FRIDAY 30 SEPTEMBER
Out of Storage — 210 Bar , Highwood ; Safe in Sound Festival w / Borgore / Boombox Cartel / Party Thives / Trampa — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; Jay & The Americans / Felix Cavaliere ’ s Rascals — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Audiotopsy & Guests — Bada Brew , Crest Hill ; Late Night FM — Bannerman ’ s , Bartlett ; Joe Fascetta — Bar Louie , Oak Brook Terrace ; Flula Borg — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; The Bratwurst Brothers — Berghoff Oktoberfest , Chicago ; Juliana and Phil — Blarney Stone Pub , Oak Forest ; Juliana and Phil — Blarney Stone Pub , Oak Forest ; Mike Wheeler / Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Chi-Town Soul — Blue Chip Rocks , Michigan City , IN ; Airbourne — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Hi Infidelity / Suburban Cowboys — Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Tributes To The Cure & The Smiths — Brauer House , Lombard ; Luke Pytel / Paul Filipowicz — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Sigur Ros — Chicago Theater , Chicago ; John Mayall w / Bill Carter — City Winery , Chicago ; What So Not — Concord , Chicago ; DJ Sean — Cuzin ’ s , Tinley Park ; Anthony Pana — Cuzin ’ s Pub , Midlothian ; Skindred / Hed Pe / Soil / Media Solution — Double Door , Chicago ; 1 / 2 Way to St . Paddy ’ s Day — Durty Nellie ’ s , Palatine ; Dick Diamond & The Dusters — Evenflow , Geneva ; Seven Soul Band — Fitz ’ s Spare Keys , Elmhurst ; An Evening w / Jon Dee Graham / Expo ‘ 76 / Cannonball / 24th Street Wailers — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Rendition — Grand Victoria Casino , Elgin ; Flipside w / Chris Forman / Allison Miller ’ s Boom Tic Boom / After Hours Jam — Green Mill , Chicago ; The Moods — Hollywood Casino , Aurora ; Rockstar Rodeo — Hollywood Casino , Joliet ; DJ Ikon — Home Bar , Arlington Heights ; Switchfoot & Reliant K / Vino Louden / Blue Olives / Jesse De La Pena ’ s Birthday Celebration — House of Blues , Chicago ; Hoosier Ditty — JW Hollstein ’ s , Tinley Park ; Tobacco / High Tides / Odonis Odonis — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Bobby McClendon — Lucky Star , Bartlett ; Slim Gypsy Baggage / Waiting For Henry / The Handcuffs / Brad Peterson / The Polkaholics — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Nick Lynch — MercyFest , Aurora ; The Faint / Gang of Four — Metro , Chicago ; Bad Medicine — Nevin ’ s Brewing Company , Plainfield ; Open Mic w / John Buschner — Nite Cap , Chicago ; Paloma / Sound Works — Oktoberfest , Naperville ; The Proclaimers / Jenny O . — Park West , Chicago ; Anything Twice — Q-Bar , Darien ; The Cal Stage Band — Q-Bar , Glendale Heights ; Live DJs — Q-Bar , Plano ; Boss Fight / It ’ s A Secret / Anna Sage / Winter Classics — Quenchers Saloon , Chicago ; Michael Heaton — Reefpoint Brew House , Racine , WI ; Kim Simmonds & Savoy Brown / Martin Barre — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; 7th Heaven — Rivers Casino , DesPlaines ;
Melvin Taylor & The Slack Band — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ; Waldo / Korbee — Schubas , Chicago ; Portrait of Sound — Shaker ’ s , Chicago ; Kim Ann Foxman / Eris Drew — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Anders Osbourne — Space , Evanston ; The Bratwurst Brothers — St . Benedict ’ s Oktoberfest , Chicago ; Enuff Znuff — Tailgaters , Bolingbrook ; Warpaint / Facial — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Faces of The Bog ( Record Release )/ Deepspacepilots / Pale Horseman / Propane Propane — The Burlington , Chicago ; Dark Star Orchestra — The Vic , Chicago ; Brent Brown — Tilted Kilt , Woodridge ; Go For Broke — Uptown Tap , Plainfield ; Terranaut / Seigelord / Uchtcearu — Wire , Berwyn .
