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What are these lists?
                       Shows of note as of 10/28/93
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          The Chicago Shows List:  We lurk late.  We strike straight.
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 New this week:
     Billy Goat / Morphine, Metro
     Falstaff / Squash Blossom / Howards, Empty Bottle
     Fight / Cathedral, The Vic
     Heart, Riviera 
     Kirsty MacColl / David Gray, Park West
     Monster Magnet / Clutch, Thirsty Whale
     The Nurv / Spiney Norman / Wild Bores, Metro
     The Ocean Blue, Metro
     Todd Rundgren, Park West
     Sacred Reich / Souls At Zero / Crobar, Thirsty Whale
     Scrawl / Canteen / Slow Worm, Empty Bottle
 
 
 ARIE CROWN THEATRE
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 Oct 30 Sat 8:00         Firesign Theatre
 Nov 02 Tue 8:00         Dan Fogelberg (acoustic) / Beth Nielsen Chapman
     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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 Nov 24 Wed 7:30         INXS / Catherine Wheel
 
 
 CHINA CLUB (21+)        616 W. Fulton / (312) 466-0812
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 Oct 27 Wed 6:30         Ice Cube
 
 
 COLLEGE OF DUPAGE       (708) 858-3110
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 Nov 05 Fri              Christopher Parkening
 
 
 EMPTY BOTTLE            1035 N. Western / (312) 276-3600
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 Oct 29 Fri              *Falstaff / Squash Blossom / Howards
     30 Sat              *Scrawl / Canteen / Slow Worm
 
 
 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 / One Nation Under / The Bloody Coathangers 
                         / 15 Month Pregnancy
 
 
 LOUNGE AX (21+)         2348 N. Lincoln / (312) 525-6620
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 Oct 29 Fri              Southern Culture On The Skids / Superkools
     30 Sat $7           The Coctails / King Kong
     31 Sun 9:00         Gun Club / Agent Orange / Spongehead
 Nov 01 Mon 7:00         Chris Knox / Ashtray Boy
     03 Wed 9:00         Coffee Sargeants / Miss Universe
     04 Thu 9:00         My Dad Is Dead
     05 Fri              Pleasure / The Vestrymen / Yard Sale
     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
 
 Coming: I'm not going to list it each week unless I hear hue and cry from
         the populace.  I've already got specific dates on most of the stuff
         that the Reader lists as "coming soon", anyway.
 
 
 
 MASTHOUSE               528 E. Calhoun, Woodstock, IL / (708) 836-6278
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 Nov 06 Sat 1:00 $25sug. Benefit for Eunice Mast: Mark Dvorak / Lee Murdock 
                         / Art Thieme / Sinobu Sato / Jim May / Beggar's 
                         Alley / Dan Keding / Phil Cooper & Margret Nelson / 
                         Michael Miles / Baltiorum / Andrew Calhoun & Kat 
                         Eggleston / Community Services Auction / Diane 
                         Ippel / Dona & Dan Benkert and Friends / Dos Boys / 
                         Live Bait / Peg Lehman & Lee Krahenbuhl / Pete 
                         Norman / Small Potatoes / Wild Rice / Masthouse 
                         Video of Memories, by Susan Urban
 
 
 METRO                   3730 N. Clark / (312) 549-0203
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 Oct 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 03 Wed              Acumen / Subliminal Ex / Hushdrops
     04 Thu 7:30         Cracker / Counting Crows (aa) ==SOLD OUT==
     05 Thu 7:30         Cracker / Counting Crows (aa) ==SOLD OUT==
     05 Thu 11:30        Five-Eight / Every Good Boy
     06 Sat              Moby / Aphex Twin / Orbital / Vapour Space
     10 Wed 9:30 $3      *The Nurv / Spiney Norman / Wild Bores
     12 Fri              Jamiroquai
     13 Sat 7:30         Poi Dog Pondering (aa) (tix Sat noon)
     13 Sat 11:30        Poi Dog Pondering (18+) (tix Sat noon)
     14 Sun              Violent Femmes ==SOLD OUT==
     19 Fri 7:00         Buzzcocks / The Doughboys / Fudge
     19 Fri 11:30        *Billy Goat / Morphine
     20 Sat 7:30         *The Ocean Blue
     20 Sat 11:30        Tad / Therapy? / Barkmarket
     21 Sun              Homopalooza 93
     23 Tue              The Boo Radleys / Monsterland / Certain Distant Suns
     24 Wed              The Mekons / Seam / Cath Carroll
     27 Sat              Poster Children
 
 
 OAK THEATRE             Armitage & Western
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 Oct 31 Sun 7:30 $10     Saigon Kick / Tribe After Tribe
 
 
 PARK WEST (21+)         322 W. Armitage
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 Oct 30 Sat 7:30 $7      Michael McDermott / The Insiders (aa)
     31 Sun 7:30         David Sylvian / Robert Fripp
 Nov 01 Mon 7:30         Graham Parker
     02 Fri 7:30         The Tubes w/Fee Waybill (aa)
     03 Wed 7:30         Loudon Wainwright III
     16 Tue 7:30         Bjork (aa)
     20 Sat $7           *Kirsty MacColl / David Gray (aa)
     22 Mon 7:30         Aimee Mann (aa)
     23 Tue 7:30         *Todd Rundgren, in the round (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 29 Fri 6:30         Robert Cray Band / Sonny Landreth
     30 Sat 6:30         Robert Cray Band / Sonny Landreth
 Nov 13 Sat 6:00         White Zombie / Chemlab / Nudeswirl
     16 Tue              Meat Loaf 
     19 Fri 6:30         The Lemonheads / Redd Kross / Magnapop
     20 Sat 7:00         Matthew Sweet / Freedy Johnston / Hollyfaith
     26 Fri 7:00         Big Head Todd And The Monsters / Sun 60
     27 Sat 6:30         George Thorogood and the Destroyers / Larry McCray
     29 Nov 7:30         *Heart (It says "The Heart to Heart Tour", and 
                         shows Ann & Nancy, but they could be touring under 
                         "The Lovemongers" or some thing) (tix Sat 10am)
 
 
 ROSEMONT HORIZON
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 Nov 16 Tue              Billy Joel  ==SOLD OUT==
     17 Wed              Mariah Carey
     19 Fri              Billy Joel
     28 Sun              Bette Midler 
 
 
 SCHUBAS TAVERN          3759 N. Southport (at Belmont) / (312) 525-2508
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 Nov 20 Sat 9:00         John Zorn Quartet
     20 Sat 11:00        John Zorn Quartet
 
 
 THIRSTY WHALE           880 W. Grand, River Grove / (708) 456-2414
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 Nov 07 Sun 7:00         *Sacred Reich / Souls At Zero / Crobar
     14 Sun              *Monster Magnet / Clutch
 
 
 THE VIC (21+)           3145 N. Sheffield
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 Oct 30 Sat 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)
     13 Sat 7:30 $12     The Jesus Lizard / Arcwelder / Caspar Brotzmann
                             Massaker 
     15 Mon 7:30         Jackson Browne (reserved seating) 
     27 Sat 7:30         *Fight / Cathedral
 
 
 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
 
 All shows are all ages except where noted.
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