3pm ) — Martyrs ', Chicago ; Illville Vanguard / Alfonzo Jones — Martyrs ', Chicago ; Zack Fedor & Blake Burkhart ( Acoustic Comedy Open Mic ) — Reggies - Music Joint , Chicago ; The Jett Girls / Holy Hellion / Safety Scissors — Schubas , Chicago ; Chicken Bone / Alongside Harold — Space , Evanston ; Lexa Gates — Subterranean , Chicago ; Singo — Tailgaters , Bolingbrook ; Adema / Chains Over Razors / Dejected — WC Social Club , West Chicago ; 312 Fest : Zanies Most Wanted — Zanies , Chicago .
TUESDAY 5
Music Bingo — Alive One , Chicago ; Abney Effect — Andy ' s , Chicago ; JJ Wilde — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Pop Up Karaoke — Carol ' s Pub , Chicago ; Acoustic Open Mic — Chicago St . Pub , Joliet ; Musiq Soulchild — City Winery , Chicago ; Singo — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Open Jam — Evenflow , Geneva ; Joanna Connor Band — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Chicago
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Cellar Boys — Green Mill , Chicago ; Kyle Deschner & Jazz — Hey Nonny , Arlington Hts ; Open Mic — Madcats , Palatine ; Jiluka / God Talk KC — Reggies - Club , Chicago ; Mr . Blotto — Reggies - Music Joint , Chicago ; Open Jam — Robert ' s Westside , Forest Park ; Pete Galanis — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; Karaoke — Saddle Up , Aurora ; Open Mic — Subterranean , Chicago ; Chat Pile / Agriculture / Porcelain — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Open Mic — The Uptown , Westmont ; Pete Ellman Big Band with Hinsdale South HS — Venue , Aurora ; Yoke Lore / Runnner — Vic Theatre , Chicago ; Tommy Vext — Vixen , McHenry ; 312 Fest : Zanies Top Picks — Zanies , Chicago .
WEDNESDAY 6
Brooklyn Charmers — 115 Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Doubtful — Alive One , Chicago ; Charles Heath / Jam Session — Andy ' s , Chicago ; Karaoke — Basecamp , Lisle ; Equipment & RILEY ! — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Splice Series — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Luke Pytel Band / Mzz Reese — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City , Chicago ; Dreamcatcher — Chicago Theatre , Chicago ; Musiq Soulchild — City Winery , Chicago ; Joe Tirrito Elvis Tribute — Club Arcada , St . Charles ; Destroy Boys / Sasami / Chokecherry — Concord Hall , Chicago ; Chicago Immigrant Orchestra — Constellation , Chicago ; Cecy Santana ( Bourbon N ' Brass ) — Des Plaines Theatre , Des Plaines ; Music Bingo — Draft Picks , Naperville ; Local Honeys — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Henry Carpender / Brian Citro — FitzGerald ' s Sidebar , Berwyn ; Alfonso Ponticelli — Green Mill , Chicago ; Way Down Wanderers ( Private Show ) — Hey Nonny , Arlington Hts ; Ethan Regan — Hideout , Chicago ; The Dickies / The Queers / Publicity Stunt — Hobart Theatre , Hobart , IN ; Bob Lark — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Jagaloons — Madcats , Palatine ; Acoustic Jam — Mirage , Schiller Pk ; Kent & The Remedies — Montrose Saloon , Chicago ; James Vincent McMorrow / Young Jesus — Old Town School , Chicago ; Sunken Cages / The Yaran Project — Old Town School - Szold , Chicago ; Bear Hands / Worry Club / Yada Yada — Outset , Chicago ; 312 Comedy Fest : Grace O ’ Malley & Daniela Mora — Park West , Chicago ; Micro Wrestling — Piazza , Aurora ; Supersuckers / Atomic Bitchwax / Midnight Calls — Reggies - Club , Chicago ; Sentient Horror / Towering Abomintion / Morbidity — Reggies - Music Joint , Chicago ; Stefan Hillesheim Band — Rosa ' s , Chicago ; Line Dancing & DJ — Saddle Up , Aurora ; Harrison Storm / Fairhazel — Schubas , Chicago ; Acoustic Jam — Shanahan ' s , Woodridge ; Sierra Green and the Giants — Space , Evanston ; Hotel Mira — Subterranean , Chicago ; West End 40 — Untitled , Chicago ; Vinyl Wednesdays — Will Co . Brewing , Shorewood ; 312 Fest : Mostly Live — Zanies , Chicago ; 312 Fest : Zanies Crushers / Fest Showcase — Zanies , Rosemont .
