just passing along this week's new show listings. looks like some big names are coming to town soon! see a show you like? make a show suggestion!

don't forget that these listings are posted on the chicago reader online every tuesday night, and in the print edition every wednesday morning!

see you at the shows soon!

+james

• Alesso, Adventure Club Congress Theater, 4/12, 8 PM.
• Anti-Flag, Make Do and Mend, Hostage Calm Beat Kitchen, 5/26, 7:30 PM, on sale Sat 3/16, 10 AM.
• Anti-Flag, Swellers, Hostage Calm Beat Kitchen, 5/27, 7:30 PM, on sale Sat 3/16, 10 AM.
• Big Boi, Killer Mike the Vic, 5/1, 8 PM.
• Buika Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music,, 6/15, 8 PM, all-ages.
• Captured! by Robots Martyrs', 5/4, 9 PM.
• Dan Band House of Blues, 5/17, 9 PM, on sale Fri 3/15, 10 AM.
• Delmark Records 60th Anniversary Celebration with Linsey Alexander Blues Band and Willie Buck Old Town School of Folk Music, 6/2, 6:30 PM, all-ages.
• Depeche Mode First Midwest Bank Amphitheatre, Tinley Park, 8/24, 7:30 PM.
• Oscar D'Leon V Live, 4/11, 9 PM.
• Electric Daisy Carnival with Above & Beyond, Benny Benassi, David Guetta, Kaskade, Michael Mayer, and others Chicagoland Speedway, Joliet, 5/24-26.
• Fab Faux Chicago Theatre, 11/9, 8 PM.
• Flying Lotus, Thundercat Metro, 5/18, 10 PM, on sale Fri 3/15, noon.
• Fountains of Wayne (acoustic) Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music,, 4/20, 8 PM, all-ages.
• Bill Frisell Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music,, 5/3, 7 and 10 PM, all-ages.
• Ghostface Killah Abbey Pub, 4/26, 8 PM.
• History of Freestyle with K7, George Lamond, Cynthia, and others Congress Theater, 4/13, 7 PM.
• Stephen Kellogg SPACE, Evanston, 6/2, 7:30 PM, all-ages, on sale Fri 3/15, 5 PM.
• The Killer, Nails, Xibalba, Early Graves Cobra Lounge, 4/26, 8:30 PM.
• Alison Krauss & Dan Tyminski, Kris Kristofferson Old Town School of Folk Music, 4/18, 8 PM, all-ages.
• Krs-One, Mykal Rose the Shrine, 4/22, 8 PM.
• Ladysmith Black Mambazo SPACE, Evanston, 6/19, 7:30 PM, all-ages, on sale Fri 3/15, 5 PM.
• Daniel Lanois Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music,, 6/16, 7:30 PM, all-ages.
• Ottmar Liebert & Luna Negra Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music,, 6/20, 8 PM, all-ages.
• David Lindley Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music,, 5/12, 8 PM, all-ages.
• Loudness Bottom Lounge, 4/28, 7:30 PM, on sale Fri 3/15, noon.
• Janiva Magness FitzGerald's, Berwyn, 4/27, 9 PM, on sale Fri 3/15, 11 AM.
• Morning Teleportation Beat Kitchen, 4/12, 9:30 PM.
• O.A.R., Andrew McMahon Charter One Pavilion, 6/28, 6:30 PM, on sale Fri 3/15, 5 PM.
• Rahsaan Patterson the Shrine, 4/5, 8 PM.
• Ariel Pink Empty Bottle, 6/1, 10 PM.
• Joe Pug Beat Kitchen, 6/22, 9:30 PM, on sale Sat 3/16, 10 AM.
• Red Jumpsuit Apparatus, Action Blast Bottom Lounge, 4/26, 7 PM, on sale Fri 3/15, noon.
• Relient K, Hellogoodbye House of Blues, 5/19, 5:45 PM, all-ages, on sale Fri 3/15, 10 AM.
• Reverend Horton Heat, Lee Rocker, Supersuckers Aragon Ballroom, 6/15, 6 PM.
• Tony Rice Unit Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music,, 5/2, 8 PM, all-ages.
• Sentidos Opuestos Aragon Ballroom, 4/12, 8 PM, all-ages.
• Sorcery, Infinitum Obscure Ultra Lounge, 4/18, 8 PM.
• Toots & the Maytals House of Blues, 4/4, 9 PM, on sale Fri 3/15, 10 AM.
• Torche Empty Bottle, 5/31, 10 PM, on sale Wed 3/13, noon.
• The Veils Subterranean, 5/2, 9 PM, on sale Wed 3/13, noon.
• Volbeat, Danko Jones Aragon Ballroom, 4/5, 7:30 PM, all-ages.
• Rufus Wainwright Maurer Hall, Old Town School of Folk Music,, 4/14, 8 PM, all-ages.
• Wisin y Yandel Aragon Ballroom, 4/6, 8 PM.

• Atmosphere, Brother Ali Metro, 4/13, 8 PM.
• Chris Hillman & Herb Pederson SPACE, Evanston, 5/30, 7 PM, postponed.
• Marina & the Diamonds, Charli XCX Riviera Theatre, 5/20, 7:30 PM, all-ages, moved from the Vic.