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Penthouse Sweets
Abbey Pub: 8pm, 21+
The Buck Stops
Abbey Pub: 9pm, 21+
New Duncan Imperials, Pistols at Dawn
Beat Kitchen: 8:45pm, 21+
Orville Kline, Compact Disco, The Hexorcist, The Freak Show
Beauty Bar: 9pm, 21+
Matthew Sweet
Bottom Lounge: 9pm
Primus
Congress Theater: 7:30pm
Crystalize
darkroom: 9pm, 21+
Rubblebucket, Stepdad
Double Door: 10pm, 21+
The Hoyle Brothers
Empty Bottle: 5:30pm, 21+
Dum Dum Girls, Crocodiles. Colleen Green, DJ Mario Orduno
Empty Bottle: 10pm, 21+
The Lonely Forest
Hideout: 9pm, 21+
NOFX, Anti-Flag, Old Man Markley
House of Blues Chicago: 9pm
Neon Indian, Com Truise, Purity Ring
Lincoln Hall: 10pm, 18+
OFWGKTA
Metro: 8pm, 21+
Karan Casey & John Doyle, Sean-Nós Chicago
The Old Town School of Folk Music: 8pm
Mutts
Reggies Music Joint: 6pm, 21+
Emblems, The Lumineers, The Poor Nobodys
Reggies Music Joint: 8pm, 21+
World Inferno Friendship Society, The Stranger, Last False Hope
Reggies Rock Club: 7pm
Smashing Pumpkins
The Riviera: 7pm
Gauntlet Hair, Bigcolour
Schubas: 10pm, 18+
Jimpster, Lady D
SmartBar: 10pm, 21+
Lonnie Brooks
SPACE: 8pm
Samwell, Emanuel Vinson
Subterranean: 10pm
Geoff Farina
The Whistler: 6pm, 21+
Antique Sheets
The Whistler: 9:30pm, 21+
Norwood Park Allstars
Abbey Pub: 9pm, 21+
Micki Croisant & The Good Name Band, Midwestern Lill, As Fourty Sleeps
Abbey Pub: 9pm, 21+
Asteria, Amuse, This Obsession
Beat Kitchen: 6pm
Drivetrain, The Phil Angotti Band, Chris N-The Band
Beat Kitchen: 10:15pm, 21+
Black Gold DJ Reaganomix
Beauty Bar: 10pm, 21+
Holding Mercury, The Bright White
Bottom Lounge: 8:30pm
MEN
Bottom Lounge: 9pm
Anthrax and Testament
Congress Theater: 7pm
First Friday, Streets on Fire, The Sometimes Family
darkroom: 7pm, 21+
Said The Whale, We are The City
Double Door: 8pm, 21+
Rod Tuffcurls & The Bench Press, DJ Bop City Beats
Double Door: 10pm, 21+
Paper Mice
Empty Bottle: 6:30pm, 21+
Windy City Soul Club
Empty Bottle: 9pm, 21+
CAVE, Chandeliers, Jerusalem & The Starbaskets, HUME
Hideout: 9pm, 21+
NOFX, Anti-Flag, Old Man Markley
House of Blues Chicago: 9pm
Portugal. The Man, Alberta Cross
Metro: 9pm, 18+
Sam Bush, Redwood Landing
The Old Town School of Folk Music: 7pm & 10pm
The Ugly, The Alder Kings, Something Beautiful
Reggies Music Joint: 9pm, 21+
Wookiefoot, Fifth World, Jon Wayne and the Pain
Reggies Rock Club: 7pm, 18+
Matt Nathanson
The Riviera: 7:30pm
The Rosebuds, Hospitality
Schubas: 10pm, 21+
Justin Long, JTC
SmartBar: 10pm, 21+
Pieta Brown, Nora O’Connor
SPACE: 8pm
Driftless Pony Club, Sybris, Too Close to Perfect
Subterranean: 8pm
The Foot
Abbey Pub: 8pm, 21+
Little Miss Ann Band
Beat Kitchen: 12pm
The Morning After Girls, The Black Box Revelation, The Hounds Below, Velocicopter
Double Door: 8pm, 21+
Is Tropical
Empty Bottle: 10pm, 21+
Glenn Jones, Horse’s Ha!, Jim Becker
Hideout: 9pm, 21+
Doug James & The Pocket
Reggies Music Joint: 4pm, 21+
Immolation, Jungle Rot, Gigan, The Everscathed
Reggies Rock Club: 7pm
Kettle Moraine String Band
Schubas: 12pm
Alpha Rev, Locksley
Schubas: 8pm, 18+
Pocketknife, Michael Serafini, Kid Color, Adulture
SmartBar: 10pm, 21+
Redwood Landing
SPACE: 7pm
Melt Banana, Rabble Rabble, Swimsuit Addition
Subterranean: 7:30pm
Lawrence Peters’ Country Throw-Down w/ Sons Of Susan
The Whistler: 10pm, 21+
Extraordinary Popular, Delusions
