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NOVEMBER | DECEMBER | JANUARY | FEBRUARY | MARCH | APRIL | MAY | JULY

November

18 311 + Kottonmouth Kings Aragon. AA

18 Bad Lieutenant Park West. 18+

18 Brother Ali + Evidence + Toki Wright + BK-One Metro. 18+

18 David Cook The Venue, Horseshoe Hammond.

18 Joe Perry House of Blues.

19 Capleton + Anthony B + Cocoa Tea + Jah Thunda Cubby Bear.

19 Livvi Franc + Ke$ha V Live. 18+

19 Jason Isbell & The 400 Unit Lincoln Hall.

19 Gucci Mane + Yo Gotti + Twista Congress Theater. 17+

19 Old Crow Medicine Show Vic Theatre. AA

19 Person L + John Nolan + Brian Bonz Schubas. AA

19–21 Pixies Aragon. Nov 19 with Bad Lieutenant added. Nov 20 and Nov 21 sold out. AA

19 Saosin + P.O.S. + Innerpartysystem + Eye Alaska House of Blues. AA

19 A Sunny Day in Glasgow Bottom Lounge. 18+

19 Volumen Cero Rumba.

20 Aventura Allstate Arena.

20 Brendan Benson + Cory Chisel Lincoln Hall.

20 Blue Rodeo Martyrs’.

20 Savoy Brown FitzGerald's.

20 Graham Colton Schubas. 18+

20 Danny Barnes Trio + Hot Club of Cowtown Old Town School of Folk Music. Two shows. Bad Livers canceled.

20 Deadmau5 + Burns Congress Theater. 17+

20 Devlin & Darko + DJ /rupture & Matt Shadetek Empty Bottle.

20 Honor Society + Esmée Denters House of Blues. AA

20 Mannheim Steamroller Sears Centre.

20 Brian McKnight The Shrine.

20 Ian McLagan Martyrs’.

20, 21 The Mother Hips + Backyard Tire Fire Schubas. Nov 21 18+

20 Sean Paul House of Blues. 17+

20 Peaches + Amanda Blank Metro. 18+

20, 21 Poi Dog Pondering + Mistress Stephanie & Her Melodic Cat Vic Theatre. Nov 21 added. 18+

20 Willy Porter SPACE.

20 Slick Rick + Doug E. Fresh + MC Lyte + Big Daddy Kane + DJ Kool Star Plaza Theatre.

20 CANCELED Tortured Soul Double Door.

20 Two Fresh + Heavyweight Dub Champion Beat Kitchen. 17+

20 Phil Vassar Rialto Square Theatre.

21 3 Inches of Blood + Saviours + Holy Grail Beat Kitchen. 17+

21 Assembly of Dust Martyrs’.

21 The Brian Setzer Orchestra Genesee Theatre.

21 Cross Canadian Ragweed Joe’s Bar.

21 Cy Curnin + Nick Harper Abbey Pub.

21 Elvis Perkins in Dearland + A.A. Bondy Lincoln Hall.

21 John Fogerty Auditorium Theatre.

21 Fuck Buttons + Growing Empty Bottle.

21 Davy Knowles & Back Door Slam Double Door.

21 Medeski Martin and Wood House of Blues. 17+

21 Pat McGee Band Park West. 18+

21 Julian Plenti + I'm in You Metro. AA

21 Notis Sfakianakis The Venue, Horseshoe Hammond.

21 The Ultimate Doo-Wop Show Star Plaza Theatre.

22 Cavo House of Blues. AA

22 Raheem DeVaughn The Shrine.

22 Evangelicals + Holiday Shores Schubas.

22 LMFAO + Far East Movement + Jump Smokers + Paradiso Girls + Space Cowboy Congress Theater. AA

22 Pine Leaf Boys Old Town School of Folk Music.

22 Harper Simon Lincoln Hall.

22 Rob Zombie + Captain Clegg & The Night Creatures + Nekromantix Aragon. AA

23, 24 All Time Low + We the Kings + Hey Monday + The Friday Night Boys House of Blues. AA

23 Vandaveer Schubas.

24 Cage Reggie’s Rock Club. 17+

24 Imogen Heap Vic Theatre. AA

24 Ari Hest + Declan O'Rourke Lincoln Hall.

24 Less Than Jake + The Casualties + The Swellers Metro. AA

24–29 The Ten Tenors Auditorium Theatre.

