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American Idol Season 3 tour - August 24, 2004
Andrea Gibson - February 28, 2012
Avril Lavigne - headliner, May 15, 2003
Billy Branch And The Sons Of Blues - Chicago Blues Festival, June 9, 2012
Bo Burnham - headliner, September 12, 2009
Chaos Chaos - opener, January 5, 2013
Fleet Foxes - headliner, September 25, 2011
Foals - headliner, May 8, 2011
Frank Turner - headliner, March 2, 2013
Freelance Whales - opener, May 8, 2011
fun. - headliner, April 21, 2012
Gob - opener, May 15, 2003
Ingrid Michaelson - headliner, May 15, 2012
Karmin - headliner, September 8, 2012
The Killers - headliner, December 17, 2012
Miniature Tigers - opener, April 21, 2012
The Naked and Famous - opener, May 8, 2011
Only Son - opener, October 6, 2012
Regina Spektor - headliner, October 6, 2012
Scars on 45 - opener, May 15, 2012
The Sidekicks - opener, March 2, 2013
Simple Plan - opener, May 15, 2003
Steel Train - headliner, January 5, 2013
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The list of showcases I hope to catch the evening of Thursday, March 15th:

7:00pm: Poliça (IFC Crossroads House at Vice)
8:00pm: Stepdad (SOHO Lounge)
9:00pm: I Hate Our Freedom (Barbarella Patio)
10:00pm: Shining (Dirty Dog Bar)
11:00pm: Vanbot (Deseo Centro Lounge)
12:00am: Light Asylum (Red 7)
1:00am: Niki & the Dove (Victorian Room at the Driskill)

My fallbacks are:

7:30pm: Rebuilding the Rights of Statues (Bar 96)

8:00pm: Fiona Apple (Central Presbyterian Church), JIM-E STACK (Beso Cantina), Primitive Weapons (Barbarella Patio), Reptar (IFC Crossroads House at Vice), Shigeto (Barcelona), Spank Rock (ND), Talkdemonic (The Hideout), Zak Waters (512), Zenzile (The Loft)
8:15pm: Nick Thayer (The Main), ZZ Ward (Club 606)

9:00pm: Amoral (Red 7 Patio), Hottub (Beauty Bar), Robot Koch (Barcelona), Taken By Cars (The Loft), The Sidekicks (tenOak), Trixie Whitley (Cedar Street Courtyard), We Are Augustines (Maggie Mae's Rooftop)
…

Against Me!
Ancient VVisdom
Andrew Jackson Jihad
Anthony Green
Birds in Row x2
Blood Ceremony
Carrion Spring
Ceremony x2
Cheap Girls x2
Code Orange Kids
The Dear Hunter
Druden
Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate)
Foot Ox
Future Twin
Ghost
Jeffertitti's Nile
Joyce Manor x2
Kay Kay and His Weathered Underground
Loma Prieta x2
Losin' It
Mahria
Make Do and Mend
The Menzingers
Milk Music
Nasum
Reivers
RVIVR x2
The Shivas
The Sidekicks
Still Caves
Summer Vacation
Torche
Tragedy
Truth Inside
Warren Franklin
White Fang
Wolves in the Throne Room
Xerxes
Young Turks [x2]

This is my list of the best releases of 2011. This will be updated more and more as I listen to new stuff. If you'd like to suggest anything, go ahead, I'd love to hear it. All of the releases on here are linked to the artist/album and the genre is listed next to it. It you want to hear one of these but can't find it, send me a message and I'll drop you a link.

