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Event CalendarWednesday March 17          Editor's Pick!= Editor's Pick

The Larkin Brothers, Red Rebel County
115 Bourbon Street: 7pm, $0 All Ages
Alison Ruble
Andy's: 5pm, $5 All Ages
Mike Smith Quartet
Andy's: 9pm, $10 21+
Mike Wheeler
B.L.U.E.S.: 9:30pm
Carlos Johnson
Buddy Guy's Legends: 9:30pm, $10 21+
Mike Frost Project
Club Blujazz: 7:30pm, $10 21+
Frank Catalano Sextet
Green Mill: 2am, $0
The Immediate Sound Series
Hideout: 9:30pm, $10 21+
Bret Michaels
Joe's Bar: 9pm, $35 21+
El Payo!
Katerina's: 9pm, $8 All Ages
Muck Brothers
Martyrs': 8pm, $10 21+
Lokua Presents: Heartbeats
Morseland: 10pm 21+
Christine Marshall Kraemer
Nichols Concert Hall at the Music Institute of Chicago: 12:15pm, $0 All Ages
The Thinman, Candy Apple and The Buddies
Quenchers Saloon: 9pm, $5 21+
The Mudflapps
Red Line Tap: 9pm 21+
Super 400, The Dirty Rooks, Miggs
Reggie's Music Joint: 6pm, $5 21+
Engelbert Humperdinck
Rialto Square Theatre: 7:30PM, $53 All Ages
Brendan Bayliss & Jeff Austin
Schubas: 9pm, $25 18+
The Lives of Famous Men
Subterranean : 8:30pm, 8-$10 Other
Editor's Pick!Yahzarah, Chinahblac
The Shrine: 9pm, 10-$15 21+
Daniel Bruce Quintet
The Whistler: 9:30pm, $0 21+
DJ Puzzle
Wilde Bar and Restaurant : 3pm, $0 21+


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Event CalendarThursday March 18          Editor's Pick!= Editor's Pick

The Shirley Johnson Blues Band
Blue Chicago: 8pm, $8 21+
Editor's Pick!P.O.S., Dessa, Astronautalis
Bottom Lounge: 8pm Other
The Chicago R&B Kings
Buddy Guy's Legends: 9:30pm, $10 21+
Experience Hendrix
Chicago Theatre: 7pm, 38-$92
Diane Delin Quartet
Club Blujazz: 7:30pm, $10 21+
Tom Vaitas Group
Club Blujazz: 11:30pm, $10 21+
Low Down Brass Band
Cubby Bear: 10pm, $0 21+
Editor's Pick!Soul Summit Dance Party
Double Door: 9pm, $0 21+
Josh Abrams Quartet, Cicada Music
Elastic Arts Foundation: 10pm, $8
Deakin, Glitter Bones, Netherfriends
Empty Bottle: 9:30pm, $12 21+
Indigo Sun
Kinetic Playground: 9pm 21+
The Heavy Bombers
Quenchers Saloon: 9pm, $5 21+
Hustle Sneakers
Reggie's Music Joint: 11pm, $5 21+
Jessica Robbins, Matt Crews
Schubas: 9pm, $8 21+
MRK1, Swoop, Whoa-B
Smartbar: 10pm, $10 21+
Editor's Pick!The Jim Liban Trio, Filisko & Eric Noden
SPACE: 8pm, 10-$18 All Ages
Sarah Vonderhaar, Scottie Long
Uncommon Ground: 8pm
Jay-Z
United Center: 7pm


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Event CalendarFriday March 19          Editor's Pick!= Editor's Pick

