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A jam-packed schedule is bringing more than 50 acts to the city’s big concert venues through August and dozens more at smaller venues.

Multimedia artist Frank Garvey makes music with robots to satirize late capitalism  The creator of the long-running OmniCircus also recorded two brilliantly unclassifiable albums in Chicago in the late 70s. Sign up for our newsletters Subscribe Since 2004 Plastic Crimewave (aka Steve Krakow) has used the Secret History of Chicago Music to shine a light on worthy artists with Chicago ties who've been forgotten, underrated, or never noticed in the first place. Some artists are so far ahead of the curve—or so far up their own tree—that it's hard to even contextualize and assess their work. ...