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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

The band name TrueVines may not immediately ring a bell. But if you know the local scene and have a thing for great songwriting, the name of frontman Dennis Brennan certainly should. Taking its name ...

Cyanides make crate-digging music. The band’s self-titled debut LP, out now on Sinkhole Records, is the sound of a group for whom Lenny Kaye’s seminal 1972 compilation album, Nuggets, might as well be ...