Here’s what’s going on musically in Chicago this week.  As usual, my picks are in bold, and if I’ve left anything out, please drop me a note in the comments!

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Monday, December 7
Beat Kitchen: Pat McCurdy
Darkroom: Tom Waits 60th Birthday Party ft. B1g T1me
Empty Bottle: Shapers, I Kong Kult, Child Bite [FREE SHOW]
The Hideout: Curtis Harvey, The Glorytellers (ft. Geoff Farina of Karate), Judson Claiborne
House of Blues: GWAR, Job for a Cowboy, The Red Chord
Lincoln Hall: Sloan
Martyr’s: Cabaret Vagabond
Metro: Mew, All The Day Holiday
Reggie’s Music Joint: Nixon Omollo and the Survivors, Rebel Roots, Los Vicios De Papa
Ronny’s: The Sky We Scrape, Spanish Gamble, Reverse the Curse, Love and Squalor, Fossil Arm
Schubas: The Part V, Grimble Grumble, Geronimo!
Subterranean: Dashboard Confessional (solo acoustic), New Found Glory (acoustic)

GWAR: Interview on the Joan Rivers Show (video)
Mew: “Repeaterbeater” (video)
Sloan: “The Rest of My Life” (video)

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Tuesday, December 8
Abbey Pub: Seabird, The Civil Wars, The Saturn Project
Beat Kitchen: Chicago Underground Comedy
Darkroom: Girl Activity, Hailey Wojcik and Her Imaginary Friends, Sarah Katheryn
Debonair Social Club: Firebug, Static Summer [FREE SHOW]
Double Door: Helicopters, Poster, Soft Speaker, King Sparrow
Empty Bottle: ten-speed, The Dead Superheroes Orchestra, The Right Now, more
The Hideout: Sanctified Grumblers, more
House of Blues: Rooney, Crash Kings, Tally Hall
Reggie’s Music Joint: Mr. Blotto, Crawl, Zack Weber
Ronny’s: The Earth Program, Valleys, Lionlimb
Schubas: Fink, Darren Spitzer
Subterranean: Shifting Totem, Arbogast, The Weapons, God’s Guns

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Wednesday, December 9
Abbey Pub: The Great Mundane, Larva Ink, Bight Club, CaPLEM
Beat Kitchen: The Ours, Phil Forsyth, Civil Servant
Darkroom: Tiger Spirit, Coins, The Warmbloods
Double Door: Will Phalen & The Stereo Addicts, Visionaire Band [FREE SHOW]
Empty Bottle: Priestess, Early Man, Rabit Rabbit, Naam
The Hideout: Immediate Sound Series ft. Fred Lonberg-Holm, Nate Lepine, Jason Adasiewicz, more
House of Blues: Raekwon, Capone, Noreaga
Martyr’s: Cadillac Casket, The Locals, Flatbed Orange
Reggie’s Music Joint: Prosaic, The Anything Trio
Reggie’s Rock Club: Bush on Coke, Cheney’s Gun
Ronny’s: O’Pioneers!!!, Cloud Mouth, Hawkbit, Wide Angles
Schubas: Red Light Driver, Adam Ashbach (ex-Musical Outfits), Welcome to Ashley
SmartBar: Kid Color, Weaponry, SR-71, Mister Joshua, Ross Kelly
Subterranean: Bat Masterson, Eigenfunk, Adnine, Vitus Dance

Raekwon ft. Ghostface & Method Man: “New Wu” (video)

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Thursday, December 10
Abbey Pub: Joy Missile, Paris Schutz Band, Voice Box, Somersault Factory
Beat Kitchen: The Love Me Nots, The Hounds Below, The Sights
Bottom Lounge: Blane Fonda, Bamboo Shoots, The Embraceables
Darkroom: Rollo Tomasi, Dark Fog, Sisters of Your Sunshine Vapor, Heaving Mass
Double Door: Eytan & His Orchestra, AR [FREE SHOW]
Empty Bottle: The Loyal Divide, Color Radio, The Alpha Centauri, Flights
The Hideout: Tomorrow Music Orchestra, Leaf Bird, Love Raid
House of Blues: Hatebreed, Cannibal Corpse, Unearth, Hate Eternal, Born of Osiris
Lincoln Hall: Headlights, Maritime
Martyr’s: Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, Katastrofist
Reggie’s Music Joint: Black Angus, Lagteralus
Reggie’s Rock Club: The Cool Kids, Bun B, Chip the Ripper
Ronny’s: Red Serpent
Schubas: Jessica Lea Mayfield, Frontier Ruckus
SmartBar: Radiata, Stunna, Lamebrane, Submorphics, Code Blue
Subterranean: Pinebender, Fin Fang Foom, Electric Hawk, Old Fake

Jessica Lea Mayfield: “Kill Me Again” (video)
Headlights: “Cherry Tulips” (video)
Maritime: “Guns of Navarone” (video)

