Wow. This is, hands down, the best week of live music in Chicago since I moved here in October. There are multiple solid shows every night of the week (well, maybe not Sunday), and great music pretty much all day long on Saturday. If you don’t get out and see live music this week – and lots of it – then you’ve got problems.

Shows in bold are recommended shows, while shows in larger bold red are shows that I plan on going to and/or shows that I really, really think you should be going to.

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Monday, March 8
Beat Kitchen: Pat McCurdy
Empty Bottle: JC Brooks & The Uptown Sound, The Dirty Diamonds, East of Edens (DJ) [FREE SHOW]
Harris Theatre: The Magnetic Fields, Laura Barrett
Hideout: Iraq Veterans Against The War (An Evening of Performances)
Lincoln Hall: Efterklang, volcano!
Martyrs: Matthew Jason, Robert Hynes, Dan Patrevito & Friends
Schubas: Laugh It Up Kid (comedy night)

Efterklang & The Danish National Chamber Orchestra: “Cutting Ice to Snow” (live video)

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Tuesday, March 9
Beat Kitchen: Chicago Underground Comedy
Double Door: Conductive Alliance, Please the Trees, Brother George, All Tiny Creatures
Empty Bottle: Ghetto Caviar, Patrick Thunder, VALIS, People Sometimes
Hideout: Sanctified Grumblers
House of Blues: Howie Day, Matt Lowell
Lincoln Hall: Califone (performing live soundtrack to “All My Friends Are Funeral Singers”)
Martyrs: Grand Atlantic, Gidgets Ga Ga, Autumn Owls
Reggie’s Music Joint: Mr. Blotto, Dank
Ronny’s: Battleship, Alniente, Daryl Shawn, Sunglasses
Schubas: Via Audio, Pattern Is Movement, Blane Fonda

Grand Atlantic: “She’s a Dreamer” (video)
Via Audio: “Modern Day Saint” (video)

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Wednesday, March 10
Beat Kitchen: One for the Team, A Night in the Box, We All Have Hooks for Hands, The Blissters
Bottom Lounge: Arbogast, Novaroma, Samantha
Double Door: Loyal Divide, Letting Up Despite Great Faults, City at Large, more
Empty Bottle: Vetiver, Robbie Hamilton & Soft Drugs, Please the Trees
Hideout: Immediate Sound Series ft. Ericson/Lonberg-Holm/Mueller
House of Blues: Chrisette Michele, Laura Izibor, Lem Payne
Lakeshore Theater: Vinicio Capossela
Lincoln Hall: Califone (rock show), Roommate
Martyrs: Dastardly, Lorelei & the Troublemakers, The Tree, Jeff Lescher & Eddie Ulm
Reggie’s Music Joint: Saint Bernadette, Joe Roberto and Poverty Hash, more
Reggie’s Rock Club: Fresh Produce Producer Battle, NoTryDo Sincere, more
Ronny’s: Dirtybird, Hot Giraffe, Baby Giraffe and His Prom Dates
Schubas: Surfer Blood, Turbo Fruits, MillionYoung [SOLD OUT]
Subterranean: The Gunshy, Jared Grabb, The Sky We Scrape, The Spend

One for the Team: “Garden” (video)
Surfer Blood: “Swim” (video)
Vetiver: “More of This” (live video)

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Thursday, March 11
Abbey Pub: Raoul Duke, Herbert Wiser Band, Thinner Teed, Chester Borwn, Big Sky String Band
Beat Kitchen: A Modern Love Story, Blank Image, Haywood Yards, Jacobi Wichita, Hold Everything
Bottom Lounge: Liquid Soul, Balkano, 7th Kind, Black Bear Combo
Double Door: Greensky Bluegrass
Empty Bottle: Young Widows, My Disco, Phantom Family Halo
Hideout: Shapers, Old Fake, Driftless Pony Club
House of Blues (Back Porch): Chris Duarte & Bluestone Company
Lincoln Hall: We Were Promised Jetpacks, The Lonely Forest, Bear Hands
Martyrs: The Webelos, Push, The Outbreaks
Reggie’s Music Joint: One & Only, Boats!!, Halfwaynorth
Reggie’s Rock Club: Koku Gonza, DJ Shannon, Blah Blah Blah
Ronny’s: Imperial China, Hunting Abroad, Mountain for Clouds
Schubas: Tigercity, Gemini Club, The Silent Years, Wave Machines
Subterranean: Very Truly Yours, Summer Cats, City Center

