Metro Information and Event Guide

Events:

Low, Loney Dear, Charlie Parr
Door: 8PM. Cost: $18. Ages: 18+. http://metrochicago.com/shows
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-04-13 21:00:00

Blonde Redhead
Tickets: $21 18 & over Doors: 8pm / Show: 9pm
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-04-14 21:00:00

The Frames

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-04-18 20:00:00

RJD2, Busdriver

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-04-20 20:00:00

Vnv Nation
Tickets: $23 adv / $26 day of 18 & over Doors: 7pm / Show: 8pm
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-04-25 20:00:00

Ted Leo/Pharmacists, Love of Diagrams
Door: 6:30PM. Cost: $14. Ages: ALL.
Category: Music, 19:30:00, 2007-04-28 19:30:00

Ben Gibbard, David Bazan, Johnathan Rice [early show]
Door: 6PM. Ages: ALL. Cost: $22. Such a great bill. Hot damn. SOLD OUT http://www.deathcabforcutie.com/ http://www.davidbazan.com/ http://www.johnathanrice.com/
Category: Music, 19:00:00, 2007-05-04 19:00:00

Ben Gibbard, David Bazan, Johnathan Rice [late show]
Door: 11PM. Ages: 18+. Cost: $22. http://www.deathcabforcutie.com/ http://www.davidbazan.com/ http://www.johnathanrice.com/
Category: Music, 23:30:00, 2007-05-04 23:30:00

The Kooks

Category: Music, 18:00:00, 2007-05-05 18:00:00

Amon Tobin
WLUW Welcomes... AMON TOBIN DJ sets by ABSTRACT SCIENCE DJs Tickets: $16 18 & over Doors: 11pm / Show: 11:30pm
Category: Music, 22:00:00, 2007-05-05 22:00:00

LCD Soundsystem

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-05-06 20:00:00

Animal Collective

Category: Music, 19:00:00, 2007-05-17 19:00:00

Sloan
Tickets on sale 03/10 Purchase tickets for this show at www.metrochicago.com/
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-05-19 20:00:00

the Faint

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-05-22 20:00:00

!!! (chk chk chk)
Tickets: $14 adv / $16 day of 18 & over Doors: 8pm / Show: 9pm
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-05-23 20:00:00

Interpol
Tickets: $30 All Ages Doors: 6:30pm / Show: 7:30pm Tickets on sale Sat. 5/5 at noon Box office sales will be CASH ONLY
Category: Music, 19:30:00, 2007-06-03 19:30:00

The National
Door: 8PM. Cost: $15. Ages: 18+.
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-06-07 21:00:00

Sparta, Straylight Run, Lovedrug
GA $15 http://www.ticketmaster.com/artist/835529
Category: Music, 18:45:00, 2007-06-14 18:45:00

Superchunk, Mountain Goats + Guest: Eff Cancer Benefit
*Tickets: $20 through Ticketmaster or The Metro box office. *Doors 7pm/Show 8pm *18+, Drink w/ ID The Eff Cancer Benefit is being put together for longtime Superchunk fan Sean Silver, who 4 years ago ...
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-06-20 20:00:00

The Ike Reilly Assassination, The Gwalla Gwallas
Cost: $18. Ages: 18+.
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-06-22 20:00:00

Tortoise
Door: 7PM. Cost: $19. Ages: 18+.
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-07-01 20:00:00

Clap Your Hands Say Yeah!, Cold War Kids, Elvis Perkins in D...
Tickets: $22 18 & over Doors: 9pm / Show: 10pm
Category: Music, 22:00:00, 2007-08-03 22:00:00

Lordi
Lordi is a heavy metal band from Finland and winners of the 2006 Eurovision Song Contest, formed in 1992 by Tomi Putaansuu of Rovaniemi, Finland. The band is known for their monster costumes and lyric...
Category: , 19:00:00, 2007-08-11 19:00:00

