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What are these lists?
                       Shows of note as of 10/14/93
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                The Chicago Shows List * Get up.  Get on up.
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 New this week:
     Accept / Lillian Axe / Strip Mind, Oak Theatre
     Big Fish Ensemble, Lounge Ax
     Big Head Todd And The Monsters, Riviera
     Bjork, Park West
     The Boo Radleys, Metro
     Boredoms, Metro
     Don Caballero, Lounge Ax
     The Coctails / King Kong, Lounge Ax
     Coffee Sargeants / Miss Universe, Lounge Ax
     Cracker / Counting Crows, Metro
     Eleven / Eve's Plum / Do It Now Foundation, Lounge Ax
     Flat Duo Jets, Lounge Ax
     Gun Club / Agent Orange / Spongehead, Lounge Ax
     INXS / Catherine Wheel, Aragon Ballroom
     The Judybats / Inclined / Dog Society / Dillon Fence, The Vic
     The Lemonheads / Redd Kross / Magnapop, Riviera
     My Dad Is Dead, Lounge Ax
     Overwhelming Colourfast / Tree People / Lucy's Fur Coat, Cubby Bear
     Pleasure, Lounge Ax
     The Queers / The Vindictives / The Geezers / The Bollweevils / 
         Apocalypse Hoboken / 8-Bark / 88 Fingers Louie / Smoking Popes / 
         Oblivion / Gainsay / The Fighters / Tommyrot / Los Crudos / Mob 
         Action / Urbn DK / Nation Under / One / The Bloody Coathangers / 15 
         Month Pregnancy, Isabel's Grand Finale
     Run Westy Run / The Grifters / Rodan / Steel Wool, Lounge Ax
     Saigon Kick, Oak Theatre
     Shorty / Dazzling Killmen / God & Texas / Blood Libel, Lounge Ax
     Southern Culture On The Skids / Supercools, Lounge Ax
     Special Beat / The Skatalites / The Toasters / The Selecter / Skapone, Metro
     Squeeze (2nd show), The Vic
     Star Kitty / Cher UK / Mudwimmin, Lounge Ax
     Superchunk, Lounge Ax
     Tad / Therapy?, Metro
     Tiger Trap / Envelope / Pony, Lounge Ax
     The Tubes w/Fee Waybill, Park West
     Dave Vanian & The Phantom Chords / Usherhouse / The Waste Kings, Lounge Ax
     Violent Femmes, Metro
     White Zombie / Chemlab, Riviera
     Yo La Tengo, Lounge Ax
     John Zorn Quartet, Schubas
 
 
 
 ARIE CROWN THEATRE
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 Oct 23 Sat 8:00         Aretha Franklin / Buddy Guy
     30 Sat 8:00         Firesign Theatre
 Nov 02 Tue 8:00         Dan Fogelberg (acoustic) (duh)
     03 Wed              Robert Plant / Cry Of Love
     12 Fri 8:00         Bruce Hornsby (w/tapers section?!?)
 
 
 ARAGON BALLROOM         Lawrence at Broadway
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 Oct 16 Sat 7:00         Primus / The Melvins (NEW VENUE)
     23 Sat              Nirvana / Mudhoney / Wipers ==SOLD OUT==
     25 Mon              Nirvana / Mudhoney / Wipers
 Nov 24 Wed 7:30         *INXS / Catherine Wheel (tix Sat 10am)
 
 
 CHINA CLUB (21+)        616 W. Fulton / (312) 466-0812
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 Oct 19 Tue 6:30         Digable Planets (aa)
     27 Wed 6:30         Ice Cube
 
 
 COLLEGE OF DUPAGE       (708) 858-3110
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 Oct 23 Sat              Victor Borge
 Nov 05 Fri              Christopher Parkening
 
 
 CUBBY BEAR (21+)        1059 W. Addison / (312) 327-1662
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 Oct 15 Fri              The Insiders / Texas Rubies
     21 Thu 7:30         Adrian Belew ("A solo performance of voice, guitar
                             & conversation")
     23 Sat              *Overwhelming Colourfast / Tree People / Lucy's Fur
                             Coat
 
