SUNDAY 30 APRIL
Close To You : Music of The Carpenters — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Signs of Lies / One Steel Wound — Bada Brew , Crest Hill ; The Whiskey Bros . — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Mary Macaroni — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Sheryl Youngblood — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Nashville Electric Company / Bernie Glim & The Country Roads — Blue Chip-Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Billy Flynn & Friends — BLUES , Chicago ; Ethan Bell Band — Bub City , Chicago ; Simple Remedy — Bub City , Rosemont ; Hardcore For Houds / Crime Spree / Bad Sons / The Short Timers / Shitizen — Cobra Lounge , Chicago ; Hakon Kornstad : Tenor Battle — Constellation , Chicago ; First Jason / Gorphanage / Devangelist / Fool ’ s Brew — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Bill O ’ Connell ’ s Chicago Skyliners / Kelly High School Jazz Band — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Gospel Brunch / Doktu Rhute / Corey Dennison — House of Blues , Chicago ; School of Rock Chicago — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; School of Rock Mokena — Q-Bar , Darien ; Spring Revival — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Chicagodeep / Taelue / Michael Serafini / Garrett David — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Queen ! w / Chicagodeep / Taelue / Michael Serafini / Garrett David — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Layla Frankel ( EP Release )/ Max Subar — Space , Evanston ; Blaklite Productions — Star Bar , Chicago Ridge ; Modern Chemistry — Subterranean , Chicago ; Sunday Funday — Tailgater ’ s , Bolingbrook ; Twin Forks — Thalia Hall , Chicago ; Mountains For Clouds / Forfeit / Lettering — The Burlington , Chicago ; Matinee Series Kid Friendly Music — Township , Chicago ; Michael Braunfeld w / Chris Rawlins / Opera Inter Alia — Uncommon Ground , Chicago ; Rock 4 Autism w / Mr . Blotto / Dave Allen / Johnny V & The Killer Bzzz / Smokey & Friends — Wire , Berwyn .
MONDAY 1 MAY
The xx / Sampha — Aragon , Chicago ; Our Fathers / Hot Flash Heat Waves / Honeystone / Extraordinary Popular Delusions — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Tenry Johns Blues Band / Claudette Miller — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Balance and Composure / From Indian Lakes / Queen of Jeans — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Robbie Gold — Bub City , Chicago ; Jimmy Burns Hosts The Jam — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Eddie Jobson / Marc Bonilla — City Winery , Chicago ; Sabaton / Leaves Eyes / Battle Beast — Concord , Chicago ; Funky Monks — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Buzzed Spelling Bee — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Divino Nino / Paul Cherry / Cafe Racer / Head — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Pub Trivia — Fitz ’ s Spare Keys , Elmhurst ; Hinda Hoffman ( Record Release ) — Green Mill , Chicago ; Weeds Poetry Open Mic — Hideout , Chicago ; Andrew
Diehl & The Nightmen / Joanna Connor — House of Blues , Chicago ; JW Williams & The Chi-Town Hustlers / Corey Dennison — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Juliana Hatfield / Pool Holograph — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Kilgubbin Brothers — Martyrs , Chicago ; School of Rock Mokena — Q Bar , Darien ; Improv Night w / Sand and Spitballin ’/ Open Mic — Quenchers , Chicago ; Hexxus / Trivia Night / Bingo w / Burke — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Jillette Johnson / Zeke Duhon — Schubas , Chicago ; Kinky Friedman / Brian Molnar — Space , Evanston ; Melo Makes Music / Ajani Jones & Morelove / Triple — Subterranean , Chicago ; Porn & Chicken / Candyland — The MID , Chicago ; Sinema Obscura : Sunset Rock / Escape From Tomorrow — Township , Chicago .
