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Family of Geniuses / Suburban Living — Subterranean , Chicago ; Tyler Childers / Ona — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Kasey Anderson / Donyae Asante — Uncommon Ground , Chicago ; DJ & Karaoke — Uptown Lounge , Chicago .

MONDAY 22

Paul Anka Sings Sinatra — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Mike Wheeler / Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Brian Allison — Bub City , Chicago ; Brother John Hosts The Jam — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Freakfest / Michael Rault — Hideout , Chicago ; Corey Dennison / JW Williams — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; The Chicago Moth Storyslam — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Karaoke — Q-Bar , Glendale Heights ; Berndsen / Crime Night / Ex Okays — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Fleurie / Dear Rouge / Phangs — Schubas , Chicago ; Blue Mondays w / Linsey Alexander — Space , Evanston ; Rob Christiansen / Joe McMahon / Brad Rickert / Merrit Landsteiner / Dame Grant — Subterranean , Chicago ; Public Image Ltd . — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Lollyganger / Nice Legs / Kevin Knight — The Owl , Chicago ; Phil Collins — United Center , Chicago .

TUESDAY 23

Paul Anka Sings Sinatra — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Trivia Night w / Pat O ’ Malley — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Tenry Johns / Claudette Miller — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City , Rosemont ; MoJo Daddy — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Richard Dawkins & Bret Weinstein — Chicago Theater , Chicago ; Logan Richardson “ Blues People ” — Constellation , Chicago ; Open Mic — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; The Fat Babies — Green Mill , Chicago ; The Girl Talk / Election Returns — Hideout , Chicago ; Soja / Comedy Cocktail / Business @ Sunrise — House of Blues , Chicago ; Joanna Connor / Mike Wheeler — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Zeta June / Tall Green Pine — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Pete Yorn — Park West , Chicago ; Karaoke — Q-Bar , Darien ; It ’ s Always Sunny in Philadelphia Trivia — Q-Bar , Glendale Heights ; Pete Galanis & Friends — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ; Desert Noises / MorningTeleportation / Con Davidson — Schubas , Chicago ; The English Beat — Space , Evanston ; Frail Body / Wristmeetrazor / Dead Split / Max Frost / Mikey Mike / Open Mic Hip Hop — Subterranean , Chicago ; Karaoke — Tailgater ’ s , Bolingbrook ; The Milk Carton Kids / The Barr Brothers — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Strange Machines / Mr . Constant — Tonic Room , Chicago ; RNGDS / Bind The Sacrifice / Nahkriin / Perish In Vain / Witchhammer — Wire , Berwyn .

WEDNESDAY 24

Steal Your Face / Indika Reggae — 210 Live , Highwood ; Open Mic Night — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Open Mic w / Dave Kelly — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Kosha Dillz / Handsome Naked / Matchbox 420 / Chicago Underground Comedy — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; JW Williams / Laretha Weathersby — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Polyphia / Hail The Sun / Covet — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Rendition — Bub City , Chicago ; Ronnie Hicks — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Watsky / Feed The Biirds / Chukwudi Hodge — Concord Music Hall , Chicago ; East Loop — Constellation , Chicago ; Open Mic — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Jarod Bufe Quartet / Sen . Don Harmon & His Band — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Paper Machete / Alfonso Ponticelli & Swing Gitan / Industry Late Night w / Frank Catalano Sextet — Green Mill , Chicago ; In One Ear — Heartland Cafe , Chicago ; Bells Atlas / Dried Spider / Little Church — Hideout , Chicago ; Emmure & Stick To Your Guns — House of Blues , Chicago ; Friends Trivia — Joe ’ s Bar , Chicago ; Music & Hope for Haiti w / Chris Janson , Rhett Atkins , Kelley Lovelace — Joe ’ s Live , Rosemont ; Corey Dennison / Giles Corey — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Roo Panes — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; High South / Pearl / Jeff Massey — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Kick Out The James 50th Anniversary Tour w / The Detroit Cobras / Touched by Ghoul / Members of Soundgarden , Fugazi , Faith No More , Zen Guerilla — Metro , Chicago ; Chicago Latino Music Festival w / Fareed Haque / KAIA String Quartet — Old Town School , Chicago ; Stranger Things Trivia — Q-Bar , Darien ; The Walking Dead Trivia — Q-Bar , Plano ; Lil Ugly Mane / No Warning / Sanford Parker / Lurk / Vortex — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Kali Uchis / Cuco — Riviera Theater , Chicago ; Mikaela Davis / Gia Margaret — Schubas , Chicago ; Horse Feathers / Ryan Joseph Anderson — Space , Evanston ; Dizzy / Clearance / Hypoluxo / Pool Holograph — Subterranean , Chicago ; DJ Spin — Tailgater ’ s , Bolingbrook ; The Milk Carton Kids / The Barr Brothers — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Ridgio / Parnell / Christian JaLon / Vantablacsol — Tonic Room , Chicago ; Chris Webby — Wire , Berwyn .

