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Blues City Club Tour featuring The Smiley Tillmon Band with Kate Moss — GMan Tavern , Chicago ; Soul Message — Green Mill , Chicago ; Gary Bartz Quartet — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Sixteen Candles / THBN / Motown Nation — Last Fling , Naperville ; Ragged Rascals — McGonigals , Barrington ; George Clinton & Funkadelic — Out of Space / Temperance Beer Co ., Evanston ; Camelphat / Gene Farris — Prysm , Chicago ; ARC After Dark : Hot Since 82 — Radius , Chicago ; John Legend — Ravinia , Highland Park ; Roosevelt Purifoy — Reggies on the Beach , Chicago ; Johnny Iguana — Rosa ’ s Lounge , Chicago ; Great White / 7th Heaven / Rok Brigade — Schaumburg Fest , Schaumburg ; Zeds Dead / Rezz / Bonobo DJ Set / Chris Lake / Pora En Pure — Seat Geek Stadium , Bridgeview ; Sylmar / Avantist / Faux Furrs — Subterranean , Chicago ; Live DJ — Tailgaters , Bolingbrook ; Horrible / Wet Tropics / 96 Cougar — The Burlington , Chicago ; The Black Dahlia Murder / After The Burial / Carnifex / Rivers of Nihil / Undeath — The Rave , Milwaukee ; Cirrus Falcon — Third Ward Art Fest , Milwaukee ; Ms . Pat — Zanies , Chicago .
MONDAY 6
Chris James and Ryan Coe — 115 Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Hot Sardines — City Winery , Chicago ; Eli Winter / Jordan Reyes — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Joel Paterson Trio — Green Mill , Chicago ; Libido Funk Circus / Country Night — Last Fling , Naperville ; Open Mic with Mike & Mike — Phyliss ’ Musical Inn , Chicago ; John Legend — Ravinia , Highland Park ; Lost Stars / Kid Politics / Calicoloco / Tears Over Beers — Subterranean , Chicago ; Torin Edmond / Vick Lavendar / David Sabat — The Promontory , Chicago ; Souldfly / Suicide Puppets / DarkerThan Fiction — WC Social Club , West Chicago ; Ms . Pat — Zanies , Chicago .
TUESDAY 7
Won ’ s Stay Dead / Crimson Riot — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Pop Up Karaoke — Carol ’ s Pub , Chicago ; Louis Prima Jr . & The Witnesses — City Winery , Chicago ; Bluesday Tuesday : The Altered Five Blues Band — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Josh Caterer — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Natewantstobattle — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Lara Downes — Ravinia , Highland Park ; Mr . Blotto — Reggies , Chicago ; Pete Galanis & Friends featuring Dave Herrero — Rosa ’ s Lounge , Chicago ; Moses Storm — Schubas , Chicago ; Meshell Ndegeocello ( 2 Shows ) — SPACE , Evanston ; Karaoke — Tailgaters , Bolingbrook ; Crobot — The
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Forge of Joliet , Joliet ; Annie Laderman — Zanies , Chicago .
WEDNESDAY 8
Gone Too Paradise — 115 Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Alec Trio / Isiah Spencer — Andy Jazz Club , Chicago ; Nick Mazzarella / Eric Schneider — Andy Jazz Club , Chicago ; ZZ ’ s Best ( ZZ Top ) — Art Theatre , Hobart , IN ; Karaoke — Basecamp , Lisle ; Shwayze / Jayleigh / Grandview — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City , Chicago ; Jimmy Burns Hosts The Jam — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; The Soul Rebels — City Winery , Chicago ; Various Distractions — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Alfonso Ponticelli — Green Mill , Chicago ; New Nostalgia — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Rose Colella Quartet — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Sam Fischer — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Bomba con Buya & Mancha ‘ E Plátano — Old Town School of Music , Chicago ; Chicago Sinfionetta — Ravinia , Highland Park ; Mary Lane & The No Static Band — Rosa ’ s Lounge , Chicago ; Eliot Brood — SPACE , Evanston ; Homeboy Sandman / Nolan — Subterranean , Chicago ; Live DJ — Tailgaters , Bolingbrook ; Kathleen Edwards with Mick Flannery — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; IV / The Strange Banjo Tour — The Forge of Joliet , Joliet ; Paint & Drank — The Promontory , Chicago ; Annie Laderman — Zanies , Chicago .
