Here’s my first ever “This Week In Chicago” post. I’m still trying to learn all of the main Chicago-area clubs, so my apologies if I’ve left anything out. Please feel free to drop a comment with any club/show suggestions that I miss.

I’m actually not sure if I’m going to make this a permanent feature or not. Unlike DC, Chicago has its own Oh My Rockness site, so any post I do is going to be pretty much duplicative of the excellent work they already do. That said, I kinda like doing it because it allows me to get a good idea of what’s going on around town, and also lets me recommend the shows that I think are most interesting. So we’ll see.

As with my DC-area posts, my picks are in bold.

Sunday, 9/20
Beat Kitchen: Milano, Tyrone Andrews, Mosquito Fleet, Liza Day
Bottom Lounge: BLK JKS, Fool’s Gold
Chopin Theater (8pm): WAVVES
Empty Bottle: WAVVES, Ganglians, Old Fake
Hideout: Parno Graszt, Little Cow, Megitza Quartet
Martyrs: Forro in the Dark, Jair Oliveira
Reggie’s Rock Club: Jack in Space, On the Front, more
Schuba’s: Fruit Bats, Iran, Kevin Barker
Subterranean: The Sweeps, Facing Forward, Plunket, Mia Leblon
United Center: Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band

Monday, 9/21
Beat Kitchen: Sean Bones, Automata
Double Door: 40 oz. to Freedom, Egress
Empty Bottle: Davila 666, Smith Westerns, Mother of Tears, Mickey
Hideout: BLK JKS, L’Orchestre Super Vitesse
Martyrs: Jair Oliveira, Blick Bassy
Schuba’s: Fruit Bats, Iran, Kevin Barker
Subterranean: The Antlers, Holly Miranda, Ghost in the Graveyard

Tuesday, 9/22
Beat Kitchen (upstairs): Pat McCurdy
Double Door: Bury My Teech, Ninja Academy, Meah! Yeti vs. Yeti
Empty Bottle: Tell Your Friends
Hideout: Sanctified Gamblers, more
Martyrs: Dame Pa’Matala, Revel Diaz, Mohammed P.R.
Schuba’s: J Roddy Walston & The Business, Ponderosa
Subterranean: These Arms Are Snakes, DD/MM/YYY, Native
The Vic: Porcupine Tree, King’s X

Wednesday, 9/23
Beat Kitchen: Tim Larson & The Owner/Operators, Scott Lucas & the Married Men, Tom Schraeder
Bottom Lounge: Thursday, The Fall of Troy, Young Widows, La Dispute
Darkroom: Richard Lloyd, Sissy Mena, Fetch
Double Door: Airlines X, The Handcuffs, Whore du Jour, The Maybenauts
Empty Bottle: Kiko Klaus, Momo
Hideout: Klang, more
Martyrs: Hanggai, Rahim AlHaj
Reggie’s Rock Club: Ready… Break!, Amuse, Universe
Schuba’s: The Dynamites, The Right Now
Subterranean: Love Raid, Elusive Parallelograms, Wolfgang Jay
The Vic: Ani DiFranco, Gregory Alan Isakov

Thursday, 9/24
Beat Kitchen: This is Versailles, Tongues, The Venom Lords
Empty Bottle: Tobacco, DJ STV SLV, Bear the Bell
Hideout: Jack Rose, Doug McCombs/David Daniell
Martyrs: Papa Grows Funk, Purgatory Hill
Metro: Sunny Day Real Estate, The Jealous Sound
Reggie’s Rock Club: Robot Lounge, Flights, Parachute Musical, Oblio
Schuba’s: fun., Miniature Tigers [sold out]
Subterranean: Harris & The Mood, Kevin Leeds, On The Lam

Friday, 9/25
Beat Kitchen: The Dear Hunter, Empires, The Felix Culpa
Bottom Lounge: The Weakerthans, Rock Plaza Central
Chopin Theater: The Soft Pack, Smith Westerns
Double Door: Bell X1, Wild Light
Empty Bottle (early): Miike Snow, Jack Penate
Empty Bottle (late): Jack Penate, Miike Snow
Logan Square Auditorium: Trail of Dead, Secret Machines, Pool of Frogs
Hideout: Tight Phantomz, Private Dancer, Tiger Bones, more
Martyrs: Keith Masters, Ghosthouse, Boomjuice, Vyle
Metro: Owl City, Kate Havnevik, Unicorn Kid
Reggie’s Rock Club: Bully in the Hallway, Mark Mallman, Melismatics, Late Aprill
Schuba’s: Chairlift, Micachu & the Shapes, John Maus
Sonotheque: Miike Snow (DJ set), Moneypenny, Hey Champ (DJ set), Frankmusik
Subterranean: Scout Niblett, Pillars and Tongues, Post Honeymoon
The Vic: Son Volt, Sera Cahoone

Saturday, 9/26
Beat Kitchen: Keelhaul, Yakuza, (Lone) Wolf & Cub, Beast in the Field
Bottom Lounge: New Model Army, The Bomb, Rollo Tomasi
Chopin Theater: Sleepy Sun, Assemble Head in Sunburst Sound
Double Door: Oh My God, The Record Low, Brighton MA
Empty Bottle: Death, Rough Francis, Tyvek
Hideout: Extra Golden, Endless Boogie
Martyrs: uLeLe!, Gentlemen of Nuco
Metro: Clutch, Wino, Lionize
Reggie’s Rock Club: The Honorary Title. Good Old War, Cory Branan, Look Mexico
Schuba’s (early): Rural Alberta Advantage, The Love Language
Schuba’s (late): Rural Alberta Advantage, The Love Language
Subterranean: Brilliant Pebbles, Aleks and the Drummer, more
The Vic: Built to Spill, Disco Doom