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Updated Chicago concert list

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5/6 - Crystal Antlers, Vivian Girls @ Empty Bottle
5/6 - Adam Freeland (Live) @ Sonotheque
5/7 - Dan Deacon, Future Islands, Teeth Mountain @ Metro
5/7 - Eve 6 @ Durty Nellie's [Palatine]
5/7 - The Sounds, Hey Champ @ Double Door
5/7 - The Berg Sans Nipple @ Empty Bottle
5/7 - Queensryche @ House of Blues
5/7 - Deerhoof, Maps and Atlases @ Bottom Lounge
5/7 - Joe Nice @ Smart Bar
5/8 - Queensryche @ House of Blues
5/8 - Del the Funky Homosapien @ Reggie's Rock Club
5/8 - Mogwai, The Twilight Sad @ Congress
5/8 - John Brown's Body @ Double Door
5/8 - Manchester Orchestra @ Subterranean
5/8 - Plain White T's @ Metro
5/8 - Black Strobe (DJ Set) @ Sonotheque
5/8 - Devlin and Darko @ Debonair Social Club
5/8 - Signal Path @ Beat Kitchen
5/9 - Signal Path @ Beat Kitchen
5/9 - Fall Out Boy @ Allstate Arena
5/9 - Diplo @ Smart Bar
5/9 - The Kills, The Horrors @ Metro
5/9 - Bryan Adams @ Ford Center for the Performing Arts
5/9 - Loney, Dear @ Schubas
5/9 - Cursive, P.O.S., The Berg Sans Nipple @ Bottom Lounge
5/11 - Thrones @ Empty Bottle
5/12 - Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band @ United Center
5/12 - Vetiver @ Chopin Theater
5/12 - Bob Log III @ Empty Bottle
5/12 - Iron & Wine @ Lakeshore Theater
5/13 - Iron & Wine @ Schubas
5/13 - Napalm Death @ House of Blues
5/13 - The Dears @ Lakeshore Theater
5/13 - Ben Lee, Low vs Diamond @ Bottom Lounge
5/14 - Lady Sovereign @ Metro
5/14 - Mike Watt & The Missingmen @ Schubas
5/14 - Maps and Atlases @ Reggie's Rock Club
5/15 - King Khan & The Shrines, Mark Sultan @ Bottom Lounge
5/15 - Mr. Scruff @ Smart Bar
5/15 - Pegboy, The Bollweevils @ Metro
5/15 - Chin Up Chin Up, Tight Phantomz @ Empty Bottle
5/15 - Testament @ House of Blues
5/15 - Steven Wright @ Vic
5/16 - Keane, The Helio Sequence @ Aragon
5/16 - Wolves in the Throne Room, Krallice, Indian @ Bottom Lounge
5/16 - Disturbed, Killswitch Engage, Lacuna Coil, Chimaira @ Charter One Pavilion
5/16 - The Vaselines @ Metro
5/16 - Ben Harper & Relentless7 @ Vic
5/17 - Big Business @ Bottom Lounge
5/17 - Destroyer (solo) @ Empty Bottle
5/18 - Melvins (performing "Houdini" in it's entirety with original drummer) @ Double Door
5/18 - Harlem Shakes @ Empty Bottle
5/19 - Death Vessel @ Schubas
5/20 - Black Moth Super Rainbow, School of Seven Bells @ Bottom Lounge
5/20 - Toadies @ Metro
5/20 - Black Dice, Wolf Eyes @ Empty Bottle
5/21 - Mae, Barcelona @ Reggie's Rock Club
5/21 - Pennywise, Pepper @ House of Blues
5/21 - Local H @ Double Door
5/21 - People in Planes @ Subterranean
5/22 - Peaches @ Metro
5/22 - Peaches (DJ Set) @ Smart Bar
5/22 - Empires, Company of Thieves @ Bottom Lounge
5/22 - Clues @ Schubas
5/22 - The Flashbulb @ Empty Bottle
5/22 - Chickenfoot (Joe Satriani, Chad Smith, Michael Anthony, Sammy Hagar) @ Park West
5/23 - The Prodigy, Tiga @ Congress
5/23 - Shpongle (DJ Set) @ Abbey Pub
5/24 - Lucky Boys Confusion @ Double Door
5/26 - The Tragically Hip @ Vic
5/27 - The Tragically Hip @ Vic
5/27 - Modeselektor, Apparat, Moderat @ Bottom Lounge
5/27 - Ellen Allien @ Sonotheque
5/29 - Nine Inch Nails @ Charter One Pavilion
5/29 - Kill Hannah @ Double Door
5/29 - Doves @ Vic
5/29 - The New Deal @ Park West
5/29 - Camera Obscura @ Metro
5/29 - Third Eye Blind @ Riviera
5/29 - Viva Voce, Cut Off Your Hands @ Empty Bottle
5/30 - Fischerspooner @ Metro
5/30 - Christopher Guest, Michael McKean & Harry Shearer (acoustic) @ Chicago Theatre
5/30 - Holy Fuck @ Empty Bottle
5/30 - Graham Walsh of Holy Fuck (DJ Set) @ Empty Bottle
5/30 - Har Mar Superstar @ Bottom Lounge
5/30 - Do Division Street Fest (Flosstradamus, Handsome Furs, etc.)
5/30 - Meat Puppets, Retribution Gospel Choir @ Schubas
5/31 - Meat Puppets, Retribution Gospel Choir @ Schubas
5/31 - Do Division Street Fest (Menomena, White Rabbits, Hollywood Holt, etc.)
5/31 - Gogol Bordello, Man Man @ Congress
5/31 - Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band @ Empty Bottle

