Extremely solid week of music here in town this week, from Spoon to Shearwater to The Black Lips to Passion Pit to Cymbals Eat Guitars and beyond.  You can tell that we’re in post-SXSW mode, as just about everyone worth seeing is on the road (and those that aren’t will be soon).  And while I can’t say there’s much that interests me personally on Friday or Saturday, there’s plenty more during the rest of the week to keep me happy.

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 29
Beat Kitchen: Pat McCurdy
Double Door: Curtis Evans, Mike Maimone & The Mutts, Inchworm
Empty Bottle: The Lions Rampant, The Hardy Mums, The Half Rats [FREE]
Martyrs: Booty Movement Coalition, Magazine Gap
Reggie’s Rock Club: Mud Queens, Heart Shaped Hate, Team Band
Ronny’s: Technoir Ma, Glitter Bones, Bigcolour, McKenzie Toma
Schubas: Janelle Monae

The Lions Rampant: “Lights On”

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Tuesday, March 30
Abbey Pub: Midwest Most Hated, Class Ed, Andrew Davis II, many more
Beat Kitchen: Chicago Underground Comedy
Empty Bottle: Psychedelic Horseshit, John Bellows, Roche Moche
Hideout: Sanctified Grumblers
Lincoln Hall: Movie Night – Teen Wolf, Fletch
Metro/Smart Bar: DJ John Simmons, DJ Form
Ronny’s: Carusella, Trophy Wives
Schubas: Janelle Monae
Subterranean: Monogold, Future Ghosts, The Stationary Set, Ayanami

Teen Wolf: Part 1 of 10 (click thru for links to parts 2 thru 10)

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Wednesday, March 31
Abbey Pub: Team Rocket, Youth Dekay, Meah!, & Wildfires
Beat Kitchen: Sgt. Wesman’s Logan Square Friends Band, 7th Street
Bottom Lounge: Serena Maneesh, Depreciation Guild, Apteka, Canyon
Double Door: Mike Middleton, Canning, Green Sugar, more
Empty Bottle: You Say Party! We Say Die!, Clique Talk, Motorcycles Are Everywhere
Hideout: Immediate Sound Series ft. Tatsuya Nakatani, Ed Wilkerson, Jr.
Lincoln Hall: Green River Ordinance, Vedera, Angel Taylor
Martyrs: God’s Guns, The Webstirs
Metro/Smart Bar: DJs D-Vo, Chairman Rau, more
Reggie’s Rock Club: Tim Barry, Red Clay River, Chaperone
Ronny’s: The Gunshy, Cheap Girls, The Riot Before, Grown Ups
Schubas: The Ruby Suns, Toro Y Moi
Subterranean: Kelsey Wild, News on the March, Andrea Dawn, Gia Margaret

Serena Maneesh: “I Just Want To See Your Face” (video)
The Ruby Suns: “There Are Birds” (video)

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Thursday, April 1
Abbey Pub: The Midwest Nightmare, Faggy Pussy, Ramova, & Percolator
Aragon: Spoon
Beat Kitchen: The Protomen, Super 8 Bit Brothers, Alter Eagle
Bottom Lounge: Woodhands, Light Pollution, This Is Versailles, more
Double Door: The Willowz, Lionize
Empty Bottle: The Kickback, King Sparrow, Minneapolis Henrys
House of Blues (Back Porch): This Must Be The Band, Big Time
Lincoln Hall: Little Dragon, VV Brown, DJ Misa
Logan Square Auditorium: Black Lips, Box Elders, Mickey, Get Drunk DJs
Martyrs: Big C Jamboree, Gin Palace Jesters
Metro: Bonobo (live), The Invisible, Deanna Devore
Reggie’s Rock Club: From First To Last, Eyes Set To Kill, Confide, more
Ronny’s: These Magnificent Tapeworms, Hear You Me, more
Schubas: Miles Kurosky, Pancho-san
Subterranean: The Rocket Summer, Hot Chelle Rae

Spoon: “Written In Reverse” (live video from KCRW)
Miles Kurosky: “Dog In The Burning Building” (video)

