This is what you should do if you want to hear some good music tonight.

This is what you should do if you want to hear some good music tonight.

First, go to Ronnys and see Sam Vicari. He plays super early so get there on time. You will love it. If you like well constructed rock and/or roll that will hit you in your teenage blueballs / boy fumbling at bra-hooks memory-zone you will not want to miss his set.

After that walk, no run, no charter a helicopter to get you to Old Oak Tap as quickly as possible. It may have the least swanky DJ booth in all of Chicago -- I'm folded in there next to a coffee maker and a bag of ketchup as big as my torso -- but it does afford me the chance to play some of my favorite music at any given moment. And you -- you! -- will not be folded into a less than glamorous area. No! You will be comfortably seated on their patio or, at a later hour, inside their super comfy cozy digs sipping one of a jillion fine beers and perhaps noshing on my absolute favorite spicy fries in the city. See you there.