Upcoming shows
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AA All ages
17+ 17 and older
18+ 18 and older
FEBRUARY | MARCH | APRIL | MAY | JUNE | JULY | AUGUST | SEPTEMBER | OCTOBER | NOVEMBER | DECEMBER
23 Anvil Reggie's Rock Club. 17+
23 Billions and Billions + Standing on the Shoulders of Giants + Exotic Animal Petting Zoo + Prettyoungraves Subterranean. 17+
23 BBU Schubas. AA
23–26 Larry Coryell Trio Jazz Showcase.
23 CSTVT + Stay Ahead of the Weather + Coping + Amulet + Daylight Empty Bottle.
23, 25 UPDATED Diamanda Galás Museum of Contemporary Art. SOLD OUT
23 Doomtree + Toki Wright Bottom Lounge. 18+
23 The Fisticuffs Abbey Pub.
23 Los Lobos Paramount Theatre.
23 Roster McCabe + Funktion Martyrs'.
23 Shawn Mullins SPACE.
23 Pine Leaf Boys Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
23 Stay Ahead Of The Weather + Castevet + Coping + Amulet Empty Bottle.
23 Viceroy + John L. Sullivan Beat Kitchen.
23 Young the Giant + Walk the Moon Riviera Theatre. SOLD OUT
24 An Aesthetic Anaesthetic + Dowsing + Like Bats + Brownie Mountain Bottom Lounge. 17+
24 Steve Aoki + Datsik Aragon. 17+
24 Big Time Rush Rosemont Theatre.
24 UPDATED Elliott Brood + Curtis Evans Schubas.
24 Brushfire + Jason & The Haymakers Abbey Pub.
24 NEW Cormega + Lungz + Onis + D. Mose + Griffen + Voyce G.I. Go darkroom.
24 The David Wax Museum University of Chicago, Mandell Hall.
24 The Flat Five SPACE.
24 Steve Forbert + Terry White FitzGerald's.
24 Jeffrey Foucault Schubas.
24 Freeway + Notrydo Sincere & The Kaotic Drumline + Ando Ruckus + Black Eye Plaga + Famsquad + Prince Lord Reggie's Rock Club. 18+
24 NEW Good Lovelies McAninch Arts Center.
24 Jennifer Hall + Erin Gipson + Mia LeBlon Reggie's Music Joint.
24 Junius + O'Brother Beat Kitchen. 17+
24 UPDATED Korn + Kill the Noise + J Devil Congress Theater. AA
24 The Lawrence Peters Outfit + Cloudbirds Hideout.
24 Bettye LaVette Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
24 The Life and Times + Sweet Cobra + Electric Hawk Empty Bottle.
24, 25 Los Lobos Metropolis Performing Arts Centre.
24 Kenny Loggins Genesee Theatre.
24, 25 Donny McCaslin Group Green Mill.
24 Mord Fustang + Miles Dyson + Hypster + Joe Garston + Virtu + Mark Yurm House of Blues. 17+
24 Occidental Brothers Old Town School of Folk Music, Szold Hall.
24 Orgy Bottom Lounge. AA
24 Nitty Scott + Esohel & Ricky Dubs + St. Bagu Subterranean.
24 Proto Idiot + Guinea Worms + Andrew Anderson Crown Tap Room.
24 UPDATED Sharpless + Mars Argo + Dozens + Audiences Lincoln Hall. 18+
24 The Souljazz Orchestra Double Door.
24 Van Halen + Kool & The Gang United Center.
25 NEW Thomas Ankersmit Graham Foundation.
25 Arriver + Anatomy of Habit + The Swan King Hideout.
25 Emilie Autumn House of Blues. AA
25 CLC's 28th Annual Salute to Gospel: VaShawn Mitchell + Joshua's Troop + Gospel Music According to Chicago + Arthur Sutton & The Gift of Praise Genesee Theatre.
25 Crocodiles Schubas.
25 The J. Davis Trio + Todd Clouser + Organ Yank Reggie's Music Joint.
25, 26 UPDATED The Del Fuegos Lincoln Hall. Feb 26 at SPACE.