The Rentals, Copeland, Goldenboy
Door: 6PM. Cost: $19. Ages: ALL.
Category: Music, 18:30:00, 2007-08-14 18:30:00

The Rentals, Copeland, Goldenboy
Door: 6:30PM. Cost: $19. Ages: ALL.
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-08-14 20:00:00

Slick Rick
Slick Rick also known as Ricky D (born January 14, 1965) is a British rapper, known most for a series of hip hop recordings during the 1980s.
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-08-29 21:00:00

Ludo
Ludo lends its light licks to the rock 'n' roll sound.
Category: , 18:30:00, 2007-08-31 18:30:00

Combichrist
Norwegian Andy LaPlegua as an aggrotech project formed Combichrist in 2003. Known for their intense live performances, Imperative Reaction delivers a powerful mix of trance, electronic and synthpop. T...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-09-01 20:00:00

Combichrist
Norwegian Andy LaPlegua as an aggrotech project formed Combichrist in 2003. Known for their intense live performances, Imperative Reaction delivers a powerful mix of trance, electronic and synthpop. T...
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-09-01 20:00:00

DJ Colette
Chicago's own Derrick Carter spins dirty, quirky house tracks. Internationally DJ Heather demonstrates her skills and sharp deck acumen for the massive throughout Chicago and the world at larg...
Category: , 22:00:00, 2007-09-08 22:00:00

Baby Loves Disco
All across the country, 'Baby Loves Disco' is slowly but surely transforming the hippest night clubs into child proof discos as toddlers, pre-schoolers and parents looking for a break ...
Category: , 12:00:00, 2007-09-09 12:00:00

Baby Loves Disco
All across the country, 'Baby Loves Disco' is slowly but surely transforming the hippest night clubs into child proof discos as toddlers, pre-schoolers and parents looking for a break ...
Category: , 12:00:00, 2007-09-09 12:00:00

Midlake
Tickets: $16 All Ages Doors: 6pm / Show: 7pm
Category: Music, 19:00:00, 2007-09-12 19:00:00

Midlake
Tickets: $16 All Ages Doors: 6pm / Show: 7pm
Category: Music, 19:00:00, 2007-09-12 19:00:00

Aesop Rock, The Octopus Project, Blockhead
Door: 6PM. Cost: $18.50. Ages: ALL.
Category: Music, 18:30:00, 2007-09-13 18:30:00

Aesop Rock, The Octopus Project, Blockhead
Door: 6PM. Cost: $18.50. Ages: ALL.
Category: Music, 18:30:00, 2007-09-13 18:30:00

Office
Office is the Chicago based quartet of Scott, Alissa, Erica and Tom. They've built a local following for their catchy indie pop tunes, and now they're ready to take on the rest of the ...
Category: , 23:00:00, 2007-09-14 23:00:00

Mustard Plug
Westbound Train is ska/reggae band from Boston. Whole Wheat Bread is from Duval County, Jacksonville, Florida. Like their forefathers Bad Brains, WWB is doing their part to redefine punk for a whole n...
Category: , 17:30:00, 2007-09-15 17:30:00

Diplo w/ Switch
Tickets: $18 adv / $20 day of 18 & over Doors: 11pm / Show: 11pm On sale Sat. 6/23 at noon
Category: Music, 23:00:00, 2007-09-15 23:00:00

Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
93XRT Welcomes... BLACK REBEL MOTORCYCLE CLUB Tickets: $21.50 18 & over Doors: 6:30pm / Show: 7:30pm Tickets on sale Sat. 8/11 at noon
Category: Music, 19:30:00, 2007-09-17 19:30:00

Turbonegro
Turbonegro is the Imperial Underdogs of Scandinavian Rock.
Category: , 19:00:00, 2007-09-19 19:00:00

Aiden
Named for the little boy in the movie, 'The Ring,' Seattle's Aiden continues the post-hardcore sound with three albums, the most recent titled, 'Conviction.' Th...
Category: , 18:30:00, 2007-09-20 18:30:00

