By Jim Nasium
If you couldn’t get to Austin this week for SXSW, no worries – Chicago is hosting its own music festival for those of us stuck here at home. Among the highlights:
* Billy Corgan plays an eight-hour show at his tea shop interpreting Boss.
* Fall Out Boy plays Billy Dec’s birthday party.
* Liz Phair tries to sell her charcoal drawings in Wicker Park.
* Kanye West projects his image on the Willis Tower while performing “We Should Have Never, Ever Let Michael Jordan Play For The Wizards.”
* Robbie Fulks fills in for Tom Skilling, who will be in Austin.
* The Hideout holds a block party to raise money for the city to buy more salt.
* The Old Town School of Folk Music opens a pop-up school teaching drill in Naperville.
* R. Kelly headlines a panel on how disgusting he is.
* Billy Corgan plays an eight-hour show at his tea shop interpreting Highland Park’s zoning ordinance.
* Jeff Tweedy hosts another fundraiser for Rahm Emanuel because the mayor “embodies all the best qualities of rock and roll, interpersonal communication and poetic living that I’ve always sung about.”
* Chief Keef emerges from rehab, plays first show as $hief Keef.
* Jon Langford plays in 24 of his bands in 24 hours.
* Billy Corgan plays an eight-hour show at his tea shop interpreting his record contract.
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Posted on March 11, 2014