THURSDAY 9
Hair Band Nights — 115 Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Nitty Gritty Dirt Band — Arcada Theatre , St . Charles ; Open Mic — Basecamp , Lisle ; The Von Tramps / Run and Punch / The C-Sides — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Mike Wheeler Band / Sheryl Youngblood — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Morry Sochat & The Special 20 ’ s — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Riot Ten / Must Die — Canopy Club , Champaign ; Kevin Ross — City Winery , Chicago ; Atomic Bitchwax / Joe Buck Yourself / Rebelmatic — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Mind Maintenance — Constellation , Chicago ; Pat McCurdy : Rooftop Show — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Tempers / None of Your Concern — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Rosie Flores — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Darryl Buchanan — Four Winds Casino , South Bend ; Michael Winslow — Genesee Theater , Waukegan ; Alan Gresik ’ s Orchestra — Green Mill , Chicago ; John Berry — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Megadeth / Lamb of God — Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre , Chicago ; Corey Wilkes Quartet — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Runaway June — Joe ’ s Live , Rosemont ; Blue Detiger — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Melt / Corn on my Dinner Plate — Martyrs , Chicago ; Turnstile — Metro , Chicago ; Karaoke — Mickey Finn ’ s , Libertyville ; Nexus Chamber Music — Ravinia , Highland Park ; Black Tusk / Savage Master — Reggies , Chicago ; Willy Buck — Rosa ’ s Lounge , Chicago ; Salsa Night — Saddle Up , Aurora ; Andrew Belle — Schubas , Chicago ; Eilen Jewel —
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SPACE , Evanston ; CalenRaps & Price / Reggae Gold — Subterranean , Chicago ; A Track “ in the Round ” — Thalia Halla , Chicago ; Dead Sun Rising / Underhand / Nequient — The Burlington , Chicago ; Open Mic with Araron Mitchell — The Outta Space , Berwyn ; Leanne Morgan — The Vic Theatre , Chicago ; Pierce Crask / Ian Leith & David Hinske — Uncommon Ground Lakeview , Chicago ; Bobcait Goldwaits — Zanies , Rosemont .
FRIDAY 10
Southside Hooligans — 115 Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Doug Stanhope / Beastie Boys Tribute : Imposters In Effect — Afterlife Music Hall , Lombard ; Alejandro Salazar Quartet — Andy Jazz Club , Chicago ; Julien Marley — Arcada Theatre , St . Charles ; The Buckinghams — Art Theatre , Hobart , IN ; Lydia Lunch Retrovirus / No Men — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Kickin ’ Valentina / Siin — Brauerhouse , Lombard ; Windy City Rev Ups — Bub City , Rosemont ; Demetria Taylor with special guests — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Jim Norton — City Winery , Chicago ; Rosie & The Rivets — Club Arcada ( Top Floor ), St . Charles ; Sincere Engineer — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Spencer Brown — Concord Music Hall , Chicago ; The86 / G Krish — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; 7th Heaven — Durty Nellies , Palatine ; Pitchfork Aftershow : Divino Nino — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; George Thorogood & The Destroyers — Four Winds Casino , New Buffalo ; AD3 / Matt Martino — Four Winds Casino , South Bend ; Chicago Gypsy Jazz Fest — Green Mill , Chicago ; Emily Rowed & Marielle Kraft / Eric Quigley ( early ) — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Brad Paisley — Hollywood Casino Amphitheatre , Chicago ; 311 — Huntington Bank Pavilion , Chicago ; Grateful Dead Experience : The Schwag — Impact Fuel Room , Libertyville ; Corey Wilkes Quartet — Jazz Showcase , Chicago ; Jordan Davis — Joe ’ s Live , Rosemont ; Them Dirty Roses — Joe ’ s Weed Street , Chicago ; Cancer Dudes Benefit — Martyrs , Chicago ; Armor For Sleep / Never Loved / Silence of You / The Cold Seas — Metro , Chicago ; Chicago in Tune : House Music — Millenium Park , Chicago ; Kevin Nealon — North Shore Performing Arts , Skokie ; Dolly Varden — Old Town School of Music , Chicago ; Phoebe Bridgers / Big Thief / Animal Collective / The Fiery Furnaces / Yaeji / black midi / Hop Along and guests — Pitchfork Festival , Chicago ; Morgan Page — Prysm , Chicago ; Indigi Girls / Ani DiFranco — Ravinia , Highland Park ; Jay Washington ( Shack )/ Legendary Shack
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Shakers ( Club ) — Reggies , Chicago ; Rod Tuffcurls & The Bench Press — Riviera Theatre , Chicago ; Cash Box Kings — Rosa ’ s Lounge , Chicago ; The Weather Station — Schubas , Chicago ; French 79 — Sleeping Village , Chicago ; RP Boo / DJ Taye / Jana Rush / DJ Manny — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Ben Sallee / Phillip-Michael Scales ( 6PM ) — SPACE , Evanston ; MUNA ( 10PM ) — SPACE , Evanston ; Necropolis — Subterranean , Chicago ; Mixtape Junkies — Tailgaters , Bolingbrook ; Pitchfork Aftershow featuring Kim Gordon and keiyaA — Thalia Halla , Chicago ; Lawrence Tome / The Dearlys / Goose Harrington — The Burlington , Chicago ; Red Jumpsuit Apparatus / Astoria State — The Forge of Joliet , Joliet ; Toad the Wet Sprocket / Althea Grace — The Park West , Chicago ; Brett Michaels — The Piazza , Aurora ; Lovesexy Prince Tribute — The Promontory , Chicago ; All Time Low / The Story So Far / Movements / The Maine / Grayscale / Pinkshift — The Rave , Milwaukee ; Craig Scott — Uncommon Ground Lakeview , Chicago ; Tame Impala — United Center , Chicago ; Reggaeton Bash — WC Social Club , West Chicago ; Jason Cheny — Zanies , Chicago .
SATURDAY 11 SEPTEMBER
Maiden Chicago / Infinity — 115 Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Doug Stanhope / Sponge — Afterlife Music Hall , Lombard ; Alejandro Salazar Quartet — Andy Jazz Club , Chicago ; Kix / Stryper — Arcada Theatre , St . Charles ; Cirrus Falcon — Art On The Fox , Algonquin ; Little Lover / 5184 ( AC / DC / Van Halen ) — Art Theatre , Hobart , IN ; Bluegrass Brunch — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Model Stranger / BURRN — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Real Friends / Action Adventure — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Rock Caifanes — Brauerhouse , Lombard ; James Armstrong with special guests — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Snails — Canopy Club , Champaign ; Wilco / BackyardTire Fire — Castle Theater , Bloomington , IL ; Level Up / Space Wizard — Concord Music Hall , Chicago ; Brothers On A Mission / The Vindys / Argonaut & Wasp / Walker County / Allen Stone / Spencer Ludwig / Squaropolis — Emerge Winnetka , Winnetka ; Pitchfork Aftershow : Dehd — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; 7th Heaven — Evviva Fest , Lisle ; Tardi Gras ft . Terrance Simien & The Zydeco Experience — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; 7th Heaven — Food Truck Fest , McHenry ; Matt Martino — Four Winds Casino , South Bend ; Chicago Gypsy Jazz Fest — Green Mill , Chicago ; Lil Ed ( Bluegrass Brunch ) — Hey Nonny , Arlington Heights ; Alanis
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