The Nellie "Tiger" Travis Blues Band
Blue Chicago: 8pm, $10 21+
The Appleseed Cast, Dreamend
Bottom Lounge: 8pm, $15 Other
Larry McCray, The Cash Box Kings, Sam Lay
Buddy Guy's Legends: 9pm, $15 21+
Bruce Forman Trio
Club Blujazz: 7:30pm, $20 21+
Bill Boris Group
Club Blujazz: 11:30pm, $20 21+
Jack Straw, Tula
Cubby Bear: 8pm, $10 21+
New Mastersounds
Double Door: 9pm, 15-$18 21+
Tough Gong, U.G.L.Y., Kids These Days
Elastic Arts Foundation: 9pm, $10
Kevin Lee & The Kings
Elbo Room: 10pm, $7 21+
The Hoyle Brothers
Empty Bottle: 5:30pm, $0 21+
The Pin-Ups, Big City Swing
Green Dolphin Street: 8pm, $20
Chris Foreman
Green Mill: 5pm, $0
Green Mill Quartet
Green Mill: 1:30am, $0
Chi-Town Jazz Series
Green Mill: 9pm, $12
Soft Speaker, Cains & Abels
Hideout: 10pm, $8 21+
Jeff Wichmann
Hotti Biscotti: 10pm
Great Big Sea
House of Blues: 8pm, 25-$27 Other
Maggie Speaks
Joe's Bar: 10pm, $8 21+
Petra Van Nuis w/guitarist Andy Brown
Katerina's: 6:30pm, $5 All Ages
Jack Cassidy, Symbia
Katerina's: 10pm, $10 All Ages
Bluetech, Emancipator, The Coop, BRC
Kinetic Playground: 9pm, $20 21+
Editor's Pick!The Right Now, VertiKal, Weber Band
Lincoln Hall: 9pm, $10 18+
Editor's Pick!Brother George
Morseland: 10pm, $5 21+
Cowboy Junkies, Grant-Lee Phillips
Old Town School of Folk Music: 7pm & 10pm, 34-$38 All Ages
Yeti vs. Yeti, The Lorax Tree
Quenchers Saloon: 9pm, $5 21+
The Sweeps
Reggie's Music Joint: 9pm 21+
Impaler, Graverobber, Gravedirt, The Turbo Vamps
Reggie's Rock Club: 8pm, 7-$10 Other
Melvin Taylor & The Slack Band
Rosa's Lounge: 10pm, $15 21+
Scout Niblett, Picastro
Schubas: 10pm, $12 21+
Chicago Catz
SPACE: 8pm, 12-$22 All Ages
Radio Slave
Spy Bar: 10:00pm 21+
Wynton Marsalis
Symphony Center: 8pm
LeRoy Bach
The Whistler: 6pm, $0 21+
Brandon Calhoon
Tonic Room: 8pm 21+


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Event CalendarSaturday March 20          Editor's Pick!= Editor's Pick

Alice in Chains, Middle Class Rut
Aragon Ballroom: 8pm, $37 All Ages
The Barcait Couture, Starter Kit, The Born Ready
Beat Kitchen: 10:30pm, $10 Other
The Nellie "Tiger" Travis Blues Band
Blue Chicago: 8pm, $10 21+
Sammie Torres, Gian Ferme Luca
Cafe Mestizo: 6:30pm, $0
Los Lobos, Backyard Tire Fire, The Mojo Daddies
Center for the Performing Arts (Governors State University): 7pm, 25-$56
Norah Jones
Chicago Theatre : 8pm, 45-$60
Bruce Forman Trio
Club Blujazz: 7:30pm, $20 21+
Mike Frost & Friends
Club Blujazz: 11:30pm, $20 21+
Above and Beyond, Benny Benassi, Second Sun
Congress Theater: 7pm, $40 Other
Rock Candy
Cubby Bear: 8pm, $0 21+
Oistrach Symphony Orchestra
DePaul Concert Hall : 8pm, $0 18+
The Bomb, Team Band, Ready The Destroyer
Empty Bottle: 10pm, 5-$8 21+
Lynne Jordan & the Shivers
Green Dolphin Street: 8pm, $20
Sabertooth
Green Mill: 12am, $5
Juliano Milo Group
Green Mill: 8pm, $12
White Mystery, Other Minds
Hideout: 9pm, $8 21+
Great Big Sea
House of Blues: 8pm, 25-$27 Other
Chainsaw Dupont
House of Blues: 10pm, $12 21+
Then Again
Joe's Bar: 11pm, $10 21+
Spider Saloff's Spring Fling!
Katerina's: 6:30pm, $10 All Ages
The Rhythm Rockets
Katerina's: 10pm, $10 All Ages
Trainwreck Symphony
Kinetic Playground: 9pm 21+
Comedian Nick Thune Performing at The Lakeshore Theater
Nick Thune

