Music
EXPLORE THE SOUNDS AROUND YOU…
We are lucky to live in Chicago, where great live music can be found – almost every night – in some of the best clubs in the world!
steph’s concert calendar:
VENUE LINKS *AND FESTIVALS LISTING* AT THE BOTTOM
Sundays 10pm
Jazz @ Hungry Brain
2/26
Esben & The Witch
Empty Bottle
2/27
Habib Koite & Eric Bibb
Old Town School of Folk Music
2/27
Buddy Miller & Jim Lauderdale
Lincoln Hall
2/27
JC Brooks
City Winery
2/28
Sex Panther (really?)
The Mid
3/1
Ra Ra Riot
Metro
3/1
Gaslight Anthem
Riviera
3/1
Honey Island Swamp Band, Four Star Brass Band, Nick & The Ovorols
Martyrs’
3/1
Talib Kweli
Shrine
3/2
Major Lazer, Dragonette
Congress Theater
3/2
Big Head Todd & The Monsters
HOB
3/2
J. Davis Trio…
Martyrs’
3/3
Ben Harper + Charlie Musselwhite
Riviera
3/3
JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound, Jon Langford & Skull Orchard
SXSW Send-off Party (free with Do312 RSVP)
Cobra Lounge
3/3
Minus The Bear
Metro
3/4
Muse
United Center
3/6
Tame Impala
Vic
3/9
Lindsey Stirling
Vic
3/9
Slightly Stoopid
Congress Theater
3/9
My Gold Mask
Schubas
3/11
The Specials
Vic
3/12 – 3/17
SXSW Music
www.sxsw.com
3/13
Leonard Cohen
Chicago Theatre
3/13
Creole Choir of Cuba
Old Town School of Folk Music
3/13
Dave Specter
SPACE
3/13 – 3/14
Jeff Tweedy
Vic
3/14
Dan Hicks & The Hot Licks
City Winery
3/15
Lynrd Skynrd (really??)
Congress Theater
3/15
Django Django
Metro
3/15
Drovers
Abbey Pub
3/16
Animal Collective, Dan Deacon
Rivera
3/16
They Might Be Giants
Vic
3/16 – 3/17
STS9
Congress Theater
3/17
Peter Rowan
Old Town School of Folk Music
3/21
Local Natives
Vic
3/21
Keb’ Mo’
Old Town School of Folk Music
3/22
Rihanna
United Center
3/22
Low with Geoff Farina
Metro
3/23
G. Love & Special Sauce
Vic
3/23 (2)
Alejandro Escovedo (acoustic)
Old Town School of Folk Music
3/23
Stars, Milo Greene
Metro
3/24
Martha Wainwright
City Winery
3/25
Delicate Steve
Subterranean
3/26
Kim Gordon with White/Light
Museum of Contemporary Art
3/28
Alt-J
Metro
3/28
Otis Taylor
SPACE
3/31
Cave Singers
Empty Bottle
4/1
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds with Sharon Van Etten
Chicago Theatre
4/2
Sigur Ros
UIC Pavilion
4/2
Joy Formidable
Vic
4/5
Anthrax, Exodus
HOB
4/5
Madeleine Peyroux
Old Town School of Folk Music
4/6
Maroon 5, Neon Trees, Owl City (they’ll be recycling)
Allstate Arena
4/6
Galactic
Park West
4/6
Jamie Lidell
Lincoln Hall
4/6
Cold War Kids
Metro
4/6
That 1 Guy
SPACE
4/6 (2)
David Bromberg Quartet & Allen Toussaint
City Winery
4/7
Marco Benevento
Schubas
4/8
Matt Costa
SPACE
4/9 – 4/10
David Grisman Andy Statman Quartet
City Winery
4/11 (2)
John Scofield’s Hollow Body Band
SPACE
4/11
Living Colour
Park West
4/12 – 4/13
Widespread Panic
UIC Pavillion
4/12 – 4/13
Billy Bragg
City Winery
4/16 – 4/17
Black Crowes
Vic
4/17
Shuggie Otis
Lincoln Hall
4/17 (2)
Dr. John
SPACE
4/17
Amy LaVere
Red Line Tap
4/19
Funky Meters, Greyboy Allstars
Congress Theater
4/19
Black Angels
Vic
4/19
David Allen Coe
Reggie’s
4/20
Jim James
Vic
4/20
Rebelution
Congress Theater
4/24
Mindless Self Indulgence
HOB
4/25
Johnny Marr
Metro
4/26
Umphrey’s McGee
Park West
4/26 – 5/5
NOLA JAZZ FEST
www.nojazzfest.com
4/27
Bettye LaVette
Old Town School of Folk Music
4/27
Moon Taxi
Bottom Lounge
4/27
Shooter Jennings
Reggie’s
4/27
OATES!
SPACE
5/3
Trixie Whitley
SPACE
5/6
Patti Smith
Vic
5/14
Kurt Vile & the Violators, Steve Gunn
Lincoln Hall
5/16
Should Out Louds
Metro
5/16
Grant Lee Phillips
SPACE
5/17
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Vic
5/28
Cannibal Corpse, Napalm Death
Bottom Lounge
5/30-5/31
Alkaline Trio
Metro
6/3
Calexico
City Winery
6/7
Son Volt
Park West
6/9
Glen Hansard
Metro
6/13
Juanes
Congress Theater
6/17-18
Leon Russell
City Winery
6/28
Rush
First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre
7/12
Bon Jovi… livin on a prayer
Soldier Field
!FESTIVALS!
3/28 – 4/1
Byron Bay Bluesfest
www.bluesfest.com.au
4/12-14 & 4/19-21
Coachella
www.coachella.com
5/22 – 5/26
Primavera Sound
www.primaverasound.com
5/24 – 5/26
Summer Camp
www.summercampfestival.com
6/13 – 6/16
BONNAROOOOOO
www.bonnaroo.com
6/21 – 6/23
Firefly
www.fireflyfestival.com
6/26 – 7/7
Summerfest
www.summerfest.com
6/26 – 6/30
Glastonbury
www.glastonburyfestivals.co.uk
6/27 – 6/30
Electric Forest
www.electricforestfestival.com
7/12 – 7/14
Forecastle
www.forecastlefest.com
7/19 – 7/21
Pitchfork
www.pitchforkmusicfestival.com
7/26 – 7/28
Fuji Rock Festival
www.fujirock.com
8/2 – 8/4
Lollapalooza
www.lollapalooza.com
8/9 – 8/11
Outside Lands
www.sfoutsidelands.com
8/20 – 8/22
Lollapalooza Israel
8/29 – 9/1
Chicago Jazz Festival
jazz fest webpage
9/13 – 9/15
Riot Fest
www.riotfest.org
10/4-6 & 10/11-13
Austin City Limits
www.aclfestival.com
1/18… 1/28
Big Day Out
www.bigdayout.com
venues:
akoo theatre (formerly rosemont theatre)
allstate arena
aragon ballroom
beat kitchen
chicago theatre
city winery
congress theater
double door
empty bottle (logan square auditorium, beauty bar)
SPACE
fitzgerald’s
hob
jam usa (vic theatre, riviera, park west)
lincoln hall
live nation (charter one/northerly island)
martyrs’
metro
old town school of folk music
pabst theater (the riverside – milwaukee)
ravinia
rosa’s lounge
reggie’s live
schubas
subterranean
symphony center
others:
green music fest
umbrella music festival
wicker park fest
