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Thursday May 16
= Editor's Pick
Copper Box
Abbey Pub: 21+
The 92's, Grandkids, Wilshire, Old Honey Drums
Beat Kitchen: 8pm, $10 Other
In Flames, Armored Assault, Burn The Remains
Bottom Lounge : 6:30pm, 22-$25 Other
E Minor, Kyle Young
Elbo Room: 9pm, $5 21+
Mike Rep + Tommy Jay, Negative Scanner, The Sleaze
Empty Bottle: 9pm, $10 21+
Peter Murphy w/ Blah Blah Blah
House of Blues:
Jenny Dragon
Jerry's Sandwiches:
The Thermals, Bare Mutants, Moon King
Lincoln Hall: 9pm, $15 18+
Art Galt's Widow, Impulsive Hearts, What It Do, PUSH
Martyrs': 8pm, $8 21+
Shout Out Louds
Metro: $20 All Ages
Garrett Lane and Friends
Quenchers Saloon: 8pm 21+
Rotten Sound, Enabler, Reign Inferno, Dead in the Dirt, Pit of Spikes
Reggie's Music Joint: 7pm, 10-$12
Calvin Evans
Reggie's Music Joint: 6pm, 20-$25 21+
Dead Horses, Good Ground, The Butterroot Band
Reggie's Music Joint: 9pm, $5 21+
Rotten Sound, Enabler, Reign Inferno, Dead in the Dirt, Pit of Spikes
Reggie's Rock Club: 7pm, 10-$12 18+
Colin Stetson, Justin Walter
Schubas: 9pm, $14 21+
Grant-Lee Phillips, Nicholas Barron
SPACE: 7:30pm, 20-$40
Good Willsmith, COIN
Subterranean: 8pm, $10 Other
Friday May 17
= Editor's Pick
Roger Clyne and the Peacemakers, Sons of Bill
Abbey Pub: 9pm, 20-$23 21+
The O'My's, Midwest Hype, Train Company, Mos Scocious
Beat Kitchen: 9pm, $8 21+
Red, We As Human, Southbend Fearing
Bottom Lounge : 7pm, 12-$15 21+
Sona Bliss, Snow Globe Mules, Homer Marrs
Elbo Room: 9pm, $5 21+
The Hoyle Brothers
Empty Bottle: 5:30pm, $0 21+
Unnatural Axe, Tyvek, Eat skull, Make Overs, Buck Biloxi & The Fu*cks, Winter Bear
Empty Bottle: 8pm, $25 21+
The Dan Band w/ Neil Diamond Phillips
House of Blues:
J-Roc and the Biz with Buck Hunter
Jerry's Sandwiches:
of Montreal, Wild Moccasins
Lincoln Hall: 8pm, $25 All Ages
Shinyribs feat. Kevin Russel, Majors Junction
Martyrs': 9pm, 10-$12 21+
The Energy Commission, The Ivorys, Aktar Aktar, Noise FM
Metro: 8:30pm, $10 18+
Zigtebra, Doctor Pyramid, Matt Owen and the Electric Tuba, Comfort Food
Quenchers Saloon: 9pm 21+
Mia & The Bear
Reggie's Music Joint: 5:30pm 21+
Somo, Nick Luebke, Dennis, Kid Slim, Corey Pieper
Reggie's Rock Club: 7pm, 13-$15 All Ages
Anders Parker & Kendall Meade, Honey and Buffalo
Schubas: 7pm, 10-$12 21+
Futurebirds, Diarrhea Planet
Schubas: 10pm, $12 21+
Jane Monheit
SPACE: 7:30pm, 20-$40
Mike Mentz, Tim Stop
Subterranean: 8:30pm, $8 Other
Atmosphere Strut w/ DJ Kid Color
The Whistler: $0 21+
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Vic Theatre: Other
Saturday May 18
= Editor's Pick
Jim Bartholomew
Abbey Pub: 10pm, $0 21+
Laura Stevenson, Field Mouse, Warren Franklin & The Founding Fathers
Beat Kitchen: 9pm, $12 Other
Newsted, Wilson
Bottom Lounge: 9pm, $25 Other
Newsted
Bottom Lounge : 8pm, $25 Other
Mom's Kitchen Band, The Middle City Sound, Honor By August
Elbo Room: 8pm, $10 21+
Chrome, Wizard Steve, Cop City/Chill Pillars, FNU Ronnies, Verma
Empty Bottle: 8pm, $25 21+
Outer Minds, Sybris
Hideout: 9pm, $12 21+
Super Happy Fun Club, Ryan Powers & the Secret Weapons, Bury Me In Lights