TUESDAY 2 MAY
Silent Film Night : Terror Island w / Jay Warren on Organ — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Trivia Nite — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Pete Ellman ’ s Big Band Live Jazz — Base Camp , Lisle ; Chicago Underground Comedy — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Luke Pytel Band / Laretha Weathersby — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Bub City , Rosemont ; Charlie Love — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Whose Line is It Anyway ? — City Winery , Chicago ; Testament / Sepultura / Prong / Dying Gorgeous Lies — Concord , Chicago ; Hello Weekend — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Secrets , Lies & Alibis — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Acid Mothers Temple / Babylon / Axis : Sova — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Corey Dennison Blues Band / Open Mic — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; The Fat Babies — Green Mill , Chicago ; Mick & Ben / David Singer — Hideout , Chicago ; Pub Trivia — HOME Bar , Arlington Heights ; Nigel Mack / Clean Bandit / Mike Wheeler — House of Blues , Chicago ; Justin Neese — JW Hollstein ’ s , Tinley Park ; Joanna Connor / Mike Wheeler — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Superfly Redneck — Mackell ’’ s Inn , Chicago ; Bob Mamet / Fareed Haque / Subhi — Martyrs , Chicago ; Wit Rabbit Reading / Bobco Open Mic Poetry — Quenchers , Chicago ; Mr . Blotto — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Pete Galanis & Friends / Dave Herrero — Rosa ’ s Lounge , Chicago ; Eric Donner — Salerno ’ s , Hodgkins ; Serengeti / Ceschi / Chisme / Paulie Think — Schubas , Chicago ; Mona / Open Mic Hip Hop — Subterranean , Chicago ; Karaoke — Tailgater ’ s , Bolingbrook ; Snooze / Bosley Mongo / Canker Blossom / Ribbonhead / Chicken Happen — The Burlington , Chicago ; Desiigner / 16yrold — The Vic , Chicago .
WEDNESDAY 3
Open Mic w / Dave Kelly — Ballydoyle , Downers Grove ; Trivia Night — Base Camp , Lisle ; Monobody & So Much Light / Pyramid
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Scheme / Malci / Splice Series / Keefe Jackson / Skyler Rowe / Aaron Zarzutzki / Peter Mauna — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; JW Williams / Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Judson Brown Band — Bub City , Chicago ; Makena Hartlin — Bub City , Rosemont ; Little Walter — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Whose Line is It Anyway ? — City Winery , Chicago ; Nerdvana — Cubby Bear , Chicago ; Clybourn ’ s Alley / Nuworld Flood / Forever Kyra / Open Mic — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Pond / Kirin J Callinan — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Sidebar Sessions w / New Standard Quintet — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Todd Rundgren — Genesee Theater , Waukegan ; Alfonso Ponticelli & Swing Gitan / Frank Catalano Sextet — Green Mill , Chicago ; The Family Gold Glass Mountain — Hideout , Chicago ; Giles Corey / Corey Dennison — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; The Slants / Two Filipinos / Speaker : Simon Tam — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Tributosaurus becomes ... Elvis Costello — Martyrs , Chicago ; GuGu Drum Group — Old Town School , Chicago ; DJ Tony Trixx — Q Bar , Glendale Heights ; Ponds & Fleshman / Anna Soltys & The Familiar — Quenchers , Chicago ; Live Band Karaoke — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Reilly Hill / Flatline Chicago — Rosa ’ s Lounge , Chicago ; Superpoze / Topaz / Spa Moans — Schubas , Chicago ; The Brothers Comatose w / Emory Gap — Space , Evanston ; As It Is / Pkew Pkew Pkew / Brightfight / Rat Hammer / Nervous Passenger — Subterranean , Chicago ; Slowdive / Japanese Breakfast — The Vic , Chicago ; Marianne Sullivan Karaoke — Tilted Kilt , Bolingbrook ; Drew & Ket ( Lakeview ) — Uncommon Ground , Chicago ; Ron Carroll / Don Parra / Dante — Underground , Chicago ; Cinco de May-ham — Wire , Berwyn .
