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MONDAY 30 SEPTEMBER
Dropkick Murphys/Clutch — Aragon Ballroom, Chicago;
Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Mike
Wheeler/Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago, Chicago; Cupcakke —
Bottom Lounge, Chicago; Open Jam — Buddy Guy’s Legends,
Chicago; Toronza Cannon & The Chicago Way (Record Release
Show) — City Winery, Chicago; Nick Cave — Copernicus Center,
Chicago; Joanna Connor/Omar Coleman — House of Blues,
Chicago; Big Ray & Chicago’s Most Wanted — Kingston Mines,
Chicago; The Chicago Moth StorySLAM — Lincoln Hall, Chicago;
Open Mic Comedy — Reggies, Chicago; The Winchesters (Album
Release)/Friends of The Bog/Ultra Violet Fever — Schubas,
Chicago; Kal Marks/Bethlehem Steel/FCKR Jr — Subterranean,
Chicago; Weyes Blood/Helena Deland — Thalia Hall, Chicago;
Jacob Williams — Zanies, Chicago.
TUESDAY 1 OCTOBER
Ben Lewis Trio/After Dark Von Freeman Tribute — Andy’s Jazz
Club, Chicago; Beatles White Album tribute/Christopher Cross
/Todd Rundgren/Micky Dolenz/Jason Scheff/Joey Molland —
Arcada Theater, St. Charles; Trivia Night w/Pat O’Malley —
Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Chicago Underground Comedy/For
The Fallen Dreams/Flowers For Dorian/The Cambion/Speaking
With Ghosts/Psithurnism — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Chicago
Wind/Deitra Farr — Blue Chicago, Chicago; Hot Spot Comedy
Showcase — Brauerhouse, Lombard; Live Band Karaoke — Bub
City, Rosemont; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City, Chicago;
Radkey/Releaser/Monarch Over Monday — Cobra Lounge,
Chicago; Carleton Koldyke — Elbo Room, Chicago; Nana Grizol
/Lee Bains III & The Glory Fires/Izzy True — Empty Bottle,
Chicago; Toronzo Cannon — FitzGerald’s, Berwyn; The Fat
Babies — Green Mill, Chicago; Bombay Bicycle Club/Comedy
Cocktail — House of Blues, Chicago; Giles Corey Blues Band/
Michael Wheeler Band — Kingston Mines, Chicago; Cosmo
Sheldrake/Altopalo — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Litz/Teddy Clyde —
Martyrs’, Chicago; Hip Hop Show — Penny Road Pub, Barrington;
Mr. Blotto — Reggies, Chicago; Waker/Emma Hern — Schubas,
Chicago; Concert to Support Ghazala Hashmi w/Nora O’Connor
& Soft Opening — Space, Evanston; Karaoke — Tailgaters,
Bolingbrook; Karaoke w/Jason — Tailgaters, Bolingbrook;
Tinariwen/Lonnie Holley — Thalia Hall, Chicago; Post Malone —
United Center, Chicago.
WEDNESDAY 2 OCTOBER
Judy Roberts & Greg Fishman — 210 Live, Highwood; Andy
Brown Quartet/Mike Smith & The Jordan Baskin Trio — Andy’s
Jazz Club, Chicago; Adrian Belew — Arcada Theater, St. Charles;
Open Mic — Ballydoyle, Aurora; Open Mic w/Dave Kelly —
Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Girl Band/Ganser — Beat Kitchen,
Chicago; JW Williams/Laretha Weathersby — Blue Chicago,
Chicago; Flor/Joan/Lostboycrow — Bottom Lounge, Chicago;
Open Jam — Brauerhouse, Lombard; Morgan Fingleton — Bub
City, Rosemont; Over The Side — Bub City, Chicago; Dave
Specter — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Bastille — Chicago
Theater, Chicago; Radney Foster & Kim Richey — City Winery,
Chicago; Ryan Burns — Cubby Bear, Chicago; Drahla/The
Poison Arrows — Empty Bottle, Chicago; Joe Valentino Band —
Evanston Rocks, Evanston; Alfonso Ponticelli/Frank Catalano —
Green Mill, Chicago; UNcorked & Unplugged — House of Blues,
Chicago; Vino Louden Blues Band — Kingston Mines, Chicago;
Shaed/Absofacto — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Tributosaurus
Becomes Lynyrd Skynrd — Martyrs’, Chicago; The New
Pornographers — Metro, Chicago; Emel Mathlouthi — Old Town
School, Chicago; Michale Graves — Q Bar, Glendale Heights;
Live Band Karaoke — Reggies, Chicago; Mike Watt & The
Missingmen/The Crustations — Schubas, Chicago; Shawn
James — Sleeping Village, Chicago; Honey Butter — Space,
Evanston; DJ Spin — Tailgaters, Bolingbrook; The Midnight Hour
— Thalia Hall, Chicago; The New Pornographers — The Vic
Theater, Chicago.
