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Thursday October 1 = Editor's Pick

Mickey Factz, Dada Life, Red Wire Black Wire, J+J+J, Young Live with Starter DJs & Don P
Abbey Pub: 8:30pm, $15 18+
The Nadas
Beat Kitchen: 8:30pm, $12 18+
Dickey Betts
Beverly Arts Center: 8pm, $43 All Ages
DJ Bridget spins Soul
Delilah's: 9pm 21+
Uncle Larry, Soul Greed, World Wide Riot, Sir Leo, Cindy Brandle
Elbo Room: 8:30pm, $8 21+
Norman Lee, piano
Fulton Recital Hall: 12:15pm, $0 All Ages
Alan Gresik Swing Shift Orchestra
Green Mill: 9pm, $6 21+
Love Makes Music Tour, Nicole Witt and Christa Wells
Heartland Cafe: 8pm, $7 All Ages
The New Standards, Lucy Michelle and the Velvet Lapelles
Hideout: 8pm, $10 21+
Larry Coryell Trio
Jazz Showcase: 8pm
Andrew W.K. & Calder Quartet
Lakeshore Theater: 8pm, $20
Big C Jamboree, Johnny Carlevale & the Rolling Pins
Martyrs': 9:30pm, $0 21+
Manic Street Preachers
Metro: 7:30pm, $23 All Ages
The Elaine Dame Trio
Pops for Champagne: 9pm, $8 All Ages
The Charlie Daniels Band
Rialto Square Theatre: 8pm, $26 All Ages
James Wheeler Blues Jam, Ariyo, Tony Mangiullo, Harlan Terson
Rosa's Lounge: 8pm, $7
The Australian Pink Floyd Show
Rosemont Theatre: 8pm All Ages
Alfonz De La Mota, Riverman, The Ghost, Oracle
Smartbar: 10pm, $0 21+
Essex Chanel, Ami Saraiya
Subterranean : 8:30pm, $8 Other
Bobbito (DJ set)
The Shrine: 9pm, 7-$10 21+
Hunter Husar, Kenneth Zawacki (DJ)
The Whistler: 9pm 21+
Digital Primitives, Cooper-Moore, Assif Tsahar, Chad Taylor
Velvet Lounge: 8:30pm
She Wants Revenge, Kill Hannah
Vic Theatre: 6:30pm, $22 All Ages





Friday October 2 = Editor's Pick

Juliette Lewis, The Ettes, American Bang
Bottom Lounge: 8pm, 15-$17 18+
Chicago Jazz Ensemble w/Steve Turre
DuSable Museum: 7:30pm All Ages
The Chicago Jazz Ensemble
Dusable Museum Theatre: 7:30pm, $25 All Ages
Anti-Pop Consortium, Magical Beautiful, i kong kult
Empty Bottle: 10pm, $10 21+
Green Mill Quartet
Green Mill: 1:30am, $0 21+
Soft Speaker, A Lull, Darling
Hideout: 10pm, $8 21+
Typhanie Monique Pro Jam Session
Jazz Showcase: 8pm
Lee Ann Womack
Joe's Bar: 8:30pm, $20 21+
Spider Saloff, Tom Muellner
Katerina's: 6:30pm, $0
Rembetika
Katerina's: 10pm, $10
gehenna, Exotic Animal Petting Zoo, LOOM
Kinetic Playground: 9pm, $5 21+
The August, Dave Tamkin, Dan Hubbard
Martyrs': 9pm, $10 21+
The Fold, Danger Is My Middle Name, Dear Noel, The Fireship, Valaska
Metro: 5:30pm All Ages
Ty Stone: The Soul of James Brown
Morseland: 10pm, $5 21+
Black Umbrella Brigade, Desperate Club
Red Line Tap: 9pm 21+
Supersuckers, Siderunners, Magnafux, Dead Town Revival
Reggie's Rock Club: 8pm, $12 Other
Joe Moss Band
Rosa's Lounge: 8pm, $10
Tina Dico, Lisa Donnelly
Schubas: 7pm, $14 21+
Joshua James, Aushua, Brice Woodall
Schubas: 10pm, 10-$12 Other
Frankie Bones, Psycho Bitch, Frankie Vega, JJ Jellybean
Smartbar: 10pm 21+
Pistols at Dawn, JT and the Clouds
Subterranean : 9:30pm, $10 Other
Bernstein & Bartók
Symphony Center: 8pm, 22-$199
Phenom & Band Live, DJ Diesel
The Shrine: 9pm, 10-$15 21+
Natalie Cole
The Venue at Horseshoe Casino: 7:30pm, $40 21+
Leroy Bach
The Whistler: 6pm 21+
True Sounds of Liberty w/ DJ Laurent Lebec
The Whistler: 9:30pm 21+
Naked Without Shame, Magic Murder Bag, Last minute
US Beer Company: 9pm, $7 21+
Renee’ Baker & the Mantra Blue Free Orchestra, Alexia Kruger, Ann Ward, Yoseph Henry, Barb Farnandis, Nicole Mitchell
Velvet Lounge: 9:30pm
Trio WAZ, Ed Wilkerson, Tatsu Aoki, Michael Zerang
Velvet Lounge: 9:30pm
Frank Lamphere
Viand: 7pm All Ages





