Wax Trax Retrospectacle day one
If it wasn’t for Wax Trax Records this site may never have existed. Wax Trax Records (the store) did more to shape the punk and new wave scene in the Chicago area than anything and Wax Trax Records (the label) did more to create the industrial music scene of the mid 1980′s to early 1990′s [...]
You Weren’t There DVD
You Weren’t There, A History of Chicago Punk 1977 – 1984 DVD Factory 25/Regressive Films Chicago had a good punk rock scene back in the old days with a some really great bands but the problem was that few outside the confines of the city and surrounding suburbs knew about it back then. While the [...]
Riot Fest Day Three
Day three of Riot Fest had me returning to the Metro for a totally Chicago old school punk rock lineup. Nostalgia would be running wild this evening because three of the four bands were regulars on the Metro’s stage back in the old punk rock days and this evening would end up feeling like some [...]
