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Chicago ; Snack Attack — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Open Mic — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; The Fat Babies — Green Mill , Chicago ; Mike Wheeler / Comedy Cocktail w / Matty Ryan / Michael Charles — House of Blues , Chicago ; Justin Russell — J . W . Hollstein ’ s Saloon , Tinley Park ; Grace Beechy Music — Mackell ’ s Inn , Chicago ; Pete Berwick — Potbelly , Algonquin ; Old Lazarus ’ s Harp — Red Line Tap , Chicago ; Pete Galanis & Friends w / Dave Herrero — Rosa ’ s Lounge , Chicago ; Psalm Zero / Open Mic Hip Hop — Subterranean , Chicago ; Mogwai Play Atomic — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; The Girl Talk / Piano Power Hour — The Hideout , Chicago ; Wax On , Wax Off — Uncommon Ground , Chicago .
WEDNESDAY 25
Blacklite District — Bada Brew , Crest Hill ; Open Mic w / Dave Kelly — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Spice Series / Ben LaMar Gay / Anton Hatwich / Julian Kirchner / Aaron Zarzutzki / Peter Maunu — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; JW Williams / Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Rendition — BubCity , Chicago ; The Special 20 ’ s — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Steve Earle w / Al Scorch — City Winery , Chicago ; Holy White Hounds w / Special Guests — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Open Mic — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Sidebar Sessions w / Chris White Duo — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Alfonso Ponticelli & Swing Gitan / Late Night w / Frank Catalano Sextet — Green Mill , Chicago ; Keithen Banks / Session w / Dylan Hankey — House of Blues , Chicago ; Rainbow Kitten Surprise / Caamp — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Ilusha — Old Town School , Chicago ; Pete Berwick — Potbelly , Algonquin ; Open Blues Jam w / Obviously Not Golfers — Red Line Tap , Chicago ; Starkill ( Music Joint )/ Alcest / The Body / Creepers ( Rock Club ) — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Alter Bridge / Nonpoint — Riviera , Chicago ; Got7 Flight Log — Rosemont Theater , Rosemont ; The Quaker City Night Hawks — Schubas , Chicago ; Chely Wright — Space , Evanston ; Infinite Me / Alistair Hennessey / Home Burial / Elder Light — Subterranean , Chicago ; Lady Lamb / Liam Kazar — The Hideout , Chicago ; Go For Broke — Tilted Kilt , Bolingbrook ; Night of Burlesque — Underground Lounge , Chicago ; Chicago Experience — Venuti ’ s , Addison .
THURSDAY 26
Judy Garland Salute w / Joey Luft — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Maurice John Vaughan Blues Band w / Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Bobby McClendon — BubCity , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — BubCity , Rosemont ; Buddy Guy w / Linsey Alexander — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Alejandro Escovedo w / Peter Buck , Scott McCaughey , Kurt Bloch , John Moen and The Minus 5 — City Winery , Chicago ; Nahako & Medicine For The People — Concord , Chicago ; Ulrich Krieger — Constellation , Chicago ; Pete Berwick & Julie Heeren Bingo & Comedy — Cuda ’ s Bar & Grill , Antioch ; Shooter McGavin ’ s House Party — Durty Nellie ’ s , Palatine ; The Lemon Twigs / Savoy Motel — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Country Night in Berwyn — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Andy Brown / Alan Gresik Swing Shift Orchestra — Green Mill ,
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Chicago ; McLennon Duo — HB Jones , Elmhurst ; Sessions w / Mallory Lennon / Cabaret — House of Blues , Chicago ; Plaid / Abstract Science DJs — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Cole Degenova / Layla Frankel / B Forrest — Martyr ’ s , Chicago ; Tom Chaplin of Keane — Park West , Chicago ; Jon Wayne and The Pain / Earthika — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Wild Daisy Band — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; The James Wheeler Blues Jam w / Lil Ed Williams — Rosa ’ s Lounge , Chicago ; Public Access TV / Splashh / The Britanys — Schubas , Chicago ; Maria TZ / Gina G / Kiernan Laveaux / Antenes — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Zach Williams of The Lone Bellow — Space , Evanston ; Reggae Gold — Subterranean , Chicago ; Wax Tailor — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Luke WinslowKing / Devil In A Woodpile — The Hideout , Chicago .
