Alternative concerts in Chicago

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• Tue, 29 Sept 2026 · 18:30 Mon Rovîa Salt Shed
• Tue, 29 Sept 2026 · 19:30 VINTO VAN GO + THE CYNZ Reggies Music Joint
• Tue, 29 Sept 2026 · 20:00 Iguana Death Cult Beat Kitchen
• Tue, 29 Sept 2026 · 20:00 múm + Mukqs Constellation
• Tue, 29 Sept 2026 · 20:00 Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals Garcia's
• Tue, 29 Sept 2026 · 20:00 Lambchop Old Town School of Folk Music
• Tue, 29 Sept 2026 · 20:00 ARLO PARKS Thalia Hall
• Wed, 30 Sept 2026 · 18:00 The Schizophonics + Descartes A Kant Cobra Lounge
• Wed, 30 Sept 2026 · 19:00 Ballaké Sissoko and Piers Faccini + Minyo Crusadersjust announced Old Town School of Folk Music
• Wed, 30 Sept 2026 · 20:00 Sorry Ghost Beat Kitchen
• Wed, 30 Sept 2026 · 20:00 Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals Garcia's
• Wed, 30 Sept 2026 · 20:00 DR. GOLDFOOT & THE BIKINI MACHINE + SAFFRON MENACE, BOG BAWDY Reggies Music Joint
• Wed, 30 Sept 2026 · 20:00 DRAG TALK + MISTROPHIA Reggies Rock Club
• Wed, 30 Sept 2026 · 21:00 Automatic + Accessory Empty Bottle
• Thu, 1 Oct 2026 · 19:30 RICKY LIONTONES + SATIN BANSHEE, HIGHDIVER Bookclub
• Thu, 1 Oct 2026 · 19:30 156/SILENCE + AVIANA, HEAVENSGATE, FROMJOY Reggies Rock Club
• Thu, 1 Oct 2026 · 21:00 Automatic + Accessory Empty Bottle
• Fri, 2 Oct 2026 · 18:30 Hot Flash Heat Wave + Bleary Eyed, High. Cobra Lounge
• Fri, 2 Oct 2026 · 19:00 THE LARVETTES + SPACE AGE ZEROS, TIGER UPPERCUT, GREEN EASTERjust announced Cubby Bear
• Fri, 2 Oct 2026 · 20:00 The Holdup Beat Kitchen
• Fri, 2 Oct 2026 · 20:00 Supercorp // Splitjaw // Refute // Dilator // Faerie Dream Burlington Bar
• Fri, 2 Oct 2026 · 20:00 Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals Garcia's
• Fri, 2 Oct 2026 · 20:00 Boy Harsherjust announced Metro
• Fri, 2 Oct 2026 · 20:00 Love Spells + Orca Schubas Tavern
• Fri, 2 Oct 2026 · 22:00 Straaahhpped + Die Divinity, Alonza Sol Sade, Claire, Mthr Trsajust announced Empty Bottle
• Sat, 3 Oct 2026 · 18:00 KEYS TO THE ASTRAL GATES AND MYSTIC DOORS + VAMPIRSKA, SADNESS, LORD HUMONGOUS, LIFE, GHOST TEARS, FINAL HEAVEN Reggies Rock Club
• Sat, 3 Oct 2026 · 19:00 Radioactivity + Watermelon Empty Bottle
• Sat, 3 Oct 2026 · 19:00 HEADS IN MOTION (a Talking Heads tribute) + FLUFFY (tribute to Ween) Reggies Music Joint
• Sat, 3 Oct 2026 · 19:30 Souled American Judson & Moore
• Sat, 3 Oct 2026 · 20:00 Brand New Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom
• Sat, 3 Oct 2026 · 20:00 Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals Garcia's
• Sat, 3 Oct 2026 · 20:00 El Ten Eleven + Tall Tall Trees Martyrs'