Lakeshore Theater: 7:30 PM & 10:30 PM, $18 All Ages
The Ex, Shellac
Lincoln Hall: 10pm, $15 18+
The Polkaholics
Lincoln Square Lanes: 10pm, $0 21+
Paul Sanchez
Martyrs': 7pm, $8 21+
Omar Pene
Martyrs': 9:30pm, $25 21+
Acappellago
Mayslake Peabody Estate: 7:30pm, $20 All Ages
Steve Shelley
Museum of Contemporary Art : 3pm, $12 All Ages
Arturo Sandoval, Darwin Noguera
Old Town School of Folk Music: 7pm & 10pm, 34-$38 All Ages
The Curses, Icarus Himself
Quenchers Saloon: 9pm, $5 21+
Fluid Minds, Joe's Garage, The Hot Rails
Reggie's Music Joint: 9pm, $5 21+
Gorilla Productions Presents...
Reggie's Rock Club: 1pm
Melvin Taylor & The Slack Band
Rosa's Lounge: 10pm, $15 21+
We The Living
Schubas: 10pm, 8-$10 18+
Justin Long, Acid Circus
Smartbar: 10pm, $12 21+
Tyrone Wells, Tony Lucca, Roy Jay
SPACE: 10:15pm, 15-$27 All Ages
Editor's Pick!Corky Siegel's Chamber Blues
SPACE: 7pm, 20-$25 All Ages
Gold Motel, Color Radio, Volcanoes Make Islands
Subterranean: 6:30pm, $10 All Ages
Luster, The Paper Clips
Subterranean: 10:30pm, 8-$10 21+
Los Lobos
The Center for the Performing Arts (Governors State University): 7pm , 25-$56 All Ages
Nootka
Tonic Room: 8pm 21+
Jen Sygit, Sam Corbin
Uncommon Ground: 10pm
Dino G, Wahi
Vision Nightclub: 10:00pm 21+


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Event CalendarSunday March 21          Editor's Pick!= Editor's Pick

Big Time Sarah and the BTS Express
Blue Chicago: 8pm, $8 21+
Eric Davis
Buddy Guy's Legends : 9:30pm, $10 21+
Robert Pasenko Blues Revue
Club Blujazz: 7:30pm, $20 21+
MC Type, Louis Logic, Phillip Morris
Elastic Arts Foundation: 9pm, $7
Flow Theory, LAZ, Eauless
Elbo Room: 8:30pm, $12 21+
Forget Cassettes, Tender, rrind
Empty Bottle: 9:30pm, $3 21+
Chévere
Gorton Community Center: 4pm, $25 All Ages
Dakota
Green Dolphin Street: 7:30pm, $0
House of Blues Gospel Brunch
House of Blues: 10am & 12:30pm, 22-$37.50 All Ages
Emily Osment, Hot Chelle Rae
House of Blues: 6pm, 21-$60 All Ages
Lincoln Trio
Nichols Concert Hall at the Music Institute of Chicago: 3pm, 7-$20 All Ages
Corky Siegel, Howard Levy, Peter Madcat Ruth, Joe Filisko
Old Town School of Folk Music: 7pm, 24-$28 All Ages
Brice Woodall
Quenchers Saloon: 9pm, $5 21+
H20, The Swellers, The Mongoloids, The Attack
Reggie's Rock Club: 5pm, 13-$15 All Ages
John Oates, Matt Duke
Smartbar: 7pm, 35-$58 All Ages
John Oates, Matt Duke
SPACE: 7pm, 35-$40 All Ages
Rabble Rabble, The Runnies, Meah!, Geffika
Subterranean : 8:30pm, $8 Other
Australian Bee Gees
The Venue at Horseshoe Casino : 7pm, 15-$35 21+
Dusty Bibles, Whisker Music
The Whistler: 9:30pm, $0 21+


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Event CalendarMonday March 22          Editor's Pick!= Editor's Pick