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THURSDAY 7
THE ONE — 115 Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Open Jam — Alibi , Wonder Lake ; Bonzo Squad — Alive One , Chicago ; Los Temerarios — Allstate Arena , Rosemont ; Sabertooth / Pro Jam — Andy ' s , Chicago ; The Garden — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; The Rascals — Arcada Theatre , St . Charles ; Open Mic — Arlington Ale House , Arlington Hts ; Karaoke — Austin ' s , Libertyville ; Tommy Kessler ( Record Release )/ The Braymores / Pool Hall — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Mike Wheeler Band / Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Matt Martin Band — Bub City , Chicago ; King Diamond — Chicago Theatre , Chicago ; Musiq Soulchild — City Winery , Chicago ; Letdown / Jager Henry — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Spectralina — Constellation , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Evenflow , Geneva ; Chris Greene ( Album Release ) — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Kabir Dalawari — FitzGerald ' s Sidebar , Berwyn ; The Piano Guys — Genesee , Rosemont ; Andy Brown / Alan Gresik — Green Mill , Chicago ; Tom Carey & The Ghost — Hey Nonny , Arlington Hts ; Brian Dunne — Hideout , Chicago ; Marvelous 3 — HOB , Chicago ; Chicago Comedy — HOB - Foundation Room , Chicago ; Chelsea Hood — Improv , Schaumburg ; Emmet Cohen — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Randall King — Joe ' s on Weed , Chicago ; Open Mic — Johnny ' s Blitz , Westmont ; Hasan Raheem — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Karaoke — Madcats , Palatine ; Death From Above 1979 / Teen Mortgage — Metro , Chicago ; Karaoke — Mickey Finn ' s , Libertyville ; Thomas Pace Band / My Cousins Jacket / Shrimp Forks — Montrose Saloon , Chicago ; Jeff Parker Quartet — Old Town School , Chicago ; Harbour — Outset , Chicago ; EMO Night — Pollyanna , Lemont ; Open Jam — Pollyanna , St . Charles ; This Will Destroy You — Reggies - Club , Chicago ; Gorillal Tuesday / Poster Girl / Chan Fuze — Reggies - Music Joint , Chicago ; Disney Jr . Live — Rosemont Theatre , Rosemont ; Line Dancing & DJ — Saddle Up , Aurora ; Atta Boy / Me Like Bees — Schubas , Chicago ; Comedy Open Mic — Schubas , Chicago ; Pro Jam — Shanahan ' s , Woodridge ; Trauma Ray / Leaving Time / Bursting — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; Boy Albert / Greg Haus — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Magos Herrera — Space , Evanston ; Reggae Gold — Subterranean , Chicago ; Singo — Sundance , Mundelein ; Vundabar / Courting — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Unbridlled Burlesque — Untitled , Chicago ; 312 Comedy Fest : Ian Bagg — Vic Theatre , Chicago ; The Dickies & The Queers — Vixen , McHenry ; 312 Fest : Ryan Long — Zanies , Chicago ; 312 Fest : Kev Herrera — Zanies , Rosemont .
