Hey, blogspot readers, SPRING is here and it's time to hit the streets ...roam around town and see a show (or few) as the weather and music scene heats up for a great summer of shows/events happening in Chicago and elsewhere...
All shows listed for April are 21+ unless noted otherwise.
Have fun!
April 1:
Double Door – Check out live performances by Jollys with Sex
Snobs (from OKC), Post Animal and Basement Family.
8p / $5 adv / $7 dos
Smart Bar – [synthetic] with Boy Alberto and Lolly Gagger
with B-Side (Unofficial Clean Bandit After Party)
10p / FREE
April 2:
Arcada Theatre – Rock out with Randy Bachman when he
performs the music of BTO (Bachman-Turner Overdrive) and The Guess Who!
7:30p
Hideout – Check out the live performances by Van Allen Belt
with Moritat and KO
Reggie’s Music Joint – It’s Katrina of Katrina & The
Waves “Walin’ On Sunshine” fame who will be rockin’ this venue along with The
Handcuffs and The Injured Parties.
7:30p / $10
April 3:
Double Door – Kick off your weekend by rockin’ with Mighty
Fox, Soft Speaker, Common Shiner (catch this band before they leave the scene) and Hidden Hospitals.
$7 adv / $10 dos
Door No.3 – It’s Absolutely Not performing live with A Giant
Dog (Austin, TX), Le Tour and Rat Hammer
FREE / 9p
Empty Bottle – Moon opens for Lieutenant and Yukon Blonde
9p / $15
The Endzone Bar & Grill (Aurora, IL) – It’s Ruptura, Sinister Fate and
Vicious Attack rockin’ this stage.
9p / $6
April 4:
Reggie’s Rock Club – It’s a Record Fair that will feature
the world’s only traveling record show with collectors of all ages.
11a – 4p / $3 / AA
The Diabetes Empowerment Center (Division and California) – Muevete! Move for Life season
kick-off with raffles, refreshments, entertainments and physical activity for
all ages.
12p / AA / FREE
David Yow will host the premiere of Records Collecting Dust
– a documentary film about the music and records that changed our lives
featuring sound bites from Jelio Biafra, Keith Morris, Nick Oliveri and more. A
“Q & A” will follow the showing.
6:30p / AA / Donation for entry
Double Door – Attend the Adopt-A-Bulls …a PAWS Chicago Bull
Breed Adoption Event featuring Danielle Colby of History Channel’s
“American Pickers” to raise awareness
and save the lives of more than a dozen Bully Breed dogs.
12p / FREE
Double Door – The Chicago Outfit Roller Derby presents its
annual Spaghetti Wrestling with DJ Vader and DJ All the Way Kay.
8p / $10 adv / $15 dos / $20 VIP
Durty Nellie’s – Get sauced, blogspot readers, with Hot
Sauce Committee when they bring “Boy Band Night” to you …from NYSNC to Boys II
Men, Justin Timberlake and more.
Underground Lounge – It’s pre-Easter rockin’ fun with Johnny
Automatic, Butchered, The Winderness (Denver, CO) and Seasonal Men’s Wear at
this Chicago Punk Show.
Bungalow Joe’s (Hanover Park, IL) – Badge brings all of its
Cream-ness to the stage at this venue.
Elbo Room – Rock with Along The Parallel, Daylight Dawns and
How To Fight Gods
April 5:
Thalia Hall – Hey, kids, check out this Easter Egg Hunt
…prizes will be from Thalia Hall, Dusek’s Punch House, Knee Deep Vintage and
more
12p / AA / FREE
April 6:
Piazza Di Porta Magglore Roma (Rome, Italy) – celebrate Pasqueta ComTram
Tracks (Easter Monday with Tram Tracks)
Empty Bottle – Rock with Crown Larks Mines Record Release
featuring Secret Means of Escape and Columba Fasciata
FREE
GRANDBAR – Get your fill of Libations with The Devilocks
(Misfits tribute band), Goth Paul and Peter Propaganda
8p / NO COVER
April 7:
Elbo Room – Winnipeg-based singer/songwriter Sean Burns is
releasing his 4 th album “Rocket Ships and Lemon Trees” and will appear at this
venue with Kristopher Ulrich
Door No.3 – It’s going to be a HOT FABITAT birthday
celebration with sets by resident DJs Adam El and Ldy Prblms with special guest
(and birthday boy) Nevin Hersch (Berlin Nightclub) and drag performances by
Lucy Stoole and Curlene Ribbon.
