Conan/North/Cokegoat/Spice Series/Billie Howard/Carol
Genetti/Aaron Zarzutzki/Peter Mauna — Beat Kitchen, Chicago;
JW Williams/Demetria Taylor — Blue Chicago, Chicago; The
Story So Far/Turnstile/Drug Church — Bottom Lounge, Chicago;
Folk Yeah — Bub City, Chicago; Judson Brown — Bub City,
Rosemont; Omar Coleman — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago;
Wanda Jackson/Lawrence Peters Outfit — City Winery, Chicago;
The Bridge 13 — Constellation, Chicago; Addy’s Corner — Cubby
Bear, Chicago; Madman Jam Night — Draft Picks, Mt. Prospect;
Open Mic — Elbo Room, Chicago; Panda Riot/Impulsive
Hearts/Wyys — Empty Bottle, Chicago; Big Band Dancy Party
w/APOL Orchestra/SideBar Sessions w/Extended Trio —
Fitzgerald’s, Berwyn; Olivia Newton-John — Genesee Theater,
Waukegan; Alfonso Ponticelli & Swing Gitan/Frank Catalano
Sextet — Green Mill, Chicago; The Resonance Series/
Spacebeach/Antibody Corporation/Zalek/Soliday — Hideout,
Chicago; Joanna Connor/SOMO/Keithen Banks — House of
Blues, Chicago; Giles Corey/Corey Dennison — Kingston Mines,
Chicago; Pantha Du Prince/Edamame — Lincoln Hall, Chicago;
Wasted Theory/Spyderbone/Black Road — Live Wire, Chicago;
Trio Balkan Strings — Old Town School, Chicago; Dogs At Large
/The Wick/Wasteland Spaceman/Mammals — Quenchers,
Chicago; Decrepit/The Zenith Passage/The Kennedy Veil/
Beyond Deth/Warforged/Mad Bread/Cranford Hollow/
Whiskey Bob Taylor & The Twelve Steps — Reggie’s, Chicago; Lil’
Ed Williams — Rosa’s Lounge, Chicago; Nick Thune/Emily Heller
— Schubas, Chicago; Ruth B — Space, Evanston; Western
Settings/Dog & Wolf/Oscar Bait/Horrible Things —
Subterranean, Chicago; Sam Prekop and Twin Peaks: Fire Walk
With Me Screening — Thalia Hall, Chicago; David Gray Solo
Acoustic — The Vic, Chicago; Joe Orozco — Tilted Kilt,
Bolingbrook; Dante — Underground, Chicago.
THURSDAY 18
Railway Gamblers/The One — 115 Bourbon Street, Merrionette
Park; Hinder/Nonpoint/Nine Shrines — Austin’s Fuel Room,
Libertyville; Savoy Motel — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Karaoke —
Bedrocks, Shorewood; BTS Express/Shirley Johnson — Blue
Chicago, Chicago; The Nightshift Band — Blue Chip Rocks
Lounge, Michigan City, IN; Direct Hit!/This Obsession/Double
Feature — BrauerHouse, Lombard; Sal & Izy — Brazen Head,
Crestwood; Cort Carpenter — Bub City, Chicago; Vino Louden —
Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Rick Ross — Chicago Theater,
Chicago; Taylor Hicks/Brett Wiscons — City Winery, Chicago;
Bonobo/Jeremy Sole — Concord, Chicago; Michael Zerang &
Spires That In The Sunset Rise/Matchess — Constellation,
Chicago; Home Sweet Home/New Oceans/Daniel Wade —
Cubby Bear, Chicago; 2nd Annual Battle of The Bands — Elbo
Room, Chicago; Jambinal/Imelda Marcos/Naga — Empty Bottle,
Chicago; Blood, Sweat & Tears/Allen Stone — Genesee Theater,
Waukegan; Andy Brown Solo Jazz Guitar/Gresik Swing Shift
Orchestra — Green Mill, Chicago; McLennon — HB Jones,
Elmhurst; Devil In A Woodpile/Jenna Roxy and The Church of
Modern Love — Hideout, Chicago; Karaoke & Trivia — HOME Bar,
Arlington Heights; Wale — House of Blues, Chicago; Nora Jean
Bruso/Mike Wheeler — Kingston Mines, Chicago; North
