Photo: Tracy Graham

There's an enormous number of concerts worth seeing this weekend. 

Friday 5

Chicago Symphony Orchestra with Yuja Wang
1:30pm, Symphony Center (Orchestra Hall), $24–$208
Finnish conductor Sakari Oramo directs the CSO in its debut performance of Australian composer Brett Dean's epic Amphitheatre, a dramatic scene for large orchestra. Young Chinese pianist Yuja Wang takes the stage for Prokofiev's Third Piano Concerto before the evening wraps up with Carl Nielsen's unconventional Fifth Symphony.

Images courtesy of Universal Music Group

The Rolling Stones will be performing in Chicago on May 28. As part of their "50 and Counting" tour, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood will be celebrating their "first 50 years" of music. The Stones will be performing at the United Center, and tickets go on sale April 8. Presale tickets will be available for CitiBank Private Pass cardmembers beginning April 5.

Jack DeJohnette

Photo: Chad Griffith

Today the city released the summer schedule for Millennium Park, which brings back to Pritzker Pavilion three free concert series—Downtown Sound, Loops and Variations and Made in Chicago: World Class Jazz—each of which boasts an impressively strong lineup. The once indie-centric Downtown Sound broadens its scope this year, as the series' first concert illustrates, pairing two trail-blazing guitarists with deep ties to the downtown NYC scene: idiosyncratic improviser Marc Ribot and Sonic Youth's Lee Ranaldo (May 27). Indie chanteuse Sharon Van Etten arrives a week later (June 3), while former Frames frontman Glen Hansard of Once fame follows on June 10. Loops and Variations, which finds common ground between Chicago's bustling new-music scene and the increasingly popular world of electronic music, returns in its second year, with inspired bills like Matmos and Fonema Consort (June 27), plus eighth blackbird joined by Wilco's Glenn Kotche (August 28). The Made in Chicago lineup is just as promising, closing out (and opening the Chicago Jazz Festival) on August 29 with iconic drummer and Chicago native Jack DeJohnette, who joins four fellow world-class jazz musicians with local roots: Muhal Richard Abrams, Larry Gray, Roscoe Mitchell and Henry Threadgill. See below for the complete schedule of events at Millennium Park:

Vampire Weekend perform at Lollapalooza in 2009.

Last summer's promotional wayfarers are on their last leg and, frankly, you miss the smell of vomit-soaked kitty litter in the morning. Good news for you, music-festival fanatic, the Lollapalooza 2013 lineup is here, which means the city's season of outdoor sonic throwdowns is not too far behind. And it seems we're ace at guessing headliners.

Here's a complete look at the snoozers (Mumford & Sons, Vampire Weekend, the Killers), surprises (the Cure) and everything in between, including solid picks such as Jessie Ware (!), Death Grips (!!) and Kendrick Lamar (!!!) and excellent locals Wild Belle, the Orwells, Supreme Cuts and Chance the Rapper.