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Come down and say howdy. Ask Jay for the Shows List guy. Tickets for the Jesus Lizard at the Vic are on sale noon Saturday. I now have the Sebadoh openers and times correct. Will the guy who's in Banana Buster send me mail, please? Your address got lost and I wanted to send you mail. New this week: Almost True / Jan James, Double Door Tori Amos, Pick-Staiger Hall Balloon Guy / Squash Blossom / Motorhome, Empty Bottle Bootsy's Rubberband, Cubby Bear Combustible Edison, Marquette Univ. Union Cafe Devlins, Double Door East Of The Rock / Can Of Worms, Double Door Dave Edmunds, The Vic Eve*Thing / The Nixons / Officer Deadly / Sufferbus, Thurston's Marianne Faithful book-signing, Tower Records Freakwater / Moonshine Willy / Robbie Fulks / The Olds 97s, Double Door Galliano, Metro Greg Ginn / Transition, Thurston's Shecky Greene / Ralph Young, Centre East Helios Creed / Sabalon Glitz / Love 666, Empty Bottle House Of Large Sizes / Built To Spell / Nectarine, Empty Bottle House Of Pain / Biohazard / Korn, Riviera Theatre The Jesus Lizard / Steakdaddy 6 / Pegboy, Mabel's Kitaro, Bismarck Theater L.A. Ramblers / Urban Twang / The Pedestrian, Thurston's L7 / Melvins / Wool, The Vic Lily Liver, Empty Bottle Mount Shasta / Saucer / Hairy Patt Band, Empty Bottle Mustard Plug / Banana Buster, Off The Alley N.I.L.8 / Fat Tuesday / Dollface, Thurston's New Rob Robbies, Thurston's NRBQ, Cubby Bear NRG Ensemble / Blue Boy / Zug Island Quartet, Empty Bottle Public Enemy, Riviera Theatre Red Ball / Esylium, Metro Red Krayola, Lounge Ax Seed / Blanket Party / Wild Bores, Double Door Shellac / Dis-, Shank Hall Skapone / Banana Buster / Greenhouse, Off The Alley Small 23 / Cobra Verde / New Radiant Storm King, Empty Bottle Spankwagon / Quaker Yough Ensemble / Milo Z / Throw / Gel-tones, Double Door Supermodel, Empty Bottle Team Dresch, Empty Bottle Thresholes / Goatboy, Lounge Ax David Torn/Mick Karn/Terry Bozzio, Hothouse Triple Fast Action / Motorcaster / Adamjack / Fig Dish / Fix Your Wagon, Metro Moe Tucker / Wild Carnations / Townies, Empty Bottle Versus / Air Miami / Blast Off Country Style / Tuscadero, Double Door Vic Vacume and the Attachments / Killswitch / 2 tba, Smiler Coogan's Aragon Ballroom: 1106 W. Lawrence at Broadway (TM) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 23 Fri Terror Fabulous / Patra / Mega Banton Arie Crown Theatre (TM): McCormick Place, LSD & 22nd --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 29 Thu 8:00 Indigo Girls 30 Fri 8:00 Indigo Girls Oct 29 Sat 7:30 $18.50 Steven Curtis Chapman / Newsboys (tix Sat 10am) Avalon: 959 West Belmont / (312) 472-3020 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 09 Fri $6 +Spanic Boys / Spies Who Surf / Rockin' Billy and the Wild Coyote 10 Sat $8 +Beat Farmers / Hi-fi and the Roadburners / Crash Willy Bismarck Theater: 171 W. Randolph at LaSalle --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oct 15 Sat 8:00 *Kitaro (tix 10am Mon) Cafe Montmartre: 127 E. Mifflin St., Madison, WI --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 14 Wed Combustible Edison 22 Thu Charles Gayle Centre East: 7701 N. Lincoln, Skokie, IL / (708) 673-6300 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 17 Sat 6:30 *Shecky Greene / Ralph Young 17 Sat 9:30 *Shecky Greene / Ralph Young The Chamber: 114 King St, Madison, WI / (608) 255-5402 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 09 Fri Peter