Way back in the early 1990’s I went to some dump in Elgin called #1 Soul to see Tad play. How he ended up way out there and not at a place like Lounge Ax is still a mystery to me but Naked Raygun once played there too. During Tad’s...

Time to take another trip back in time to the early 1990’s at Lounge Ax. Man Or Astroman? were a band who came from outer space and they became a blip on my radar by either one of their records appearing in my mailbox as a promo to review in...

Lounge Ax was one of the greatest independent rock clubs in the history of Chicago. In the early to mid 1990’s they had so many great bands playing there so often that three of the staff of Spontaneous Combustion (myself and the two Daves)...

Recently I was digging through an old box of photos looking for some Dazzling Killmen photos I shot at Lounge Ax in Chicago more than 20 years ago and I came across some interesting artifacts I had nearly forgotten I had. For those not familiar, I...