9p / FREE
Martyrs’ – Honey & the 45s will be opening for a funky Austin, TX band – Tbird & The Beaks!
SouthSide has been told to warn you – bring your dancing shoes to this hot
show.
April 9 – 23:
AMC River East 21 Theatres – 31st Chicago Latino Film Festival
April 10:
Auditorium Theatre – Spend “An Evening With The Roosevelts”
starring Lorretta Swift and Ed Asner.
Fulton Street Collective (Fulton and Damen) – Guess what
…”You’re A Piece of Work”! Simply show up with your work at 6p and then choose
where your work will hang …network and socialize while enjoying live music,
drinks and appetizers.
Space is awarder – first come, first hang!
Double Door – Sweetwater Sessions will feature live
performances by Old Shoe, The Way Down Wanderers, and Bones Jugs N Harmony
Door No.3 – It’s Soft Leather featuring DJ CJ National, Teen
Witch Fan Club, Deathface and House of Szechuan.
10p / FREE
Wire (Berwyn, IL) – It’s Pink Floyd night with In The Flesh “the
premier Pink Floyd tribute” band.
Underground Lounge – Armored Assault shares the stage with
Act of Destruction, Crusade and Born Under Burden
8p / $7
Windy City Inn (2257 W. Irving Park) – This duo promises it will
be “The Best F*cking Night of Your Life” featuring 3 live sets by Berto and The
Lizard.
Martyrs’ – Rock out with The Future Laureates, Ay Oh, Jarryd
Scott Steimer and Kiernan McMullan
8p / $10 adv / $12 dos
Liar’s Club – This Chicago Punk Show will feature The
Tromatons, Get Up & Go!, The Timmys and 80 Proof Preacher
Cobra Lounge – It’s Feed Me To Monsters sharing the stage
with Blackbox and Guardrail.
Dutch Inn West (Elgin, IL) – it’s High Priests along with
Boxsledder, The Pastaways and Nine Eyed Lion rockin this stage.
8p / $5
The Mid – Rain Man makes his Chicago debut performance with a special
guest.
Q Bar (Darien, IL) – Check out Frank Viele as he performs live with
Allen, Mack, Myers and Moore.
Debonair Social Club – It’s Killwave, The Walking Shadows
and Goodnight Criminals performing live on stage here.
8p show / 18+ / $10
Art Institute of Chicago - Attend this museum's Aft Dark series featuring the exhibit "Ireland:Crossroads of Art & Design, 1640-1840" in the Modern Wing (enter at 159 East Monroe St) ...enjoy live DJ performances, complimentary appetizers and cash bar ...celebratory pint of Guinness and see the winning design of the Threadless "Shatter Rupture Break" challenge.
$30 GA / $20 members / $15 evening members
9p - midnight
April 11 & 12:
Rock Bar Theatre (San Jose, CA) – It’s Kirk Von Hammett’s
Fear Fest Evil Carnival …this event will feature an authentic freak show, games
and hearse car show (including Kirk’s ’36 Ford and crypt) as well as vendors
all weekend long. Plus gore and metal guest panels and band signings featuring
special appearances by Corey Taylor, Slash, Sara Karloff, Bela Lugosi Jr, Ron
Chaney and many more
GA tickets are still available
April 11:
Local 130 Plumbers Union Hall - It’s the 13 th Annual CHIRP
Record Fair and Other Delights.
8a – 10a Early admission ($25 with readmission allowed all
day long)
10a Regular admission $7 (or $5 with a Records Fair flyer or
ad)
Concord Music Hall – Get groovy with
Papadosio featuring Alex Grey and Allyson Grey.
18+ / doors 8p
Double Door – Riotfest showcase will feature Show You Suck
with Gut Rot and 100 Trill performing live at a rare ALL-AGES show inside this
venue!
6p / $7 adv / $10 dos / AA
Milk Pail Banquets (East Dundee, IL) – Attend The John Emerson Memorial and Benefit show
featuring The Smoking Popes, The Mons, Rapids, The Turdles, The Bigger Empty,
and Oil Can Boys.
