Naked Raygun

The massively influential Chicago punk bassist has lost a battle to cancer at age 58.

Touch and Go and Quarterstick’s rosters include Slint, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Jesus Lizard, Mekons, Naked Raygun, TV on the Radio, Brainiac, Calexico, Big Black and tons more.

”The five of us talk about what kind of influences and sounds we want to incorporate. We end up sharing and talking about so much different music over our group texts or in the van… this playlist is some of those songs, some classics and just some recent great tracks we’ve been digging…”

Listen to new songs by A Certain Ratio, Metronomy (Kero Kero Bonito remix), Greentea Peng, Protoje/Popcaan, Naked Raygun’s Jeff Pezzati, and more.

Like grunge, the ’90s pop punk boom was the culmination of a sound that had been bubbling up for over a decade. For this edition of his edition of ‘In Defense of the Genre,’ I look back on 15 classic ’80s albums that shaped that sound…

The Lawrence Arms’ first album in six years a graceful late-career album that stands tall next to their classics. Brendan and Chris talk to us about the writing and recording processes, meanings behind some of the songs, influences on the album, and more…

The reunited Jawbreaker continue to play shows with very cool openers, and the openers for their upcoming Chicago show have been revealed. They’ll be joined by two of Chicago’s veteran hometown heroes…

Local H will be playing two sets, a career-spanning set and a set celebrating the 20th anniversary of ‘Pack Up the Cats,’ and they’ll be joined by guest guitarist John Haggerty (of Pegboy/Naked Raygun).

There will be gross out depictions of Taking Back Sunday, Descendents, NOFX, Andrew WK and more.

Foo Fighters @ The Cubby Bear last week (more by James Richards IV) Fresh off the premiere of their new HBO series and a tiny Chicago show at The Cubby Bear, the Foo Fighters have announced a slightly larger Chicago gig…