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The best overlooked Chicago records of 2025

What happens when a teen rock scene grows up?

J.T. IV’s wild horror trash joins the Blu-ray canon

Farewell to undersung house and disco maestro Lee Collins

Pancho García makes hardcore happen

Time to dump Spotify

What K-Smoove brings to the table

The compact disc isn’t going quietly

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From bedroom studio to bonkers show

The best overlooked Chicago records of 2024

Grandpa Bay planted seeds that are still sprouting

The Chicago music-zine revolution wants you!

An oral history of Ragamala

Riverbeast alert

Bò kho in front, party in the back

Planet Earth created queer-friendly spaces on and off the dance floor

‘This is deeply rooted in who I am’

My newsletter: Object Permanence

DJ Deeon brought the Low End to the world

First pitch: a journey through ceremony and baseball

Karate's Complete Studio Recordings

Pot Valiant's Never Return (I wrote the liner notes)

A queer hip-hop history lesson with He Who Walks Three Ways

The accidental postrock diner

The great touring gamble

Chicago punk loses a champion

How punk adopted the Godfather of Gore

Reading house’s history from its used records

Sugar and snacks and everything nice

Horsegirl and the dream of a teen rock scene

Yesterday’s Tomorrow Is Not Today

How Chicago helped put the Queen of Grunge back on her throne

Parker Lee Williams helped shape Chicago hip-hop—and he never stopped building

Neo: where misfits fit in

Thirty years ago, a Black queer zine captured the scene that birthed house

“We’ll see you all at Oki-Dogs”: The story of L.A.’s legendary punk hangout (with hot dogs)

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