SATURDAY 1 OCTOBER
Ninja Sex Party — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; Lou Gramm — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Southern Jack — At Work , Elk Grove Village ; Mandala Arts Presents : Mehfil-An Evening of 100 Strings — Auditorium Theater , Chicago ; Brass From The Past — Austin ’ s Fuel Room , Libertyville ; Super Bob — Bada Brew , Crest Hill ; Paul Strolia — Bar Evolution , Batavia ; 97 Nine — Base Camp , Lisle ; Mr . Gnome / Big Syn / Radiant Devices / Chicago School of Rock — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Afterglow — Bella Mia , Midlothian ; Bratwurst Brothers — Berghoff Oktoberfest , Chicago ; Acoustic Alibi — Blarney Island , Chicago ; Usual Chaos — Blarney Stone Pub , Oak Forest ; Mike Wheeler / Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Gas Station Disco — Blue Chip - Vegas Baby , Michigan City , IN ; Shawn Holt & The Teardrops — BLUES , Chicago ; Finish Ticket / Run River North / Irontom — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Infinity / Suburban Cowboys — Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Zoso — Brauer House , Lombard ; David ’ s Bazaar — Brazen Head , Crestwood ; Lil Ed ( CD Release )/ Steve Ditzell — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; EZFM / Jak Tripper — Captain ’ s Quarters , Antioch ; Brian Wilson — Chicago Theater , Chicago ; Embalmer / Elbow Deep / Burial Ritual — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Tritonal / Jenaux / Noah Neiman — Concord , Chicago ; Armored Assault / Reign / Savagery / South Arsenal — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Just Enuff — Cuzin ’ s , Tinley Park ; AJJ / Nothing More — Double Door , Chicago ; This End Up — Draft Picks , Naperville ; Hi Infidelity — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Charles & Company — Eaglewood Resort , Itasca ; Curious Grace & Black Rabbit / Life # 9 / Red Scarves / Jon Pattie / Kelley Ahlstrom / Casual Water — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Royal Bangs / Sunjacket / Tinkerbelles / Dad ’ s Basement DJs — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Epic / Street Legal — Fall Festival , Yorkville ; Stereo Heart — Famous Freddies , Fox Lake ; Red Elvises — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Gavin DeGraw & Andy Grammer ( Silver Creek )/ UltraFab ( Hard
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Rock ) — Four Winds Casino , New Buffalo , MI ; GenR8 — Galati ’ s Hideaway , Cary ; Black Violin / Chicago Bucket Boys — Genesee Theater , Waukegan ; Beat Drun Juel / Undesireable People / Pines — Gman Tavern , Chicago ; Hi Fi Superstar — Grand Victoria Casino , Elgin ; The Paper Machete / Allison Miller ’ s Boom Tic Boom / After Hours Jazz Party w / Sabertooth — Green Mill , Chicago ; The Fortunate Sons / Slick 50 / Jerry Lee & The JuJu Kings / Valid Proof / Saints N Sinners / No Escape — Grundy County Corn Festival , Morris ; Dos Santos Anti-Beat Orquesta — Hideout , Chicago ; Paul Windsor Orchestra — Hollywood Casino , Aurora ; Tynan — Hollywood Casino , Joliet ; 7th Heaven / Cherry Bliss — HOME Bar , Arlington Heights ; Switchfoot & Reliant K / Eric Noden / Keithen Banks — House of Blues , Chicago ; The Boy Band Night — Joe ’ s Bar , Chicago ; Impact Band — JW Hollstein ’ s Saloon , Tinley Park ; Duke Tumatoe & The Power Trio / Joanna Connor Blues Band — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; McCarthy Road Band / Chicago Music Machine — Konows Corn Maze , Homer Glen ; Eden — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Vermin Womb / Destroyer of Light / Immortal Bird / Ikaray — Live Wire Lounge , Chicago ; Blue Sky Blind / Heartache Tonight — Loaded Buffalo , Mundelein ; Bone Jugs / Low Swans / SeepeopleS / In Threes — Martyrs , Chicago ; Crystal Castles / Guidance / Alex Zelenka — Metro , Chicago ; Wunderlich / Chicks With Picks — MT Barrels , Schaumburg ; Dirty Canteen — Niko ’ s Red Mill Tavern , Woodstock ; Infinity — Oktoberfest , Lake Forest ; Brutto — Park West , Chicago ; Unconstitutional / Whiskey Kitten — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; Hobo Junkies / Fray ’ d — Q-Bar , Darien ; Blackened / Black