Very solid week of music in town this week. Several big conflicts, which typically would annoy me, but given how slow things have been for the last month or so, I can handle it.

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, August 23
Beat Kitchen: Nathen Maxwell & The Original Bunny Gang, The Crombies
Double Door: Jessica Robbins, A Wu Li Conspiracy, more
Empty Bottle: Dusty Bible, Tirra Lirra, The Brothers Goforth [FREE]
Hideout: Robbie Fulks – String Wizard Trio
Martyr’s: M13, Chris Siebold & Psychles
Park West: Brandon Flowers [SOLD OUT]
Reckless Records/Lakeview (3pm): Julian Lynch
Reggie’s Rock Club: Exodus, Malevolent Creation, Holy Grail, more
Ronny’s: Frozen Teens, Street Legal, Nature Boys, Planet Ketchup
Schubas: Archie Powell & The Exports, Two Star, Stay Golden
Subterranean: Black Bear Combo, Neo, Tribraco, Jim Tashjian Group

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Tuesday, August 24
Darkroom: Ego Likeness, The Ludovico Technique, Short to Ground
Double Door: Small Houses, Mitch Mead, John Davey, more
Empty Bottle: Unsane, Today Is The Day, Keelhaul
Hideout: Sanctified Grumblers
Martyr’s: Farkus, Darrick Thompson, Greg Thomas
Ronny’s: The Hamburglars, International Espionage!, more
Schubas: The Wooden Birds, Dan Mangan, Hospital Ships
Subterranean: Bad City, Dastardly, George Swayne

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Wednesday, August 25
Double Door: Always the Villain, Voodoo Pilot, Ampline, more
Empty Bottle: Paul Collins Beat, Half Rats, Ian Olvera & The Sleepwalkers
Hideout: Immediate Sound Series ft. Elisabeth Harnik, Ken Vandermark, more
Lincoln Hall: Deanna Devore, Cole DeGenova & The People’s Republic, more
Martyr’s: Cabaret Vagabond
Pritzker Pavilion: David Gray & Ray LaMontagne
Reckless Records/Lakeview (6pm): Sarin McHugh and the Everymen
Reckless Records/Wicker Park (3pm): Paul Collins Beat
Reggie’s Rock Club: Enthroned, Destroyer 666, Pathology, Cardiac Arrest
Schubas: Casiokids, Light Pollution

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Thursday, August 26
Abbey Pub: Pheta Morgana, Waiflike, Polymer Twins, Art Garden
Beat Kitchen: Poison Control Center, Holyoke, Chrash
Darkroom: Dorian Taj, La Scala, The Ragtones
Double Door: Dick Wolf!, Conrad Richards, Dozens, Origin of Animal
Empty Bottle: Belmondos, Nathan Xander & Witchouse, Welcome to Ashley
Hideout: Hollows, Tyler Jon Tyler, Half Rats
Lincoln Hall: Vienna Teng & Alex Wong, The Guggenheim Grotto
Martyr’s: 3 in Counting, Ben Keeler & the 500 Club, Dawn Xiana Moon
Park West: Justin Nozuka Band
Reggie’s Rock Club: The Bitter Wigs, Mark the Knife, Lasers and Fast and Shit, more
Ronny’s: The Bumpus Hounds, Dingus, The Roaring .22s, Thirty Case Chase
Schubas: Lou Barlow & The Missingmen, Wye Oak, Young Man
Subterranean: The Lavellas, Mr Russia, Magnetars

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Friday, August 27
Abbey Pub: Gypsyfly, Poundcake
Beat Kitchen: Spitalfield, Just Left, The Forecast
Bottom Lounge: Big Science, Post Honeymoon, The Kickback, Camera
Darkroom: The Melismatics, The Duke of Dark, Blane Fonda, more
Double Door: Otter Petter, Jessica Godwin, Scale Model, The Visitors
Empty Bottle: God Bullies, TV Ghost, White Drugs, My Cold Dead Hand
Logan Square Aud.: Jon Drake & The Shakes, The Shams Band, The Minneapolis Henrys, more
Hideout (6:30pm): Flame Shark, T-Bird Magera, The Cells, Curtis Evans
Hideout (10pm): Michael Columbia, Running, Verma
Lincoln Hall: White Mystery, The 1900s, Lover!
Martyr’s: Hollus, Dirty Rooks, Delta Routine
Metro: Cameron McGill & What Army, Horse in the Sea, more
Old Town School: Fruit Bats, Nathaniel Braddock
Reggie’s Rock Club: Coliseum, Sweet Cobra, Burning Love, Fight Amp
Ronny’s: She Likes Todd, The Tired and True, Loudmouth, The Atrocities
Schubas (7pm): Drag the River (acoustic), Cory Branan
Schubas (10pm): Brent Puls, Death Ships, The Glory Singers
Subterranean: Riot Inside, Room 101, Arma, Echo Son

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Saturday, August 28
Abbey Pub: Benefit for Youth Recordings Chicago
Beat Kitchen: Spitalfield, Nervous Circuits
Bottom Lounge: 1000 Vertical Feet, Phaded
Double Door: American Motherload, Black Angus, Admiral of Black, Blackbox
Empty Bottle: Windy City Soul Club
Hideout: Warmbloods, Mistress Stephanie & Her Melodic Cat
Lincoln Hall: Memoryhouse, Twin Sister, Yawn, Distractions
Martyr’s: Reckoning, Blood on the Tracks, The Rolling ClonesUSA
Metro: Team Bayside High, Zebo, Alex Zelenka, more
Old Town School: Todd Snider
Park West: Zoso (Led Zeppelin tribute)
Reggie’s Rock Club: Textures of Lions, The Megabangers, Fain, more
Ronny’s: Highball, Be My Doppleganger, The Neutron Bombs, Sore Subjects
Saki Records: Paper Mice (4pm), Locks (3pm)
Schubas: The Rural Alberta Advantage, The Wooden Sky
Subterranean: Tub Ring, Dr Killbot, Dr Manhattan, Mose Giganticus

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Sunday, August 29
Aragon: Iggy and the Stooges
Beat Kitchen: Alert, Beckon Q, Roots 101, more
Bottom Lounge: The Audition, Breathe Electric, The Action Blast, more
Double Door: Down-Fi, Rodeo, Dogs of Fortune
Empty Bottle: DISROBE, DAD, Skank Wolf & The Mange
Hideout: Kumail Nanjiani, Beth Stelling, Joselyn Hughes
Lincoln Hall: Carioca Trio
Metro: Curren$y and Friends
Ronny’s: Almanac, Cody Copeland, Pat Hull, Zikr
Saki Records: The Velcro Lewis Group (3pm)
Schubas: TV Torso, Radar Eyes, The Lighthouse and the Whaler
Subterranean: Teenage Bottlerocket, The Reaganomics, Love & Squalor