25 Baroness + Earthless + An Albatross + U.S. Christmas Reggie’s Rock Club. 17+

25 Blind Pilot + Laura Veirs + Mimicking Birds Lincoln Hall.

25 The Cranberries + Griffin House Riviera Theatre. AA

25 CANCELED Echo & The Bunnymen + Hatcham Social Metro. 18+

25 Kid Sister + Flosstradamus House of Blues. AA

25 Nershi-Law Subterranean. 17+

25 Tito "El Bambino" Congress Theater.

25 Frankie Vázquez Old Town School of Folk Music.

26 Chris Brown + New Boyz House of Blues. 17+

26 Bosco Wong + Ella Koon The Venue, Horseshoe Hammond.

26 Tex-Tex + Perros Celestes + Los Pecks Congress Theater.

27 Joseph Arthur Old Town School of Folk Music.

27 The Ataris Beat Kitchen. 17+

27 The Big Pink + Crystal Antlers Empty Bottle.

27 The Bottle Rockets FitzGerald's.

27 Ezra Furman & The Harpoons + The Sleeptalkers + Rachel Goodrich Double Door.

27 Freddy Jones Band Park West. 18+

27 Hawthorne Heights + The A.K.A.s + Just Surrender + Monty Are I Reggie’s Rock Club. AA

27, 28 The Jesus Lizard Metro. Nov 28 sold out. 18+ SOLD OUT

27 George Jones Star Plaza Theatre.

27 Lotus Vic Theatre. 18+

27 Moenia Congress Theater. AA

27 NOMO Schubas.

27 Sam Roberts Band Subterranean. 17+

27 Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros + Fool's Gold + Local Natives Lincoln Hall. 18+