FRIDAY 27
Neal Morse Band — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Chicago Outfit ( EP Release )/ Stephun — Bada Brew , Crest Hill ; April ’ s Reign — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Imperial Blue Dogs — Bannerman ’ s , Bartlett ; John Primer Blues Band / Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Visions of Santana / Deja Vu — Blue Chip- Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; DJ Night — Blue Chip-Vegas Baby , Michigan City , IN ; Jackass Live ! — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Coax N Folks / Hillbilly Rockstarz — Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Thinner Teed / OD Jo — Brauer House , Lombard ; Mark Konzen — Broken Oar , Port Barrington ; Bobby McClendon — BubCity , Chicago ; Mason Rivers — BubCity , Rosemont ; Buddy Guy w / Toronzo Cannon — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Jim Jefferies — Chicago Theater , Chicago ; Alejandro Escovedo w / Peter Buck , Scott McCaughey , Kurt Bloch , John Moen and The Minus 5 — City Winery , Chicago ; The Tip / Atomic Love / Furr / Bad Sons — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Borgeous / Breathe Carolina — Concord , Chicago ; Bernie Glim Duo — Cuzin ’ s , Tinley Park ; Gooey / The War Inside / Weber Band / Frankie B . — Double Door , Chicago ; Rod Tuffcurls & The Bench Press — Durty Nellie ’ s , Palatine ; Black Marble / YOU ./ Ganser — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Libido Funk Circus — Fire Bar , Crystal Lake ; Rico Birthday Bashe / Cannonball — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Zero — Four Winds Casino ( Hard Rock ), New Buffalo , MI ; Scott Bradlee ’ s Postmodern Jukebox — Genesee Theater , Waukegan ; Spoken Four — Grand Victoria Casino , Elgin ; The Flipside Show w / Brad Goode Quartet / After Hours Jam — Green Mill , Chicago ; Phillip H . Anselmo ’ s SuperJoint w / Battlecross and Child Bite — H . O . M . E . Bar , Arlington Heights ; 7th Heaven / Chicks With Picks — Hollywood Casino , Aurora ; Dick Diamond & The Dusters — Hollywood Casino , Joliet ; Deejay O — House of Blues , Chicago ; Hoosier Ditty — J . W . Hollstein ’ s Saloon , Tinley Park ; The Niche — Jambalaya @ Pheasant Run , St . Charles ;
Sealed With A Kiss / Suburban Cowboys — Joe ’ s Bar , Chicago ; Paul Strolia — Kennedy Pointe , Bristol ; Sam Roberts Band / Hollerado — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; The Short Timers ( Single Release )/ Back Alley Riot / Top Shelf Lickers / The Cutouts — Livewire , Chicago ; Bands for Bell w / Teachers
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Pet / Bread & Butter Band / Air This Side of Caution / The Hurtin Kind — Martyr ’ s , Chicago ; D . R . A . M ./ River Tiber / Nebu Kiniza — Metro , Chicago ; Shark Productions Local Music Showcase — MT Barrels , Schaumburg ; AfriCaribe — Old Town School , Chicago ; Billy Martin Band / Barnes & Co / Soul Patch Monkey — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; Pete Berwick — Potbelly , Gurnee ; Magic Carpet — Promontory Theater , Chicago ; Dave Wolak & The Plastics — Q-Bar , Darien ; Live DJ — Q-Bar , Glendale Heights ; Jailbreak / Maiden Chicago ( Music Joint )/ Koffin Kats / Elvis Hitler / The Mights ( Rock Club ) — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Hi Infidelity — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; Lurrie Bell Blues Band — Rosa ’ s Lounge , Chicago ; Jeff Foxworthy & Larry The Cable Guy — Rosemont Theater , Rosemont ; Esme Patterson / Bonnie Bishop / Glass Mountain — Schubas , Chicago ; Portrait of Sound — Shaker ’ s , Chicago ; Hans & The Hormones — Sideouts , Island Lake ; Detroit Swindle / DJ Heather / Phillip Stone — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Billy Strings w / The Suitcase Junket — Space , Evanston ; Semple Unplugged — State & Lake at the WIT , Chicago ; The Lincoln Lodge — Subterranean , Chicago ; Retrospect — Sweet Caroline ’ s , Hoffman Estates ; DJ Jay Funk — Tailgaters , Bolingbrook ; Bear ’ s Den — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Big Cat DJ / Karaoke — The Gambler , Crystal Lake ; Chicago Psych Fest VIII : Frozen Mind — The Hideout , Chicago ; Purity Ring DJ Set — The MID , Chicago ; Kimi Hayes — Tilted Kilt , Bolingbrook ; Craig Scott — Tilted Kilt , Woodridge ; Soda — Venuti ’ s , Addison ; DJ Messes — Village Inn , Skokie ; Tynan Lite — Zachary ’ s , Palos Heights .
