Blaming the FCC for killing smooth jazz in Chicago is kind of stretch, given that Clear Channel did the job first whenit flipped the former smooth jazz stalwart WNUA to Spanish-language in 2009. On top of that, TV channel 6 was never intended to be an FM radio service, an...
Growing up in southern Texas, blues, Tejano and country were sounds I frequently heard switching through radio stations or when listening to my parents music as we drove down Highway 48 in my father’s third generation Chevy Bronco on our way to South Padre Island. I’ve looked at the lin...
Released in April 1969, Chicago Transit Authority was played by the newly powerful FM album rock stations, especially college radio. “AM radio wouldn’t touch us because we were unpackageable,” says Pankow. “They weren’t able to pigeonhole our music. It was too different, and the cuts ...
Due to the lack of radio stations or record stores or really anything in western North Dakota, we turned to piracy on our parents’ computers, giant beige boxes barely running Windows 98, pulling songs from Napster or Kazaa on a 56k dial-up connection. They’d dropped thousands of dollars ...
The American Blues Theater has brought the humble story of George Bailey to life in various Chicago venues for more than 20 years, transforming Frank Capra's classic film into an interactive, 1940s-style radio broadcast production. Arrive 15 minutes early to make the most of interactive audience...
Chicago is a fast, friendly, colorful city with littered backstreets and sparkling main streets where even locals get lost in the grid among skyscrapers, sandwiches, CTA stations, corner bars, festivals, foot traffic and the overwhelming sense that there's always more to do than there are hours...