Dude. August is almost over. Hurry! Get out and do something before summer disappears and you realize you’ve, ahem, only been working and drinking.
Try one of our recommendations for outings this week!
Bonus points if you can spot some CHIRP members — yours truly included — performing (hint: both on Monday) around town!
Afrika Bambaata
SmartBar
10pm
21+
The Conformists, Builder/Destroyer, Lord of the Yum-Yum
Ronny’s
8pm
21+
Consumer Electronics, Bloodyminded
Enemy
9pm
Greg Osby
Green Mill
9pm
21+
Twin Wrecks The Memory
Empty Bottle
9:30pm
21+
Mucca Pazza, Waco Brothers, others
Bash on Wabash Festival
Wabash between 13th and 14th Place
2-10pm
Flosstradamus
Sonotheque
9pm
21+
Don Caballero, Ponytail
Subterranean
9:30pm
17+
Big Daddy Kane, Les Nubians, Bo Dollis & The Wild Magnolias, others
African Festival of the Arts
Washington Park, at 51st and Cottage Grove
2-10pm
A/V Murder, Headache City, Post Honeymoon
Hideout
9pm
21+
Death Vessel
Schubas
10pm
21+
Murder By Death, William Elliott Whitmore, others
Bash on Wabash Festival
Wabash between 13th and 14th Place
2-10pm
Roky Erickson & The Explosives, Plastic Crimewave Expanse
Double Door
9pm
21+
Stress Ape [last show], Vigilante, Catacombs of Rome
Empty Bottle
9:30pm
21+
The Delta Spirit, Death Ships
Schubas
9pm
21+
Squeeze, Aimee Mann
Ravinia
7pm
Nice and Smooth, Keith Murray, others
African Festival of the Arts
Washington Park, at 51st and Cottage Grove
2-10pm
Blue Ribbon Glee Club
Millennium Park
12pm & 2pm
Hidden Mitten, Let’s Get Out of This Terrible Sandwich Shop
Empty Bottle
9:30pm
21+
Kool & The Gang, Rhymefest, Black Sheep, Diblo Dibala, others
African Festival of the Arts
Washington Park, at 51st and Cottage Grove
2-10pm
Metal Rouge, Scott Tume & Mike Weis
Empty Bottle
9:30pm
21+
N*E*R*D, Bad Brains
House of Blues
8pm
17+
Fred Anderson
Museum of Contemporary Art
5:30pm
Xiu Xiu
Bottom Lounge
8pm
18+
Andrew Bird, Occidental Brothers Dance Band International
Millennium Park
6:30pm
Ellen Allien
Sonotheque
9pm
21+
Dear and The Headlights
Bottom Lounge
8pm
18+
Hardy Mums, Mother of Tears, Catburglars
Volcano Room [inside Bottom Lounge]
9:30pm
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