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The Chicago Shows List: Riding the handmade Xeroxed flyer superhighway
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New this week:
7 Seconds, Oak Theatre
Apocalypse Hoboken / Sick 'n' Tired / Lunkhead / Winepress, Elhmurst
VFW Hall
Bailter Space, Lounge Ax
Bob Dylan, Riviera Theatre (tix Fri 10am)
Carcass / Pitchshifter / Aftermath, Oak Theatre
Chris Connelly, Metro
Dyslexic Apaches / Brown Betty / Marble, Metro
Entombed / Unsane / The Obsessed, Oak Theatre
Gauge / Tiny / Gainsay / Third Rail Rhyme, Elhmurst VFW Hall
Green Street / Lorenzo Music / Tiny / Miss Erie, The Crawlspace
John Wesley Harding, Schubas Tavern (tix Sat 10am)
Maestro Subgum & The Whole, Reckless Records
Melvins / The Obsessed, Metro
The Mother Fuckers / Offsides / tba, Scrap Skate Park
No Empathy / Sauce Kings / Vegas Witchcraft / Sweet Polly / Mudkicker,
3rd Floor
Pantera in-store meet'n'greet, Rolling Stones Records
Pere Ubu, Avalon
Pink Floyd, Soldier Field (tix Sat 10am w/wristband)
Prong, Avalon
Quaker Youth Ensemble / Luck Of Eden Hall, Metro
Railroad Jerk, Lounge Ax
Red Red Meat / The Sea & Cake / Dolomite, Metro
Robespierre (formerly Chia Pet) / Hoodwink / Fur, Beat Kitchen
Salt-n-Pepa / R.Kelly / Kid Capri / Xscape, Uic Pavilion (tix Sat
10am)
Seaweed / Bivouac / Braniac, Metro
Shonen Knife / Dentists, Metro
The Slugs / Hushdrops / Marble, Beat Kitchen
Smoking Popes / No Empathy / Oblivion, Metro
Stanley Jordan, Cubby Bear
These Days / Infraction / Wishbook, Metro
Veruca Salt / Loud Lucy, Metro
Avalon: 959 West Belmont / (312) 472-3020
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Mar 26 Sat Slim Dunlap
Apr 19 Tue *Pere Ubu
30 Sat *Prong
Beat Kitchen (21+): 2100 W. Belmont / (312) 281-4444
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Mar 25 Fri *The Slugs / Hushdrops / Marble
Apr 01 Fri *Robespierre (formerly Chia Pet) / Hoodwink / Fur
The Crawlspace: 952 Newport (at Clark/Sheffield/Newport)
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Mar 18 Fri 6:30 $5 *Smoking Popes / Tommyrot / Winepress / Smuggling
Yo-yos
19 Sat 6:30 $5 *Green Street / Lorenzo Music / Tiny / Miss Erie
Crobar: 1543 N. Kingsbury / (312) 587-1313
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Mar 24 Thu Stabbing Westward / The Raving Mad
Cubby Bear (21+): 1059 W. Addison / (312) 327-1662
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Mar 31 Thu Spies Who Surf
Apr 24 Sun *Stanley Jordan
Elhmurst VFW Hall: Addison & Hahn, Elmhurst
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Mar 13 Sun 6:30 $5 *Gauge / Tiny / Gainsay / Third Rail Rhyme (aa)
20 Sun 6:30 $5 *Apocalypse Hoboken / Sick 'n' Tired / Lunkhead /
Winepress (aa)
25 Fri 6:30 $5 *Smoking Popes / Tommyrot / Hoodwink / The
Fighters (aa)
Elmhurst YMCA
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Mar 19 Sat 8:00 $4 No Empathy / Lagosi / Double Odd Buck
Fitzgerald's: 6615 Roosevelt Rd., Berwyn / (708) 788-2188
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Mar 25 Fri Webb Wilder
26 Sat Webb Wilder
Lounge Ax (21+): 2348 N. Lincoln / (312) 525-6620
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Mar 18 Fri Nicholas Tremulis / Blind Venetians
