Quicksand @ Music Hall of Williamsburg in August (more by Rebecca Reed)

Tickets for Quicksand's January 12 show at Metro go on sale this Friday (11/30) at noon. As mentioned, an artist presale is currently active.

Tickets for Todd Barry's two-night stand at Schubas on January 23 & 24 go on sale this Friday at noon.

Tickets for Palma Violets' January 25 show at Schubas go on sale this Friday at noon.

Tickets for Dropkick Murphys' February 22 show at the Aragon Ballroom go on sale this Saturday at 10AM. A JAM presale will be active this Friday at 10AM; the password is rosetattoo.

Tickets for Eels' February 23 show at the Vic go on sale this Saturday at 10AM.

Tickets for Tame Impala's March 6 show at the Vic go on sale this Saturday at 10AM.

Tickets for Unknown Mortal Orchestra's March 7 show at Lincoln Hall go on sale this Friday at noon.

Tickets for Veronica Falls' March 14 show at the Empty Bottle go on sale this Friday at 10AM.

Tickets for Efterklang's March 19 show at Lincoln Hall go on sale this Friday at noon.

Tickets for Jamie Lidell's April 6 show at Lincoln Hall go on sale this Friday at noon.

Andrew WK in NYC in April (more by Dana (distortion) Yavin)

As mentioned, Riot Fest Chicago 2012 goes down from September 14-16 in Humboldt Park, and now also at Congress Theater, who will host the opening night. Joining the initial lineup of Iggy & the Stooges, Elvis Costello, Descendents, Gogol Bordello, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Gaslight Anthem, The Promise Ring, Screaming Females, Built to Spill, and more is a second wave of artists including Andrew W.K. (full band), Hot Water Music, Minus the Bear, The Adicts, Henry Clay People, The Adicts, Pegboy, Imagine Dragons, Dead Sara, Fireworks, The Infected, Neon Trees, and still more to come.

Day-by-day lineups have now also been revealed which you can check out below. Multi-day passes are almost all sold out, but a few options are still available, and single day tickets go on sale today at 10 AM.

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Riot Fest Chicago 2012 is set to take place in Humboldt Park from September 14-16.

They've just announced their initial lineup of Rise Against, Iggy & the Stooges, The Offspring, Elvis Costello, A Day To Remember, Coheed and Cambria, Gogol Bordello, Descendents, Dropkick Murphys, NOFX, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Gaslight Anthem, Alkaline Trio, Slapstick, Awolnation, The Promise Ring, Chiodos, GWAR, August Burns Red, Frank Turner, Built To Spill, Reverend Horton Heat, Fishbone, No Bunny, A Wilhelm Scream, Screaming Females, Teenage Bottlerocket, Off With Their Heads, Sister Crayon, Deals Gone Bad, White Mystery, Larry and His Flask, The Story So Far, and Japanther. Two and three-day passes are on sale NOW.

Current lineup below...

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Fergus & Geronimo

today in Chicago
* Randy Newman @ Park West
* Baths, Braids, Houses @ Subterranean
* Broken Records, U.S. Royalty @ Schubas
* Fergus & Geronimo @ Beauty Bar (Free Show)
* Jess Godwin, Eli Noll, Katie Gavin @ Mayne Stage
* Save the Clocktower, Ode, Curtis Evans @ Hideout
* Dropkick Murphys, Naked Raygun @ Congress Theatre
* Two Fresh, Mux Mool, Body Language @ Bottom Lounge
* Drive-By Truckers, The Heartless Bastards @ Vic Theatre
* Broken Records in-store @ Reckless Records (Broadway)
* Canasta, REGO, Sewing Pattern @ Old Town School of Folk
* Comasoft, The Moves, The Blissters, Holding Mercury @ Metro
* Actor/Model, Baggytime, Sook, Distorted Perception @ Cafe Mustache
* Rob Kleiner, Super 8 Bit Brothers, The Show Is The Rainbow @ Beat Kitchen
* The Smith Westerns, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Fergus & Geronimo @ Empty Bottle
* Great Divide, The Down Feathers, Juniper Mays, Evan Holmes & Exit Ghost @ Matryrs'

As listed above both Fergus & Geronimo, and Broken Records are playing two shows tonight. For both band's, the earlier sets they'll play are free admission (21+).

Broken Records' new LP Let Me Come Home is in stores now via 4AD.

What else?