THURSDAY 3 OCTOBER
Soulshine — 210 Live, Highwood; Pete Benson Organ Trio/The
Trumpet Summit — Andy’s Jazz Club, Chicago; Trivia Night —
Ballydoyle, Aurora; Neil Rudnik — Ballydoyle, Downers Grove;
David Nail & Friends — Basecamp, Lisle; BTS Express/Shirley
Johnson — Blue Chicago, Chicago; Nick Pontarelli Trio — Blue
Chip Casino, Michigan City, IN; Injury Reserve/Slauson Malone
/BodyMeat — Bottom Lounge, Chicago; Moonlight Pickers —
Bub City, Chicago; The Special 20’s — Buddy Guy’s Legends,
Chicago; Kevin James — Chicago Theater, Chicago; Chicago
Farmer w/Althea Grace — City Winery, Chicago; Darryl Markette
— Cubby Bear, Chicago; Hannah Frank/Patrick Buckley/
Gretchen Erickson/Winnie Page/Paul Ramirez/Cuestion De
Tiempo/Dharma/Honeydew Squeeze/Mercury Blonde — Elbo
Room, Chicago; Earthless/Maggot Heart/Sacri Monti — Empty
Bottle, Chicago; Bitters — FitzGerald’s, Berwyn; Whose Live
Anyway? — Genesee Theater, Waukegan; Andy Brown Solo/
Gresik Orchestra — Green Mill, Chicago; Keithen Banks —
House of Blues, Chicago; Rico McFarland Band/Vino Louden
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FRIDAY 4 OCTOBER
The North 41/Human Blood/Adam Ness — 1st Ward, Chicago;
Dean Simms & Hot Notes Band — 210 Live, Highwood; Bon Iver
— Allstate Arena, Rosemont; Chris Greene Quartet/Lowdown
Brass Band — Andy’s Jazz Club, Chicago; Rick Wakeman of Yes
— Arcada Theater, St. Charles; Rico — Austin’s Fuel Room,
Libertyville; The Collective — Ballydoyle, Aurora; Old Blind Dogs
— Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; 7th Heaven/Judas Beast —
Basecamp, Lisle; The Legendary Pink Dots — Beat Kitchen,
Chicago; Chicago Wind/Deitra Farr — Blue Chicago, Chicago;
Head Honchos/Crawpuppies — Blue Chip Casino, Michigan City,
IN; Moonchil/Butcher Brown — Bottom Lounge, Chicago;
Wedding Banned — Bourbon Street, Merionette Park; JD Wilkes/
Morning Glories — Brauerhouse, Lombard; Collins County — Bub
City, Rosemont; Cort Carpenter — Bub City, Chicago; John
Nameth/Darren Jay — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Rosie &
The Rivets/Simply-Elton John — Cheers, Midlothian; Toto —
Chicago Theater, Chicago; Lee Ann Womack w/Sarah Siskind —
City Winery, Chicago; Richie Hawtin — Concord Music Hall,
Chicago; Paper Cranes/David Manchen — Cubby Bear, Chicago;
Insane Clown Posse — Durty Nellie’s, Palatine; The Laughing
Hearts/Songwriters Covering Songwriters Fundraiser — Elbo
Room, Chicago; The Hoyle Brothers — Empty Bottle, Chicago;
Hot Rocks — Evanston Rocks, Evanston; The Bama Lamas/Miss
Barbara Clifford & the Shakin’ Tailfeathers/Gina Marie & the
Golden Bucks — FitzGerald’s, Berwyn; Mercury Blonde —
Frankie’s Blue Room, Naperville; Three Dog Night/Voyage —
Genesee Theater, Waukegan; Chris Foreman/Liebman Quartet/
After Hours Jam Session — Green Mill, Chicago; Chronic Edge/
Joan Jett Experience — HOME Bar, Arlington Heights; Wage War
/DJ Chris U & Friends — House of Blues,Chicago; Reggaeton
Night w/DJ Ora/DJ Extreme/DJ Ray Ray/DJ Ozone — Joe’s
Live, Rosemont; John Primer Blues Band/Vino Louden —
Kingston Mines, Chicago; Noah Gunderson/Lemolo — Lincoln
Hall, Chicago; Oregon Space Trail of Doon/Atomic Love/
Society of Mountain Wizards — Martyrs’, Chicago; Gus
