Rock Shows I Have Been To

Get Up Kids, Smoking Popes at the Metro

Fall Out Boy, ALL, The Offspring, NOFX, The Marleys, Sum 41, New Found Glory, Face To Face, Circle Jerks, The Lawrence Arms, Action/Adventure, People R Ugly, Get Dead, ALL, Drug Church, The Chisel, Home Front, The Defiant,The Exploited, Spiritual Cramp, Poison The Well, Winona Fighter, Public Enemy, Cypress Hill, Tornillo, Souls of Mischief, Polaris, Zheani, Suicidal Tendencies, Hot Mulligan, State Champs, Polaris, The Warning, The Aces, at Riot Fest

7/12/24

Pegboy, The Arrivals, Canadian Rifle, Criminal Kids at the Metro

6/29/24

AJR, mxmtoon & Almost Monday at All State Arena

9/15/23

Foo Fighters, Turnstile, The Interrupters, Code Orange, Silverstein, Quicksand, Bayside, Braid, Ani De Franco , Say Anything, The Breeders, Tegan and Sara, Kim Gordon, , Parliament Funkadelic ft. George Clinton, Fake Names, The Wrecks, Hawthorne Heights,, Yard Act, Screaming Females, Sludgeworth, Quasi, Origami Angel, Oso Oso, Just Friends, Bearings, Pinkshift, Olivia Jean, Calva Louise, The Aquadolls, FEA, The Bobby Lees, Young Culture at Riot Fest

7/8/23

Imagine Dragons, The Beaches, Walk The Moon, Saliva, Galxara, Mountain Goats, Buckcherry, The Moss, Benson Boone at Summerfest

5/11/23

The Bouncing Souls, Samiam, Swingin’ Utters, Pet Needs at the Metro

4/8/23

Sludgeworth, Tightwire, Permanent Residue at the Cobra Lounge

11/19/22

MXPX and Teenage Bottlerocket at Rave Milwaukee

9/19/22

Midtown, Jimmy Eat World, Less Than Jake, Action Bronson, Coolio, , Lunachicks, Poliça, Pvris, Sleater-kinney, The Juliana Theory, Weathers, Zola Jesus, Alice Glass, Chastity, Concrete Castles, Dj Livia, Ice Cube, Jawbox, Joey Valence & Brae, Josh A, Kid Sistr, Mom Jeans., The Linda Lindas, Moon Kissed, Night Spice, Nine Inch Nails, Real Friends, Reece Young, Renforshort, Save Face, The Academy Is…, The Bombpops, The Maine, Treaty Of Paris, Yeah Yeah Yeahs at Riot Fest

4/15/22

Jawbreaker, Built to Spill, Smoking Popes

10/28/21

Menzingers, Descendents, Rise Against at Northerly Island

9/13/19

Pkew Pkew Pkew, Can’t Swim, Noon, The Garden, No Parents, Thin Lips, Yours Truly, Anti-Flag., Caroline Rose, Pink Fly.,  Hot Water Music., I Don’t Know How But They Found Me., Mat Kerekes., Senses Fail, Hot Snakes, , Angel Du$t., The Get Up Kids, Neck Deep, Cock Sparrer, Hot Mulligan, Violent Femmes, Lucero, Pennywise, H20, Dashboard Confessional, Descendents, Glassjaw, Rancid, The Flaming Lips, Blink 182 at Riot Fest

8/24/19

Me First and the Gimmee Gimmees, Lucky Boys Confusion, Suicide Machines, Direct Hit at the Tinley Convention Center

5/15/19

Samiam, Off With Their Heads, Kali Masi at Chop House

3/30/19

The Interrupters, Masked Intruder, and Rat Boy at the House of Blues

11/5/18

Jawbreaker, Naked Raygun, Smoking Popes at the Aragon Ballroom

9/4/18

Cheap Trick, Lucky Boys Confusion, Sleep at Naperville Last Fling

8/27/18

Descendents, Less Than Jake, Mest, Smoking Popes, A Wilhelm Scream, Sincere Engineer, Burn Rebuild at Tinley Park Convention Center

7/29/18

Foo Fighters, Struts, Melkbelly, at Wrigley Field

9/17/17

Jawbreaker, Andrew W.k, Beach Slang , Best Coast, Built To Spill, Cap'n Jazz, Culture Abuse, Dessa, Dinosaur Jr., Downtown Boys, Engine 88, Gwar, Hot Water Music , Kitten Forever , M.i.a. , Mad Caddies , Minus The Bear , Paramore , Pennywise , Prophets Of Rage , Real Friends , Say Anything , That Dog , The Flatliners, The Menzingers , The Mighty Mighty Bosstones , The Orwells , The Voluptuous Horror Of Karen Black , Tv On The Radio , Upset , Versus, Riot Fest Douglas Park