THURSDAY 4
Deadmau5 — Aragon , Chicago ; Ritchie Kotzen of The Winery Dogs — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; The Dip / Fat Night / Swamp Heat — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Karaoke — Bedrocks , Shorewood ; BTS Express / Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; Rosie & The Rivets — Blue Chip Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; Tire Swarm Kickoff w / The Royal Hounds — BrauerHouse , Lombard ; Bobby McClendon — Bub City , Chicago ; Mike Dangeroux — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Eilen Jewell w / Leland Sundries — City Winery , Chicago ; I Am Fest Battle of The Bands — Elbo Room , Chicago ; Stef Chura / Richard Album & The Singles / Pledge Drive — Empty Bottle , Chicago ; Whistling Dixies — Firewater Saloon , Chicago ; Elmhurst College Jazz Band — Fitz ’ s Spare Keys , Elmhurst ; Rock Out for Sarah ’ s Inn — Fitzgerald ’ s , Berwyn ; Andy Brown Solo Jazz Guitar / Gresik Swing Shift Orchestra — Green Mill , Chicago ; Cary Kanno — HB Jones ,
Elmhurst ; Sanctified Grumblers / ClickHole — Hideout , Chicago ; Karaoke & Trivia — HOME Bar , Arlington Heights ; Tom Holland & The Shuffle Kings / Trey Songz / Mississippi — House of Blues , Chicago ; Mike Wheeler — Kingston Mines , Chicago ; Raleigh Ritchie / Ric Wilson — Lincoln Hall , Chicago ; Big C Jamboree / The Amazing Heeby Jeebies — Martyrs , Chicago ; Vulfpeck / Joey Dosik — Metro , Chicago ; Royal Bliss / Faded Flannel & Mudfish — Penny Road Pub , Barrington ; Damien Christian Wilburn / Cory Call / Michael Dean Damron / Hi Ho / Blind Adam — Quenchers , Chicago ; Moonrunners Music Festival : The Hang Union / Dead Man String Band / Mikey Classic & His Lonesome Spur / Comedy With A Cause — Reggie ’ s , Chicago ; Brass Buckle — Rivers Casino , Des Plaines ; Melody Angel / James Wheeler Blues Jam w / Lil Ed Williams — Rosa ’ s Lounge , Chicago ; Overcoats / Yoke Lore — Schubas , Chicago ; DJ SJ / Jena Max — Smart Bar , Chicago ; Joe Ely w / Jason Eady — Space , Evanston ; Matthew Logan Vasquez / David Ramirez / Reggae Gold — Subterranean , Chicago ; Cygnus Loop / Bernie & The Wolf / Ghos . Pirate — The Burlington , Chicago ; Karaoke — The Cottage , Crystal Lake ; Post Paradise — Township , Chicago ; Chris Dupont ( Edgewater ) — Uncommon Ground , Chicago ; Thursday In The Dark w / DJ Rock City — Underground , Chicago ; The Mix — Venuti ’ s , Addison ; The Blackout Diaries w / Sean Flannery — Wire , Berwyn .
FRIDAY 5
Rockstar Rodeo / Johnny Justice Reunion Show — 115 Bourbon Street , Merrionette Park ; Deadmau5 — Aragon , Chicago ; Queensrÿch — Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Pistol Pete Band — B . L . U . E . S ., Chicago ; Zahar / Jim Pape / Stern Approval — Bada Brew , Crest Hill ; Girl Power — Ballydoyle , Aurora ; Covergurl — Bannerman ’ s , Bartlett ; Soda Lite — Bar Evolution , Batavia ; White Reaper / No Parents / Modern Vices — Beat Kitchen , Chicago ; Hello Nuvo — Bedrocks , Shorewood ; BTS Express / Shirley Johnson — Blue Chicago , Chicago ; The Neverly Brothers / Crawpuppies — Blue Chip Rocks Lounge , Michigan City , IN ; The King of Mars / Friday Pilots Club / Mynor — Bottom Lounge , Chicago ; Terrapin Flyer — BrauerHouse , Lombard ; Karaoke — Brazen Head , Crestwood ; Joe Fascetta — Broken Oar , Port Barrington ; Bobby McClendon — Bub City , Chicago ; Kevin Presbrey — Bub City , Rosemont ; Chicago Wind / Deitra Farr & Matt Skoller / Michael Charles — Buddy Guy ’ s Legends , Chicago ; Ebony & Ivory — Carlucci , Downers Grove ; Karaoke — Chicago Loop Niteclub , Streamwood ; Don McLean — City Winery , Chicago ; Flat Cats — Club Arcada @ Arcada Theater , St . Charles ; Bayside / Say Anything / Reggie and The Full Effect — Concord ,
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