We Were Promised Jetpacks: “It’s Thunder and It’s Lightning” (live acoustic video)
Imperial China: Live at Fort Reno (video)

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Friday, March 12
Beat Kitchen: Pelican, Pinebender, Follows
Bottom Lounge: Kreator, Voivod, Nachmystium, Evile, Lazarus A.D.
Congress Theater: House of Pain, La Coka Nostra w/ GZA
Double Door: My Dear Disco, Shoeless Revolution, Alter Ego
Empty Bottle: Lasers and Fast and Shit, Pool of Frogs, Carjack
Hideout: Chandeliers, Night Gallery, Axis:sovA, DJs Chris Kalis + Jesse Sandvik
House of Blues: Gaelic Storm
Lincoln Hall (7pm): Tally Hall, Jukebox the Ghost, Skybox
Lincoln Hall (11pm): Hockey, The Constellations [SOLD OUT]
Martyrs: Micah Walk, Shelley Miller, Steve Dawson
Metro: The Aquabats, Mustard Plug, Plunket
Reggie’s Music Joint: Paperbeat, Matt Kelly, The Young Republic
Reggie’s Rock Club: Curren$y, L.E. For The Uncool, Fly Union, more
Ronny’s: The Part V, I Love You, The Idle Kings
Schubas (7pm): David Ford, Brent Puls
Schubas (10pm): Pretty Good Dance Moves, Harper Blynn, California Wives
Subterranean: Vivian Girls, Male Bonding, The Alright Alreadies
United Center: Muse, Silversun Pickups
The Vic: Jeff Tweedy

Jeff Tweedy: “The Ruling Class” (live video)
Vivian Girls: “When I’m Gone” (video)

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Saturday, March 13
Aragon Ballroom: Flogging Molly
Beat Kitchen (7pm): Family of the Year, The Help Desk, The Queen Killing Kings
Beat Kitchen (10:30pm): Zola Jesus, Beau Wanzer, Fielded
Bottom Lounge: Ted Leo/RX, Title Tracks, Chicago Stone Lightning Band
Congress Theater: El Costeno y Concierto
Double Door: SUBliminal – a Night of Dubstep, Drum & Bass and Hip Hop
Empty Bottle: Bloodiest, A/V Murder, Electric Hawk
Hideout (3pm): SXSW Benefit w/ Waco Brothers, Via Tania, Hood Internet, more
House of Blues: Gaelic Storm
House of Blues (Back Porch): Kevin Flynn & Avondale Ramblers
Lincoln Hall (12pm): Claychella 2010 ft. Flosstradamus, The Hood Internet, many more
Martyrs: Trainwreck (ft. Kyle Gass), Ghost Shirt
Metro: RJD2, Break Science, Happy Chichester
Reggie’s Music Joint: Curio, Echo Son, Township
Reggie’s Rock Club: Poladot Cadaver, Ideamen, Vampire Mooose, Karen Page
Rivera Theatre: Ray Davies
Ronny’s: The Brokedowns, Days Off, Bird Sounds, Love and Squalor, Barn Burner
Schubas (1pm): Pretty Good Dance Moves, The Bon Mots
Schubas: Ben Sollee, Daniel Martin Moore
Subterranean: Harvey Milk, Coalesce, The Atlas Moth
The Vic: Jeff Tweedy

Ted Leo: “One Polaroid a Day” (live video)
Title Tracks: “Black Bubblegum” (live video)

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Sunday, March 14
Beat Kitchen (12pm): Super Stolie and the Rockstars
Beat Kitchen (7:30pm): Katie & Pat, Steven Gilpin
Bottom Lounge: Orphaned Land, Indian, Suidakra, A Storm of Light, Via Vengence
Double Door (7pm): Amaral, The Right Ons, Maika Makosvski
Double Door (10:30pm): Dan Patevito & MT Smiles
Empty Bottle: Battlefields, Junius, Why Intercept?
Lincoln Hall: Dervish
Metro: Copeland, I Can Make A Mess Like Nobody’s Business, Person L, Deas Vail
Reggie’s Rock Club: Raashan Adhmad, Coolzey, Moodswangz, Tony Bombz, more
Ronny’s: Truman & His Trophy, Eagle Scout
Schubas: Think About Life, Diamond Rings, guest
Subterranean: Howlin Tumbleweeds, The Canoes, The Earth is a Man, Slowhawks

Think About Life: “Sweet Sixteen” (video)