8/24/17

Green Day, Catfish and the Bottlemen at Wrigley

6/25/17

Off With Their Heads, The Bigger Empty, Vacation Bible School at Braur House

12/2/16

Off With Their Heads, Brendan Kelly, This Obsession at Braur House

12/11/15

The Lawrence Arms with Red City Radio, Turnspit

8/29/15

Foo Fighters, Cheap Trick, Naked Raygun, Urge Overkill at Wrigley Field

10/11/14

MXPX all stars, Allister, Zebrahead, and Survay Says! at Mojoes in Joliet.

9/14/13

Blink-182, Violent Femmes, Rancid, Blondie, Public Enemy, Taking Back Sunday, Flag, Guided By Voices, Dinosaur Jr., X, DeVotchKa, Pennywise, The Lillingtons, The Lawrence Arms, Glassjaw, The Devil Wears Prada, Say Anything, Surfer Blood, The Dear Hunter, The Selecter, T.S.O.L., Stars, Memphis May Fire, Mephiskapheles, Kitten, New Beat Fund, The Interrupters, Radkey, Nativ, Environmental Encroachment at Humbolt Park

7/15/13

Masked Intruder , Elway , Sam Russo , Brendan Kelly At Beat Kitchen

11/24/12

The Lawrence Arms, Banner Pilot, The Sidekicks and Boilerman at Metro

8/10/12

The Mighty Mighty Bosstones, We Are The Union at Metro

1/7/12

The Lawrence Arms, The Holy Mess and Lords at Metro

10/9/11

Descendents, Suicide Machines, Leftover Crack, Flatfoot 56, The Menzingers, Shot Baker, The Copyrights, Cheap Girls, Larry & His Flask, The Flatliners, Strike Anywhere at Congress Theater

10/8/11

All W/ Scott Reynolds * Down By Law * Chinese Telephones *, the Holy Mess At The Bottom Lounge

9/10/11

Samiam, Walter Schreifels, All Eyes West At Reggies

8/27/11

Braid, All Eyes West, Fires At The Metro

10/9/10

Cap’n Jazz, Smoking Popes, anxiety High, The Dopamines At The Metro

10/24/09

The Lawrence Arms, The Menzingers, la Plebe, Mike Park At The Metro

8/1/09

Social Distortion, Civet and The Strangers at the Rave in Milwaukee

4/4/09

No Empathy, Not Rebecca, The Sass Dragons, Bread and Bottle and Abbey Pub

1/4/09

Naked Raygun, Hot Water Music w/The Methadones and The Arrivals at House of Blues

11/15/08

Ben Weasel, The Challenged, The Girls - At Reggies

10/18/08

The Falcon, The Methadones, The Sidekicks, Rule 22 at Subterranean

7/4/08

REO Speedwagon at Naperville Ribfest

7/2/08

Less Than Jake, Goldfinger, Big D And The Kids Table, Suburban Legends at the House of Blues

11/19/07

Bad Brains, Sludgeworth, The Casualties, Dillinger Four, The Bollweevils, Youth Brigade, Flatfoot 56, Zero to Sixty, Deal's Gone Bad, The Frantic at the Congress Theater

10/18/07

Van Halen, Ky-Mani Marley at the United Center

10/11/07

Lawrence Arms, American Steel, The Falcon, Sundowner At The Metro

7/20/07

Allister, Punchline, The Fold, One Black Tooth At The Metro

7/5/07

The Police, Fiction Plane at Wrigley Field

06/05/07

MxPx, Project 86, Sullivan, The Classic Crime at the House of Blues

4/27/07

Naked Raygun, The Bollweevils, The Effigies and Shot Baker at the House of Blues

11/5/06

Naked Raygun, Blue Meanies, The Bollweevils, 7Seconds, The Business, Mustard Plug, Youth Brigade, The Effigies, The Toasters, Flatfoot 56, Deal's Gone Bad, Secret Agent Bill, The Gravetones, Fear City, The Massacres, Audio Violence at The Congress Theater

11/3/06

The Blue Meanies, The Bollweevils, The Tossers, Shot Baker at Double Door

10/8/06

Allister, Self Against City, Sound the Alarm, Silent Sirens

9/12/06

Rancid, Sick of it All, The Tossers at the House of Blues

9/2/06

Much the Same, Ryan's Hope, She Likes Todd, Victorian Halls at Beat Kitchen

7/19/06

Lagwagon with The Lawrence Arms and A Wilhelm Scream at the House of Blues

7/6/06

Bullets To Broadway, The Know How, Four Star Alarm At The Beat Kitchen

6/16/06

The Mopes, Shot Baker, Textbook, The Holidays At Beat Kitchen

6/9/06

The Methadones, The Copyrights, Four Star Alarm, The Scissors at the Note

5/3/06

Alkaline Trio, Against Me! At The Metro

3/21/06

MXPX, Transition, Treaty Of Paris, At The Metro

3/8/06

Mest, Allister, Scary Kids Scaring Kids, and The Classic Crime at the House of Blues