Hal Tsuchida Trio
Andy's: 5pm, $5 All Ages
Guy King's Organ Trio
Andy's: 9pm, $10 21+
Linsey Alexander
B.L.U.E.S.: 9:30pm
Grana' Louise and the Troublemakers
Blue Chicago: 8pm, $8 21+
Brother John
Buddy Guy's Legends : 9:30pm, $10 21+
Dennis Luxion Trio
Club Blujazz: 11:30pm, $10 21+
Pet Lions, This is Versailles
Empty Bottle: 9:30pm, $0 21+
Stress Ape, Mayor Daley
Hideout: 9pm, $5 21+
Tom Matta
Jazz Showcase: 8pm & 10pm
Crash Test Dummies
Martyrs': 9pm 21+
Monday Night Jazz
Morseland: 9pm, $0 21+
Editor's Pick!Hustle Simmons, Kidz in the Hall
Reggie's Rock Club: 9pm 18+
Apiary, Male
The Whistler: 9:30pm, $0 21+


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Event CalendarTuesday March 23          Editor's Pick!= Editor's Pick

Turbine, Fifth World
Abbey Pub: 9pm, 8-$10 18+
Samuel del Real
Andy's: 5pm, $5 All Ages
Rodney Brown and Hot Rod
B.L.U.E.S.: 9:30pm
Linsey Alexander Blues Band, Laretha
Blue Chicago: 8pm, $8 21+
The Rockin’ Johnny Band
Buddy Guy's Legends : 9:30pm, $10 21+
Greg Pasenko Quartet
Club Blujazz: 7:30pm, $10 21+
Dan Trudell Trio
Club Blujazz: 11:30pm, $10 21+
E! Event
darkroom: 9pm, 5-$10 21+
The Bill Porter Orchestra
Green Dolphin Street: 8pm, $10
Deep Blue Organ Trio
Green Mill: 9pm, $6
Sanctified Grumblers
Hideout: 9:30pm, $5 21+
Elmhurst College Big Band
Jazz Showcase: 8pm & 10pm
Chicago Blues Jam
Morseland: 9pm, $0 21+
Carl Leukaufe, Tony Morrison
Quenchers Saloon: 9pm, $5 21+
Sexfist
Red Line Tap: 9pm 21+
Mr. Blotto, Blimp, Fresh Hops,
Reggie's Music Joint: 8pm, $5 21+
Pete Galanis, Nate Manos & Friends
Rosa's Lounge: 8pm, 5-$7 21+
John Simmons, Sativa
Smartbar: 9pm, $0 21+
Cowboy Junkies
SPACE: 8pm All Ages
John Bellows, Big Kitty
The Whistler: 9:30pm, $0 21+
Neon
Tonic Room: 9pm 21+


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Event CalendarWednesday March 24          Editor's Pick!= Editor's Pick

Alison Ruble
Andy's: 5pm, $5 All Ages
Mike Smith Quartet
Andy's: 9pm, $10 21+
Pistol Pete
B.L.U.E.S.: 9:30pm
Editor's Pick!Studebaker John and the Hawks
Buddy Guy's Legends : 9:30pm, $10 21+
Mike Frost Project
Club Blujazz: 7:30pm, $10 21+
Matthew Good, Automatic Loveletter
Double Door: 9pm, 10-$23 21+
Frank Catalano Sextet
Green Mill: 2am, $0
The Immediate Sound Series
Hideout: 9:30pm, $7 21+
Mark Moultrup
Jazz Showcase: 8pm & 10pm, $0
The Elaine Dame Quintet
Katerina's : 7pm, $5 All Ages
Pere Ubu
Lincoln Hall: 8pm, $15 21+
The Temper Trap, The Kissaway Trail
Metro: 7pm, $15 All Ages
Lokua Presents: Heartbeats
Morseland: 10pm 21+
Editor's Pick!Air, AM
Riviera Theatre: 8pm, $31 18+
Sherwood, Stars of Track and Field, Seabird, Reece
Subterranean : 6:30pm, 12-$14 All Ages
Francesca Esmé
The Whistler: 9:30pm, $0 21+
Editor's Pick!Masters Series Tribute to Fred Anderson
Velvet Lounge: 8:30pm, $25
Five for Fighting, Matt Wertz
Vic Theatre: 7pm, $29 All Ages


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Event CalendarThursday March 25          Editor's Pick!= Editor's Pick