SATURDAY 28
Modern Day Romeos — Austin ’ s Fuel Room , Libertyville ; Boneshaker / Deadman ’ s Hand / Faith in the Fallen / The Last Generation / Old Style Rascals — Bada Brew , Crest Hill ; Hi Infidelity — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Arra — Bannerman ’ s , Bartlett ; TV Girl / Poppet / School of Rock Tribute to 1986 and 1996 — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Vince Amore — Bella Mia , Midlothian ; John Primer Blues Band / Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Nawty / 80 ’ s Enough / The Neverly Brothers — Blue Chip-Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; The Lepolion Effect — Blue Chip-Vegas Baby , Michigan City , IN ; P . O . S ./ DJ Fundo / Transit22 — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Infinity — Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Jim Tabor of Sunfallen — Brazen Head , Crestwood ; Hi Fi Superstar — Broken Oar , Port Barrington ; Walker McGuire — BubCity , Chicago ; Bobby McClendon / Kids Show : Bill Brickey & The Locomotion ( 11AM ) — BubCity , Rosemont ; Buddy Guy w / NuBlu Band — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Dancing With The Stars Live — Chicago Theater , Chicago ; Alejandro Escovedo w / Peter Buck , Scott McCaughey , Kurt Bloch , John Moen and The Minus 5 — City Winery , Chicago ; Badfish : A Sublime Tribute / Fayuca — Concord , Chicago ; Man Called Noon / Yoko and The Oh No ’ s / The Inventors — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Dave Schmidt & The Snouts — Cuzin ’ s , Tinley Park ; DJ ’ s For You Karaoke — Cuzin ’ s Tavern , Midlothian ; CumbiaSazo ! Dance Party w /
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Calixta / Itzi Nallah / Tifflove — Double Door , Chicago ; This End Up — Draft Picks , Naperville ; Official Palace Film Festival After Party w / Xeno / Oaklander / Champagne Mirrors Simulation — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Andrew Jess — Fatty McGoo ’ s , Bolingbrook ; Polyrhythmic — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Johnny Sprocket — Four Winds Casino ( Hard Rock ), New Buffalo , MI ; Eaglemania / Ryan McIntyre — Genesee Theater , Waukegan ; Nick Pontarelli — Grand Victoria Casino , Elgin ; The Paper Machete / Brad Goode Quartet / After Hours Jazz Party w / Sabertooth — Green Mill , Chicago ; Wedding Banned — H . O . M . E . Bar , Arlington Heights ; Insession — Hollywood Casino , Aurora ; Mason Rivers — Hollywood Casino , Joliet ; Dashboard Confessional / Burlesque / DJ Kosmo — House of Blues , Chicago ; Epic — J . W . Hollstein ’ s Saloon , Tinley Park ; Josh Abbott Band — Joe ’ s Live , Rosemont ; Stoop / Goodnoise / Melba Toast / Well Hungarians — Livewire , Chicago ; Black Market Brass / Genome — Martyr ’ s , Chicago ; GooRoos / Jaxx — MT Barrels , Schaumburg ; John McEuen & Friends w / Michael Miles / Jodee Lewis & members of Nitty Gritty Dirt Band — Old Town School , Chicago ; The Three Beards — Pal Joey ’ s , West Chicago ; Lyden Moon / Motley II / Diamond — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; 3xdope / Satchmo Saturday w / Willie Pickens / Betheny Pickens — Promontory Theater , Chicago ; Black Bolts / The Danhattans / Brandon — Q- Bar , Darien ; Charlie Foxtrot / Screamin ’ Legion — Q-Bar , Glendale Heights ; Black Japan / Autumn Reverie / A Story Unwritten — Red Line Tap , Chicago ; Dynohunter / Zombie Manana ( Music Joint )/ That 1 Guy ( Rock Club ) — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Sugar Blue Band — Rosa ’ s Lounge , Chicago ; Girls Guns and Glory / Wilson ’ s Reservoir — Schubas , Chicago ; Soda — Sideouts , Island Lake ; David Gans / Liquid Soul — Space , Evanston ; Cherry Glazerr / The Cardboard Swords — Subterranean , Chicago ; JT James Acoustic — Sweet Caroline ’ s , Hoffman Estates ; Kashmir — Tailgater ’ s , Bolingbrook ; Kashmir / Pearl — Tailgaters , Bolingbrook ; Undercover — The Cottage , Crystal Lake ; Chicago Psych Fest VIII : Frozen Mind — The Hideout , Chicago ; Rebel Hearts — Tilted Kilt , Bolingbrook ; Sequoia ( Record Release ) — Uncommon Ground , Chicago ; Twenty One Pilots — United Center , Chicago ; Go Time !/ Mama Yaya — Uptown Lounge , Chicago ; CK & Gray — Uptown Tap , Plainfield ; Kenny Jammin Jason — Venuti ’ s , Addison ; Curious Grance & Black Rabbit / Red Scarves / Michelle McGuire / SOR Oak Park : Golden Age of Hip Hop & Zappa — Wire , Berwyn ; Chicks With Picks — Wise Owl , Chicago ; DJ Messes — World of Beer , Evanston ; Cadillac Groove — Zachary ’ s , Palos Heights .
SUNDAY 29
School of Rock Tribute to 1986 and 1996 / Human-Tim + Robot- Tim — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; BTS Express / Laretha Weathersby
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