THURSDAY 25

Rhythm Rockets — 210 Live , Highwood ; Nine Inch Nails — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; Hairball — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Trivia Night — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Two Fellas — Bella Mia , Midlothian ; BTS Express / Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Orchard Fire — Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; OTT / Kaya Project / Nick Holden — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Lewis Copeland — Bub City , Chicago ; Chicago R & B Kings — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Wait Wait ... Don ’ t Tell Me — Chicago Theater , Chicago ; The Sound of Tomorrow / Monte Booker / Esta / Sango / Naji / Sahar Habibi — Concord Music Hall , Chicago ; Alpina Noise ( CD Release )/ Ghostwriter — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Mathemagic w / Bradley Fields — Evanston Rocks , Evanston ; The Hogmires / Cox ’ s Army / Reckless Kelly — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Sean Skyler — Four Winds Casino , New

Buffalo , MI ; The Magic of Adam Trent — Genesee Theater , Waukegan ; Kimi Hayes — Gifford ’ s Kitchen , Elgin ; Andy Brown Solo Guitar / Alan Gresik Swing Shift Orchestra — Green Mill , Chicago ; Open Jam — Gruben ’ s Uptown Tap , Plainfield ; Makena Hartlin — HB Jones , Elmhurst ; Devil in A Woodpile / Dan Whitaker & The Shinebenders / Joe Wortell & The Natural Law / Charles Hill Jr ./ Michael Sandmann — Hideout , Chicago ; Open Mic — HOME Bar , Arlington Heights ; SiriusXM Hair Nation Tour 2018 / Elevate : DJ Night — House of Blues , Chicago ; Mississippi Heat Blued Band / Mke Wheeler — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Hoodie Allen — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; The Corner Boys — Mac ’ s On Slade , Palatine ; Great Moments in Vinyl : The Is The Moody Blues — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Masego — Metro , Chicago ; Dueling Pianos — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; James Wheeler — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ; Reuben and The Dark — Schubas , Chicago ; Jake Owen — Sears Centre , Hoffman Estates ; Karaoke w / BT — Shaker ’ s , Ottawa ; The Weight Band — Space , Evanston ; Cub Sports / Capital Soiree / Reggae Gold — Subterranean , Chicago ; Pond — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; The Trolls / Bud Bronson & The Good Timers — The Burlington , Chicago ; Mitski / Jessica Lea Mayfield — The Vic , Chicago ; Polyrhythmics — Tonic Room , Chicago .

FRIDAY 26

Maggie Speaks — 210 Live , Highwood ; Phish — Allstate Arena , Rosemont ; Nine Inch Nails — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; Yngwie Malmsteen — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Funktastic — Austin ’ s Fuel Room , Libertyville ; Rumor Hazit — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Model Stranger / Tribute to The Doors — Bannerman ’ s , Bartlett ; BTS Express / Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; BBI — Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Passafire / Concrete Roots — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Snake Oil / DJ Gator & DJ Mike Y — Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Lewis Copeland — Bub City , Chicago ; Rendition — Bub City , Rosemont ; Guy King / Zach Avery — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Halloween Trivia — Bungalow Joe ’ s , Hanover Park ; Goo Goo Dolls — Chicago Theater , Chicago ; Tank & The Bangas / Big Freedia / Naughty Professor — Concord Music Hall , Chicago ; Chris Madsen / Adam Larson Quintet — Constellation , Chicago ; Jess Piano — Doc ’ s Victory Pub , Elmhurst ; MCR & FBR Tribute Night / Pat McCurdy — Durty Nellie ’ s , Palatine ; The Fifth Star Band / Claudie Rubin — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Eric Lindell / Cannonball — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Lava Rock / DJ Jesse — Four Winds Casino , New Buffalo , MI ; Smokey Robinson — Genesee Theater , Waukegan ; The Flipside Show w / Chris Foreman / Ben Allison & Think Free / After Hours Jam Session — Green Mill , Chicago ; The Niche — Harp & Fiddle , Park Ridge ; Doug Bardolph — HB Jones , Elmhurst ; Never Say Die / DJ Mike Lust / Joey Explains Science — Hideout , Chicago ; Shuffle This — Hollywood Casino , Aurora ; James Libera / The 4 C-Notes — Hollywood Casino , Joliet ; Mayday Parade / Elevate : DJ Night — House of Blues , Chicago ; Under The Covers w / Temptation & Primary — Joe ’ s Bar , Chicago ; Ashley McBryde — Joe ’ s Live ,