19 Sat New Bomb Turks / Screw Party / Vic Vacume
20 Sun Motorhome / Dysfunctionells / Lazy / Hairshirt
22 Tue Uncle Tupelo
23 Wed Uncle Tupelo
24 Thu Uncle Tupelo
25 Fri Coctails / Man or Astroman?
26 Sat Killdozer / Dazzling Killmen / Faucet
27 Sun Th Faith Healers
30 Wed Neurosis / Buzz Oven / Wickerman
31 Thu Church Key
Apr 01 Fri Elliot Sharp's Carbon
02 Sat Rodan record release party
08 Fri Yo La Tengo
09 Sat Don Caballero
16 Sat *Railroad Jerk
23 Sat *Bailter Space
30 Sat The Silos
COMING: Lazy, Joe Henry, Dazzling Killmen, Neurosis, God Street Wine, Wool,
Mule, Silkworm, Crain, Edsel, Lungfish, God & Texas, Faust, Spavid,
Neurosis, Vandermark Quartet, Sleepyhead, Janitor Joe, Prisonshake,
Specula, Crain, Railroad Jerk
Metro: 3730 N. Clark / (312) 549-0203
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Mar 18 Fri Skatalites / Skapone / Mustard Plug / The Invaders
19 Sat Rev. Horton Heat / Flat Duo Jets / Run Westy Run
23 Wed 9:30 $3 Camel Toe / Masses / Tung Driven (18+)
25 Fri 7:30 Carter The Unstoppable Sex Machine (aa)
25 Fri 11:59 For Love Not Lisa / Concussion Ensemble (18+)
26 Sat 11:59 Mazzy Star / Cath Carroll / Acetone (18+)
27 Sun Fig Dish / Galaxy Of Mailbox Whores / Lava Sutra
30 Wed 9:30 *These Days / Infraction / Wishbook
Apr 01 Fri 7:30 David Lee Roth ==SOLD OUT==
01 Fri 11:30 *Veruca Salt / Loud Lucy
02 Sat Queen Sarah Saturday / Almost True
08 Fri 7:00 *Seaweed / Bivouac / Braniac
08 Fri 11:30 *Quaker Youth Ensemble / Luck Of Eden Hall
09 Sat 7:00 *Dyslexic Apaches / Brown Betty / Marble
09 Sat 11:30 *Chris Connelly
15 Fri 7:00 *Smoking Popes / No Empathy / Oblivion
15 Fri 11:30 Royal Crescent Mob / NIL8 / Spank Wagon
23 Sat Ozric Tentacles
25 Mon *Melvins / The Obsessed
29 Fri *Shonen Knife / Dentists
29 Fri *Red Red Meat / The Sea & Cake / Dolomite
May 05 Thu Pavement / 3Ds
Oak Theatre: Armitage & Western / (312) 235-0088
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Mar 20 Sun 6:30 Meatmen / New Bomb Turks / The Adicts / The
Hedonists (tix at the door)
Apr 03 Sun 7:00 *Entombed / Unsane / The Obsessed (aa)
10 Sun 7:00 $10 *Carcass / Pitchshifter / Aftermath (aa)
23 Sat *7 Seconds
Off The Alley: 18061 S. Dixie Hwy at Ridge, Homewood / (708) 798-2252
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Mar 19 Sat Sled / Ultra Violence
26 Sat Wormhole / Bad Genes
31 Thu 7:00 Jawbreaker / Bollweevils / Winepress
Park West (21+): 322 W. Armitage
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Mar 18 Fri 7:30 Dave Koz
24 Thu 7:30 The Roches / David Roche
25 Fri 7:30 Shawn Colvin acoustic ==SOLD OUT==
25 Fri 10:30 Shawn Colvin acoustic ==SOLD OUT==
Apr 09 Sat 7:30 Laurie Anderson ("An Evening Of Readings from her
new book")
10 Sun 7:30 Michael Hedges
15 Fri The Subdudes / Pat McLaughlin
23 Sat The Benoit/Freeman Project
Reckless Records: 3157 N. Broadway / (312) 404-5080
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Mar 19 Sat 3:00 FREE *Maestro Subgum & The Whole
Rialto Square Theatre: Joliet
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Mar 19 Sat Robert Cray Band / Joe Louis Walker
Riviera Theatre: 4746 N. Racine (Lawrence & Broadway)
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Mar 22 Tue 7:30 Cocteau Twins / Luna
