Friday, May 27, 2011

On the eve of the Blackout's return, foggy memories from the original run of Chicago's most notorious raunch 'n' roll fest

by Miles Raymer When Brett Cross and Todd Novak—who founded the raunchy rock 'n' roll zine Horizontal Action in 1997—put on the first Blackout in 2001, garage rock occupied a tiny niche in the underground music scene. By the festival's farewell installment in 2006—also the year Cross and Novak launched their zine's online replacement, Victim of Time, and the label HoZac Records—garage had exploded.…

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