25 Falldown + Eric Lambert Abbey Pub.
25 Peter Frampton Chicago Theatre.
25 Goldhouse + Stamps + Farraday + Famous Like You Beat Kitchen. AA
25 Matthew Good + Emily Greene Double Door.
25 Gülşen + New York Gypsy All-Stars Martyrs'.
25 It's a Girl + Congress of Starlings Old Town School of Folk Music, Szold Hall.
25 Eilen Jewell + Sarah & The Tall Boys FitzGerald's.
25 Lucky Boys Confusion The Montrose Room.
25 Organ Yank + Todd Clouser Reggie's Music Joint.
25 UPDATED Papadosio + Ultraviolet Hippopotamus Bottom Lounge. 17+
25 Playing for Change Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
25 Pretty Good Dance Moves + Rambos + Pictures of Then Empty Bottle.
25 The Promise Ring + Joan of Arc Metro. SOLD OUT
25 The Queers + The Ataris + Far from Finished Reggie's Rock Club. AA
25 The Sleepers Beat Kitchen.
25 Livingston Taylor SPACE.
25, 26 Eli Young Band Joe's Bar. SOLD OUT
25 Young Jesus + District Somnium + The Blisters Subterranean. AA
26 Allstar Weekend + The After Party + Hollywood + Before You Exit Ending House of Blues. AA
26 Jessie Baylin + The Watson Twins Schubas. 18+
26 Die Time Bottom Lounge.
26 David Grubbs & Susan Howe University of Chicago, Bond Chapel.
26 The Klezmatics Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall. Two shows.
26 Dawn Penn + Jean Pickering The Shrine.
26 NEW Rockie Fresh + LEP Bogus Boys + Lungz + Scheme + Astonish Reggie's Rock Club. 18+
26 Tennis + In Tall Buildings Lincoln Hall. 18+
26 Wells-Next-the-Sea + The Bell Beat + The Missing Chums + Johnathan Young Beat Kitchen.
26 NEW White Mystery + Earthquake Party! + Dark Fog Empty Bottle.
27 Bombay Bicycle Club + The Darcys + Lucy Rose Subterranean. SOLD OUT
27 The Crystal Method The Mid.
27 Ben Lee Martyrs'.
27 Stolen Silver + Cloudbirds + Will Phalen Schubas.
27 Super Water Sympathy Ultra Lounge.
27 Whales + The Cell Phones + Solemn Meant Walks + My Canadian Girlfriend Empty Bottle.
28 Aziatix + Russell W. Lincoln Hall. AA
28 Estesombelo + Tim Daisy & Katherine Young + Chanel Pease & J.R. Robinson + Pandava + Criminals Empty Bottle.
28 Anna Fermin FitzGerald's.
28 UPDATED Memoryhouse + Tiny Fireflies Schubas. 18+
28 UPDATED Pearl and the Beard + Jon Drake & The Shakes Double Door.
28 Spectralina Museum of Contemporary Art.
29 Kyle Andrews + Kirby Kaiser + Perfect Kiss Schubas.
29 Antennas Up + Heypenny Beat Kitchen.
29 Breaking Laces + Eltoro + 20 Mark Helga Martyrs'.
29 The Dead Superheroes Orchestra + Sioum + Bridges of Königsberg + The Paver Reggie's Rock Club. 17+
29 The Giving Tree Band SPACE.
29 James Greer + Mutts Empty Bottle.
29 Lira Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall. CANCELED
29 Mona Subterranean. 17+
29 NEW Native Sun Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
29 Polica + Marijuana Deathsquads + Total Fucking Blood Lincoln Hall.
29 NEW Mavis Staples + JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound Tivoli Theatre.
1 Arkells + Imaginary Cities Schubas.
1 Boom Chick Crown Tap Room.
1 Choklate The Shrine.
1 Commander Cody SPACE.
1 Nic Cowan Beat Kitchen. 17+
1 Tom Fuller Band Abbey Pub.
1 Islands + Idiot Glee Lincoln Hall. 18+
1 Los Amigos Invisibles Cubby Bear.
1 UPDATED Magic City + Bigcolour + Netherfriends Double Door.
1 Glen Matlock + Hugh Cornwell with Clem Burke Reggie's Rock Club. 17+
1 On Again Off Again + Musikanto + Chaperone Subterranean.
1 Punch Brothers + Aoife O'Donovan Park West. AA
2 UPDATED Amrita + The Attraction + Trainwreck Symphony + Red Novella + The Rain Delay House of Blues. 17+
2 Baby Teeth + Outer Minds + Bobby Conn Schubas.
2 Banner Pilot + Dan Vapid & The Cheats + The Reaganomics Beat Kitchen. 17+
2 Lee Brice Joe's Bar.
2 COZY + The Biz + The Pleats Crown Tap Room.
2 Béla Fleck & The Flecktones Centre East Theatre, North Shore Center for the Performing Arts.
2 Dia Frampton + Andrew Allen Subterranean. AA
2 The Chieftains Symphony Center.
2 Galactic with Corey Glover and Corey Henry + The Soul Rebels Park West. 18+
2 Lynch Mob + Enuff Z'nuff + Bang Tango Viper Alley.
2 Magic Slim & The Teardrops SPACE.
2 The Malone Brothers + Paul Cebar Tomorrow Sound FitzGerald's.
2 Phife Dawg + Maseo The Mid.
2 UPDATED Stalley + ProbCause + Dave Coresh + Show You Suck + 2008ighties Crew + Chandler London + Second City Citizens Reggie's Rock Club. 18+
2 Terrapin Flyer + Melvin Seals + Mark Karan + This Must Be the Band Abbey Pub.
2 The Twilight Sad + Young Prisms + Micah P. Hinson Empty Bottle.
2 Universe + Believe You Me + Black Canvas Double Door.
2 Zeds Dead + Dillon Francis + AraabMuzik + Midnight Conspiracy Congress Theater. 17+
2 Zoso: The Ultimate Led Zeppelin Experience Durty Nellie's.
3 Atlas Sound + White Rainbow + Carnivores Lincoln Hall.
3 Béla Fleck & The Flecktones North Central College.
3 Breathe Owl Breathe + Jim Becker Schubas. 18+
3 Shemekia Copeland SPACE.
3 Lila Downs Congress Theater. AA
3 E+ + Robbie Hamilton + Touched by Ghoul Hideout.
3 Rachelle Ferrell Viper Alley. Two shows.
3 The Greenhornes Empty Bottle.
3 Hate Eternal + Fallujah + Cerebral Bore + Kataplexy Reggie's Rock Club. 18+
3 Todd Hembrook & The Hemispheres Cobra Lounge.
3 Jerome Holloway + Natalie Oliveri + Esh Double Door.
3 KOAN Sound + Gemini Bottom Lounge. 17+
3 Molehill + Jackpot Donnie + Band Called Catch Beat Kitchen.
3 Coco Montoya The Montrose Room.
3 Pert Near Sandstone + Majors Junction + Clark Paterson Martyrs'.
3 Pet Lions + Brighton MA + Briar Rabbit + Ben Keeler Subterranean. 17+
3 Questlove (DJ set) The Shrine.
3 Rebirth Brass Band Cubby Bear.
3 Reverend Horton Heat + Larry and His Flask + Goddamn Gallows Metro. 18+
3 Southside Johnny & The Asbury Jukes House of Blues. 17+
3 Stellar Road + S. Joel Norman + 3 in Counting Abbey Pub.
3 Whitehorse + Zapruder Point Schubas.
4 The Brew Schubas. 18+
4 Steve Dawson Old Town School of Folk Music, Szold Hall.
4 The Fresh Beat Band Rosemont Theatre. Late show added.
4 King Britt Empty Bottle.
4 Republic of Lights + Glittermouse + Oil Fields Lincoln Hall. 18+
4 Steep Canyon Rangers + Chatham County Line Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
4 Wannabe Heroes + Poverty Tax + The Wires + Deep Wizard + Snake Charmer & MissChiff + The Go Down Reggie's Rock Club. 17+
5 The Kickback Schubas. 18+
5 lePercolateur + Cafe Antarsia Martyrs'.
5 Allen Stone + Tommy & The High Pilots Lincoln Hall. 18+
5 Truckfighters + Karma to Burn Ultra Lounge.
5 Wet Hair + Psychedelic Horseshit + Ed Schrader's Music Beat Empty Bottle.
6 Chapter 24 + The Blind Shake Empty Bottle.
6 Korallreven Lincoln Hall. 18+
6 St. Bagu + Old Black and Blue Eyes + Samantha + Arbogast Double Door.
7 Corrosion of Conformity + Torche + Valient Thorr + A Storm of Light Double Door.
7, 8 The Head and the Heart Vic Theatre. SOLD OUT
7 The Heligoats + Robert Sarazin Blake Subterranean.
7 UPDATED Labirinto + Rocket Miner + The Gentlemen's Guild Bottom Lounge. 17+
7 LEP Bogus Boys The Shrine.
7 A Palo Seco: Rasgos Flamencos Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
7 UPDATED Scattered Trees + Santah + Great Life Schubas. 18+
8 Chali 2na Bottom Lounge. 17+
8 Herra Terra Ultra Lounge.
8 Katie Herzig SPACE.
8 Hooves Stage Bar.
8 Howler + The Canoes + Mooner Schubas.
8 Jefferson Starship + The Luck of Eden Hall Reggie's Rock Club. AA
8 Lower Dens + Judson Claiborne Subterranean. 17+
8 Man Overboard + Handguns + Seahaven + Daytrader Beat Kitchen. AA
8 John Oates + Van Ghost Lincoln Hall.
8 Saint Motel + Speck Mountain Hideout.
8–11 David Sanchez Quartet Jazz Showcase.