28 The Blakes Schubas.

28 Brave Combo FitzGerald's.

28 Cornmeal + Trampled by Turtles Vic Theatre. 18+

28 Brett Dennen + Grace Potter & The Nocturnals House of Blues. AA

28 Antje Duvekot + Anne Heaton + Meg Hutchinson + Natalia Zukerman SPACE.

28 Nitzer Ebb Double Door.

28 Euro Reggae Fest: Inner Circle + Jamal + Marika Congress Theater. 17+

28 Flobots Lincoln Hall. 18+

28 The O'Jays + The Whispers + Russell Thompkins Jr. & The New Stylistics Star Plaza Theatre.

28 Psychostick Reggie’s Rock Club. 17+

28 Zachary Richard + Henry Butler Old Town School of Folk Music. Two shows.

28 The Sadies + Chris Mills Hideout.

28 The White Tie Affair + Every Avenue + Stereo Skyline + Runner Runner House of Blues. AA

29 Wade Bowen Joe’s Bar.

29 Ensiferum + Hypocrisy + Ex Deo + Blackguard Logan Square Auditorium. Moved from House of Blues. AA

29 CANCELED Queen Latifah House of Blues. 17+

30 Melt-Banana Bottom Lounge. 18+

December

1 Big D and the Kids Table + Sonic Boom Six Reggie’s Rock Club. AA

1 Friendly Fires + The xx Bottom Lounge. 18+

1 Jay Nash + Crosby Loggins + Caitlin Crosby SPACE.

1 Weezer + Jack's Mannequin + Motion City Soundtrack Aragon. AA

1 Winter Gloves Empty Bottle.

2 Bebel Gilberto Park West. 18+

2 John Wesley Harding Schubas.

2 The King Khan & BBQ Show + Those Darlins Logan Square Auditorium. AA

2 Municipal Waste + The Accused + Phobia + Cauldron Subterranean. AA

3 PIeta Brown Hideout.

3 Casiotone for the Painfully Alone Beat Kitchen. 17+

3 Marié Digby + Alpha Rev Lincoln Hall. AA

3 Linda Eder Park West. 18+

3 CANCELED Evangelista Bottom Lounge.

3 Eyedea & Abilities + Themselves Reggie’s Rock Club. 17+

3 The Hidden Cameras + Gentleman Reg Empty Bottle.

3 Issa SPACE.

3 Mushroomhead + Ventana + The Flood Abbey Pub. 18+

3 CANCELED P.O.S. + Eyedea & Abilities Bottom Lounge. 18+

3 Chuck Prophet Schubas.

3 CANCELED Flo Rida The Venue, Horseshoe Hammond.

3 The Swell Season Auditorium Theatre.

4, 5 Do Make Say Think + The Happiness Project + Years Schubas. Nov 5 at Lincoln Hall. 18+

4 Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs Subterranean. 17+

4 Hubert Sumlin & The Nighthawks SPACE.

4 Kansas Rialto Square Theatre.

4 Ramsey Lewis UIC Forum.

4 Miracle Near State Street: The Fray + Kris Allen Auditorium Theatre.

4 Jake Owen + Blaine Larsen Joe’s Bar.

4 UPDATED Darius Rucker + Jypsi Star Plaza Theatre.

4 Matthew Santos Lincoln Hall. 18+

4 Small Brown Bike Beat Kitchen. Two shows. Early show AA

4 Rick Springfield Hemmens Theatre.

4 Zero 7 Metro. 18+

5 Absentstar Schubas. 18+

5, 6 Bryan Adams Genesee Theatre. Dec 6 at Rialto Square Theatre.

5 CANCELED Dan Auerbach Vic Theatre.

5 Brendan Bayliss & Jake Cinninger Park West. AA

5 Blind Boys of Alabama + Kevin Gordon FitzGerald's.

5 BoomBox Bottom Lounge. 18+

5 Café Tacuba Congress Theater.

5 CunninLynguists Subterranean. 17+

5 Dave Koz & Friends Auditorium Theatre

5 The Dutchess & The Duke + Greg Ashley Empty Bottle.

5 Field Music Beat Kitchen. 17+

5 Nanci Griffith + The Belleville Outfit Old Town School of Folk Music. Two shows.

5 Patti LaBelle Star Plaza Theatre.

5 Norma Jean + Horse the Band + The Chariot + Arsonists Get All the Girls Reggie’s Rock Club. AA

5, 6 UPDATED Grant-Lee Phillips + Nellie McKay Schubas.

5 CANCELED Mavis Staples + Blind Boys of Alabama House of Blues.

5 Susan Werner SPACE. SOLD OUT

5 Lez Zeppelin Double Door.

6 Arctic Monkeys + Screaming Females Riviera Theatre. AA

6 Chris Botti Genesee Theatre.

6 Dave Rawlings Machine with Gillian Welch Abbey Pub.

6 Julio Iglesias Star Plaza Theatre.

6 Sean Paul House of Blues. Rescheduled from Nov 20. AA

6 Star Wars: In Concert United Center. Two shows.

6 Underoath + August Burns Red + Emery Metro. AA

6 Susan Werner SPACE.

6 Works Progress Administration featuring Glen Phillips, Sean Watkins & Luke Bulla Old Town School of Folk Music.

7 Gwar + Job for a Cowboy + The Red Chord House of Blues. AA

7 Curtis Harvey + Glorytellers Hideout.

7 Mew Metro. AA

7 Sloan Lincoln Hall. AA

8 Fink Schubas.

8 Rooney + Tally Hall + Harper Simon House of Blues. AA

8 Seabird + Matthew Mayfield Abbey Pub. 18+

8 DM Stith + Odawas Empty Bottle.

9 NEW Elizabeth & The Catapult SPACE.

9 Priestess + Early Man Empty Bottle.

9 NEW Raekwon House of Blues. 17+

9 Alberto Rojo Old Town School of Folk Music.

10 Aaron Neville’s Holiday Show The Venue, Horseshoe Hammond.

10 Hatebreed + Cannibal Corpse + Unearth + Hate Eternal + Born of Osiris House of Blues. AA

10 Headlights + Maritime Lincoln Hall. 18+

10 NEW Jessica Lea Mayfield + Frontier Ruckus Schubas.

10, 11 Ivan Neville's Dumpstaphunk Martyrs’.