6p / AA / 21+ to drink (with ID) / $20 donation
Tonic Room – The New Switcheroo (try saying that band fast
five times) will be celebrating the release of their debut LP “Heartless Sky”
The Abbey Pub – It’s Covenant with The Labrynth and DJ Scary
Lady Sarah at this venue.
7:30p / 17+ / $16 adv / $20 dos
The Burlington Bar – Rock
out with Control, The Idle Rich and Miles!
Harte's Saloon (Evergreen Park, IL) - check out this live performance by The Hot Jupiters!
April 12:
Jesse's Tavern (Chicago Ridge, IL) - It's Sunday Funday at this venue with Tom Leach & Friends featuring a Bloody Mary Bar with Kickstart and Craft Beer Tasting.
12p
April 13:
Door No.3 – Enjoy an evening of Bebop Jazz during this
Thelonious Monday with DJ RB Green
7p / FREE
April 14:
Elbo Room – Celebrate Wormwood Collective’s 4 years of
Poetry and Absinthe …here’s to more years of spoken word and performance art,
blogspot readers!
FREE
April 15:
Double Door – Ghetto Youths International presents “Set Up
Shop Volume 2” Tour featuring live performances by Cham, Wayne Marshall,
Christopher Ellis, Jo Mersa, Black Am I and Simmer Down DJs
7p / 18+
April 16 – 19:
Various locations – Chicago International Movies & Music
Festival featuring 99+ films, and 99+ bands within 4 days!
Various locations – Lake FX Summit + Expo …a free 4-day
event with networking opportunities, music and film showcases and much more.
April 16:
Old Town School of Folk Music – It’s “bring a book,
take a book” Book Swap. The 1 st 100 swappers will get a Chicago Reader book
tote …please NO dirty, musty, or torn books …NO legal, technical,
encyclopedias, religious etc books
6p to 9p
Elbo Room – Free Spirited Inc presents “Free Beginnings”
featuring live performances by The Omni Rose, Mike Zabrin and more
7p show / $10
April 17:
H.O.M..E. Bar (Arlington Heights, IL) – Model Stranger will open for
Local H
8p
Underground Lounge – Rock out with Of Wolves, Faces of the
Bog, Huntsmen and Snow Burial
9p / $5 adv / $7 dos
Cobra Lounge – Try handling this hot lineup if you can –
Silver Abuse, Hotlips Messiah, Vortis and Cathy Santonies
The Green Room (The Abbey Pub) – Check out Matt Wilke’s
Ghost, Andrew Robert Palmer and A Dozen Places performing here live.
Aragon Ballroom – GRIZ “Say It Loud” world
tour featuring sets by Exmaq and Artifakts will be stopping here.
Reggie's Music Joint - Pale Green Stars bring their "The Things We Don't Talk About" tour 2015 and its brand of super high throttle punkadelic pandemonium ...and more to Chicago.
April 18:
Record Store Day …support your local record store …find
great one-day only deals and in-store concerts!
The Ancona School (4770 S. Dorchester) – Attend the 3
rd Annual Diversity Symposium – Dimensions in Multicultural Education: Gender
Identity & Expression, a symposium examining what can be learned by
intentionally creating a diverse and inclusive learning community working for
social change. The keynote speaker will be Dr. Brandon Hill, PhD, Executive
Director Ci3, University of Chicago with Jane Merrill (Center on
Halsted) and more.
$30 GA / $20 educators/students
Reggie’s Music Joint – Rock with Lucky Boys Confusion,
Swizzle Tree, Mason’s Case, Bury Me In Lights, Unwed and Aly Jados
8p / 17+
Donald E. Stephenson Convention Center – Life In Color “The World’s
Largest Pain Party” will feature Bingo Players, DVBBS and 3LAU
7p / 17+
Metro – Be fashionably seen while dancing til dawn at
NOCTURNA …this Gothic spring event will feature the lovely mistress spinning
EDM and more, DJ Scary Lady Sarah.
11p / 18+ / $10
Underground Lounge – Cancersmash …celebrate Erik Oldman’s
birthday and the return of Sons of Ra to the stage while supporting a great
cause. ALL proceeds will go to support the Cancersmash Walk N Roll Team
(walking/rolling on Saturday April 25) to be donated to American Cancer
Society.
Lizards Liquid Lounge - r/chicago community showcase featuring live performances by aboveandbelow, Arc Impulse Bad Bad Meow, One Season, Pink Monkey, The Roarer and Sure Fire Groove.