Saturday October 3 = Editor's Pick

Brand New, Manchester Orchestra, Sybris
Aragon Ballroom: 7pm All Ages
Peelander-Z, Math The Band, Catch A Tiger
Bottom Lounge: 8pm, 7-$10 21+
Miranda Lambert, Jamey Johnson, Joe Pug, Or The Whale, Coy Taylor Band, Lee Ann Womack, Bob DiPiero, Dean Dillon, Scotty Emerick
Chicago Country Music Festival: 11am, $0 All Ages
Sabertooth
Green Mill: midnight, 0-$5 21+
Ill Legit
Green Oliver: 10pm, $0 21+
Lazer Crystal, Night Gallery, Love Concept
Hideout: 9pm, $8 21+
KMFDM
House of Blues: 9pm, 23-$26 Other
Jamey Johnson
Joe's Bar: 11pm, $17 21+
7th Annual Gypsy-Jazz Festival
Steve Gibons
Katerina's: 10pm, $10
Monotonix
Logan Square Auditorium: 9pm, $15 All Ages
Lowdown Brass Band, Terrible Spaceship, Lying Delilah
Martyrs': 10pm, $8 21+
Fever Ray
Metro: 9pm, $25 18+
The Jesters
Morseland: 10pm, $5 21+
John Gorka, Alice Peacock
Old Town School of Folk Music: 4pm, 21-$25 All Ages
Wicked Soul, The Loafers, Goat Motor, Rebel Tone
Red Line Tap: 9pm 21+
Gallows, Explode and Make Up
Reggie's Rock Club: 5pm, $10 All Ages
Lurrie Bell Band
Rosa's Lounge: 10pm, 12-$15
Mirah, Norfolk & Western
Schubas: 7pm & 10:30pm, $14
Chuck Love, Jevne, Jeff Craven
Smartbar: 10pm 21+
The Del Moroccos w/ Tommy Klein's Ambassadors To Earth
SPACE: 8:30pm, $10 21+
Signal Path, Prep School
Subterranean : 10pm, $12 Other
Paavo Järvi, Renée Fleming
Symphony Center: 7pm, 55-$249
Paddy C, Mojo Skillet, Eigenfunk, Dark Horse Mob, One Way Up
US Beer Company: 9pm, $8 21+
Five Finger Death Punch
VLive: 5:30pm All Ages
Chicago Didjeridu Chorus
World Music Company: 8pm, $20





Sunday October 4 = Editor's Pick

Kid Koala
Abbey Pub: 9pm, $20 21+
Mono, Maserati, Helen Money
Bottom Lounge: 8pm, $15 18+
Mono, Maserati, Helen Money
Bottom Lounge: 8pm 21+
Alejandro Escovedo, John Rich, The Flatlanders (Joe Ely, Jimmie Dale Gilmore, Butch Hancock), Colin Gilmore, Dan Whitaker & The Shinebenders
Chicago Country Music Festival: 11am, $0 All Ages
Living Colour
Double Door: 8pm, $20 21+
Kimberly Gordon Organ Trio
Green Mill: 11pm, $4 21+
Uptown Poetry Slam