Beat Kitchen: 8:30pm, 21+
Ornery Little Darlings, Electra, Yellow Dogs, Black Light Saints
Empty Bottle: 9:30pm, 21+
Robbie Fulks
Hideout: 7pm, 21+
Andy McKee, Stephen Bennett, Antoine Dufour
Lincoln Hall: 8pm, 18+
The Murder Junkies, Billy Crystal Meth, Bill Ura Dik, Allgood
Reggies Music Joint: 8pm, 21+
Bane, Defeater, Miles Away, Dead End Path, Restore
Reggies Rock Club: 5pm
CHIRP Night at The Whistler w/ Cross Record, Tiny Fireflies
The Whistler: 10pm, 21+
Warren Haynes Band
The Vic: 7:30pm
Sexfist
Abbey Pub: 9pm, 21+
Timbuck2
Beauty Bar: 10pm, 21+
Reneders, Sore Eros
Empty Bottle: 9:30pm, 21+
Catastrophe
Hideout: 9pm, 21+
Wale
House of Blues Chicago: 8:30pm
CANT, Luke, Temple Blood Orange
Lincoln Hall: 8pm, 18+
Trentemoller, Xylos, Afrobeta
Metro: 9pm, 18+
Mr. Blotto, Marc Pinasky, Giant Shadows
Reggies Music Joint: 8pm, 21+
Passing Thoughts, The Tom Fuller Band
Reggies Rock Club: 7:30pm, 21+
City States, Sunny Shadows
Schubas: 8pm, 21+
Absinthe & The Dirty Floors, D’Amato Dali, David Yontz
Subterranean: 9pm
Relax Attack Jazz Series: Josh Berman
The Whistler: 10pm, 21+
Paradise Waits, Jaik Willis
Abbey Pub: 9pm, 21+
Northern Magnolia, Shivering Timbers, The Halamays, Tiger Cry
Beat Kitchen: 8pm, 21+
Bald E, Sean Doe, Lippy, Johnny Kesh
darkroom: 8pm, 21+
Rich Robinson, Dylan LeBlanc
Double Door: 8pm, 21+
Jocelyn Brown, Melissa Grubbs, Risa Tolentino, Naomi Walker, Annika Welander
Empty Bottle: 9:30pm, 21+
Jason Roebke Combination
Hideout: 9:30pm, 21+
UH HUH HER, Fences
House of Blues Chicago: 7pm
Umphrey’s McGee
Lincoln Hall: 9pm, 18+
Boris, Tera Melos, Coliseum
Metro: 9pm, 18+
Ash
The Old Town School of Folk Music: 9:30pm
Trombone Shorty & Orleans Avenues
Park West: 7:30pm
Ammunition, Sanjula Vamana, Red Rum Burlesque Dancer
Reggies Music Joint: 8pm, 21+
Devin Townsend Project, The Ocean
Reggies Rock Club: 8pm
Screaming Females, The Underground Railroad To Candyland, The Treasure Fleet
Schubas: 7pm
Rees Urban, Czboogie, Andrew Emil, Ruben Flores, DJ Fuzion, Soul Pimp, Foxxo
SmartBar: 10pm, 21+
Jim Post, Michael Smith
SPACE: 8pm
The Aggrolites, Roots of Creation, The Pinstripes, DJ Chuck Wren
Subterranean: 8:30pm
Matt Jones & the Reconstruction, MH
The Whistler: 10pm, 21+
Paper Plant
Abbey Pub: 8:30pm, 21+
Audiobon
Abbey Pub: 9pm, 21+
On Again Off Again, Blue Skies for Black Hearts, The Laureates, Channel Four
Beat Kitchen: 8:30pm, 21+
Hollywood Holt, DJ Esquire
Beauty Bar: 9pm, 21+
Yelawolf
Bottom Lounge: 9pm
Natalie Oliveri, Koku Gonza, DJ Sean Alvarez
darkroom: 8pm, 21+
Tony Magnets, Kerosene Stars, The Last Dark Show, They All Have Legs
Double Door: 8:30pm, 21+
The Field, Lazer Crystal
Empty Bottle: 8pm, 21+
Star Anna & The Laughing Dogs, The Buddies
Hideout: 9pm, 21+
Gang Gang Dance, Prince Rama
Lincoln Hall: 9pm, 18+
The Black Angels, Dead Meadow, Spindrift
Metro: 9pm, 18+
Pattern
Reggies Music Joint: 9pm, 21+
Das Racist, Danny Brown, Despot, BBU
Reggies Rock Club: 8pm
Kristy Lee
Schubas: 9pm, 21+
Searchl1te, Chris Widman, Merrick Brown, Bank Holiday
SmartBar: 10pm, 21+
Terence Blanchard Quintet
SPACE: 8pm
Rhett Miller with Alex Dezen of The Damnwells
SPACE: 10pm
Empires, Colour Revolt, The Kickback
Subterranean: 8pm
Continental Riffs: Music from Brazil w/ DJ Peter Margasak & Casa de Soul
The Whistler: 9:30pm, 21+
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