The Handsome Devilz
Abbey Pub: 8pm, 8-$10 18+
Rodney Brown and Hot Rod
B.L.U.E.S.: 9:30pm
Editor's Pick!Baio, Kid Color
Beauty Bar: 9pm, $5 21+
The Shirley Johnson Blues Band
Blue Chicago: 8pm, $8 21+
Past Lives, Air Waves, Dasboton, Locks
Bottom Lounge: 8pm, $10 Other
Jimmy Johnson
Buddy Guy's Legends : 9:30pm, $10 21+
Diane Delin Quartet
Club Blujazz: 7:30pm, $10 21+
Tom Vaitas Group
Club Blujazz: 11:30pm, $10 21+
Branch/Riordan, Mackay/Kleijn/Summerfield/Greene
Elastic Arts Foundation: 10pm, $8
Jason Ajemian & the High Life
Empty Bottle: 7pm, 3-$5 21+
Ten
House of Blues: 8:30pm, 11-$13 Other
Shane Dwight
House of Blues Back Porch: 10pm, 10-$12 21+
Rickie Lee Jones
Lincoln Hall: 8pm, $35 21+
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Metro: 8pm, $23 18+
Morseland Country 'n' Rap Jam
Morseland: 10pm, $0 21+
Velcro Lewis, Chylde, Phil Hunger
Quenchers Saloon: 9pm, $5 21+
Black Sabbath, Blizzard of Ozz
Reggie's Music Joint: 9pm 21+
Editor's Pick!Vampire Weekend
Riviera Theatre : 7pm, $28 All Ages
Caspa, Chris Widman, Phaded, MC Zulu
Smartbar: 10pm, 12-$15 21+
Musical Offering Benefit Concert
SPACE: 8pm, $40 All Ages
The Record Low, Isaac Pierce
The Whistler: 9:30pm, $0 21+


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Event CalendarFriday March 26          Editor's Pick!= Editor's Pick

Family Groove Company, Heatbox
Abbey Pub: 9pm, 10-$12 18+
Tegan and Sara, Steel Train, Hotel Miranda
Aragon Ballroom: 8pm, $30 All Ages
Lurrie Bell
B.L.U.E.S.: 9:30pm
Lovedrug, ZiKR, Jon Drake & The Shakes
Beat Kitchen: 8:30pm, $10 Other
The Shirley Johnson Blues Band
Blue Chicago: 8pm, $10 21+
Dan Trudell Trio
Club Blujazz: 7:30pm, $20 21+
Bill Boris Group
Club Blujazz: 11:30pm, $20 21+
Slightly Stoopid
Congress Theater: 7:30pm, 25-$30
The Hoyle Brothers
Empty Bottle: 5:30pm, $0 21+
Editor's Pick!The Radiators
FitzGerald's: 9pm, $20 21+
The White Bros.
Green Dolphin Street: 8pm, $20
Chris Foreman
Green Mill: 5pm, $0
Green Mill Quartet
Green Mill: 1:30am, $0
Greg Osby Five
Green Mill: 9pm, $12
The Assembly, Holding Mercury, The Visitor
Lincoln Hall: 10pm, 8-$10 18+
City States, Glint, Earth Baby
Martyrs': 9:30pm, $8 21+
Elephant Gun
Morseland: 10pm, $5 21+
South Memphis String Band, Sanctified Grumblers
Old Town School of Folk Music: 7pm, 21-$25 All Ages
Voice Box
Reggie's Music Joint: 5pm 21+
Divebar, Musikanto, Flame Shark
Reggie's Music Joint: 8:30pm, $10 21+
Beak
Reggie's Rock Club: 8:30pm, $8 18+
Editor's Pick!Vampire Weekend
Riviera Theatre : 7pm, $28 All Ages
Editor's Pick!Chainsaw Dupont & the Blues Warriors
Rosa's Lounge: 9:30pm, $10 21+
Pezzner, Johnny Fiasco, Fortune
Smartbar: 10pm, 10-$13 21+
Adrian Legg
SPACE: 8pm, 20-$25 All Ages
Gringo Star, Brighton MA, Wells-Next-The Sea
Subterranean : 9:30pm, $10 Other
Kid A
Tonic Room: 8pm 21+
Puscifer
Vic Theatre: 7:30pm, $39 All Ages


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