Dapperton/Spencer — Metro, Chicago; The Accidentals — Old
Town School, Chicago; Ciara — Park West, Chicago; Hell Patrol/
Sean Ryan McKee Band/Stunt Double — Penny Road Pub,
Barrington; STP/Perfect Circle Tributes — Q Bar, Darien; Jesse
Dayton/Painted Canyon — Reggies, Chicago; DJ Erge/DJ Val —
Rivers Casino, Des Plaines; Tunde Olaniran/Glitter Moneyyy/
Bevlove — Schubas,Chicago; Ashina — Sleeping Village, Chicago;
Lunamariposa/DJ Tuga/Elock/Hijo Prodigo — Smart Bar,
Chicago; Griffin House — Space, Evanston; Grunge Candy/
Smells Like Dave Grohl/Dead in Chicago — Tailgaters,
Bolingbrook; Lewis Capaldi — Thalia Hall, Chicago; Montana of
300 Live/Freaky Friday Party — The Forge, Joliet; Dueling
Pianos — The Quarry, Lemont; Yungblud — The Vic Theater,
Chicago; George Mattson Trio — Two Way Street Coffeehouse,
Downers Grove; Hannah Frank Group/Old Pup & Captain
Coopersmith (Lakeview) — Uncommon Ground, Chicago; The
Chainsmokers/Lennon Stella — United Center, Chicago; Dark
Sun — WC Social Club, West Chicago; Tributosaurus Becomes:
Lynyrd Skynryd — Wire, Berwyn.
SATURDAY 5 OCTOBER
The Rocket Summer — 1st Ward, Chicago; Summer of Love
1967 Hits — 210 Live, Highwood; Chris Greene Quartet/
Lowdown Brass Band — Andy’s Jazz Club, Chicago; Killer Queen
Tribute to Queen — Arcada Theater, St. Charles; Bruce In The
USA — Austin’s Fuel Room, Libertyville; The Bratwurst Brothers
— Ballydoyle, Aurora; Remedy — Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Girls
Rock Cancer Charity Event — Basecamp, Lisle; Plague Vendor
/No Parents/The Cell Phones — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; JW
Williams & Laretha Weathersby — Blue Chicago, Chicago;
Melodious Funk/AM-FM/Radio Tokyo — Blue Chip Casino,
Michigan City, IN; El Famous/Makena — Bottom Lounge,
Chicago; How Rude — Bourbon Street, Merionette Pk; School of
Rock Elmhurst/Murray Kingsley/Wicken Grin — Brauerhouse,
Lombard; Cort Carpenter — Bub City, Rosemont; Thornetta
Davis/Charlie Brown — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Catfish
and the Bottlemen — Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom, Chicago; Bad
of The Heart — Cheers, Midlothian; Anderson Coppe & Andy
Cohen — Chicago Theater, Chicago; Lee Ann Womack w/Sarah
Siskind — City Winery, Chicago; Second City Swingout/The Jake
Sanders Swingtet/DJ Claire Lorman — Concord Music Hall,
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Blues Band — Kingston Mines, Chicago; The Weeks/Spendtime
Palace/The Vernes — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Acres to Miles/
Soul Daddy — Martyrs’, Chicago; Smilin’’ Bobby & The
ClemTones — Phyllis’ Musical Inn, Chicago; Father/The Minks/
North and Wells — Reggies, Chicago; MasterChef Junior Live —
Rialto Square Theater, Joliet; DJ Q — Rivers Casino, Des Plaines;
Elliott Morgan/Sports & guest — Schubas, Chicago; Grun
Wasser (Record Release) — Sleeping Village, Chicago; Adrian
Belew w/Saul Zonana — Space, Evanston; Jade Bird/Flyte —
Thalia Hall, Chicago; Midgets With Attitude — The Forge, Joliet;
Close Kept/Late Bloomer/You Folk — The Owl, Chicago;
Acoustic Open Mic — The Quarry, Lemont.
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