10 Jack's Cheap Christmas: Cheap Trick Allstate Arena.

11 David Archuleta Genesee Theatre

11 CANCELED Dashboard Confessional + New Found Glory + Never Shout Never + Single File Aragon. AA

11 Will Downing + Jeffrey Osborne Star Plaza Theatre.

11 El Vez & Los Straitjackets Double Door.

11 The Flaming Lips + Phoenix + Pete Yorn Allstate Arena.

11 CANCELED Forro in the Dark Schubas.

11 Gloriana Joe’s Bar.

11 Ike Reilly Assassination Lincoln Hall.

11 John Sebastian + David Grisman Old Town School of Folk Music. Two shows.

11 McCoy Tyner & The Chicago Jazz Orchestra Symphony Center.

11 Pelican + Black Cobra + Disappearer Empty Bottle.

11 The Queers + The Leftovers Reggie’s Rock Club. AA TA80 canceled.

11 Leon Russell SPACE. SOLD OUT

11 Harry Shearer and Judith Owen's Holiday Sing-Along SPACE.

11 Skindred Abbey Pub. 18+

12 B96 Jinglebash: Pitbull + Justin Bieber + Keri Hilson + Sean Kingston + David Guetta + Jay Sean + Jeremih + Jump Smokers Allstate Arena.

12 Chicago Bluegrass & Blues Festival: Bela Fleck & The Flecktones + Dr. Dog + Emmitt-Nershi Band Congress Theater. AA

12 Better Than Ezra House of Blues. 17+

12 ekoostik hookah Martyrs’.

12 Land of Talk Empty Bottle.

12 Marduk + Nachtmystium + Mantic Ritual + Merrimack Reggie’s Rock Club. 17+

12 Over the Rhine Old Town School of Folk Music. Two shows.

12 Russian Circles + Young Widows + Phantom Family Halo Lincoln Hall. 18+

12 The Subdudes Park West. 18+

12 The Verve Pipe Schubas.

13 Kris Delmhorst Schubas.

13 Marcus Foster + Blue Roses Abbey Pub. 18+

13 The Oak Ridge Boys Star Plaza Theatre.

13 Shinedown + Halestorm + Rev Theory House of Blues. 17+

13 Straight No Chaser Park West. AA

14–17 UPDATED Andrew Bird Fourth Presbyterian Church. Dec 14 added.

14 Breaking Benjamin + Sick Puppies + Janus House of Blues. 17+ SOLD OUT

15 The Bravery + Manchester Orchestra + As Tall as Lions House of Blues. 17+

15 Inward Eye + Neon Trees Schubas. 18+

15 Bobby Long Double Door.

15 Raphael Saadiq Vic Theatre. 18+

16 UPDATED 30 Seconds to Mars + The Used House of Blues. 17+ SOLD OUT

16 David Daniell, Jeremy Lemos, Douglas McCombs & Steve Shelley Empty Bottle.

17 Hey Champ + French Horn Rebellion Lincoln Hall. 18+

17–19 Barry Manilow Rosemont Theatre.