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FRIDAY 8
Too Hype Crew — 115 Bourbon St , Merrionette Pk ; DJ Boathouse — Alive One , Chicago ; Los Temerarios — Allstate Arena , Rosemont ; Chase Atlantic — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; W . A . S . P / Armored Saint — Arcada Theatre , St . Charles ; DJ Don Carlos — Arlington Ale House , Arlington
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Hts ; Peephole / Savior — Basecamp , Lisle ; Saturdays At Your Place / Carpool / Harrison Gordon — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; BTS Express / Laretha Weathersby — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Hockey Dad / Remo Drive / Tatiana Hazel — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Ginger Road — Bub City , Chicago ; Riley Brothers Band — Bub City , Rosemont ; August Son — Carol ' s Pub , Chicago ; A Conversation with Larry David — Chicago Theatre , Chicago ; TILIAN — Chop Shop , Chicago ; Norman Brown — City Winery , Chicago ; Jimmy Nick & Don ' t Tell Mama — Club Arcada , St . Charles ; Makari / Orgami Button / Scro — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Zastava / Harvey Waters / Ira Glass — Cole ' s , Chicago ; Sabai / Ace Aura / N3WPORT / JONJEN / KENDRO — Concord Hall , Chicago ; Ben Goldberg / Todd Sickafoose / Scott Amendola — Constellation , Chicago ; CK & The Gray — Coom ' s Corner , Lockport ; Why Store / Knockaround — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; The Rascals — Des Plaines Theatre , Des Plaines ; LW Power Trio — Draft Picks , Naperville ; Bostyxx / Bonjourneyed / DJ — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Hi Infidelity — Evenflow , Geneva ; Fleshtones / New Duncan Imperials / The Handcuffs — FitzGerald ' s , Berwyn ; Hilllblilly Frolic / Nigel Mack — FitzGerald ' s Sidebar , Berwyn ; Big Event Rock Benefit ( 7pm ) — Fuel Room , Libertyville ; Windy City Dueling Pianos — Fuel Room , Libertyville ; Night Ranger — Genesee , Rosemont ; Andy Beningo — Geneva Stage , Lake Geneva ; Chris Foreman / Farez Whitted — Green Mill , Chicago ; Crawpuppies — Hard Rock Casino - Cafe , Gary , IN ; Al Spears & Hurricane — Hard Rock Casino - Council Oak , Gary , IN ; Bachman Turner Overdrive — Hard Rock Casino - Live , Gary , IN ; Howard Le & Happytime Orchestra — Hey Nonny , Arlington Hts ; Nightcap ( 9:30pm ) Eric Quigley — Hey Nonny , Arlington Hts ; Fetch Tiger / Cal in Red / Astrachan — Hideout , Chicago ; Caloncho — HOB , Chicago ; Nurse John — Improv , Schaumburg ; Boy Band Night — Jamo ' s , Mokena ; Emmet Cohen — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Josh Ross — Joe ' s on Weed , Chicago ; Blood Club / Faerybabyy / Velvet Wounds — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Anthem — Lyric Theater , Blue Island ; Sucker Punch — Madcats , Palatine ; TR • ST / Thoom — Metro , Chicago ; Southbound — Mickey Finn ' s , Libertyville ; Jonatha Brooke — Old Town School , Chicago ; Duff McKagan / Lee Ving ' s Range War — Outset , Chicago ; 312 Comedy Fest : Josh Johnson — Park West , Chicago ; Lewznit — Peggy Kinane ' s , Arlington Hts ; Icons of Country Tribute — Piazza , Aurora ; Kristin Rose Kelley — Pollyanna , Roselle ; Shoop Dogs — Pollyanna , St . Charles ; Luttrell / Icarus / Tash — Prysm , Chicago ; Honey Dijon / Derrick Carter / Madeline — Radius , Chicago ; IamDBB / Taylor Made / Mother Nature — Reggies - Club , Chicago ; Molder ( Listening Party ) 8pm — Reggies - Club , Chicago ; Melody Ange / Patch of Blues — Reggies - Music Joint , Chicago ; 1964 — Rialto , Joliet ; 312 Comedy Fest : Jessica Kirson — Riviera Theatre , Chicago ; Spitfield / Forecast / isles — Robert ' s Westside , Forest Park ; Rick King ' s Royal Hustle : Live Album Recording — Rosa ' s ,
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