* = EP/Demo/Split/Comp/Live/Singles

Everything on this list I thoroughly enjoy. That being said, the releases that I find particularly awesome are marked with:
Bold = Really good LPs
Underline = Really good EP/Demo/Split/Comp/Live/Singles

Mountain Man - Grief
Defeater - Empty Days & Sleepless Nights
Mother of Mercy - IV: Symptoms of Existence
Lemuria - Pebble
Title Fight - Shed [Emo/Pop-Punk]
Spraynard - Funtitled [Pop-Punk]
Fireworks - Gospel [Pop-Punk]
Balance and Composure - Separation [Post-Hardcore]
Touché Amoré - Parting The Sea Between Brightness And Me
…

30 Seconds to Mars
3OH!3
Adam Lambert
A Day to Remember
A Great Big Pile Of Leaves
AFI
Alesana
Alkaline Trio
All-American Rejects
Allison Iraheta
All Time Low [x4]
Anberlin [x2]
Anti-Flag
Armor for Sleep
Asking Alexandria
Atreyu
Attack Attack! [x2]
Avril Lavigne
Bad Religion
Bayside [x3]
blink-182 [x2]
Ben Jelen
Black Cards
blessthefall
Blood On The Dance Floor :(((((
Bo Burnham
Bon Jovi
Boys Like Girls
Brandi Carlile [x3]
Brand New
Breathe Carolina [x6]
Brick & Mortar
Bury Tomorrow
Cadillac Sky
Calvacade The Odd
Cartel
Cherie
Chiodos
Clay Aiken [x6]
Coyote Grace
Dear and the Headlights
Demi Lovato
Drive A
Edie Carey
Electric Sun
Enter Shikari
Escape the Fate [x3]
Fall Out Boy
Falling in Reverse
Flogging Molly
Foo Fighters
Forever The Sickest Kids [x2]
Foxy Shazam [x2]
fun.
Get Scared
Girlyman [x3]
Green Day
Hit the Lights [x2]
Hollywood Undead
Incubus
I See Stars [x3]
Jack's Mannequin [x2]
Jimmy Eat World [x3]
Jonas Brothers
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1994!
36 Crazyfists (x2)
65daysofstatic
Above Them
The Academy Is...
Against Me
Aiden
Alkaline Trio (x4)
Alexisonfire (x2)
All We Have
And So I Watch You From Afar
&U&I
Andy C
Anthony Green
Anti-Flag (x2)
Apologies, I Have None (x2)
Armor for Sleep
Army of Freshmen (x2)
Artwork
As We Sink!
The Ataris
Atreyu (x2)
Avril Lavigne
The Audition
Bad Religion
Balance and Composure
Band of Skulls
Bane
Bangers
Bastions (x2)
Beans on Toast (x2)
Beat Union
Ben Marwood (x3)
Biffy Clyro (x2)
Billy Bragg
Billy Talent (x4)
Blacklisted
Black Mass
The Blackout (x2)
Blast Stereos Loud (x2)
The Bled
Bleed The Dream
blink-182
Bloodhound Gang
Blur
Bob Dylan
Boat To Row
B.o.B
The Bouncing Souls
Bowling for Soup (x2)
Brand New (x3)
Breaking Point
Brendan Kelly/Brendan Kelly and the Wandering Birds
Brian Fallon
The Brogue Kicks
Broke 'n' English (x2)
Bruce Springsteen/Bruce Springsteen & The E Street Band
B-Sydes
Bullet for My Valentine
Calvinball (x2)
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figured i'd start to keep track..


October Fall (may tenth, 2006)
From First To Last
Hawthorne Heights
The All-American Rejects
Fall Out Boy
Forgive Durden (november twenty-first, 2006)
Piebald
mewithoutYou
Say Anything
Haste the Day (july twenty-sixth, 2007)
Parkway Drive
blessthefall
Family Force Five
Alesana
Circa Survive
New Found Glory
Chiodos
Bayside
Gallows
Tiger Army
Underoath
Every Avenue (january twenty-fifth, 2008)
Just Surrender
Mayday Parade
All Time Low
The Fashion (june twenty-first, 2008)
Bayside, second time
Alkaine Trio
Set Your Goals (july twenty-seventh, 2008)
Ludo
We the Kings (acoustic)
Anberlin
Forever The Sickest Kids
Four Year Strong
Angels and Airwaves
Katy Perry
Mayday Parade, second time
Crime In Stereo (september twenty-fourth, 2008)
International Superheroes Of Hardcore
Four Year Strong, second time
A Day to Remember
New Found Glory, second time
The Status (november fifteenth, 2008)
Valencia
The Matches
Bayside, third time
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