Lincoln Hall: 9pm, 10-$12 18+
Synthetiq
Maria's Packaged Goods & Community Bars: 9pm, $0 21+
Wolfgang Jay, Sun Stereo, The Choir
Martyrs': 9:30pm, $8 21+
Anaïs Mitchell & Jefferson Hamer
Old Town School of Folk Music: 8pm
Geronimo!, Hospital Garden, Destroy this Place, Meat Wave
Quenchers Saloon: 9pm 21+
Ovadya, Metropolly, American Musk Ox, Newburys, Sam Vicari
Reggie's Music Joint: 7pm 21+
Superchrist, Bones, Sons of Famine, Ofyacus
Reggie's Rock Club: 8pm, $10 Other
Jeffery Foucault & Cold Satellite, The Pines
Schubas : 9pm, $18 21+
The Twilight and the Sound, A-Gang
Subterranean: 9pm, $7 21+
Interstellar w/ DJ Marty Mars
The Whistler: 21+
Foals
Vic Theatre: Other
Sunday May 19
= Editor's Pick
Sierra Ridge, Free Radical, The Giving Moon, A Minute's Worth, Jansen Hogan
Beat Kitchen: 6pm, $10 All Ages
Turbonegro, Mount Carmel
Double Door: 8pm, $25 21+
Plan 9 Burlesque
Elbo Room: 9pm, $8 21+
Dwight Twilley, Pezband, Games, The Sueves
Empty Bottle: 8pm, $25 21+
Turbonegro, Mount Carmel
Metro: 8pm, $25 21+
Mad Mary, Sarah Holtschlag, Bryan Alvarez, Piecemeal
Quenchers Saloon: 7pm 21+
Cocktail Preachers, Johnny Roger
Reggie's Music Joint: 8pm, $5 21+
Taking Off, Saving haven, Four Rifts, Bloody Mary
Reggie's Rock Club: 5pm, $12 All Ages
Ms Mr, Magic Man
Schubas: 8pm, 13-$15 18+
The SteelDrivers
SPACE: 7pm, 20-$30
A Guy Named Guy, Waste Basket
Subterranean: 8pm, $10 Other
Playing Favorites: Pillowhammer plays Pink Floyd
The Whistler: $0 21+
Monday May 20
= Editor's Pick
Extraordinary Popular, Delusions
Beat Kitchen: 8pm, $0 21+
Jamaican Queens, Netherfriends, Charlatan Free
Empty Bottle: 9pm, $0 21+
Julie Huff
Jazz Showcase: 8pm & 10pm
b--side
Maria's Packaged Goods & Community Bars: 9pm, $0 21+
Odd Folk, Spitzer Space Telescope, Coyote Armada
Reggie's Music Joint: 8pm, $5 21+
Ms Mr, Magic Man
Schubas: 8pm, 13-$15 18+
Glad Cloud Ambient Music Series
The Whistler: $0 21+
Tuesday May 21
= Editor's Pick
The Henhouse Prowlers
Abbey Pub: 10pm, $5 21+
Silver Abuse, Daemon Familiar, Go Time, I Lost Control
Double Door: 8pm, $7 21+
Chandeliers, Bad Guys
Hideout: 9pm, $5 21+
Lissie, Vance Joy
Lincoln Hall: 8pm, $18 18+
Catie O
Maria's Packaged Goods & Community Bars: 9pm, $0 21+
Obisoulstar, Makers of Sense, Forbidden Knowledge
Martyrs': 8pm, $7 21+
M 13
Quenchers Saloon: 9pm 21+
Mr. Blotto
Reggie's Music Joint: 7:30pm, $5 21+
Secret Chiefs
Schubas: 9pm, $20 21+
Ernie Halter, Julian Bell
SPACE: 7:30pm, 12-$22
Fargo, Midnight Snack, Autumn Island, The Capitol
Subterranean: 8pm, $10 Other
Wednesday May 22
= Editor's Pick
Secret Chiefs
Beat Kitchen: 8:30pm, $20 Other
Scorpion Child, The Velcro Lewis Group, Broke N Ugly, Dead Feathers
Double Door: 9pm 21+
Dave Cavalier, One Season, Rooms
Elbo Room: 8:30pm 21+
Flashlights, Dead Native, Cougar Island
Empty Bottle: 9pm 21+
Kastle, XXXY, Equator Club, Aztek
Lincoln Hall: 9pm, 15-$20 18+
Helping Phriendly Orchestra
Martyrs': 9pm, 10-$12 21+
Cory Grimm, Brittany Moffit, Matt Kissinger, Brian Riggs
Quenchers Saloon: 8pm 21+
Shane Merrill
Reggie's Music Joint: 7pm, $0 21+
Joe S.