8 The Soundwalls + Drama Junkies Abbey Pub.
8 The Wood Brothers Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
8 Yellow Ostrich + 1,2,3 + Tin Tin Can Empty Bottle.
9 Alabama Shakes + Canasta + Jennifer Castle Lincoln Hall. SOLD OUT
9 Dave Alvin & The Guilty Ones + Kristi Rose & Fats Kaplin FitzGerald's.
9 Black Milk + Psalm One + Add-2 + Black on Black Rhyme Subterranean.
9 Black Tusk + Royal Thunder + East of the Wall + HULL Ultra Lounge.
9 Roger Clyne Schubas.
9 UPDATED Company of Thieves + Bailiff + Sidewalk Chalk Metro. AA
9 Fifth World + Herbert Wiser + Indigo Sun Abbey Pub.
9 Laura Gibson Hideout.
9 Gomez + Hey Rosetta! Vic Theatre. 18+
9 Hot Tuna Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
9 Lady Antebellum + Darius Rucker + Thompson Square Allstate Arena.
9 Lez Zeppelin + The Mag 7 + Young Distractions Double Door.
9 Local H The Montrose Room.
9 Lyle Lovett + John Hiatt Star Plaza Theatre.
9 Maritime + The Minor Leagues Empty Bottle.
9 The Mighty Regis Reggie's Music Joint.
9 Ryan Montbleau Band SPACE.
9 Nicholas Payton & The Television Studio Orchestra Chicago Symphony Center.
9 Caroline Planté Instituto Cervantes Chicago.
9 UPDATED Matt Pryor + Ryan Powers Beat Kitchen. 17+
9 Pyx Lax House of Blues. 17+
9 Robbers on High Street + Les Jupes + Little Boy Jr. Township.
9 Rich Robinson + Amy LaVere Schubas.
9 Randy Rogers Band Joe's Bar.
9 Snarky Puppy Reggie's Rock Club. 17+
9 Terrible Spaceship + Longital + RON + Bambi Raptor Martyrs'.
9 NEW Yo Gotti + Zed Zilla Genesee Theatre.
10 56 Hope Road + Elisa Grace + Chicago Farmer Abbey Pub.
10 Rich Aucoin Schubas. 18+
10 Balkan Beat Box Metro. 18+
10 Buckwheat Zydeco McAninch Arts Center.
10 NEW Travers Chandler & Avery County + Sunnyside Up American Legion Music Hall.
10 Chi-Town Blues Festival: Sir Charles Jones + Mel Waiters + Bobby Bland + Shirley Brown + Theodis Ealey + Bobby Rush + Floyd Taylor with the Johnnie Taylor Revue Star Plaza Theatre.
10 Kelly Clarkson + Matt Nathanson The Venue at Horseshoe Casino.
10 Deicide + Jungle Rot + Abigail Williams + Lecherous Nocturne Reggie's Rock Club. AA
10 Zach Deputy + DFM Reggie's Music Joint.
10 Lee DeWyze + Sam Nicolosi + Rachel McClusky Viper Alley.
10 EMA + Nü Sensae Lincoln Hall.
10 The Fallen Rivers Beat Kitchen.
10 Gardens + Bigcolour Crown Tap Room.
10 Robert Glasper Double Door.
10 Colin Hay Park West. 18+
10 Honey Island Swamp Band Martyrs'.
10 The Ides of March The Montrose Room.
10 Adam Krier + Kevin Andrew Prchal + swizzlesteve Beat Kitchen. 17+
10 Lovehammers + Bottle of Justus + My Sedatious Sister + Vintage Blue House of Blues. AA
10 MountBlood + RKTR + Jeekoos Empty Bottle.
10 Julia Nunes Subterranean. AA
10 John Prine + Kendel Carson Genesee Theatre.
10 Sausage Fest: Running + Bad Drugs + Stacian + Bitchin Bajas Empty Bottle.
10 Edie Sedgwick + Freddie T. & The People + Reds and Blue + Travels Township.
10 Jake Shimabukuro + Helen Money Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall. Two shows.
10 NEW The Special Consensus + The Henhouse Prowlers FitzGerald's.
10 SXSW Send-off Party: Kids These Days + In Tall Buildings + Musikanto + Hollywood Holt + Waco Brothers + Outer Minds + Cains & Abels + Redgrave + Unicycle Loves You + Football + Paper Thick Walls Hideout.
10 Teitur SPACE.
10 Julian Velard + Jason Myles Goss Schubas. 18+
10 NEW Keith Fullerton Whitman Graham Foundation.
11 Astronautalis + Busdriver Schubas. 18+
11 Callaghan The Ace Bar.
11 Every Part of the Buffalo Subterranean.
11 NEW Ideamen Reggie's Rock Club. 18+
11 Lúnasa + Slide Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall. Two shows.
11 John Mark McMillan & Friends + Jude Moses Lincoln Hall. AA
11 NEW Ben Ripani Music Co. + Great Divide + The Damn Choir + Kerosene Circuit Beat Kitchen.
11 Sausage Fest: Apache Dropout + Heavy Times + ZATH + Supersonic Piss Empty Bottle.
11 Soweto Gospel Choir Symphony Center.
12 Canteca de Macao Double Door.
12 Gag Order + The Ultrasounds Double Door.
12 The Kickback Schubas. 18+
12 Unmanned Ship + T'bone + Thunders Empty Bottle.
12 Uptown Underground: Ollie O'Shea, John Rice & Malcolm Ruhl Martyrs'.
13 Anti-Flag + The Flatliners + Have Nots Reggie's Rock Club. AA
13 Bitch Schubas.
13 NEW Jimkata + Shapes & Colors Subterranean. 17+
13 Lil Red & "The Howlin' Wolves" featuring Voodoo Larry + Heeby Jeebies Martyrs'.
13 NEW Raekown + Freddie Gibbs + Supernatural Cubby Bear.
13 NEW Xenia Rubinos Empty Bottle.
13 Romeo Santos Allstate Arena.
14 Buckwheat Zydeco + Robert Hynes The Montrose Room.
14 Nathan Douds Ensemble + Rob Clearfield Quintet + Matt Ulery’s Gaslight Martyrs'.
14 Filthy Still + Back Alley Riot Reggie's Music Joint.
14 Grimes + Born Gold + Ultrademon Empty Bottle.
14 NEW The Icarus Account + Sean Magwire Schubas. AA
14 Dubtonic Kru Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
14 NEW Jerrod Niemann Joe's Bar.
14 Switchback Theatre at the Center.
15 Back Country Roads + Jin & Tonic Abbey Pub.
15 Dave Barnes + Andrew Ripp Lincoln Hall. AA
15 Tab Benoit FitzGerald's.
15 Chandeliers + Sonoi + Deep Sleep Hideout.
15 El Diablo + Skinwalker + Denial Machine + Losing Scarlet Double Door.
15 Helping Phriendly Orchestra Martyrs'.
15 UPDATED Nate Herman SPACE. Rescheduled from Feb 22.
15 UPDATED Mindless Self Indulgence + Hyro Da Hero + Ventana House of Blues. AA
15–18 Kurt Rosenwinkel Quartet Jazz Showcase.
15 UPDATED Matthew Santos + Good Evening Schubas.
15 NEW Tyga + YG Metro. AA
16 NEW Martha Berner + The Significant Others The Ace Bar.
16, 17 Blue Jean Gala: Levon Helm's "Midnight Ramble" + Donald Fagen Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
16 The Cajun Vagabonds Old Town School of Folk Music, Szold Hall.
16 DeRobert & The Half-Truths Double Door.
16 Elevation Lincoln Hall.
16 Frontier Ruckus + Hoots & Hellmouth Martyrs'.
16 Gaelic Storm Riviera Theatre. 18+
16 Heyoka + Phutureprimitive Bottom Lounge. 17+
16 Jack Scratch + Black Actress + Red Haired Molly Reggie's Rock Club. 17+
16 NEW Loose Teeth + Johnny Young + Ryley Walker + Charming People Empty Bottle.
16 The Low Tide Trio Hideout.
16 NEW Peter Mulvey + Kevin Mileski Schubas.
16 NEW Derek Nelson & The Musicians + Daniel Ellsworth & The Great Lakes + Michele McGuire Subterranean.
16 Orgone + Northbrook Garage Schubas.
16 Ellis Paul SPACE.
16 Toots & The Maytals House of Blues. 17+
16 The Tossers + The Arrivals + Kevin Flynn & The Avondale Ramblers + We Are the Union Metro. 18+
17 Stuart Davis Schubas.
17 NEW Elway + The Holy Mess Beat Kitchen. AA
17 G. Love & Special Sauce + Scott H. Biram Metro. 18+
17 Tin Lynott + Bop Skizzum + The Tyme Machines + The Money Back Guarantees + No Love for Linus Martyrs'.
17 Megon McDonough + Susan O'Halloran SPACE.
17 Charlie Monttana + Celso Piña + Interpuesto + Los Blues Boys + Heavy Nopal Aragon.
17 The Ike Reilly Assassination + Brendan O'Shea Lincoln Hall.
17 The Sandcarvers + Shannon Rovers Irish Pipe Band + Kevin Flynn & The Avondale Ramblers + The Great Whiskey Project + Larry Nugent Abbey Pub.