Sonata Arctica
Sonata Arctica is a four-piece band from Finland.
Category: , 18:00:00, 2007-09-21 18:00:00

Grace Potter and the Nocturnals
Hailing from Vermont, the band's roots rock, funky blues and soul-charged repertoire explodes with melodic crescendos, gentle lyricism and fiery youthful intensity. The Nocturnals' dri...
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-09-22 21:00:00

Iron & Wine
Door: 6PM. Cost: $26. Ages: ALL.
Category: Music, 19:00:00, 2007-09-23 19:00:00

Iron & Wine
details tba
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-09-23 20:00:00

Kaiser Chiefs
Kaiser Chiefs formed up in not-so-sunny Leeds around the summer of 2003, naming themselves named after the South African football team. The band gained momentum thanks to the single 'I Predict...
Category: , 18:30:00, 2007-09-24 18:30:00

Metric
w/ Crystal Castles Tickets: $15 All Ages Doors: 6:30pm / Show: 7:30pm The parade of Pitchfork-announced shows continues...
Category: Music, 19:30:00, 2007-09-25 19:30:00

Metric
w/ Crystal Castles The parade of Pitchfork-announced shows continues...
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-09-25 20:00:00

Sum 41
Following a path trod by The Offspring, Blink-182 and others, the Canadian band Sum 41 features a mighty guitar section, some hardcore rock elements and a bit of hip-hop thrown in to complete its risi...
Category: , 18:30:00, 2007-09-28 18:30:00

The Hives
Sporting black shirts and trousers with white ties and shoes, punk revivalists The Hives combine the streetwise edge of The Velvet Underground with the raw power of The Stooges. Already major stars in...
Category: , 18:30:00, 2007-09-30 18:30:00

Voxtrot
Cost: $15. Ages: 18+.
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-10-04 21:00:00

The Sea and Cake

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-10-05 20:00:00

The Sea and Cake
Tickets: $20 18 & over Doors: 8pm / Show: 9pm
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-10-05 21:00:00

Of Montreal, Grand Buffet, MGMT [night 1]
Door: 6PM. Cost: $19. Ages: ALL. Night 1 of 2.
Category: Music, 18:30:00, 2007-10-06 18:30:00

Of Montreal, Grand Buffet, MGMT [night 2]
Door: 6PM. Cost: $19. Ages: ALL. Night 2 of 2.
Category: Music, 18:30:00, 2007-10-07 18:30:00

Patrick Wolf, Bishi
Tickets: $15 All Ages Doors: 6pm / Show: 6:30pm http://www.ticketmaster.com/venue/32803?brand=metrochicago Tickets on sale Sat. 9/8 at noon
Category: Music, 18:30:00, 2007-10-09 18:30:00

Patrick Wolf

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-10-09 20:00:00

Lawrence Arms
In the words of Lawrence Arms, "we unleash our unholy madness on all of creation." Falcon is a four-piece original rock band out of Brooklyn, NY.
Category: , 18:30:00, 2007-10-11 18:30:00

Ted Leo/Pharmacists, The Eternals, The A-Sides
Door: 6PM. Cost: $15. Ages: ALL. http://metrochicago.com/shows/
Category: Music, 18:30:00, 2007-10-12 18:30:00

Superdrag
Door: 8PM. Cost: $20. Ages: 18+.
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-10-13 21:00:00

Pinback, MC Chris
Door: 8PM. Cost: $17. Ages: 18+.
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-10-14 21:00:00

She Wants Revenge
Monday, October 15 Q101 Welcomes... SHE WANTS REVENGE (http://www.shewantsrevenge.com/) Tickets: $20 All Ages Doors: 5:30pm / Show: 6:30pm Tickets on sale Sat. 8/18 at noon
Category: Music, 17:30:00, 2007-10-15 17:30:00

Architecture in Helsinki
Just announced at Pitchfork!
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-10-16 20:00:00