Jefferies / Mecca Normal / Trash Cubby Bear (21+): 1059 W. Addison / (312) 327-1662 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 18 Sun Gil Scott-Heron / Ben Harper 22 Thu War Oct 08 Sat *Bootsy's Rubberband 11 Tue The Selecter 15 Sat *NRBQ Double Door: 1572 N. Milwaukee / (312) 489-3160 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 09 Fri Bodhisattva / Sarolta De Faltay / Mint Aundry / Hot Lunch 10 Sat Rockin' Bill and the Wild Coyote / Supermodel / Peat Moss / DJ Jesse De La Pena / Patty Elvis 11 Sun Flavor Channel / Funky Wordsmiths / Jazz Miniero / Art Fiction 15 Thu Wesley Willis Fiasco / Can Of Worms 16 Fri Triple Fast Action / M.O.T.O. 17 Sat Rollover / Cherry Popping Daddies 18 Sun *Seed / Blanket Party / Wild Bores 22 Thu Booty Fruit / Can Of Worms 23 Fri +Nova Mob / Wait For Light 24 Sat +Wickerman / Screw Party 29 Thu *Spankwagon / Quaker Yough Ensemble / Milo Z / Throw / Gel-tones 30 Fri *Versus / Air Miami / Blast Off Country Style / Tuscadero Oct 01 Sat *Freakwater / Moonshine Willy / Robbie Fulks / The Olds 97s 02 Sun *Almost True / Jan James 06 Thu *East Of The Rock / Can Of Worms 07 Fri *Devlins Elhmurst VFW Hall: Addison & Hahn, Elmhurst --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 09 Fri 7:00 $5 aa Slapstick / Sidekick Kato / Alligator Gun / Mushuganas / Jerkwater (Dave) 30 Fri 7:00 $5 aa No Empathy / 30 Seconds Deep / Whatever... / The Smoothies / The Unemployed (Dave) Empty Bottle: 1035 N. Western / (312) 276-3600 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 09 Fri Monster Truck Five / Bush League / Log / Moviola 10 Sat Denison/Kimball Trio / Shiner / Factotum 15 Thu Baby M / Starbilly / Dragstar 16 Fri Slug / Doo Rag / Supreme Dicks / DQE 17 Sat Flaming Lips / Silkworm / Engine Kid / Jessamine ==SOLD OUT== 22 Thu Idaho / Low 23 Fri +Gas Huffer / Season To Risk / Von Ryan's Express 24 Sat Howards record release party 30 Fri aMiniature / Uncle Joe's Big Ol' Driver / Heavy Vegetable Oct 01 Sat *Balloon Guy / Squash Blossom / Motorhome 06 Thu *NRG Ensemble / Blue Boy / Zug Island Quartet 07 Fri *Team Dresch 08 Sat *Helios Creed / Sabalon Glitz / Love 666 09 Sun *House Of Large Sizes / Built To Spell / Nectarine 14 Fri *Moe Tucker / Wild Carnations / Townies (tix Oct 1 at Ajax/Blackout!/the bar) 15 Sat *Small 23 / Cobra Verde / New Radiant Storm King 20 Thu *Lily Liver 21 Fri *Supermodel 22 Sat *Mount Shasta / Saucer / Hairy Patt Band Fireside Bowl: 2648 W. Fullerton (always all-ages) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 18 Sun 7:30 $5 No Empathy / Horace Pinker / Nostrilsaurus / Skaxies 21 Wed Dirt / Final Warning / Mob Action / Full / Not Rebecca (Dave) 22 Thu $6 D.I. / Geezers / Mushuganas / 4 Squares (Brian) 25 Sun 5'10"/Kevin Seconds / Pound / I Love Rich / The Geeks (Dave) Oct 01 Sat Godheadsilo / The Bollweevils / 88 Fingers Louie / Shleprock (Dave) 02 Sun Naked Aggression / Oblivion / Apocalypse Hoboken (Dave) 05 Wed Pink Lincolns / Sleeper / tba Hard Rock Cafe: 63 W. Ontario / (312) 943-2252 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 11 Sun 8:00 FREE Collective Soul (gack!) Hothouse: 1565 N. Milwaukee, Chicago, IL / (312) 235-2334 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 15 Thu *David Torn/Mick Karn/Terry Bozzio Lounge Ax (21+): 2348 N. Lincoln / (312) 525-6620 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 09 Fri Mother / The Frogs 10 Sat +Mecca Normal / Peter Jefferies / Trash 10 Sat *Thresholes / Goatboy 15 Thu +Combustible Edison / John Sinatra Connors 16 Fri Flying Luttenbachers / Jak Wacker / Frontier 17 Sat Gringo / Spare Snare / Lily Liver 20 Tue *Red Krayola 21 Wed Milk / Three Day Stubble / SF Envelope 22 Thu Vandermark Quartet / Fred Anderson 23 Fri Polvo 24 Sat 10:00 Sebadoh / Rodan 25 Sun 9:00 Sebadoh / Ruins / Godhead Silo (tix at Lounge Ax/Blackout/Ajax) 28 Wed Mark Eitzel 29 Thu Veruca Salt record release party 30 Fri The Silos / The Dugans / Dolly Varden Oct 01 Sat +Smog / Guided By Voices / Guv'ner 06 Thu Neurosis / Dazzling Killmen / Glazed Baby 08 Sat Thinking Fellers Union Local 282 14 Fri Jon Spencer Blues Explosion 15 Sat Jon Spencer Blues Explosion 25 Tue Alice Donut / 7 Year Bitch 26 Wed Unsane / God and Texas 27 Thu Cows / Dog-Faced Hermans Mabel's: 613 E. Green C, Champaign, IL / (217) 328-5700 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 16 Fri *The Jesus Lizard / Steakdaddy 6 / Pegboy Marquette Univ. Union Cafe: 14th & Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 16 Fri *Combustible Edison (prob'ly free to students... ask someone to guest you in) Metro: 3730 N. Clark / (312) 549-0203 (TM) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 09 Fri 9:30 18+ Blind Venetians / Fat Bertha / F.S. Camels / So Scared 10 Sat 10:00 $7 18+ Stereolab / Gastr Del Sol / Labradford 14 Wed 9:30 $3 18+ +Bone Dust / Sungod / EKG / Two Crow 16 Fri 7:30 aa The Fall / Magna Pop 16 Fri 11:30 18+ Shudder To Think / Dambuilders 17 Sat 10:00 18+ Reverend Horton Heat / Tenderloin / Twang Bang 18 Sun 10:00 18+ Reverend Horton Heat / Tenderloin / Hi-Fi & The Roadburners 19 Mon 7:30 aa Fury & The Slaughterhouse 21 Wed 9:30 $3 18+ The Proud / Flac / Mr. Furley / Newton's Madness 23 Fri 7:00 +Boingo / Fretblanket 23 Fri 11:30 *Red Ball / Esylium 24 Sat 7:30 Barenaked Ladies 28 Wed Laddy Crackball / Stigmata-a-go-go / Undone / The Guests That Wouldn't Leave 29 Thu *Triple Fast Action / Motorcaster / Adamjack / Fig Dish / Fix Your Wagon 30 Fri 6:30 aa Prong / Clutch / Drown 30 Fri 11:30 Ozric Tentacles Oct 01 Sat *Galliano 07 Fri Specials / Let's Go Bowling / Pacers 08 Sat 7:30 Love Spit Love / Gigolo Aunts Off The Alley: 18061 S. Dixie Hwy at Ridge, Homewood / (708) 798-2252 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oct 01 Sat *Mustard Plug / Banana Buster 29 Sat *Skapone / Banana Buster / Greenhouse The Paramount: (nee R&R Station) 103 N. Park St., Madison, WI / (608) 256-1171 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 09 Fri Weaker Youth Ensemble / Booty Fruit / Mufa 09 Fri Psychedelicasi 10 Sat 18+ Arcwelder / Pegboy 14 Wed 18+ Jesus Lizard 15 Thu Dead Fly Boy 15 Thu Renegade Saints 16 Fri Boneclub 17 Sat Matt Wilson / Bug 21 Wed Munkafest 21 Wed Low 23 Fri Barenaked Ladies 24 Sat Merle Saunders and the Rainforest Band 29 Thu Rank Strangeer Oct 01 Sat Willy Porter 06 Thu Sphinx 08 Sat Specials / Let's Go Bowling / tba Park West (21+): 322 W. Armitage (TM) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 09 Fri 6:30 aa Everything But The Girl 14 Wed 7:30 Joe Cocker 15 Thu 8:00 Boz Scaggs 16 Fri 7:30 aa Me'shell Ndegeocelo 17 Sat 7:30 aa Hoodoo Gurus 23 Fri 7:30 aa Cassandra Wilson 29 Thu 7:30 aa The Band / James McMurtry 30 Fri 7:30 Dennis De Young Pick-Staiger Hall: 1977 S. Campus Drive, Northwestern Univ., Evanston, IL --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oct 01 Sat 7:30 *Tori Amos (tix Sat noon... good luck) 01 Sat 10:30 *Tori Amos The Rathskeller: 800 Langdon St., UW