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Friday, April 2
Abbey Pub: The Funky Monks, London Calling, Handsome Devilz
Beat Kitchen: The Methadones, Textbook, Love & Squalor, Burn Tibet
Bottom Lounge: Sawbuck, Nashville Wreckers, New Ruins, more
Beauty Bar: Passion Pit DJ set, Team Bayside High, Samone Roberts
Congress Theater: Passion Pit, Mayer Hawthorne & The County, Bear Hands [SOLD OUT]
Double Door: Flying Lotus, Kode 9, Mymanhenri, YROC
Empty Bottle: Acid Mothers Temple & The Melting Paraiso UFO, more
Hideout (6:30pm): Interview Show ft. Kid Sister, more
Hideout (10pm): The Pack a.d., Son of Cops, Robbie Hamilton Band
House of Blues: Land of Atlantis, Groovatron, more
Lincoln Hall: High on Fire, Priestess, Black Cobra, Bison B.C.
Martyrs: Daphne Willis, Diplomats of Solid Sound, Aviary Ghost
Metro: Beach House, Bachelorette [SOLD OUT]
Metro/Smart Bar: Bryan Zentz, Frankie Vega, more
Reggie’s Rock Club: Dillinger Escape Plan, Darkest Hour, more
Riviera: Ingrid Michaelson, Mat Ke
Ronny’s: We Make Thunder, The Forget Me Nows, more
Schubas (7:30pm): Steve Poltz
Schubas (10pm): Seabear, Via Tania, Soley
Subterranean: Jedi Mind Tricks, Earatik Statik, more

High on Fire: “Devilution” (video)

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Saturday, April 3
Abbey Pub: June Loves Cash (June Carter and Johnny Cash Tribute), Karlye Lapetina
Aragon: Baile Sabado De Gloria, Intocable
Beat Kitchen (5:30pm): The Action Blast, Artifex Pereo, A Hero Named Hope, The American Riot
Beat Kitchen (10:30pm): Head of Skulls!, Haymarket Riot, Mt. St. Helens
Beauty Bar: Daniel Hunt/Ladytron DJ set, Midnight Conspiracy, more
Bottom Lounge: Pendulum (DJ set), LA Riots, Stunna, Alfonz de la Mota
Congress Theater: David Guetta
Double Door: John Browns Body, Toubab Krewe
Empty Bottle: Tobacco, The Hood Internet, Daniel Francis Doyle
Hideout: City Center, Joan of Arc Trio
House of Blues: Robert Cray Band, Shemekia Copeland
Lincoln Hall: Xiu Xiu, tUnE-yArDs, Talk Normal, Zola Jesus
Martyrs (7pm): Audra Mae, Haywood Yards
Martyrs (10pm): Mucca Pazza, Roommate
Metro: Bismarch Reunion, Lil Louis
Metro/Smart Bar: Giom, DJ Mes, Frank Solano
Reggie’s Rock Club (5:30pm): Diamond Plate, Hatchet, Witchaven, War Saw
Reggie’s Rock Club (10pm): Suture Self, Meqqa, Komplicator, Sirens in Vain, Dies Mali
Ronny’s: Judgement Day, Girls in Trouble, Reddelicious, Meander
Schubas: High Places, Icy Demons, Tammar
Subterranean (6pm): A Lull, Suns, Group of Altos, Young Sun
Subterranean (10:45pm): The Booze, The Biters, The Downtown Struts, The Non Believers
The Vic: Joanna Newsom [SOLD OUT]

Joanna Newsom: “Soft as Chalk” (live video from Fallon)

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Sunday, April 4
Bottom Lounge: RX Bandits, The Builders and the Butchers, more
Empty Bottle: The Homoticons, Midtown Dickens, Me + Z
Lincoln Hall: Shearwater, Wye Oak, Hospital Ships
Metro: Miike Snow, Delorean, Light Pollution
Metro/Smart Bar: DJ JS vs. Kid Color, OCD Automatic, more
Reggie’s Rock Club: Weedeater, Black Tusk, The Gates of Slumber, more
Ronny’s: Past Apostles, Daily Void, Humachine, more
Schubas (6pm): Cymbals Eat Guitars, Freelance Whales
Schubas (9pm): Cymbals Eat Guitars, Freelance Whales [SOLD OUT]
Subterranean: Solid Gold

Shearwater: “Hidden Lakes” (video)
Cymbals Eat Guitars: “Wind Phoenix” (live video from KEXP)