Chicago; Pete Galanis & Friends — Rosa’s Lounge, Chicago;
Blitzen Trapper/Candace — Schubas, Chicago; Henry Rollins —
Thalia Hall, Chicago.
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Uptown Poetry Slam/Soul Jazz Night w/Joel Paterson & Chris
Foreman — Green Mill, Chicago; Doktu Rhute/Dkyla Burrell/
Gospel Brunch — House of Blues, Chicago; Hi Infidelity/The
Millenials — Huntley Fall Fest, Huntley; Michael Stuart Live —
Joe’s Live, Rosemont; Arthur Buck — Lincoln Hall, Chicago;
Frontline Assembly/Die Krupps/The Black Queen/Actors/
Continues/Ganser — Metro, Chicago; The Rob Post Band —
Niko’s Red Mill Tavern, Woodstock; Die Musikmeisters/Don
Oktoberfest — Oktoberfest, Tinley Park; Stone Cold Cowboys —
Poopy’s, Savannah; Farewell Summer — Reggie’s, Chicago; 7th
Heaven/The Boy Band Night/Libido Funk Circus/Motown
Nation — Rocktoberfest Beerfest, Plainfield; Miranda Winters
(Melkbelly)/Joe & Linda (Not For You)/Mia Joy — Schubas,
Chicago; Michael Serafini/Garrett David/Hidden Spheres —
Smart Bar, Chicago; Jackyl — The Forge, Joliet; DJ & Karaoke
w/Zach — Uptown Lounge, Chicago; World Music Festival Meets
World Dumpling Fest w/Jupiter & Okwess (Congo)/Degres
(Guadeloupe)/Zhou Family Band (China)/East Meets Middle
East (Chicago/India) — World Music Festival @Navy Pier,
Chicago.
MONDAY 24
Leon Bridges — Aragon Ballroom, Chicago; Extraordinary
Popular Delusions — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Miguel Garza — Bub
City, Chicago; Taj Mahal — City Winery, Chicago; DT Funk —
Cubby Bear, Chicago; Juiceboxx/Nonnie Parry/Limited Liability
Sound — Empty Bottle, Chicago; Nigel Mack/Joanna Connor —
House of Blues, Chicago; Anne-Marie/Goody Grace — Lincoln
Hall, Chicago; The Imperial Sound — Martyrs’, Chicago; Blitzen
Trapper/Candace — Schubas, Chicago; Lydia Loveless — Space,
Evanston; Henry Rollins — Thalia Hall, Chicago; KamiKazzee
Vigilante — Tonic Room, Chicago.
TUESDAY 25
Trivia Night w/Pat O’Malley — Ballydoyle, Downers Grove;
Frankie & The Witch Fingers/Stonefield/Dogs At Large/
Chicago Underground Comedy — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; The
Charlatans UK/Frankiie — Bottom Lounge, Chicago; Live Band
Karaoke — Bub City, Chicago; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City,
Rosemont; Megative/Akasha/JonnyGo Figure/DJ Chuck Wren
— Cobra Lounge, Chicago; Tricky Mission — Cubby Bear, Chicago;
Emma Ruth Rundle/Jaye Jayle/Trevor de Brauw — Empty Bottle,
Chicago; Open Mic — FitzGerald’s, Berwyn; All Killa No Filla/
Rev, Raven & The Chain Smokin’ Alter Boys/Mike Wheeler/
Comedy Cocktail — House of Blues, Chicago; We Were Promised
Jetpacks — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Cream Puff Warriors —
Martyrs’, Chicago; Mr. Blotto/School of Rock — Reggie’s,
WEDNESDAY 26
PBJ w/Paul Bolger — 210 Live, Highwood; Accept — Arcada
Theater, Chicago; Open Mic — Ballydoyle, Aurora; Open Mic w/
Dave Kelly — Ballydoyle, Downers Grove; Blessthefall/The Word
Alive/Ded/Thousand Below/A War Within — Bottom Lounge,
Chicago; Rendition — Bub City, Chicago; Moon Hooch — Chop
Shop & 1st Ward, Chicago; 97Nine — Cubby Bear, Chicago;
Sunset Rollercoaster/Divino Nino/Kachi — Empty Bottle,
Chicago; Ana Egge/Jesse Robbins/Ryan Schultz/Chad
McCullough Quintet — FitzGerald’s, Berwyn; In One Ear —
Heartland Cafe, Chicago; Warm Drag — Hideout, Chicago;
Studebaker John/Butch Walker/Keithen Banks/Uncorked &
Unplugged — House of Blues, Chicago; We Were Promised
Jetpacks — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Dos Santos/The Eternals
Sextet — Martyrs’, Chicago; Dill Costa Duo — Music at The Patio
@Lincoln Park Zoo, Chicago; Backyard Cohort — Nevin’s,
Plainfield; Trauma — Reggie’s, Chicago; Shakey Graves —
Riviera, Chicago; Nicholas Barron Band — Rosa’s Lounge,
Chicago; Gaz Coombes — Schubas, Chicago; The Marcus King
Band/Bishop Gunn — Thalia Hall, Chicago; Hed Pe/
Programmable Animal/The Balance Factor/Dear Deadly/A
Silent Truth — The Forge, Joliet.