23 Wed 6:30 Sepultura / Fudgetunnel / Clutch / Fear Factory
25 Fri 6:00 Ramones / Frank Black
26 Sat 7:00 Cowboy Junkies / Freedy Johnston
28 Mon 7:30 Crowded House / Sheryl Crow
Apr 01 Fri 7:30 Richard Thompson and his band
17 Sun 7:30 *Bob Dylan (tix Fri 10am)
18 Mon 7:30 *Bob Dylan (tix Fri 10am)
Rolling Stones Records: Harlem & Irving, Norridge
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Mar 23 Wed 7:00 *Pantera in-store meet'n'greet
Rosemont Horizon: Touhy & Mannheim, Rosemont
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Mar 29 Tue 7:30 Rush / Primus ==SOLD OUT==
30 Wed 7:30 Rush / Primus
Schubas Tavern (21+): 3759 N. Southport (at Belmont) / (312) 525-2508
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Apr 12 Tue *John Wesley Harding (tix Sat 10am)
13 Wed *John Wesley Harding (tix Sat 10am)
Scrap Skate Park: 2350 Hassel, Hoffman Estates / (708) 884-0945
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Apr 18 Mon *The Mother Fuckers / Offsides / tba
Soldier Field: Where the Bears play
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Jul 12 Tue 8:30 $25/35 *Pink Floyd (tix Sat 10am w/wristband)
Star Plaza Theater: 1-65 & US 30, Merrillville, IN / (312) 734-7266
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Apr 10 Sun Tom Jones
Jun 18 Sat Kansas / ELO
Aug 07 Sun Willie Nelson / Waylon Jennings / Asleep at the
Wheel
3rd Floor: 223 E. Chicago St., Elgin
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Mar 26 Sat 6:00 $5 *No Empathy / Sauce Kings / Vegas Witchcraft /
Sweet Polly / Mudkicker (aa)
Tower Records: 2301 N. Clark (at Belden) / (312) 477-5994
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Mar 22 Tue 5:00 Material Issue
26 Sat 2:00 Cowboy Junkies
Uic Pavilion: U. Of I. Chicago, 1140 W. Harrison / (312) 413-5740
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May 15 Sun *Salt-n-Pepa / R.Kelly / Kid Capri / Xscape (tix
Sat 10am)
The Vic (21+): 3145 N. Sheffield
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Mar 18 Fri 8:00 Andreas Vollenweider (aa) (Reserved seating)
19 Sat 7:30 Pogues / Shoulders (aa) ==SOLD OUT==
22 Tue 7:00 Fishbone / Biohazard / Kyuss
24 Thu Tori Amos ==SOLD OUT==
25 Fri 8:00 The Junction (18+)
26 Sat 10:00 Mr. Blotto / Cathy Richardson (18+)
27 Sun 7:00 $10 Green Day / Tilt / Smoking Popes (aa) ==SOLD OUT==
31 Thu 7:30 Widespread Panic (aa)
Apr 02 Sat 7:30 John McLaughlin (21+)
08 Fri 7:30 The Samples (aa)
30 Sat Sarah McLachlan / The Devlins
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The code list:
* new listing
18+ 18-and-over
21+ 21-and-over
aa all ages
All shows are all ages except where noted.
All ticket prices are rounded up to the next dollar. The contestant who
comes closest to the actual retail price of their showcase, without
going over, wins that showcase.
All information listed is subject to change. Phone First.
This list is available as a weekly mailing on the Internet. You can also
get it through some WWW something or other that I will list here as soon as
I have the info on it.
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Send any additions, requests, errors (gasp!) or whatever else to me.
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