17 Rise Against + Street Sweeper Social Club + AM Taxi House of Blues. 17+ SOLD OUT

18 Boney James The Venue, Horseshoe Hammond.

18 UPDATED Josh Hoge + Matt Duke + Amber Rubarth SPACE.

18–20 Motion City Soundtrack Lincoln Hall. Dec 18 and 19 sold out. AA

18 Rise Against + The Bollweevils + Noise by Numbers Metro. AA SOLD OUT

18 Sister Hazel House of Blues.

18 NEW Robin Thicke + Ryan Leslie Riviera Theatre. 18+

18 Tortured Soul Double Door.

19 Ronnie Baker Brooks FitzGerald's.

19 Eli Young Band Joe’s Bar.

19 The Detroit Cobras + Dex Romweber Duo + The Blacks Double Door.

19 Gaither Vocal Band Sears Centre.

19 NEW Kill Hannah + Hey Champ + 1997 Metro. AA

19 NEW The Klezmatics Centre East Theatre.

19 The Oak Ridge Boys Hemmens Theatre.

19 The Academy Is... + The Audition Reggie’s Rock Club. AA

20 Dasboton Hideout.

23 Exmortus + Vektor Beat Kitchen. 17+

26 Robbie Fulks FitzGerald's.

26 NEW Lucky Boys Confusion + The Fold + The Action Blast + The Attraction Metro. AA

26 Trans-Siberian Orchestra Allstate Arena. Two shows.

26, 27 Waco Brothers Schubas.

26 Emily Wells Lincoln Hall.

27 Dasboton Hideout.

27-28 UPDATED Rusted Root House of Blues. Dec 27 added. 17+

29–31 Umphrey's McGee Aragon. Dec 29 at the Vic Theatre only with three-show pass. Dec 30 with Z-Trip. Dec 31 with Prefuse 73. 18+

30 The Audition Subterranean. AA

30, 31 The Fiery Furnaces Schubas. 18+ Dec 31 at Lincoln Hall.

30 John Legend The Venue, Horseshoe Hammond.

30 NEW Pentagram Empty Bottle.

31 Marcia Ball FitzGerald's.

31 Bobby Bare Jr. + David Vandervelde Schubas.

31 BeauSoleil avec Michael Doucet SPACE.

31 Big Head Todd & The Monsters House of Blues.

31, 1 UPDATED The Black Keys + Kurt Vile Riviera Theatre. Dec 31 sold out, Jan 1 added. 18+

31 Gin Blossoms InterContinental Chicago O’Hare.

31 Girl Talk Congress Theater. AA SOLD OUT

31 Todd Hembrook & The Hemispheres Bottom Lounge.

31 The Infamous Stringdusters + Uncle Earl Old Town School of Folk Music. Two shows.

31 The Jesus Lizard + Disappears Metro. 18+

31–Jan 2 Jens Lekman Empty Bottle. Jan 1 and 2 added.

31 Local H + Electric Six Double Door.

31 Margot & The Nuclear So and So's Subterranean.

31 NEW Pegboy Beat Kitchen.

31 NEW Mark Ronson + The Airborne Toxic Event + The Virgins + The Drums River East Art Center.

31 Smoking Popes Durty Nellie's.

January

1 Chris Isaak House of Blues.

1, 2 Project/Object featuring Ike Willis & Ray White Martyrs’.

3 Dasboton Hideout.

5–8 UPDATED Butch Walker Schubas. SOLD OUT

8 Otis Clay SPACE.

8, 9 Lady Gaga + Kid Cudi + Jason Derulo Chicago Theatre. SOLD OUT

8, 9 Led Zeppelin 2 House of Blues. 17+

8 Chris Trapper Schubas.

9 The Damnwells Double Door.

10 Anvil House of Blues. AA

10 Dasboton Hideout

11 NEW Hypno5e + Revocation + The Binary Code Empty Bottle.

13 Anti-Flag + Aiden + Cancer Bats + Fireworks Bottom Lounge. AA

13–17 NEW Tomorrow Never Knows 2010: The Cribs + Voxtrot + Final Fantasy + Bowerbirds + The Rural Alberta Advantage + Lee Fields & The Expressions + Adam Green + Clues + The Dead Trees + Solid Gold + Julie Doiron Lincoln Hall and Schubas. 18+

