Mar 11
- Young Widows, My Disco, and Phantom Family Halo Empty Bottle, 9:30 p.m.
  Formed from remnants of Breather Resist, Young Widows chucked most of their forebear’s post-hardcore ...
  
  Tigercity, Gemini Club, The Silent Years, and Wave Machines Schubas, 9 p.m.
  
  Very Truly Yours, The Summer Cats, and City Center Subterranean, 9 p.m.
Mar 12
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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
- 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.