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Scum, Insane Poetry, PsychoSoMatic, 2nsane, OMP, Hotbox Boyz
Abbey Pub: 9pm, 21+
Rai Knight, DJ NorweJohn, DJ Megan Taylor
Beauty Bar: 10pm, 21+
El Ten Eleven
Bottom Lounge: 9pm
dehli2dublin
darkroom: 9pm, 21+
Candy Golde, Nick Tremulis, Bun E. Carlos, John Stirratt & Rick Rizzo Jon Langford, Skull Orchard
Double Door: 9pm, 21+
The Hoyle Brothers
Empty Bottle: 6:30pm, 21+
Hunx and His Punx, Shannon and The Clams, Mickey
Empty Bottle: 10pm, 21+
Aaron Karo
House of Blues Chicago: 9pm
Joe Pug, Strand of Oaks
Lincoln Hall: 10pm, 21+
Mogwai, Errors
Metro: 9pm, 18+
William Fitzsimmons, Slow Runner
The Old Town School of Folk Music: 8pm
The Whigs
Park West: 8pm
The Big Strong Men, Carrie Nation and the Speakeasy, Evergreen Grass Band
Reggies Music Joint: 9pm, 21+
Koffin Kats, The Ugly, Nothing to Gain, Venom Lords, Pearls Mahone & The One Eyed Jacks
Reggies Rock Club: 7pm
Cameron McGill & What Army, Miles Nielsen, Adam Arcuragi
Schubas: 10pm, 21+
Rock for Kids, 9th Annual Music Mixer
SmartBar: 6pm, 21+
Fred Everything, James Curd, Fortune
SmartBar: 10pm, 21+
Stephen Kellogg & Tift Merritt
SPACE: 8pm
Hollows, Michael Lux and the Bad Sons, Soft Speaker
Subterranean: 9pm, 21+
DJ Baby Sloth
The Whistler: 9:30pm, 21+
Mr. Blotto
Abbey Pub: 9:30pm, 21+
Mark Zeus
Abbey Pub: 9pm
Dax Riggs, Brighton MA
Beat Kitchen: 10pm
Ryan Weinstein
Beauty Bar: 7pm, 21+
Dillinger Escape Plan
Bottom Lounge: 10pm
Panic!
darkroom: 9pm, 21+
Jeffery David, Train Company, Geoff Dolce, Peter Terry andThe Chicago City Prophets
Double Door: 9pm, 21+
Grails, James Blackshaw
Empty Bottle: 7pm, 21+
Mannequin Men, E+, Sleepy Kitty
Empty Bottle: 9:30pm, 21+
Faiz Zeppelin, Columbines
Hideout: 9pm, 21+
DJs Baby Sloth and Erik Roldan
Hideout: 11:30pm, 21+
Coheed and Cambria
House of Blues Chicago: 7pm
Guitar Chicago Rockfete III
House of Blues Chicago: 8:30pm, 21+
Battles
Lincoln Hall: 10pm, 18+
Femi Kuti & The Positive Force
Metro: 9pm, 18+
Old Blind Dogs, Mollie O’Brien & Rich Moore
The Old Town School of Folk Music: 7pm
Colin Hay
Park West: 8:30pm
JTX
Reggies Music Joint: 9pm, 21+
The Eunuchs, Dick’N Yer Face, Dudemanbro, D!ckfinger!
Reggies Music Joint: 10pm, 21+
Bleed for the Fallen, Damnation, Product of Hate, Free Ajents, Kolorful Fixx
Reggies Rock Club: 5pm
Soul Searchin’ Saturday
Reggies Rock Club: 10:30pm, 18+
deftones
The Riviera: 7:30pm
Scattered Trees, The Loneliest Monk, Chaperone
Schubas: 10pm, 18+
Mathew Dear, Sassmouth, AntiPhase
SmartBar: 10pm, 21+
Weekend Vinyl, Bono Bros
SPACE: 8pm
Robert James & The Cough, Ill Legit feat. Wes Restless, Denmark Vessey, The Whoevers, DJ Alo, DJ Ambideckstriks
Subterranean: 10:30pm, 21+
Reckless Night
The Whistler: 10pm, 21+
Green Room Rockers, The Forthrights, We Are The Union, On Your Marx
Beat Kitchen: 8:30pm
Symphony X, Powerglove, Blackguard
Bottom Lounge: 5pm
Deadnight, Leproso, Evil Survives
Empty Bottle: 7pm, 21+
DePaul’s Battle of the Bands
Lincoln Hall: 6:30pm
Local H, The Weeks
Metro: 7pm
Bucky Halker, Don Stiernberg, Los Pichardo, the Bagwis Collective, Jimmy Tomasello, John Abbey
The Old Town School of Folk Music: 7pm
Mike Allemana and Jason Steele
The Old Town School of Folk Music: 4pm
Jungle of Cities, The Numbers, MaCcabee, Kelem, The Lillies
Reggies Music Joint: 8pm, 21+
Flow Theory, Carpe Diem
Reggies Rock Club: 6:30pm
Bitch
Schubas: 8pm, 21+
DJ Lady D, Michael Serafini, Kid Color, Adulture
