Andy Downing

It can be daunting for a band to survive being cast aside by a major label, but that's what DuPage County's Lucky Boys Confusion has accomplished. The band, which first...

Local blues guitarist David "Chainsaw" Dupont has a back story that even Forrest Gump would find intriguing. Since his birth in McComb, Miss., the 50-year-old has criss-crossed the country, spending...

Just weeks after the terrorist attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, Dolly Varden set out on a disastrous tour of England. According to frontman Steve Dawson, the five bandmates began fighting...

When he's not working his day job as an art director or feuding with French robots, Steve Reidell is the frontman for May Or May Not, a local collective headlining...

The Eternals music is difficult to categorize, straddling every genre from dub to punk to reggae to hip-hop and beyond. "I don't know what kind of band we are," agrees...

The Eternals music is difficult to categorize, straddling every genre from dub to punk to reggae to hip-hop and beyond. "I don't know what kind of band we are," agrees...

Singer-songwriter Cameron McGill is busy balancing a solo career with not one but two bands (Cameron McGill and What Army and Cameron McGill and the Quartet Offensive). Recently the 29-year-old...

In 2001 Ang13 was judging a freestyle competition between female MCs at the Empty Bottle when her frustration level began to boil over. Once home, she placed a call to...

Struggling with unemployment and hopelessness, best chronicled on the Methadones 2004 album "Not Economically Viable" (Thick), frontman Dan Schafer set aside his troubles for last year's "21st Century Power Pop...

Fareed Haque is a bit of an oddity in the local music scene. The guitarist, best known for his work in jazz-influenced projects such as Garaj Mahal and the Fareed...