THURSDAY 27
Ambrosia & Orleans — Arcada Theater, Chicago; Trivia Night —
Bally doyle, Aurora; Charles & Company — Blue Chip Casino-
Rocks Lounge, Michigan City, IN; Martin McDaniel — Bub City,
Chicago; Welshly Arms/The Glorious Sons/Charming Liars —
Chop Shop & 1st Ward, Chicago; Huckleberry Funk — Cubby
Bear, Chicago; Red Fang/Big Business/Dead Now/Tight Night
— Empty Bottle, Chicago; Gina Gonzalez — Fire Bar, Crystal Lake;
Honey Island Swamp Band — FitzGerald’s, Berwyn; Makena
Hartlin — HB Jones, Elmhurst; World Race Benefit Concert —
Heartland Cafe, Chicago; Devil In A Woodpile/Michigan
Rattlers (Album Release)/Al Scorch — Hideout, Chicago; Israel
Houghton/Joanna Connor — House of Blues, Chicago;
Muscadine Bloodline w/Brandon Ray & Jordan Fletcher — Joe’s
Bar, Chicago; Muscadine Bloodline/Brandon Ray & Jordan
Fletcher — Joe’s Live, Chicago; Scott Jensen — Mac’s On Slade,
Palatine; Lemon Bucket Orkestra/Black Bear Combo —
Martyrs’, Chicago; Arra — Nevin’s, Plainfield; Soda — Niko’s Red
Mill Tavern, Woodstock; Authority Zero/Cheap Trick In Color
w/Phil Agnotti & Friends — Reggie’s, Chicago; James Wheeler/
Lil’ Ed Williams — Rosa’s Lounge, Chicago; Sylvan Lacue/
Khary/Treazon — Schubas, Chicago; Mount Kimbie/Savile/Hijo
Prodijo — Smart Bar, Chicago; The Babys w/Frank Viele —
Space, Evanston; Phillip Anselmo & The Illegals/King Parrot —
The Forge, Joliet; Everett Dean & The Lonesome Hearts —
Venuti’s, Addison; The Vamps/Hrvy/New Hope Club — Vic
Theater, Chicago.
FRIDAY 28
New Nostaglia/Bumpus — 210 Live, Highwood; Iration — Aragon
Ballroom, Chicago; The Classic Rock Experience/Buddy Holly &
Beyond w/Johnny Rogers (Club Arcada) — Arcada Theater,
Chicago; Fool House — Austin’s Fuel Room, Libertyville; AM/FM
— Ballydoyle, Aurora; Benefit for Andy Stout w/Thrift Store
Halos/The Jameson Shakes/Anthem — Ballydoyle, Downers
Grove; Raleigh Truckers — Bar Evolution, Batavia; The
Buttertones/Wild Wing — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; There Goes
The Neighborhood — Blarney Island, Antioch; JW Williams/
Laretha Weathersby — Blue Chicago, Chicago; Head Honchos —
Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge, Michigan City, IN; Counterparts
& Being As An Ocean — Bottom Lounge, Chicago; Jak Tripper —
Broken Oar, Port Barrington; Martin McDaniel — Bub City,
Chicago; Reece Phillips — Bub City, Rosemont; Bryant T/Nick
Bell — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Jim Jefferies — Chicago
Theater, Chicago; Jeremy Zucker/Carlie Hanson — Chop Shop &
1st Ward, Chicago; Will Porter Band w/Martyn Joseph — City
Winery, Chicago; Swingin’ Utters/The Last Gang — Cobra
Lounge, Chicago; Cafe Tacvba/Ruen Brothers — Concord Music
Hall, Chicago; Mike Paterson — Doc’s Victory Pub, Elmhurst;
Gasoline & Matches — Dock’s Bar, Wauconda; Sixteen Candles
— Durty Nellies, Palatine; Summer Son — Eaglewood Resort,
Itasca; The Requirements (EP Release) — Elbo Room, Chicago;
Lala Lala (Record Release)/Dehd/Choral Reefr/Whitney/Ex
Hex/Frankie Cosmos/Pixel Grip/Hoyle Brothers — Empty
Bottle, Chicago; Erik Donner — Eviva!, Lisle; Modern Day
Romeos — Fire Bar, Crystal Lake; Cannonball — FitzGerald’s,
Berwyn; Zero — Four Winds Casino, New Buffalo, MI; Bad Plus/
The Flipside Show w/Chris Foreman/After Hours Jam — Green
Mill, Chicago; Chicks With Picks — Gruben’s Uptown Tap,
Plainfield; Rock Baby Rock w/Lance Lipinsky/TNT Chicago/
BOGO Free/The Undercovers/Nick Miller/The Apocolyptics —
Grundy County Corn Festival, Morris; Johnny G. — HB Jones,
Elmhurst; Dream Version/Uma Bloo — Hideout, Chicago;
Spoken Four — Hollywood Casino, Aurora; R Gang — Hollywood
Casino, Joliet; Have A Cigar — HOME Bar, Arlington Heights;