Mississippi Allstars/Alvin Youngblood Heart & Rev Sekou/
Danielle Nicole — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Tougher Than You
Though/Davidstout/Leah Jean — Martyrs, Chicago; DJ Tony
Trixx — Q Bar, Glendale He ights; Third Twin Sister/The Right
Here/Class of 86/Bertram/Sincere Engineer — Quenchers,
Chicago; Raven/Amulance/Lethal Shock/Beast Warrior/
Pennal Johnson/Sweet Diezel Jenkins — Reggie’s, Chicago;
Dixie Crush — Rivers Casino, Des Plaines; Melody Angel/James
Wheeler Blues Jam w/Lil Ed Williams — Rosa’s Lounge, Chicago;
The Family Crest/Trevor Sensor — Schubas, Chicago;
Delamota/Diotropics/Fineprint/Tim Nice/Subverb/Scrimshaw
/Lipton/Fiyafly/Sincerious/Rifle MC/Fonz MC — Smart Bar,
Chicago; Lee Dewyze — Space, Evanston; VonMar/Chemical
Warfare — Star Bar, Chicago Ridge; Arkona/Sirenia/MindGaze/
Siconis/Reggae Gold — Subterranean, Chicago; Hillbilly
Rockstarz/Wild Daisy — Taste of Glen Ellyn, Glen Ellyn; The
Minimalists — Thalia Hall, Chicago; Karaoke — The Cottage,
Crystal Lake; In Flames/Kataklysm/White Knuckle Riot — The
Forge, Joliet; Bonobo DJ Set — The MID, Chicago; Midnight
Oil/BoyToy — The Vic, Chicago; Thursday In The Dark w/DJ
Rock City — Underground, Chicago; Good Clean Fun — Venuti’s,
Addison; Oceano/Slaughter To Prevail/Aversions Crown —
Wire, Berwyn.
FRIDAY 19
Sean & Charlie/Suburban Cowboys — 115 Bourbon Street,
Merrionette Park; Coheed and Cambria/The Deer Hunter —
Aragon, Chicago; Peaches & Herb — Arcada Theater, St. Charles;
Your Mom — Austin’s Fuel Room, Libertyville; John Primer & The
Real Deal Blues Band — B.L.U.E.S., Chicago; Dead Man’s
Hand/Covered In Trash/Anel Ventura/Manos/The Hands of
Fate — Bada Brew, Crest Hill; Finneus — Ballydoyle, Aurora;
Rumor Hazit — Bannerman’s, Bartlett; Ballyhoo!/The Holdup/
Darenots — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Jazz Occurance w/Juan
Pastor & Chinchano — Blooming Fest 2017, West Chicago; Mike
Wheeler/Laretha Weathersby — Blue Chicago, Chicago; Chi-
Town Soul/Retropolitan — Blue Chip Rocks Lounge, Michigan
City, IN; Tall Heights/Henry Jamison — Bottom Lounge, Chicago;
Matthew Curry — BrauerHouse, Lombard; Karaoke — Brazen
Head, Crestwood; Kristin Kelly & Makena Hartlin — Broken Oar,
Port Barrington; Cort Carpenter — Bub City, Chicago; Scott
Dubose — Bub City, Rosemont; Scott Holt/Sonic Soul — Buddy
Guy’s Legends, Chicago; Michael Heaton — Carlucci, Downers
Grove; Little Orphan Monkey/Automatic Fixx — Chicago Loop
Niteclub, Streamwood; Arra/GooRoos/Cowboy Jukebox/
Semple & Valentine/Mallory Lennon Trio — Chocolate Fest 2017,
Long Grove; Donna The Buffalo — City Winery, Chicago; Flux
Pavilion/Kayzo/Wilkinson — Concord, Chicago; OpenICE: Peter
Evans+Levy Lorenzo — Constellation, Chicago; Perry Hutchins/
Hodie Snitch/Them Guilty Aces — Cubby Bear, Chicago;
Nobody’s Business — Cuzin’s, Tinley Park; Bright Lights — Durty
Nellie’s, Palatine; Power Pop Shoppe Showcase/DJBvax — Elbo
Room, Chicago; Big Freedia/Downtown Boys/DJ Jill
Hopkins/#EB25 — Empty Bottle, Chicago; Modern Day Romeos
— Fire Bar, Crystal Lake; Cowboy Jukebox — Firewater Saloon,
Chicago; Recovered — Fitz’s Spare Keys, Elmhurst; Ian Leith —
Fitzgerald’s, Berwyn; Brian McKnight (Silver Creek)/Top 5