Green Mill: 7pm, $6 21+
Stryper w/Flight Patterns, Manic Drive
House of Blues: 5:30pm, 23-$28 All Ages
Charlie Love & The Silky Smooth Blues Band, Linsey Alexander
Kingston Mines: 9pm 21+
Luca Ciarla
Morseland: 10pm, $5 21+
Howard Levy, Larry Kohut, Ernie Adams, Chris Siebold, Pat Fleming
Nichols Concert Hall: 7:30pm, $20 All Ages
Janette Fishell
Nichols Concert Hall: 3pm, $20 All Ages
Carolina Chocolate Drops, Ruth Ball, Tom Cronin
Old Town School of Folk Music: 7pm, 18-$22 All Ages
Vanessa Peters, Amanda White, Cindy Brandle
Red Line Tap: 9pm 21+
Rabbit Factory Funky Pig Roast

Reggie's Music Joint: 21+
Ten Out of Tenn, Madi Diaz, Kyle Andrews, Andrew Belle, Joy Williams, Ashley Monroe, Mikky Ekko, Sarah Siskind, Trent Dabbs, K.S. Rhoads
Schubas: 8pm, $12
Mariachi Vargas de Tecalitlán
Symphony Center: 3pm, 26-$86
The Golden Horse Ranch Band
The Whistler: 6:30pm 21+
AACM Great Black Music Ensemble
Velvet Lounge: 7pm
Isaiah Spencer, Kevin Nabors, Christopher McBride, Sayid Chrisberg, Junius Paul
Velvet Lounge: 9:30pm
The Bravery
Vic Theatre: 7:30pm 18+





Monday October 5 = Editor's Pick

Why?, AU, Dark Dark Dark
Bottom Lounge: 6pm, $15 All Ages
Patricia Barber Quartet
Green Mill: 9pm, $7 21+
Screaming Females
Hideout: 9pm, $8 21+
Jeannie Lambert, Andy Brown
Katerina's: 8pm, $5
J.W. Williams, Carl Weathersby
Kingston Mines: 9pm 21+
Hope Sandoval & The Warm Inventions
Lakeshore Theater: 8pm, $20
Scott Anderson's Nia Quintet
Morseland: 10pm 21+
The Nones, The (Glorious) Teaparty, Born to Love Volcanos
Subterranean : 9:30pm, $6 21+





Tuesday October 6 = Editor's Pick

Om, Lichens, Ga'An
Bottom Lounge: 8pm 21+
Pseudo Slang, 1773, Vertual Vertigo, DJ Trew
darkroom: 9pm, $5 21+
Deep Blue Organ Trio
Green Mill: 9pm, $6 21+
Revolting Cocks w/ Jim Rose Circus, Blowload, Left Spine Down
House of Blues: 7pm, 19.50-$28 Other
Typhanie Monique Pro Jam Session
Jazz Showcase: 8pm
Chi Chi's Cha Cha!
Katerina's: 8:30pm, $5
Savoy, Gemini Club
Kinetic Playground: 8pm, $12
Joe Barr, Quintus McCormick
Kingston Mines: 9pm 21+
Halfway North, Band Called Catch, Moses Cleveland
Martyrs': 8pm, $7 21+
Wax & Herbal T
Morseland: 10pm, $5 21+
Sexfist
Red Line Tap: 9pm 21+
Pete Galanis, Nate Manos
Rosa's Lounge: 8pm, $5
Youth Group
Schubas: 9pm, $10 21+
Lydia, Anarbor, Brother George
Subterranean : 7pm, $10 All Ages
L’Orchestre Super Vitesse
The Whistler: 9:30pm 21+
Yo La Tengo
Vic Theatre: 7:30pm, $23 All Ages





Wednesday October 7 = Editor's Pick

Studebaker John & The Hawks
Buddy Guy's Legends: 9:30pm, $10 21+
Kyle Minogue
Congress Theater: 8pm All Ages
Part V, The Ghost Is Dancing, Rubik, The Rosen Association
darkroom: 8pm, $10 21+
Alfonso Ponticelli & Swing Gitan
Green Mill: 9pm, $6 21+
All That Remains w/Lacuna Coil, Maylene, The Sons of Disaster
House of Blues: 5pm, 18-$20.50 All Ages
Guitars of Fire
Katerina's: 7pm, $0
Jimmy Burns, Maurice Vaughn
Kingston Mines: 9pm 21+
Andrew McMahon
Lakeshore Theater: 8pm, $25
Riot Fest
Butthole Surfers, The House Gloria Vanderbilt
Metro: 6:30pm, $24 All Ages
Lokua Presents: Heartbeats

