A Reader staffer shares three musical obsessions, then asks someone (who asks someone else) to take a turn.
The Hard Times Though this fake punk-news site has been pushing outside its territory of late with anything-goes Onion-style satire, it’s hardly in danger of exhausting its original niche—the Hard Times had some kind of 2016, with headlines such as “Ceremony Thinks You Were Better in 2006, Too” and “Minor Threat Reference Wasted on Chili’s Waitress.” If you’ve ever played a power chord or hit your head on the way downstairs to a basement show, you’ll approve.
MeTV 87.7 FM This station is everything that’s right with Chicago FM radio, aside from NPR and college operations. You can hear every single song from the 70s that you’re embarrassed to admit you like—plus glorious yacht-rock one-hit wonders that you didn’t even know existed, jammers from the 50s and 60s, and the occasional blip of 80s tunes. The absurd amount of variety on this station is enough to keep me coming back. I rarely hear the same song more than once or twice in a month. Get your cheese on.
Confront The Truth by Tony Molina