17 Shaved Women + Mac Blackout Crown Tap Room.
17 The Tosspints Reggie's Music Joint.
17 UPDATED The Wonder Years + Polar Bear Club + Transit + The Story So Far + Into It. Over It. Bottom Lounge. Early show added, late show sold out. AA
18 Burial Hex + Death Factory + Hate Basement + Personal Injury Lawyer Empty Bottle.
18 Caravan of Thieves Schubas.
18 Filisko & Noden + Tab Robinson Band SPACE.
18 Andrew Jackson Jihad + Laura Stevenson & The Cans + ROAR Subterranean. AA
18 Kevin Seconds + Kepi Ghoulie Township. 18+
18 Jonathan Kreisberg Old Town School of Folk Music, Szold Hall.
18 The Mighty Diamonds The Shrine.
18 Carrie Newcomer Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
18 UPDATED Sloppy Seconds + The Hairlips + She Likes Todd + Uglybones + Fornication Station Reggie's Rock Club.
18 UPDATED ZZZ's + Nokies! + Kao=S Double Door.
19 The Black Keys + Arctic Monkeys United Center.
19 NEW Crinkle Face + Werewolfs Township.
19 K-Holes + Bare Wires + Bezoar Empty Bottle.
19 The Kickback + Mister Loveless Schubas. 18+
19 Redrick Sultan + Vanarays Abbey Pub.
20 The Milk Carton Kids SPACE.
20 Jennifer O'Connor + Advance Base Township.
20 UPDATED Super Minotaur + KG Price + The Jam Band Empty Bottle.
20 Saul Williams + Spoek Mathambo Bottom Lounge. 18+
21 Kinobe & The African Sensation Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
21 Megafaun Schubas.
21 Georgia Anne Muldrow + Sidewalk Chalk The Shrine.
21 Narrows + All Pigs Must Die Subterranean. 17+
21 UPDATED North Highlands + Death Ships Beat Kitchen.
21 Nneka Double Door.
21 A Place to Bury Strangers + Apteka + The Big Sleep Empty Bottle.
21 Sisero + Radiant Devices Martyrs'.
21 Van Hunt Lincoln Hall.
22 The Bo-Keys SPACE.
22 The Curious Mystery Beat Kitchen. 17+
22 Al Di Meola & Gonzalo Rubalcaba Reggie's Music Joint.
22 Mike Doughty SPACE.
22 EP3 + Bitch Please Abbey Pub.
22 A Great Big Pile of Leaves + Mansions + Young Statues Schubas. 18+
22, 23 UPDATED B.B. King + Beverly McClellan House of Blues.
22–25 Pat LaBarbera Quartet Jazz Showcase.
22 Laura Grill + Treehouse Martyrs'.
22 Bruce Molsky + Ale Möller Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
22 Ott + Dr. Fameus + Zoogma Bottom Lounge. 17+
22 Psychic Ills + Prince Rama Hideout.
22 Rubblebucket + The Growlers + Kellen & Me Lincoln Hall. 18+
22 TRMRS Empty Bottle.
23 Anatomy of Habit + Alma Negra + Electric Hawk Cobra Lounge.
23 Mira Awad Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
23 George Benson & Boney James Chicago Theatre.
23 BJ the Chicago Kid Double Door.
23 Delta Spirit + Waters Metro. 18+
23 Casey Donahew Band Joe's Bar.
23 Mike Doughty The Montrose Room.
23 Fiction 20 Down + The Lucas Cates Band + Chadwick Martyrs'.
23 Ben Howard + The Staves + Nathaniel Rateliff + Bear's Den SPACE.
23 Magnetix + Xray Eyeballs Empty Bottle.
23 NEW James Murphy (DJ set) The Mid.
23 Pregnant Spore + Cincinnatus C + Phoned Nil Trio + Scant Intone + Fatale + LKOP Enemy.
23 Chuck Prophet & The Mission Express + Miles Nielsen FitzGerald's.
23 Rickett Pass Reggie's Music Joint.
23 The Soil & the Sun + Old Fashioned War Beat Kitchen. 17+
23, 24 The Temper Trap Lincoln Hall. 18+
23 The Marshall Tucker Band Viper Alley.
23 War + Sugarfoot’s Ohio Players The Venue at Horseshoe Casino.
23 We Were Promised Jetpacks Bottom Lounge. 18+
23 Andre Williams & The Goldstars + Jon Langford & Skull Orchard Hideout.
23, 24 Rachael Yamagata + Madi Diaz Schubas. 18+
24 The August + Dan Hubbard Abbey Pub.
24 Blitz the Ambassador The Shrine.
24 Brit Floyd: The World's Greatest Pink Floyd Tribute Show Rosemont Theatre.
24 The Business Cobra Lounge.
24 The Deep Dark Woods Subterranean. 17+
24 Every Avenue + We Are the in Crowd Bottom Lounge. AA
24 Jonas Friddle & The Majority Hideout.
24 UPDATED Jennifer Hall + Geri X + O Giant Man Martyrs'.
24 I Am the Avalanche + Hostage Calm + Red City Radio Subterranean. AA
24 Jackopierce SPACE.
24 Lake Street Dive FitzGerald's.
24 NEW The Menzingers + Cheap Girls + The Sidekicks + Captain, We're Sinking Beat Kitchen. 17+
24 Night Beats + Radar Eyes + Sore Subjects Empty Bottle.
24 Paperplanes The Ace Bar.
24 UPDATED Rebelution + Wailers + The Green + Pep Love Congress Theater. 17+
24 The RetroRoots Tour: Dr. Ralph Stanley & His Clinch Mountain Boys + The Seldom Scene + Jim Lauderdale McAninch Arts Center.