6/1 - Menomena @ Empty Bottle
6/2 - Straylight Run @ Subterranean
6/3 - No Use For A Name @ Abbey Pub
6/3 - A Camp @ Double Door
6/4 - Dillinger Four, Japanther @ Bottom Lounge
6/4 - Freedy Johnston @ Schubas
6/5 - 1990s @ Schubas
6/5 - Smoking Popes @ Double Door
6/5 - Jenny Lewis @ Park West
6/5 - Telepathe @ Empty Bottle
6/6 - The New Mastersounds @ Double Door
6/6 - John Vanderslice @ Empty Bottle
6/7 - St. Vincent @ Epiphany
6/8 - The Crystal Method (Live) @ House of Blues
6/8 - Strung Out @ Reggie's Rock Club
6/8 - Art Brut @ Schubas
6/9 - Mr. Lif @ Abbey Pub
6/9 - Art Brut @ Schubas
6/10 - Art Brut @ Schubas
6/11 - Art Brut @ Schubas
6/11 - Starlight Mints, Evangelicals @ Bottom Lounge
6/12 - Art Brut @ Schubas
6/12 - Isis, Pelican @ Bottom Lounge
6/12 - Ozric Tentacles @ Abbey Pub
6/12 - VHS or Beta Dee Jays @ Debonair Social Club
6/13 - Phoenix @ Park West
6/14 - Dane Cook @ United Center
6/14 - 311, Ziggy Marley @ Charter One Pavilion
6/14 - Passion Pit @ Empty Bottle
6/14 - Metric @ Metro
6/15 - Twista @ House of Blues
6/15 - Indian @ Empty Bottle
6/17 - Eric Clapton & Steve Winwood @ United Center
6/17 - Ellen DeGeneres @ Chicago Theatre
6/17 - Michael Ian Black & Michael Showalter @ Lakeshore Theater (late)
6/18 - Propagandhi @ Bottom Lounge
6/18 - O.A.R., Robert Randolph & The Family Band @ Charter One Pavilion
6/18 - George Lopez @ Rosemont Theatre [Rosemont]
6/18 - Louis CK @ Vic
6/18 - Michael Ian Black & Michael Showalter @ Lakeshore Theater (early)
6/18 - Andy Dick @ Lakeshore Theater (late)
6/18 - X @ Double Door
6/19 - X @ Double Door
6/19 - Michelle Shocked @ Space [Evanston]
6/19 - Louis CK @ Vic
6/19 - Jim Breuer and Danny Bhoy @ Lakeshore Theater (early)
6/19 - George Lopez @ Rosemont Theatre [Rosemont]
6/20 - George Lopez @ Rosemont Theatre [Rosemont]
6/20 - X @ Double Door
6/20 - The Offspring, Dropkick Murphys @ Charter One Pavilion
6/20 - Paul Van Dyk @ Congress
6/20 - Bill Engvall @ Vic (early)
6/20 - Jimmy Fallon @ Vic (late)
6/20 - Pansy Division @ Subterranean
6/20 - Tiny Vipers, Balmorhea @ Empty Bottle
6/20 - Jim Breuer and Danny Bhoy @ Lakeshore Theater (early)
6/20 - Bob & David & Friends @ Lakeshore Theater (late)
6/20-21 - BAM! Fest
6/24 - The Orb @ Bottom Lounge
6/25 - Sir Richard Bishop @ Empty Bottle
6/25 - Au Revoir Simone @ Logan Square Auditorium
6/26 - Earth, Wind & Fire, Chicago @ Allstate Arena
6/26 - Jay Reatard @ Bottom Lounge
6/26 - ABC, Berlin, Wang Chung, Cutting Crew @ Rosemont Theatre
6/26-7/5 - Taste of Chicago @ Grant Park
6/27 - Kings X @ Double Door
6/27 - Thunderheist @ Schubas
6/27 - Better Than Ezra @ House of Blues
6/27 - Shellac @ Bottom Lounge
6/28 - Shellac @ Bottom Lounge
6/28 - The Fray, Jack's Mannequin @ First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre [Tinley Park]
6/28 - Bottomless Pit @ Schubas

