While it has been very frustrating to say the least in getting any kind of Musiqtone pulse in my own home area of Chicago and it’s rather far reaching metro area, there’s plenty of music talent coming out of the Second City, all looking to put Chicago back as one of the top music destinations and cultivators of music talent.  In music terms, it was a long time ago in the mid to later 90s you had luminaries Liz Phair, Rage Against the Machine, and the Smashing Pumpkins dominating their part of the music charts.

Then…dead as the boy band era and cookie-cutter pop raged on and Chicago started to become more and more homogenized as a music market and shoving the indie and underground into deeper depths.  Of course, little did anyone know a group of men from Wilmette would eventually and with the help of a producer/MC turned hip-hop superstar would put Chicago back on the map for music.  That would be Fall Out Boy and Kanye West.

Since then, the city has produced plenty of talent including:  Plain White T’s, Rachael Yamagata, Treaty of Paris, Lucky Boys Confusion, OK Go, Lupe Fiasco, Powerspace, and The Academy Is.

So who from the Windy City is next?   Here’s a little list of some acts from the Windy City you need to watch out for, especially as alt-rock is exploding out of the area in recent years…

Find out who we picked as among the acts you gotta watch out from the Chicago area by going to our blog!