 
 ISABEL'S GRAND FINALE   1618 W. Grand (at Ashland) / (312) 226-0678
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 Nov 28 Sun 2:00 $1      *The Queers / The Vindictives / The Geezers / The
                         Bollweevils / Apocalypse Hoboken / 8-Bark / 88
                         Fingers Louie / Smoking Popes / Oblivion / Gainsay /
                         The Fighters / Tommyrot / Los Crudos  / Mob Action /
                         Urbn DK / Nation Under / One / The Bloody
                         Coathangers / 15 Month Pregnancy
 
 
 LOUNGE AX (21+)         2348 N. Lincoln / (312) 525-6620
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 Sat 15 Fri              Space Streakings / Mount Shasta / Wreck
     16 Sat $6           Buzzmuscle / Dolomite / Boy King / Paper Tulips
     20 Wed 9:00 $7      *Eleven / Eve's Plum / Do It Now Foundation
     21 Thu 9:00 $10     *Dave Vanian & The Phantom Chords (w/Roman Jugg) /
                             Usherhouse / The Waste Kings
     22 Fri              *Star Kitty / Cher UK / Mudwimmin
     23 Fri $7           *Run Westy Run / The Grifters / Rodan / Steel Wool
     27 Wed 9:00 $5      *Big Fish Ensemble
     28 Thu 9:00 $6      *Flat Duo Jets
     29 Fri              Southern Culture On The Skids / Supercools
     30 Sat $7           The Coctails / King Kong
     31 Sun 9:00         *Gun Club / Agent Orange / Spongehead
 Nov 03 Wed 9:00         *Coffee Sargeants / Miss Universe
     04 Thu 9:00         *My Dad Is Dead
     05 Fri              *Pleasure (ex-Trip Shakespeare)
     06 Sat              *Shorty / Dazzling Killmen / God & Texas / Blood
                             Libel
     12 Sat              *Don Caballero
     13 Sun              *Yo La Tengo
     14 Sun              *Yo La Tengo
     18 Fri              *Tiger Trap / Envelope / Pony       
     23 Tue              *Superchunk
     24 Wed              *Superchunk
 
 
 METRO                   3730 N. Clark / (312) 549-0203
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 Oct 15 Fri 10:00 $7     Unrest / Stereolab (18+)
     16 Sat 10:00 $5     Uptighty / Super Model / Children of Reality (18+)
     20 Wed 9:00 $10     The Orb (18+)
     21 Thu 7:30 $12.50  Jim Rose Circus Sideshow / Ethyl Meatplow (aa)
     22 Fri 10:00 $5     Cop Shoot Cop / Ethyl Meatplow (18+)
     23 Sat 10:00 $15    The Samples / Dave Matthews / Urban Twang (18+)
     24 Sun 7:30         The Samples / Dave Matthews / Rollover (aa)
     26 Tue $10          Rage Against The Machine / Quicksand / Stanford
                             Prison Experiment (tix @ Metro only)
     27 Wed 9:30 $3      Lava Sutra / Envelope / Tommyrot (18+)
     28 Thu              *Boredoms / tba
     29 Fri 7:00 $13.50  Buffalo Tom / Bettie Serveert / The Verlaines
     29 Fri 11:30 $7     Verve / Acetone
     30 Sat 7:30 $10     Dead Milkmen / Heat Miser
     30 Sat 11:30 $7     Girls Against Boys / Brainiac / Sugarsmack
     31 Sun              *Special Beat / The Skatalites / The Toasters / The
                             Selecter / Skapone
     31 Sun $3           Lab Report (Smart Bar)
 Nov 04 Thu 7:30         Cracker / Counting Crows (aa) ==SOLD OUT==
     05 Thu 7:30         *Cracker / Counting Crows (aa) (tix Sat 10am)
     05 Thu 11:30        *Five-Eight / Every Good Boy
     06 Sat              *Moby Aphex Twin / Orbital
     12 Fri              Jamiroqual
     14 Sun              *Violent Femmes
     19 Fri              Buzzcocks / The Doughboys / Fudge
     20 Sat              *Tad / Therapy?
     23 Tue              *The Boo Radleys
     27 Sat              Poster Children
 