Justice

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-10-17 20:00:00

Justice
Upstairs in Metro Tickets: $21 (Justice only) or $26 (includes admission to Erol Alkan at Smart Bar) 21 & over Doors: 10pm / Show: 10pm
Category: Music, 22:00:00, 2007-10-17 22:00:00

The New Pornographers

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-10-18 20:00:00

The New Pornographers

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-10-19 20:00:00

The New Pornographers, Emma Pollock
Tickets: $24 18 & over Doors: 8pm / Show: 9pm
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-10-19 21:00:00

Unkle Live
James Lavelle and Richard File perform live with a 7-piece band. Tickets are $16 on Ticketmaster.
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-10-20 21:00:00

Atmosphere
Monday, October 22 Everybody Loves A Clown Tour... ATMOSPHERE MAC LETHAL GRAYSKUL LUCKYIAM of LIVING LEGENDS Tickets: $21 All Ages Doors: 6pm / Show: 6:30pm
Category: Music, 18:30:00, 2007-10-22 18:30:00

The Weakerthans
$16
Category: Music, 18:30:00, 2007-10-25 18:30:00

Minus the Bear, Helio Sequence, Grand Archives
Door: 8PM. Cost: $19. Ages: 18+.
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-10-26 21:00:00

Lyrics Born
Saturday, October 27 LYRICS BORN DEL THE FUNKY HOMOSAPIEN DEVIN THE DUDE & THE COUGHEE BROTHAZ BUKUE ONE JUNK SCIENCE featuring ILLER THAN THEIRS Tickets: $21 18 & over Doors: 8pm / Sh...
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-10-27 21:00:00

Suffocation
Suffocation is one of the most influential and emulated bands in the history of extreme music and the pioneers of the now-infamous 'New York death metal sound." Immolation is a death-...
Category: , 18:30:00, 2007-10-29 18:30:00

The Hold Steady, Art Brut, Federale [night 1]
Door: 6PM. Cost: $20. Ages: ALL. http://www.myspace.com/theholdsteady Night 1 of 2... night 2 is 18+. Pre-sale password: southtown
Category: , 19:00:00, 2007-10-30 19:00:00

The Hold Steady, Art Brut, The Blood Arm [night 1]
details TBA http://www.myspace.com/theholdsteady Night 1 of 2.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-10-30 20:00:00

The Hold Steady, Art Brut, The Blood Arm [night 2]
details TBA http://www.myspace.com/theholdsteady Night 2 of 2.
Category: , 20:00:00, 2007-10-31 20:00:00

The Hold Steady, Art Brut, Federale [night 2]
Door: 8PM. Cost: $20. Ages: 18+. http://www.myspace.com/theholdsteady Night 2 of 2... night 1 is all ages. Pre-sale password: southtown
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-10-31 21:00:00

Broken Social Scene plays Kevin Drew's Spirit If

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-11-03 20:00:00

Broken Social Scene plays Kevin Drew's Spirit If
Tickets: $23 18 & over Doors: 8pm / Show: 9pm
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-11-03 21:00:00

Battles
The most important war is the one at home, and Battles know this. So this fall they will return to North America for a mid-sized tour after they finish fighting the good fight over in Europe in suppor...
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-11-08 20:00:00

Lucero, Bobby Bare Jr., Whiskey & Co.
Door: 8PM. Cost: $14. Ages: 18+. http://metrochicago.com/shows/
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-11-09 21:00:00

Do Make Say Think

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-11-10 20:00:00

Band of Horses, The Drones
Door: 6PM. Cost: $19. Ages: ALL.
Category: Music, 19:00:00, 2007-11-12 19:00:00

Razorlight
London's Razorlight came together in 2002 around vocalist/guitarist Johnny Borrell and guitarist/vocalist and Swedish ex-pat Bjorn Agnen. The group's early demos took UK radio by storm...
Category: , 19:30:00, 2007-11-13 19:30:00