Rodan: 10pm, $0 21+
El Ten Eleven, Michna & NUDE POP
SPACE: 7:30pm, 10-$18
Thursday May 23
= Editor's Pick
Jennifer Fletcher
Abbey Pub: 10pm, $0 21+
Backseat Charlie, Blue Dream, Jacob's Cabin, Moonrise Nation
Beat Kitchen: 8:30pm, $10 Other
Julian Bell, Wes Hollywood, 61 Inch, Living In Pretend (acoustic)
Double Door: 8pm 21+
Brett Newski & the Corruption, Elephant Gun, Broken Anchor
Empty Bottle: 9pm, $7 21+
Taught Abroad, Software Giant, K. Serra
Hideout: 9pm, $8 21+
Laura Marling
Lincoln Hall: 8pm 18+
Pokey LaFarge, Al Scorch
Lincoln Hall: 9pm, 13-$15 21+
Lying Delilah, Sugarman, The Slowbots
Martyrs': 8pm, $7 21+
Antiserum, Clicks & Whistles, Ant TC1
Metro: 9pm, 15-$20
Bike Cops, Le Tour, Todayshits
Quenchers Saloon: 8pm 21+
Pyro Fighter, Sunsquabi
Reggie's Music Joint: 7:30pm, $8 21+
Parallels and Lies, Savior Self, Monika Santucci, Lady Raven
Reggie's Rock Club: 5pm, 8-$12 All Ages
Terriers, The Oarsman, Boil
Schubas: 8pm, $7 18+
Laura Marling
Schubas: 8pm, 25-$30 21+
Saturday Looks Good To Me, Like Pioneers, Mister Suit
Schubas: 9pm, 10-$12 21+
Brownie Mountain, Rhone
Subterranean: 8pm, $10 Other
Crimson Glow
The Whistler: 8pm, $0 21+
Friday May 24
= Editor's Pick
Project Pitchfork, Ayria, V1rtual D3scent
Abbey Pub: 8pm, 22-$26 21+
Sean Shiel
Abbey Pub: 9pm 21+
Fatbook, Cole Degenova & The People's Republic
Beat Kitchen: 9pm, $10 21+
For We Are Only Human featuring The Recovering, The Projectionists, Half The Battle, Unskappable, Matt Garvin
Bottom Lounge : 6pm, $10 Other
the Neighborhoodlums, Kevin Leeds and Global Cooling
Elbo Room: 8pm 21+
The Hoyle Brothers
Empty Bottle: 5:30pm, $0 21+
Onra, Impala Sound Champions
Empty Bottle: 7pm, $40
Soft Speaker, Radar Eyes, Bitchin' Bajas
Empty Bottle: 9:30pm, 8-$10 21+
Bill MacKay
Hideout: 6pm 21+
Jimmy Whispers, Magic Milk, Names Divine, DJ Sets by Bobby Burg
Hideout: 10pm, $7 21+
Morgan Frazier with Elizabeth Lyons
Joe's Bar: 10pm
Dale Earnhardt Jr. Jr., Tunde Olaniran
Lincoln Hall: 10pm, $15 21+
The Fur Coats, Rad Payoff, Wide Angles, Costanza
Quenchers Saloon: 10pm 21+
The Stone Chromatics, Killing Gods, Sybarites
Reggie's Music Joint: 9pm, $7 21+
Maggot Twat, Dizmal Daze, Never We See, Trials
Reggie's Rock Club: 8pm, $10 18+
Andrew Belle, Neulore
Schubas: 7pm & 10pm, $15 All Ages
Idiot Glee, Yawn, Riites
Subterranean: 9pm, $10 Other
Saturday May 25
= Editor's Pick
Devils In Angels, Fists Of Rage
Abbey Pub: 9pm 21+
Die Kreuzen, We Are Hex, Canadian Rifle
Double Door: 9pm, $17 21+
Windy City Soul Club
Empty Bottle: 9:30pm 21+
Brent Puls, Hello Death, Forgotten Species
Hideout: 9pm, $10 21+
The Malt Shop
Hideout: 11:59pm 21+
Anamanaguchi, Chrome Sparks, Infinity Shred, Sharpless
Lincoln Hall: 9pm, $12 18+
sonorama
Maria's Packaged Goods & Community Bars: 9pm, $0 21+
The Dirty Blue, Coronado, Tomorrow the Moon
Martyrs': 9:30pm, $8 21+
The Paver, Nomads, Tower, Edgar Allan Ectoplasm
Quenchers Saloon: 9pm 21+
Provinces, New Missionaries
Reggie's Music Joint: 8:30pm, $7 21+
Lep Bogus Boys, Hell Rell, Chella H, Rig
Reggie's Rock Club: 11:30pm, $20 21+
Trapper Schoepp & The Shades, Andrew Fraker & Sons
Reggie's Rock Club: 7pm, 15-$20 All Ages
An Evening with Rickie Lee Jones
SPACE: 8pm, 35-$80 Other
Valo, Daysleeper, Adam Ashbach
Subterranean: 10:20pm, $10 Other
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