 
 NO PALACE STUDIO        1801 Division
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 Oct 17 Sun 2:00 $3      Vision Stain / The Fighters / Small Unfriendly
                             Rodents / Numb Nuts
 
 
 OAK THEATRE             Armitage & Western
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 Oct 24 Sun 7:00         *Accept / Lillian Axe / Strip Mind
     31 Sun              *Saigon Kick
 
 
 PARK WEST (21+)         322 W. Armitage
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 Oct 16 Sat 7:30 $7      Tim Finn / Plan B (aa)
     20 Wed 7:30         Jimmy Cliff (aa)
     22 Fri 7:30         Suede / Catherine (aa)
     26 Tue 7:30         Howard Jones (aa)
     29 Fri 7:30         *The Tubes w/Fee Waybill (aa)
     30 Sat 7:30 $7      Michael McDermott (aa)
     31 Sun 7:30         David Sylvian / Robert Fripp
 Nov 01 Mon 7:30         Graham Parker
     03 Wed 7:30         Loudon Wainwright III
     16 Tue 7;30         *Bjork (aa)
 
 
 PLAYHOUSE               7407 W. Madison, Forest Park
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 Nov 02 Tue 7:00 $5      Screeching Weasel / 88 Fingers Louie / The Fighters
 
 
 RIVIERA THEATRE         4746 N. Racine (Lawrence & Broadway)
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 Oct 15 Fri 6:00         Belly / Radiohead
     23 Sat 6:30         Paul Westerberg / Walt Mink ==SOLD OUT==
     29 Fri 6:30         Robert Cray Band / Albert Collins
     30 Sat 6:30         Robert Cray Band / Albert Collins
 Nov 13 Sat 6:00         *White Zombie / Chemlab (tix Sat noon)
     19 Fri 6:30         *The Lemonheads / Redd Kross / Magnapop (tix Sat noon)
     26 Fri 7:00         *Big Head Todd And The Monsters (tix Sat 10am)
 
 
 ROSEMONT HORIZON
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 Nov 16 Tue              Billy Joel  ==SOLD OUT==
     19 Fri              Billy Joel
 
 
 SCHUBAS TAVERN          3759 N. Southport (at Belmont) / (312) 525-2508
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 Nov 20 Sat 9:00         *John Zorn Quartet (tix Sat 10am)
     20 Sat 11:00        *John Zorn Quartet (tix Sat 10am)
 
 
 STAR PLAZA THEATER      1-65 & US 30, Merrillville, IN / (312) 734-7266
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 Oct 19 Tue              Tears For Fears
 
 
 THE VIC (21+)           3145 N. Sheffield
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 Oct 15 Fri 7:30         Uncle Tupelo (aa)
     16 Sat 7:30         The Connells / Queen Sarah Saturday
     20 Wed 9:00         The Radiators (18+)
     22 Fri 8:30         Mr. Blotto / Hello Dave (17+)
     23 Sat 7:30         Vince Neil / Savatage / Royal Bastards / My Little
                             Funhouse (aa)
     24 Sun 7:00 $7      Skankin' Pickle / Blue Meanies / Trenchmouth /
                             Smoking Popes
     30 Thu 9:00         Freddy Jones Band (aa)
     31 Sun 7:30         Bad Brains / Boredoms / Prong (aa)
 Nov 02 Tue 7:30         Dead Can Dance (aa, reserved seats)
     04 Thu 7:00         *The Judybats / Inclined / Dog Society / Dillon Fence
     05 Fri 7:30         Squeeze (aa) ==SOLD OUT==
     06 Sat 7:30         *Squeeze (aa) (tix Sat noon)
 
 
 WEEDS                   1550 N. Dayton
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 Oct 22 Fri              Buzzmuscle
 
 
 WRIGLEYSIDE             3527 N. Clark
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 Oct 31 Sun 6:30 $5      Smoking Popes / No Empathy / Oblivion / Bollweevils
 
 
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 The code list:
     *       new listing
     18+     18-and-over
     21+     21-and-over
     aa      all ages
 
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