event DJ Ethan D'Ercole

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• Mar 12
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    Muse and Silversun Pickups United Center, 7:30 p.m.

    When his band played a secret show with Metallica at South By Southwest in 2009 ...

    Chicago Zine Fest Quimby's Bookstore, 7 p.m.
    Pelican, Pinebender, and Follows Beat Kitchen, 9:30 p.m.
• Mar 13
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    Ted Leo And The Pharmacists, Title Tracks, and The Chicago Stone Lightning Band Bottom Lounge, 7 p.m.

    Though people invariably peg Ted Leo's songwriting as "literary" and "political" above all, his ...

    The Big Heat Music Box Theatre, 11:30 a.m.
    The Warriors Music Box Theatre, 11:59 p.m.
• Mar 14
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    Dan Hicks And The Hot Licks Old Town School of Folk Music, 7 p.m.

    Dan Hicks offers tuneful, quirky folk-country-jazz-whatever-rock for fans with discriminating tastes. The favorable response to ...

    Battlefields, Junius, and Why Intercept? Empty Bottle, 9:30 p.m.
    Too Much Light Makes The Baby Go Blind The Neo Futurarium, 7:30 p.m.
• Mar 15
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    John Doe and Danny Black Schubas, 8 p.m.

    When punk band X was shredding through Los Angeles in the early ’80s, few could ...

• Mar 16
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    The Very Best, Ninjasonik, Bin Laden Blowin Up, and Chandeliers Bottom Lounge, 8 p.m.

    African-music project The Very Best has a lot of gangly reach, having come together when ...

    7 Day Shorts Second City (DeMaat Theatre), 10:30 p.m.
    The Reckoning iO Theater (Del Close), 10:30 p.m.
• Mar 17
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    Tributosaurus (Van Morrison) + The Dooley Brothers, Switchback, The Avenue Kids FitzGerald's, 2 p.m.

    Name a band, and Tributosaurus probably knows how to play at least one of its ...

    Field Music and The Clientele Lincoln Hall, 9 p.m.
    Sunday For Regret, Live Band Karaoke, Super 400, The Dirty Rooks, and The Miggs Reggie's Music Joint, 8 p.m.
• Mar 18
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    Deakin, Glitter Bones, and Netherfriends Empty Bottle, 9:30 p.m.

    Succinctly articulating Netherfriends is no easy feat. The local collective is a musical chameleon of ...

    Jay-Z, Young Jeezy, and Trey Songz United Center, 7 p.m.
    SXSW Round-Up: Born Ruffians, Freelance Whales, The Hood Internet, Japandroids, Maps And Atlases, The Rural Alberta Advantage, The Smith Westerns, We Are Scientists, And We Were Promised Jetpacks Schubas, noon