SmartBar: 10pm, 21+
Jamie’s O’Reilly’s May Day Soiree
SPACE: 1:30pm
Tim Kinsella, Donny Mahlmeister, Theo Katsaounis, John Herndon, Relay Beken
The Whistler: 9:30pm, 21+
Frank Turner, The Gunshy
Beat Kitchen: 7:15pm
Extraordinary Popular, Delusions
Beat Kitchen: 8:30pm, 21+
Ben Taylor of JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound, DJ ByLamplight
Beauty Bar: 9pm , 21+
Spilt Milk, Miss Shevaughn and Yuma Wray, Them Damn Kids
Double Door: 9pm, 21+
La Snacks, Tiger Bones, Bare Mutants
Empty Bottle: 9:30pm, 21+
Robbie Fulks, Don Stiernberg
Hideout: 7pm, 21+
Alter Bridge, Black Stone Cherry, and Like A Storm
House of Blues Chicago: 6:15pm
John Vanderslice, Damien Jurado
Lincoln Hall: 8pm, 21+
River Gypsies
Reggies Music Joint: 8pm, 21+
DJ jean short, DJ dicks, DJ entro emcee, DJ sasha hodges
Subterranean: 9pm, 21+
DJ Timbuck2
Beauty Bar: 9pm, 21+
Bowling for Soup
Bottom Lounge: 6pm
Barehand Jugband, The Hoyle Brothers, The Shams Band
Double Door: 9pm, 21+
Oh No Oh My, The Dig, When Clouds Attack
Empty Bottle: 9:30pm, 21+
Mar Caribe
Hideout: 9pm, 21+
Alter Bridge, Black Stone Cherry, and Like A Storm
House of Blues Chicago: 6:15pm
Tame Impala, Yuck
Lincoln Hall: 9pm, 18+
Mr. Blotto
Reggies Music Joint: 8pm, 21+
Devin the Dude, Coughee Brothaz
Reggies Rock Club: 8pm, 18+
Lord Huron, This Is Cinema
Schubas: 9pm, 21+
Relax Attack Jazz Series: Dave Rempis Group
The Whistler: 10pm, 21+
The Experimental Tropic Blues Band, The Missing Chums, The Hurtin Kind, Sam Nicolosi
Abbey Pub: 8:30pm, 21+
Nones
Beauty Bar: 10pm, 21+
Cavalera Conspiracy
Bottom Lounge: 9pm
They All Have Legs Communist Daughter, Animals In Human Attire, The Last Dark Show
Double Door: 9pm, 21+
Thorcraft Cobra, Whisker Music
Empty Bottle: 9:30pm, 21+
Blue October
House of Blues Chicago: 8pm
Tame Impala, Yuck
Lincoln Hall: 9pm, 21+
Fifth House Ensemble
Mayne Stage: 8pm
Manchester Orchestra, An Horse, Harrison Hudson
Metro: 6:45pm
Daniel Ho
The Old Town School of Folk Music: 8:30pm
Overnight Fire, Idealist
Reggies Rock Club: 7pm, 21+
Cunninlynguists, Homeboy Sandman, Second City Citizens w/ Montana Rocks, Auggie The 9th, DJ RTC
Reggies Rock Club: 10pm, 18+
Bobby Bare Jr., Carey Kotsionis
Schubas: 9pm, 21+
Ron Trent, Jevon Jackson, Diz
SmartBar: 10pm, 21+
Chris Pureka, Holcombe Waller
SPACE: 8pm
Chuck Dezil, Sean Doe
Subterranean: 10pm, 21+
The Kills
The Vic: 8pm
Fake Problems, Pomegranates, Laura Stevenson & The Can, Into It. Over It.
Beat Kitchen: 8:30pm
Wheels On Fire, Tyler Jon Tyler
Beauty Bar: 6pm, 21+
DJ Orion, Chicago Dead Beats, Sonido Rampage y Nader, Sparkletone
Beauty Bar: 10pm, 21+
Face to Face with Strung Out
Bottom Lounge: 8pm
The Foreign Exchange
Double Door: 9pm, 21+
White Hills, CAVE, Mayor Daley
Empty Bottle: 9:30pm, 21+
Baby Dee, Loto Ball
Hideout: 9pm, 21+
Del Rey
Lincoln Hall: 9pm, 21+
Yacht, Light Asylum, Bobby Birdman
Metro: 9pm, 18+
Mutts, Blackfoot Gypsies, Velvet Jimis
Reggies Music Joint: 9pm, 21+
Destruction, Heathen, Warbeast, Art of the Flesh, Souls Demise, Savagery
Reggies Rock Club: 7pm
Ted Leo, Che Arthur
Schubas: 9pm, 18+
Danny the Wildchild, Alfonz de la Mota, J Cross, M1D1
SmartBar: 10pm, 21+
Greg Brown
SPACE: 8pm
Hollus, The Shakers, The Sentinels
Subterranean: 8:30pm, 21+
Papa G
Subterranean: 10pm, 21+
L’Orchestre Super Vitesse
The Whistler: 9:30pm, 21+
of Montreal
The Vic: 7:30pm
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