Sabbath II — Q-Bar , Glendale Heights ; The French Pearl Band — Q-Bar , Plano ; The Columbines / Matt Wilke ’ s Ghost / American Draft — Quenchers , Chicago ; Compassionate Tour — Red Line Tap , Chicago ; Amy Yore — Reefpoint Brew House , Racine , WI ; Kim Simmonds & Savoy Brown / Fingers Louie — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; And Beyond — Rocktoberfest , Tinley Park ; Melvin Taylor & The Slack Band — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ; Growler / JJ & Dre / Pete Jive — Schubas , Chicago ; Gina Gonzalez & The Wingmen — Sideouts Bar , Island Lake ; Mathew Jonson — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Anders Osborne — Space , Evanston ; Loudernow / The Taste of Emotion / Elliott Vincent / Bernardino Femminielli — Subterranean , Berwyn ; Trainwreck — Sullivan ’ s Irish Pub , Midlothian ; 8Track / Sh ’ Bang — Tailgater ’ s , Bolingbrook ; Double Feature / EzKebage / The C Sides — The Burlington , Chicago ; Undercover — The Cottage , Crystal Lake ; Jak Tripper — The Harp & Fiddle , Park Ridge ; Thomas Gold — The Mid , Chicago ; Demetri Martin — The Vic , Chicago ; Sal & Izy — Tilted Kilt , Bolingbrook ; The Three Beards — Uptown Lounge , Chicago ; Hellbound Sons / Skinwalker /
Black4 — Wire , Berwyn ; Fifty-One Lincoln Band — Zachary ’ s , Palos Heights .
SUNDAY 2 OCTOBER
Rita Moreno — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Chicago School of Rock — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Barstool Soldiers — Blarney Island , Chicago ; Mike Wheeler / Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Smokin ’ Gunz — Blue Chip Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Sheryl Youngblood — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Karla Bonoff / Shawn Maxwell ’ s New Tomorrow ( CD Release ) — City Winery , Chicago ; Carla Morrison / Gaby Luna / The Ponderers — Concord , Chicago ; Salsa Sunday w / DJ Dre — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Carpenter Brut / Gost / Protector 101 — Double Door , Chicago ; The Monolithic / Stranger Among Us / Church Girls / They Found Us / Live Band Karaoke — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Goblin Cock / Bad Grades ( late ) — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; The Meridian Trio ( early ) — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Chicago Grandstand Big Band — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Uptown Poetry Slam / Soul Jazz Night w / Joel Paterson Trio w / Chris Foreman — Green Mill , Chicago ; Gospel Brunch / Beartooth / Everytime I Die / Fit For A King / Old Wounds / Guy King — House of Blues , Chicago ; Blues Jam w / Brian BJ Jones / Linsey Alexander — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Semple / Still Kicken — Konows Corn Maze , Homer Glen ; Blackalicious / Lushlife — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Dan Zanes Song Gusto Hour — Old Town School , Chicago ; Ziggy Marley — Park West , Chicago ; Rockstar — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; Rock Academy Showcase — Q-Bar , Darien ; Lost Empire / Bloodletter / Sable Beldam — Quenchers , Chicago ; Jimmy Bennington Colour & Sound — Red Line Tap , Chicago ; Rocktober Fest / The Kingbees — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; 95th Street Band — Rocktoberfest , Tinley Park ; King Charles / The Greenleaf Band — Schubas , Chicago ; Queen ! w / Michael Serafini / Garret David / CZ Boogie / Colliness Morris — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Marc Cohn — Space , Evanston ; Vic Spenser / Chris Crack — Subterranean , Berwyn ; Ta-Ku / Masego — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Radnor / MIRA / The Youthful Grey / Everyone Says / Farhampton — Wire , Berwyn .
MONDAY 3
Allison Crutchfield & The Fizz / Blizzard Babies / What Gives — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Tenry Johns / Claudette Miller — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Scott Dubose — Bub City , Chicago ; Justin Russel — Bub City , Rosemont ; Jimmy Burns Hosts The Jam — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Larry Carlton Quartet — City
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