Rolling Stones fans are legendary: some dedicate their lives to transcribing guitar solos from fifty year old live concerts, others to chasing down grandfatherly idols for an autograph.
Category Archives: Music
Noisy Toys (Chris 18)
Toys made of plastic were rare before World War II. Their late twentieth century ubiquity came to symbolize the excess of consumer society.
I don’t want a girlfriend (Chris 17)
Moses Asch created Folkways Records in 1948 to document the beautiful and extraordinary diversity of human expression through sound.
Dreamerz (James 10)
In the late 1980s, Club Dreamerz on Milwaukee Avenue marked Wicker Park’s transition from old immigrant neighborhood to trendy tech hub.
Dinosaur (outgoing 18)
With the help of festivals like the New Orleans Jazz Fest, Cajun music saw a revival in the 1960s and 70s. Many of the voices from this revival were captured in Les Blank’s poetic J’ai Été Au Bal and Alan Lomax’s more historical Cajun Country.
Paul Mason Fotsch 