Triad Radio, Chicago’s pioneering experiment in commercial free-form radio, left the airwaves in 1977. Now longtime program director Saul Smaizys is moving its archives online.
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The Jokers contributed one great single to the 60s garage-rock boom
The Jokers’ only two recordings have both been reissued on retro compilations, but sketchy liner notes have left the band a mystery till now.
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If you don’t know Megon McDonough, blame the maleness of Chicago’s 70s folk scene
Folk singer Megon McDonough made her 1972 debut LP while still in high school and in 1990 joined Christine Lavin’s Four Bitchin’ Babes.
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Sixties garage rockers the Riptides won their only studio session at a talent show
The B side of this high school band’s lone single got a second life on a 2006 compilation.
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La Porte garage band the Bare Facts rode the wave of late-60s horn rock to Chicago
Even as teenagers, Bare Facts wrote their own songs, toured all over the midwest, and played a whistle stop for Robert Kennedy.
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The Secret History of Chicago Music: The Southside Connection
The Southside Connection released a great psych single in 1982 and continue to play today as a wedding band.
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A student and professor’s evening out has ugly consequences
Northwestern faces a federal lawsuit alleging mishandling of a sexual harassment case.
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Listen to Chicago’s FBI chief knock down a Wall Street Journal story on Blagojevich’s arrest
The head of the FBI in Chicago says a Wall Street Journal story claiming the Chicago Tribune forced the feds to arrest Rod Blagojevich early isn’t accurate.
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Les Grobstein knows the score
It ain’t easy being the world’s biggest sports fan.