(Hard Rock)/DJ Dubbington — Four Winds Casino, New Buffalo,
MI; Righteous Hillbillies — Frankie’s Blue Room, Naperville;
Jackie Evancho — Genesee Theater, Waukegan; The Flipside
Show w/Chris Foreman/Dave King Trio/After Hours Jam —
Green Mill, Chicago; Madman — Harp & Fiddle, Park Ridge; Big
Sadie (Album Release)/Gia Margaret/DJ Elliot Bergman —
Hideout, Chicago; Hey Cowboy — Hollywood Casino, Aurora;
Semple — Hollywood Casino, Joliet; Think Floyd USA — HOME
Bar, Arlington Heights; Biz Markie — House of Blues, Chicago;
Markette/Scotch The Filmmaker/Namorado/Vandalay — Joe’s
Bar, Chicago; 7th Heaven/Sealed With A Kiss — Joe’s Live,
Rosemont; Ear Candy — JW Hollstein’s, Tinley Park; Jason
Sturmon — Kennedy Pointe, Bristol; Bobby Rex — Kerry Piper,
Willowbrook; Duke Tumatoe/Joanna Connor — Kingston Mines,
Chicago; Meat Puppets/Mike Watt & The Jom & Terry
Show/Porcupine — Lincoln Hall, Chicago; Sun God Ra (EP
Release)/Dead Feathers — Live Wire, Chicago; Making
Movies/Radio Free Honduras — Martyrs, Chicago; The Boy Band
Night/Cosmo/The Hair Band Night — Mayfest , Chicago; David
Costa/The Dead Hands/American Cosmonaut/Lever/
Helicopters — Metro, Chicago; Scream Blue/Kevin Lee — MT
Barrels, Schaumburg; The Messengers — Niko’s Red Mill Tavern,
Woodstock; Lucy Kaplansky — Old Town School, Chicago; Troy
Quin’Ton — Paramount Theater, Aurora; Tape Face — Park West,
Chicago; Bob Legusta/Hobo Junkies/Black Sand Armour —
Penny Road Pub, Barrington; Southern Side Up — Q Bar, Darien;
Roger P — Q Bar, Glendale Heights; Sons of Ra/Conflux/Coyote
Man/Faade — Quenchers, Chicago; Steel Aggressor/Avalon
Steel/Subtratum/Knightmare/Ross The Boss/Killer/Brocas
Helm/Phantom/Devil Land/Lady Beast/Seax — Reggie’s,
Chicago; Afrodiasiacs — Rivers Casino, Des Plaines; Sugar Blue
Band — Rosa’s Lounge, Chicago; Sugar Blue Band — Rosa’s
Lounge, Chicago; Pert Near Sandstone/Dead Horses/Growler
— Schubas, Chicago; Dick Diamond & The Dusters — Shaker’s,
Ottawa; Oktave/[Phase]/Jeff Derringer — Smart Bar, Chicago;
Steve Forbert — Space, Evanston; Sal & Izy — State & Lake @The
Wit, Chicago; Vancouver Sleep Clinic/The Lincoln Lodge —
Subterranean, Chicago; Simple Remedy — Sweet Caroline’s,
Hoffman Estates; Hi Infidelity/LoveHouse — Taste of Glen Ellyn,
Glen Ellyn; Nikki Glaser/Tom Thakkar — Thalia Hall, Chicago;
Two Hand Jesters Comedy — The Brick Lounge, Plano; Space
Blood/Personal Space/Nouveau/Boss Fight — The Burlington,
Chicago; Hinder/Nonpoint/Nine Shrines — The Forge, Joliet;
Marc Hanson — The Lone Buffalo, Ottawa; Bass Kitchen — The
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MID, Chicago; Henry JBC — Tilted Kilt, Bolingbrook; Barenaked
Men — Trophy Room , Chicago; Bliss — Twisted Rose, Algonquin;
Little Birds (Lakeview) — Uncommon Ground, Chicago; Dante —
Underground, Chicago; Karaoke Zach/DJ — Uptown Lounge,
Chicago; David’s Bazaar — Uptown Tap, Plainfield; The Mix —
Venuti’ s, Addison; Indie Latino feat. You Are Here/Fernando
Doppel/Rai/Serenum — Wire, Berwyn; American Mellow/
Cosmic Strings/Daniels & Baker/The Feralings/Jay Vonn &
Triple Threat — Woodgrass Festival, Woodstock; The Luxmen —
World Of Beer, Evanston; Coco & Fancy — Zachary’s Bar, Palos
Heights.