24 The Saw Doctors Vic Theatre. 18+
24 Sierra Maestra + Buya Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall. Two shows.
24 Slum Village + Cavalier Kidd + Enigmatic + Kenn Retro Double Door.
24 Uncle Kracker Joe's Bar.
24 Vishten Old Town School of Folk Music, Szold Hall.
25 Boyz II Men House of Blues. 17+
25 California Guitar Trio SPACE.
25 Peter Case & Paul Collins + Summer Twins Empty Bottle.
25 Jonny Corndawg + Shovels and Rope + Robert Ellis Beat Kitchen. 17+
25 Cursive + Cymbals Eat Guitars + Conduits Lincoln Hall. 18+
25 Kimya Dawson Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
25 Protest the Hero Bottom Lounge. AA
25 NEW Red Jr. + Mr. Right Double Door.
25 Rosie Thomas Schubas.
25 Andrew W.K. + Math the Band Riviera Theatre. Moved from Metro. 18+
25 The Wooden Sky Township.
26 UPDATED Kwaidan + Winters in Osaka + Trevor de Brauw Empty Bottle.
26, 27 The Magnetic Fields Vic Theatre. Mar 26 AA, Mar 27 18+
26 The Kickback Schubas. 18+
26 Tilford Sellers & The Wagon Burners + Adam Lee & The Dead Horse Sound Company Reggie's Music Joint.
27 The Black Dahlia Murder + Nile + Skeletonwitch + Hour of Penance Bottom Lounge. AA
27 El Ten Eleven SPACE.
27 UPDATED feedtime + Nones + Relay Beken Empty Bottle.
27, 28 UPDATED Ian McCulloch Schubas. CANCELED
27 Oberhofer + Pond Lincoln Hall. 18+
27 Rusted Root Cubby Bear.
27 Spires That in the Sunset Rise Museum of Contemporary Art.
27 The Wedding Present + The Jet Age + Pinky Piglets Double Door.
27 Yukon Blonde + Library Voices Beat Kitchen. 17+
28 NEW Back Alley Riot Beat Kitchen.
28 Angel d'Cuba Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
28 Fanfarlo + Gardens & Villa Lincoln Hall. 18+
28 of Montreal + Loney Dear + Kishi Bashi Metro. AA
28 NEW Old Shoe Martyrs'.
28 Uncle Bonsai SPACE.
28 Woodsman + Dustin Wong + Grandeurs Empty Bottle.
29 Bowerbirds + Dry the River Lincoln Hall.
29 The Copyrights Beat Kitchen. 17+
29 Country Mice Crown Tap Room.
29 Anna Fermin SPACE.
29 Drew Holcomb & The Neighbors + Nathan Angelo Schubas.
29 Housse de Racket + Rites Empty Bottle.
29 Hunx and His Punx + Heavy Cream Double Door.
29 Mind Spiders The Burlington.
29 Peter & The Test Tube Babies Reggie's Rock Club.
29 The Pretty Reckless + The Parlor Mob Bottom Lounge. AA
29 Sister Sparrow & The Dirty Birds Martyrs'.
30 M.G. Bailey Reggie's Music Joint.
30 Nat Baldwin + Sun Rooms Hideout.
30, 31 Celtic Woman Rosemont Theatre.
30 Chairlift + Nite Jewel Empty Bottle.
30 Childish Gambino + Danny Brown Riviera Theatre. SOLD OUT
30 Church Shoes Crown Tap Room.
30 Dash Berlin Congress Theater. 17+
30, 31 A Fest: Dog Lady + Tarpit + Neil Jendon + Mike Shiflet + Bile and Horseman + Startless + Quicksails + Jason Zeh + J. Soliday + Fanlab + Reptile Worship Enemy.
30 Son del Viento Old Town School of Folk Music, Szold Hall.
30 William Fitzsimmons + Denison WItmer Lincoln Hall. 18+
30 UPDATED Golden State + The Bishop + Wamsley Martyrs'.
30 Lovedrug Beat Kitchen. 17+
30 Janiva Magness SPACE.
30 James McMurtry + Malcolm Holcombe Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall. Late show added.
30 Miniature Tigers + The Chain Gang of 1974 + Geographer + Speak Schubas. 18+
30 UPDATED Of Monsters and Men Park West. SOLD OUT
30 Onslaught + M-Pire of Evil + Perversion + Absconder + Severed Reggie's Rock Club. 17+
30 NEW Ultraviolet Hippopotamus + The Indobox Abbey Pub.
30 J. Roddy Walston & The Business + The Features Double Door.
30 NEW Charlie Wilson Star Plaza Theatre.
31 13 Stars Reggie's Music Joint.
31 Air Supply North Central College.
31 Carbon Tigers + Audiences + Deserters Beat Kitchen. 17+
31 Dave Days + DeStorm + Ricky Ficarelli + Alex Goot + Asher Monroe + Nice Peter + The Key of Awesome Reggie's Rock Club. AA
31 Feed Me + Skream & Benga + Plastician + Hijack + Jackmaster + Team Bayside High Congress Theater. 17+
31, Apr 1 Melissa Ferrick SPACE.
31 Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks + The Atomic Duo Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall. Two shows.
31 The Hood Internet Empty Bottle.
31 Katchafire Double Door.
31 Kmang Kmang The Painted Door.
31 Ben Kweller + Sleeper Agent + The Dig Lincoln Hall. 18+
31 Evie Ladin + Keith Terry Old Town School of Folk Music, Szold Hall.
31 Michael McDermott The Montrose Room.
31 The Nadas + Dan Navarro Martyrs'.
31 Needtobreathe + Ben Rector Riviera Theatre. AA
31 NEW Damion Romero University of Chicago, Bond Chapel.
31 Al Scorch's Country Soul Ensemble Hideout.
31 The Wanton Looks + The Sonnets + The Van Buren Boys Schubas.
1 Karla Bonoff Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
1 Brown Shoe Township.
1 Noel Gallagher's High Flying Birds + Mona Riviera Theatre. AA
1 Allan Holdsworth + Marbin Martyrs'.
1 NEW Milagres Schubas.
1 Gregory Porter Mayne Stage. 18+
1 Seun Kuti & Egypt 80 House of Blues. 17+
1 Slaughterhouse + Crooked I + Joe Budden + Joell Ortiz + Royce da 5'9" Metro. 18+
1 The Steel Wheels + Doug & Telisha Williams Old Town School of Folk Music, Szold Hall.
1 Van Halen + Kool & The Gang Allstate Arena.
1 April Ventura Reggie's Music Joint.
1 volcano! + Word and Number The Whistler.
2 David Choi Schubas. AA
2 Kasabian Vic Theatre. AA
2 UPDATED Nada Surf + An Horse Metro. 18+
2 Pree Reggie's Music Joint.
3 Band of Skulls + We Are Augustines House of Blues. 17+
3 Gotye + Kimbra Aragon. Moved from Park West. AA
3, 4 Lost in the Trees + Poor Moon Schubas. Apr 4 at SPACE.
3 NEW Quilt Empty Bottle.
3 Sonic Angels + Depravos de la Mour Reggie's Music Joint.
3 Swervedriver Bottom Lounge. 18+
3 The Ting Tings + MNDR Metro. AA
4 The Bright Light Social Hour + Aktar Aktar Double Door.
4 Elephant Revival Schubas.
4 J*Davey + Sidewalk Chalk The Shrine.
4 Keith Jarrett Symphony Center.
4 UPDATED Keep Shelly in Athens + Jonquil Empty Bottle.
4 NEW Dom Kennedy + Jugrnaut Reggie's Rock Club. AA
4 Lee Ritenour Mayne Stage.
4 Metronomy Lincoln Hall.
4 Say Anything + Kevin Devine + Fake Problems + The Front Bottoms House of Blues. AA
4 Set Your Goals + Cartel + Hit the Lights + Mixtapes + Super Prime Bottom Lounge. AA
4 Shy Mirrors Township.
4 Youth Lagoon + Porcelain Raft Metro. 18+
5 Thomas Dolby Park West. 18+
5 Guster + Jeff Garlin Vic Theatre. 18+
5 Trevor Hall SPACE.
5 Hello Seahorse! Double Door.
5 Kill the Alarm + Josh Holmes + Fivestar Deluxe Abbey Pub.
5 Reptar + Quiet Hooves Schubas. AA
5 NEW Res The Shrine.
5 Shabazz Palaces Lincoln Hall. 18+
5 Turisas + Alestorm + Ex Deo + Arkona + Huntress Reggie's Rock Club. 18+
5 UPDATED Wild Flag + Hospitality Metro. SOLD OUT
6 Alcest + Clad in Darkness + The End of the Ocean Reggie's Rock Club. AA
6 UPDATED Cloud Nothings + A Classic Education Schubas. 18+
6 Roger Creager + Kevin Fowler Joe's Bar.
6 UPDATED Dinosaur Feathers + Sister Crayon + Box Jellyfish Empty Bottle.
6, 7 UPDATED The English Beat SPACE. Apr 7 added.