15 City and Colour Metro. AA

15 NEW Parachute + SafetySuit Subterranean. AA

16 CANCELED Kanye West + Lady Gaga United Center.

18 Gunfire 76 + Sex Slaves Reggie’s Rock Club. 17+

21 Nile + Immolation + Krisiun + Abigail Adams + Dreaming Dead Metro. AA

23 NEW Jeff Coffin Mu'tet SPACE

23 NEW Robert Gordon & The Men They Couldn't Hang Abbey Pub.

23 Riverdales Reggie’s Rock Club. AA

23 Corey Smith Joe’s Bar.

23 NEW Tea Leaf Green + Elmwood Lincoln Hall. 18+

24 Between the Buried and Me + Cynic + Devin Townsend + Scale the Summit House of Blues. AA

28 Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin Schubas. AA

28 Tape + Mountains Empty Bottle.

29 Arch Enemy + Exodus + Arsis House of Blues. AA

29 NEW Alberta Cross Schubas. 18+

29 Leo Kottke + Leon Redbone Rialto Square Theatre.

29 The Life and Times + Adam Franklin & Bolts of Melody Empty Bottle.

29 NEW Nouvelle Vague Lincoln Hall.

29, 30 Salute to the '60s: Herman's Hermits featuring Peter Noone + The Grass Roots starring Rob Grill + The Buckinghams Genesee Theatre. Jan 30 at Star Plaza Theatre.

30 BoDeans Symphony Center.

30 NEW Bottle Rockets + Otis Gibbs Schubas.

30 Cold War Kids Vic Theatre. AA

30 Jimmy Webb Lincoln Hall. Rescheduled from Oct 9 at Schubas.

31 NEW MOVITS! Schubas.

February

1 La Roux Lincoln Hall. Rescheduled from Oct 21.

2 NEW Utada House of Blues. 17+

4 Epica + Daath + Blackguard Logan Square Auditorium. AA

5 The Bad Plus University of Chicago, Mandel Hall.

6 Jason Molina & Will Johnson + Chris Brokaw Lincoln Hall.

11 Girlyman SPACE.

12 Air Supply The Venue, Horseshoe Hammond.

13 Great White House of Blues. Rescheduled from Aug 23.

13, 14 Kenny Rogers Paramount Theatre.

18 NEW Tony Furtado + Trina Hamlin SPACE.

18 NEW St. Vincent + Wildbirds & Peacedrums Metro. 18+

19 Conrad Herwig's Latin Side All-Star Band + Eliane Elias Symphony Center.

19 Four Tet + Nathan Fake Empty Bottle.

21 Marc Cohn SPACE.

25 Cold Cave Empty Bottle.

25 Aaron Lewis The Venue, Horseshoe Hammond.

27 Joe Pug + Justin Townes Earle Lincoln Hall.

27 Red Stick Ramblers SPACE.

28 NEW Terence Blanchard SPACE.

March

7 The Avett Brothers House of Blues. 17+

7 The Chieftains Symphony Center.

7 NEW The Magnetic Fields Harris Theater.

10 NEW Vinicio Capossela Lakeshore Theater. AA

11 NEW Justin Moore Joe’s Bar.

12 Gaelic Storm House of Blues. 17+

13 Flogging Molly Aragon. AA

17 Engelbert Humperdinck Rialto Square Theatre.

18, 19 NEW David Garrett Park West.

19 Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra with Wynton Marsalis Symphony Center.

20 Los Lobos Center for Performing Arts at Governors State University.

21 Zakir Hussain's Masters of Percussion Symphony Center.

26 Tegan and Sara Aragon. AA

April

2 NEW Acid Mothers Temple + Over-Gain Optimal Death Empty Bottle.

2 Gilberto Gil Symphony Center.

5 NEW Miike Snow Metro. 18+

9 Baaba Maal Old Town School of Folk Music.

9 Sonny Rollins Symphony Center.

10 NEW John Mayer + Michael Franti & Spearhead United Center.

23 Mark Knopfler Chicago Theatre.

23 Joshua Redman + Anat Cohen Quartet Symphony Center.

25 NEW B.B. King House of Blues.

May

10 Pat Metheny Symphony Center.

July

6 U2 Soldier Field.

30 Bon Jovi Soldier Field.

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