• Sat, 3 Oct 2026 · 20:00 Boy Harsherjust announced Metro
• Sat, 3 Oct 2026 · 20:00 The Dream Syndicate Old Town School of Folk Music
• Sat, 3 Oct 2026 · 20:00 Homesafe + Class Ring Schubas Tavern
• Sat, 3 Oct 2026 · 20:00 Low Phase + Stingray Central, giverupper Subterranean
• Sat, 3 Oct 2026 · 21:00 Music for the Masses: Dark 80's New Wave Nite Beat Kitchen
• Sat, 3 Oct 2026 · 21:00 THE SQUEEZEjust announced Lemon
• Sat, 3 Oct 2026 · 21:00 show - Bachelor's Grove + Alex Sandra, Sacred May, A Willing End LiveWire Lounge
• Sun, 4 Oct 2026 · 18:00 Girl in a Coma + Beastii, Bussy Kween Power Trip Cobra Lounge
• Sun, 4 Oct 2026 · 19:00 Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals Garcia's
• Sun, 4 Oct 2026 · 19:00 Febuary + to you, deary, Valatie Subterranean
• Sun, 4 Oct 2026 · 20:00 Brand New Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom
• Sun, 4 Oct 2026 · 20:00 Frequency Series Presents: ~Nois Quartet - Curiosity X Constellation
• Sun, 4 Oct 2026 · 20:00 DIVA PUNK Epiphany Center for the Arts
• Sun, 4 Oct 2026 · 20:00 SINCLAIR NOIRE + [MELTER], CRASH DAVIDIAN, VOLTAIC PLANES, DJ VEGANINBLACK Reggies Music Joint
• Mon, 5 Oct 2026 · 19:30 bunii Thalia Hall
• Mon, 5 Oct 2026 · 21:00 FREE MONDAY + Able Baker (Album Release), Giant Pit of Glass, Sick Day Empty Bottle
• Tue, 6 Oct 2026 · 19:00 Giovannie and the Hired Guns Joe's on Weed
• Tue, 6 Oct 2026 · 19:30 Moony + Gutter Punk Subterranean
• Tue, 6 Oct 2026 · 20:00 Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals Garcia's
• Tue, 6 Oct 2026 · 21:30 Jamjust announced The Whistler
• Wed, 7 Oct 2026 · 19:00 SEWING FREAK Sleeping Village
• Wed, 7 Oct 2026 · 20:00 Ben Harper & The Innocent Criminals Garcia's
• Wed, 7 Oct 2026 · 20:00 Sweet Pill + Heart to Gold and Emily How Thalia Hall
• Wed, 7 Oct 2026 · 21:00 Anna Johnson (Album Release) + Louise Bock, Facing Empty Bottle
• Thu, 8 Oct 2026 · 18:00 Greywind + High Wire, Long Gone Cobra Lounge
• Thu, 8 Oct 2026 · 19:00 FROM KID TO PUNK Bookclub
• Thu, 8 Oct 2026 · 19:30 Rhett Miller with Reilly Downes & the Acid Cowboys City Winery
• Thu, 8 Oct 2026 · 19:30 RIPCORD + WYNTON EXISTING, SGT. STARLING, DANIMAL FARM Reggies Music Joint
• Thu, 8 Oct 2026 · 19:45 Under High Street Beat Kitchen
• Thu, 8 Oct 2026 · 20:00 Timelife // Etudes of Horror // Flash Flash Comfort // Beige On Beige Burlington Bar
• Thu, 8 Oct 2026 · 20:00 The Scummies + Sparkling Urbana, Color to Use Cole's Bar
• Thu, 8 Oct 2026 · 20:30 IMPROVISED MUSIC SERIES: CALAMITY + TIM DAISY DUO, ACORN PROJECTS Elastic Arts
• Thu, 8 Oct 2026 · 21:00 Quintron and Miss Pussycat (with Michael Zerang on drums) + Aaron Dilloway Empty Bottle
• Fri, 9 Oct 2026 · 18:00 Fai Laci + The Silkies Cobra Lounge