SATURDAY 20
The Boy Band Night — 115 Bourbon Street, Merrionette Park;
Rik Emmett (Triumph) w/REsolution9 — Arcada Theater, St.
Charles; Blacklite District/Orange Dilema/Resurrection/
Recovery Agency — Bada Brew, Crest Hill; Reckless — Ballydoyle,
Aurora; Modern Day Romeos — Bannerman’s, Bartlett; Blind
Roosevelts Band/Martino & Friends — Bar Evolution, Batavia;
Love Drive/Blackened — Base Camp, Lisle; Bluegrass Brunch/
Old Lazarus’ Harp — Beat Kitchen, Chicago; Sean & Charlie Live
— Blarney Stone Pub, Oak Forest; Mike Wheeler/Laretha
Weathersby — Blue Chicago, Chicago; Cadillac Casanovas/The
Mosquitos/Sweet Diezel Jenkins — Blue Chip Rocks Lounge,
Michigan City, IN; 17th Floor — Blue Chip Vegas Baby, Michigan
City, IN; The Birthday Massacre/Army of The Universe/
Ludovico Technique — Bottom Lounge, Chicago; Run And Punch
/The Braver Days/The Turdles/The Biscaynies — BrauerHouse,
Lombard; Bear & Jake Acoustic — Brazen Head, Crestwood; The
Romantiques — Broken Oar, Port Barrington; Senn Alan Band —
Bub City, Chicago; Cort Carpenter — Bub City, Rosemont; Billy
Branch & The SOBs/Scott Nev — Buddy Guy’s Legends, Chicago;
Z Sharp — Bungalow Joe’s, Hanover Park; Blush — Captain’s
Quarters, Antioch; Burning Bridges — Carlucci, Downers Grove;
Rokkor/Hooked On Sonics — Chicago Loop Niteclub,
Streamwood; Norah Jones — Chicago Theater, Chicago; Wedding
Banned/97Nine/EZFM/Ginger Road/Blues & The Abstract
Truth/School of Rock — Chocolate Fest 2017, Long Grove; Tony
Ocean 25th Anniversary Party — Club Arcada @Arcada Theater,
St. Charles; Shot Baker — Cobra Lounge, Chicago; Ugly God —
Concord, Chicago; Gallery 81/SeaGiraffe/Emblems — Cubby
Bear, Chicago; The Atom Bobs — Cuzin’s, Tinley Park; Jim Tabor
of Sunfallen — Cuzin’s Pub, Midlothian; Cover Story — Draft
Picks, Mt. Prospect; Bad Medicine — Draft Picks, Naperville;
Humphrey-McKeown (Album Release)/Mike & Joe — Durty
Nellie’s, Palatine; The Fifth Star Band/Hydro Static Union/
Righteous Acoustic Sound Party/Two Percent/Torch The
Hive/Crystal Lady — Elbo Room, Chicago; Ha Ha Tonka (Record
Release)/Trapper Schoepp/The Inventors — Empty Bottle,
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