WEDNESDAY 31 MAY
Fuel / Marcy Playground / Dishwalla — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Open Mic w / Dave Kelly — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; LAUV — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; JW Williams / Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Judson Brown Band — Bub City , Chicago ; Morgan Station — Bub City , Rosemont ; Ronnie Hicks — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Norman Connors & The Starship Orchestra — City Winery , Chicago ; Vandolliers / The Amazing Heeby Jeebies / Death and Memphis — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Open Mic — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Tara Terra ( Record Release )/ Matthaus ( Record Release )/ Dan Durley ( Record Release ) — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; SideBar Sessions w / Mitch Paliga Quartet — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Alfonso Ponticelli & Swing Gitan / Frank Catalano Sextet — Green Mill , Chicago ; Aparna Nancheria / Alex Kumin — Hideout , Chicago ; ZZ Ward — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Jerry Joseph & The Jackmormons — Martyrs , Chicago ; Kaiju Daiko & Chikoto Taiko — Old Town School , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Brian Lupo Band — Rosa ’ s Lounge , Chicago ; Opia / Drama / Glded — Schubas , Chicago ; The Cactus Blossoms / The Easy Leaves — Space , Evanston ; Bruiser Queen / Natalie Grace Alford / The Gunshy / PWR BTTM / Tancred / Nmamdi Ogbonnaya — Subterranean , Chicago ; Temperance Brass ( Edgewater ) — Uncommon Ground , Chicago ; Dante — Underground , Chicago ; Naomi Ashley / Andon Davis Trio — Wire , Berwyn .
THURSDAY 1 JUNE
JW Williams & The Chi Town Hustlers — B . L . U . E . S , Chicago ; Skin Lab — Bada Brew , Crest Hill ; Xasthur / Johanna Warren / Fabio Brienza / Magick Potion — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Euphony — Beer Garden @ Navy Pier , Chicago ; Jimmy O & Rhonda Lee — Bella Mia , Midlothian ; AM / FM — Blarney Island , Antioch ; BTS Express w / Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Sheryl / Say Yes ! — Blue Chip Casino - Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Elysian Brewing ’ s Capitol Hill Series — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; The Moonlight Pickers — BrauerHouse , Lombard ; Ty Bates — Bub City , Chicago ; Jimmy Johnson — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Arra — CD & Me , Frankfort ; Major — City Winery , Chicago ; The Great Electric Quest / Dead Feathers / Blue Dream / Atalia — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Girl Power Night — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Beach Bunny / Lettering / The Slaps / Ex Okays / The Threads — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Feeltrip Records Showcase : Ywan / Sun Cop / Lovejoy / Twin Peaks DJs — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Evenflow , Geneva ; Springfield Jamboree — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Mickey Thomas of
Starship / Terri Nunn of Berlin / Lou Gramm of Foreigner — Genesee Theater , Waukegan ; Karaoke / Stand Up Comedy — H . O . M . E ., Arlington Heights ; Jeff Elus — HB Jones , Elmhurst ; Guy King / Cloud Cult / Nigel Mack — House of Blues , Chicago ; Jack Johnson — Huntington Bank Pavilion @ Northerly Island , Chicago ; The Cool Kids — Joe ’ s Bar , Chicago ; Sgt . Pepper ’ s Experience 50th Anniversary Show — Joe ’ s Live , Rosemont ; Mississippi Heat / Mike Wheeler Band / Mike Wheeler Solo — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; The Adventures of Pete & Pete Reunion — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Weekend Crush / Flattop — Maifest , Chicago ; North Berwyn Rhythm & Soul Organization — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Depths of Hatred — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; Winter Classic / Euriah / Phantom Broadcast / Movies About Animals — Quenchers , Chicago ; Black Irish Texas / Furious Frank / Mikey Classic & His Lonsome Spur — Reggies Music Joint , Chicago ; Rockstar Rodeo — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; Modern Day Romeos — Rock N ’ Wheels , Addison ; The Blooze Brothers — Rockin ’ In The Park , Rosemont ; Melody Angel / James Wheeler Blues Jam with Lil ’ Ed Williams — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ; Swear and Shake with Pat McKillen — S . P . A . C . E ., Evanston ; Savoir Adore / Step Rockets — Schubas , Chicago ; The Afterglow / KB / Social Club Misfits / Gawvi — Sears Centre , Hoffman Estates ; DJ SJ / Jena Max — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Said The Sky / Reggae Gold — Subterranean , Chicago ; Tyler Caruso Band — Summer Concert in The Park , St . Charles ; Libido Funk Circus / The Chicago Experience — Taste of Wheaton , Wheaton ; 4th Annual 26th Annual Comedy Festival : Eugene Mirman & Jon Glaser — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Andy Brown Solo / Gresik Swing Shift Orchestra — The Green Mill , Chicago ; Devil In Woodpile / Girls Of The Golden West — The Hideout , Chicago ; Dash Berlin — The Mid , Chicago ; The Lonesome Origami / The Pillowhammer — Township , Chicago ; Mu ( Edgewater ) — Uncommon Ground , Chicago ; DJ Rock City / Phnm — Underground , Chicago ; Zachary “ Sonny ” Edwards — W Chicago-Lakeshore , Chicago ; Chicago Soul Jazz Collective — Wire , Berwyn .