campus, Madison, WI --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 09 Fri The Wannabes / Green Pyramids / Elysian Fields 10 Sat The Gufs Riviera Theatre: 4746 N. Racine (Lawrence & Broadway) (TM) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 16 Fri 7:30 aa +Poi Dog Pondering / The Slugs -- Benefit for Brigid Murphy ==SOLD OUT== 24 Sat 11:00 17+ *Public Enemy (tix Sat noon) Oct 02 Sun 6:30 aa *House Of Pain / Biohazard / Korn Riverside Theater: 116 W. Wisconsin, Milwaukee, WI / (414) 224-3000 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 13 Tue 7:30 Crash Test Dummies Schubas Tavern (21+): 3759 N. Southport (at Belmont) / (312) 525-2508 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 10 Sat Jules Shear / Paula Cole Shank Hall: 1434 N. Farwell Ave., Milwaukee, WI / (414) 276-7288 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 24 Sat *Shellac / Dis- Oct 01 Sat The Coctails Smiler Coogan's: 5637 W. Grand / (312) 889-1741 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 17 Sat 21+ *Vic Vacume and the Attachments / Killswitch / 2 tba (708-603-1060 for info) Soldier Field: Where the Bears play (TM) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 11 Sun 7:30 Rolling Stones / Lenny Kravitz ==SOLD OUT== 12 Mon Rolling Stones / Lenny Kravitz Thirsty Whale: 880 W. Grand, River Grove / (708) 456-2414 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 10 Sat Ronnie Montrose 16 Fri Enuff Z'nuff 17 Sat Enuff Z'nuff 18 Sun Cyclone Temple / Wicked Maraya 30 Fri Tuff Oct 01 Sat Tuff 14 Fri Skatenigs / Skrew / Pleasure Elite Thurston's: 1248 W. George / (312) 472-6900 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 09 Fri +Majesty Crush / They Came In Droves / Motorhome / Wait For Light 10 Sat *Greg Ginn / Transition 14 Wed $3 *New Rob Robbies 15 Thu *N.I.L.8 / Fat Tuesday / Dollface 16 Fri *L.A. Ramblers / Urban Twang / The Pedestrian 17 Sat *Eve*Thing / The Nixons / Officer Deadly / Sufferbus Toto's: 1450 E. Algonquin, Schaumburg / (708) 397-7000 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 30 Fri Tetsuo / Flanders (all ages I assume) Tower Records: 2301 N. Clark (at Belden) / (312) 477-5994 --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 09 Fri 7:30 FREE Everything But The Girl in-store performance 13 Tue 7:00 FREE *Marianne Faithful book-signing United Center: 1901 W. Madison, Chicago, IL --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Oct 19 Wed Billy Joel 21 Fri Eric Clapton / Jimmie Vaughan (tix Sat 10am) 22 Sat Frank Sinatra / Don Rickles The Vic (21+): 3145 N. Sheffield (TM) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Sep 09 Fri 9:00 $3 18+ +Jay Marvin's Quentin Tarantino Film Bash: doors open 09 Fri 10:00 +"True Romance" 09 Fri midnite +"Reservoir Dogs" 17 Sat 7:30 aa Blur / Pulp 30 Fri 7:00 aa *L7 / Melvins / Wool (tix Sat noon) Oct 01 Sat 7:30 aa *Dave Edmunds (tix Sat noon) 08 Sat 7:00 aa +The Jesus Lizard / Girls Against Boys (tix Sat noon) --------------------------------------------------------------------------- The code list: * new listing + listing has changed this week 18+ 18-and-over 21+ 21-and-over aa all ages (TM) Tickets available from TicketMaster Chicago: (312) 559-1212 Wisconsin: (414) 276-4545 Brian Contact Brian Swiftkick @ (312) 384-5813 Dave Contact Dave @ (312) 248-5822 All information listed is subject to change. Phone First. The Shows List is updated late every Thursday night. 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