This Week in Shows

Posted on May 25, 2012 by

The summer festivals and street fests are coming into focus. Some very interesting acts playing for free (or small donation) have been added, along with everything else new, to the SHOWcal. Here’s what’s on tap this week:

Fri May 25 8:30pm – 10:30pm
Waco Brothers @ Beat Kitchen
Sat May 26 All day
Randolph St. Market Festival This event has reminders.
All day
Belmont/Sheffield Music Festival This event has reminders.
Sun May 27 All day
Randolph St. Market Festival This event has reminders.
All day
Belmont/Sheffield Music Festival This event has reminders.
Mon May 28 All day
Memorial Day
6:30pm – 10:30pm
Kelly Hogan @ Millennium Park
8:00pm – 11:00pm
Apparat @ Lincoln Hall
9:00pm – 12:00am
Netherfriends @ Empty Bottle
Tue May 29 All day
John F. Kennedy’s Birthday
Thu May 31 All day
Chicago Mayfest @ Lincoln Square This event has reminders.
9:00pm – 12:00am
The Dig @ Schubas This event has reminders.
9:00pm – 12:00am
Langhorne Slim @ Lincoln Hall
9:30pm – 11:30pm
Black Belles @ Empty Bottle This event has reminders.

 

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Record Releases 5/22/12

Posted on May 22, 2012 by

Here’s what drops this week. Nothing looks hopeful.

May-22-12 Cold Specks – I Predict a Graceful Expulsion Arts & Crafts
May-22-12 Exitmusic – Passage Secretly Canadian
May-22-12 Gossip – A Joyful Noise Columbia
May-22-12 Joey Ramone – …Ya Know? BMG Rights Management
May-22-12 Mount Eerie – Clear Moon P.W. Elverum and Sun.
May-22-12 Riverboat Gamblers – The Wolf You Feed Volcom
May-22-12 Still Flyin’ – On a Bedroom Wall Ernest Jenning
May-22-12 Teen Daze – All of Us, Together Lefse
May-22-12 Young Man – Vol. 1 Frenchkiss
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This Week in Shows

Posted on May 18, 2012 by

Remember the 1990s? Remember Garbage (the band)? Well, you can see them at Metro at the startling price of $38! That, and a bunch of other garbage, added to the SHOWcal today. Here’s the agenda for this week:

Fri May 18 10:00pm – 1:00am
Kele (Bloc Party DJ Set) @ The Mid
8:30am – 12:30pm
Elsinore @ Ace Bar This event has reminders.
5:00pm – 1:00am
HoZac Blackout Fest @ Empty Bottle
10:00pm – 12:00am
Joe Pug @ Lincoln Hall
Sat May 19 5:00pm – 1:00am
HoZac Blackout Fest @ Empty Bottle
5:00pm – 1:00am
HoZac Blackout Fest @ Empty Bottle
9:00pm – 12:00am
Braid @ Rockit Bar This event has reminders.
10:00pm – 12:00am
Joe Pug @ Lincoln Hall
Sun May 20 5:00pm – 1:00am
HoZac Blackout Fest @ Empty Bottle
7:00pm – 1:00am
HoZac Blackout Fest @ Empty Bottle
8:00pm – 11:00pm
Kurt Vile @ Lincoln Hall
Mon May 21 7:00pm – 1:00am
HoZac Blackout Fest @ Empty Bottle
8:00pm – 11:00pm
Lee Scratch Perry @ Lincoln Hall
8:00pm – 11:00pm
Beach Boys @ Chicago Theatre
Tue May 22 7:30pm – 10:30pm
M. Ward @ Vic This event has reminders.
8:00pm – 11:00pm
Beach Boys @ Chicago Theatre
Wed May 23 8:00pm – 11:00pm
Alejandro Escovedo @ Lincoln Hall
9:00pm – 12:00am
PS I Love You @ Schubas This event has reminders.
Thu May 24 7:30pm – 10:30pm
Edward Sharpe & The Magnetic Zeros @ Riviera

 

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Record Releases 5/15/12

Posted on May 15, 2012 by

Here’s what drops this week. Stuff marked * should be good:

May-15-12 *Beach House – Bloom Sub Pop
May-15-12 *Best Coast – The Only Place Mexican Summer
May-15-12 Craft Spells – Gallery EP Captured Tracks
May-15-12 Garbage – Not Your Kind of People Stunvolume
May-15-12 Hands – Massive Context Small Plates
May-15-12 Hot Water Music – Exister Rise
May-15-12 Matthew Dear – Her Fantasy 12″ Ghostly International
May-15-12 MV & EE – Space Homestead Woodsist
May-15-12 Simian Mobile Disco – Unpatterns Wichita Recordings
May-15-12 Squarepusher – Ufabulum Warp
May-15-12 The Cribs – In The Belly Of The Brazen Bull Wichita
May-15-12 Violens – TRUE Slumberland
May-15-12 White Fence – Family Perfume Vol. 2 Woodsist
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Pygmalion Festival Annouces Lineup

Posted on May 9, 2012 by

Champaign-Urbana’s annual multi-day, multi-venue music festival recently announced a portion of its lineup. This year’s festival (September 27-29) will feature Grizzly Bear, Dinosaur Jr., Tennis, Lotus Plaza, Cloud Nothings, Frankie Rose, Zeus, Big Freedia, Craft Spells, Julia Holter, Willis Earl Beal, Hospitality and a number of smaller local and touring acts. More acts are scheduled to be announced in the coming weeks. Tickets go on sale today ($65 early-bird discount) at http://pygmalionmusicfestival.com/

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Record Releases May 8, 2012

Posted on May 8, 2012 by

Here’s what drops this week, all y’all. Stuff marked * should be good:

May-08-12 CFCF – Exercises Paper Bag records
May-08-12 *Here We Go Magic – A Different Ship Secretly Canadian
May-08-12 Led Er Est – The Diver Sacred Bones
May-08-12 *M83 – Reunion EP Mute
May-08-12 Moss Icon – Complete Discography Temporary Residence
May-08-12 *OFF! – OFF! Vice
May-08-12 *PS I Love You – Death Dreams Paper Bag records
May-08-12 S. Carey – Hoyas Jagjaguwar
May-08-12 *Silversun Pickups – Neck of the Woods Dangerbird
May-08-12 Sleep Party People – We Were Drifting on a Sad Song Brine and Barnacles
May-08-12 Turing Machine – What is the Meaning of What Temporary Residence
May-08-12 Wax Idols – Schadenfreude 7″ Suicide Squeeze
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This Week in Shows

Posted on May 4, 2012 by

New stuff added to SHOWcal this week include a My Morning Jacket/Band of Horses show at Millennium Park and Explosions in the Sky at Chicago Theatre. Here’s what’s goin’ down this week:

Thu May 3 7:00pm – 10:00pm
A$AP ROCKY @ HOB
7:00pm – 10:00pm
Spiritualized @ Metro This event has reminders.
10:00pm – 1:00am
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs @ Berlin
Fri May 4 10:00pm – 1:00am
Totally Enormous Extinct Dinosaurs @ Berlin
7:00pm – 11:00pm
M83 @ Vic This event has reminders.
8:00pm – 11:00pm
Rusko @ Congress This event has reminders.
10:00pm – 1:00am
Boxer Rebellion @ Lincoln Hall This event has reminders.
Sat May 5 10:00pm – 1:00am
Boxer Rebellion @ Lincoln Hall This event has reminders.
All day
Cinco de Mayo
8:00pm – 11:00pm
Local H @ Double Door This event has reminders.
8:00pm – 11:00pm
Rusko @ Congress This event has reminders.
9:00pm – 11:00pm
The Weeknd @ Lincoln Hall This event has reminders.
Mon May 7 8:00pm – 11:00pm
Black Dice @ Bottom Lounge
Tue May 8 9:30pm – 12:30am
Sea and Cake @ Empty Bottle This event has reminders.
Wed May 9 9:30pm – 12:30am
Sea and Cake @ Empty Bottle This event has reminders.
Thu May 10 7:30pm – 10:30pm
Justin Townes Earle @ Park West This event has reminders.
8:00pm – 10:00pm
Ty Segall @ Lincoln Hall This event has reminders.
9:00pm – 11:00pm
Saturday Looks Good to Me @ Schubas
9:00pm – 11:00pm
Royal Bangs @ Township This event has reminders.
9:00pm – 12:00am
Royal Bangs @ Township This event has reminders.
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