FRIDAY 2 JUNE
Saint Motel / Blind Pilot / Savoir Adore — 2 Brothers Summer Festival , Aurora ; The Tailfins / Moonshine Run / Fry Daddies — Aledo Rhubarb Fest , Aledo ; Flogging Molly / The White Buffalo / Dylan Walshe — Aragon Ballroom , Chicago ; Mr . Big — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Shawn Holt & The Teardrops — B . L . U . E . S , Chicago ; White Knuckle Riot — Bada Brew , Crest Hill ; Alt101 — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Typesetter / The Howl / Arms Aloft / Beat Drun Jual — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Hairbanger ’ s
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Ball & Rockaholics — Beer Garden @ Navy Pier , Chicago ; Vito Zatton Show — Bella Mia , Midlothian ; Brecken Miles — Blarney Island , Antioch ; BTS Express w / Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Soda / Crawpuppies — Blue Chip Casino - Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; DJ Night — Blue Chip Casino - Vegas Baby , Michigan City , IN ; Zakk Sabbath / Beastmaster — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Natty Nation / Concrete Roots / Fersher — Brauer House , Lombard ; Goin ’ South — Broken Oar , Port Barrington ; Josh Phillips — Bub City , Chicago ; Linsey Alexander / Paul Filipowicz — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Jonathan McReynolds w / Anthony Brown & Travis Greene / Celebration of Gospel Music Quartets / Malcolm Williams & Great Faith / U . of I Black Chorus / Glenn Johnson & The Voices of Innerpeace — Chicago Gospel Music Festival , Chicago ; Corky Siegel ’ s Chamber Blues w / Marcella Detroit ( Album Release ) — City Winery , Chicago ; Ratt — Concord , Chicago ; Masquerade — Copernicus Center , Chicago ; The Smiley Tillmon Band — Cuzin ’ s Pub , Tinley Park ; Lucky Boys Confusion / Midwest Hype / Ember Oceans ( Subterranean Stage )/ Adult / Black Marble / Pelada ( Empty Bottle Stage ) — Do Division Street Fest , Chicago ; Old School Hip Hop Dance Party — Durty Nellie ’ s , Palatine ; Cincho De Gallo w / Los Barrachos / JM Lansdowne / Counter Theory / Teh Concept — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Do Division Adult / Black Marple / Pelada / Hard Country / Hoyle Brothers / Girlpool / Ian Sweet / Snail Mail — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Mike & Joe — Evenflow , Geneva ; The Dream Police — Fitz ’ s Spare Keys , Elmhurst ; The Beatle Brothers — FitzGerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Colin & Brad / DJ Dubbington / PS Dump Your Boyfriend — Four Winds Casino , New Buffalo , MI ; Ken Dix & The Friday Night Lawn Jockeys — Friday On The Green , Mount Prospect ; American English / Old School Undergod / Dickie Abbott — Gilberts Community Days , Gilberts ; Everclear / Vertical Horizon / Fastball — H . O . M . E ., Arlington Heights ; Ebony & Ivory — Harp & Fiddle , Park Ridge ; State Line — Harvard Milk Days , Harvard ; 7th Heaven / The Three Beards — Hollywood Casino , Aurora ; Junkyard Groove — Hollywood Casino , Joliet ; Future / Migos / Tory Lanez / Zoey Dollaz — Hollywood Casino Amphitheater , Tinley Park ; John Primer / DJ JEM / Monsters of Mock / DJ Roc / Nicholas Barron — House of Blues , Chicago ; Jack Johnson — Huntington Bank Pavilion @ Northerly Island , Chicago ; Rendition — Jenny ’ s Southside Tap , Mokena ; The Way Down Wanderers & JC Brooks / Sneezy / North 41 / Over The Side ( Roof Top ) — Joe ’ s Bar , Chicago ; Johnny Russler & The Beach Bum Band / Yabba Griffiths — Joe ’ s Live , Rosemont ; The Xceptions — JW Hollstein ’ s Saloon , Tinley Park ; Tyler Krienitz — Kerry Piper , Willowbrook ; Big James & The Chicago Playboys / Mike Wheeler Band / Mike Wheeler Acoustic —
Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Classical Blast — Level 257 , Schaumburg ; Bitch Sesh Live — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; 16 Candles / Stache — Lincoln Park Greek Fest , Chicago ; These Peaches / Company Man / Farwatch / Hanging Death — Live Wire , Chicago ; Phenix / The Polkaholics — Maifest , Chicago ; Stampy / Low Spark / The Tenderbros — Martyrs ’, Chicago ; Hot Stove Cool Music Benefit — Metro , Chicago ; Live DJ — MT Barrels , Schaumburg ; Punch Fatty / Written Warning / Whiskey & Harmony / Steve Cerqua — Music & Art Festival , LaSalle ; Smokin ’ Gunz — Niko ’ s Red Mill Tavern , Woodstock ; Anais Mitchell & Grant-Lee Phillips — Old Town School , Chicago ; Infinity / Matt , Zack & Tom — Orland Days , Orland Park ; Brother John ’ s Trio — Pal Joey ’ s , Batavia ; October Rage / Filthy Sweet / Gravel Switch / Praise The Fallen / Torn Between — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; Dysfunctional Gents — Poopy ’ s , Savanna ; Dead Lucid — Q-Bar , Darien ; Den / T-Tops / Salvation / High Priests — Quenchers , Chicago ; The Dwarves / JFZ / The Bollweevils / I Attack / Decent Criminal — Reggies Rock Club , Chicago ; Boy Band Review — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; Melvin Taylor & The Slack Band — Rosa ’ s , Chicago ; Emily Cavanaugh / Mundy / Lake Radio / Pixel Grip — Schubas , Chicago ; Winnie Cooper — Sideouts , Island Lake ; Dam-Funk / Shazam Bangles / Mata — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Leroy Winn — State & Lake @ The Wit , Chicago ; Do Division Street Fest w / Protomartyr / Shannon & The Clams / Lucky Boys Confusion / The Living Deads — Subterranean , Chicago ; Jason Moran & Georgia Anne Muldrow — Symphony Center , Chicago ; Sgt . Peppers Experience — Tailgater ’ s , Bolingbrook ; Live Music TBA — Taste of Little Village , Chicago ; The Boy Band Night / Dick Diamond & The Dusters — Taste of Wheaton , Wheaton ; Two Hand Jester Comedy — The Brick Lounge , Plano ; The Dave Matthews Tribute Band — The Forge , Joliet ; Flipside Show : Chris Foreman / Allison Quartet / After Hours Quartet Jam — The Green Mill , Chicago ; Interview Show / Jena Friedman / Rebecca O ’ Neil — The Hideout , Chicago ; Alpha 9 — The Mid , Chicago ; Stripped — Tilted Kilt , Bolingbrook ; Silver Abuse / Beasttii / Lisa Lightening Band — Township , Chicago ; Midummer Night ’ s Dream w / DJ Dante & Phnm — Underground , Chicago ; R-Gang — Venuti ’ s , Addison ; Blackmaker / Marty Casey / 13-Monsters — Wire , Berwyn ; Al Holbrook — Zachary ’ s , Palos Heights .
SATURDAY 3 JUNE
X-Ambassadors / Knox Hamilton / The Way Down Wanderers — 2 Brothers Summer Festival , Aurora ; Tracye Eileen / Anthony Moser / Nicholas Barron — 57th Street Art Fair , Chicago ; The
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