(okay I feel like I'm missing a bunch butyeahh)

• Lollapalooza 2008 (August 1-3)
  • Bloc Party
  • Radiohead
  • Dierks Bentley (not by choice; i was waiting for EITS/BSS)
  • Explosions in the Sky
  • Broken Social Scene
  • Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks
  • Dr. Dog
  • DeVotchKa (sort of)
  • Okkervil River (also sort of)
  • Grizzly Bear
  • CSS (sort of; and ew)
• Lollapalooza 2007 (August 3-5)
  • Clap Your Hands Say Yeah (sort of)
  • Kings of Leon
  • My Morning Jacket
  • The Polyphonic Spree
  • MIA (UNFORTUNATELY)
  • The Black Keys
  • I'm From Barcelona
  • Snow Patrol (also unfortunate)
  • Interpol
  • Elvis Perkins in Dearland
  • Pete Yorn (ehh)
  • Patti Smith (sort of)
  • The Hold Steady
  • !!! (sort of)
  • TV on the Radio (for like a song or two)
  • Silversun Pickups (also only a song or two)
• Lollapalooza 2006 (August 4-6)
  • Sparta (EW; waiting for Ben Kweller)
  • Ben Kweller
  • Eels
  • Ryan Adams
  • My Morning Jacket
  • Sonic Youth
  • The Flaming Lips
  • The Shins (for like a couple songs)
  • Wilco
  • Stars
  • Matt Costa
  • Thievery Corporation (saw like four minutes of them while I was walking towards BSS)
  • Andrew Bird
  • The Go! Team
  • The New Pornographers (I think...?)
  • Broken Social Scene
  • Of Montreal
• Pitchork Music Festival (July 19)
  • Animal Collective
  • The Hold Steady
  • !!! (sort of)
  • Vampire Weekend (gross)
  • Fleet Foxes
  • Fuck Buttons
  • The Ruby Suns
• Various Summerfests
  • My Morning Jacket
  • Kings of Leon
  • Wilco
  • Andrew Bird
  • Weezer
  • Pixies
• My Bloody Valentine (Aragon Ballroom; September 27, 2008; I feel like I have accomplished a lot because of this)
• Andrew Bird (free concert in Millennium Park; September 3, 2008)
• Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (Raven Festival; August 16, 2008)
• Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin (AV-aerie; July 11, 2008)
• Cursive (Belmont Arts and Music Festival; June 28, 2008)
• Islands (Logan Square Auditorium; June 2, 2008 [earlier that day they played an acoustic set at the Apple Store also])
• The Mars Volta (Aragon Ballroom; April 20, 2008)
• Mum (Logan Square Auditorium; November 1, 2007)
• Ryan Adams and the Cardinals (Chicago Theatre; September 29, 2007)
• The Mars Volta (Eagles Ballroom; September 23, 2006)
• Matt Costa (Majestic Theatre; September 12, 2006)
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs (Rivera Theatre; April 14, 2006)
• The Strokes (Eagles Ballroom; March 1, 2006)
• Weezer (Allstate Arena; October 3, 2005)
• Weezer (Aragon Ballroom; May 4, 2005)
• Franz Ferdinand (fuck you; Riviera Theatre; September 30, 2004)