Menomena, w/ Illinois

Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2007-11-15 20:00:00

Menomena, w/ Illinois
Tickets: $14 adv / $16 day of 18 & over Doors: 8pm / Show: 9pm
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-11-15 21:00:00

Rx Bandits
The Rx Bandits are an Orange County ska band. Men Women and Children uses a combination of post-punk guitar similar to the Rapture and disco synthesizers akin to LCD Soundsystem. From Chicago, Mapes a...
Category: , 18:00:00, 2007-11-16 18:00:00

Dust Galaxy
Dust Galaxy is Garza's new rock-oriented side project.
Category: , 21:00:00, 2007-11-17 21:00:00

Jeff Buckley Tribute
The Jeff Buckley Tribute Concert is in conjunction with the Rock 'n' Roll Hall of Fame. Approximately 30 artists from the U.S., Canada and Europe will be performing Jeff Buckley music.
Category: , 17:00:00, 2007-11-18 17:00:00

The Gossip
Tickets: $16 18 & over
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-11-20 21:00:00

Against Me!, Sage Francis, World/Inferno Friendship Society,...
Door: 6PM. Cost: $19. Ages: ALL.
Category: Music, 18:30:00, 2007-11-22 18:30:00

Circa Survive
Circa Survive is an experimental rock band from Philadelphia, PA. Fear Before the March of Flames released their album 'Odd How People Shake' in January of 2004. The band Ours is a roc...
Category: , 18:30:00, 2007-11-24 18:30:00

Big D and the Kids Table
Boston's Big D and The Kids Table debuted their fast paced style of ska-punk in 1995. But, like most ska bands, the line-up revolved between their 1997 debut, 'Live,' EP and th...
Category: , 18:30:00, 2007-11-29 18:30:00

Robert Pollard
Robert Pollard is from the band Guided By Voices.
Category: , 20:30:00, 2007-11-30 20:30:00

Cold War Kids
Cold War Kids make songs about human experience in orchards and hotel rooms, laundromats and churches, sea ports and school halls. Using songs of Dylan, Billie Holiday and the Velvet Underground as a ...
Category: , 18:30:00, 2007-12-07 18:30:00

The Redwalls & Johnathan Rice
cost $15
Category: Music, 18:00:00, 2007-12-08 18:00:00

Lazarus
Lazarus features Trevor Montgomery, Lathan Spaulding, John Baez and Kelly Nyland.
Category: , 19:30:00, 2007-12-14 19:30:00

Office, The 1900s, Narrator, Mannequin Men
18+, $10
Category: Music, 21:00:00, 2007-12-21 21:00:00

Spitalfield
Formed in the suburbs of Chicago in 1998, Spitalfield plays punky alternative rock with some pop sensibilities. Hailing from Chicago, the Audtion is five piece rock/pop band. This Chicago quartet play...
Category: , 17:30:00, 2007-12-23 17:30:00

Spoon
Door: 9PM. Cost: $76 (!!!!!!!!!!). Ages: 18+. Though I will be spending my NYE with my boyfriend on a beach overlooking the Tasman Sea, I am still kinda jealous of all y'all who get to see ...
Category: Music, 22:00:00, 2007-12-31 22:00:00

Rhymefest
Friday, January 18 HYPE Promotions Presents... RHYMEFEST VERBAL KENT YEA BIG + KID STATIC Tickets: $18 18 & over Doors: 7pm / Show: 8pm
Category: Music, 20:00:00, 2008-01-18 20:00:00

Cornelius
One of Japan's most innovative & respected musicians, Cornelius' music could be described as experimental & exploratory, mixing dissonant elements alongside more harmon...
Category: , 18:30:00, 2008-01-23 18:30:00

Girl Talk, Dan Deacon
BACK-TO-BACK SHOWS IN ONE NIGHT Tickets: $16 All Ages Doors: 7pm / Show: 7:30pm Tickets: $16 18 & over Doors: 11pm / Show: 11:30pm
Category: Music, 19:30:00, 2008-01-26 19:30:00