6 UPDATED First Aid Kit + Peggy Sue Lincoln Hall.
6 David Gonzalez & The Poetic License Band McAninch Arts Center.
6 Neon Indian + Friends Metro. 18+
6 State and Madison + The Aesthetic + The Frantic Beat Kitchen. AA
7 Erykah Badu + Doug E. Fresh Arie Crown Theater.
7 Black Taxi Double Door.
7 Bomb the Music Industry! Beat Kitchen. AA
7 NEW Dangermuffin + Falldown + The Winter Sounds + The Seedy Seeds Martyrs'.
7 Fela! on Tour Lincoln Hall.
7 NEW Foxy Shazam + Maniac + Cadaver Dogs Subterranean. AA
7 Human Nature: The Motown Show Rosemont Theatre.
7 Los Vigilantes Crown Tap Room.
7 Lucero + William Elliott Whitmore Metro. 18+
7 NEW Mannequin Men + Outer Minds Empty Bottle.
7 Mountain Sprout Reggie's Music Joint.
7 Needmore + Vanity Theft Abbey Pub.
7 NERO Congress Theater. 17+
7 SBTRKT + Willis Earl Beal House of Blues. 17+
7 Peggy Seeger Old Town School of Folk Music, Szold Hall.
7 Zeke + Jar'd Loose + Against the Grain Reggie's Rock Club. 17+
8 Our Lady Peace + The Pack A.D. Subterranean. 17+
8 Sleeping with Sirens + Abandon All Ships + Conditions + Secrets Bottom Lounge. AA
8 White Rabbits + Gull Metro. 18+
9 NEW The Cribs Schubas.
9 NEW Goldenboy + Kerosene Stars + Open Land Double Door.
9 Chuck Ragan + Dan Andriano + Cory Branan Bottom Lounge. AA
9 NEW Turchi Stage Bar.
10 Escape the Fate + Attack Attack! + The Word Alive + Secrets + Mest House of Blues. AA
10 Perfume Genius + Parenthetical Girls Schubas.
10 Rasputina + Daniel Knox Double Door.
10 NEW Christopher Paul Stelling The Ace Bar.
11 Aloke Dutta Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
11, 12 UPDATED Willie Nelson Paramount Theatre. Apr 11 added.
11 Suzzy Roche & Lucy Wainwright Roche SPACE.
12 Caveman Schubas.
12 Dirty Ghosts Empty Bottle.
12 NEW Enter Shikari + letlive + At the Skylines Bottom Lounge. AA
12 Frankenstein Brothers featuring Buckethead & That 1 Guy + Wolff and Tuba Park West. AA
12 The Fred Eaglesmith Travelling Show featuring the Fabulous Ginn Sisters Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
12 Clovis Mann Reggie's Music Joint.
12 Ingrid Michaelson Vic Theatre. SOLD OUT
12 Willie Nelson Paramount Theatre.
12 Pure Prairie League SPACE.
12 Rodrigo y Gabriela & C.U.B.A. Chicago Theatre.
12–15 Miguel Zenón Quartet Jazz Showcase.
13 Behemoth + Watain + The Devil's Blood + In Solitude Bottom Lounge. 17+
13, 14 Creed Chicago Theatre.
13 Disappears + Lotus Plaza + Implodes Lincoln Hall. 18+
13 Roberta Flack The Venue at Horseshoe Casino.
13 Khann Ultra Lounge.
13 The Lumineers + Kopecky Family Band SPACE.
13 Maná Allstate Arena.
13 Mastodon + Opeth + Ghost Riviera Theatre. AA
13 Brad Mehldau & Joshua Redman Symphony Center.
13 UPDATED mr. Gnome + Blane Fonda + The Record Low Schubas.
13 Organs + The Hussy + Party Bat Crown Tap Room.
13 Graham Parker + Gretchen Peters Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall. Two shows.
13 Raw Nerve + Ceremony Subterranean. AA
13 Rachael Sage The Ace Bar.
13 Josh Thompson + Chris Cavanaugh + Sean Patrick McGraw Joe's Bar.
13 Trampled by Turtles + These United States Metro. 18+
14 Acid Baby Jesus Crown Tap Room.
14, 15 Bassnectar + VibeSquaD Congress Theater. Apr 14 sold out. 17+
14 UPDATED Bombino + AfroZep Martyrs'.
14 fun. Vic Theatre. SOLD OUT
14 Gearbox Fantastique II: Hellblinki + V Is for Villains Reggie's Rock Club. 18+
14 Good Old War + The Belle Brigade Lincoln Hall.
14 NEW Heartsfield FitzGerald's.
14 Howlin Rain + Buffalo Killers The Ace Bar.
14 Zakir Hussain presents Masters of Percussion Symphony Center.
14 Musical Charis Reggie's Music Joint.
14 Rupa & The April Fishes Mayne Stage. 18+
14 NEW Secret Colours + Go Long Mule + Red Tail Ring Subterranean.
14 Abigail Washburn Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
15 Across Tundras Ultra Lounge.
15 NEW The Cave Singers Schubas.
15 NEW Fashion Bomb + A Born Plague + Skinwalker + Impale + Orion Nine + Bleed for the Fallen + Miles From Exile Reggie's Rock Club. 17+
15 Galant, tu perds ton temps Old Town School of Folk Music, Szold Hall.
15 The Naked and Famous + Vacationer + Now, Now Vic Theatre. AA
15 Darrell Scott + Darden Smith SPACE.
15 The Tannahill Weavers Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
16 NEW Red Baraat Schubas. 18+
16, 17 Death Cab for Cutie with the Magik*Magik Orchestra + Low Chicago Theatre.
16 Stage Door Canteen Reggie's Music Joint.
17 Joe Firstman + Ernie Halter SPACE.
17 The Fray Riviera Theatre. AA
17 NEW Ari Herstand Schubas. AA
17 Portugal. The Man + The Lonely Forest Vic Theatre. 18+
17 Talvin Singh & Niladri Kumar Empty Bottle.
17 Trust Empty Bottle.
18 Bear in Heaven + Blouse Schubas. AA
18 Hanni El Khatib + Sundelles Empty Bottle.
18 NEW Marcus Foster + Sam Bradley SPACE.
18 Pink Martini Symphony Center.
18 Said the Whale + Audiences + Otter Petter + Bambi Raptor + Chains of Love Double Door.
18 Soulfly Bottom Lounge. 17+
19 Willis Earl Beal Hideout.
19 Lurrie Bell SPACE.
19 Idan Raichel & Vieux Farka Touré Quartet Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall. Two shows.
19 Kaiser Chiefs House of Blues. 17+
19 Little River Band + Mike Himebaugh Viper Alley.
19–22 NEW Mike Stern Trio Jazz Showcase.