After The Burial & The Acacia Strain/John Primer/Keithen
Banks/House of Burlesque — House of Blues, Chicago; Mytyme
— Incontro A Tavola, S. Barrington; Two Fellas — Jen’s
Guesthouse, Willow Springs; Dino Merlin — Joe’s Live, Rosemont;
Perry Hutchins — Kerry Piper, Willowbrook; Thornetta Davis/
Nora Jean Bruso Blues/Studebaker John — Kingston Mines,
Chicago; Just Janet & I — Level 257, Schaumburg; Hyukoh/
Inner Wave — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Mr. Myers — Mac’s On
Slade, Palatine; Tynan/In Session — Mainstage Pheasant Run,
St. Charles; Fruition/Daniel Rodrigquez — Martyrs’, Chicago;
Lucero/Brent Cowles — Metro, Chicago; Hobo Junkies/
Hoodlums — MT Barrels, Schaumburg; Rock’s Off/Turbo Shot —
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Nevin’s, Plainfield; Rhinestone DJ D — Niko’s Red Mill Tavern,
Woodstock; Rod Tuffcurls & The Bench Press/Stache/
Polkaholics/DT Funk — Oktoberfest @St. Alphonsus Lakeview,
Chicago; Holly Near/Bruce Molsky’s Mountain Drifters — Old
Town School, Chicago; The O’My’s/Kaina & Sen Morimoto/
Tasha — Park West, Chicago; Silverstrings — Pearce’s Pub,
Oswego; Handsome Pete/The Kringe/The Struggs/Clan Adam
— Penny Road Pub, Barrington; Threshold — Poopy’s, Savannah;
Moonshine Bros. — Q-Bar, Glendale Heights; Rocksteady 7/The
Crombies/DJ Chuck Wren — Reggie’s, Chicago; 7th Heaven/DJ
Q — Rivers Casino, Des Plaines; Lurrie Bell — Rosa’s Lounge,
Chicago; Cautious Clay/Victor! — Schubas, Chicago; Ethan Bell
Band — Shakers, Ottawa; Felix & Fingers Dueling Pianos —
Sideouts, Island Lake; Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs/
Durante — Smart Bar, Chicago; Will Hoge w/Ryan Culwell —
Space, Evanston; KID — Subterranean, Chicago; Kikagaku Moyo
— Thalia Hall, Chicago; Windy City Rev Ups — The Harp and
Fiddle, Park Ridge; Michael Cerqua — The Sandlot Wrigley,
Chicago; MyTyme — Tuscany, Oak Brook; Doctor Spindrift/My
One & Only — Uncommon Ground, Chicago; Soda — Venuti’s,
Addison; Cameron Esposito/Shannon Noll — Vic Theater,
Chicago; Anthony Cassano Live — White Eagle, Niles; Zao/Atlas
Moth/Yashira/Ikaray — Wire, Berwyn; DJ Messes — World of
Beer, Evanston; Taylor Street — Zach’s On Tap, Palos Heights;
Dean Milano — Zachary’s Bar, Palos Heights.
SATURDAY 29 SEPTEMBER
Chicago’s Tina Turner Tribute/Howard & The White Boys — 210
Live, Highwood; Mitch Ryder/Paul Revere’s Raid ers/Peter
Rivera — Arcada Theater, Chicago; Boy Band Review — Austin’s
Fuel Room, Libertyville; Tyler Krienitz — Bar Evolution, Batavia;
Dead Sara/Welles — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; The Niche Duo —
Bella Mia, Midlothian; No Question/Anuelusion — Blarney
Island, Antioch; JW Williams/Laretha Weathersby — Blue
Chicago, Chicago; Tynan/Taylor Street Band/PS Dump Your
Boyfriend — Blue Chip Casino-Rocks Lounge, Michigan City, IN;
P.S. Dump Your Boyfriend — Blue Chip Casino-Vegas Baby,
Michigan City, IN; Clozee/IHF/Balkan Bump — Bottom Lounge,
Chicago; Melissa N’ Shawn — Brazen Head, Crestwood; One of
The Boyzz — Broken Oar, Port Barrington; Reece Phillips — Bub
City, Chicago; Martin McDaniel — Bub City, Rosemont; James
Armstrong — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Addy’s Corner —
Captain’s Quarters, Antioch; Echoes of Pompeii — Cheers,
Midlothian; Hasan Minhaj — Chicago Theater, Chicago; Windy
City CrashPop Festival w/Airiel/Whimsical/Astrobrite/Panda
Riot/Tambourina/Bow & Spear/New Canyons/Lightfoils —
Chop Shop & 1st Ward, Chicago; Night Birds/Canadian
Rifle/Retirement Club/Compressions — Cobra Lounge, Chicago;
Cafe Tacvba/Ruen Brothers — Concord Music Hall, Chicago;
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