I’ve always been transparent about the fact that the Secret History of Chicago Music relies on other people. I get leads from the musicians I write about, from my knowledgeable friends, and from ...

There has never been a compilation album in the history of rock as influential as “Nuggets,” a 1972 double-LP that revived a period and style that was seen as having ended about five years before. It ...

Since 2005 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who’ve been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in ...

The show at Glendale's Alex Theatre included original members of bands like the Seeds, Love and the Chocolate Watchband as well as aficionados from "Weird Al" Yankovic to Peter Case The cast of dozens ...

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I don’t know exactly when it happened, but at some point in my lifetime, “lo-fi” went from being an adjective to being a genre. By the mid-1990s, artists were making a conscious decision to eschew the ...

In the 1960's, San Antonio was home to an explosion of influential garage rock groups. Perhaps the most fascinating of those was the Children, a psychedelic supergroup formed by members of local acts ...