3/5/06

NOFX, the Lawrence Arms, and the Loved Ones at the House of Blues

2/13/06

Less Than Jake with A Wilhelm Scream, Rock n Roll Soldiers, Damone at the House of Blues

12/4/05

Allister, Fenix, Tx, Houston Calls, Day At The Fair, Denver Harbor At The Metro

11/26/05

Pegboy at the Metro

11/26/05

Rise Against, Anti Flag at the Vic Theater

11/6/05

MXPX, Relient K, Rufio, and Over It at the Congress Theater

9/23/05

Social Distortion and Mest at the House of Blues

9/2/05

Fu Manchu, The Last Vegas, American Motherload, Knife Of Simpson At The Double Door

8/28/05

Lucky Boys Confusion, Melee, Dropping Daylight At The Metro

7/24/05

Warped Tour - All American Rejects, Mest, Dropkick Murphy's, MXPX, Halifax, Much the Same, the Starting Line, No Use for a Name, a Change of Pace, Transplants, Senses Fail, Fall Out Boy at the Tweeter Center

6/12/05

Lawrence Arms, A Whilhelm Scream, The Methadones, Light At The Bottom Lounge

6/11/05

Lawrence Arms, The Honorary Title, America Is Waiting, Cory Brenan At The Bottom Lounge

6/4/05

Sum 41, Unwritten Law, Rise Against, A Static Lullaby at Q101 YMCA Thing (it rained and we missed Sum 41)

6/3/05

The Sleepers, Quasar Wut-Wut, Murder Your Darlings, The Holy Fire at the Bottom Lounge

5/12/05

Midtown, Plain White T's, Action Action, Rock Kills Kid (i Only Saw Midtown) At The Bottom Lounge

4/18/05

Less Than Jake with Allister, Hidden In Plain View & Kane Hodder at the House of Blues

4/9/05

New Found Glory w/ Reggie & the Full Effect and Eisley at the House of Blues

3/1/05

Goldfinger, The Start, City Sleeps at the House of Blues

2/5/05

Methadones, The Bomb, The Matics At The Bottom Lounge

12/30/04

Fall Out Boy, Midtown, The Academy Is... & Gym Class at the House of Blues

12/17/04

Duvall, Light Fm, Sleepwalker Defense, Textbook At The Bottom Lounge

12/9/04

Drag The River, Riviera, Colonel Rhodes, The Enablers At The Bottom Lounge

11/12/04

Incubus, The Music at the Convocation Center - Northern Illinois University

11/9/04

Good Charlotte, Sum 41, Hazen Street & Lola Ray at the Aragon Ballroom

9/28/04

Strike Anywhere (we Went To See Midtown But Missed Them) At The Metro

8/13/04

Bowling for Soup, Mayfield, Junior Varsity at the House of Blues

8/1/04

Tsunami Bomb, The Lawrence Arms, Pipedown, Scattered Fall At The Metro

5/29/04

Braid, Minus The Bear, Murder By Death, The Silent Treatment, Chronic Future At The Metro

5/15/04

Allister , Hidden In Planview , Lola Ray , Punchline , Split Habit at the House of Blues

5/5/04

Midtown, Armor For Sleep, Your Enemies Friends, Emanuel At The Bottom Lounge

3/26/04

Lawrence Arms, Dillinger Four, Grabass Charlestons, Knuckleduster at the Bottom Lounge

1/20/04

Dan Andriano Of Alkaline Trio, Bob Nanna Of Hey Mercedes Elizabeth Elmore Of The Reputation, Darren Spitzer Of The Changes, Justin Pierre Of Motion City Soundtrack

1/10/04

Duvall, Life at Sea, Emily Shrine at the Empty Bottle

12/14/03

Squirtgun, Breaking the Silence, The Methadones, Split Habit, ATMs at the House of Blues

11/28/03

Bollweevils, Apocalypse Hoboken, The Traitors, The Dutchmen at the Metro

11/6/03

Less Than Jake, Yellowcard, Fallout Boy at the Riveria

11/13/03

Blink 182, Bubba Sparxxx, The Kinnison at the House of Blues

*Bands in blue were on the bill but we didn't see them.