7/2 - Explosions in the Sky @ Congress
7/5 - mewithoutYou @ Metro
7/10 - REO Speedwagon, Styx, .38 Special @ Charter One Pavilion
7/10 - The Jonas Brothers @ Allstate Arena
7/10 - Cryptacize, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone @ Hideout
7/10 - Fountains of Wayne (Acoustic) @ Park West
7/10 - Arj Barker @ Lakeshore Theater (2 shows)
7/11 - Arj Barker @ Lakeshore Theater (2 shows)
7/11 - No Doubt, Paramore @ First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre [Tinley Park]
7/12 - Kid Rock, Lynyrd Skynyrd @ First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre [Tinley Park]
7/16 - Elton John, Billy Joel @ Wrigley Field
7/17 - Def Leppard, Poison, Cheap Trick @ First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre [Tinley Park]
7/17 - Pitchfork Music Fest @ Union Park (The Jesus Lizard, Tortoise, Built to Spill, Yo La Tengo)
7/18 - Pitchfork Music Fest @ Union Park (The National, Fucked Up, Matt and Kim, Wavves, etc.)
7/19 - Pitchfork Music Fest @ Union Park (The Flaming Lips, Grizzly Bear, M83, The Walkmen, Black Lips, Vivian Girls, etc.)
7/21 - Elton John, Billy Joel @ Wrigley Field
7/21 - Incubus, The Duke Spirit @ Charter One Pavilion
7/22 - Crue Fest @ First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre [Tinley Park]
7/23 - Lymbyc Systym @ Schubas
7/24 - The Wrens @ Schubas
7/25 - The Wrens @ Schubas
7/25 - The Dodos @ Subterranean
7/25-26 - Wicker Park Fest @ Damen North and South Stages
7/30 - Ekoostik Hookah @ House of Blues

8/7-9 - Lollapalooza @ Grant Park (Beastie Boys, Jane's Addiction, Depeche Mode, Kings of Leon, Kaiser Chiefs, Atmosphere, Friendly Fires, The Raveonettes, Delta Spirit, etc.)
8/10 - Daedelus @ Empty Bottle
8/11 - Phish @ Toyota Park [Bridgeview]
8/21 - Nickelback, Hinder, Papa Roach @ First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre [Tinley Park]
8/21 - The B-52's @ House of Blues
8/21 - Apocalypse Hoboken @ Bottom Lounge

9/2 - The Allman Brothers Band, Widespread Panic @ Charter One Pavilion
9/3 - The Allman Brothers Band, Widespread Panic @ Charter One Pavilion
9/12 - U2 @ Soldier Field
9/13 - U2 @ Soldier Field
9/24 - Killdozer, The Urinals @ Abbey Pub
9/26 - Dave Matthews Band @ First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre [Tinley Park]

10/9 - Venetian Snares, Wisp @ Reggie's Rock Club
10/16 - UFO @ House of Blues