Morseland: 10pm 21+
The Artesian Hash Hounds
Red Line Tap: 9pm 21+
Colbie Caillat
Riviera Theatre: 7pm, $27
Gene Farris, Diz, Lego, Frique, Lady D
Smartbar: 10pm 21+
These United States, Paleo, Or, the Whale
Subterranean : 8:30pm, $10 Other
Roberto Abbado, Joshua Bell, Henry McDowell
Symphony Center: 6:30pm, 28-$90
Andreas Kapsalis & Goran Ivanovic Guitar Duo
The Whistler: 9:30pm 21+
Nootka Sound, Automata, Zerostars
Tonic Room: 8pm, $5
Corey Wilkes & Abstrakt Pulse
Velvet Lounge: 8:30pm
Ian Anderson
Vic Theatre: 7:30pm, $69





Thursday October 8 = Editor's Pick

Larry Zbikowski, guitar
Fulton Recital Hall: 12:15pm, $0 All Ages
Alan Gresik Swing Shift Orchestra
Green Mill: 9pm, $6 21+
Disappears, Implodes
Hideout: 9pm, $10 21+
Miguel Zenon Quintet
Jazz Showcase: 8pm
Grazyna Auguscik & Pualinho Garcia
Katerina's: 8:30pm, $8
Walker, Playmates
Kinetic Playground: 8pm
Athens, The MDR, Aviary Ghost, Flame Shark
Martyrs': 8pm, $7 21+
Jaik Willis
Reggie's Music Joint: 5pm 21+
The Decemberists
Riviera Theatre: 7pm, $29 All Ages
James Wheeler Blues Jam, Ariyo, Tony Mangiullo, Harlan Terson
Rosa's Lounge: 8pm, $7
12th Planet, Boogymon, Dottcom, Kabz
Smartbar: 10pm, 5-$8 21+
MC Chris, Whole Wheat Bread, I Fight Dragons
Subterranean : 9:30pm, 12-$14 Other
Roberto Abbado, Joshua Bell, Henry McDowell
Symphony Center: 8pm, 28-$90
Glass Bricks, Cool Memories
The Whistler: 9:30pm 21+
Maxwell, Common, Chrisette Michele
United Center: 7:30pm
Will Woodrow, Matthew Bailey, Happy Tablet Academy, Three Piece and a Biscuit, Kicking Cans
US Beer Company: 7:45pm, $7 21+
Cliff Wallace, Dudley Owens, Chris McBride, Josh Ramos
Velvet Lounge: 8:30pm





Friday October 9 = Editor's Pick

Waco Brothers & Friends, Dirty Rooks
: 9pm, $12 21+
Taylor Swift
Allstate Arena: 7:30pm All Ages
How Far to Austin, Painkiller Hotel, Cold Water Mystic, Breakers Broken
Bottom Lounge: 8pm, 7-$10 21+
Riot Fest
The Murder City Devils, The Dead Milkmen, Riverboat Gamblers, The Frankl Project
Congress Theater: 10:30pm, $25 All Ages
Green Mill Quartet
Green Mill: 1:30am, $0 21+
Big Bang TV, Serengeti & Polyphonic, Kid Static
Hideout: 10pm, $8 21+
Mat Kearney
House of Blues: 7:30pm
This Must Be The Band (Talking Heads Tribute)
Joe's Bar: 10pm, $10 21+
Paul Marinaro
Katerina's: 6:30pm, $0
Eek-A-Mouse, Taggart Intercontinental
Kinetic Playground: 8pm, 15-$20
Gojira, Burst, Zoroaster
Logan Square Auditorium: 7pm, $13 All Ages
Waco Brothers & Friends, Dirty Rooks
Martyrs': 9pm, $12 21+
Naked Raygun, Rights Of The Accused, No Empathy, Wax
Metro: 6pm, $20 All Ages
Gyrating Bhtch, Maybenauts
Morseland: 10pm, $5 21+
Leon Redbone
Old Town School of Folk Music: 8pm All Ages
Ian Howell
Ravinia : 8pm, $20
The Group LE, Tovi Khali, Darrin James Band
Red Line Tap: 9pm 21+
WZRD's 35th Anniversary Party
The Effigies, New Colony 6, Skarekrauradio, Realclide, Eyes, Illusion of Safety, Right-Eye Rita, Mark Shippy, William Sides Atari Party, Dental Work
Reggie's Rock Club: 6pm, $12 Other
Quintus McCormick
Rosa's Lounge: 9:30pm, $12
Japandroids, The Coathangers
Schubas: 10:30pm, $12 21+
LTJ Bukem, MC Conrad, Submorphics
Smartbar: 10pm, 10-$15 21+
Jeremy Messersmith, Mar Caribe
SPACE: 8pm, 8-$17 21+
Riot Fest
The Aggrolites
Subterranean: 10pm, $12 Other
Roberto Abbado, Joshua Bell, Henry McDowell
Symphony Center: 8pm, 28-$90
Waajeed, Ge-ology, Blu Jemz
The Shrine: 9pm 21+
Chicago Calling Arts Festival
Yuganaut, Tom Abbs, Geoff Mann, Stephen Rush
Velvet Lounge: 9:30pm
Frank Lamphere
Viand: 7pm All Ages