19 NEW Tanlines Empty Bottle.
19 White Denim + Hundred Visions Lincoln Hall. 18+
20 NEW Big Sandy & His Fly-Rite Boys FitzGerald's.
20 Cindy Bradley The Montrose Room.
20 Cornmeal + Hot Buttered Rum Vic Theatre. 18+
20 NEW Crowbar + Prong + Witchburn + En Masse + Never We See Cobra Lounge.
20 Cults + Spectrals + Mrs. Magician Metro. 18+
20 Excision + Liquid Stranger + Lucky Date Congress Theater. 17+
20 The Jezabels + Benjamin Francis Leftwich Lincoln Hall. 18+
20 Anais Mitchell + Cuddle Magic SPACE.
20 Paco de Lucía Symphony Center.
20 Red Baraat Elgin Community College Arts Center.
20 Papo Santiago & Orquestra Infraverde Old Town School of Folk Music, Szold Hall.
20 UPDATED Sleepy Sun + White Hills + Soft Speaker Subterranean. 17+
20 Sara Watkins + The Chapin Sisters Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
21 NEW Belanova + El Artista Invitado Congress Theater. AA
21 CAVE Empty Bottle.
21 Devin the Dude Reggie's Rock Club. 18+
21 Gaither Vocal Band Star Plaza Theatre.
21 Gemini Club + Pet Lions Lincoln Hall. 18+
21 Hot Chelle Rae + Electric Touch House of Blues. AA
21 Mason Jennings SPACE. Two shows.
21 Kinetix Double Door.
21 Ami Saraiya & The Outcome Old Town School of Folk Music, Szold Hall.
21 Snow Patrol + Ed Sheeran Aragon. AA
21 Marty Stuart & His Fabulous Superlatives Dominican University.
21 UPDATED Mike Stud + The Dean's List + Huey Mack Reggie's Rock Club. AA
21 Loudon Wainwright III + The Pines Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall. Two shows.
21, 23, 24 Johnny Winter Beverly Arts Center. Apr 23 and 24 at SPACE.
21 Peter Yarrow Elgin Community College Arts Center.
22 NEW Ashland High Bottom Lounge. 17+
22 Dirge Within + Kastasyde + Elysion Fields + Product of Hate Reggie's Rock Club. 17+
22 John Gorka + Eliza Gilkyson Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
22 Morgue Supplier + Zath + Elbow Deep + Scaphism + Terminate Empty Bottle.
22 Eddie Palmieri Quartet Mayne Stage. Two shows. 18+
22 Jason Reeves SPACE.
22 Trans-Siberian Orchestra The Venue at Horseshoe Casino.
23 NEW Acid Mothers Temple Empty Bottle.
23 NEW Carrie Nation & The Speakeasy Cobra Lounge.
23 Revocation + Cannabis Corpse + Ramming Speed + Dirthog Ultra Lounge.
24 Jill Barber Schubas.
24 Lambchop Lincoln Hall.
24 The Plastic Crimewave Vision Celestial Guitarkestra Museum of Contemporary Art.
25 Charanga Cakewalk Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
25 UPDATED Overkill + God Forbid + SuidAkrA + Diamond Plate Bottom Lounge. 17+
25 NEW Talib Kweli The Shrine.
26 Jonathan Edwards SPACE.
26 NEW Horse Feathers + Brown Bird Lincoln Hall. 18+
26 NEW Waco Brothers + Paul Burch FitzGerald's.
26–29 Bobby Watson Quartet Jazz Showcase.
26 Young Dubliners Reggie's Rock Club. 17+
27 The Band of Heathens Martyrs'.
27 James Cotton & Eddy Clearwater Viper Alley.
27 Cowboy Junkies Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall. Two shows.
27 Fountains of Wayne Double Door.
27 The Gates of Slumber + Scythe + Midnight + Ares Kingdom + Stone Magnum Reggie's Rock Club. 17+
27 Gipsy Kings Chicago Theatre.
27 Green River Ordinance Beat Kitchen. AA
27 Grupo Cumbé Old Town School of Folk Music, Szold Hall.
27, 28 Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Symphony Center.
27 JD McPherson Lincoln Hall.
27 Midnight + Scythe + Ares Kingdom Reggie's Rock Club. 17+
27 The Risin' Sun Ultra Lounge.
27, 28 The Rumble: Murphy's Law + 100 Demons + Negative Approach + Rotting Out + Cruel Hand + Wisdom in Chains Bottom Lounge. AA
27 Stephen Paul Smoker Empty Bottle.
27 Steel Panther House of Blues. 17+
27 Phil Vassar Joe's Bar.
27 Dar Williams SPACE. Two shows.
28 The Charlie Daniels Band North Central College.
28 Ezra Furman Schubas. Two shows. Early show AA
28 James Hunter SPACE.
28 UPDATED The Infamous Stringdusters + Head for the Hills Double Door.
28 School of Seven Bells + Exitmusic Lincoln Hall.
28 The Special Consensus Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
28 The Sweetback Sisters Old Town School of Folk Music, Szold Hall.
28 Tortoise Empty Bottle. Two shows.
29 Negură Bunget + Eclipse Eternal + The Way of Purity + Din Brad Ultra Lounge.
29 Inti-Illimani Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
29 Kim Richey + Joel Henderson SPACE.
30 NEW Bowling for Soup Bottom Lounge. AA
30 NEW Frankie Rose + Dive Township.
30 NEW Garrison Starr + David Berkeley SPACE.
1 Kina Grannis Park West. AA
1 Great Lake Swimmers + Cold Specks Lincoln Hall.
1 Natalia Zukerman & Adrianne Gonzalez SPACE.
2 Bagwis Collective Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
2 The Priests Park West. Rescheduled from Nov 16. 18+
2, 3 Yanni Chicago Theatre.
3 The Bad Plus Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
3–6 Cyrus Chestnut Trio Jazz Showcase.
3 Robbie Fulks SPACE.
3 Spiritualized Metro. 18+
4 The Boxer Rebellion Lincoln Hall.
4 NEW He Is We Bottom Lounge.
4 M83 + I Break Horses Riviera Theatre. Moved from Vic Theatre. SOLD OUT
4, 5 Over the Rhine SPACE.
4 Rammstein Allstate Arena.
4, 5 Rusko Congress Theater. 17+
4 Gary Sinise & The Lt. Dan Band Joe's Bar.
4 Theory of a Deadman + Pop Evil + Stellar Revival House of Blues. 17+
4 Yann Tiersen + Felix Metro. 18+
4 ''Weird Al'' Yankovic Star Plaza Theatre.
5 Autopsy + Cianide + Bones + Cardiac Arrest + Reign Inferno Reggie's Rock Club. 17+
5 Carolina Chocolate Drops Lincoln Hall. 18+
5 Local H Double Door.
5 Poncho Sanchez & Terence Blanchard Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall. Two shows.
5 Kasim Sulton Martyrs'.
5 Bobby Vinton Rialto Square Theatre.
6 Peter Bradley Adams + Sara Swenson Schubas.
6 La Dispute + Balance and Composure + All Get Out + Sainthood Reps Metro. AA
6 Leahy McAninch Arts Center.
6 Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues + Sons of the Never Wrong Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall. Two shows.
