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Weekend Shows Friday Oct 21, 2011. By Jeff Min

The weather is getting colder with each passing day, so our attentive music venues here have stepped up their game. Winters are always rough so what better way to let the time pass than a great show? If youre not checking out the Def Jam Q&A at CUAS or Deadmau5 at Aragon or the Bo-Keys at Double Door or even Mobb Deep at the Metro, then take a peek at some of the other great shows the weekend has to offer! 10/21 Hotlips Messiah Abbey Pub: 9pm, $8-$10 21+ Jonny Rumble, The Fallen Rivers, Tim Larson & The Owner/Operators, The Canoes Beat Kitchen: 9pm, $8 21+ William Control Bottom Lounge: 7pm, $8 Orchard Lounge, Digeometric, IndigoSun, RamZ, Kobrakai, Decay Bottom Lounge: 8pm, $10 Sugar Blue, The Joel Paterson Blues Round Up, Jimmy Johnson Buddy Guy's Legends: 9pm, $20 21+ Duran Duran Chicago Theatre: 8pm Cutz on Cuts darkroom: 9pm 21+ The Lemonheads, The Shining Twins Double Door: 9pm, $20 21+ The Hoyle Brothers Empty Bottle: 5:30pm, $0 21+ Funky Mojodaddy Harlem Avenue Lounge: 9:30pm, $6 21+ Joe Bryl Maria's Packaged Goods & Community Bar: 8pm, $0 21+ Los Straitjackets, The World Famous Pontani Sisters, Lake Street Dive, The Honeybees Martyrs': 9pm, $15-$18 21+ Alice Peacock, Danny Myrick, Mark Dvorak Old Town School of Folk Music: 8pm, $16-$20 All Ages The Blackbelts, The Laroquettes, The Bomb Saywers Quenchers Saloon: 9pm, $5 21+ Vagabond Opera, Dead Man's Carnival, Candy Town, White City Rippers, Lords and Ladies DJs, Mustache Contest Reggie's Rock Club: 8pm 18+ Supreme Court Rodan: 10pm, $0 21+ Rival Schools, Hostage Calm, All Eyes West Schubas: 10pm, $15 18+ SO FINE: An Amazingrace Celebration of The Music of Steve Goodman and John Prine SPACE: 7pm & 10pm, $15-$28 All Ages Obits, Bottomless Pit, Coffin Pricks Subterranean: 9:30pm, $12 Other Miguel Migs, Jesse Rose, DJ Heather The Mid: 10pm , $10 21+ 10/22 Asian American Jazz Festival Andy's: 5:30pm Droughts, Magic Milk, Carbon Tigers, Old Soul Company, Late in the Playoffs, K. Serra, GABE Beat Kitchen: 7pm, $6-$10 Other The Slackers, Deals Gone Bad, Green Room Rockers Bottom Lounge: 9pm, $20 E.C. Scott, Danny Draher, Gerry Hundt Buddy Guy's Legends: 9:30pm, $20 21+ Evanescence Congress Theater: 7pm All Ages Henry & Hazel Slaughter, Aids Wolf, Satanized, Heat Death Empty Bottle: 9:30pm, $8 21+ Life During Wartime Dance Party & Social Hideout: 9pm, $5 21+ Wallace Roney Quintet Jazz Showcase: 8pm & 10pm, $20 The Paulinho Garcia Quartet Katerina's: 10pm, $10 Trevor Hall, Cas Haley Lincoln Hall: 10pm, $15-$18 18+ Project/Object feat. Ike Willis & Ray White Performing the music of Frank Zappa & More Savvy Martyrs': 9:30pm, $20 21+ Friendly Fires, Theophilus London, Only Children (DJ Set) Metro: 10pm, $21 18+ Tiempo Libre Old Town School of Folk Music: 7pm, $18-$22 All Ages Zucchero Park West: 8pm, $49-$89 Hot Ashes, The Mutts, Kirby Kaiser Reggie's Rock Club: 9:30pm, $5 21+ Nurses, Dominant Legs, Thin Hymns Schubas: 10pm, $10-$12 21+ Siegel Schwall Band SPACE: 8pm, $25-$40 All Ages Iration, Tomorrows Bad Seeds, Through the Roots Subterranean: 9pm, $14-$15 Other The Sounds Vic Theatre: 7pm, $20 All Ages JJ Flores, Tony Tech, Polbeeta, Twitchin Scratch Vision Nightclub: 10pm 21+ 10/23 Geoff Dolce Abbey Pub: 8:30pm, $8 21+ Young Prisms, The Record Low, Sleep Comes Down Beat Kitchen: 8:30pm, $10 Other Cavalera Conspiracy Bottom Lounge: 9pm, $22 18+ Vino Louden, Jazz Jam, Guy King Buddy Guy's Legends: 5pm, $10 21+ Dave Tamkin, Dick Prall, Mike Droho Double Door: 8:30pm, $10-$12 21+ Krash Karma, The Nubile Thangs, Tom Fuller Band, Jonathan Scales Fourchestra Elbo Room: 8pm, $7 21+ Enter The Haggis, Scythian Lincoln Hall: 8pm, $15-$18 18+ Ellis Paul, Peter Case Old Town School of Folk Music: 7pm, $18-$22 All Ages The Dean's List, Oncue, Kid Russell, Jams Reggie's Rock Club: 5:30pm, $12-$15 All Ages Birdy Schubas: 12pm, $0 All Ages Light FM, The Assembly, Farewell Captain Subterranean: 7:30pm, $8 21+ The Pillowhammer (formerly Relaxation Record), The Singleman Affair The Whistler: 10pm, $0 21+
Explore More Bars & Clubs Brand-New Bars Get divey on Grace; go downstairs at River North's Curio. Food & Dining New Restaurants Go Dutch at Vincent and satisfy a familiar sweet tooth at BomBon. Bars · Nightclubs Restaurants · Wine Shops What's Happening Today Food & Drink Deals Full Shilling $3.50 bombs (except car bombs), $2 drafts of Miller Lite; $2.75 Smirnoff bloody marys Simone's Bar $1 pizzas (with beverage purchase) after 10:30 p.m. Moxie $5 martinis Finn McCool's (Schaumburg) $2.50 Coors Light stadium cups Rita's American Roadhouse $3 bombs Edison Park Bowl & Billiards $2 bottles of domestics Gus's Roadhouse $2 you-call-its, $1 drafts, $3 Jager bombs Cafe Salsa $3 margaritas Blind Robin $2 drafts of PBR, $3.50 well drinks and shots El Gordo $3 margaritas Brisku's Bistro $3 Smirnoff drinks, $1 PBR bottles Crystal's Party Bar $4 Absolut and Absolut flavored cocktails Trader Todd's Adventure Bar $5 Bacardi bombs Howard Street Inn $4 bloody marys More deals Music K. Michaels Band, The Sylvies Asian American Jazz Festival Theater East of Berlin & The Russian Play ?Salem! The Musical?

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