Offers through Time Out Chicago
Wherever you see the Time Out Chicago logo below, click on it for the opportunity to win all kinds of cool stuff. Please include the name of the prize in the subject line and include your name, address and phone number in the body of the message. Good luck!

Thriving Ivory
Click on the TOC logo to enter to win tickets to see Thriving Ivory!
Majesty, magic and musicality are elements that signal an enduring and memorable rock band. Wind-up recording artist Thriving Ivory epitomize those timeless marks of musical greatness in its larger-than-life sound. Recently featured on VH1's "You Oughta Know: Artists on the Rise," Thriving Ivory bring both drama and depth to their music-without the wisp of studio trickery. Experience Thriving Ivory with Barcelona and Company of Thieves at the Double Door. Tickets are $13 in advance, $15 at the door and the show is 21 & over.
Thursday, February 19, Doors: 8pm, Show: 9pm
Double Door (1572 N Milwaukee Ave)
For tickets and more information, visit doubledoor.com.
Click here if you would like to receive e-mails about future music events.

Hewar Music Group
Part of Old Town School of Folk Music's World Music Wednesdays
Hewar is an extraordinary musical experiment first unveiled in Damascus in 2003. Using an unusual instrumentation of oud, clarinet, cello, percussion and soprano vocals, Hewar allows for an open-ended dialogue between Arabic music, jazz and western classical melodies. The band features Issam Rafea (oud), Kinan Azmeh (Clarinet), Omar Musfi (percussion) Kinan Abou-Afach (Cello) and Dima Orsho (vocals). The band has toured Europe, Japan, Lebanon and Egypt and returns for their second U.S. tour.
Wednesday, February 25 at 9:30pm
Old Town School of Folk Music (4544 N Lincoln Ave)
For tickets and more information, visit oldtownschool.org.
Click here if you would like to receive e-mails about future music events.

Tim Fite with Benjy Ferree and eyesearsnose
Click on the TOC logo to enter to win tickets to see Tim Fite!
A year in the making, the sounds on Tim Fite's new album are as big and ambitious as the topics it contains. Drums tracked overnight at Fite's old high school drive many of the songs. On top of the propulsive beats, Fite sprinkles his signature samples but with a more restrained hand, and these bits of musical flotsam become more a part of the whole than a sum of disparate parts. "Big Mistake" is perhaps the most straightforwardly catchy song Fite has ever penned, in spite of a touch of his pervasive self-effacement, and on "Trouble," Fite growls about greed, a topic manifest in last year's Over The Counter Culture. The progressive sound of Tim Fite is not to be missed!
Wednesday, February 25 at 9pm
Schubas (3159 N Southport Ave)
For tickets and more information, visit schubas.com.
Click here if you would like to receive e-mails about future music events.

These Arms Are Snakes
Click on the TOC logo to enter to win tickets to see These Arms Are Snakes!
These Arms Are Snakes, born out of Seattle, are fast becoming an integral part of the Pacific Northwest's dynamic musical fabric. Continuing to dispute all the present notions of hardcore, TAAS rip the stage with menacing guitar riffs and bring a sense of total psychedelic anarchy to every show. See TAAS at Subterranean alongside Darker My Love and All The Saints. Tickets are $10. Show is 17 & over.
Saturday, February 28, Doors: 9pm, Show: 9:30pm
Subterranean (2011 W North Ave)
For tickets and more information, visit subt.net.
Click here if you would like to receive e-mails about future music events.

Tricky with the Floacist
Click on the TOC logo to enter to win tickets to see Tricky!
Tricky's newest release, Knowle West Boy, is the album that sums up everything that Tricky has accomplished since his 1995 Maxinquaye debut. Knowle West Boy sees our misunderstood hero reaching into the post-punk, Two-Tone, reggae, hip-hop and pure pop he grew up adoring, twisting it all into surreal Tricky shapes using his astonishingly accomplished band and a host of great undiscovered singers, and ending up with the most varied and accessible set of his career. From bar-room blues to dancehall, the influences of Tricky's musical achievements come full circle in Knowle West Boy. For the full experience, you won't want to miss this live show.
Friday, March 13 at 8pm
Epiphany (201 S Ashland Ave)
For tickets and more information, visit emptybottle.com.
Click here if you would like to receive e-mails about future music events.