In summer 1979, Suzanne Shelton hatched a dream to open a punk dance club. She had two priorities: it had to play lots of new wave, and it needed clean bathrooms. Shelton had been DJing at a failing Lincoln Park disco called Hoots, but she spent all her free nights at O’Banion’s, a run-down gay […]
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Concert photographer Bobby Talamine thanks donors for their help replacing stolen gear
Concert photographer Bobby Talamine thanks donors for their help replacing stolen gear, Chicago label Scrapes teams up with proto-industrial duo Hogg, and more.
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The Secret History of Chicago Music: HA
HA’s lone mid-80s EP is long gone, but Andy Mead and Steve Marcotte now play together in the Finnish Charts