Ahhh, take a deep breath...fill your lungs full of some summer, baby! This weekend brings us some very cool street festivals that will offer you plentiful amounts of babes, beers, BBQ's...and BANDS!
Chicago Peace Fest comes to Lincoln Park (1700 N. Stockton), bringing three days of great bands. Best of all, it's FREE!
Friday
Noon: Drum Circle with Huntress Diana
1 p.m.: Seeking
2 p.m.: Illusions Fate
3 p.m.: Foster Home
4 p.m.: Classy Ladies
4:40 p.m.: Requested Bassnectar
5 p.m.: Terrapin Flyer
5:40 p.m.: Havoc Footwork
6 p.m.: Half Mad Poet
6:40 p.m.: Ian Poet
7 p.m.: Thinner Teed
7:40 p.m.: TBA
8 p.m.: Velva
Saturday
Noon: Drum Circle with Huntress Diana
1 p.m.: THC
1:40 p.m.: Jonathan Speaker
2 p.m.: Electric Medicine
2:40 p.m.: Andy Thayer
3 p.m.: Poverty Tax
4 p.m.: New Clear Threat
4:40 p.m.: Requested Bassnectar
5 p.m.: General Patton & His Privates
5:40 p.m.: Mike Kalas of Unity for a Change
6 p.m.: Environmental Encroachment
7 p.m.: Wanton Looks
7:40 p.m.: MC Sparkplug
8 p.m.: Section Four
Sunday
Noon: Drum Circle with Huntress Diana
1 p.m.: Plain Ole Delicious
2 p.m.: Right Rongly
3 p.m.: Agents of Change
3:40 p.m.: Selina
4 p.m.: Flabby Hoffman
4:40 p.m.: Requested Bassnetar
5 p.m.: Strange Arrangement
5:40 p.m.: Kevin Rapper
6 p.m.: Phillip Morris vs Dubasaurus
6:40 p.m.: Sid Yiddish Poet
7 p.m.: Flow Theory
7:40 p.m.: White Mystery Band
8 p.m.: Malafacha
The 1st Annual MidSummer Festival comes to the West Rogers Park neighborhood, boasting three days of food, fun and, yep, you guessed it...BANDS!
Friday
6 p.m.: Libido Funk Circus
8 p.m.: Wedding Banned
Saturday
Noon: Your Villian, My Hero
1:30 p.m.: Radio Live
3 p.m.: Fortunate Sons
5:15 p.m.: He Said, She Said
7:45 p.m.: Infinity
Sunday
Noon: Urban Brew
1:30 p.m.: Black Betty
3 p.m.: The Gun Show
4:30 p.m.: Catfight
6 p.m.: 7th Heaven
From a food-lover's POV, a festival to really make some time for is the Taste Of Randolph Street festival (900 W. Randolph St.)...and, yes, there will be some bad-ass bands rockin' the streets in the West Loop!
West Stage
5:30 p.m.: Waco Brothers
7 p.m.: Matthew Santos Band
8:30 p.m.: Lovehammers
East Stage
6 p.m.: Bandoleros
8 p.m.: DJ David Starfire
Saturday
West Stage
2 p.m.: Spinach Prince
4 p.m.: Twin Tigers
5:30 p.m.: Mucca Pazza
7 p.m.: One Eskimo
8:30 p.m.: Lucero
East Stage
3 p.m.: Weston Rose & Good Evening
4 p.m.: Vicarious
6 p.m.: DJ Jef Stott
8 p.m.: DJ Cheb i Sabbah
Sunday
West Stage
3 p.m.: Environmental Encroachment – The Magic Marching Band
4 p.m.: The Love Language
5:30 p.m.: Headlights
7 p.m.: Califone
8:30 p.m.: Superchunk
East Stage
4 p.m.: DJ Carla Starla
6 p.m.: Lubriphonic
8 p.m.: Funkadesi
Last, but certainly not least is Takin' It To The Streets: Urban International Festival (6734 S. Kedzie). Admission is FREE and the number of musical acts participating in this festival is truly staggering and ranges from Mos Def to dozens of top-flight DJ's and hip-hop acts.
Click here to download a PDF file of the complete music schedule.