6 Fruteland Jackson Old Town School of Folk Music, Szold Hall.
9 NEW Lee Fields & The Expressions Lincoln Hall.
9 NEW The David Mayfield Parade Schubas.
10 NEW Destruction + Warbringer + Vital Remains + Pathology Reggie's Rock Club. 17+
10–13 Benny Golson Jazz Showcase.
10 Justin Townes Earle + Tristen Park West. AA
10 Ty Segall + White Fence + The Strange Boys Lincoln Hall. 18+
11 Eric Church + Blackberry Smoke + Brantley Gilbert Sears Centre.
11 The Ditty Bops Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
11 The Fab Four: The Ultimate Beatles Tribute House of Blues. 17+
11 Lamajamal Old Town School of Folk Music, Szold Hall.
11 Plants and Animals Schubas.
11 Rat Scabies & Brian James Reggie's Rock Club. 17+
11 St. Vincent Vic Theatre. 18+
11, 12 NEW Toubab Krewe + Giant Panda Guerilla Dub Squad Martyrs'.
11 Tyrone Wells + Joe Brooks Lincoln Hall. 18+
12 Andrew Bird + Mucca Pazza Auditorium Theatre.
12 Electric Six + Andy D Double Door.
12 NEW Father John Misty + Har Mar Superstar Schubas.
12 Go Radio + There for Tomorrow + Tonight Alive + Tyler Carter Bottom Lounge. AA
12 Freedy Johnston + Alison Scott SPACE.
12 Patty Larkin + Lucy Kaplansky Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
12 NEW The Right Now + DeRobert & The Half-Truths Lincoln Hall. 18+
12 NEW Shpongle House of Blues. 17+
12 The Stylistics + The Chi-Lites + The Emotions + The Delfonics + The Blue Notes Arie Crown Theater.
12 Wookiefoot + Fifth World Reggie's Rock Club. 18+
13 Chris Botti Rosemont Theatre. Rescheduled from Oct 14.
13 Demetria Taylor Old Town School of Folk Music, Szold Hall.
15 Allo Darlin' + The Wave Pictures Schubas. 18+
15 Meshuggah + Baroness + Decapitated House of Blues. AA
16 NEW The Cranberries Riviera Theatre. 18+
16 Damien Jurado + JBM Schubas.
16 Active Child + Balam Acab + Superhumanoids Lincoln Hall. 18+
16 Sabaton Reggie's Rock Club. AA
16 María Volonté Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
17–20 Eric Alexander Quartet featuring Harold Mabern Jazz Showcase.
17 NEW Mayer Hawthorne & The County + The Stepkids Park West. 18+
17 Glen Phillips Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
17 Rocky Votolato + Jeff Pianki Schubas. 18+
18 Jason Boland & The Stragglers + Chris Knight Joe's Bar.
18 K.D. Lang & The Siss Boom Bang Genesee Theatre.
18 Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall. Two shows.
18 Michelle Shocked SPACE.
18, 19 Joe Pug Lincoln Hall. May 18 18+
19 Alt Q Festival: Daphne Willis + Alix Dobkin Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
19 NEW Hairball Willie + Dime Store String Band Martyrs'.
19 Laurence Juber Old Town School of Folk Music, Szold Hall.
19 Huey Lewis & The News The Venue at Horseshoe Casino.
19 Bonnie Raitt + Marc Cohn Chicago Theatre.
20 Sharon Lewis & Texas Fire Old Town School of Folk Music, Szold Hall.
20 Switchfoot North Central College.
20 Frank Vignola SPACE.
21, 22 NEW The Beach Boys Chicago Theatre.
21, 22 UPDATED Glenn Miller Orchestra Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace.
22 Cyrus Chestnut with the Chicago Symphony Orchestra Symphony Center.
22 M. Ward + Lee Ranaldo Band Vic Theatre. AA
23 Juanito Pascual Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
24 The Adicts + The World/Inferno Friendship Society Metro. AA
24–27 Gerald Clayton Trio Jazz Showcase.
25 Anders Osborne SPACE.
25 Danilo Pérez + Bill Charlap & Renee Rosnes Symphony Center.
25–27 Summer Camp Music Festival: moe. + Umphrey's McGee + Primus + Bob Weir, Chris Robinson & Jackie Greene + Gogol Bordello + Ozomatli + Cornmeal + Victor Wooten Three Sisters Park.
26 Festival of Aloha: Darlene Ahuna with Daniel Ho Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
27 Festival of Aloha: Daniel Ho + Herb Ohta Jr. + Jason Arimoto Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
27 Theo Huff Old Town School of Folk Music, Szold Hall.
28 NEW Exotic Animal Petting Zoo + Goes Cube Reggie's Music Joint.
28 Red Hot Chili Peppers Allstate Arena.
29 UPDATED I Break Horses + Man Without Country Lincoln Hall. 18+
30 Glawdys N'Dee Old Town School of Folk Music, Maurer Hall.
30 Nickleback + Bush + Seether + My Darkest Days Allstate Arena.
31–Jun 3 Pat Martino Trio Jazz Showcase.
1 A Tribute to Fats Waller with Jason Moran Symphony Center.
2 Tech N9ne + Machine Gun Kelly + Krizz Kaliko + ¡Mayday! + Prozak House of Blues. AA
2 Frankie Valli & The Four Seasons Chicago Theatre.
4 Antisect Reggie's Rock Club. 17+
7 Kenny Chesney + Tim McGraw + Grace Potter & The Nocturnals + Jake Owen Soldier Field.
8–10 Chicago Blues Festival: Mavis Staples + Texas Johnny Brown + Floyd Taylor Grant Park.
8 The Parlotones Schubas.
8 Roger Waters's The Wall Wrigley Field.
9 Brad Paisley + Miranda Lambert + Chris Young + The Band Perry + Jerrod Niemann Wrigley Field.
9 Joe Louis Walker + The Steepwater Band SPACE.
14–17 Dave Holland & Kenny Barron Jazz Showcase.
20 Foster the People + Tokyo Police Club Congress Theater. Jun 20 sold out, Jun 21 added. AA
20 Mogwai Metro. 18+
21–24 Freddy Cole Quartet Jazz Showcase.
22 Anthony Green + The Dear Hunter Bottom Lounge. AA
22–24 NEW Loretta Lynn Drury Lane Oakbrook Terrace.
22, 23 Marillion + Sun Domingo Park West. 18+
23 NEW Sugarland First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre.
28, 29 Ministry Vic Theatre. 18+
6 Neil Diamond United Center.
6 NEW Heart The Venue at Horseshoe Casino.
12–14 Barry Manilow Chicago Theatre. Rescheduled from Feb 2–4.
20, 21 Michael Jackson THE IMMORTAL Wold Tour by Cirque du Soleil United Center.
28 NEW Rascal Flatts + Little Big Town + Eli Young Band + Edens Edge First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre.
3, 4 Il Divo Rosemont Theatre.
4 Happy Together Tour 2012: The Turtles featuring Flo & Eddie + Micky Dolenz + Gary Puckett & The Union Gap + The Grass Roots + The Buckinghams Genesee Theatre.
7, 8 Coldplay United Center. Aug 8 added.
18 NEW Jason Aldean + Luke Bryan First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre.
2 NEW Toby Keith + Brantley Gilbert First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre.
19, 20 Madonna United Center.
22 Frantic Flinstones Reggie's Rock Club. 17+
13 Adam Ant Cubby Bear. Rescheduled from Feb 18. SOLD OUT
3 The Fab Faux Vic Theatre.
5 Mannheim Steamroller Rialto Square Theatre.