• Fri, 9 Oct 2026 · 19:00 All Day Gay The Hideout
• Fri, 9 Oct 2026 · 19:00 Guiding Light + Artificial Go, Tactile Sob The Hideout
• Fri, 9 Oct 2026 · 20:00 The Clarks Beat Kitchen
• Fri, 9 Oct 2026 · 20:00 CLEAT SERIES: JOHN NIEKRASZ + TOM BORAX, ISHMAEL ALIjust announced Elastic Arts
• Fri, 9 Oct 2026 · 20:00 Rufus Wainwright Old Town School of Folk Music
• Fri, 9 Oct 2026 · 21:00 MALL DRAG CHICAGOjust announced Cole's Bar
• Fri, 9 Oct 2026 · 22:00 Iron Lung + Yambag, Consensus Madness, Flowering Empty Bottle
• Sat, 10 Oct 2026 · 11:00 BED BY 10PM + NORTH AMERICA TOUR!, DAYTIME EVENT 4PM - 9PM Sound-Bar
• Sat, 10 Oct 2026 · 18:00 Gully Boys + Pollyanna, Rodeo Boys Cobra Lounge
• Sat, 10 Oct 2026 · 19:00 PRINCE OF EDEN + NOLEN DURHAM, DAMON GROEN Bookclub
• Sat, 10 Oct 2026 · 20:00 ELASTRO AV FESTIVAL + FRIEND LESS (JON MUELLER), KAVEH SOOFI, WHO IS THE WITNESS?, ELASTRO AV ENSEMBLE Elastic Arts
• Sat, 10 Oct 2026 · 20:00 Rufus Wainwrightjust announced Old Town School of Folk Music
• Sat, 10 Oct 2026 · 21:00 Marital Bed + Oildrum, You Winjust announced Cobra Lounge
• Sat, 10 Oct 2026 · 21:00 Blind Season + Palmer, Hoverboard Cole's Bar
• Sat, 10 Oct 2026 · 21:00 KISS KISS Ramova Theatre
• Sun, 11 Oct 2026 · 17:00 Goth Night Cobra Lounge
• Sun, 11 Oct 2026 · 17:30 Interpol Salt Shed
• Sun, 11 Oct 2026 · 18:00 TASTE OF CHAOS Byline Bank Aragon Ballroom
• Sun, 11 Oct 2026 · 19:00 Big Fat Head + Heavy Sleeper, Shy Bronco The Hideout
• Sun, 11 Oct 2026 · 19:30 EMEI Thalia Hall
• Sun, 11 Oct 2026 · 20:00 First To Eleven Beat Kitchen
• Sun, 11 Oct 2026 · 20:00 BUTTTOOTKINGjust announced Metro
• Tue, 13 Oct 2026 · 19:00 Ziona Riley + Franjust announced The Hideout
• Wed, 14 Oct 2026 · 19:00 Good Luck + That! The Hideout
• Wed, 14 Oct 2026 · 20:00 TOMMY CARROLL ALBUM RELEASE PARTYjust announced Elastic Arts
• Thu, 15 Oct 2026 · 18:00 Dear Maryanne + MooseCreek Park, Kiss The Scientist Cobra Lounge
• Thu, 15 Oct 2026 · 19:30 Osees + Brigid Dawson, Traps PS Thalia Hall
• Thu, 15 Oct 2026 · 20:00 INSOMNIAC + THE WATERFALL KING, KRONONAUT Reggies Music Joint
• Thu, 15 Oct 2026 · 20:30 IMPROVISED MUSIC SERIES: JON MUELLER/MATT BLAIR/RO LUNDBERG + NATHAN HANSON/STEVE HIRSCH Elastic Arts
• Fri, 16 Oct 2026 · 17:00 MODESTEP Sound-Bar
• Fri, 16 Oct 2026 · 18:30 Millington + Malört & Savior, Latenightsinmycar. Cobra Lounge
• Fri, 16 Oct 2026 · 19:00 Fugu Dugu Old Town School of Folk Music
• Fri, 16 Oct 2026 · 19:30 Osees + Brigid Dawson, Traps PS Thalia Hall
• Fri, 16 Oct 2026 · 20:00 Waste Management Booking Presents: Sungaze //Lavisher // Cuss // Lightfoils Burlington Bar

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