Saturday October 10 = Editor's Pick

Taylor Swift
Allstate Arena: 7:30pm All Ages
Loney Dear, Asobi Seksu, Anna Ternheim
Bottom Lounge: 8pm, $15 18+
Riot Fest
NOFX, Cock Sparrer, 88 Fingers Louie, Street Dogs, Youth Brigade, Shot Baker, Off With Their Heads
Congress Theater: 11pm, $25 All Ages
Tom Russell
FitzGerald's: 7pm, $8 21+
Sabertooth
Green Mill: midnight, 0-$5 21+
Telefon Tel Aviv, The Race
Hideout: 9pm, $10 21+
Paramore, Paper Route, The Swellers
House of Blues: 7:30pm All Ages
Rakim, Psalm One
House of Blues: 11:59pm, 23-$25 21+
Big Gigantic
Kinetic Playground: 2:00am 21+
Tyrone Wells
Lakeshore Theater: 7:30pm, $15
Light In August, The Wildfire, Doppler Shift, The Dirty Blue
Martyrs': 9pm, $8 21+
Dead Milkmen, Teenage BottleRocket, Teen Idols, Anxiety High
Metro: 6:30pm, $20 All Ages
Room 11, Tina M. Howell, Wildstyle
Morseland: 10pm, $5 21+
Califone
Museum of Contemporary Art: 7:30pm, $20 All Ages
Lincoln Trio, Svetlana Belsky, Kathy Chang, Inna Faliks, Yoan Ganev, Andrew Guo, Brenda Huang
Nichols Concert Hall: 7pm, $40 All Ages
Tricia Sebastian
Old Town School of Folk Music: 11am, $12 All Ages
Roger Knox, Jon Langford, Rosie Flores & the Pine Valley Cosmonauts
Old Town School of Folk Music: 8pm, 16-$20 All Ages
Jonathan Coulton, Paul & Storm
Park West: 8pm, $20
Matt D. & Phill B.
Penny Road Pub: 10pm, $6 21+
The Polkaholics, Lord of the Yum Yum, Spitting Nickels
Red Line Tap: 9pm 21+
Girl In a Coma, Evil Beaver, Black Gold,
Reggie's Rock Club: 5pm All Ages
Slick Idiot ft. En Esch, Careful, DJ Scary Lady Sarah
Reggie's Rock Club: 11pm, $15 Other
Vance Kelly & The Backstreet Blues Band
Rosa's Lounge: 9:30pm, 12-$15
Portugal. The Man, Hockey, Drug Rug
Schubas: 10pm, $12 21+
Justin Long, Shady TVO
Smartbar: 10pm 21+
Peter Mulvey, Krista Detor
SPACE: 8pm, 15-$25 All Ages
Riot Fest
The Aggrolites
Subterranean: 10pm, $12 Other
Roberto Abbado, Joshua Bell, Henry McDowell
Symphony Center: 8pm, 28-$90
Nguzo, Baby Brutha
US Beer Company: 9pm, $8 21+
3.5.7 Ensemble, Nick Anaya, James Davis, Jason Stein, Toby Summerfield, Chris Dammann, Dylan Andrews
Velvet Lounge: 9:30pm
They Might Be Giants
Vic Theatre: 4pm & 8pm, $24 All Ages
John Digweed, Wahi
Vision Nightclub: 10pm 21+









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