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Friday, December 11
Abbey Pub: Skindred
Allstate Arena: The Flaming Lips, Phoenix, Pete Yorn
Beat Kitchen: The Saps, Elsinore, Luster
Bottom Lounge: Cains & Abels, Cavalier Rose, In Tall Buildings, All the Creatures of the Sea
Darkroom: Grant Hart, Farewell Captain, Wild Peaks
Double Door: El Vez, Los Straitjackets, and the Lovely Elvettes
Empty Bottle (5:30pm): The Hoyle Brothers [FREE SHOW]
Empty Bottle (10pm): Pelican, Black Cobra, Disappearer
The Hideout: The Flat Five (ft. Kelly Hogan, Gerald Dowd, more)
Lincoln Hall: The Ike Reilly Assassination, U.S. Royalty [DC represent, yo]
Martyr’s: Ivan Neville’s Dumpstaphunk, The Ragbirds
Metro: Lucid Ground, Minus the Girl, Model Stranger, Kelroy, Trainwreck Symphony
Ottoman Empire: Big Splashes, Netherfriends, Jams Dean
Reggie’s Music Joint: Honest Engines, Carley Wolf, Brian Martin, Andrew Anderson, Meander
Reggie’s Rock Club: The Queers, The Leftovers, The Hypnic Jerks, I Love Rich
Schubas: The Handcuffs, The Webstirs, Phil Angotti Band
SmartBar: John Acquaviva, Nate Manic
Ronny’s: The Good Apples, Killer Moon
Subterranean (8pm): Studio L’Amour Striptease Student Showcase
Subterranean (10pm): The Chicago Starlets Present: BrrrrrLesque

Pelican: “Lost In The Headlights” (video)
U.S. Royalty: “Every Summer” (video)

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Saturday, December 12
Abbey Pub: Nevermind (Nirvana tribute), Eighty Six (Green Day tribute), Kobanes
Beat Kitchen (6pm): Inept (final show), special guests TBA
Beat Kitchen (10:30pm): Chica X, 97-Shiki, Gateway District, The Kidults
Bottom Lounge: Inspector Owl, The Streets on Fire, Fly Over State, Crayolala
Congress Theater: Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, Dr. Dog, Emmitt-Nershi Band, more
Darkroom: Moneypenny, BBU, Gemini Club, DJ sets
Double Door: JC Brooks/Uptown Sound, Heather Perry/The Blanks, Black Bear Combo, more
Empty Bottle: Land of Talk, L’Altra, Where Astronauts Go To Hide
The Hideout: Mahjongg, White Car
House of Blues: Better Than Ezra, Vedera
Lincoln Hall: Russian Circles, Young Widows, Sweet Cobra, Phantom Family Halo
Martyr’s (12pm): Justin Roberts & the Not Ready for Naptime Players
Martyr’s (10pm): Ekoostik Hookah, Savvy
Metro: I Fight Dragons, Pretty Good Dance Moves, Cobalt and the Hired Guns
Park West: The Subdudes
Reggie’s Music Joint (7pm): Me and the Devil
Reggie’s Music Joint (9pm): The Honeybees, Capgun Cowboys, Hot Rod Hucksters
Reggie’s Rock Club: Marduk, Nachtmystium, Mantik Ritual, Merrimack
Ronny’s: Michael Michael Motorcycle, Amen/Hell Yeahs, Altar Eagle, Pretty Boy Thorson/The Falling Angels
Old Town School of Folk Music (7pm): Over The Rhine
Old Town School of Folk Music (10pm): Over The Rhine
Schubas: The Verve Pipe, Kevin Andrew Prchal
SmartBar: Front of House, Rees Urban, Lil John
Subterranean: Strange Arrangement, Land of Atlantic, Ladymoon

Ekoostik Hookah: “Utopia” (live) (video)
Russian Circles: “Death Rides a Horse” (live) (video)

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Sunday, December 13
Abbey Pub: Marcus Foster & Blue Roses, Karlye Lapetina
Beat Kitchen (12pm): Lindsay & Jesse
Beat Kitchen (8:30pm): Trackula, Motormouth w/ Badluki, Brimstone
Bottom Lounge: Lights Over Bridgeport, So Many Ways
Darkroom: Mind Flux Funeral, The Gothsicles, Side-Project, DJ Pathohoin
Double Door: Human Aftertaste, The Infected, Patrol Wagon, Replica Republic [FREE SHOW]
Empty Bottle: The Willowz, Mayor Daley, Red Electric Rainbow
House of Blues: Shinedown, Halestorm, Rev Theory
Park West: Straight No Chaser
Reggie’s Music Joint: Pistol Pete, Aaron Williams & the Hoodoo, Tri State Blues Band
Ronny’s: Dusty Bibles
Schubas: Kris Delmhorst, Hayward Williams
Subterranean: Killing Revolutions, Aetiology, The Kickback, Blackjack Sass