Local music scene?

JHS
Mon, 27 Oct 2008 09:52:43 +0000

If you check out the websites for The Chicago Weekly (alternative/artsy student newspaper) and WHPK (university radio station), you’ll probably get an idea of what the scene around the university is. The sites for Schuba’s, The Empty Bottle, and other clubs will give you a peek at the overall local scene (at least its medium-high end).

Chicago, by the way, was the original home of Pitchfork; many of its contributors still live there, and it sponsors a big summer festival there. In other words, Chicago has a very active indie rock community – probably second only to Brooklyn. It has also generated any number of hip-hop/r&B stars (R. Kelly, Kanye West, Common), is the traditional capital of urban, plugged-in blues, and is a significant jazz center. Plus, it’s the third-largest city in the U.S., for crying out loud. If something is happening anywhere, it’s likely to come through there, at least, pretty quickly, and not infrequently to relocate there.