7p / $5 donation
April 19:
Double Door – Fly America presents – Mark Battles and Derek
Luh performing live on stage!
7p / AA / $15
April 20:
Rock out with The Ivorys, Repeat Repeat, Sleepy Kitty and
The Van Goghs
April 21:
SouthSide turns another year along with Rob Smith (The Cure) Iggy Pop, Queen Elizabeth …it’s her real birthday!
Red Line Tap – Check out Top Shelf Lickers as this local
band rocks the stage during IPO (International Pop Overthrow) along with The
Fox & The Hounds, Homer Marrs, The Excellent Adventure, No Love For Linus,
Mike Vanderbilt and The Suburban Garage Sound
April 22:
Door No.3 – it’s another edition of FABITAT with resident
DJs Adam El and Ldy Prblms with drag performances by Lucy Stoole and Curlene
Ribbon
9p / FREE
Double Door – it’s another Sweetwater Session featuring live
performances by cLOUD 9, Zaramela, Midwest Hype and Blaise B
April 23:
Celebrate Throwback Thursday with Honest Colin as Green Day
(performing Dookie Album), Bicycle Tricycle as Tommy James and The Shondells,
The Midnight Special as Steely Dan and Guns & Ammunition as The Ramones!
April 24:
Double Door – Get your Electro Reggae Jam 03 on, mon
…featuring Down Sound, DJ Ringo, Kinky P with special guests Fada Dougou, Zion
Iyahbinghi, Brazil and live dancers …hosted by Cosmos Ray and MC Zulu.
The Mid – Alison Wonderland makes her debut at this hip club
in celebration of the debut album and world tour.
SPACE (Evanston, IL) – Joseph LeMay will be performing songs off his
debut album “Seventeen Acres” while opening for Sean Watkins
April 25:
House of Blues (Chicago) – It’s Spandau Ballet’s “Soul Boys
of the Western World” tour!
17+
Reggie’s Rock Club – Get groovy with Passafire featuring
Indigosun and Stranger
8p / 17+
Beat Kitchen – El Famous will be rockin’ and celebrating their
album release along with Daylight Dawns, Eighty Six Happiness, The Streets and
Sky Machine!
Subterranean – Dallas, TX band Dead Flowers bring their
national tour here for some rock and fun!
The Mid – Celebrate Green Velvet’s Birthday with special
guests Hannah Wants.
April 26:
Bada Brew (Crest Hill, IL) – Get your rock on when seeing
Sworn Enemy with Wretched, Dark Sermon and Hammer Fight!
Door No.3 – It’s Sunday School Sessions …preaching to the
soul of Chicago through house music with resident DJs Mathis Rousseau and
Natural Selection.
10p / FREE
April 29:
Schuba’s – Rock out with Razorhouse along with The Great
Crusades and Steve Stone
$8
Door No.3 – ROUGE! Chicago’s Premier Night of Electro Swing
with DJs Vourteque and Mr. Automatic and resident performer Lady Lennox.
9p / FREE
Red Line Tap – Check out Bang Tango performing live with
Chronic Edge, Teeze and Kevin Lee & The Links
$7 adv / $10 dos
April 30:
The Second City: Up Comedy Club (230 W. North Av) –
Chicago Dance Institute and World Wide Orphans are hosting an inaugural benefit
featuring Improv All-Stars with cocktails, reception and comedic performances.
6:30p
Sulzer Public Library – Spend an evening of enjoying
classical guitar and more featuring performances by Ben McMunn, Adam Hendricks,
Anne Waller, Brandon Acker, Joel Spears and Brian Torosian.
6p / FREE / AA
Until next time, support your local scene,
SouthSide
Tonight, she’s getting her Reggae-world fusion with her new
friend, Kreyol Roots at The Old Town School of Folk Music (inside the Szold
Music & Dance Hall). However, for this exclusive adventure, she’s not only
just listening and reviewing the music …she’s also grooving to a few new dance
steps she learned blogspot readers. 
Now, that we were warmed up with our new dance steps, it was
time for us to put the steps and music together while Kreyol Roots rockin’ the
“stage”. This reviewer highly recommends checking out this local band’s
eclectic fusion of guitar rock mixed with vibrant West African rhythms, 