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Rosemont ; Whiskey & Harmony — JW Hollstein ’ s , Tinley Park ; Karel King — Kennedy Point , Bristol ; Stevie Craig — Kerry Piper , Willowbrook ; Duke Tumatoe & The Power Trio / Joanna Connor — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Modern Day Romeos — Lake Lawn Resort , Delavan , WI ; Kyle Young — Level 257 , Schaumburg ; Kweku Collins / Joseph Chilliams — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; The Buzzhounds — Mac ’ s On Slade , Palatine ; Surganova — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Nocturna All Hallow ’ s Eve Ball — Metro , Chicago ; The Wailin ’ Jennys / Don Flemons — Old Town School of Folk Music , Chicago ; The Lotus Kings / Cecy Santana — Park West , Chicago ; Straight Jacket Romance — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; Strangled Darlings — Pig Minds Brewing Co ., Machesney Park ; The Puppet Show / Rat Salad — Q-Bar , Darien ; Karaoke — Q-Bar , Plano ; Scarlxrd / Volur / Late ./ Kodiac / Wilhelm & Sons — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Mathemagic — Rialto Theater , Joliet ; 7th Heaven & DJ Erge — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; Dirty Heads / Jukebox The Ghost / Just Loud — Riviera Theater , Chicago ; Carl Weathersby Band — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ; Mothers / Mega Bog / The Knees / Mirah / Tomberlin — Schubas , Chicago ; Juju King — Shaker ’ s , Ottawa ; Stu The Piano Guy — Sideouts , Island Lake ; Job Jobse / Chris Cruse / Harry Cross — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Elizabeth Cook / Caleb Caudle / New Orleans Suspects — Space , Evanston ; Solarized / In Her Own Words / Boys of Fall / Mishandled / Detour North / Gus Dapperton / Beshken — Subterranean , Chicago ; Call Your Girlfriend — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; SNST / Extra Arms / Lettering — The Burlington , Chicago ; Suffocation / Cattle Decapitation / Krisiun / Soreption — The Forge , Joliet ; DJ Boogie Munsters — The Owl , Chicago ; The Twilight Sad — Theater on The Lake , Chicago ; MyTyme — Tuscany , Oak Brook ; Elton John — United Center , Chicago ; Hugo ’ s Elvis — White Eagle , Niles ; The Cyberiam / Cloud Zero — Wire , Berwyn ; DJ Messes — World of Beer , Evanston ; Dan Lopez — Zach ’ s on Tap , Palos Heights ; Taylor Street Duo — Zachary ’ s Bar , Palos Heights .

SATURDAY 27

Luciano Antonio — 210 Live , Highwood ; Phish — Allstate Arena , Rosemont ; Nine Inch Nails — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; Yngwie Malmsteen — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Hello Weekend / DJ Trill Brew — Austin ’ s Fuel Room , Libertyville ; Reckless — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Turbo Shot — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Arra — Bannerman ’ s , Bartlett ; Halloween Extravaganza w / Loose Lips Sink Ships as Weezer / Bloodsport TMTB as Stone Temple Pilots / John Ugolini as Lou Bega / Movies About Animals as Bruce Springsteen / Gal Gun as Oasis and more — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; BTS Express / Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Classical Blast — Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Atomic Radio — Blue Chip Casino-Vegas Baby , Michigan City ,

IN ; Ekali / 1788-L — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Too White

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